Warhammer: Escaping Hobby Block

Over the past several weeks I have been subjected to hobby block. Agggh – help me break free!

I can’t focus on painting, gaming, or writing army lists. On one hand it has kept me from buying new models but on the other it is making the two weeks preceding the convention I am to run very stressful. Could it be the chaos of life overwhelming me?

I argue that it is not. I don’t feel the block when it comes to anything else, just when it comes to Warhammer. I am not the only one in my local gaming groups either. Three games day events and have been cancelled for lack of interest, yet in all three cases there have been discussions of play testing new army builds and scenarios for the upcoming tournament. The question is how to get beyond the block we all seem to have and continue to enjoy our hobby.

This time I have let my block run its course a little more than I should have. I now have just two weeks to finalize details for Kippers‘, review all the army lists and prep the terrain, and my ringers (at the moment I have odd numbers for event attendance).

Normally I try to ignore my block, forcing myself to listen to podcasts or sit at my desk until I start painting something. This time I spent a great deal of time with a new hobby: crochet. Making dice bags for people and tournaments and blankets for people expecting babies. It has helped to give me a change from Warhammer and as it gives a lot of time to think I have been using that time to try to force myself to write a new army list for my Brets and consider all the tactical flaws involved.

It has started to work. I now have a desire to buy and paint 14 more Pegasus knights to add to the 6 I already have (12 knights and 2 character conversions). To keep with my theme, which I discuss on my personal blog, I might have to make two of the pegs look more like dragons. I also want to finish the two towers sitting on my painting desk so that I can start work on my next army, though I need to place a large Forgeworld order before I can go too far with that.