Okay lets see if it will work out this time...

 Hello all

Well with two responses in, it looks like both June 5th and June 12th are available. So I think it best to aim for June 5th, with a locust/earthquake/meteor shower fall back date of June 12th.

Start time of 11-12 will hopefully work as it was to have for our previous game day date.

See you then!

Oh yeah and it will still be a Warhammer game with maybe a look at Fantastic Battles.

 

Should have included a tick box for power!

 So next time we will see if we can avoid any power draining storms around game day.

The storm that knocked out power on Saturday the 21st kept me in the dark for 3 hours short of five days! All was peaceful around my neighborhood for Saturday and Sunday daytime, but then the generators arrived. Two of my neighbors had each had loud generators, it was almost as if they were dueling with each other!. One was nice enough to offer hook ups to his neighbors, and was kind enough to not run the teeth grating device from hell for long periods, being content to keep his freezer and fridge cold but not needing to power everything in the house. The other neighbor ran his for 18 hours at a time turning it off sometime in the middle of the night. During the day the two devices created a cacophony of noise that drowned out conversation and even at time the ability to form thoughts. So, gaming outside in such conditions was not an option and gaming by candlelight was just too romantic a notion, and too much of a strain on the eyes.

So, lets try this again when ac we get together and game?

News 3

 Some quick notes

Wiley-games is having a flash sale this weekend, 25% off PDF downloads. These are the various Fist full of Lead games covering a variety of genres, wasteland mutants, horse and musket, space adventures etc.

The rules are very quick play, have options to play small groups with a handful of miniatures right up to larger battles. They have Sci-Fi rules that include space ship combat as well as planetary combat.

Sad news, Acheson creations will cease operations as of May 31st. They are still accepting orders up until the 31st, so feel free to roll the dice and get your orders in quick.

Also in the bad news category, sources say:

 "it looks like Antenocitis Workshop has shut down for good. The main company site is down, and the Twitter and Facebook have been removed. Apparently the company has gone into liquidation"

We now have a start time too!

So first gaming day in a couple of years will start at 11 AM.

Lets take a look at the check list:

• Room clean
• Snack bowls clean
• Goblets cleaned
  
• Chips stocked up
• Pop in fridge
• Cream and coffee ready
• Popsicles ready to grab
• Rules reviewed
• QRSs printed and ready
  
• Terrain set up
  
• Forces set up
• Unit cards created

With a few days left before gaming day I am well on my way to being ready, I can hardly wait!

We have a date, Monday May 23rd...Warhammer!

 

So good news after far to long a break we finally have a game scheduled, Warhammer 6th edition.

Start time to be determined. Armies Orcs & Goblins vs Dwarfs. (maybe some allies)

Gaming???

 Hello all

So, I feel we have established some days that do not work, at least for gaming outside of OMG. This leads to the obvious question:

What day[s] in May work for people to game. 

We have 23 other days left in May, do any of these other days work for anyone out there? 

I figure maybe we aim for the day then figure out what game to play.

Again I am open to suggestions.

Thank you

Scheduling games

Hello everyone

 

I am looking for input, how are we going to schedule games assuming that we want to play and that people require some advance notice. I really need help here as I do not have a clue how to do this. With the possible exception of me, most everyone has a lot of non gaming activities in their lives. I am essentially available any day, at any time barring unforeseen events.

So how do we do this? Do we do this? 

I had thrown out the long weekend in May as a possible weekend to see us gaming. But more than one person has a conflict on certain days that weekend, some know what day others do not yet know the day. 

Western keep has offered to host, what day (s) were you thinking about, I am assuming it was not for the long weekend.

Do we just throw out days like spaghetti and see which ones will stick then go from there?

I think most of us have preferences for what game we might want to participate in, for example maybe not everyone wants to do ancient battles, or naval games or whatever. Do we therefore then post up something saying I want to host xxx this month then throw out some dates, or does someone say I really would like to try out Fantastic Battles or xxxx who could host and when.

I just want to host some games, to ref and to play. I will travel but I am game dependent I have no interest in certain genres or games so I am unlikely to participate in them, but maybe I will (stranger things have happened)

I will commit to saying out right if I cannot attend so that the host can assess the number of players who will be attending. I also commit to arriving at the predetermined time for the event to participate. I cannot commit to not being sarcastic, better to ask me to stop breathing.😏

Covid and other plagues are of course a potential concern and each player must assess their comfort level (barring any mandatory regs) 

So this has rambled on somewhat, the real point of this post is to get feedback on how we are to arrange game days/nights, or how we are not going to do that. We are a small group with diverse interests, how do we marshal our resources, our players and our gaming areas to make up for lost time and get gaming.

 

Thank you