Jan 20 2012
2012: A New Way To Compete
Steamroller 2012 has been released in its final version (although a few critical typos were discovered so there may be another minor update soon). Steamroller is Privateer Press’ official set of rules for running competitive tournaments and it has ...
That sounds even less like something you’d actually want to read. Perhaps the secret to my lack of success has been discovered…
So, the peanut gallery spoke and I took Mortenebra down to Chimera in Brierley Hill for a bash around. Before we start, can I just say that Chimera’s rather ...
In the past I may have been heard saying good things about Warmachine’s Hardcore format, in a sort of detached, intellectual kind of way, with ref: different goals for different playstyles and a prize for each, no conflated ‘best overall’ nonsense, sportsmanship as a prerequisite rather than something that needs extra gameable systems to police.
What ...
Earlier this year, I ran a four-player Warmachine game as a way of saying thanks to my then gaming club for putting up with me for half a year. The scenario we used was a modified version of the Siege on Fort Lawton from an early No Quarter; one player in the middle, three players ...
Reecius announced the 2012 Bay Area Open this week. It will be held March 2nd-4th. I am posting it up on here because I attended the BAO last year and thought it was a superb event. Well run, excellent tables, fantastic judges, and loads of prizes in a good venue made for one of the ...
Nov 24 2011
A few weeks ago Endgame posted his idea for running Mercs in the 2012 convention season. He calls this his Merc Mastertrack and goes into detail with using Mercs in a masters environment in a post on Hand Cannon Online. My approach to this is "walk before you run", and as such have ...
I had an interesting Mangled Metal tournament at the weekend. There are sadly not enough tournaments for Warmachine here in Hamburg so it was nice to have one finally. I decided to bring Kreoss along backed up by a Reckoner and two Redeemers. I was hoping that a nicely placed ...
Casual gaming: The idea of playing a game purely for fun in an environment that is not focused upon competition. Casual gaming is a myth. Yes, by all means freak out and send me hate mail and post comments about how I am helping to ruin gaming prior to reading the whole article, but the ...
Oct 13 2011
Is he a poor sport? This came up on a thread in the Tournament Discussion section of DakkaDakka. A member was insisting that he not only would but should zero someone out on their sportsmanship score in a tournament if they tabled him on turn 2. Insanity ensued and the thread was locked, obviously, but ...
I’ll be honest, I’ve got the blues a bit at the moment. Not as regards actual gaming, still doing a fair bit of Blood Bowl and WoW, although the Goblins! game has stalled owing to the near-impossibility of getting seven people into a room at the same time. Strange that it’s only RPGs that seem ...
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