BOARDGAME Time at the House... and hey where are the Hobby Updates?

Last weekend after watching Pacific Rim managed to grab Obi and Fred over and with Donuts and some Soda we went to have some good old Afternoon Boardgame sessions.

TAKENOKO 

First up was Obi's game of Takenoko. It was a game of Move Farmer to grow Bamboo while the Panda Eats it. It was a light game and a quick one but has some good strategy decisions there as well. Makes for a good introduction game for the non-gamers. Fred Managed to beat us all by getting to his 8 objectives (getting the extra VP from the Emperor) and won this round.

Is that the stomach of the farmer or the panda?

SMASH UP

Onwards to a quick game of SMASH UP!!! Fred and Obi dig the race combinations and start having a blast Managed to eck out a win with my Robot-Dinosaur Faction. Huzzah !!

SMALL WORLD

Obi's requested game. You cannot spell Slaughter without the Laughter is its tagline. :P. I started to play as Wizards, Obi as the Amazons and Fred getting lucky with Spirit Ghouls. I tried to stay as far away from Fred as I can but the Ghouls kept on coming.

Humans assault  but not enough to win

After 3 turns I then decided to have the Wizards go to Decline and get some Wealthy Halfling . Meanwhile Fred has declined his Spirit Ghouls and got some Fortified Elves while Obi goes for some Flying Tritons. Fred's ability to generate Fortifications that create VP and his still attacking Ghouls even when on decline allows him to rack up some massive points. I go to decline the Halflings and get some Commando Humans while Obi goes for Orcs.

In the end the Human push was not enough and Fred gets a massive amount of points from the Fortifications to win the game !! (He was getting like 15+ points a turn)

SMASH UP PART TWO

We had one more game before we called it its. I was playing Alien Tricksters while Obi got Robot Ninjas and Fred Pirate Zombies ( yes those names sound awesome)

Fred played excellent with some good Broadside cards in play to kill off my and Obi;s buggers while he kept cycling his heavy stuff back to Break bases and get first place. His last play of playing Broadsides at The Mall (the one that gave 1Vp for every minion you have) ensured that he was the only one with enough Minions there and with 6 of them got the 6VP to win the game !!!

A fun time was had by all. On to next time. Perhaps me and Obi and Fred can finally attend an Open Gaming day this end of July.



WAIT WHAT ABOUT YOUR MODELLING STUFF?


Yes I have not forgotten. I managed to go back to Devior and got me some Vallejo Model Colors again. I plan to finally finish the Corporation this week so I can go back and touch up the 16 Shoota Boyz that I did for that GOLD CUP.

Here is crossing my fingers :D

GENERAL It's 2013 - Where are the posts?

Well as always it's already Feb of 2013 and still no updates :P.. I would like to explain it away as me being busy with personal (emergencies) and work (unexpected travel plans) but well those are just excuses :P

Anyway here is to the new year.. may I be able to roll more dice this year than last year and may I finally finish painting my Crimson Space Marines this year :P (the one I have had for the past 16 years :D )

GENERAL: Change of URL

You know for those who are actually reading this, don't you find it odd that the title of the blog is different from the url? After a couple of years I finally unprocrastinated enough to actually do something about it.

After some time thinking how I would do it and googling to find out it was  surprisingly easy for me to just go ahead and change the url without having to redesign everything. Of course I found out about it after I created another blog and then redesigning it again and then discovering that I didn't have to do any of that at all. so doh.

Well it's fixed now so for those who need to please change your URL of me to:

http://badbeefspawningground.blogspot.com/

GENERAL : Bunker Closing: Tournament in the works

Well after three years.. the Bunker.. that place of gaming haven in E. Rod at Quezon City is finally closing because the building is being demolished. That place had been my gaming haven for the past few months .. even though it's far from where I live it was at least near where I work and I got my gaming fix during the weekday/nights.

The Bunker is not going out without a bang though. There would be a couple of tournaments scheduled until the end of the year. Currently they have a special 1111 point tournament in the works which I hopefully should be able to compete in..

That place had been a fun location for some geeky fun.. I wonder where Lito is going to be able to setup a new site..

PAINTING: Broke a PP Bottle Cap

It has been raining all week and has been totally depressing. I was thinking that hey at least I can get to paint finally indoors... I was all set to do it when I took out and broke the Privateer Paint Bottle Cap that I had. It was brittle and it totally just fell apart in my hands.

I have been going WTF and tried to fix it temporarily with super glue and plasticard. I opened 3 super glues and they were all empty inside (another round of WTF)  and I managed to open a 4th one and it had glue inside.

Have wrapped it in tape to keep it as airtight as I can.. Well that ruined my shot at attempting to paint for me today.. Ho humm might as well just troll on the interwebz.