Mini Hirds - 28 mm viking gaming

A couple of years ago, we ran a Mega Game at school about the Viking Age. For that, I painted a lot of miniatures.

A couple of weeks ago, we had a special day at school—a dress-up party with costumes and various activities. We ended the day by playing board games.

I decided to bring a small miniatures game. I spent some time re-skinning the Mini Gangs game by Ramshackle Games—a small, super easy miniatures game. It worked well, with six kids playing at a time, some in pairs.

What was awesome was that the kids it attracted were usually the hyperactive ones, but they were completely absorbed in the game. Everything else was ignored for 1.5 hours—something that rarely happens in school. It just goes to show that ADHD only seems like a problem because our system is structured a certain way. If we changed the teaching parameters, that energy and focus could be a strength rather than a weakness.

I'll be tweaking the game further—switching to a d10 instead of a d6 and making room for army vs. army battles. It should be easy to do. We’ll have another board game module in the autumn, and I’m really looking forward to it.

My focus was on game mastering during the game. So these photos are just quick snaps and not edited at all. 

Status - Hiatus

Motivation and hobby time 

It's been ages since this blog has been updated. So here's a status: 

Miniature gaming on my part has been minimal for a very long time. My leisure time have been spend with other things. 

The motivation for writing, photographing and such has been non existent. And then I'm not gonna do it then. So for years my hobby has been miniatures, writing, photographing and such. Now not so much. 

The blog is staying, some day I might do it again. For now I've been playing some Rangers of Shadow Deep without taking any photos or anything. 

A house

I've bought a house, the perfect home. It's in the middle of the woods. It's awesome. As part of moving out, I've cleaned out a ton of my stuff. Like a lot. So everything that's not Guilders, Necromunda and Devils Run have been sold. Everything single unbuild thing. 

I've also sold all my terrain and painted stuff for nearly all games. I've kept generic fantasy, frostgrave and guilders. Everything else have moved to other people. 

Guilders

Guilders is written, done and all. Playtested a lot. The book never got made, the editor fell through. I haven't had the motivation to get the skills for making a book. Some day it might get done, in a decently edited state and move to Wargames Vault. Maybe never. 

Anyways. 

I'm in a good place, I'm at a good home. Very little time spend on any SoMe. Lots of time spend on gear and in the outside.