Combat Commander victory

Today was the monthly Strategy Wargaming meet-up at Sentry Box. I managed to be able to arrange a game of Combat Commander with Kevin. He graciously brought along his collection and we determined that we would play the St. Martin de Fontenay, Normandy scenario (#116) that, I believe, came in C31 issue #26. The scenario has a small group of SS troops defending a fortified building against a wave of Canadian troops.

Rivet Wars Blight fighter

The CMoN forums have a picture of a WIP version of Blight fighter for the Rivet Wars board game.

I really can’t wait for this to show up and I honestly don’t even care if the game is any good. I may even try to paint one or two of these as well.

Dreadball first turn disaster

Took a few moments last night to set up my Dreadball board and start a solo game with the Veer-myn and Corporation team. I have my Forge Fathers and Orcs assembled but they are going off to be painted.

One the first rush I move a Corporation Jack next to a Veer-myn striker and then on my second action did a Slam with my Guard. The Veer-myn striker rolled six successes against a single one for the Corporation guard who was slammed to the ground and luckily made five successes with his armour roll to not be put right out of the game.

Dreadball seems as if it will be more deadly than I initially thought :-)

Redoing the Warlord

I played a few games of Mage Wars last Wednesday with Rob. I tested the new Forcemaster and Warlord from the recent Mage Wars expansion using the default spell books suggested. The Forcemaster had a few tweaks in the form of a set of Thorn Walls which I used to push Rob’s Warlock through. I managed to trounce the Warlock quite well with the Forcemaster but the Warlord, using the stock build, had a lot of trouble with Rob’s Fairy and Gremlin summoning Wizard.

ASL goodies

There has been quite a lot of “new” ASL products coming into the house lately. One of the local ASL gamers was clearing out their duplicate ASL modules so I was able to grab Hollow Legions, Croix de Guerre and Yanks for an attractive price. Certainly far less than I would have been able to pick them up on eBay.

I also did some web development work for another ASL gamer in Saskatchewan and got a copy of Red Barricades (sans box) that arrived in the mail today.

So I have managed to rebuild my ASL collection to a size larger than it was prior to my leaving the game. Croix de Guerre was the last release that came out when I stopped buying and playing. All I am missing now are the old ASL Annuals but given the price that they go for online I doubt I will ever collect any of them.

Now I just need to find a local gamer interested in play a Red Barricades campaign game.

Industry contacts and relationships

Sometimes you find yourself doing odd things and today I spent some time cleaning up my email Contacts. Its something I would recommend that everyone do from time to time because email clients and OSes have a tendency to add all sorts of odd contacts to your address book that you might not expect them to. And if you do a lot of work online and with various hosting companies you soon have a contact book filled with “Support” and info@ addresses that are of limited value in retaining.

Star Wars LCG event

A few of us got together today for a warm-up event in preparation for the upcoming Star Wars LCG Regional event held next month. There were four of us playing. Due to some scheduling issues there weren’t more but at least we had an even number.

Why do people compartmentalize?

I have been on a bit of a mission for some time. While in Vancouver and now in Calgary I have been actively trying to get to various gaming communities to try to come together under a single forum and/or website to help broaden the reach of the individual gaming groups that are in each city.

Stores have their own forums, Warmachine groups have boards distinct from 40K gamers and no-one really seem to talk together.

I’ve always seen it as a major failing of the community. People seem to want to compartmentalize into small groups and there isn’t any apparent desire to build something bigger that helps the whole community advertise itself and grow.

New Zombicide characters

Guillotine Games have added two new stretch goals for the Season 2 expansions for Zombicide that include Walter and The Dude from The Big Lebowski.

How could you possibly resist?

The second secret of comedy

Warning: Nothing gaming related about this post at all.

Recently a twitter dialogue with Eric Idle reminded me of an incident in my youth in which I was lucky enough to meet Neil Innes. For those not familiar with him, he is a performer who worked with Monty Python in the late 60s and early 70s. for some reason, which I am at a loss to understand, Neil actually appeared as a special guest at my high-school when I was in grade 9. What desperate circumstances lead him to be travelling in Northern BC lecturing on satire to high-school students I was never able to discern but, luckily for me, appear he did and my English class was privileged to listen to him.