Since fantasy, gaming, and books often go hand in hand, I’m going to drop the occasional post about new gaming hobbies here in case anyone is interested. Here goes!

My husband was a Warhammer fantasy player back before Sigmar, and with the semi-recent “release” of Warhammer: Old World, I’ve been trying to get him to play again. Hobbies are great and he loved the game. To that end, I have begun learning Old World, and let me tell you…Wood Elves suck, but are also cool? They are super fun to play (side note, I might have a new gaming hobby), but man do I get crushed every single time.

The first time I understood. It was my first game, I had no real idea what I was doing, and I put my wood elves in melee combat. Sure, I got a few shots off, felt good about taking out a few units… among the 16-unit squad, so really nothing. But I felt good about it, and then melee happened, and bam. Dead. So I tried again. Let’s plan to play more dynamically. Clearly I’m never going to win a combat round against Warriors of Chaos, so avoid combat entirely. Leave my character people in squads so they can’t be targeted. One squad of melee blade dancers and everyone else has fire and flee. Let’s run them ragged.

Much better game the second time around. I felt like I was doing good the entire game. Sure, when he caught me that unit got smashed, but I could sometimes get away again, and I took out a lot of his models. And then we did the tally. Wood elves: 670-something. Warriors of Chaos: 1400. Well, Fuck. I built a new army with a dragon in it to try some different play styles, but the problem is…Where am I gonna put that damn dragon? It’s in the way of my strategy, honestly. I’ll probably try it out next time, but I’m not hopeful. That thing is going to get my Glade Lord murdered.

No point to this post, just a chat about fun new hobbies. But actually, Warhammer Old World is a lot of fun, and there’s a virtual tabletop called Warhall where you can play with friends if you aren’t able to drop the cash on units, or aren’t sure if you want to invest yet, or just can’t find the minis yet.