State of the Blog

Hey fellow wargamers! My last posting is from October 2012 and I felt the need to change that ;-)

Why have I been so quiet the last year you ask? Well, there have been two main reasons. First, I moved to another city with my girlfriend which took some time and effort. Second, I finished my master thesis in March this year and passed my final exams in May. This took even more effort and discipline which left me hardly any time for the hobby.

What can you expect in the future on this blog? In my wargaming abstinence last year, I finally realized that big scale battles over hours and painting whole armies is pretty tiresome to me (plus, Games Workshop is finally starting to alienate me, too). I still want to paint single miniatures and small squads for fun but nothing more. I rather play smaller scale miniature games like the fantastic X-Wing Miniatures Game or Board Games like Game of Thrones, Chaos in the Old World or various Card Games (friends of mine are picking up Magic again... I don't think that I can dodge that bullet). So, expect reviews of board games I enjoy, tactics articles for X-Wing, a few battle reports and the occasional painted miniature and tutorial.

It took me a long time, but I am looking forward to writing articles for this blog again. Stay tuned and may the force be with you... (Yes, I am currently hooked on X-Wing... so what? ^^)

Blogwatch: Painting Metal, the Ruinous Powers and thoughts about GW

He reads all the blogs!

I want to start a new series of articles in which I want to pay tribute to the work of others. So, from now on I start collecting good blog posts, great tutorials/miniatures or other things worth reading and will post them here on Bawaaaghria! from time to time. In this first issue, I want to present you a few articles from blogs I subscribed to:

• From the Warp: Creating metal effects with just a few washes. This blog post inspired me to do a metal painting tutorial myself (I hope I'll get it done this month). I especially love the effects on the weapon barrels. Read this and the linked tutorials within the article if you want to become better at painting metal effects.
• Eternal Hunt: The Ruinous Powers - Synthesis. KrautScientist from Eternal Hunt did a series of articles in which he painted  Chaos Space Marines from all of the four Cult Legions. It reminds me of this GW product and makes me want to do something like this myself.
• Frontline Gamer: Sunday Sermon: Does familiarity breed contempt? I should have mentioned Frontline Gamer much earlier as he inspired me to do this blog in the first place and gave me advice on how to do it. I always read his Sunday Sermons because I like the meta approach to gaming, the industry and people around it and how it reflects back to ourselves.

This were the articles I enjoyed reading this week. I'll try to make this a weekly or bi-weekly category in my blog and I'm positive that this is going to work since I read a lot of wargaming blogs anyway. Have a nice read and see you again on Thursday when I'll ask the question: Which Chaos Legion should I play?

Now on Facebook!

I decided to create a Facebook page for this site for several reasons:

1. I feel more obliged to create new content when I receive direct feedback via likes and comments.
2. Some of my friends don't visit this blog very often (and apparently nobody uses RSS feed readers anymore). On Facebook they won't miss any updates.
3. I can throw in the occasional picture or comment, even if it doesn't qualify for a whole article.
4. It doesn't hurt to gain a few new readers :-)

When my friends comment on news articles on Facebook in German, I will - of course - respond in German. Apart from that I will keep writing in English, so that everybody will be more or less able to understand me :-)

The Facebook page is public and anything posted by me there will directly appear on Twitter too. You can either follow me on Twitter (why aren't you already? ;-)) or check the Twitter feed on the right.

PS: I'm still trying to get everything (the blog, the Twitter feed and the Facebook page) in sync and stable. Until then, there might be double posts and other technical inconveniences - just FYI :-)

I am back!

A lot of time passed since my last article. I'm sorry for that, but I simply lacked the motivation to do anything wargaming related - be it painting or writing about it (the European Football Championship didn't help much). I now want to start again, in a slower rhythm so that I am able to publish new articles more regularly. I am surprised however that, although I didn't post anything in the last two months, people still read my gallery and tutorial articles. Thanks guys!

Resumé time... and some TV!

This blog exists for a little over a month now, and I'm surprised that people are actually interested in my writing and photos. Google tells me that people look for galleries and want to read tutorials, especially on painting Skaven and Nurgle - so, there is going to be more of this in the future. The article on our Gaming Day has been the most read one on this blog so far - that's no surprise, since Korbi pretty much literally posted the link in every German and Austrian gaming forum. Thanks for that, and also thanks to Jody, the Frontline Gamer, who encouraged me to start this blog in the first place.

Right now, I'm working on a few blog posts on board and card games I own. After this, there are going to be some galleries and tutorials about Infinity scenery like cardboard containers, buildings from Sarisa Precision and other manufacturers (I'm trying to take a lot of photos at our gaming club tonight). Maybe, I'll even dust off my ever-work-in-progress Eldar and write something about those 'oomies with da silly 'elmets ;-)

I'm excited! Thanks to all for reading my blog and giving me feedback. Or, considering my international readership: Thanks a lot, vielen Dank, merci beaucoup, Большое спасибо, grazie mille and kiitos!

And now for something completely different: Another episode of Wil Wheatons "Tabletop"! This time, with the German board game classic "The Settlers of Catan".