What did you do today.

[Konrad]

Having painted nothing since the end of April, I sat down yesterday and painted for most of the day. Today I did some varnishing and applied some flock.
My first minis in months, some rebel militia for the American War of Independence. (A few days late for the actual day though, sorry).

"rebel militia?" Those are Patriots I'll have you know! I should do up some Am Rev figs just so we can talk trash.

[Jye Nicolson]

"rebel militia?" Those are Patriots I'll have you know! I should do up some Am Rev figs just so we can talk trash.

I read up on the history and there was definitely a small Rebel force assisting the French. Lafayette really liked them.

(Great work Prim, and sweet tanks Dave!)

[The Other Dave]

I primed up still yet more tanks last night (enough to get me to 3000 points, so probably a stopping point for solar auxilia until some of the guys in the club who are doing Epic can catch up) but also decided to give Elden Ring another go, trying to power through the fact that the Japanese playstation store wouldn't sell me a version in English even though said version definitely, you know, exists, or entertain my request for a refund after I found out only after installing it (it's me, I'm spoiled by Steam's generous refund policy). Still, it's straightforward enough so far, although I think I may be giving myself bad habits vis a vis actually fighting stuff by picking a class that can kill lots of stuff from pretty far away with magic missiles, so when weird gargoyles or giant tree dudes or whatever get up in my grille I sort of freak out a bit and usually die.

[Jye Nicolson]

Dying is fine! Runes aren't that important even if you lose them, you'll get plenty later.

You may want to give yourself the option of a shield and maybe a backup melee weapon; bare minimum stats are fine.

For actual scary stuff like bosses you should have spirit ashes available (go to first church, with Merchant Kale, rest and pass time until night, talk to the blue lady if you don't have any spirit ash summons yet), they'll take the heat off you.

For my part I've mostly been assembling, I don't even really feel like trying to prime at the moment so I will just build up a backlog. I've also been playing an absolute ton of Elden Ring, been through the DLC twice and I'm starting on NG+6 to try even more of the fancy weapons. Rocking backhand blades now in the Night Armour set and they're hilariously good right up until the second I make a mistake

[The Other Dave]

Yeah, I've actually been able to be fastidious about picking up my dropped runes so far, which is probably at the very least a sign that I'm not going anywhere I have no right to be. Are ashes consumables? (Actually I only just figured out that potions aren't, not really, and restock when you rest - there's a fair bit I'm probably missing by the combination of going in blind and not being able to be fussed about bringing my limited literacy to bear. )

[Jye Nicolson]

Yeah, I've actually been able to be fastidious about picking up my dropped runes so far, which is probably at the very least a sign that I'm not going anywhere I have no right to be. Are ashes consumables? (Actually I only just figured out that potions aren't, not really, and restock when you rest - there's a fair bit I'm probably missing by the combination of going in blind and not being able to be fussed about bringing my limited literacy to bear. )

No, spirit ashes are infinite use and upgradeable like weapons. Whenever you see the ghostly gate looking icon on the left hand side of the screen you should summon one, that's a sign it's a tough area/boss and you probably need them.

[The Other Dave]

No, spirit ashes are infinite use and upgradeable like weapons. Whenever you see the ghostly gate looking icon on the left hand side of the screen you should summon one, that's a sign it's a tough area/boss and you probably need them.

So that's what that was! I guessed right then, since that's where I called up some ghost wolves to bully a bunch of soldiers. Kind of annoying it uses the same resource as my spells, but what are you gonna do.

Later on I found a goblin pretending to be a tree and got annihilated by a surprise underground bear so that was fun.

(OK, enough Elden Ring chat, I'll try to keep on topic, heh. Game seems fun even with the language barrier though.)

[Konrad]

"rebel militia?" Those are Patriots I'll have you know! I should do up some Am Rev figs just so we can talk trash.

I read up on the history and there was definitely a small Rebel force assisting the French. Lafayette really liked them.

(Great work Prim, and sweet tanks Dave!)

Lafayette? That rich kid who was George Washington's secretary? Nice fellow. We liked him too.

[Primarch]

Lafayette managed to live through the French Revolution, quite an impressive feat given how many of his contemporaries didn't.

[Konrad]

Lafayette managed to live through the French Revolution, quite an impressive feat given how many of his contemporaries didn't.

The guy who did the Revolutions podcast (A+ military history geekery, can't recommend it enough) Mike Duncan wrote a book on Lafayette. I should give it a read one of these days. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hero_of_T ... Revolution