Over on Board Game Geek they are looking for volunteers to run the game room at the Philadelphia Comic Con.
June 11th, 12th and 13th
On April 10th at 2, David Hill and Filamena Young will be giving a demo of their new RPG, Maschine Zeit. http://www.machineageproductions.com
Will be on April 17th! Mark your calendars.
Note: This email goes out weekly on Sunday or Monday. If you ever fail to receive it, please let me know. If you are tired of receiving it, please let me know.
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.
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
Upcoming Classic Battletech miniatures are scheduled for Tuesday Mar 30 and Tuesday April 13.
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.
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.
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.
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