Thursday, May 8, 2014

A Beginning

    Hello there, my name is Jason and I have been been playing tabletop miniature war games for well over a decade now. I have decided to create this blog to share with you reviews, opinions, and progress of my hobbies as I get them. (Also to slightly motivate myself to actually you know... progress them further.) Predominately I play Warmachine/Hordes, Dropzone Commander, Dystopian Wars, Firestorm Armada, and I have a nice and large Warhammer 40k army that is staring daggers at me from its dust covered shelf.

    A good friend of mine over at Enter the Maelstrom has been posting quite regularly on his blog and it had helped drive me towards the creation of this one. It is my hope to post every Wednesday at the start and who knows where it will go from there. An idea that I had to help add content to this blog was to tap into another one of my passions and that is philosophy. Now I am selecting a specific book, Sun Zzu's Art of War and post excerpts from. It is a book I have had for a long time and woefully never really looked into. It is regarded by many as cornerstone for military and business strategy. I had the idea that posting excerpts from it we as both the blogger and the reader could discuss about and perhaps learn a little something from. Well that is the hope any way. So here is the first excerpt from Art of War.


Of Old the skilled first made themselves invincible to await the enemy's vincibility

 Invincibility lies in oneself.
 Vincibility lies in the enemy.

 Thus the skilled can make themselves invincible.
 They cannot cause the enemy's vincibility.
 
 Thus it is said, "Victory can be known. It cannot be made."