Tournament talk, impossible calendars, and a Skaven painting deadline
We had one of those very familiar hobby chats recently: it started with “fine, you convinced us” energy and very quickly turned into tournament plans, life getting in the way, and the eternal question of whether anyone can actually finish an army in time.
Stas gave in first, which immediately encouraged the rest of us. Michał was happy to see momentum building, and it sounds like Wilini is also planning to join in. Naturally, that meant the gentle pressure started right away: End3r and Pegie got a cheerful reminder that they have two months to prepare for a tournament debut.
And honestly, that is exactly the kind of hobby optimism we respect.
The real endgame: calendars
Of course, no event planning survives first contact with real life.
End3r immediately pointed out that the upcoming date lands on the weekend of Kasia’s First Communion, so that one is completely out. The backup plan is much more hobby-realistic: maybe the next event, with the army at least assembled — painted, probably not yet. We feel that deeply. There is a special kind of honesty in saying “I might manage glue, but not paint.”
From there the discussion naturally escalated into amateur tournament forecasting. Since previous editions apparently landed in November, January, March, and now May, Michał estimated that event number five should logically happen in July. End3r, with the veteran’s instinct for bad timing, immediately hoped it wouldn’t overlap with Mallorca. Then we jumped ahead even further and basically mapped out the rest of the year: maybe September, maybe November — and suddenly November started sounding like the realistic debut target.
Which, to be fair, is often how these things go. We start with “maybe in two months” and end up with “right, definitely by November.”
Meanwhile: 1250 points of Skaven
In the middle of all this came another very relatable hobby bombshell: Michał is now wondering whether he can get 1250 points of Skaven painted by May.
That is the kind of sentence that sounds completely reasonable when you type it into a hobby chat and much less reasonable when you actually look at the pile of rats on your desk.
Still, if there is one thing event season is good for, it is creating exactly the kind of deadline that can push a project forward. Whether this ends in a glorious painted force or a lot of very determined late evenings remains to be seen.
A serious event schedule
The conversation also drifted toward another event happening on 11 April, and the format sounds properly intense.
Saturday is set up for four games instead of three, running from 10:00 to 20:00, which should make for a very long and probably very entertaining day. Then on Sunday, the Top 8 plays three more rounds from scratch, while everyone else continues with two games to settle the final placings.
That is a chunky schedule by any standard.
Even more interestingly, the round time is 2 hours 15 minutes, not 1 hour 30 minutes — which immediately earned the comparison that this is almost like playing 1250 points of Warhammer: The Old World.
For anyone curious, here’s the event page:
So where we are right now
At the moment, this is where the group stands:
- Stas has been successfully talked into it.
- Wilini is planning as well.
- End3r’s debut window is currently fighting against family events, travel, and reality.
- Pegie has also been volunteered into the long-term plan.
- Michał may or may not be entering a race against time with 1250 points of Skaven.
- November is already starting to sound suspiciously like the date.
In other words: hobby business as usual.
We love this stage of event planning almost as much as the event itself — the speculation, the impossible scheduling, the bold declarations, and the deeply optimistic assumptions about how much we can build and paint in a few weeks.
Let’s see who actually makes it to the table first.