Being a naturally supportive and loving father – IN YOUR FACE NATH!!!!!
Sorry had to be done. I think this is the highest I've had my authority for a victory in Star Realms. The top picture shows the moment just before I deliver the killing blow. Then the bottom one celebrates my glorious victory.
I got the idea for gloating over the victory from Jonathan. It's his fault I'm coming off as a dick in this post. Oh wait you say I come off as a dick all the time! You got me. ^__^
Ok I've never actually seen that DiCaprio/Hanks movie. But if you are at the expo over the weekend you might see my dwarfish likeness wandering around.
Please say hi, it'd make my day.
I'll have my Netrunner decks with me, Epic with the demigods constructed decks, couple of Magic duel decks, Bohemian Villages, so if any of those take your fancy I'd love to play them with you.
Oh and I'll have Ashes with me too.
But I'm up for playing/trying most games.
Or you are more than welcome to bend my ear about how unfair my opinions of wargames is, or how Caverna is the best game ever.
Anyhow hope to bump into some of you and have a great expo.
UPDATE: Friday at 4pm There should be some Ashes action going on that will be in one of the open gaming rooms in the hotel part of the expo either the Warwick room or the Palace suite.
If you are at the UK Games Expo this weekend one of the designers of Streets of Commonville will be doing demos of the game.
This is an ideal time to grab Jonathan and get a look at this great little co-op game. In fact I’m hoping complete strangers stop him and say “hey aren’t you…”
I’m loving the box he’s had done for the game.
Here’s wishing Jonathan a successful expo.
Utilising my minifigs a small crowd scene to celebrate this geek day.
My Tabletop Day has started! Well kinda a “soft” start with me taking my turns in Star Realms (which if I counted app plays of boardgames is my most played boardgame ever!) and Patch Work.
Through out the day my Instagram account will be getting photos uploaded of the day's activities, which by the power of interweb magic gets shared on Facebook and Twitter. But sadly not here, unless you count the little widget on the left of the page.
Catch ya through out the day…
Yep that's this Saturday, which also happens to be a super special day, it's my birthday. My local gaming group the Fenland Gamers are holding a gaming session Saturday lunchtime to early evening. Register at the groups forum for more specifics, like location etc.
My biggest problem is deciding what games to take along. I'm thinking a mixture of “gateway” games, games on my pile of shame, gamer games.
Most LGS should be doing something for Saturday, so it's worth looking them up and finding out. Who knows they may be one of the stores with a rare Tabletop store kit for the day, and you can pick up a promo or two.
Today is Ashes Tuesday. I declared it that when I knew that the new Ashes expansions would be delivered today by DHL.
But it got me thinking there is Friday Night Magic or FNM for the weekly playing of Magic at the LGS. A while back I came up with Skirmish Saturday for playing Imperial Assault skirmish games. However it could be for any skirmish style game. It would have been cool if that had caught on.
Ashes Tuesday is a thing that might have legs. Run it like a FNM evening for the Ashes community.
I've been trying to think of something catchy for Android Netrunner. Could the Android community steal Cyber Monday from the marketing demons?
Epic the card game is crying out for similar evening. Luckily sticking Epic in front of any day of the week sounds good.
Having these themed evenings as Magic has shown is great for growing the community of a game. And a growing community means more people playing the game, and these types of games need people playing them. A healthy community means also your LGS being able to run tournaments and getting in OP kits.
Are there games you really like that could do with a cool name for the night it is played? What about Dice Masters (which I found out today has its first banned card! Which may or may not be a temporary thing), or Mage Wars?
For me one of the hardest things to do before a gaming session is to decide what games to take along!
So many things go into influencing the decision. For instance which group am I playing with? How many people are going to be there? Have I promised to take a particular game along for some-one? What am I in the the mood to play? Is there a particular game I want to try and get to the table?
A planned session like our Pandemic Legacy one or the up and coming Formula D League, are easy. The decision has already been made what to play. If I'm responsible for providing the game I just have to remember to take it along.
Tuesday evening at the Chatteris Warlords, or the monthly Fenland Gamers meet up are much harder.
Fenland Gamers I know not to take scifi themed games, LCG/CCG games or games with a drafting mechanic, because my fellow gamers there are not into those types of games. Where as Chatteris Warlords I can find people into playing those types of games.
Tonight is the weekly Chatteris Warlords meet up. So my Netrunner decks will go with me, but so will my Magic deck on the off chance. Do I take Epic with me? What about Star Realms? How about one or two of the themed Fluxxs? Is it worth taking Imperial Assault? I'd also like to get Imperial Settlers to the table. Would anyone be interested in trying Ashes? Oh what about…?
Decisions, decisions.
Maybe I should be more organised before hand and post on both groups discussion threads asking who is playing what, or who wants to play such and such a game. That question doesn't usually get much of a reply if at all. It almost seems like I'm being ignored, or maybe others actually have a life and don't spend all their time online like me.
I suppose I'm lucky in a way that I don't review games on here, or I'd have to add that into the mix as well. I can do without that extra pressure.
How hard do you find choosing games for a gaming night?
Yes it's Friday and the marketing spokesperson for Esdevium has come down from Mount Olympus and left some stone tablets for us to peruse. So here is the stuff on the tablets that caught my eye…
First up we have the most important release of the week for me and other Netrunner players, and that is the third data pack in the Mumbad cycle Democracy and Dogma.
I enjoy Zombie Dice and I believe Dalek Dice maybe similar to it. So being a Doctor Who fan, although the current Doctor has been ruined by poor scripts and development, this certainly is high on my wish list.
If I was playing Dice City more this expansion would be an instant buy. At the moment it will be going on the wish list. Finally hitting our shores is the deluxe version of Tokaido.
Sneaking out next week is the third T.I.M.E. Stories expansion, which I believe has an ancient Egyptian theme this time. Plus that really excellent deck builder Eminent Domain is getting two new expansions.
As I write this post in LGS all around the country Friday Night Magic is still probably going on later than normal. At midnight those players will be taking part in a midnight pre-release of the next Magic release Shadows Over Innistrad. Then over the weekend the same stores will be running other pre-release events also. Then next week guess what? Yep Shadows Over Innistrad hits the shops officially.
There will also be launch events next weekend at the stores. There are also naturally a range of playmats, deck boxes and card sleeves also being released next week to go along with this latest release.
Just noticed that the list of tournament legal skirmish maps for Imperial Assault has been updated.
Which means I need to unbag the dropped maps tiles, and collect together the tiles for the new map.
Still need to get to the table to play more.
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