Saturday morning/afternoon

[winterbadger]

Well, I had an OK day so far. I drove down to Woodbridge and played two battles in a new (to me, not newly published) ASL module, Scotland the Brave. Sadly, I did the 23rd Hussars and the Cameronians no favours and lost both scenarios (though the online database for the hobby suggests this is par for the course). I don't generally expect to win at ASL, but still, it's kind of depressing to lose two in a row in four hours. I picked up two new games (one on the French Revolution and one a compendium of games about ancient Rome), though not the one I was looking for. >:-< But I did finally exchange my new kettle for another of the same model which, I hope, will not leak.

I'm trying to decide if I want to go all the way into DC to see United play. This may seem revolutionary for anyone who knows me, but Nora is doing stuff with her mom, Chris and Mel are off who knows where, Jason is busy, and Justin may not make it either. I've kind of gone off the SE tailgates (especially since I feel slightly guilty for having stopped running them, but not guilty enough to go back and help out), so I'd be going off by myself for four hours (an hour there and back, at least, and about two hours of actual match) to see a game, and I'm just having trouble finding that an attractive idea right now. My house is nice right now, with cool wet green outside, complaining cats (dinner is needed, I am told), and a couch I could sit on and watch telly. No beer, but I shouldn't be drinking beer anyway right now. Grrr. Indecision.

Comments

[vikingcat.livejournal.com]

I drove down to Woodbridge and played two battles in a new (to me, not newly published) ASL module, Scotland the Brave. Sadly, I did the 23rd Hussars and the Cameronians no favours and lost both scenarios (though the online database for the hobby suggests this is par for the course). I don't generally expect to win at ASL, but still, it's kind of depressing to lose two in a row in four hours.

You should have held out for a sequel called Scotland Victorious. It always seems to me that ASL is too fixated on victory conditions anyway--after all, the real point of a game like this ought to be to crack your opponent up by delivering appropriately warlike taunts while sounding like a bad impression of Groundskeeper Willie or Scotty from Star Trek.

[winterbadger]

It always seems to me that ASL is too fixated on victory conditions

How else do you have ladders and tournaments and international comparative rankings? ;-)

What astonishes me about ASL and ancient/medieval and Games Workshop miniature gaming (the only parts of the hobby that maintain this obessive practice of scoring and ranking everything) is that they make no effort to use this information to create handicaps, the way the only other sensible game (golf) does.

Of course, the really sensible parts of the hobby (other miniature gamers and most boardgamers) just play the effing games and don't worry so much about what someone's average is or what the best possible matchup of an idealized Byzantine Greek army of the Nicean period is against a Khmer army of 300 BCE.