Staying Alive

Ral Partha Battletech resin figures purchased from the Ral Partha booth at an HMGS convention.
Ral Partha Battletech plastic figures purchased from the Ral Partha booth at an HMGS convention for a dollar a piece. How often does one get the chance to purchase stuff like that? Conventions provide an opportunity to pick up not only merchandise but plenty of direction from more experienced and imaginative gamers.

It is peculiar that even for a misanthrope like myself, wargaming does pull me out of my hovel into the daylight. When I have been able, I have routinely attended conventions, darting between booths, picking up whatever I could find for miniatures gaming. Once, out of desperation I attended a toy soldier convention and ended up with a fine group of Thoroughbred Miniatures ACW ships.

Which is to say that gaming is ultimately a social experience. Sadly, this has too often involved board games since relatively few people collect miniatures but ultimately, I end up at a convention somewhere. Even so, I have fond memories of playing board games as when an over enthusiastic player in a 3-player game got into some strange death match with another player and left me virtually the only player on the board by game turn 3. Easy win.

At the moment, I live on the edge of nowhere so everything has changed but I look forward to a return to HMGS or any other convention. In the meantime, I continue to paint and paint and paint.

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