9 hours ago, The Jabbawookie said:

How about you, @Noosh ? Hanging in there?

Ya know, I'm starting to get some cabin fever. I started a new job the week before they locked us down, got laid off till it's over so I'm a little ansy about that. On the bright side though, I've been plowing through my back log of un built and un painted models. I might finally have that fully painted fleet, army, squadron, and Lance when this is all said and done! (As a side note, if the previous statement dose of occour, be on the look out for flying self serving bacon)

9 hours ago, Cpt ObVus said:

I’m weathering the quarantine by learning to play X-Wing as well, and buying waaaay too many plastic spaceships on eBay & Amazon. Fortunately my wife is convinced that sorting cards, building Armada & X-Wing lists, and playing Vassal games with friends will keep me sane for the duration. All this, of course, usually has to wait until the stepkids are in bed.

It’s weird... a few years back, I decided I could take no more of cubicles and offices and ties (the lower-case variety of TIEs, that is), and dropped it all to work in a seasonal restaurant in what’s basically a resort town. It’s been great, but we’re closed from late November to... well, about now... every year. And this Covid thing has prevented us from opening, obviously. So I was already beginning to go stir-crazy when the announcement came that I now had to keep doing what I’d already been doing all winter. Only now I can’t get in weekly RitR games with the play group.

Which may explain why lately I’ve been crankier than usual about FFG’s marketing gaffes. 🙂

Learn you madman!!!!! Why not try and see if anyone else in the house is interested, fun fact I had no idea my wife would like battletech.

As a side note try and not rage at ffg too much during this. I think getting mad at them for their marketing flubs just raises your blood pressure at this point, although a good rage every once and a while can be very cathartic!

45 minutes ago, Noosh said:

Learn you madman!!!!! Why not try and see if anyone else in the house is interested, fun fact I had no idea my wife would like battletech.

As a side note try and not rage at ffg too much during this. I think getting mad at them for their marketing flubs just raises your blood pressure at this point, although a good rage every once and a while can be very cathartic!

Good advice.

As for teaching the wife or kids, the step son is 13, and he’s the sort of 13 year old who thinks that anything an adult thinks might be fun must be stupid. So he’s not interested.

His little sister is only 9, and 9 year old girls don’t want to simulate space combat. She likes Star Wars, but mostly because of Porgs, Chewie, and Baby Yoda. She doesn’t find Assault Frigates “cute.”

And my wife and I have a deal: She doesn’t give me a hard time about spending money on plastic spaceships, I don’t make her play.

We’ll see how long the quarantine lasts, though. 😉

55 minutes ago, Cpt ObVus said:

Good advice.

As for teaching the wife or kids, the step son is 13, and he’s the sort of 13 year old who thinks that anything an adult thinks might be fun must be stupid. So he’s not interested.

His little sister is only 9, and 9 year old girls don’t want to simulate space combat. She likes Star Wars, but mostly because of Porgs, Chewie, and Baby Yoda. She doesn’t find Assault Frigates “cute.”

And my wife and I have a deal: She doesn’t give me a hard time about spending money on plastic spaceships, I don’t make her play.

We’ll see how long the quarantine lasts, though. 😉

I think it depends on the girl. My 7-year old spent an hour this afternoon enjoying the Battletech colouring book from drivethrurpg. I now have pictures of a very patriotic Marauder and Awesome.

3 hours ago, flatpackhamster said:

I think it depends on the girl. My 7-year old spent an hour this afternoon enjoying the Battletech colouring book from drivethrurpg. I now have pictures of a very patriotic Marauder and Awesome.

My heart is filled with joy at the thought of future giant stompy robot death pilots. Carry on good sir!

Still working all hours in some doomed effort to figure out how to enact a gazillions pages of covid directions from central government , while staring into space as the best plan we come up with locally for finding PPE is borrowing it from a veterinarian provider as health care provider after provider runs out..and social care has never had any to run out of in the first place..........All while very senior officials come on TV saying we have loads of PPE......but well....it’s just our leaders did not see the need to ******* well move it to were it would be needed within the 3 ****ity month timescale we had available.....I can only speculate why....but some very stupid cost vs likelihood ****ery comes to mind.

I am very pissed, a bit of “oh Chris it’s a 0% immunity, R0 of 3, 5-10 percent hospitalisation, 1 percent mortality nightmare from **** quick do everything....even throw the kitchen sink and cat at it” 2 months ago..was needed..instead of the “it will be fine....carry on......we can manage...let’s not do economic damage it may miss us”.....idiocy we had. It would have made a huge difference to where we are going now......if anyone says hind sight....noooo it was obvious....they did not need to wait for the imperial college modelling to know this virus it had the potential to kill hundreds of thousands in the U.K.

I am pissed, many of the people I know are pissed, some may even die doing their jobs...this could have been managed a lot better...look at Singapore ........I would like to insert my star destroyer collection up some very senior decision makers “where the sun don’t shine.

2 hours ago, player3691565 said:

Still working all hours in some doomed effort to figure out how to enact a gazillions pages of covid directions from central government , while staring into space as the best plan we come up with locally for finding PPE is borrowing it from a veterinarian provider as health care provider after provider runs out..and social care has never had any to run out of in the first place..........All while very senior officials come on TV saying we have loads of PPE......but well....it’s just our leaders did not see the need to ******* well move it to were it would be needed within the 3 ****ity month timescale we had available.....I can only speculate why....but some very stupid cost vs likelihood ****ery comes to mind.

I am very pissed, a bit of “oh Chris it’s a 0% immunity, R0 of 3, 5-10 percent hospitalisation, 1 percent mortality nightmare from **** quick do everything....even throw the kitchen sink and cat at it” 2 months ago..was needed..instead of the “it will be fine....carry on......we can manage...let’s not do economic damage it may miss us”.....idiocy we had. It would have made a huge difference to where we are going now......if anyone says hind sight....noooo it was obvious....they did not need to wait for the imperial college modelling to know this virus it had the potential to kill hundreds of thousands in the U.K.

I am pissed, many of the people I know are pissed, some may even die doing their jobs...this could have been managed a lot better...look at Singapore ........I would like to insert my star destroyer collection up some very senior decision makers “where the sun don’t shine.

Keep doing the good work! I can't change the stupid that's got us here, but I Shure as **** can be apppreshiatieve of those trying to dig us out. Take care of yourself out there.

Also may I suggest BT Avenger combo to lead in with your furious triangular point making?