Thorin's Company: A much delayed party
My Thorin's company I eluded to the 12 years of stop-start hobbying in the blog introduction, and this is the subject of today's post. Last week (April, 2025), I finally finished the Thorin's Company which I'm embarassed to say I started back in 2013! This post will be the story of how we got here and why it took so long. Ancient history As a teenager I was into Warhammer - both the fantasy and 40k varieties - and played both with friends, and down at the local GW store's "battle bunker" (what happeneed to those?). But then life moved on, I went to university, and the wargames stayed at home, forgotten about. In the early 2010s, I felt like scratching that itch again. I listened to some wargaming podcasts and heard that Lord of the Rings SBG might be games workshop's most compelling game. I've always loved the Lord of the Rings, so this was interesting. Then the Hobbit films were released and with them a refresh of SBG, and I thought maybe now wa...