My wife loves to bake. She also likes to eat baked goods. Those two traits work really well together.
She also think she’s fat and is always on a diet. This one is diametrically opposed to the previous two.
But the fact that she can’t (or shouldn’t) eat the cookies doesn’t stop her from wanting to bake them. It does a fairly good job of preventing her from doing so on a daily basis, but when given any excuse to bake, she generally dives right in. So, whenever our kids have a social function, they tend to have a few dozen cookies to bring along (actually, that’s a bit of an understatement as the wife tends to go overboard on these occasions).
So, when I told her about the Apoc game (you know, the one that happened months ago, but I still haven’t actually blogged about), she decided that the boys clearly needed to have cookies made. And what self-respecting gamer is going to say no to cookies?
If she was going to insist on baking, I figured the least I could do was to find a way to make them suitably appropriate for the day. So, I set to work scouring the internet for cookie cutters.
Since I didn’t know what I was going to play in advance, nor did I know specifically what other people would be bringing, I didn’t know what kind of cookie cutters to pick up. The obvious choice though was to pick up ones that aligned with my armies. Unfortunately, the online baking community hasn’t seem to caught on to the phenomenon that is 40k. As a result, 40k baking implements are few and far between.
But the Ultramarines logo would be doable though, right? I mean, after all, it’s just an Omega–and, in a pinch, a horseshoe or a fancy U would probably suffice. A proper logo wasn’t readily available, but I did find a bunch of the other options. Still, we had decided to look for these well in advance, so I had time to wait. Eventually, I stumbled upon the right solution, and then decided that I needed to also find options for my Tyranids.
Of course, there aren’t many companies making that sort of thing (and if there were, GW would probably be suing the pants off of them). But thanks to the advent of 3-D printing technology, there are many people online that will make custom cutters to your liking. Most of them advertise that they’ll make your face into a cutter, but I messaged one and asked if they would be able to work with a logo instead. Of course they said yes, so I sent them a copy of the GW tyranid logo and had that shape cut out.
And while I was at it, why not give my new blog logo a crack? Sure, it had a lot more detail in it, so I wasn’t sure how it would come out, but it was worth a shot.
The cutters came and worked out fairly well (though the blog logo proved to be too detailed, which made it difficult to remove the cookie batter from it). They proved to add a uniquely flavored twist on a pretty fun game. One of these days, I’ll even go back and write a battle report for it…
Warhammer 39,9999 
Ha ha ha, these are brilliant!
Just the kind of madness which makes me love being a gamer!
I thought it had been a decade or so since you played?
On Mon, Jul 31, 2017 at 1:34 PM, Warhammer 39,9999 wrote:
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Sadly, that’s probably about right. But just because I haven’t played 40K in a long time, doesn’t mean I’ve stopped being a gamer. I still do quite a bit of board gaming, and I love Dropzone Commander.
I still manage to go to conventions occasionally and try to join in with some participation games when I do. More likely to be skirmish games, but still.
All of that said, I do hope to ride the wave of the new surge of enthusiasm for 40K. I’d completely lost interest in the game, if not the miniatures or the setting. From what I’ve seen (and I haven’t watched a bat rep or actually red the rules yet), the new version is still far from perfect, but it does look much more enjoyable than what the game had become.
I think that’s about right. The new edition is different–not necessarily better. But sometimes you need a change to shake things up.
On Wed, Aug 9, 2017 at 1:27 PM, Warhammer 39,9999 wrote:
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Yes, I perhaps should have been a bit clearer: the new version looks much more enjoyable to me than the last few editions. As I knew lots of other game systems I got more and more fed-up with the clunkiness and lack of balance of the recent editions of 40K. It does appear that the new version is much faster at least.
And even if it’s still not very well balanced and still lacking in more modern turn structures, it is looking fun – to me – again.