Leonardis wrote:
Scott, always loved your site and so glad your back with the SBG hobby - what an inspiration
well done and keep up the good work, it also looks like you've had more success than me in getting your son to play!
Thanks mate - its good to be back!
I'm busy having a clear out of excess minis of other games and periods, to focus more on LOTR from now on, though I'll still be featuring Empire of the Dead, and Pirates with LotHS... as I like skirmish games, as they are fun to play, easy to put on, don't need a million models and usually have good looking terrain boards for visually pleasing battle reports...
I am also looking to complete gaps in my LOTR collection - Since WOTR pretty much failed, there is no longer a need to collect hundreds of figures, for one force, and thus with the skirmish game coming back to the fore, its more feasible to eventually collect all armies, so long as the figures I still need don't go OOP before I can get my hands on them!
Likewise I have always enjoyed your battle reports on your own blog - I wish I had more active LOTR players in my own area...
My son has reached an age now, 10 going on 11, where he's really getting the game now, and can be pretty much trusted to handle the models without wrecking them. I suppose I have indoctrinated him into LOTR since he was a 'nipper', (watched FotR for the first time when he was about 5), and he's now reading the novel, having just finished 'book1', and finding it rather exciting how the story from the novel, differs from the movie he is so used to. So hopefully it will always be something we can share and enjoy together... though I still have to pry him from the computer from time to time