New Year, New Game…

So my original plan for 2024 was to cut back on my hobby spending and work on those models that I have in my Pile of Shame or as I like to refer to it as, my Garage of Future Glory! (as that’s where I keep many of my hobby purchases)

For Christmas, I was given the Stargrave Rulebook and the Quarantine 37 expansion book.

My plan was to build a couple of Stargrave crews and use some of my non-built or painted models as units in the Stargrave solo missions (poxwalkers as Zombies etc).

I also wanted to make sure that I had some scenery that wasn’t 40kish. To me, a table top wargame is all about the look, and it always looks better when the terrain is actually setting a theme (and not just their for game balancing purposes). I’ve got quite a lot of 40k scenery and unless I was basing my Stargrave adventures in the 40k universe, I was gonna need something else.

This lead me to cracking open some of the Terrain Crate sets that I’d purchased for use with Judge Dredd.

Looking for inspiration as to how to configure the Terrain Crate sets, I stumbled upon this article: https://vaultoftheundead.wordpress.comhttps://vaultoftheundead.wordpress.com/2018/05/08/deadzone-fortified-battlezone-city-walls-compound/

The fort that this guy had made looked amazing and I realized I could make something similar with the Military Compound set that I picked up at this year’s Salute (as well as an eBay purchase to acquire the longer angled walls).

I then checked out the rest of the articles of Deadzone terrain and models on the site which has the caused me to go down a bit of a Deadzone rabbit hole.

After much should I shouldn’t I going on around my head, I decided to bite the built and dive in.

The game sounds interesting and the Mantic models look really cool.

I’ve not seen Deadzone played down my local gaming club, so maybe this could be a way to kick off a bit of interest in it.

There’s a choice of two 3rd edition starter sets, the latest (Fall of Omega VII) set seems to have more of a narrative feel to it but I preferred the look of the Strike Teams that came in the initial 3rd edition set.

In the end, I decided to get the latest set, but also picked up the other two strike teams separately. This should also help more take up of the game as players will have a greater choice of teams to choose from.

All in all this is a very long winded way of saying that my plan to stop buying new models failed on the 4th day of the year!