The one with the trip to Västervik.

Baycon came and went last weekend and it was a truly enjoyable experience!
I would guestimate that about 40-ish people walked thru the doors during the day but I honestly don't have a clue. I will come back the next time for sure, maybe even as a participant in the Bolt Action tournament. 
I've never really looked into the model-ranges as I focus my WW2 collection on 6mm, but there is really some cool looking stuff out there. I felt the enticing calls from the Emperor himself as I was drooling over a couple of Chi-Ha's and some stickweilding japanese soldiers. Damn... Yet another army coming up....

Yours truly (plaid shirt) and the other Johan discussing what we should start collecting. We got really close to buying a box each, but no cigar this time. The storeowner who sold both BA and TY was worth the sell tbh, but decisions, decisions..

My own table for the day was, as readers of the blog knows, a drop-in Hordes of the Things setup. It's kinda nice to travel with the setup as it fits into one of those mid-size plastic bins, sans the battlemat, and that kinda makes it easy to lug around. I took 24AP armies for Sky Peoples, Goths and Undead with me, and as you might have guessed the undead was the most popular army. I got 4 players over the course of the 7 hours I had it set up which is a smashing success.
10% of the convention visitors actually played HOTT!
Even more awesome, 3 of them had never played a miniature wargame before sitting down at the table! As we already have established, I am completely shite at taking pictures, but the few I managed to snap are below. 

I've been home a few days recuperating since the con and haven't gotten much else done. Just some light painting on the 2mm napoleonics together with some terrainbuilding that I just finished before wiritng these words.

Nothing really revolutionary going on here to be honest. 2mm is faster to paint than I thought tho if you can get over that bump of perfectionism and just git ´r dun. The terrainpieces are *badum* hills..
I have decided on a system for terrain-setup in 2x2 Napoleonics where I grid up the board in 16 parts. Each grid can have either zero, one or three terrainfeatures. If these is on, it can be up to 8" depending on the type and if there is three they are 1-3" big. These are all roughly 1-3". If it seems confusing, well, it is.

Hopefully it will become clearer once I post my not-so-innovative-but-still-pretty-cool-terrainplacement-rules[tm] some time in the future. I've mentioned them before, and they are essentially terraincards as used in various games by other creators like Age of Hannibal and Project Wargaming.

I got the chanse to do a couple of tests during Baycon with people who never used cards like this and with a brief explanation of the rules we easily managed to build and draw a couple vastly different but awesome tabletops! Sadly the drawings got stashed together with the draft of the cards and ended up at Johans place and.. *drumroll* I didn't take pictures of them.

It's cold and cripsy outside with the moon and stars glowing.
The printer behind me chirps away as a happy little R2-bot... 
Epic terrain is back on the menu boys!

Cheers!
/Fred
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