Everything I've been up to in the last week.

Ok so lets start with last week......

Thursday I got my Maelstrom order, can I get a whoop whoop! So i pulled out what Ive got and made a 500pt list and played against a 500pt Thag list.....wow units are not the same as Warjacks....No boosting to hit or Damage. I got my "Rear" handed to me but it was fine I learnt my lesson, I'n this game everything needs to work together otherwise you die ....and quickly.

Saturday I went to ICON (South African Convention)....Got there a bit late (10am which normally would be on time) so did not register for the RPG modules. I went and watched the MEAD (LARP) people beating each other up outside the Gaming hall while gluing my new models together. Was pretty fun watching them beat each other with taped up pool noodles. Will have to give it a try some time.

I also spent most of my day helping out at the Warmachine demo stand that was run by one of the other groups here in Johannesburg (3+ Gamers). We had a nice bit of interest shown by the people walking around and had demo games running all day. Once everything had calmed down I decided to play a 500pt game against a more experience Menoth Player.....I held out for most of the game and if it wasn't for Death Sentence each turn and the avatars free focus I might have been able to pull off something good. In the end Coleman was on his ace staring at some agro'ed Knights and a Avatar......

I spent my night LARP'ing I was a German Indiana Jones who had discovered a mysterious metal and was attending a unavailing of some Egyptian artifacts at a hotel in Cairo....to cut a long story sort, I was eaten by a Chinese Dragon who's metal I had stolen and the metal was turned into a A-Bomb that blew up all the other characters in the end....good fun.

On Sunday I partook in a demo game of Vampire: the eternal struggle (TCG). It looks very good and I have also roped my wife into trying it out. I had a deck from 2001 that I never got to use so I am using that and my wife is using the free deck I got from the demo game.

So that was my weekend. Nothing special but was fun anyways.

Now on to the exciting news. A fellow player and myself might be starting up a shop so that we can sell Warmachine/Hordes at a much better price. We worked out that the local shops are putting the prices up by at least 60% this could mean the life or death of this hobby. If people could get starter boxes for R400 ( $40) instead of the current R675 ($75) that the local retailer sells them for, I think this hobby would fly.

So tonight after our Thursday night game at my house we will talk business and work on a way to get us from 3rd world gamers to 1st world.

Until next time.....