So here’s where I go way out of my wargaming comfort zone:
Should be delivered today, along with more counter storage trays.
Hey, if I like this one enough, I may get the Rommel, Napoleon, and Nimitz games as well.
B-17 FFL
Pepsi Leader
Behold, the Incom Z-95 Headhunter:
edit: Damn, I have a crappy point-and-shoot camera. My phone takes better pictures. Didn’t have it with me in my bedroom when I opened this thing.
X-Wing Miniatures
One game that I hope my group plays soon, assuming we decide to do table top miniatures, is X-Wing from Fantasy Flight Games.
When and if we do, I’ve settled on a ship that I will consider my ‘personal’ starfighter: the Z-95 Headhunter.
This is one of the first ships that was referenced outside of the movies, in the first Han Solo book by Brian Daley, Han Solo at Star’s End.
For some reason I recently couldn’t find it in local stores, primarily a couple of Barnes and Noble bookstores that sell the game and miniatures. I could find it before I actually wanted to pick one up, but kept holding off.
I eventually found one for sale at Amazon.com, so I ordered one.
My next step is to find a card template to make a custom pilot card for myself.
Edit: found one!
And now we’ll see if I’ll ever get to take her into combat.
Pepsi Leader standing by…
Mutants and Masterminds: The End
We tried.
We really did.
But after 3 sessions of a lot of page flipping and die rolling, we just couldn’t get into this system. We found it overly complicated and poorly organized.
So we pulled the plug on our campaign.
We finished the adventure that we had started last time, so we were pretty much cancelled after issue #2 of our unnamed super group comic.
Or this anthology book is starting a new story with new characters and new background.
We’re leaning toward science fiction for our next role-playing campaign.
We shall see.
Free Comic Book Day 2017
Getting better at scheduling this out.
I picked up my nephew at a little after 10am. We got to the comic shop about 10-15 minutes before they opened. We had to park on the other side of the 24 Hour Fitness building and walk a bit to the comic shop.
There was a short line that went pretty quick after the shop opened at 11am. We each grabbed our allotted 3 comics, got rung up at a register, and left.
By the time we got to the mall/theatre, it was about time to grab some food and go to our seats. They ran out of medium sized ICEE cups and didn’t have pretzel bites, so I settled for a large ICEE and a hot dog. Joseph got an ICEE and popcorn.
There were no loud talkers, and only some seat confusion due to not being able to see the seat numbers once the lights go down.
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 holds up on second viewing.
After the movie I checked my phone and saw a voicemail message from Gator Games, which I checked to confirm that my copy of the Shadow War Armageddon rule book was available for pickup.
After picking up some sundries from Target we quickly drove down to the game store and I got my rule book, while Joseph asked the workers there about Yu-Gi-Oh cards.
We made one last stop at the Brisbane library, who also participate in Free Comic Book Day, and they have no limits on the comics one can take. I don’t know why we just don’t go there initially…
I dropped off Joseph, then refueled my car and myself (gas and McDonalds, respectively) and went home, to find too many choices on TV (Captain America movies, Star Wars marathon, NBA playoffs).
Shipped!
Wargames: Other Time Periods
Today I was looking around for another solitaire war game, but out of my usual ‘comfort zone’, outside of the years between World War II and today.
I came across this:
Comanchería is the second game in Joel Toppen’s “First Nations” series. Like its predecessor, Navajo Wars, Comanchería is a solitaire game in which the player plays from the Native American tribe’s point of view.
In Comanchería, the player takes command of the Comanche nation. The player must drive hostile tribes from the southern plains, establish dominance over the region, set up trade networks with both friendly tribes and colonial powers, and finally defend all of this against relentless military and cultural attack.
Navajo Wars is out of print, or I would have went with that game first.
If anything, this may get me looking into other periods of history again, which I really haven’t done since high school/college.
In Stock!
Looks like the online stores are getting in their B-17 Flying Fortress Leader games, which means my order should be shipping soon.
There’s an option to fly your own personal bomber within the missions, where you command the entire squadron. This makes the game a bit like the old B-17: Queen of the Skies game.
So now I need to come up with a name for my bomber.
Suggestions are welcome.