Sunday, September 23, 2012

Lyssan Medieval boardgame

 Angela and  Donnie Williams are the boardgame drivers in our little circle, and have many interesting games and the most current. They go to Gencon and bring back all these awesome games, seems more than we have time to play, but we try anyway.
  The latest is "Lyssan" touted as a Medieval strategy/combat game, fast playing and with a high replay value. See a comprehensive review at BoardGameGeek: http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/97939/lyssan, they do a much better review than I can. I only wish Lyssan could accommodate 5-6 players instead of 4.
  A pleasant evening of gaming was provide by Angela and Donnie, both gracious gamers and hosts indeed.
                                                           Angela and Donnie
                                                 Donnie in his official Lyssan t-shirt!
                         
                                                                      Lyssan

Wednesday, September 19, 2012

Axis & Allies 1940 Global






  I have been playing Axis and Allies 1940 Global for about three months, almost every other weekend. Yes this game takes 8-12 hours to play, but is a blast! Even so we always have 6-8 players. The group I play with is studies WWII actively and we are tweeking the rules. I bought the Pacific 1940 and opened the box, then down loaded the 10 page errata/rules corrections. What a broken piece of crap it was! Rushed  into production. I was obsessed with getting the Europe game but it was going for $225 on ebay. I lucked out and got it for $88 new! I've tried my hand playing each of the factions. This game is fun and frustrating to play and time flies by. My only complaint is that America can't declare war until the end of the 3rd turn, because  historically Congress were "Isolationists" and wouldn't let Roosevelt declare war. Japan gets to invade Russia on turn one even though historically the Japanese invaded the soviet union twice, the first time it was 1937 and the last time it was 1940/1941. The Japanese were beaten back with heavy losses both times due to heavy fire power from Russian tanks-artillery -infantry by Marshal Georgi Zhukov.The game doesn't allow for this.


Tuesday, September 18, 2012

Recruits-Con Fall 2012




http://recruits.mtswebsites.com/index.php

  Recruits-Con Fall 2012 has come and gone. Thanks to Duane Fleck and his band of merry men and ladies, I and many others had a wonderful game filled weekend. There were a few regulars missed but there were many new faces and venders. The thing that stood out the most to me was the large number of under 16 year old attendees, whom I refer to as the future of our hobby. Indeed this convention is aptly named and very successful in it's mission. 10 years, 20 shows, and still  recruiting!!

  There were so many great games to choose from, allocating my time was difficult. The theme was "Old School" and many veteran gamemasters brought back golden oldies from earlier shows.I could of spent the whole show walking around taking pictures, but that what the Recruits-Con website is for, check out the gallery for the latest pictures when it gets upgraded, http://recruits.mtswebsites.com/Gallery.php     

 Chris Cluckey's amazing French and Indian War, Battle of Quebec.Using John Jenkins limited edition 54mm figures and Iron Ivan Games, "This Very Ground" Rules. Chris ran this game the whole convention and always had a table full of participants.




Kenneth Van Pelt's awesome 1/35th scale WWII skirmish! Mamayev Kurgan, Break through in Stalingrad, home rules. I would have loved to play in this one


 Kenneth Van Pelt's   "N" Country, Airmobile Operations in Veitnam.. N scale, home rules.
All of the players will take the Chain of command for a US air-mobile battalion in Vietnam. The enemy encounters are generated from a deck of cards when US forces are searching areas of a valley. The encounters generated in the search mission are researched typical events that occurred for American soldiers. This is a simulation game that is difficult to decide winner and loser- only experience.
 





Ambush Alley Games, Contracting Trouble. This is one of my favorite AAG games hosted by Shawn and Peggy Carpenter. A ton of fun in a very small package, full of suprises!






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It Came From Beyond The Still by special guest Robert Adams, ran by Mike Williams. This game is a hoot!
    Hillbillies vs. Aliens, is the ultimae miniatures skirmish game of down-home alien butt-kicking. Come play as the Hatfields, McCoys, ODaries, or Grangers and fued to the last man. Or, play the Grey aliens, blobs or The Green Menace From Uranus and probe or destroy all life on Earth. Other factions include Cultists set out to summon Great Old Ones and lessor servitors, those Meddling Kids, the Men in Black, The Boys Scouts or Revenuers. 







 16 Miniatures on a Lead Man's Chest,  28MM,  Fist Full of Seaman rules.
 Set Sail and weigh anchor in the Largest Pirate game in North America. Immerse yourself in over 700 square feet of playable terrain where you decide your scalawag’s fate. Trade goods, plunder shipping lanes, hunt for lost treasure, destroy the enemies of the crown, feast with cannibals, or haunt the seas for eternity aboard the ghost ship Petit Mort.




 

Friday, October 21, 2011

   Our club is playing a mini campaign using these rules and we're having a blast!!

   We've played one off games and they were fun, but the campaign has ramped the fun up.
   Best of all we can use any figures we want. Star Wars and D&D prepaints are most common.  I am using my old Necromunda,  AT-43, and Legions of Steel stuff that has been languishing for play.
  Game play is fun ,intense,  and full of surprises as new characters and weapons appear. One week you seem like your at the top of the food chain, with a tough  gang and cool weapons, then you make a tactical mistake, some bad dice rolls, and limp away with your survivors to rebuild.  Games can take 20 to 45 min, depending on the drama. Post game generating replacements and equipment is just as intense.
 I'm currently 2 wins one loss, but my prospects look grim considering my new recruits. My post game recruitment dice rolls were just as dismal as my previous games combat rolls. A robot with defoliant guns on each arm,  I need new dice.
                                                 My Ratskins and their Nightmare cohort.
                                                              Our first  game table.
                                                                    Tools of the trade.
                                                               My android vs a flyer
                                           Phil and Donnie in our three player game intro game
                                               Phil's gang featuring a radiation spewing clown?
                                                         The first game of the campaign.       
                                              Our objective a corral of food, we needed cows.
                                                     My gang approaches the objective.
                                                  Donnie's  gang of Wretched amble forward.








Tomorrrow's Wars Demos at TableTop Game & Hobby



   Here are a few shots from our first participation demo at TableTop Games and Hobby.
   Every Saturday between 10am and 4pm Jason and I will running TW's games featuring Micropanzer's  latest building and figures. If your in the Kansas City area feel free to drop by and join the fun. TableTop carries Jason's a good stock of Jason/Micropanzer's figures, and soon terrain.

The terrain boards:






The figures:
                                                  
                                                          Mecha and SAS troopers   
      
Three mechas, left to right, Anti-Armor, rockets and chain-gun, fer right, Infantry Support, flammers, lasers,and such. and my favorite, the Close Assault, with shredder Talons to rip apart vehicles, buildings and mechas. Nasty boy indeed, don't get close to this one.
                                  
  SAS and AI support vehicle


As you can see beautiful terrain and figures.  I love Jason's mechas, they are poseable  and have variable weapons configurations. I am also a huge fan of his aliens, they really put the alien in my SciFi gaming.

  This was more of event report than an AAR, I will be posting those after this weekend.