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Tabletop: A Return to the Battlefield

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 As winter wanes and spring pushes ever closer, the snow in Interior Alaska is melting, covid is subsiding, and that means all the tabletop nerds are emerging from their deep hibernating sleep.  Alas, my readers, for I am one of these hibernating nerds. This Saturday will be my first real tournament is several months, not since before Christmas.  I have a "tried and true" list of models that I like to use, as it pays homage to both family, and my love for another game called BattleTech.  My friends like to poke fun, call it the "geriatric unit" or "the old folks home field trip" and they mean it in good jest. To be honest, I do not feel that I am ready.  Five days out is still a good ways away, and I ran this particular formation for over a year, so the tactic is engrained.  Still, I don't feel I'm ready.  Have I stepped away from the game too long?  Has that thirst for destruction of my enemies before me been slated? I've played some BattleTec...

Random Word: Worms

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Introduction Greetings everyone.  I did not have anything worthy in my opinion of writing about for my weekly Friday Night Fights (FNF posts), so I asked my eldest for a word.  She gave me the word "Worms."   With my RANDOM WORDS posts for now and in the future, I will take a random word given to me by someone around me (family, friends, co-workers, etc) and then write about it as it pertains to the three main points of AKDragonFish3D:  tabletop gaming (board games, card games, Dungeons and Dragons, Warhammer, etc), the over expansive topic of fishing , and 3D printing . Tabletop Wargaming First, I will cover tabletop wargaming as it comes to mind when I think about the word "worms."  There are three things off the cuff that come to mind. The first thing that comes to mind is a play on words:  "Worms" becomes "Wyrms" or "Wurms."  A type of dragon species, a Wyrm is a dragon with no arms and no legs.  The most prevalent example that sho...