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Curbing my Enthusiasms

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As a side note, I seriously have to curb the number of ‘active’ projects I have going, and stick with games (and sports) that I like to play.

Baseball and racing will always have a spot in my rotation.  Soccer and hockey take the next tier, with football and basketball lower on my list.

I also have golf, tennis, boxing, wrestling and lacrosse in various forms.  Of those, I have to be in the right mood/mindset to play any of those.  None of those games are ones I consider playing with a long-term ‘season’ or replay.

And then there’s the least played games: bowling, roller derby, demolition derby, and some interesting fictional sports.  Someday, I keep telling myself.

I just started the 2013 SCRAM season, and the 2024 SCRAM/SCRAM-B sets arrived in the mail today.  Yikes.

So yeah, I need to curb my habit, considering the vast amount of other hobbies I have and would like to pursue as well.

Stay tuned, I guess…

Ultra Quick Sports

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I dug out my copies of Ultra Quick Football and Ultra Quick Soccer last week, which then gave me the idea to pick up Ultra Quick Baseball, since it’s supposed to be a way to quickly sim the rest of the games in a single team replay.

I’m going to try it with the 1921 and 1971 season replays that I’m currently playing (though stalled due to my own indifference toward what to play lately).

It’ll probably take as long to sim all the games up to the point where I am in those seasons as it took to play those games.  I hope not.

Stay tuned!

Blood Bowl Team Focus: The Spartans

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A year or so ago I found these guys online and picked them up for Blood Bowl.  My intent was to use them as a Norse team.

This year Games Workshop came out with new rules and models for the actual Norse team, which makes this group of miniatures semi-obsolete.

What I didn’t realize when I bought this particular set is that it can be used for 3 different teams: Norse, Bretonnians, and Humans.

The Werewolves are meant to be used with a Norse team.

The Ogre (Big guy) is meant to be used with a Human team.

The Bretonnians don’t use either of those, so it would be all Humans.  Though technically the Bretonnians appear to have been replaced with the Imperial Nobility Team, so perhaps I can use them as one of those teams.

Can’t use werewolves on an Imperial Nobility Team, though.  Ah well.  Though I think I can use the Ogre.

I may have them play as Imperial Nobility vs the Lizardmen this weekend.

Stay tuned!

Indecision Intensified

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Multiple Game Disorder (MGD) is worse when you play tabletop sports games AND non-sport tabletop solitaire games.

So many sports replays I’d like to continue, but I also wanna terraform Mars or have Ms. Marvel fight Ultron or start playing with my freighter crew or join the Alliance to Restore the Republic.

Among other things.

At least video games are not really in this equation, since my arthritis is making me ‘retire’ from console games.

I know, first world problems.

But all of these are my escape from reality, if just for a little while.

The indecision makes it difficult to unplug from reality.

Ah well.

Computer Sims

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Hey, Chris, why don’t you play any sports sims on your computer?

Because the few times that I did, all I would do would simulate a season and be done in a few minutes.  There’s no fun in that.

And it would take about the same amount of time to play a dice and cards game or match as it would on the computer.

My only use of a computer during a game replay is to keep score, and occasionally look up pinch hitters/relief pitchers used in a given baseball game that I’m replaying.

And truth be told, lately I’m enjoying the heck out of my soccer games and scoring them by hand.

I did have Strat-O-Matic on my old PC, but never installed it on my newer PC.  I maybe played 1-2 full games using the 2010 season card set.

I also had Strategic Baseball Simulator on some of my PCs in the past, but again I played a handful of games or simulated an entire season.

And of course I had APBA on my PC for the longest time, and simulated individual games, just to hear the prerecorded play by play voices that were added.

I’ve looked at the PC games from Inside Sports and Replay, but I figure I have plenty of their table top products to keep me busy for a long while.

Bottom line is that I get the most satisfaction from rolling dice and flipping cards when replaying games.

Reflections

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I started playing table top games regularly when I decided to get reacquainted with Strat-O-Matic basic baseball.

I though that would be it.  The dice tower/tray that I built (PepsiCo Park) was inspired by other player’s Strat-O-Matic-themed creations.

But then, through my brother, I discovered PLAAY Games’ Red White & Blue Racing, which led to History Maker Baseball, which further led to about half a dozen other baseball games that I’ve tried, and almost a dozen more that I haven’t, along with various football, basketball, hockey, soccer, golf, wrestling, and other sports.

Quite a library of games I’ve built up over the years, and who knows when/if I’ll get around to all of them.

But that’s my plan.

Stay tuned!