"An ACW Game is Always Fun" Topic

"Life can be a boring monotonous chore. Let's have a short diversion in ACW gaming…as in a short post…"

From A Terrible loss of Lead and Wealth Blog

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Armand

Nice.

Neat!

"ButHereLetMeHelpYouPackSoYouCanGetOutOfHere"…….:)))

This is a great AAR – the humor [and with humorous honesty] as written. Enjoyed seeing and reading it!

Thanks for the link Armand.

WOW! this is probably the BEST blog ever written in the history of blogging. I like this guy soooo much. his style, his wit. it all reminds me of someone….

oh it's ME.

Thanks for the shout out / link Tango.

(in case it wasn't clear above, I'm the blog author)

-Stew

Stew, that makes the blog even better knowing it's by you!

(there's not that many blog[er]s I've read that do much more than just show & tell)

Btw, I've not been to any national con in well over a decade. I do the local con support, but when I think of the costs for lodging, travel, and food to a big show – I start to think of where that cash could be better spent on stuff for something I could, or should be doing with the hobby here locally.

Another thing – the buds who still go to the shows, don't ever seem to bring back anything new, or loaded up with fresh ideas they've gleaned from their con trips.

I really don't have a humorous way to put this out their either – you have a better, maybe more constructive style, and your blog entertains, while also delivering a message.

Anyway, keep it up bud……I mean BUD! ;) :)))

A votre service mes amis…

Congrats Stew!!!

Armand

Nice AAR and good-looking game with great miniatures!

@FlyXwire:

thanks so much my online buddy. I agree that blogs have 90% 'look-it!" posts and occasionally offer up a good resources for others. I've been blogging for about 6 years now and truth be told I'm getting bored of reading and writing lookit posts. lookit! – I painted something, lookit! – i played a game (like the linked post above), Lookit! i bought something.

you get a lot of these with blogging because that is what we wargamers do 90% of the time: painting and playing. Othertimes we do a good resource post for others; either it be a good rule review, or a how-to on terrain, etc..

I do TRY to be funny / entertaining in my blog posts just to cover up that I'm not really saying much most of the time.

regarding cons: I mainly focus on small local cons myself. there are some big ones within easy driving range but as you say: the cost can be prohibitive.

talk to you next time. :)
-Stew

So true Stew – 90%, with those juicy resource post maybe 10%?

I guess it's also down to promotion and propagation – it all takes someone's energy to do…..but now idea propagation, that's what can really catch the eye and spark ones imagination.

I agree the resource posts are a bit thin on the ground, and rules reviews that are actually useful are as rare as ostrich incisors, but I also feel there aren't enough good lookit posts. Those are quite a bit of what I go looking for when I need inspiration, ideas, painting examples, or just to see photos of miniatures I am thinking about buying.

Of course, I don't even have a blog, so I'm no help.

:)))

I think of TMP as a blog…….(mine, yours, …..).

Hi Ix!

I'd be interested in reading what you thought a good ‘look it' post was like. When I do one I at least try to take close enough pictures so that someone can actually SEE the miniatures. Not that my painting skills are anything but average.

Resource posts I think make way better reading than anything but are sooooo long to write. I've done a few game reviews and terrain tutorials and it takes way more effort that snapping a few pics and writing a paragraph.

And I'm gonna steal the line ‘rare as ostrich incisors'. 😀

Ha!…

Armand

Great looking game! Looking forward to checking out the blog some more. Great work!

And I'm gonna steal the line ‘rare as ostrich incisors'.

I've already stolen lookit posts, so we're even.

War Artisan has done some of the best lookit posts ever. I especially like his Napoleonic photo AARs with diagrams illustrating the deployments and maneuvers, like this one. I have tried mightily to generate some of these myself, but I can't even get decent photos to build from. <grump>

But that's an unfairly superlative example to shame us all. In my "what to buy" research I come across lots of gaming blogs that just contain a random photo of a miniature I was wondering about, which can be a godsend when the manufacturer failed to provide one (especially useful for Langton, Navwar, OG15s, etc.).

- Ix

Very entertaining blog post about your Shiloh scenario. And I'm a convert to Blue Moon minis myself. Aren't trees one of those dilemmas for us? I like a tabletop forest that looks like a forest, and our Civil War was mostly fought in and out of forests, but like you say, that doesn't last long when the regiments disappear under the green canopy.