My son's 13th Birthday celebration at the hobby store!

On the 19th of May it was @merenludick's birthday. I think I have posted about that and @clairemobey will probably post about the Carrot Cake Mario cupcakes she made for both school and the birthday celebration that we had on Saturday.

As is our tradition, we don't do massive birthday parties with 30-40 kids running around, lasting 2 hours and costing a fortune. I won't say that this method costs nothing but my kids get to choose an outing of some sort.

Meren chose to go to Sword and Board hobby shop, play games there, go home and have a sleep over and watch the new Marion movie. Granted.

That does not necessarily stop these kids from playing on a Nintendo Switch in the middle of a BOARDGAMES store! lol

Brennan and Steve (the owners of the store) did let them break out some of the store copies of various games and let them play that.

Meanwhile I was having a game of Warhammer 40,000 downstairs, which I arranged to play to show the kids how it is done. They did come down in bits and pieces to watch.

Here I am playing against Byron with his Black Templars. It was a 1500pts game. This mean I had to edit a bit on my army and remove a few units to make it fit.

We had an epic game of Wolf vs Templar. Two Space Marine loyalist factions which excel in Close Combat!

In this awesome overhead shot I show the Hammer and Anvil tactic.

Byron had a big squad of Sword Bretheren with Jump Packs and a Chaplain on bike which charged into a Razorback transport. He killed it and the squad poured out of it on to the table. One Grey Hunter died as their transport was destroyed.

What happened next was that the Grey Hunters, Vindicator Siege Tank, Long Fangs, Redemptor Dreadnought and Bjorn the Fell Handed shot at this squad. Then the Grey Hunters and Redemptor Dreadnought charged into the squad while Bjorn took on the Chaplain.

When the dust settled, both Dreadnoughts and two Grey Hunters proceeded up the board where there were two more Templar units. Bjorn took on one squad while the Redemptor took out an Apothacary and the other squad.

It was pretty much tickets for the Templar at this stage.

After this, I brought all the kids down and made a massive 8 player Carnage game where each player takes control of a squad or a Dreadnought. They needed to roll to see the order of activation and played for the centre.

It took them a short while but one kid's excitement would catch on in the next and very soon the bunch of them were whipped up in a frenzy, chanting for dice rolls and cheering at the failure or success of a dice roll.

I now hear of a bunch of them that are looking forward to returning to the Hobby store or visiting us so they can play the game!

After that, things went to plan. We went home. The kids ran into the garden and proceeded to be "Monkey-men" and I made a massive amount of hotdogs.

Fed the kids, set up a huge bed in the lounge and put a movie on. I fell asleep several times during the movie and went to bed while they were watching. lol

The next morning there was a pile of 14-12 year olds in my lounge and they eventually woke up and got ready for their parents to pick them up.

Success! And my son(s) (because Matthew was with us at all of this) had an absolute blast!

Thank you for reading!

Cheers!
@zakludick

Hive South Africa