Good Morning!

Monday Morning! CYBER Monday! Not that I know any difference. I hope you all had a great Thanksgiving weekend, and have gotten a jump on your Christmas shopping and are going to be calm, and not stressed this Christmas.

Spent the weekend looking at my Tyranid Army. Used a program called The Army Builder and THAT is a great tool. A must for building armies fast . I have over 1000 points, and that kind of disapointed me. I've been building and painting my Tyranids for what, about 6 months, and all I have are 1000 points? I will have a bit more once I add some of the figures, and the new Tyranids come out in January, so I'm sure I'll add some more. I hope to one day get to 4,000. I'll stop at 4,000! :)

Also painted my daughter's Dark Angels, which she of course wanted pink instead of Green, but that's fine. Did some experimenting with them and had a lot of fun coming up with color schemes that worked. I have a thought of writing an essay about that I might include soon.

That was it for gaming. I had hoped to do more gaming than that, but that's all that happened.

Anyway, drop me a line and let me know how you are doing!

Jason

Thanksgiving Weekend

Happy Thanksgiving to everyone, coming up this Weekend. Today is Monday, and we are busy doing some mail orders from over the weekend. We'll keep you up to date! THANKS!

Essen Hit from Rio Grande Games

One of the Top 10 games at Essen, this is scheduled to arrive for the holidays!

Vasco da Gama


$59.95 SRP

2-4 Players
Ages 12+
90 Minutes

Recruit workers, buy projects, build ships. And use this ships to open new commercial routes to eastern Africa and India, to earn money and glory.

This is a resource management game, with an element of risk management, that works like this:
Beginning with the start player, each player takes one numbered disc and places it on top of his own colored disc in one of the four action areas of the board. A Vasco da Gama tile states a number; everything above this number is free of charge, anything below will have to be paid for, so players will take this into account when taking numbered discs. When all players have placed four discs, a modifier to this 'activation number' is shown, and discs are worked by number. In the crew area players may hire crew and a captain, but this costs money. Each round there is a window of ships. The number on the left is the navigation strength, the number on the right is the required amount of different crew. Players choose a ship, pay for the crew and turn the tile to its other side - with a captain on top. In the navigation area, a player takes his ship and places it in a row of his choice, but he has to take care not to exceed the navigation strength of the ship.
The game lasts five rounds, after which the player with the most points has won.

Through the Ages

Vlaada Chvatil's Through the Ages - A Story of Civilization.

Well good Tuesday morning gaming fans. How are you doing? I've heard a lot about Through the Ages for awhile but had a hard time obtaining it due to out of stock problems and distribution crap. Anyway, I finally got it today (minor miracle). Guess what it rates on Boardgamegeek? 8.10. That's a damn good rating! DAMN GOOD. In fact... It is ranked 5th in the overall Board Game Ranking! (Agricola has been #1 for months). But there are thousands of games, so a #5 rank is ridiculous!

Some thoughts about the game? It's expensive! Seriously! Retails for $69.99! We have it for $47.95. And the box is pretty small (but hefty) for such a high price. You will open your Priority Mail (2-3 days) from Dogstar Games and go... that's small... But... it's an AWESOME game. We're working on getting a Matt Drake (always entertaining) review but there are hundreds of other reviews and the game is a bonafide HIT.

Hive Tyrant

One of the challenges of painting miniatures is getting a good photo of them. It's something I'm working on, so we can show them off for you. Here is a picture I took outside, trying to get some better lighting with the sunlight instead of inside light. This is my Hive Tyrant. Tell me what you think. If you have any thoughts and ideas on better photos... let me know. And as always you are free to send in photos of models you have painted and we'll post them on the website!

Jason

Planechase

We got a load of Planechase in today! We'll put it up for sale as soon as possible!

Jason

Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay

Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay Core Set

Good morning friends! When I first got into gaming it was with D&D. And one of the best parts was the World of Greyhawk. It was this big huge sprawling world of kingdoms that was just so cool. Eventually is inspired me to create my own world, The World of Crom! I have written novels based in that world.

Anyway, when I finally got into Warhammer this year, and Warhammer 40k, one of the things that drew me in was the massive and detailed worlds and atmosphere they have created as background for these worlds. It's just amazing to be honest. So much depth and story and history. It's just awesome!

So it seems to me to be a very natural idea to make those worlds into Role Playing Worlds. And that HAS been done. The Dark Heresy game is just so darn cool, and is set in the universe of Warhammer 40,000. And now comes Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay, which is set in the equally rich and deep Warhammer Fantasy world.

Fantasy Flight Games, who is producing the newest version, has created a cool promotion. The promotion sent us a demo copy of the new game and has us setting up a game day. The demo came yesterday and everyone crowded around the box and was just thrilled about it. The first impression you get is this: It is BIG. I mean it comes in a BIG BOX. It's not like most RPGs, in that they start with a Core Rulebook. But it's a BIG BOX. Not like the old blue and red D&D boxes, small and flat, this is BIG AND THICK.

At this point you are saying, Jason, why the hell don't you just show me a picture? OKAY!

Those are pretty big, aren't they?

The production values on the game are great! But... how is the game, and is selling it in a big box really the way to go? Well... we will see, won't we? I'll be reading the game and the module, and we'll be conducting game day here and I'll keep you informed. It sure LOOKS good, though I'm still worried about that BIG BOX! :)

BTW, put Alara Reborn, Conflux, and Shards back up for sale on the website. Also lowered Magic 2010 and Zendikar prices. We don't have much, but what we do have we can sell for a bit better price as a way of saying thank you to all of you!