This week

Posted on by March 28, 2010

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The Blood Bowl league starts this week, if you haven’t contacted or been contacted by the organizers, let me know.

There is still a Warmachine special; buy one-get-one on the troop or leader blisters.

Starting this Sunday, the first and third Sunday we will be doing a Magic EDH. (see http://www.dragonhighlander.net/)

The FOW escalation league is now at 1200 points.

This Week

Classic Battletech on Tuesday night.

Upcoming Special Events

Sunday April 4 is the first EDH game

Sunday April 18th is the pre-release tournament for the new Magic set, Rise of the Eldrazi.

Saturday, May 8 will be Legend of the 5 Rings day.  A single price will include a standard deck, a deck constructed by one of our advanced players and as many freebies as we can get to you.  Details coming soon.

Sunday, May 23 is the Flames of War Tournament.  If we get 12 players, we are a regional qualifier.

The usual schedule

Tuesday:  Magic in the afternoon continues.   At 6 we will be starting open board games – if you have a request for a specific game, feel free to ask.  Another Classic Battletech game. The World of Warcraft CCGs players will also be in on Tuesday night.

Wednesday night, the figure painters will continue to laugh at my attempts to paint my RoboRally figures.

Thursday, we will be playing Legends of the 5 Rings.

Friday, starting at 6:30 we will be running Magic.  Most of our players are interested in arriving earlier and starting earlier.

Saturdays are always busy

  • 11AM: AT-43
  • 12:00 Blood Bowl starts
  • 5 or 6 as the crowd filters out, we have open board games.  The game cabinet is full of interesting things, and you can feel free to bring your own.  We continue to have a growing crowd for games.

Sunday, the FOW Escalation League is at 1200 points.

FOW Results

Posted on by March 28, 2010

The 17th Panzer Division had a narrow victory over the Care de Lupta (Rich beat Chris 5 to 4).

Germans vs Germans, Colin beat Pete, 6 to 3.

Pete’s grenadiers lost to Alex’s Italians in North Africa, 3 to 6.

Our newcomer, Charlie won decisively against Colin (another Germans vs Germans, 7v2).

Rich 26
Chris 25
Colin 25
Pete 23
Bob 21
Gary 19
Tom 14
Carl 13
Alex 13
Butch 12
Charlie 7
Nick 6
Ken 6
Erik 5

EPGS

Posted on by March 27, 2010

Well, the EPGS seemed to have a good time today. We had seven of their players spend a day with us. Several wargames were going on downstairs while a game of Le Havre played upstairs. We ended the day with a few more board games.

I’d save overall, it was a good day for everyone involved.

Learn L5R day

Posted on by March 25, 2010

On May 8, you have the chance to learn the Legends of the Five Rings CCG with some of our best players. We will be teaching the game and building you a custom deck. Details are in the works.

If you want to find out which clan is recommended for you, take a moment to to take a quiz.

This week

Posted on by March 21, 2010

There is a group of people forming a Blood Bowl League in April. It looks like we have more than 10 people interested, let me know if you want to be added to the list.

D&D has Encounters program – a collection of 1 or 2 hour long D&D scenarios. If someone is interested in running these on a weekly basis, let me know.

There is still a Warmachine special; buy one-get-one on the troop or leader blisters.

This week

Wednesday Magic Drafts are now every other week. This week we will be doing a draft. If we ran an EDH tournament on the opposite Wednesday, would anyone be interested?

This Saturday is the first EPGS (http://www.epgs.org/) Saturday. This is our first official EPGS game day and they have been invited to play all day. If you want to swing by anytime during the day and see what games are on, please do so.

On Sunday the FOW escalation league goes to 1200 points.

Upcoming Special Events

Sunday April 18th is the pre-release tournament for the new Magic set, Rise of the Eldrazi.

Saturday, May 8 will be Legend of the 5 Rings day. Details coming soon.

Sunday, May 23 is the Flames of War Tournament. If we get 12 players, we are a regional qualifier.

The usual schedule:

Tuesday: Magic in the afternoon continues. At 6 we will be starting open board games – if you have a request for a specific game, feel free to ask. The World of Warcraft CCGs players will also be in on Tuesday night.

Wednesday night, the figure painters will continue to laugh at my attempts to paint my RoboRally figures. Also, the Magic Draft is this week.

Thursday, we will be playing Legends of the 5 Rings.

Friday, starting at 6:30 we will be running Magic. Most of our players are interested in arriving earlier and starting earlier.

Saturdays are always busy:

  • 11AM: AT-43
  • 12:00 Monsterpocalypse
  • 3:00 PM Arcane Legions
  • 5 or 6 as the crowd filters out, we have open board games. The game cabinet is full of interesting things, and you can feel free to bring your own. We continue to have a growing crowd for games.

Sunday, the FOW Escalation League moves to 1200 points.

FOW Results

Posted on by March 21, 2010

Gary’s Soviets took out Pete’s Germans (6 vs 3)

Carl’s Italians took out Tom’s US Airborne (7 vs 2).

  • Rich    21
  • Bob    21
  • Chris    21
  • Pete    20
  • Colin    19
  • Gary    19
  • Tom    14
  • Carl    13
  • Butch     12
  • Alex     7
  • Nick    6
  • Ken    6
  • Erik    5

D&D Game Day

Posted on by March 16, 2010

I just had someone volunteer to run the D&D Player’s Handbook 3 Game Day Adventure on this Saturday at 1.

If you are interested in playing, please let me know.

This week

Posted on by March 15, 2010

There is a group of people forming a Blood Bowl League starting next month. It looks like we have more than 10 people interested.

John Benett is still willing to run an RPG on Fridays if someone contacts me, or him.

Bob Fanelli has said he is interested in running a D&D 3.5 campaign on every other Sunday. We haven’t settled on a first day, but if you would like to join the group, let me know. So far, we have 2 people interested in the game.

Wednesday Magic Drafts are now every other week. Next week we will be doing a draft.

There seems to be interest in doing a Magic EDH tournament, drop me a line if you wish to be included on updates as that progresses.

There is still a Warmachine special; buy one-get-one on the troop or leader blisters.

This week

Tuesday we have a request for all Hero Click players to come out. If you haven’t played in a while, brush them off and come on in.

This week is Shadowfist Saturday, starting at 1. We have a boosters for Empire of Evil for sale!

Upcoming Special Events

March 27th is the first EPGS Saturday.

Sunday April 18th is the pre-release tournament for the new Magic set, Rise of the Eldrazi.

Sunday, May 23 is the Flames of War Tournament. If we get 12 players, we are a regional qualifier.

The usual schedule:

Tuesday: Magic in the afternoon continues. At 6 we will be starting open board games – if you have a request for a specific game, feel free to ask. Also, the World of Warcraft CCGs, and possibly Warmachine.

Wednesday night, upstairs the figure painters will continue to laugh at my attempts to paint my RoboRally figures.

Thursday, we will be playing Legends of the 5 Rings.

Friday, starting at 6:30 we will be running Magic.

Saturdays are always busy:

  • 11AM: AT-43
  • 12:00 Monsterpocalypse
  • 1:00 Warmachine Demo
  • 3:00 PM Arcane Legions
  • 5 or 6 as the crowd filters out, we have open board games. The game cabinet is full of interesting things, and you can feel free to bring your own. We had 9 people this week, and I had to keep the store open a little late to make them happy, so I did.

Sunday, the FOW Escalation League continues at 1000 points.

Today’s FOW

Posted on by March 14, 2010

The Romanian Escadron (Chris) beat the Germans (Pete) 7 vs 2.

The US beat the Germans, Bob 6 vs Colin 3.

Alex’s North African Italians beat Bob’s US. 7 to 2.

New rankings:

Rich 21
Bob 21
Chris 21
Pete 20
Colin 19
Gary 16
Tom 14
Butch 12
Alex 7
Nick 6
Carl 6
Ken 6
Erik 5