Raggy's Gaming Adventures

Once again I missed out on the Thursday gaming session as I had a friend over, but with any luck I will be able to drag Lindsey along this week. The big news really was Salute 2011 which was a great experience. I picked up some free minis, including the gorgeous Orcs that Mantic were handing out. I think they will be the next thing I start to collect once I have caught up on the backlog a little. I met up with a load of friends and we spent most of the day wandering round and seeing what was on offer. I didn't pick up nearly as many things as I'd have liked but I did sell off a LOT of old figures and got some Coat D'Arms paints and some of the lovely Ironclad Miniatures' Grubs (Brits and Yanks) I am hoping to paint them up fairly quickly so that I can justify picking up the others. They are quite a bit larger than the ones Shieldwall did in the past which is a shame as I still have a few of those knocking about. After Salute on Saturday, there was more gaming to be

Well the last week has been a bit manic, but has had a healthy amount of gaming mixed in. I was able to make it to Epsom and got a chance at long last to get a game of Shogun. I have to say I enjoyed it a great deal. The game is an interesting light block wargame. The 'cube tower' works well both mechanically and thematically, although there can be issues with it being knocked. There are rules to handle this but for the most part it is better to keep the tower on a separate table to minimise the possibility. The game is a lot simpler than it initially appeared to be. We took a little while to get going as we were all new to the game but we quickly worked it out and once we had got in the swing of things, the game moved along at a fair pace. This is a very thinky game, there are a lot of elements that need considering and planning, however the mechanics are simple and quick to learn. Saturday saw my RPG group get back around the table for the first time in a looong time for

Hello again people, A bit of a quiet week. I have continued to play the solo game of Arkham Horror for my session report. It is taking a while as I am playing a turn or two each evening. I am hoping I may get the game finished by the end of this week and get the write-up done by the end of next. I am really enjoying it and hopefully it will read well once I am finished. I didn't end up going to the Epsom Games Club as usual this week so my play count for the week is down somewhat on previous weeks, but I had the second session of Daring Tales of Adventure and afterwards got in a game of Citadels. This second game of Daring Tales came off a lot better than the first with a few injuries but no deaths and a successful outcome. I will be looking into writing up the adventures over time on the Obsidian Portal account, but haven't done much as of yet. I think that there is a distinct lack of interest from the group about keeping that sort of blog of the adventures so I may end u

It's a new dawn, it's a new day, it's a new blog post and a new avatar for meee! Yeah so had some great gaming experiences in the last week. I finally got a play of Crokinole which is fun, had a try of Ghost Stories although I'm not convinced we played the rules correctly (It was virtually impossible at the easiest difficulty),  introduced some folks to Small World which went down well and also got in a game of Arkham Horror which was great fun. Every time I sit down and play a game of Arkham I come out thinking... I really must play that more often... and then never do. I might sit down and try a solitare game but I struggle to play boardgames solo... esp with so many video games totally unplayed (damn you Steam christmas sale!). The real highlight was getting to run a game of Daring Tales of Adventure. Three friends were in on the game and they didn't do very well at all. In fact they got blown up about a third of the way through the story. I think I am going