HoP Idol week 4

Well last week I chose to drop out of the competition after quite frankly having a rough time of it personally. Which was a shame, because I'd stormed away to a lead again in the voting and had virtually twice as many votes as the second placed contestant, like I had in weeks 1 and 2. Sometimes I guess things just aren't meant to be are they? Still there are 4 people still in the running to become the first HoP Idol, and with me out of the way things seem to a hell of a lot closer between them.

This week the contestants had the choice of either writing a tactical article for whatever game they liked or writing a book report for a 'game' related novel. I'm going to say this is a weird match up of articles if I'm honest. Personally I very rarely find 'tactical' articles of any real use; after all I've been playing with toy soldiers for some 27 years now and there's very little in way of tactics others can 'teach me'. That might sound arrogant, but it is how I feel about them, they don't interest me. However, I'm aware that there are others just starting out in their wargame careers who find such articles useful. This problem I have with tactical articles was bound to be compounded, for me because the tactics articles were going to be for Games Workshops 'games, which I just don't play anymore.

On the other hand I love reading book reviews and reports, and hearing what others make of stories. Especially as many gaming based novels fall into two camps; 1) good solid stories that enhance the fluff and background and your playing experience and 2) utter dross that shows no respect to the back story of the games we all play and actually anger me and detract from the hobby. So as you can imagine I like to miss the later category. This means I'm likely to be biased in my summing up again towards those who have done book reports. I'm sure there will be others who will be thinking along the same lines as me, and indeed will be thinking the exact opposite. Reality is I'm not too sure the two options this week are fairly comparable.
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