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.