A Garden Table, Four Games, and Maybe an 8-Player Tournament?
Big table energy
Sometimes a hobby plan starts with army lists, sometimes with painted minis, and sometimes with a table.
This time it was definitely the table.
Wilini dropped the kind of message that immediately gets our brains working overtime: on one table there is space for two games, and there is another similar table in the garden, lined up the same way, with room for two more. In other words: four games at once.
And then came the dangerous sentence — Maro said that one day we could even make it into an 8-player tournament.
Honestly? We are very into that idea.
The post-holiday momentum is real
Not long after that, End3r checked in with exactly the kind of energy we like to see: he was back from holiday, very up for playing something, and specifically mentioned CP. On top of that, he was already sitting down to assemble the missing models.
That is the ideal hobby combo right there:
- back from holiday,
- ready to play,
- and immediately getting the pile of shame under control.
We respect it.
There is something deeply motivating about knowing that games are within reach and that all it takes is finishing those last few models. Suddenly clipping, cleaning mould lines, and glueing feels a lot more exciting.
The venue is basically planning games for us
What we really love here is how naturally this turned from “we have space” into “we should definitely organize something.”
A setup with room for four games at the same time opens up a lot of possibilities:
- casual game day,
- parallel campaign rounds,
- teaching games for newer players,
- or a small tournament without having to overcomplicate anything.
And because this is happening with tables in the garden, it already sounds like the kind of event we would want to attend ourselves: relaxed, social, a bit chaotic in the best way, and full of people wandering between boards to see what everyone else is doing.
So… when are we doing this?
For now this is still in the “very good idea that immediately made us excited” phase, but it is exactly the sort of idea that tends to grow legs in our group.
We have the space. We have interest. We have at least one person returning from holiday already assembling models to get games in.
That is usually how these things begin.
So if this actually turns into a proper meet-up or even that 8-player event Maro mentioned, nobody will be able to say it came out of nowhere. The seed has been planted.
And honestly, four simultaneous games in a garden sounds like an excellent way to spend a day.
We are in.