Stoobert

There are two purchase options to get started: 1) The "Battle for Valhalla" starter box which contains two "patrol" starter fleets, rulebook and tokens or 2) buy any "patrol fleet" box which contains tokens, and then a rulebook separately.

The game is cool.  My major complaint is it takes 3 to 4 hours to play.  But I really enjoy it nonetheless. 

We play "most Saturdays" and I try to post here when it's happening.

I bought this game for cheap and it looks cool and lightweight scifi fun.  Experience anyone?

We'll be playing this Saturday 10/25 at 12noon.  I reserved two tables.

Don't you mean you've got "wood for elves"?

Great game against you round 2, Jim.  Thanks for the whiskey to "freshen up my water".  The Rune Priest vs. NurgleBurgle battle was super fun and I'm glad my uppity chaos-curious Rune Priest got smacked down - f*%ing heretic!  My sniper survived the battle and was promoted, only to die of gangrenous trench foot three weeks later, no doubt caused by copious bacteria spewed into the air by the exploding GU1.

Ok now I just feel pissed on. I've said my bit. I'm exiting this conversation.

Strategy and list building. I get it. Ok. But when you sit on 3 objectives and so does he, and he can turn in all 3 cards and you can turn in none?

I feel like the announcements and information on OFCC were too "scattered around" the forums.  Important information like:

• start times each day
• events each day
• location of venue

Were located across multiple threads... please try to consolidate/centralize this information next year into a single post, that then links to sub-posts as necessary.

I've said before that the "ideal game" is against a nice guy that came down to a decision and/or dice roll at the end and could have gone either way.

What MikailLenin/WestRider's Maelstrom game has in common with all great and fun games is that it was close.  Games that are not close (Maelstrom or not) are not fun. 

Who enjoys watching a incredibly lopsided game of your favorite sport?  No one, really, unless you hate the one team so bad you like to watch them suffer.  That's not the OFCC spirit.

What I disliked about Maelstrom missions is that in many cases they were not close and there was little to nothing an opponent could do about it.  Sorry but neither my list nor my opponents were strong enough for a table-ing.  I was either feeling bad for the other guy (2 wins by more than 10 points) or the other guy was feeling sorry for me (3 losses by ~10 points).  In most cases it was just luck but list matchups were also a factor.  Maelstrom seemed to amplify whatever power gap existed in our lists.  In a few cases a different strategy might have helped a little - but not a lot.   

We were trying to make the most of it and I wouldn't say the games were bad, but definitely not awesome.  I still had fun, but definitely not as much fun as last year.  I'd feel reluctant to play all 5 games Maelstrom again.  There must be a hybrid (BAO/Frontline's system) or compromise. 

I'm not going to make it to Nottingham.  The GW in Kensington (West London) was underwhelming at best.  Although I understand space is at a premium in LDN, it was only a tiny single room store with retail product on every wall and two gaming tables in the middle. 

Ah, so the "big store" is not even in London, but in Nottingham?

Covent garden is the one I linked to in my post.  Is that the best (biggest) one?

I'll be in London this week, has anyone been to the GW store there?  This is the main one, right?  Do you have any suggestions, comments or requests about the place or the product?

Power attack!

Bringing to trade:

• Dark eldar raiders x4
• Dark eldar troops
• 30+ IG troops with some special weapons and sarges
• Tomb kings' skeletons
• Assorted Speez Mehreens bits
• 4x eldar jetbikes and lots of eldar bitz
• Light kit

Want: $

This thread doesn't state the start times for Saturday and Sunday on the first post?  Please enlighten us.

Next FSA game day, Sep 20th, Saturday at noon.

At Gamestorm every year there is a Dragon Dice contingent and tournament.  I sold my starter set(s) there.  Don't expect too much.

Wow great looking army

Agreed. Synicate look very "Rocketman" art-deco, I like 'em.  The Spur Heavy Cruiser is now classified as a Battlecruiser and I picked one up.  Nice stats.

Link to download at the bottom of this page

This Saturday, 8/23, I'll likely not be able to attend.  Please make reservations as needed yourself.

Update, my schedule has firmed up and now the reservation has been moved to 1pm tomorrow.

This performed quite well in my game last night, but both my opponent and I suffered some CRAZY bad luck, but still I'm learning.  That Sun-whatever-gun on the Wraithknight ate my Grey Hunters alive, but that was my fault for not spacing them out better.  The Wolf Guard terminator got Overwatched but otherwise would have chomped some Warp Spiders real good.  Jink saves on a skimmer are the bane of a drop-poddy combi-melta team - lesson learned.  Wraithknights might be a better target for combi-melta unless there are some Land Raiders around to be shot, of course (but there weren't).

I'd like to play this Saturday, but it will be at least 1pm before I can arrive myself, possibly as late as 3pm.  So I'm scheduling the tables for this 3pm timeslot for this Saturday only.

The Urban Combat (the original, not the #2) mat is by far my favorite.  What may not be obvious is the flares on the street mark the diagonal lines for Vanguard deployment.