Post Game Blues, but with progress

Do you ever get let down by gaming? I don't mean when your parents get divorced and you have a day to hang out with your dad and he flakes, but like when you go see a movie you've been wanting to see and it isn't as good as you wanted it to be. I felt that way about my last game. I lost, so I'll put that out there first. 18 to 14, but I don't think that was it. If I won, I am not sure if that would have been better. I think my disappointment is from playing they way that I want. I tried to make a beady-meta list and focus on winning, which I didn't, and I made mistakes that could have cost me the game. But, I digress, more on that later.

Hobby progress:

I am getting down to the line with my goal. I have the first 10 of 20 painted and I have most of the models based, but not finished. The flocking will go quick, but the next 10 in line will take awhile. I am super tired when I get home from work, but I have found that exercising helps with that. I ran on Sunday and today, Tuesday, I plan on running again. That should help. But I have Friday off, so I might stay up late on Thursday and get stuff done. **Update** I went running yesterday, but that just made me sore in the seat for painting. I got the next 10 prepped for paint. I cut off top knots on two orks, primed by brush some new plastic, and removed a dead spider on the model. 

I have a ton of stuff to put together, but somethings that I use often in games, namely a Wazoom Blasta-jet and some battle wagons, that need paint. Looking to the month of April I think I might focus on big vehicles. Maybe paint some scenery too.

Games Played

I played against Matrix. I told him to bring the hardest list he could. It was three amergers, two hellvrin and one warglave, a castellen, two squads of veterans and a squad of those pesky primaris folks. I had three battlewagons, a wazoom blasta jet, three mobs of boys, 2 at 19 and 1 at 10, a weird boy, three big meks, 2 with KFF and 1 with the supa shokk attack gun, tanks bustas and lootas. This was pretty meta for me as I chose to play Deathskulls for the advantage against vehicles, but still had blood moons for the Lootas. I did use some of the deathskulls re-rolls to success, but I failed again with the Lootas. This time I did screen them with grots, but they were taking out turn two, after the grots were dead and they only shot once. The warglave was a surprise as it got stuck in the first turn with its move, assault, charge rule. Since I really did not gear my army to fighting, it wrecked me. I really am not going to address MVP's because there really was not any, except the shooting I did with boys taking out the primaris marines.
This is the deployment set up.
I dropped my Tankbusta wagon a bit too much in the middle of his forces. In hind sight I should have deployed it in my lines to take care of the warglave.
His jump captain attacked my blasta jet. Just thought it looked cool with him on the wing.
Liked I mentioned before the game was 18 - 14 at the end of turn four. I just think it would have gotten worse for me if we kept going as, I really did not have much left on the board. The survival of Orks seems limited. I am all ready messing around with other lists, mainly focusing on the strengths of Orks: numbers. I was essentially shot off the board this time, and did not get to play some of the fun stuff I normally do, like Redder armor and extra moves. So next game I am promising myself that I will play an army that I like (Evil Suns) and play the way I want. 

The next game set up is King and I, so I will be playing Khorne CSM with deamons and a Blood Thirster! I hope my warboss and take him out!

Ponderings

In my professional life I am usually addressing pondering questions about my craft and skill. I'd like to introduce this to the blog too for better reflection of the game. 
1. Since I have limited time to play the game, expectations of enjoyment are high, but I ultimately control many aspects of this, so I need to set my expectations and logistics to a level where I will have fun. I need to make lists that are fun to play, then I can focus on getting better.
2. Realize nothing is perfect and respect that. If I am left with a feeling disappointment accept it and move on. I cannot try to place blame, but make realizations and adjust to that.



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