Saturday, May 11, 2013

Kinda thought that post was leading up to you making one! I liked the Shyamalan-esque twist ending.

Pumped for Kubla! Can't believe it's only 2 weeks away. This month is flying by!

Friday, May 10, 2013

| Web Comix

Problem:  Sometimes I think funny things that if I had a webcomic to put it in, I think other people would laugh too.  Sometimes other people in the Action Team say funny things that make be laugh out loud and I think they should be in a webcomic for posterity.

Solution:  A group AT webcomic!

Do eet.


I woke up with a hellious sore throat so hopefully this means I'm getting my sick out of the way before the con. Brony-con.

Omg, iOS dudes, get the new FREE game from Sid Meiers Ace Patrol:
http://appshopper.com/games/sid-meiers-ace-patrol
It is turn based fighter pilot world war game, pretty much Wings
At War/ that X wing game Elrick has. You can pay for different armies but just the free game
Itself is very robust and fun.

Thursday, May 09, 2013

| I know that guy...

Was he kinda mean looking and scruffy? I know that guy. He doesn't drink

D>M>

| Sold!

I didn't read your whole post but YES I am looking for those games. Some bastard took them from my car while I was in the game store! Didn't get a good look but he was a tall fella.

| Open Your Eyes, People

Haven't you noticed how when you seem to have lost one of your games, I seem to have JUST purchased that same game?  I mean, at first I tried to be sly about it and sort of space out my 'purchases', but you guys never figured it out so I'm much more blatant about it now.

Sidenote:  I'm selling Le Havre and Eclipse at Kublacon!  Any takers?

| Magic "Bridge" Realm

I am game for some Magic "Bridge" Realm. While the first time we played was a mess, jr0n is right. Nail down the Multi-combatant rules and I think we will have a much better chance at it.

eLzar has an unlimited supply of games to sell. Basically I think he robs gamers near the game store on a weekly basis. This way he can pay for his Kubla trips. Even his bag of holding is full (too many Hotshots cards I think).

D>M>

| AWESOME!

Maybe we should do it Friday early so we are relatively fresh, and there'll be fewer looky-loos?

We tried doing a big game group session a while back, and although it devolved into a clusterfuck when we slowly realized we didn't understand the multiple-participant combat rules AT ALL, it was really fun getting there (and pretty awesome seeing everybody's brains collapse at the same time). For a while, enr0n and I were cruising around as a Druid/Amazon team, doing crazy shit, and it really was cool.

I have two suggestions:
- One of us should bring a laptop with Magic Bridge (or whatever it's called: the Java implementation). In a pinch you can just set up fights in the combat simulator.
- Let's divide and conquer the rules. I can read the whole thing, but focus on the magic rules, if you can get the NPC rules straight?

What's funny is we WILL need the next couple weeks to prep so it's good we're discussing this now :)

| Magic Realm, the new World in Flames

Remember those guys at the old, old Orccons that would have the huge magnetic mapsheets up in open gaming for the whole weekend?  Those jokers were playing ONE game of World in Flames all weekend.  I think Enron and Oriental Rugs partook of some of that action, so they can better comment, but I think we could be those guys with an even OLDER game - Magic Realm!

Okay, I don't think it takes THAT LONG, at least when Blackheart, Pumpkin, and I played, it tool much less because I think we all got into some unwinnable combats early on that sealed our fate.  We also weren't playing with all the rules...

I think I'm in for a day of the Realm... I will bring my kit and all THREE oversized versions of the rulebook to help us through the ordeal.  My only concern is that since it will take up to 16 players, we are likely going to get hop-ons so we need to plan our defense accordingly.

Oh yeah, to your question r00d:  Yes, Avalon Hill Difficulty 9 means 'Easy'.  I think Naval War was an 8, so it's just marginally more involved than that....


Do you think it can actually be played in 240 minutes? And the Avalon Hill difficulty rating of 9 means its easy, right? 1-16 players, we should do eet.

Wednesday, May 08, 2013

Should we try for the epic Magic Realm game!?
How is it even possible that you have anything left to sell!?

| Waterderp

I can bring it, if you bring the cool Waterderples!

I plan on another sales extravaganza at the Flea Bag Market, so be prepared to buy my shit during the Special  Action Team Pre-Sales Event!  I'm not entirely sure what will be on the list because all my games are still in boxes at this point, but it will likely include Space Cadets!

I'm taking requests!  Anyone want anything that I have? I may be willing to part with it but keep it in the family, as it were.

I wanna play Space Empires 4x with iR00d so he can teach me the rules :)
I don't have Waterdeep, so unless Aeryk has it I think that one's on you! Bring for sure, that was fun.

I'll definitely bring Eclipse and some random games. I have both Galaxy Trucker expansions, which make the game insane. Also would like to get in Mage Knight if 1-2 peeps want a longer game.

| Dice Rollerz

There's a Space Cadets Dice Game I just noticed on BGG. Looks sorta neat - two teams battling it out as starship crews with real time dice action.

Some games I hope peeps bring to the Con:
Space Cadets? (It kinda had a brutal learning curve and we had too many people, but I'd love to try it again)
Eclipse - Haven't gotten thru the tutorial on the iPad yet, but I have time tomorrow night so I'll try to figure it out some!
Lords of Waterdeep - if anyone up there has a copy, I'd play again. iDave was never around to play it, huh? I think he'd like it.
Dreadball - that was fun! I kinda wish the real mini's were all painted up, but I understand that painting mini's is like another hobby all on it's own.

Other than that, I'm open to anything, really. I think I'll figure out when the El Torito down the street (or whatever those weird chain restraunts were) is having their happy hours and make that a daily occurrence for my few days up there! I don't wanna eat sandy pizza or sketchy $10 chicken curry!

Enoto - cool that you're still working on the script! :)