It’s been an interesting few days so far.  I seem to be a big fan of dead games, or maybe so many games fail it hard for one of them not to be one you like.  Anyhoo, one of my favorites both in concept and execution, Vor:  The Maelstrom may be being resurrected.  Over on Iron Wind Metals’ forum, its creator, Mike "Skuzzy" Nielsen, tossed out that he was in negotiation with an unnamed company (which has yet to identify itself so far) saying there is talk of a Vor 2.0 with updated rules and a ten-year timeline advance.  He threw out to forum members to offer up suggestions of what he would like to see.  There were several good suggestions throughout, but then it seemed to break down into a debate about what was more extreme: Vor or Warmachine/Hordes.  Focus people.  In the end I’ll definitely pick this one up even though what I really need right now is yet another game I have figs for and never have time to play.  Technically this won’t count as a new game since I have the first edition of rules and this will just be an upgrade.  Right.

On the painting front, I have finally overcome my recent slow-down.  Some backstory:  I don’t have time to paint during the day due to work and when the kids are awake (workdays and weekend) they take priority so the only time I have to paint is in the evenings after they have gone to bed and before I go (still working on sleep-painting, the wife was pretty upset over the results to the furniture from the last attempt).  That gives me about 1.5 to 2.5 hours to get the job done.  I used to be a much faster painter and could whip out a squad of figs in a couple of nights.  Now it seems to take me at least a week for some reason.  Not sure if it is old age or a slight increase in quality making me take longer(I am an average painter-some skill but no real talent-my figs look fine on the tabletop but will never be contest worthy).  Add this to a brick wall of June when I have to shut down move and this leads to a bit of self-induced stress to knock the current wave of figs out.  Like almost every miniatures collector I’ve ever known I have more figs and am acquiring faster than I am painting.  A couple of years ago I started a personal project to finish my various armies by faction which has had great success and with the current batch on my “table” (more about that some other time) I’ll finish off one more army.  As soon as I break the code on pictures posting I’ll start getting some stuff up so you can point and laugh. 

Okay let’s close the circle.  How does this tie into dead games?  The figs I’m painting right now are from Ultimate Warzone.  Yes-people still play-in fact this month there is a mini-convention of die-hard players going on up New Jersey.  I’m currently trying to finish off my Mishima corporate forces.  I already finished off Capitol, Cartel, Dark Legion (all the dark apostles), and Bauhaus.  Of course then I got more figs for all of these groups [see above] so I’m back to being behind again. 

So to sum up:  Vor coming back maybe (hope is the source of despair): good.  Painting on the upswing:  good.  No actually playing games this week:  bad. 

2 out of 3.  I’ll take it.

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