Showing posts with label update. Show all posts
Showing posts with label update. Show all posts

Tuesday, May 18, 2010

Update

Trying to catch up to real time with this blog. It doesn't take long, but it does take me sitting down and getting it out. Sometimes that is harder than it should be. OK. Here goes...
Played Warmachine with Peter last Monday and Tuesday. He ran dwarves against my Khador. I thought it was going to be a toe to toe slugfest. Turns out the dwarves can be rather shooty. He took a shooty army on Monday and just plain outplayed me. On Tuesday I tried some new units; namely the Iron Fang Pikemen. They just plain rock. They are my new favorite unit. My widowmakers owned the field as well. My next game I will be in a much better position to use my forces.. I am excited!
Played Through the Ages on Friday, and won that game. Then we played La Havre and.. well... I like the game a lot, but it is long and a bit unforgiving. On Saturday we played Chaos in the Old World. It is a lot of fun and each faction truly is different. I am looking forward to playing Horus Heresy, that is the next game on the list. Hopefully this will happen on Saturday.
Now that I am caught up, I can begin to post a bit more in depth again.

Sunday, February 28, 2010

Prezcon

Just got back from a long weekend of gaming at Prezcon.  It was a great time.  I went with my buddy, Steve, and played a ton of games.  Made it into the finals of the Kingmaker tournament.  Woot!  I got to play some new games like Wellington and Arcane Legions.  Worked all last week to learn the rules to Triumph of Chaos, but when push came to shove, the game just kicked my ass.  It is far more complex than my reading of the rules led me to believe.
Arcane legions was pretty cool.  It reminded me of Battleground with real miniatures.  I like the fact that you can get a playable 3 armies right out of the starter, and you don't have to buy into the madness of collectible games.
Saw my friend Larry at the con.  Larry loves the wargames and he was in heaven with all the gaming goodness.  He wanted to try out Runewars, so we all played on Thursday night.  His buddy Doug liked it, but I don't think it was Larry's cup of tea.
Ran into my friend Rob Olsson.  We played Waterloo, and Wellington.  We tried to play Android, but again my brain was not too happy with all the rules.  I have played this twice, but I couldn't wrap my head around it.  :(  I do like the game.
Wellington was a blast.  I like card driven games in general, but I liked the simplicity and design of this one.
Played Conquest of Paradise with the designer, Kevin, and almost won.  The next day, we played a new prototype game about the war of 1812.  It was cool, with hidden troop strengths, and leader abilities.  The game end is pretty innovative, and I liked the way the game play felt like the time period.  This will be a good seller, I bet. 
And keeping with the theme of my blog, I kept the losing streak alive.  I was glad that I could be the reason others could have a good time and win games.  Seriously, it was one of the best times I have had at a convention.

Friday, November 13, 2009

Update

OK!  It has been a long time since I have updated this blog.  I have been "ahem" encouraged to update it.  More like shamed into it.  If I am gonna make a blog about being a loser, then I will be damned if I will let the likes of Boisterous Enthusiasm run away with that blog while mine languishes into obscurity.  Right now I am on vacation, so it seems a good time to try to catch up with all the things that have been going on in my gaming world.  I also want to post some D and D musings because I am really excited about the new system after trying it out with a few friends.  So over the next day or so, I will be posting several new topics.

Here is to a new start!