What games are everyone getting their gaming kicks from at the minute?

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**Eggs**

A little inspired by the 'too many wargames' thread. I was wondering what folks are playing at the moment? I don't have a local game store other than gw, so I'm quite interested in hearing about local scenes.

I'm currently playing a lot of x wing, and have a local league up an running. I'm getting my infinity stuff painted up and am waiting for my games and gears board to arrive so I can start designing my terrain for it.

I'm also being tempted more and more by malifaux, but am not allowing myself to splurge until I have the above completed, as well as getting my next 500 points of space marines painted up.

What's everyone else up to?

**Dr. What**

I had to sell my Ork army to cover a family issue. I tried to get back into 40k by building up a little Nurgle force, but GW kept giving me reasons not too. Then 7th ed rumors started pouring in and I decided that it really wasn't worth the upkeep anymore.

Malifaux is very big in my area though and it looked amazing, so I bought in with a Lady Justice starter and the gaming basics. Now I find myself planning several increments of expansion into the Guild.

**Battlesong**

My regular group still plays 40k, and we dabble a little in WHFB. Tonight, though, is my regular Pathfinder group (although I think we are playing mtg tonight)

**Soteks Prophet**

I've stopped wargaming all together since it was almost impossible to find an opponent for something other than 40k and my 'negative' attitude to 40k meant that I got aggro from some people.

So now I play with watercolour.

*forever alone*

**Pacific**

Just discovered an absolutely wonderful game called Bloody Barons, by Peter Pig.

Set during the War of the Roses (or any later Medievil period really) it's tremendously characterful - you can go for a smaller or larger army, but there is a possibility if you choose the latter that parts of your army won't turn up, or even change sides! There is a massive pre-game build up where players 'bid' against each other to try and affect each others supplies, spy on each other, even tiredness of troops and propensity to fight. And it's also put together in a very straightforward way, and is quite intuitive. So, a massive pile of pikemen, longbowmen, billmen and various characters from the WoTR to get built and painted for it.

One of my other favourite games by Peter Pig is 'AK47' - if it's even half as good as that will be well worth playing!

**Tanakosyke22**

Well, I am not one to usually talk about my local scene and not the bigger picture but I'll bite.

Currently playing Warmachine/Hordes as my main game as that is what is mostly played at my store I go to a bit, and since I really prefer the rules to mainline 40k and I feel a get a bit more bang for my buck for what I get. Also play Shawdorun/Exalted for RPG nights with my group as well as Necromunda and the Heralds of Ruin's Kill Team. Although trying to get more people into Infinity in my area.

**TheDraconicLord**

Currently I only play Pathfinder or stuff like Smash Up! (I love this card game) or boardgames.

40k, I hope I eventually start doing some games again with SM, same with Infinity: I have a starter set of Merovingian Rapid Response Force + some others I haven't used yet.

**weeble1000**

Dr. What wrote:
I had to sell my Ork army to cover a family issue. I tried to get back into 40k by building up a little Nurgle force, but GW kept giving me reasons not too. Then 7th ed rumors started pouring in and I decided that it really wasn't worth the upkeep anymore.

Malifaux is very big in my area though and it looked amazing, so I bought in with a Lady Justice starter and the gaming basics. Now I find myself planning several increments of expansion into the Guild.

Malifaux seemed to have a 'gotcha!' style of gameplay that I did not terribly well enjoy. I haven't played the new edition though.

X-Wing is big at the FLGS, and before I started pouring all my time and effort into my own personal game we played a lot of Freebooter's Fate. It makes for a fun, loose, low impact game.

A buddy and I were playing a bit of Dreadball too. Easy, quick, and fun.

My days of dropping by the FLGS to see what's happening are over for the nonce. These days if I want to play a certain game I just make it happen. I am firmly in the buy-everything-so-nobody-else-has-to camp. It's terribly easy getting in a game of pretty much anything when all the other player has to do is show up.

I would love to start playing 7TV, but the killer there is needing all new terrain! I am building so much Wild West terrain that I have no room to start a new theme from scratch. Now, if there were a Wild West 7TV expansion...

HEY CROOKED DICE if you guys make a wild west version of 7TV I will run a Brisco Couty Jr. themed campaign. Cross my heart!

**Paradigm**

I've not played 40k in about 2.5 months, due to a lack of opponents, but if I could get anyone for a game we'd still be playing 6th (the advantage of being the rules guy in a small group is that we can agree not to bother with the new edition). As much as I'd love to keep going with expanding my 10k+ points of 40k, the money I'd need to spend to get 'up to date' is insane (£80 on books alone)

Which brings me to the next point, Malifaux. I have nothing as yet (waiting for some spare cash) but the background is awesome and the game looks very unique. The models are just stunning as well, so will be fun to paint if nothing else.

Deadzone is still going, but I've almost run out of DZ to paint, and again the lack of opponents is holding me back. I'm looking at trying War of the Ring again after seeing a thread about it in the LOTR forum. Also, I'm planning to give the new edition of D&D a shot when the free PDF comes out.

**lord_blackfang**

I meet with a friend once a week and we play either Deadzone or Xwing. And I meet another friend for MTG once or twice a week. That's it for my gaming life. It has never been so dry.

**Big P**

Last week was WW2 using Battlegroup Overlord, followed by Seven Years War with Maurice. This week its Battlegroup Blitzkreig playtest and a game of Napoleonic using General de Brigade. Week after is more WW2 and a Ronin raid on a Samurai castle I think...

**Mr Morden**

Mainly playing Judge Dredd and 40K at the oment - but we are also playing:

ACTA, Uncharted Seas and Malifeux

**Sigvatr**

Flames of War. Such awesome rules. Extremely complex but well-balanced and very focused on player skill.

Easy Company ftw!

**jonolikespie**

I'm getting into Infinity at the moment and am massively excited about it but there aren't a lot of people in my immediate areas so it's a little hard getting games in.

I do have a fair few friends already playing Dystopian Wars though and we are all eagerly awaiting our new rulebooks for that. Sooo many new things I want to try there with 2.0

**Maddermax**

Warmachine league at the club at the moment is keeping me busy, but also various boardgames when I can: Zombicide, Level 7: Omega Protocol, Firefly the Game and Settlers of Catan, among others.

**Yonan**

Tabletop:
- Playing Dreadball
- Painting SMs

PC
- Gnomoria
- Dawn of War start to finish
- Bits of WoW and GW2

**Wayniac**

Currently Warmachine, trying to get more interest in it at my FLGS. I have the misfortune of being in an area with three game stores but each is it's own bubble and there's little or no variety in games. It's mostly GW and nothing else beyond a smattering of Warmachine. Infinity, Malifaux, FoW, etc are unknown entirely and likely nobody would care.

**Nick Ellingworth**

Recently I've mostly been playing plain old Warhammer Fantasy, got an escalation league/army painting competition running at the moment. This Monday we'll be starting to play the 2000 point games. Aside from that all I've really played has been a few board games (Elder Sign and Ticket to Ride in particular).

Hopefully in the next few weeks I'll be able to get a few games of Star Trek: Attack Wing in along side the Warhammer league.

**Ghaz**

Most of my gaming will be focused on Flames of War. I'll still paint my Necrons, but right now my interest in 7th edition is practically nil, especially when I can purchase almost an entire 1,750 point army for what GW is selling two Gorkanauts for.

**captsabre**

Just started getting into WHFB and building a small Empire force. Ive kinda left 40K alone, I dont really fancy paying out for a 6.5 rule set. However ill probably still squeeze a few 6th ed games in over the summer with my bro.

Soteks Prophet wrote:

So now I play with watercolour.

*forever alone*

I know the feeling man

**Salad_Fingers**

Been playing a little Naval Thunder, X wing and Skirmish Sangin.

However have mostly been playing Battlegroup, at the moment the Fall of the Reich book, probably the best game with the best set of rules i have played.

**Death Gear**

I'm a bit angry with GW right now. So for the moment I've been playing a good amount of WarmaHords and FOW. But the biggest thing my gaming group has been playing is Only War and Dark Heresy. Mostly because we can still use most of our GW mini's.

**jonolikespie**

Man I'd love to get some people together, get them each to convert/kitbash/buy a model from interesting 3rd party source and paint up some characters for only war.
I got one session in with some friends and we never got around to scheduling another.

**Eilif**

Our club is gearing up for the beginning of our annual Summer Song of Blades and Heroes Campaign.

It's always a good time and usually each year most of the members will paint up a whole new themed warband or add a bunch of new minis to an older one. Usually the warbands are really diverse, coming from different (often mixed) manufacturers, but gathered around a theme. This year I've not had much time to paint, so some variation of my woodlanders "Union of the Green" (forest creatures, sentient animals and probably some elves) warband from a couple years back will be hitting the table again.

This year we're also allowing members to also opt play games of "Of Gods and Mortals" which is a version of the SBH rules that incorporates squads of models for a bigger game as well as a new reaction mechanic. I played my first OGAM game last week and am truely stoked. It's an excellent outgrowth of SBH and a great chance to get more models on the table without sacrificing game speed.

Here you can see what our last two SBH campaigns looked like:
2013 Dark Days in Qaarrra
http://chicagoskirmish.blogspot.com/p/dark-days-have-come-to-lands-of-qaarra.html
2012 The Iron Isle
http://chicagoskirmish.blogspot.com/p/iron-isle-song-of-blades-heroes.html

**Lanrak**

Board games Blood Bowl and Blood Bowl manager.(Hope fully Dead Zone soon.)

War games F.o.W, and B.A. mainly.(Occasionally Epic, and some other old favorite battle games games.)

I am hoping to get X-wing for my sons birthday.For him obviously , not for me , honest...

**Ugavine**

40K, Star Wars minis, Heroclix, Star Wars RPG, Star Wars Card Game and assorted board games. I'm also working on a British Army for Bolt Action.

**Ascalam**

RPG wise Pathfinder. I have some other campaigns cooking in the back of my head for Babylon 5 RPG, Cyberpunk 2020 etc also, and would love to dust off my In Nomine stuff.

Wargaming wise - 40k 6th ed. Haven't tried 7th yet, but will be giving that a go tuesday. Not 100% on 7th yet, but we'll see.

Getting into Warmahordes.

Dreadfleet once in a while.

I also unearthed my old Necromunda and 1st ed Space hulk rulebooks, so they may be getting an airing.

**Ruglud**

Necromunda with my two kids (14 & 10) as it's a fast, fun and simple game to play that doesn't need many figures... They also enjoy Mighty Empires, but mainly to make maps...

My buddy and I dabble in WW2 gaming, using homebrew rules, but considering investing in Bolt Action at some point.

Never played a full game of 40k, but did buy AoBR, just never got much further than undercoating the Marines. Always preferred games like Necromunda and Space Hulk

**sing your life**

I am really liking the Bolt Action rulest, even though I haven't bought any models yet.

**TheAuldGrump**

Too much gaming...

I play Kings of War, about two to four games a week - often against my girlfriend. (And once against my girlfriend and her mum... I was wise enough not to win that one.

)

I play Pathfinder three times a week - one I play in (a swashbuckling Magus that spends an awful lot of time at fewer than half hit points), and run two - one Crimson Throne campaign, and a home brew that I run at a dry bar.

Deadzone gets wedged in when I can find time - I love the game, but time....

Zombicide or similar games get played while waiting for folks to make it to the Pathfinder games.

The Auld Grump