Saturday saw my first proper game using the Congo ruleset from ‚Studio Tomahawk‘.  In one of those all important bouts of introspection it had occurred to me that my hobby progress was being hampered by a lack of any discernible progress in any one area – surely the goal had to be to playing a game, but which one?  The discovery of Congo seemed to give me the direction I was lacking and written, as it was, in a light hearted and often humorous way the rules seemed much more accessible to this novice wargamer.  The style combined with a card activation system and the use of tokens to record the ever increasing level of stress seemed to help make the game a more comfortable crossover from the collaborative board games that I was enjoying to a ‚real‘ wargame.  So from ‚Salute 2017‘ Congo had become the focus of my hobby time and to give that focus a tangible time frame I made the decision to host a game during the eagerly awaited summer holidays.  A brief email exchange between Mike ‚The Dark Templar‘ Reynolds and ‚Bullcher Feb‘ of the splendid and often humorous, ‚Bull’s Waaagghhh‘ blog resulted in a date being tentatively placed in the diary and so countdown began. 

So as hinted earlier there will now follow a series of posts that will certainly take me through August and into September as I sift through the photographs that I have taken and document my thought processes in building the terrain and bringing it to the table, but in the meantime I have included a couple of shots that I did manage to remember to take on the day.  I should perhaps also mention that only moments before our intrepid adventures arrived at ‚Awdry Towers‘ there had been a loud knock on the door.  There standing on the threshold was the Postman with a very large box – Massive Darkness has arrived!