Its been almost a month since my last update and to be honest it has actually been pretty quite on the gaming front around here. The local gaming group continues to play Warlord but we are branching out people are starting to play Games Workshop games again specially with the release of 40k 5th edition coming soon. We are also talking about Confrontation again which is always a good thing. I personally am gearing up for the big(possibly last) C3 tournament that is being held at Gencon this year. The goal at the moment it to get a couple of games in between now and August so I can have the best list possible ready to go which also means a fully painted army.
With all the fun being had with Warlord,C3 and Warhammer I have also decided to finish up my Trollbloods for Hordes. I know what some of you are thinking, "But you hate Privateer Press", not true I am not a fan of Warmachine, Hordes to me has better game mechanics and just plays better. Its also a newer game so its a bit easier to jump into. Currently I have about 500 points and am building up to 750 in anticipation for the fall league.
Gencon, what else is there to say its that time and year and Gencon is only 5 weeks away. 5 weeks until a much needed vacation and the nice thing is this year I pretty much am going obligation free, not demos to do, no major gaming group presence its all about basking in gaming goodness and seeing what is out there. With that said I am going to do my best to post to the blog nightly and have pictures if I can get my hands on a camera.
In other minor news, I have finished the 4th book in the Dresden Files series in the last couple of days. I have also been playing EVE online, again after it most resent update I got an additional 14 days of trial period to try out the new PVP features unfortunately I don't have any characters that qualify for the features in game yet so I have been doing as much as I can to at least see PVP stuff before the trial runs out. PVP was one of the things I was most interested in but EVE is kinda of a long tedious game and it was going to take way to long for me to get to the point where I could get into the main PVP part of the game the new features seem to fix this.
Thats it for now hopefully I will have another update prior to Gencon but I make no promises as life always seems to find a way to distract me. Oh almost forgot I added a new link to the navigation on the site you Circle City Gamers a forum of gamers in Central Indiana to meet up,discuss all types of gaming.
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Wednesday, July 9, 2008
Wednesday, June 11, 2008
Warlord,Warhammer, Dresden FIles
Since its only been about 2 weeks since my last post not a while lot have been happening. The local group has picked up Warlord and they seem to be pretty excited about the game. Many players have in fact picked up their own armies which I think is awesome. Personally I have been working on my Reven army and they are almost completely painted and I will say they look very sharp. I have started using a new technique which makes blending fair easier and the models are turning out great. Hopefully when the next few days I can get some images up because these are some of the best models I have ever painted. With that said I also have a small growing elven force waiting on my desk to be primed and painted so I will have at the very least 2 750 point armies to throw down with in warlord. Eventually I also hope to have an Dwarven,Crusader and Merc force all around the 750 point mark.
Good, enough about warlord and on to Warhammer, not much to say about my elves at the moment I have finished pretty much everything that I was working on painting wise and I am currently awaiting the funds to start picking up some more units. Until I have some extra cash the Warhammer army is at a stand still.For those of you doing the math all of the warlord stuff I currently have was either given to me or was heavily discounted it was pennies compared to what my Warhammer army will cost. I am still aiming to participate in the Fall GT in Dayton provided I get everything complete. I was just informed that my army leader figure has just arrived at the store so thats one less thing I have to get.
On to role playing, I recently picked up a PDF adventure for the Xcrawl setting and I have to say it looks very fun. Basically its a level event that give players a taste of the Xcrawl world without have to have the Xcrawl rulebook. For those of you who don't know what Xcrawl its a D&D setting currently being produced by Goodman games in this setting it is modern times but instead of technology the world has magic as well as all the creatures and races that go along with it. In this world the main form of entertainment is a bloodsport called Xcrawl where teams of players run through dungeons and they exploits are broadcast live on tv for viewers to see. Think medival running man with all the tongue in check humor you can think of. Thats the basically the PDF that I picked up put players into the Division 4 finals which until today had been a non-lethal event but in order to increase rating the organizers have decided to removed the restrictions and let the violence commence. I really like the idea of this game and its prefect for players that like to do a bit of role-playing but are more apt to solve there problems with the sword. Essentially it is one dungeon crawl after another and depending on how players do in the crawls they can be rewarded with bast treasure and prizes eventually even getting sponsored by the various corporations that are in the world. Hopefully withing the next month or so I will be able to to a couple of one off adventures using this intro PDF and maybe even go on from there.
And Finally
The Dresden files,I have recently started reading the Dresden books by Jim Butcher and I can say after finishing up the 1st I loved the book and will soon be starting on the second, I have even picked up Butcher's fantasy series and have just started reading that. In addition to the books some of you may be familiar with the Dresden Files tv show that Sci-Fi recently canceled. I was able to check it out on DVD last weekend and although I liked the show it was to much of a departure from the books for me to really enjoy it. I thought it worked great as a show but for an avid fan it just wasn't enough.
That is it for now hopefully I will get back to the blog in less that a week but we shall see. As always please feel free to leave a comment if you have a question or well...a coment.
Good, enough about warlord and on to Warhammer, not much to say about my elves at the moment I have finished pretty much everything that I was working on painting wise and I am currently awaiting the funds to start picking up some more units. Until I have some extra cash the Warhammer army is at a stand still.For those of you doing the math all of the warlord stuff I currently have was either given to me or was heavily discounted it was pennies compared to what my Warhammer army will cost. I am still aiming to participate in the Fall GT in Dayton provided I get everything complete. I was just informed that my army leader figure has just arrived at the store so thats one less thing I have to get.
On to role playing, I recently picked up a PDF adventure for the Xcrawl setting and I have to say it looks very fun. Basically its a level event that give players a taste of the Xcrawl world without have to have the Xcrawl rulebook. For those of you who don't know what Xcrawl its a D&D setting currently being produced by Goodman games in this setting it is modern times but instead of technology the world has magic as well as all the creatures and races that go along with it. In this world the main form of entertainment is a bloodsport called Xcrawl where teams of players run through dungeons and they exploits are broadcast live on tv for viewers to see. Think medival running man with all the tongue in check humor you can think of. Thats the basically the PDF that I picked up put players into the Division 4 finals which until today had been a non-lethal event but in order to increase rating the organizers have decided to removed the restrictions and let the violence commence. I really like the idea of this game and its prefect for players that like to do a bit of role-playing but are more apt to solve there problems with the sword. Essentially it is one dungeon crawl after another and depending on how players do in the crawls they can be rewarded with bast treasure and prizes eventually even getting sponsored by the various corporations that are in the world. Hopefully withing the next month or so I will be able to to a couple of one off adventures using this intro PDF and maybe even go on from there.
And Finally
The Dresden files,I have recently started reading the Dresden books by Jim Butcher and I can say after finishing up the 1st I loved the book and will soon be starting on the second, I have even picked up Butcher's fantasy series and have just started reading that. In addition to the books some of you may be familiar with the Dresden Files tv show that Sci-Fi recently canceled. I was able to check it out on DVD last weekend and although I liked the show it was to much of a departure from the books for me to really enjoy it. I thought it worked great as a show but for an avid fan it just wasn't enough.
That is it for now hopefully I will get back to the blog in less that a week but we shall see. As always please feel free to leave a comment if you have a question or well...a coment.
Friday, May 23, 2008
Warhammer,Warlord and others
Well its been a while since I have posted and to be honest not much has happened. I have been working on my Warhammer army so my High Elves are coming along. I have a unit of Sea Guard finished and I also have my bolt throwers and crew painted as well. Just need to finish up my Battle Standard Bearer and I will be ready to pick up some more stuff.
Recently I have been on a fantasy skirmish kick so I got out my Confrontation 3 stuff to get it prepped for the Gencon Tournament so I will be getting some C3 games in but I also picked up a new game Warlord by Reaper. I actually got to play Warlord last night and I can honestly say I love the system so much in fact that I wish I would have found the game 4 years ago and not had to deal with the headache of Confrontation for so long. Don't get me wrong Confrontation is a great game it just dealing with the bad translation,poor management and a company that only really half supported it was a bit tedious. Warlord on the other hand is well supported it get updated yearly and the figs although not all of the them meet Rackham level of detail are very cool in their own right. The game is also way cheaper with figures being about half of what Confrontation figs are.
Now some of you out there may claim that I have gamer ADD and in some instances you may be right I do seem to be hopping for game to game at the moment but I myself have come to the realization that I am getting more into the Hobby aspect of gaming where I like to paint cool models and use them in their respective games or use them in any game I choose. With that said I haven't seen any other games out there that I am really interested in so I think I am sticking with Warhammer,Warlord, C3 and Infinity for a while that may change I also have an eye on some Anima Tactics figs but that game is in need of a rule book for me to get into they do have some cool models though.
Recently I have been on a fantasy skirmish kick so I got out my Confrontation 3 stuff to get it prepped for the Gencon Tournament so I will be getting some C3 games in but I also picked up a new game Warlord by Reaper. I actually got to play Warlord last night and I can honestly say I love the system so much in fact that I wish I would have found the game 4 years ago and not had to deal with the headache of Confrontation for so long. Don't get me wrong Confrontation is a great game it just dealing with the bad translation,poor management and a company that only really half supported it was a bit tedious. Warlord on the other hand is well supported it get updated yearly and the figs although not all of the them meet Rackham level of detail are very cool in their own right. The game is also way cheaper with figures being about half of what Confrontation figs are.
Now some of you out there may claim that I have gamer ADD and in some instances you may be right I do seem to be hopping for game to game at the moment but I myself have come to the realization that I am getting more into the Hobby aspect of gaming where I like to paint cool models and use them in their respective games or use them in any game I choose. With that said I haven't seen any other games out there that I am really interested in so I think I am sticking with Warhammer,Warlord, C3 and Infinity for a while that may change I also have an eye on some Anima Tactics figs but that game is in need of a rule book for me to get into they do have some cool models though.
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