Well, a week of 2013 has already come and gone. I think it’s safe to make … let’s call it a declaration. Pop marketing is far too focused on resolutions and the fact that the odds are greatly against them being kept. Fortunately, rather than trying to make a big change, I’ve already been gradually improving my attitude over the course of the last several months, so I can opt to work toward a far-more-likely small-scale improvement. That said, I have a few declarations that I should easily be able to follow, and that will leave room for improvement within themselves:

 

  1. No more buying new models. I have a fairly large number of GW boxes and a few Forge World blisters that are unopened, and several more kits partially assembled. It will hurt a bit, since there are now two fortifications I am very interested in, but I have plenty on my plate as it is.
  2. Build and paint the stuff I have. Up until recently I have spent a lot of time not building and painting a fairly large number of perfectly good models. My free time isn’t set up like a lot of people’s is – I work essentially 14-hour days, so on days when I work I have practically no free time. I also, however, only work three or four days a week, so I have lots of entire days free when I could paint a bunch. So I will endeavor to do that.
  3. Improve my 40K game. I haven’t exactly made it a secret that I lose almost every game of 40K I play, especially solo games. I know the game pretty well, but I’m pretty sure I also make a lot of errors in deployment and play that cost me games I should have had an even chance in. Fortunately my opponents usually still seem to have a good time and I don’t mind losing as much as I probably should, but if nothing else I’m heading for my third Adepticon, and my third year of playing in Combat Patrol events. I owe it to myself to make a good showing there.

 

I also plan to redouble my efforts to absorb every bit of information I can about 40K, which will probably involve more reading and more podcast listening (and better preparing for ours). I’m not calling that even a declaration because I said so. I’ve been playing 40K for too long to pretend I’m not committed to it. Despite certain events and trends that are occurring in my favorite tabletop wargame, I think the near future holds a lot of promise and I look forward to it with a great deal of optimism.

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  • theplaidknight

    I reserve the right to break my declaration of not buying anything in order to buy a razorback because I have the forge world doors to accessorize one but no chassis to put them in. Also that doesn’t apply to supplies, naturally, you always need glue and paint and brushes, and I need magnets and maybe a dremel as well. If I can manage to afford one…