What Did Santa Bring You This Xmas Day?

Started by Steve J, 25 December 2016, 05:55:35 PM

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O Dinas Powys

Gaming stuff: mini dice tower and Dragon Rampant rules  :)

Also received Bill Bailey's bird book and Ben Aaronovitch's (first) Peter Grant graphic novel.

Admittedly the Bill Bailey book was the only one I didn't buy myself, but very happy with that lot  :D
(I know, even though it's fantasy  :o  ;)  )

Ithoriel

Quote from: mad lemmey on 27 December 2016, 03:26:36 PM
Race you with Poseidon' Warriors!

Still deciding which scale/ make of ships to get tbh so I think you're in with a shout there.

I'm considering adapting it to use my blue hex mat. Looks like it would work quite well. Will post pics and an AAR sometime in 2020 when I finally get something done :)
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Subedai

Ma Subs said what do you want so I ordered

'The Mongol Invasions of Japan' by Mark Winchester (self explanatory)
'William Rubruck's Account of the Mongols' by Rana Saad (Invasion of Europe in 1241)
'Chingis Khan Rides West' by Don Croner (about the Kharizmian Campaign 1215-1221)

Haven't read any of them yet.

Other stuff:

A Celtic knot earring, smellies, slippers, a couple of diddley-d's and more smellies (hmmm, I'm beginning to wonder). We also had some joint prezzies. 

MickS
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Roy

Just spent my Colonel Bills staff Christmas bonus.

Obviously the money went on tabletop gaming items :D

Skywalker, I'll definitely be coming over to your club to play X-Wing now. Bodvoc ... do you want to play X-Wing if I provide the stuff...?  :-SS

:)
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Bodvoc

Happy to play X wing Roy, I have quite a bit of stuff myself.
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Nosher

Nothing game related (again for the 48th successive year) but did get lots of Vespa related goodies ;)
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Frank Carson

Roy

I can now include Pendraken ACW to my xmas purchases presents. (I had to wait to receive them from a club mate who'd picked them up from Pendraken Towers pre-xmas closer)
Rimmer: "Aliens."

Lister: "Oh God, aliens... Your explanation for anything slightly peculiar is aliens, isn't it?

Rimmer: "Well, we didn't use it all, Lister. Who did?"

Lister: "Rimmer, aliens used our bog roll?"

Nosher

I don't think my wife likes me very much, when I had a heart attack she wrote for an ambulance.

Frank Carson

Raider4

Nothing gaming related, but I have cashed in some of the Amazon vouchers towards a copy of One Hour Wargames. Just waiting for it to turn up now. Hoping it will kick-start some enthusiasm.

And a bottle or rum to warm my tum . . .

Cheers, Martyn
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Chad

31 December 2016, 02:40:33 PM #29 Last Edit: 31 December 2016, 02:44:43 PM by Chad
15mm British Infantry for my French Revolution project
New Green Bay Packers hat
Pre-dreadnoughts from Tumbling Dice
Amazon gift voucher
Subscription to Find My Past

A promise from my son to buy 'Decision on the Mincio' when available

Duke Speedy of Leighton

Those Tumbling Dice predreds are rather nice
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fred.

Extending this to sale purchases:

Each of these cost me £10 new, seeing them like this one feels rather less good value...
* Pirates of Nassau board game (very heavy)
* 3 x 4L Really Useful Boxes
* Max Hastings book on WWII Espionage and Spies

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petercooman

06 January 2017, 12:34:56 PM #32 Last Edit: 06 January 2017, 12:36:29 PM by petercooman
So as usual i get lots of cash as presents, and afterwards i get to pick what i want.

Been browsing catalogues for a few days, and finally ordered what i wanted this morning. There are minimal miniatures, like i promised when i anounced this year to be all about painting my collection.

- tank expansion for the great war (prepainted so doesn't count  :D )
- a pack of whippets (prepainted so doesn't count  :D )
- uncharted empires book for kings of war (really want to use my scratch built ghosts so i need the night stalkers army lists)
- flock
- some warpaints
- a new detail brush from the army painter's wargamer series
- some card sleeves
- 6 sprues of line lancers from warlord games (all single sprues 50% off untill the weekend, can't resist that! )

Now i am waiting for Leon to start work again so i can have a pack of custom bases and some more paint from minibits!

So surprisingly only 12 miniatures that i have to paint (+ the artillery in the tank expansion, they are unpainted as well). But i'm getting some good stuff to do the actual painting (and basing)!

O Dinas Powys

Camberley now has a games store again, so with some Christmas Ca$h I treated myself to some Reaper Bones Vermin Swarms (rats, beetles and spiders) and a Reaper metal 28mm baby Dragon to help populate my dungeon, as well as a Javis desert battle mat - which looks like quite a good match for my Sci-Fi bases - and a d24.  

Now I just need to find a game that uses d24s and I'll be laughing...  :-\
(I know, even though it's fantasy  :o  ;)  )

petercooman

09 January 2017, 02:11:27 PM #34 Last Edit: 09 January 2017, 02:13:44 PM by petercooman
Quote from: petercooman on 06 January 2017, 12:34:56 PM
So as usual i get lots of cash as presents, and afterwards i get to pick what i want.

Been browsing catalogues for a few days, and finally ordered what i wanted this morning. There are minimal miniatures, like i promised when i anounced this year to be all about painting my collection.

- tank expansion for the great war (prepainted so doesn't count  :D )
- a pack of whippets (prepainted so doesn't count  :D )
- uncharted empires book for kings of war (really want to use my scratch built ghosts so i need the night stalkers army lists)
- flock
- some warpaints
- a new detail brush from the army painter's wargamer series
- some card sleeves
- 6 sprues of line lancers from warlord games (all single sprues 50% off untill the weekend, can't resist that! )

Now i am waiting for Leon to start work again so i can have a pack of custom bases and some more paint from minibits!

So surprisingly only 12 miniatures that i have to paint (+ the artillery in the tank expansion, they are unpainted as well). But i'm getting some good stuff to do the actual painting (and basing)!

So i just splashed the remainder of my holiday cash on:

-paints,bases and dice from minibits
-a gw lord of the rings cave troll
-a reaper bones mountain troll

i'm going to use the last one as a mordor troll, think he looks ok for that!
it's this one:


Actually looks pretty good next t the gw ones:

Leman

He's not due for quite some time (courtesy of Pendant's Corner).
The artist formerly known as Dour Puritan!

Ithoriel

There are 100 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who can work from incomplete data

Gennorm

A leather-bound measuring tape was my only remotely wargaming-related present.

N

Duke Speedy of Leighton

Okay... All I can think of for that would be an old school PE tape!
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