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Soon….ish…

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And now for something completely different…

I actually bought the PDF of this game back in November, during PLAAY.com’s annual holiday sale, but I was so busy/preoccupied that I never got around to printing out any of the game components.

Once this came in, I went ahead and printed the 3 sets of horses/jockeys that came with the original PDF game and expansions.

There’s one horse named “John Elway’s Horse”, which I suppose makes sense since PLAAY Games is based out of Colorado.

I hope to getting around to playing this one over the coming weekend, having cut out all the printed stuff this evening.

Stay tuned!

Curbing my Enthusiasms

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As a side note, I seriously have to curb the number of ‘active’ projects I have going, and stick with games (and sports) that I like to play.

Baseball and racing will always have a spot in my rotation.  Soccer and hockey take the next tier, with football and basketball lower on my list.

I also have golf, tennis, boxing, wrestling and lacrosse in various forms.  Of those, I have to be in the right mood/mindset to play any of those.  None of those games are ones I consider playing with a long-term ‘season’ or replay.

And then there’s the least played games: bowling, roller derby, demolition derby, and some interesting fictional sports.  Someday, I keep telling myself.

I just started the 2013 SCRAM season, and the 2024 SCRAM/SCRAM-B sets arrived in the mail today.  Yikes.

So yeah, I need to curb my habit, considering the vast amount of other hobbies I have and would like to pursue as well.

Stay tuned, I guess…

Ultra Quick Sports

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I dug out my copies of Ultra Quick Football and Ultra Quick Soccer last week, which then gave me the idea to pick up Ultra Quick Baseball, since it’s supposed to be a way to quickly sim the rest of the games in a single team replay.

I’m going to try it with the 1921 and 1971 season replays that I’m currently playing (though stalled due to my own indifference toward what to play lately).

It’ll probably take as long to sim all the games up to the point where I am in those seasons as it took to play those games.  I hope not.

Stay tuned!

Blood Bowl Team Focus: The Spartans

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A year or so ago I found these guys online and picked them up for Blood Bowl.  My intent was to use them as a Norse team.

This year Games Workshop came out with new rules and models for the actual Norse team, which makes this group of miniatures semi-obsolete.

What I didn’t realize when I bought this particular set is that it can be used for 3 different teams: Norse, Bretonnians, and Humans.

The Werewolves are meant to be used with a Norse team.

The Ogre (Big guy) is meant to be used with a Human team.

The Bretonnians don’t use either of those, so it would be all Humans.  Though technically the Bretonnians appear to have been replaced with the Imperial Nobility Team, so perhaps I can use them as one of those teams.

Can’t use werewolves on an Imperial Nobility Team, though.  Ah well.  Though I think I can use the Ogre.

I may have them play as Imperial Nobility vs the Lizardmen this weekend.

Stay tuned!

Indecision Intensified

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Multiple Game Disorder (MGD) is worse when you play tabletop sports games AND non-sport tabletop solitaire games.

So many sports replays I’d like to continue, but I also wanna terraform Mars or have Ms. Marvel fight Ultron or start playing with my freighter crew or join the Alliance to Restore the Republic.

Among other things.

At least video games are not really in this equation, since my arthritis is making me ‘retire’ from console games.

I know, first world problems.

But all of these are my escape from reality, if just for a little while.

The indecision makes it difficult to unplug from reality.

Ah well.