Been doing a lot of thinking lately. That would probably
explain the thick smell of burning over Northamptonshire at the moment. But
there have been reasons behind it.
There are things going on in the background that I won’t
bore you with here. That’s meant looking again at what I get from gaming. For
me, gaming is the release. It’s my social interaction. The high points of my
week. For those few hours a week I get to stop being Ben the apparently
unemployable finance bod, and take on the Panzer persona to play games and hang
out with friends.
The Pandora / Neverborn experiment has been very hard
work. Trying to pick up a new faction competitively whilst working out schemes,
and play in a completely different style to my usual, is tough at the best of
times. Never mind when there’s so much going on behind the scenes. So whilst it
was a good idea, and I will come back to it, right now I need to be playing
games my way.
Deep down I’m still a Guild player. Since that first
event with them, when the only Guild Master I had was Lady Justice, there was a
smattering of other stuff and nothing had even seen the tin of Chaos Black, I’ve
not clicked with a faction to quite the same extent. I won that event – my first
ever podium at a Malifaux event, never mind win. Guild are not a fashionable
choice, they’ve never been top tier, but they and I have very similar aims in
mind. Wrap up the points whilst putting as many things in the ground as
possible, and if we can do that whilst throwing curve balls at the opponent (“I’ve
never seen that model before, what’s it doing?”) so much the better.
So the Guild are coming back out. Will be dusting off
their case tonight and throwing them straight back on the table at Squigs. A
lot of the Squigs are synonymous with particular factions – Ben Halford is
Resser Squig. BluTack is Arcanist Squig who dabbles. Joel is and always will be
associated with Neverborn, even if he pops up elsewhere for a while. Brooks is
inherent randomness and crazy. And then there’s me with Guild.
Another change I made was to take myself off the
rankings. I’m always an advocate of rankings, my events are submitted to
rankings and I have absolutely no issue with them at all. My broken brain just
struggles sometimes to cope with the fact that once upon a time I was ranked
very highly and now I’m not. At my peak I scraped inside the top 10 at no. 9. I
qualified for Masters in the 2015 season having missed out by less than 1 point
in 400 the season before. Right now, just finishing the 3 games of a tournament
is an achievement, never mind living up to past glories. When I know I can
finish events without the mental demons resurfacing mid-game, then I’ll start
worrying about where I stand in the rankings again.
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