What Bits Of The Hobby Do You Enjoy Most?

[fsn]

What I have discovered that I do enjoy is painting something to the first time.

Spent today trying various things with the Triremes.

[howayman]

Did it float your boat?


Research is the main thing. The uniforms, organisations and tactics.
Finding rules that are enjoyable.
The banter amongst players.
Organising the figures into units.
Painting and modelling are lower down the list.

[fsn]

Did it float your boat?

[steve_holmes_11]

Once it was history, uniform research, figures.

Now I'd say it is rules, army planning, games.

[SV52]

What I have discovered that I do enjoy is painting something to the first time.

Spent today trying various things with the Triremes.

I can appreciate that, four battalions about my limit though.

Once it was history, uniform research, figures.

Now I'd say it is rules, army planning, games.

Seems like a natural progression that, the one I failed at!

[mollinary]

Re. Mollinary's comment above: I too enjoy battlefield walking and was surprised to find how much the supposedly flattish battlefield of Mars la Tour actually undulates. I had wondered how the Prussian cavalry could have taken French 6th Corps' gun line by surprise. When standing on that spot it is noticeable that in only a short distance ahead the ground drops away by no more than thirty feet, but ample to conceal a man on horseback.

Yes, I have walked the same ground. From the French artillery position you can clearly see, and target, the Prussian positions around Vionville below. What you cannot see, particularly in a smoke filled battlefield, is the gully which debouches about eighty yards to your right and less than a hundred yards to your front.  You have no time to react.

[Chris Pringle]

Yes, I have walked the same ground. From the French artillery position you can clearly see, and target, the Prussian positions around Vionville below. What you cannot see, particularly in a smoke filled battlefield, is the gully which debouches about eighty yards to your right and less than a hundred yards to your front.  You have no time to react.

Surely the biggest factor at Mars-la-Tour was the fog limiting visibility to 100 yards?

Or perhaps that was just because when I visited the battlefield it was October.   

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

Nowt uts an addiction I'm trying to get cured of 

[Techno]

Hey, man.....

Are you trying to score 'Some white metal ?'

I can probably fix you up. (Oooer, Matron)

Run......Quick.....It's the Feds.

Did we ever decide whether I'm the 'pusher'......Or is that down to Sir. ?......No, Leon must be the pusher....And 'me and my colleagues' are the suppliers.

Cheers - A Total Wally

[Itinerant Hobbyist]

Playing the games, then researching history, setting up scenarios, YouTubing and blogging, painting figs, making terrain

In that order

[Leman]

Rediscovering a passion. Last Year it was 10mm FPW and They Died for Glory. This year it is 15mm Italian Wars and Impetus (actually big battle Basic Impetus 2 - so much more straightforward than Impetus).

[Techno]

I like mixing green stuff...'Cos I can play patience on the PC, or go and make a cup of coffee while I'm doing that. 

Cheers - Phil