Didn't stop to think if they should

It was a bit rainy for a few days so I was able to convince Rachel to play some Dinosaur Island with me.

I bought it as a Christmas gift two years ago. The game can be played as a short, medium or long game. Whenever we played we would pick a short game and as soon as we figured the mechanics out the game was over. It didn't help that we would also get distracted with out SHINY games between playing it. 

This time, we played a short game that we paused as I had to work in the evening. We picked it up the following day and played a medium game right after. It's kind of an engine building game, but not as much as wing span or Scythe. So you'd think I'd be better at it. Right?

My board at the end of the first game, Life..... finds away.

The first game Rachel won by about 13 points. She had a few tourists eaten, but she is a clever girl.....

Rachel pointed out that I accidentally dressed for the game.

The second game we played, Rachel decided to let her visitors get eaten, letting her security slide to capitalize on the large points of having more exciting dinosaurs. I still played it safe. We were about 2 or so points different in the end.

We started to use toy dinosaurs laying around for meeples.

Hooligans jumping to the front of the line and not paying, they also don't get eaten first.

End game shot of Rachel's board for the second game, I think.

Only two points between us!

Glad that we pulled this game out, we were going to pull out Scythe, but Rachel wants to finish off the figures she has been working on and get me to help her clean coat them. Each game is different, with plot twists, objectives and specialists varying each play through.

I haven't been painting a whole lot lately, Rachel picked out some of her extra bits and I made a couple objective markers for her Sylvaneth for the next time we play Warcry. Reading about the Sylvaneth, they seek out soulpods to recruit the souls of old warriors from the World-That-Was, or even Alarielle's dreams, hopes and loves. I figure these soulpods could take any form.

Soulpod objective markers.

More terrain to come, I started the classic first DIY corner terrain a few years ago as well as a Pringles can watch tower (which hopefully will make an appearance on this blog in the near future). Both have sat half completed in my hobby room, till now! 

Lizards for scale! HA!

Did you see that?

Oh? guess it was nothing....

Three pieces of Sector Imperialis, I am calling them done. Looks good for the tabletop which is good enough for me. The photographer was a bit more focus on close ups of the battle instead of the terrain. 

Skitarii fighting off some Harlequin, while the cameraman breaks the fourth wall.

Doubt this would end well...

The kill team board was folded in half, looks like I would need another larger piece of terrain and one or two more smaller ones to fill up a board. I do have a few projects on the go now, finally got my orders from across the pond. (they were ordered in MARCH) I planned to use one order for my D&D session, but hopefully they can be used later.

Coming Soon!

More Terrain? Secret Projects? Maybe Jon will actually paint a damn Necromunda gang? Who really knows?