No Work, XCOM

Since I finished my Crusaders project, I haven't post much on Doctor Skull's Workshop, since I haven't been doing much "work."   I haven't done any painting since then or building.   I do have some things on the horizon.   I still haven't played the Crusades game with the school kids, but I'm thinking of giving it a go next week.  


I have a lot of models to build.   There's a medieval fortress, a frontier church, and a barn all of which might go well with fantasy campaigns or with some sort of modernish game.


I also have an assortment of WW2 light vehicles.   I'm thinking of doing some sort of modern or sci-fi or pulp-type project and have a bunch of modern plastics that would go with those vehicles.


Most of my time lately, however is back to playing XCOM.  Two winters ago I played a lot of XCOM Enemy Unknown.  Last winter it was the expansion XCOM Enemy Within.  But, then my X-box broke.   After failing to fix it, Katie and I went 50/50 on an X-box One, but then found out it doesn't play X-box 360 games, and XCOM isn't available for X-box One (I know too many Xes).


Then I remembered that our family laptop is pretty new and thought it could handle the PC version of XCOM, and sure enough it did.   I played a campaign of Enemy Unknown, and found out that there was a super-awesome Mod for Enemy Within called "Long War."   So I got that all downloaded and fired-up.   I must say that Long War is really fantastic.   It fixes many of the limitations of Enemy Within, more classes, better choices of equipment, more soldiers on the field at a time, more interesting interceptor combat.  It also makes the campaign less predictable and linear, and more sand-boxy, much like the original X-COM UFO Defense from the 90's.   Good stuff.