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  • [The Good, the Bad, and the Hungry] Adepticon 2012

    Posted on April 23, 2012 by The Irishman

    This past weekend marked our return to 40kMecca, better known as Adepticon, inChicago.  It was our third year competing in the team tournament and, as usual, was mostly a fun time.  The team tournament was the largest it’s ever been, with 116 teams vying for the top spot, and it made for a really great atmosphere.  But the team tournament wasn’t all that went down at the Westin.  No sir.  There was a lot of really great stuff, and some not so great stuff, going on.  So without much further ado, and with far too long a break in between, I present with the latest installment of The Good, the Bad, and the Hungry, Adepticon 2012-style.

     The Good

     Coolminiornot 

    Masterful Work, Jose. I'll be throwing away my brushes now.

    Coolminiornot continues to have an increased presence at Adepticon; their sponsorship continues to grow, as does the impressiveness that is the Crystal Brush.  First, congrats to Jose Palomares for his absolutely stunning work with his Gea Diorama.  A beautifully painted scratchbuild, it really was everything you could have hoped for in a Crystal Brush winner, and is certainly making all of use painting novices feel appropriately awful about our brush abilities right about now.  But beyond the Crystal Brush, CMON had some really great new products to hawk as well.  Wrath of Kings had their first sculpts on display and for sale at Adepticon and they didn’t disappoint. 

    Who run Bartertown? Who... run... Bartertown?!

    Whether you’re into Thunderdome inspired Union Overseers or suspiciously familiar werewolves, Wrath of Kings looks like it’s on its way to being a big hit.  After getting a peek at some of the concept art (Chinese Dragon, anyone?), I think Wrath of Kings, if it can make the Gen Con release date, is going to be huge.  Additionally, CMON presented Zombiecide, a project which you can fund on Kickstarter.  I was a bit skeptical at first, as I’m A) not a huge zombie fan, and B) not a huge zombie fan, but was really pleasantly surprised by the game.  Based on the increase in Kickstarter funding from around 80k to 93k at the time I’m writing this, it’s a safe bet there are at least a few other folks that agree.  The game plays a bit like Last Night on Earth, but is, in my opinion, better in nearly every way.  The miniatures are much nicer (and more abundant).  The art is done by Edouard Guiton and is really great.  And the mechanics really give you a zombie movie feel.  I particularly like the use of the heart rate monitor and the sound counters that give the zombies more directed action.  The game is going to be really fun, and I encourage you to check out the Kickstarter stretch goals if you have even a passing interest.

     Black Library/Forge World

    Black Library had a nice selection of pre-release books for sale, including the much anticipated The Primarchs and Chris Wraight’s (Battle of the Fang, Luthor Huss) newest, Wrath of Iron.  Wraight was there signing, as was short story contributor Andy Smillie and Warhammer Fantasy pro C.L. Werner (Grey Seer, Wulfrik).  I’m always impressed at how approachable and gracious the Black Library authors are, and it was much of the same this year.

     Forge World was back at Adepticon with all of their beautiful resin, and brought with them a few surprises.  First, they had plenty of convention exclusive Aribites and Skin Wolf models for anyone that would have wanted them.  However, they also had convention models from 2011 (Boarding Marine & Chaos Dwarf) and 2010 (the Ork Runt Bot).  Sure, you still had to buy them, but it was a nice touch.  They also had more than one register operating over the weekend, keeping the line waiting to a minimum—I waited for about 40 minutes Friday when we arrived in the morning, but every other day in the convention you could pretty much walk up and purchase at will.

     Privateer Press

    Yeah. He's big. Real big.

    Privateer Press was again a primary sponsor of Adepticon 2012, and again they spoiled those of that that pre-registered with free battle boxes.  This year we got plastic Hordes starters, and I couldn’t have been more pleased.  Sure, I would have PROBABLY preferred getting a Circle starter as opposed to the Everblight one I pulled from my goodie bag, but I’m certainly not going to complain.  Additionally, Privateer had an absolutely epic diorama set up featuring the upcoming Mountain King Colossal for Hordes.  He blew me away.  The model is gigantic and it is beautiful.  It’ll be a must buy for me, despite the 100$ price tag I’m going to have to foot for it.  Further, PP showed off a new plastic Cyngar warjack kit based on the Hammersmith chassis.  It looked quite nice, and I’ll probably pick one of those up as well.  They could have only done better if they had a booth from which to make purchases.

     International Flavor

    One of the great things about the team tournament is that, for the most part, teams seem to be there to have fun, relax, and just roll some dice.  I think that was even more the case this year, as there was quite a bit more alcohol consumption during the team tournament than there seemed to be last year.  At its heart, Warhammer 40k is a beer and pretzels game, and it was nice to be part of an environment that took that core principle to heart.  I had a drink with people from at least four different countries that I know of (Sweden,USA,Canada,Texas), and had a great time all around meeting new people.  I hope you enjoyed your Joose, Hellfire Painting!

     The Matt Ward Horde Collectible Card Game

    Apparently not many people understood the LeCrontyr Card. Shoulda called it LeCron James.

    You know what?  I don’t care if this is shameless self promotion and congratulations.  The collectible card game we came up with and gave out to every member of every team tournament foursome rocks.  It follows right in theme with our Necron-Blood Angels team up and was routinely well received.  Mad Props go out to Johnny Pong for his brilliant idea and The Artist, Danny Samuels, for the art that really made the cards sing.

     The Cult of Charlie Sheen

    Tiger-Blooded Warlock Approved!

    What can I say?  Well.  Freakin.  Done.  The Cult of Charlie Sheen showed up to Adpeticon’s Team Tournament with bells on.  Their display board was raunchy.  It was offensive.  And it was hilariously well executed.  From the stripper pole-straddling daemonettes on one side to the tentically-endowed Charlie Sheen Daemon model, the Cult of Charlie Sheen’s board just oozed character and (lack of) class.  But those weren’t even the highlights.  No.  It was the blow-themed mirror board that really took the cake.  Audacious. Bravo, Cult of Charlie Sheen.  Bravo, indeed.

     The Bad

    Forge World Misses

    Forge World sold out of all of their new products (released in April) before I could get the head of the purchase line Friday at 11 AM.  They brought 10 copies of Monstrous Arcanum, only three Storm Eagles, and only a handful of Warpfire Dragons.  It saved me some money, sure, and they offer free shipping of any released product that they don’t have at the show, but it would have been really nice to take home that finely leather bound copy of Monstrous Arcanum, sit in an overstuff leather chair, and drink a nice glass of whiskey feeling very manly.  Alas, I was only able to have whiskey.  Further, the reports of Forge World using Finecast are very much true, and I’m not quite sure how I feel about it.  The Skin Wolf convention exclusive was sold in Finecast and was rife with flashing.  Now, I don’t get too concerned about flashing, as it’s easy to clean up, nor did my model have any bubbling; in fact, it looks great.  But it still concerns me a bit, and I’m a Finecast supporter. 

    Space Wolves Las-Plas

    We saw some variation of Space Wolves razorback Las-Plas spam in 3 of the 4 games we played.  By game four, I was so excited to see an all-Necrons army I could have kissed my fine opponents from Battle Ready Figs, and I think The Angry Norsemen did.  It’s not that I don’t ‘get’ power listing, or wanting to win, or maximizing your army.  I get it.  I really do.  I just wish I hadn’t seen it three straight games.  I encourage the Adepticon tournament organizers to TRY and break it up next year so that, by round three, the teams that are not going to be competing for a top spot can see a different army.  I’d have actually preferred playing against a Grey Knights list than seeing two groups of Missile Launcher Long Fangs again.

    The Hungry

    Every year for three years now we’ve visited the Omega in Lombard, a little restaurant we affectionately call the Ultramarine Lounge.  Only a short drive from the Westin—and honestly, it’s within walking distance, but perhaps not for a tired gamer—the Omega offers some of the finest diner food I’ve ever eaten.  I’m amazed it isn’t crammed with Adepticon-ers every year.  It should be.  We ate there twice on Saturday, and had we not left early on Sunday morning, we’d probably have gone again.  It’s that tasty, and you can eat for less than $10 bucks.  If you’re going to Adepticon 2013, you owe it to yourself to make a stop at the Omega.

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  • The Good, the Bad & the Hungry: GenCon 2011 Part 2

    Posted on August 9, 2011 by The Irishman

    And on to Part 2 of the GenCon Good, Bad & Hungry recap.  This part really highlights the bad, or disappointing parts of the convention from my perspective:

    The Bad:

    Even the Hit King wouldn't bet on your Avatar being resin!

    Wyrd Games & Puppet Wars– I really like Malifaux.  It’s one of my favorite games to play because of the fun and unique background and gameplay mechanic.  The models are usually hit or miss for me; some of them are simply a letdown after the fantastic concept art that precedes them, but when they hit they’re fantastic (see: Snowstorm).  Sadly, Wyrd had more misses than hits this year.  Johnny Pong was set to drop the wallet on Puppet Wars, but after he and the WarGame Wife demoed it, they were left with a really sour taste in their mouths.  The WarGame Wife plays boardgames, and she said as a boardgame it was very boring and under-produced, especially when she compared it to Super Dungeon Explore.  Couple this with the fact that you can’t buy any of the puppet figures outside of a—at the cheapest—$35 dollar “booster box,” and Puppet Wars really fell flat.  Wyrd did have the new Twisted Fates book, which is really cool and had some fantastic art, but not all of the new models were great.  Seamus’ avatar is a brilliant piece of resin, and I picked up the Alternative Marcus sculpt, but beyond that I was left unimpressed.  Most confusing was the choice of how to utilize resin: the Sonnia Criid Avatar, which I actually sorta like, has multiple pieces to make up the fire portion of the model, but only a small piece is resin.  I’m not a resin caster, and I’m sure there are issues with the breakup of the model, but it was altogether disappointing and confusing.

    Sadly, the 2-Player starter did not come with a Racoon. Only a crappy box.

    Privateer Press—I was already skeptical coming into GenCon on how Privateer would show, and I was, as expected, a bit underwhelmed.  They had the models I figured they’d have (my Cygnar, Trollbloods, & Gators each received one model) and I suppose if you are a Khador player you’d be REALLY excited (they received two new plastic kits), but it just didn’t have the impact that I hoped it would.  Privateer always seems to have a painter painting up one of the previously unseen models, and that was no different this year.  One of their staff was painting the new Farrow warlock, a two-headed pig-centaur hybrid.  It looked pretty cool, and Johnny Pong was excited, but he did confuse it at first with an Argus, so perhaps the aesthetic looks a bit too Circle.  Privateer did have a few of the 2-player starters in “special convention packaging,” but the special convention packaging consisted of old battle boxes without the slip cover and a note card in the shrink that said “2-Player Starter.”  Again, a bit disappointing.  I just want Privateer to really knock my socks off at GenCon, and, simply put, they failed to even blow off a shoe.  They wouldn’t be here if they had introduced some concept art for their new Sci-Fi game, had some sneak previews of Hordes: Domination, or done, well…something.  But they didn’t, and I was sad.

    Games Workshop—First, let me be clear: yes, I know GW never comes to GenCon.  Yes, I know I already wrote that Blood Bowl: Team Manager was really fun to play.  Yes, I know there were lines to play Space Marine all convention long.  But GW: get your head out of your collective butt and don’t put Games Day in a location within four hours of Indianapolis the week before GenCon.  It’s a terrible marketing idea.  Second: let Fantasy Flight sell the shit out of Warhammer merchandise.  I get that you don’t want to make posters, or t-shirts, or other assorted crap that your audience would gobble up quicker than Hurley eats a bucket of fried chicken, but you need to let someone do it.  They.  Will.  Sell.  I’d give a pint of blood to Khorne every month if you produced some t-shirts for me to buy.  TO BUY.  Fantasy Flight clearly has a very capable grasp on the Warhammer IP.  I want to see GW utilize that.  I want to see GW make a partnership game with Fantasy Flight.  FFG has the resources, facilities and knowhow to produce high quality boardgame products.  GW has the resources, facilities and knowhow to produce high quality miniature products.  Work together.  Release Warhammer Quest as your first partnership product.  Announce it at GenCon 2012.  Print money.  Rinse and repeat with subsequent Warhammer Quest expansions.

    She was not at GenCon 2011.

     

    Inappropriately-Confident Cosplayers—I like a good Cosplayer.  I saw some really great costumes.  Really fit and buxom woman dressed as Black Widow: Bravo.  Giant stilt-walking Abraham Lincoln: Well done, sir.  Crew of semi-attractive 20-somethings dressed as the Mass Effect characters: Loved it.  Spot-on Jack Sparrow: I think Michael Bolton wants to see you.  However, my list of memorable Cosplay stops there.  As much as I really want to point out the particular Cosplay costumes that just didn’t work, I won’t because I’m not about bringing people down.  I leave that to The Mike Leon.  But seriously, ladies and gentlemen.  Know your limitations.  Understand your body.  At present, I’m a chubby dude that needs to lose some weight.  I know this, and as a result I don’t go bare-chested or wear spandex biker shorts in public.  If I ever trade in my 2-litre for a six-pack you can be damned sure the following month with look like an episode of JerseyShore, but for now I’m content to wear t-shirts and appropriately sized pants.  I wish the Cosplay at GenCon followed this trend; sadly, it did not.

    The GenCon Will Call Line—Holy Shit.  If you were in the line with me and the WarGame Wife, then those two words will surely be enough to describe it.  For those of you that were not: the Will Call line for ticket pick up Thursday morning at 8:00 was long.  Two hours long.  The On-Site badge purchase line?  About 20 minutes long.  The WarGame Wife and I played two games of iPad Ticket to Ride while in line.  It was, simply put, unacceptable.  And just when we thought we’d get in the exhibitors hall near the 10 am opening time, as we neared the front of the line right around 9:50, we were greeted with this gem: “Oh, it looks like your badges have been mis-filed.”  Wow.  After an additional 40 minutes of waiting they reprinted the badges, a process that took less than three minutes.  It wasn’t a great start to the WarGame Wife’s first convention, that’s for sure.

     Despite the bad, GenCon was, as usual, a really great experience.  The GenCon volunteer staff was great.  The young lady that presented me with the “your badge is missing” news was unendingly polite and apologetic, and the rest of the staff was friendly and helpful.  With the expansion of the Exhibitor hall, the widened walkways, and the overall plethora of gaming goodness to be had, GenCon 2011 was a fantastic convention.

    The Hungry, Part 2

    Nicky Blaine's can make you feel interesting, too!

    After completing the kingly meal at St. Elmo’s, the QCG crew opted to head to Nicky Blaine’s, a kush cocktail and cigar lounge in downtown Indy.  The WarGame wife noted that she felt like she was on an episode of Sex & the City.  I can’t say I disagree.  The atmosphere was swanky, the service was fantastic, and they served some mean cocktails to accompany their extensive list of cigars.  If you find yourself hankering for a drink and want to feel like a celebrity, you could do a lot worse than Nicky Blaine’s.

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  • The Good, the Bad & the Hungry: GenCon Indy 2011 Part 1

    Posted on August 8, 2011 by The Irishman
    I’m exhausted.  GenCon weekend is always an incredibly fun time, but man does it tire a dude out.  Between walking the Exhibitor Hall trying to find the latest deal, demoing the Lord of the Rings: Living Card Game for Fantasy Flight, or carousing late night with the purple or some Grand Marnier, it was a busy weekend.  There’s a lot to be said regarding GenCon 2011, so I’m going to break it up into two parts, with each containing some of “the Hungry,” as downtown Indianapolis is a great food spot.

    The Good:

    Don't worry, Porkins! There's no weight limit for board games!

    Fantasy Flight Games: Easily the big winner of this year’s GenCon (and I swear that’s an unbiased opinion), Fantasy Flight had a gigantic booth (the biggest of anyone at the convention) that was centrally located and just swarming with great game demos, including their upcoming Star Wars games X-Wing & the Star Wars Living Card Game.  Johnny Pong and I had a chance to demo the rules for Dust Warfare and were left cautiously optimistic.  Though we were informed they were still beta-testing the rules, it looks like the game will be a really fast moving miniatures game with relatively low complexity.  I think it’s going to be a lot of fun and FFG has some really exciting miniatures planned for it.  In addition to Star Wars and Dust, FFG was demoing Gears of War and a bunch of A Game of Thrones product; all looked equally fun, and I may have to satisfy my Gears itch early while I’m waiting for the third game to release on Xbox.

    Wizards everywhere were sad Super Dungeon Explore missed GenCon.

    The CMON Collective: CMON really hit it out the park this year.  They had a really well set up booth that partitioned everything out with demo areas separate from their main product area, had really great presentations with both Dark Age Apocalypse and Soda Pop Miniatures’ Super Dungeon Explore & Relic Knights, as well as two small demo tables of Studio McVey’s Sedition Wars. Plus, they had Jen Haley painting, to boot.  A special note about Ms. Haley: for someone with Ausberger’s, she was simply amazing.  She was warm, open, and friendly with the audience, and happily answered questions from The WarGame Wife (a complete miniature novice, mind you) without hesitation.  I already had a ton of respect for her due to her immeasurable miniature painting talent, but after meeting her I can’t help but wish her more of the best in every aspect.   Relic Knights was being demoed and was a really pleasant surprise for me; the miniatures are beautiful, of course, but the game mechanics were really neat.  It is a diceless game, rather utilizing a deck of specialized resource cards to perform actions.  I really enjoyed it.  The WarGame Wife tried out Super Dungeon Explore and upon completion instructed me to pre-order it.  I guess that means she liked it.  Though I still believe their booth was a resounding success, it would appear that CMON did not fare nearly as well as they’d hoped with the Legacy Miniatures releases of the Confrontation Hydra and Flesh Golem; as of Sunday, it didn’t appear as if their stacks of both had diminished much at all.  Plus, Soda Pop wasn’t able to get SDE out in time to sell at GenCon.  That was a bit of a fail.

     Battlefoam: Romeo, Jama, and Co. always do a fantastic job presenting their product at conventions, and this year was no different.  They debuted a few new products (the Spartan Games bag and the Heavy Gear bag being notable) and had some sneak peeks at some wonderful looking products to come (I can’t wait to get my hands on the wheeled Warmachine bag).  But forget the products and boil it down to this: the folks at Battlefoam are about as good as it gets when it comes to personality and customer service.  I don’t mind spending my money on Battlefoam because the product is so good; I feel even better about it because Romeo and company are always so good to their customers.

     

    Dixit: now with LSD enhancing art!

    Asmodee Editions: As board game publishers go, Asmodee is more or less neck-and-neck with Fantasy Flight as my favorite, and they continue to hold that position after a great showing at GenCon.  GenCon 2010 introduced me to 7 Wonders, a game that became a must buy for me, and with 2011 they introduced the 7 Wonders: Leaders expansion (though it has been available for about two weeks).  I promptly purchased this as well, but found my next Asmodee must buy in Takenoko, a visually stunning game about Japanese bamboo farming, panda included!  The game is adorable and it certainly going to be a hit.  Regrettably, Asmodee did not have any copies of Dixit: Odyssey for sale, but TheWarGame Wife, Johnny Pong, and Danny all sat down to a demo, which they really enjoyed.  I’ve been informed by the WarGame Wife that I have to pre-order it post haste.  What really sells Asmodee for me, though, is the enthusiasm in which their people present the games.  Their bobmastic Belgian Gil, who represents Repos Productions, is quite possibly the best demo man on the planet.  Seriously.  I’ve always had a great experience at the booth, and this year was no exception.

     There were some other surprise hits for me this year.  Cryptozoic came out of nowhere with the Food Fight card game, a wonderfully illustrated little box of multiplayer fun.  We had a good time demoing this, and the WarGame Wife insisted we purchase it.  Wiz Kids presented demos of Quarriors, a nice little game that is essentially a deck builder with dice instead of cards.  The art is whimsical, and the game looks to play really quickly.  Both Johnny Pong and I demoed Heavy Gear Blitz!, and both came away impressed.  The system gives you big fighty robots with less bookkeeping than Robotech; however, the price point seems a bit prohibitive so I’m not quite sold on the game.  Finally, The War Store had a great booth set up and had a ton of Spartan Games demos being run by our local brethren at Table Top Gamers.  Brian and company must have done a good job, because The War Store had a lot less to take home with them than they brought.

     

    I Pity the Fool that don't eat at St. Elmo's!

    The Hungry: For part 1 of “the hungry” I have to highlight St. Elmo’s Steakhouse.  The food is staggeringly tasty, from their legendary shrimp cocktail laden with fresh horseradish, to their juicy, delicious steaks.   We finished the meal off with a lovely blueberry bread pudding, a great end to a better meal.  Service, as always, was exemplary, and it was a great 2 hours spent with friends.  If you’re in Indy, and you’re craving a steak, you have to visit St. Elmo’s.

     Stay Tuned for Part 2 of The Good, the Bad, & the Hungry, where I rundown the GenCon disappointments, as well as explore the Indianapolis night life.

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  • [GenCon 2011] The 2011 GenCon Wargaming Decathlon

    Posted on August 3, 2011 by The Irishman

    At no point in your rambling, incoherent post was this a good idea.

    So Johnny Pong came up with the brilliant idea for a Wargaming decathlon in order to get a greater number of our models on the table.  That means over the course of the next four days, we’re going to be playing 10 different game systems.  I don’t know how we’re going to do it, but I imagine my brain is going to feel a bit like it did in college after an hour-and-a-half lecture on David Hume’s philosophical ideals.  I’m going to get really, really confused.  I’m probably going to try and fire a boltgun into a horde of Night Goblins.  I may even try and activate my feat while his Imperial Fleet is making a boarding action.  It’s going to be fun, but mistakes will be made.  I just know I need to win to take home the bragging rights.  The sad truth is I’m not sure that I will.  Let’s look at a breakdown of the events of the 2011 GenCon Wargaming Decathlon:

     Confrontation 3

    This will be his Uraken Goblins against my Dwarves of Tir-na-bor.  I’ve played about six games of C3 in my lifetime.  Johnny Pong has played more than that in a tournament day.  His Dai-Bakemono are going to eat my face.  This is an undeniable truth.  The dice gods could shine down on me, and the stubbornness of my dwarves could prevail, but I’m not holding my breath.  This one isn’t looking good

     Johnny Pong – 1

    The Irishman – 0

     Infinity

    Again, a game I don’t have a ton of experience with, but neither does he.  It’s going to be his beautifully painted Combined Army against my completely unpainted Pan-O.  I’ve played with them once.  This isn’t quite as dire as the C3 situation; it’s really more of a toss up, but we all know the dice fall in better favor of those with painted miniatures.  I’m giving Johnny Pong the edge here.

     Johnny Pong – 2

    The Irishman – 0

     Malifaux

    Sid Vicous Approved.

    We’ve both been playing Malifaux since the introduction of the game at Origins 2009.  We’ve both got a fair amount of plays under our belts.  Johnny Pong played in a Malifaux tournament at GenCon 2010.  This should be a close battle.  But it won’t be.  My Marcus force is Oh-for-everything against his Nicodem warband.  I’ve never beat him with Marcus.  I’ve lost one match otherwise.  I’m thinking about switching to Colette; I just haven’t played with her nearly enough.  Still, if I use Colette I won’t be faced with the crippling fact that she’s never defeated Nicodem.  

     Johnny Pong – 3

    The Irishmen – 0

    Warmachine/Hordes

    I’m going to win this matchup for a few reasons: 1.) I actually have more painted models for a game system than Johnny Pong; 2.) I’ve played about 10X as many games of Warmachine/Hordes as Johnny Pong; 3.) I had to get a win eventually.  This is where I break the seal.  If my Cygnar or Trollboods don’t defeat his Lord Carver led Farrow, I’m going to be ashamed and embarrassed, and may possibly put my Mulg the Ancient in a sock and find an unsuspecting LARPer to beat with it.

     Johnny Pong – 3

    The Irishman – 1

     HellDorado

    Come for the Snoop, Stay for the Blast!

    We both have forces.  Johnny Pongs are a painted Saracens force.  Mine are a primed Westerners force.  Neither of us has the rulebook.  We have to get that at GenCon.  It’s probably best if we play this well into our 12-pack of Colt .45 Blast.  The winner may very well be determined by whoever hasn’t left the table to take a pee.  It’s a complete toss-up, but I’ll give myself the point because I’m a heartier drinker than Johnny Pong.

     Johnny Pong – 3

    The Irishman – 2

    Warhammer 40k

    This is going to be really fun, because we’ll most likely play it Adepticon style (with lots of Gin & Tonic in us) and neither of us play net lists.  Johnny Pong is going to be running his deep-strike Land Raider Blood Angels, while I’ll be playing some Forge World Augmented Salamanders (I mean, I just got the Sallie dread model; I have to use him!).  This is going to be a close match, as our armies are evenly matched, but I’m predicting a win for Johnny Pong because I’m not sure I have enough firepower to deal with his saves are rerolls.

    They're going to foreclose... ON YOUR SOUL!

    Johnny Pong – 4

    The Irishman – 2

     Warhammer Fantasy

    I have a slight edge here, as I’ve played exactly three more games of 8th Edition Fantasy than Johnny Pong has.  Of course, that only puts my playing total at three games.  His Orcs and Goblins force is beautiful (seriously, if you’re at GenCon, follow us on Twitter and find us during that match up. It’s one of the best painted WHFB armies I’ve ever seen in person) and mine is completely unpainted.  Plus, I don’t even know if I’ll bring Empire or Skaven (I’m open to suggestions).   Despite the beauty of his force, I think I win the day here, as those three games experience could really make the difference.

     Johnny Pong – 4

    The Irishman – 3

    Uncharted Seas

    I'm on a boat! I'm on a boat!

    Johnny Pong has a lot more experience with Uncharted Seas than I do.  His human force is also fully painted while mine is only partially painted (are you seeing a trend here?).  I’ll be running my Dwarves, which are pretty easy to play, and fairly resilient, but I still don’t think I stand much of a chance.  Johnny Pong’s taking this one home.

     Johnny Pong – 5

    The Irishman – 3

     Dystopian Wars

    Though very similar to Uncharted Seas, the Dystopian Wars battle boxes have the airplanes, so it changes things up a bit.  I’ve only one game of Dystopian Wars under my belt, but I don’t think Johnny Pong has any.  We have about the same amount painted, so the Dice Gods shouldn’t be favoring either of us.  With that being said, I think I take this one in a squeaker.

    Johnny Pong – 5

    The Irishman – 4

     Wild Card Round

    We need ideas for the Wild Card round.  We don’t presently have a game slated for this spot, as we were planning on making it a GenCon perchance round, which would put us on equal footing.  So we need suggestions!  Presently, MERCs and the Dust Warfare rules are on the table, but if you think you have a game that would appeal to us to be the Wild Card Round battle, let us know!  

     The 2011 GenCon Wargamining Decathalon is going to be fun.  We’re going to drink, play games that seldom hit the table, and talk a lot of smack.  It should be close, but in the end, unless we find a wargame for the Wild Card Round that really gives me the advantage, my initial thought is that Johnny Pong will emerge victorious.  Updates will come throughout GenCon, so stay tuned!

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