Long-lived games

I am not actually talking about those game-sessions that last forever, but instead about games that have a long life with me.

My Swingulairity - which will now undergo a nomenclature change to Mercurialality - ensures that I have to follow a good many games lest I get bored entirely with this "gaming" phenom that routinely eats up large portions of my life. However since I am blessed/cursed with Mercurialality (nee Swingulairity) I can instead shift my focus from one game to the next and simply be completely cash-poor potentially forever.

There are, however, some issues with this. There are games that shine bright but fade fast (VOID? VOR?). There are games that never really make an impact (Heavy Gear and Clan War, despite some heavy investment in both). And then there are evergreen games like Warhammer.

Even though I am gearing up for Hordes and D&D Miniatures at Gen Con (and possibly Rezolution, who knows? Mercurialality!) I spent some time this weekend talking Warhammer with Collett. Collett loves Warhammer like it were his own child, and it's probably the only child he will ever have. Despite the fact that I only play it a few times per year at best, the Warhammer world and its armies keep me coming back year after year.

So as a result of talking with Collett and getting the Warhammer juices flowing (altogether now: ewwww!) I sat down and looked over my armies.

I presently have:

Painted:
2k of Chaos Warriors (Nurgle Themed)
2k of Beastmen
1500 points of Ogre Kingdoms (mostly painted)
2k of Tomb Kings
2k of Empire (although honestly I haven't compared it to the new Empire army book; that number might be way off)

Unpainted:
1k of Dwarves (largely two sets of stuff from the Battle for Skull Pass box)
1k of Dark Elves

Around the end of '06/start of '07 Collett and I planned for a Warhammer campaign, my Tomb Kings versus his Orcs. We played the 1st battle for this campaign as a megabattle up at the Arena. The planned campaign itself never happened due to Collett leaving his employment in Columbia (5 minutes from me) and now working in Rockville. Nevertheless we are talking about playing on June 9th, and perhaps getting in two of the planned Campaign scenarios. Could be fun.