in Toledo, OH (it was about a 3 hour drive for us) for a Warmachine/Hordes Steamroller event. This was actually my first official Steamroller I ever played in, I played in events at conventions, but never a SR at a local store.
When we arrived to the store we were told to head all the way to back of the store. WOW! It is a big store with multiple gaming rooms and an event space at the back of the store.
The event space
Our armies ready for Game 1.
Khador and Trollbloods.
My Khador.
The event was a 2 list event but no DNC, so to save space in my bag I elected just to bring 1 list and that was my Khador. As much as I love my Minions, I play Khador a little bit faster and I am always worried about the clock. The reason behind just 1 list, I knew I would lose my first 2 games and be out for the day, so I decided just to learn and play the 1 list.
I had 2 very fun games and I hope my opponents did too. Yes I brought a Colossal, but that was only to help me with the clock, less models for me, the faster I can play.
Game 1 vs Minions (Maelok 1) [Blake Hoppes]
Since I have been trying to learn my Minions better and playing with ‘Maelok’, it was nice to see how he can be played. Even though I lost in Turn 4 via Control Points (5-0), I did not clock out and I only lost 1 model in ‘Kovnik Jozef’ and I was able to take out his ‘Blackhide Wrastler’ along with more than half of each of his ‘Posse’ Units. It was close and I made some mistakes, should have concentrated a little bit more on the scenario and I could have been earning points with one of the flags on my side of the table.
Game 2 vs Khador (Vlad 1) [Bob Larson]
Bob was a “great” guy to play against and I had fun leaning about my Khador army. He was running ‘Vlad 1’ and I learned how good Signs & Portents spell really is, I think I may have to try him soon myself. Bob was running 3 ‘Juggernauts’ and 3 ‘Marauders’ along with 3 Min Units of ‘Winter Guard Rifle Corps’ with 3 ‘Rocketeers’ each. The. Min Units of WGRC are typical for a tournament list and should be something that I play, I just do not have that many WGRC models yet. I also lost this game 5-0 on Control Points and I still had a lot of time on my clock going into the bottom of Turn 3. There was not much I could do to stop Bob from winning this Turn, but I had fun trying. I cleaned up some of his WGRC and I ‘Butcher 1’ go into a Marauder and a Juggernaut and rip them apart on his Feat turn, it was cool. Bob is from the eastern side of Michigan and I hope I run across him again at some future events.
That was my 2 losses for that day, TJ at this point was 1-1 and we both decided to make the drive back home stopping along the way for an early dinner and some shopping at a Cabela’s store since there is not once close to where I live.
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Today is Memorial Day so a nice extended weekend to my few days of vacation last week. We made it safely back to Michigan early Friday morning and got the car all unloaded once we woke up. I still have to finish remodeling our main floor bath room this week in the evenings so there probably will not be much time for hobbying/gaming, there may be some time tomorrow night while I wait for our tiles to dry, but we’ll see. Then this coming weekend we are adding 2 more fury friends to our family, so we will be busy with that. Hopefully next week I can get back on some kind of gaming schedule.
I am back in Arizona for a few days for a graduation and we are starting to load my sons car up for the road trip back to Michigan, We shipped 10 boxes via UPS and then the car is loaded up with another 6 and a BUNCH of army bags, some Warhammer 40K armies that you never know we may play again.
Once again, nothing new to report this past week and it will be like this for the rest of the month (at least). Heading back down to Arizona this weekend for my middle sons High School Graduation, then driving back to Michigan next week with my oldest son.
Yesterday was the last day to pre-order a Khador 
This is bad, another week without anything accomplished, and too be honest, I think it will be like this for the entire month of May. This weekend and next week I will be working on renovating our main bath and then we are off to Arizona and do not come back until around Memorial Day. Hopefully when my son gets uo here, the interest will be kickstarted once again.
Unfortuntaley no new updates for last week. I would not say that I am in a slump, just too many other things are currently occupying my time. Maybe we’ll get a model completed this week (but doubtful). My 2nd quarter of painting for 2018 is not looking to good, my 2nd quarter queue may have to slide to the 3rd quarter.
As I mentioned last week my hobbying time is very slow due to other real life events. I just finished remodeling the upstairs bathroon and now that the weather is getting nicer, I will have some outside yard work that will also need to get done. My 2nd Quarter Painting Queue is not looking good at the moment.
I was finally able to get another miniature completed and this time I decided to try painting a model for the Batman Miniature Game. I have yet to play a game or fully read the rulebook, but I wanted a little change from paintng Warmachine/Hordes. In two months when my oldest son moves up here he will teach me how to play the game, then I will have to try and juggle my time between WM/H, Guild Ball and Batman Miniature Game.
Wow, this is the first week in 2018 that I did not get a model completed for the blog, that is what happens when real life gets in the way. I have been busy remodeling a bathroom last week and that will continue on through this week. I may have one model to show this week if time allows and that will be for the Batman Miniature Game.
Yesterday my friend TJ and I took a drive out to 
