Opening a Gaming Store - Update 4!

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Double post today... I feel like I didn't really put a final post up about on the Opening a Gaming a Store series I made. Once I actually opened I pretty much just moved over to facebook where I effectively ran the social media side of things.

Let me start off by saying I found the whole experience very challenging and one that if I could have kept going I would have. Being the owner of the property already, this was really only more of a lets see where it takes me as the shop was on the market. I basically wanted to make the place look tidy and have all the space used up. But also to actually see if there was an actual community in the local area! The nice thing is I bumped into a club that was run in my town I didnt even know about! 'The Yorkshire Renengades'. The founding member Rich Goss and I managed to use Siege and the renegades to build a flourishing and great community that both benefited Siege and The Renegades. We organised regular events for specific gaming or hobbying workshops that were always sold out. In fact I can safely say the only time the place wasent busy was about the first month, the rest of the time it was a busy hive of gaming! Great!

I have added some pics of the place in action.. RIP Siege Tabletop! Great times!! Thank you all!

....aaannnd back to Infinity!

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Sometimes it takes doing something different and coming back again to make you realise how good something is. On Saturday I played my good friend Rich at Infinity. As I have been playing lots of different systems over the last 6/7 months I think i have forgotten what its like to have a game of something where you know the rules fluently and you can actually enjoy the game from a more tactical perspective as opposed to flicking through the rules constantly working out whether you can do something or not. Combine that to a slick and eye wateringly good looking game like Infinity, you are sure to be in for a great afternoon of gaming!! I wasn't disappointed!

We played the mission antenna field that basically means you have to get your specialist models in b2b contact of the objectives at the end of each turn. Five in total 4 in a diamond shape with a main one in the middle.

Mistakes were made, one from me and one from Rich, i dropped a smoke on my anyat as an ARO from a second short skill unopposed, great... Except it was an Ms3 (can see through smoke!!) model so next order my object scoring model died and instead of drawing that turn i lost 2 points!

Next turn, Rich got his TO remote in action. Brand new and freshly painted in the morning... Well he found the joys of climbing plus got the remote in position for a free shot on my yoggy sniper that had been popping caps everywhere, but instead moved its second short skill into my TO remote and soggy hmg! No more aleph remote!

Really good game, i took out nearly all rich's force, but a clever use of orders on the last turn knocked my morat holding the centre objective off rendering him unconscious.... Just goes to show this game is not just about killing the opponent...

I think Ill be playing this game a lot more from now on as I honestly cant find a current game that gives me so much buzz!

Man O War? Ffs..

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This is a slightly frustrated update... But also to point out what a really good night of gaming i had with three of my friends last night. I have a group of vet gamer's now of varying ages and last night Zak was hosting.... A vet of my era... Well maybe a couple more years on me.. ;) Anyway, he is from an era of bright models, spec games, proper metal and rock and an ex staffer to boot. Oh and he still has all his models and games from the 90s... Every gamer needs a Zak..

Now back in my spotty teens, my brother and I bought into all the gw games 40k, Space Marine (epic), Warhammer Quest, Hero Quest, Necromunda, Blood Bowl, Space Hulk, Gorka Morka and Man 0 War... Man 0 War... Ahhhh that game made me and my bro repaint our green gaming board pacific blue... This game barely gets mentioned in GW nostalgia, but i can safely say this is the best wargame I have played, its got everything. Simple rules set out on cards (granted large cards.. But that can be rectified!) template movement and cornering, simple shooting template with modifier.... Starting to sound familiar? 'Cough Xwing' GW are sat on a system that could be just as slick AND collectable! That's why I'm frustrated as i really think this is what gw were good at. These are the games my friends played all the time... Not a thousands of pounds worth of hundreds of models on either side.. Just great models, easy to paint and slick rules that don't take themselves to seriously and dare I say even not consider complete balance?

Anyway, the game was between Dark Elves allied with Orks verses Empire and Dwarves. Many laughs... I controlled the Dark Elves with Rich on Orks... We managed to magic the wind against our enemies in the 1st turn which totally messed the Empire up... But after much carnage and a point where we thought we were in top! The dwarves and Empire turned it around... The boarding mechanic is awesome and we did plenty of that! Oh and it was best not to think to hard about how much money these rare models are worth you're handling nowadays... Great game and great paint jobs hope we do that again soon!

Oh just to add, the latest Dreadfleet game is nothing like this, if you get chance to play Man 0 War... Do not hesitate!

Im probably just wearing thick rose tints...

Facebook Broke Me!

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It's been a while since i used blogger as I seemed to naturally move onto Facebook for my hobby logging etc. Well i think im sick of seeing people's Christmas trees going up in November and people telling Jeremy Corbyn is great for this country. I want to go back to a simpler time of me just blogging my hobby. The only thing that was keeping me on Facebook was because of my gaming groups... Most notable The Yorkshire Renegades and the Infinity Northern Alliance groups. I just weighed up that not even that was enough to keep me on stuck on the daily churn of Facebook anymore... So its back to blogger, my fave of the internet blogging thingies... Granted no bugger uses it anymore and Im typing this to myself no doubt.. But still its nice to look back at your works every now and again!

So update time... I opened Siege and it was a mighty success, but really was a smoke screen for us to sell the building and make the property look fully used and tidy. It has now sold... :( The upside is that its had a really positive effect in the local area as it has enabled gamers to meet and become friends. It helped expand the Yorkshire Renegades who now have monthly and are just generally awesome. Ill be blogging all the cool projects we do from time to time.

First update is the Yorkshire Renegades are running a Blood Bowl cup after christmas - fully painted. I decided to dig out my old Skaveblight Scramblers. Now the team was over 20 years old and the paint jobs weren't so bad, but in those days no internet. So no useful painting tips in thinning paint or using washes. It was no good, i had to strip my adolecent paint jobs and start again. I looked over Skaven fluff and saw they had a stronghold called Crookback Mountain... So here begins the journey of the 'Crookback Mountain Dodgers'....

I aim to get these done by next week, as i want to start on my next fad... Frostgrave!

Thanks for looking!