Packed up my 20mm SCW guys and mailed them off to a nice fellow in California in exchange for a nice bundle on PayPal. Ka-ching!

DC whupped up on NJ last night (2-0--it's as 'whup' as we get right now until some of the older more broken players retire and the younger ones get more experience...)

Playing ASL tomorrow, having dinner and a movie with friends, and taping the USMNT game against Honduras to watch Sunday morning.

Sunday probably consists of aforementioned WCQ, maybe a trip to the farmers' market, another attempt to clean the flat, and a test of Polemos ECW.

Hopefully Monday I will get another game of Battlefront with Basileus Frankos if he has recovered from his minor surgery.

Finished a game of The Burning Blue with vikingcat, about to start another (Guilford Courthouse) with him.

Peter, a new immersive game to try. Others might like it too--sounds pretty crazy. Props to janewilliams20 for the notice.

Not playtesting as in rules development, but testing out a published set of rules to see if we like them. In this case, Might and Reason, a set of wargame rules for refighting 18th century battles.( Read more... )

The truly excellent Fanaticus website, devoted to the miniatures game De Bellis Antiquitatis (DBA), has a feature called "eye candy", showcasing various gamer's armies and scenery. Two recent entrants are very handsome work, a Chinese pavilion with koi pond and a Polish gamer's early Polish army and its camp. (Each army has a small piece of scenery to represent its camp, which many players make as specialised and distinctively appropriate to its army as possible.)

DBA is a neat little game: short rules (twelve pages, including examples), small armies (each consists of about twelve elements, or no more than 40-50 figures), quick to play (players familiar with the rules generally play a match in an hour or less). It has an international following and lots of support on the Web. It's a good deal of fun, and I would recommend it to anyone looking to try miniature wargaming but leery of spending a lot of money to start out with. One can even play with elements made from cardboard (a couple of players have made miniature armies you can download and print out). The only drawback is that the rules are a bit...oddly...written (the author has an idiosyncratic style of misusing the English language). But a group of experienced players has put together a good guide that helps one learn the rules and explicates some of the odder bits of verbiage.

Neta, sweetheart, I figured that sooner or later you would need to know the truth about wargamers. Even that video only hinted at it.

This tells the whole, dark story, just the way it is...

One of my friends pointed me to this line of handsome 28mm troops for the fantasy world of Tekumel that Eureka Miniatures has started bringing out.

NO! No, I will not start playing HOTT just so as to have an excuse to buy these pretty boys and girls...

I'm reminded that next weekend (the 8th and 9th) is the second running of the local multimedia gaming convention TriaDCon. Unless I have commitments I've forgotten, I'm going to try to get to it for at least one day.

gr_c17, help me to remember to mention this to john_arundel when he comes back from vacation, especially the following event:( Read more... )