What can I say. Really did not see this day coming any time soon. After walking into town for some essential food supplies, I found myself wandering into Games Workshop, and the spark was immediatly re-ignited…
After a good 3 years of no wargaming or hobby related tasks it was a very strange experience to be actually spending money, and thinking about my collection, as well as immediatly jumping into assembly and painting!
Upon entering the store I was greated with that old warm friendliness of the Games Workshop staff, more notably the manager of the store. A good 10mins chat later I soon found myself playing the introduction game from the Island of Blood box set (High Elves and Skaven) and began to notice some very major changes in the rules since my last time. Most noteably for myself was the changes in the magic phase. To summarise in a single word, I guess you could say it was more ‘Volatile’.
Even though I was a complete novice to the new ruleset I was invited to take part in the Thursday nights vets Warhammer Fantasy Campaign, with the promise that I’d soon turn around and master the rules.
Very soon I took the bus home (after recently moving into city for uni all my collection was at home in storage still) and picked up a few old pieces of my High Elf collection, and on the way back popped into GW and grabbed the Island of Blood Set (any skaven players? 
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By this point thursday was only a day or two away so even after saying I’d have 1000pts assembled and undercoated, I still found myself sticking bits together just an hour before going out!
Roll on Thursday!
Hey, mate.
Good to see you back in the world of the gamer – and the blogger!
I was never really in to Warhammer so I didn’t keep up with the change to the new edition. I’ve not heard many people discussing it so it’s interesting you use the word “volatile” to describe what would be my favourite part of the game!
Best of luck with the campaign – I expect a full report!