My life outside wargaming ... it's classified ...

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Legion 4 "Cry Havoc, and let slip the Dogs of War !" ... "People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf."

I'll bite seeing as I've not been posting much recently :-)

Outside of Epic (the only tabletop game I play right now), I'm a full time Bike Mechanic in Bristol, UK. I specialise in wheel building, hub gears and vintage restoration. Recently some friends and I have recieved nearly £60k of funding from various sources to start up the cities first ever bicycle culture/advocacy cafe/shop and we'll be opening our doors come March!

I have also started building steel frames by fillet brazing (brass solder) which is pretty fun!

I cycle tour regularly, play guitar, can be found at some sort of gig drinking ale most weeks, and otherwise sit at my workbench listening to early 90's indie and post rock on repeat!

I play Bike Polo on a national level and hope to go international next year...I organise a cycling festival...In general, as you can tell, my life outside of wargaming is Bikes, Bikes, Bikes!

Peace and Grease,
Ryan

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I'm a civil engineer who's (very slowly) working his way to chartership status. Despite the part time master's degree at Cardiff Uni, I'm working for a small silicon valley startup as social media monkey and web analytics plumber. We've just done an indiegogo campaign that went rather well.
As side hobbies I'm slightly into the Quantified Self movement, and kinda fancy joining the ranks of the 6mm webshops once I've a steady full time job.

Beyond that, I got married a few years ago and like building poor quality furniture, writing sci-fi and arguing politics.

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My shifting projects

Outside of gaming, I'm a Builder as my day job goes. Anything from a Garden Fence to big extensions. I've recently purchased my first house and intend to have another as a project / rental by the end of 2013.

Getting into this career was a rather random route (involving interests in Astrophysics, Programming for BT for a year, painting businesses and a Rugby world cup final discussion...) but it suits me down to the ground - It took me 10 years to realise I really do hate being in an office / workshop 10 hours a day, even when I was a full-time commission painter!

I've been a keen rock climber for most of my life, and although I had about 18 months off, I'm just getting back into that in the last couple of months.

I was a unit / group / district level Network & explorer scout leader for 10 years and whilst I've officially been out of that for a few years now, I've still got strong ties to the organisation and am involved in a lot of fundraising and skills work with the movement.

Outside of those things, my time is generally split between Pubs, Gigs, friends and my good Lady, Kim. All pretty standard I guess

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Cheers,
Paul "TuffSkull" T.
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http://hobbybrush.blogspot.com - My Hobby Blog
TuffSkull's notepad- My Old Blog on Wargames Wiki.

I do have to say I like this thread. I can think of somebody as 'the guy who likes rollerskating' rather than 'the jerk who thinks barging with an aircraft shouldn't be allowed'.

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author of Syncing Forward and other stories...

It's a dog-eat-dog world, and I've got my Milkbone underwear on.

Hey i could mutate from "the guy who tries to shoehorn every Wh40k unit into Epic" to "the nice guy from Amazon who send me my christmas gift"

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Steel Crown Productions is my full-time job but it isn't just Exodus Wars. Generally 95% of my time is spent doing consultancy work through SCP for banks or insurance companies and fixing up there IT systems.

The tough parts of Exodus Wars (orders and blistering) are handled by various minions. Previously it was Dominic Bellman, then it was Lisa Wilkinson and now for a brief period of time it is Claire Noone. Matthew Lake is our trade show man and handles the stall for us.

In my free time I am addicted to both Mount & Blade and Dwarf Fortress. I watch Misfits and Doctor Who. I drink scotch, disco and touch people inappropriately - usually with their consent.

I also spend a lot of time at the moment on the Exodus Wars rulebook. The rules are ready and are being proof read at the moment so I'm mainly working on the faction books for the Guild (Legions) and Royal Empire (Marcovians).

Generally I'll be talking to GR00V3R most days either to discuss Exodus Wars: Fractured Empires or to play Company of Heroes (or 'team build' as we call it).

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I am a mild-mannered legal accountant by day, but outside that I've always been interested in films (pretty much anything except rom-coms), comics (read a lot of 2000AD graphic novels amongst others), and music (industrial, grunge, funk, ska, "classic rock", trip-hop, alternative, with a little bit of dance thrown in for good measure).

I also greatly enjoy comedy and am interested in politics, two interests that came together last year when I created and (a few posts aside) singlehandedly wrote the satirical news website fowardslashnews. Sadly, a year of writing and posting a thousand-odd comedy news-based stories eventually took it's toll and I ended the project (which is why you won't find the site online any longer). I can always go back to it if I feel the need but two full-time jobs was simply too tiring!

I was always keen to become a writer but kept setting my ambitions too high, always embarking on Lord of the Rings sized projects which always seemed to crumble after 150 - 200 pages had been written. I'm therefore looking forward to submitting some more managable sized contributions to Moscovian's Epic:Xenos project!

Cheers!

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I love the way that this thread is moving...



Agreed!



Ditto. I have always wanted to sit down and write something, but it is a really difficult industry to get into, and therefore difficult to commit large chunks of time to something that will more than likely go no-where. So, my goals for the Xenos writing are the same, sharpen the art a little.

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Life outside wargaming is most of everything, as you can judge by my lack of progress in any project.
For my sins (and I seem to have many) I became Dean of the Faculty of Engineering at the Uni in Malta, which means putting research on the back burner and trying to prove to everyone that ours is the best darned Faculty around, and incidentally any research funding is accepted.
I also try to be an author, but that too has been blasted into near-oblivion by the deaning business; but before starting my 4-year term I managed to get two books for children out, and a third (for young and less-than young adults) at the publisher - all in Maltese, so I'm not going to get rich fast. And the small list of papers on laser material processing, my area of research, aren't likely to win the Booker, either...
I read lots more (fiction and history, mainly) than is good for me (yes, good old Svejk is a favourite, and is due for a re-read), and like cinema - I recently discovered Fellini and am starting to believe he is some sort of god. But I am also looking forward to seeing 'Destroy all monsters!' with loads of Kaiju in it.
Happily married, we live with 5 cats. We also have a tiny, patch of soil we optimistically call a garden.
Did I mentioned I have been asked to judge the local Robot Wars event twice? Being dean DOES have it's perks

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Back from oblivion (again)?

I try to strike a healthy balance between work, family and hobbies. I used to be a semi-professional athlete (playing at national level), but I basically got fed up with a life consisting of nothing but training and preparing for the next game. I have shunned training ever since, although I keep an aesthetic interest in sports. My favourite sport right now is sumo wrestling, and I have found several youtubers who put up day-to-day coverage.

I entered table-top gaming through traditional RPG after an intense summer fling at 11 with Tolkien, a love that has transformed but endured. I have devoured endless volumes of sci-fi and fantasy writing, but have moved on as of lately. I still admire several sci-fi writers (and Tolkien) but rather as good writers, and I do feel that a good writer is a good writer no matter the genre. Right now, I am into literature rooted in place (and I suspect that is why Tolkien strikes a particular chord in me), and take much delight in the writings of Wendell Berry and Barry Lopez.

I ended up doing language, journalism and literary studies, majored in Japanese with a minor in English literature. I travelled to Japan and lived and studied there for a while, but came to the healthy conclusion that Japan is a country to visit and explore, rather than work in. When my daughter is a little older, I plan to go there with the family for a longer stay. Meanwhile, I feed her Japanese anime (Miyazaki is a must, as well as some of the older TV series). I cured her wolf scare with Princess Mononoke (white wolves are nice, daddy).

/Fredmans

Wow, what an interesting thread! Let's see, I have spent most of my career doing fraud analysis for various companies. In between I spent a few years working in government doing intelligence stuff, which I despised. I couldn't stand to see the waste and hypocrisy. My last job (which I loved) was in healthcare fraud, doing data mining to figure out which patients, doctors and pharmacies to target for audit. My company got bought out though, so I had to jump ship. Now I work in the financial sector again, doing data analysis to prevent securities fraud and to capture online breaches of accounts. I do some consulting on the side related to fraud detection as well.

I work a second job on the weekends breading chicken at a fried chicken restaurant. I have been doing this for 14 years, I find that it keeps me grounded. Really I do it now to support my 3rd-ish job running Microworld Games. I have always preferred manual labor anyway. I'm currently also getting my 2nd master's, this time around in statistics, since that is what I have ended up doing the most in my career (first one was in criminology). I have 4 classes left and I cannot wait until I am done. Every tuition payment I send in is like a knife in my heart.

As for recreation, I am an avid reader, almost entirely fiction, or a programming book. Some favorites: Murakami, Kafka, Camus, Vonnegut, David Foster Wallace, Philip K Dick, George Saunders...the list goes on. I am a total bibliophile. I am also an avid martial artist. I study baguazhang kung fu, which is a relatively rare internal style which I do for conditioning, and escrima, which is a Filipino stick and knife art, which I do for fun.

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I'm self employed as a business development and brand consultant, spent most of the last 15 years in creative agencies of some sort. I DJ as a side gig but not as much as I used to.

Other than that I'm a bit of a foodie, enjoy cooking...enjoy eating more, lifelong Arsenal fan.