Fun with friends, that's the main thing.
Favorite hobby? Probably painting.
Miniature games and me go way back, I have many many tiny painted things scattered in many places. Recently I have been trying to gear up for small pints-based board game/tabletop dice throwing with pals. To that end I have been 3D printing Battletech units and bought a starter kit.
I'm not sure where or when tabletop games can be easily played. Ideally a bar somewhere in Dublin city centre but we shall see. Mostly just trying to prepare sets of units so there are premade kits for people to just pick up and play. Then have rules as simple as possible to make it fun.
I've been play testing with my children, rolling through the phases and trying to trim down the gameplay while keeping it fun. In my head it's all about the post game, earn points/experience, upgrade and/or repair mechs, add detail to your lance and build toward the next battle. Very much leaning on a GorkaMorka type game but with 'mechs. Wondering about doing it DnD style where I play as a host. I dunno, this is the stuff I like doing when I should be productive, plan out games I'll probably never put into action. That and painting and making the minis, because that is awesome. And doing that with the kiddos too which is great fun, although it's definitely resulted in about 20 times the repairs one would normally have on a mini haha. So many tiny pieces to reglue after tiny hands disassemble.
Hopeful that this will lead to some fun evenings reliving those childhood days pretending to be giant robots in the school yard. I would be doing you a disservice, by the way, if you've read this much without recourse to run away, if I didn't mention that some fine example of humanity has uploaded all the episodes of Battletech to the internet Remastered! When I was showing my long HDD’d rips of the VHS and realised they were semi unwatchable to modern eyes I found these.
Anyway, this is longer than I wanted it to be, when the tldr is: I am 3D printing 50 mm tall robots so I can nerd more...
Listening to: the thickest bass riffs your human ears can handle Mcbaise - Alice
Postscript:
Resource links for Battletech game for self reference and dissemination...
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