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My club just held its annual 2-day 2-system tourney (infiniy and 9th age fantasy). 32 for infinity, 40 for 9th age (which was also a TEAMS event - 8 teams of 5 players - and a practice for ETC, since we had 2 ETC teams represent).
I'm OVER 50 (and so far over everyone's BS, too).
Old enough to know better, young enough to not give a ****.
That is not dead which can eternal lie ...
... and yet, with strange aeons, even death may die.
Gaslands is taking off big time in my club. Initially it did well in the usual group of post-GW players who like to try new things, but it has started to include other 40k players who like the idea of slapping a few bitz on a hotwheels and having a laugh. I think the general amount of laughter coming from the Gaslands tables has actually been a real draw!
X Wing's player base dropped from 20 to maybe 6-8 at the last few events. Not sure if it was a meta shift or what. They just don't use nearly as many tables.
Guildball is stronger and more organized than AoS. Seems to be extremely popular - even moreso than Blood Bowl at 3 different stores (10-15mi area)
Warmachine is doing better than the MKIII release. Players are dusting off their armies and one local store started stocking it again (previously they were always out of most solos and non-core boxes).
Kings of War has dried up - player's are currently using a mash of rune wars, mantic, and 3rd party models for OLDHAMMER instead. Beer and pretzels crowd all around.
I havent seen the Star Wars 28mm game yet. We had a demo day and a release day. Someone built up a table for it! So it might take a few weeks to gain traction.
How's the tournament scene looking in your area Dakkaites for Star Wars?
Osbad wrote: Gaslands is taking off big time in my club. Initially it did well in the usual group of post-GW players who like to try new things, but it has started to include other 40k players who like the idea of slapping a few bitz on a hotwheels and having a laugh. I think the general amount of laughter coming from the Gaslands tables has actually been a real draw!
Gaslands is kinda gathering a following at our shop, too, after me and my buddies have played a few games in there. The store manager was making noise a couple of weeks ago about starting a league or something.
Other than that, I haven't seen much Warmahordes (which used to be the big thing), still some Infinity though it seems to be slowing down, haven't seen any Malifaux and X-Wing seems in a holding pattern most likely awaiting 2.0. Batman is also kinda picking up with a few regular players (almost inspiring me to actually get my crap for that assembled and painted...)
Huh, I see lots of beer... but where are the pretzels?!
(I wonder if there is a Guinness truck out there somewhere....)
The Auld Grump, oh, ye gods... and now I am picturing a truck being driven by Bob and Doug MacKenzie....
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Kilkrazy wrote:When I was a young boy all my wargames were narratively based because I played with my toy soldiers and vehicles without the use of any rules.
The reason I bought rules and became a real wargamer was because I wanted a properly thought out structure to govern the action instead of just making things up as I went along.
Reading a lot about Gaslands - any chance one of you guys doing a thread or write-up down in the Misc Games section (I assume, or is it Sci-Fi Misc Games) down the board?
Is it very similar to the Devil's Highway 666 boardgame? (a kind of Dark Future or Mad Max type setting?)
Tonight, for the first time, my wife is running the Kids of War game.
Looking at the table... looks like the kids are in for some Abyssal troubles.
The Auld Grump
Kilkrazy wrote:When I was a young boy all my wargames were narratively based because I played with my toy soldiers and vehicles without the use of any rules.
The reason I bought rules and became a real wargamer was because I wanted a properly thought out structure to govern the action instead of just making things up as I went along.
Pacific wrote: Reading a lot about Gaslands - any chance one of you guys doing a thread or write-up down in the Misc Games section (I assume, or is it Sci-Fi Misc Games) down the board?
Is it very similar to the Devil's Highway 666 boardgame? (a kind of Dark Future or Mad Max type setting?)
Its a post-apocalyptic car wars type game. It is modern in play style (i.e. quick, concise but gives the "feel" of the setting without being overly complex), but is the modern successor to Car Wars.
Being Osprey rules it is fluff-lite as they only have a limited word count and need them to explain the rules in such a short book (available on Amazon for <£10/$13, and an even cheaper electronic version is available). It's one of those games that is so easy to get into its a case of "why not?". There is some fluff - i.e. half a page of justification for the world (Everyone rich has gone to Mars, the plebs left back on Earth fight in cars on TV for the scraps to earn enough dosh to buy passage to Mars. Which may be a lie. The End.) and there are some factions which can give your teams some differing flavour. If you want to do lots of modelling of your Hotwheels to make them like something out of Mad Max you can do that. If you can't be arsed and just want to plonk down stock Hotwheels straight out of your kid's toy car collection, you can totally just do that too. You can spend megabucks on acrylic templates, tokens and dice, or you can do a quick photocopy out the back of the book. Either works. In the end its up to you how you enjoy your hobby.
Automatically Appended Next Post: Couple of photos of last night's game:
1. My Monster Truck being all monstrous:
2. My Mustang crossing the winning line in style baby!
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Pacific wrote: Reading a lot about Gaslands - any chance one of you guys doing a thread or write-up down in the Misc Games section (I assume, or is it Sci-Fi Misc Games) down the board?
Is it very similar to the Devil's Highway 666 boardgame? (a kind of Dark Future or Mad Max type setting?)
There's an equivalent in Gaslands for upgrade cards, just not in the form of actual cards.
If you are using the rules for Perks, you pick a faction to be your sponsor, and each faction has a pair of Perk lists that you can buy from for your cars, each list having about 6 perks. So each car can be given a selection of weapons, upgrades (armor, extra crew, nitro, etc) and perks.
Each chosen Sponsor also has a couple of special abilities that belong to all cars on your team.
I would maybe say that Gaslands is to Car Wars like X-Wing is to Full Thrust.
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