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Yeppers, So far it looks like locally we just have Myself, Andrew and Cody. Kelly (the orc swarm) is mulling it over. I may have an enthusiast show up to watch/get a learning game in. He apparently has never played, but he wears a chaos symbol pendant, so suffice to say he is into the lore. Others may jump in last minute, but I imagine many people are heading out of town for the long weekend. Ben, send me a PM if you need a place to stay while you are down here.

Well, there is plenty of time to cook your wife dude breakfast and score those points. I'll put your down as a solid yes, in ink. Now get to cookin' Congrats on the kiddo! Who else needs some non-negotiable convincing?

July 6th perhaps? 😁

I don't know if the inter-webs supports that... For the fiscal year of 2016/17, these are the current tax rates in the UK: The basic rate is 20%, for all sorts of income up to 32,000 GBP per year. The higher tax rate of 40% applies to income from 32,001 GBP to 150,000 GBP a year. Income above the 150,000 GBP limit is taxed with the additional rate of 45%. A marginal tax rate of 40% over 32,000 GBP (40,600 USD) is pretty bloody high! The US for the same amount of money is 22%. Sure we also have state tax, but that is still well shy of 40%. The UK does get socialized health care, which I guess they dont pay extra for? So, if we look at the full cost, we might be about equal. But, your main point is still valid. We just like serving a King of our own choosing ;D

Wait a second.... Are you making reference to the Revolutionary War?

So you mean the latter (1v1)? @'BenKerr Since you are making such a long journey to come down, we will do singles. How many games did you want to try and get in? Are you heading back the same day? You are welcome to crash at my place in Portland for the night if it makes logistics easier.

Hey guys, Anyone interested in doing a 2v2 sometime over the 4th of July weekend? Perhaps on the 6th (Sat)? I'd be happy to host it at my house to give us plenty of space/time/beer (beer is the 5th dimension). I was looking at some 2v2 rules on the T9A website and it got me really excited. https://www.the-ninth-age.com/index.php?thread/47580-official-multiplayer-rules-thread-rules-wip/&pageNo=1

This is my project. 15 Kings guard and 15 + 5 to be built deep watch. Once I finish these two units I’ll be about 90% painted.

Dont stress it! I mean, we would love to see your minis painted, but nobody will be turned away for having unpainted stuff. I dont think I have ever fielded a fully painted army. There is always black primed stuff that I forget/ignore.

Ewps! This has been corrected

Good evening my fellow wargamers. Let me start by apologizing for my complete disconnect with the community these past two months. I don't have a good excuse to provide to you, so I wont bore you with a fake one. This changes NOW! With that awkward opening line, lets get to the details! Packet is done, I might balance some of the scoring for the final awards here and there, but the guts of the packet are done. Ill be posting a sign up sheet of players who are coming on the front of this thread. Ill work on getting the packet somehow posted to the front of the thread, or in my signature. Really excited to see you all, and hope to have another year of great memories. If you have any needs or questions, please feel free to reach out! OFCC_2019.docx

I'm an affirmative. I should hopefully have a car by then. We could buddy up for a big road trip! $110 is pretty dang cheap... But road tripping with Andrewgeddon was really the highlight of the trip #bromance <3

Looking for a 4th player for T9A at Guardian Games this Saturday. It'll be me, Andrewgeddon, Cody (who does not exist on Ordo, new player), and YOU! So speak your name and join us!

I need to get out of the house. Anyone going tonight and have a non sci-fi miniatures game that they want to play/share?

Oh dang, I did. Shame....

$10,000.00?

Hey Barca, I guess I didn't realize I was still signed up for this after it had to be canceled. This is my GF's birthday weekend, so this would be a bad weekend to play tanks! Ill remove myself from the sign up, sorry again to remain on there as a hopeful attendant. Ill see if I can convince someone to take my place.

You will be missed greatly. Though, there is nothing more romantic than a 5 game T9A series at OFCC 😄

Anyone up for a Sunday Showdown? I have a nerd meeting at 5pm in SE Portland, but I would love to get in a game prior to that.

Well Kenyon (the TO for SF) told me he has space available at his house. I have a friend form college who has a house there, but probably not much room. My brother will also be living in SF at that point, but again, no idea if he would have space to accommodate. I'd guess we could find lodging in Oakland for a "reasonable" price. @Andrewgeddon expressed some interest in the train option. It is a long day of travel, but if we come prepared with stuff to do, then we can make the time fly (10mm T9A!!!). Or Axis and Allies 😄

@Jason I was looking at some 3rd party distributor from the UK. If I remember right it came out to like $0.25 per figure in pewter. I mostly priced out an empire army of Roman legionaries with Carthaginian auxiliaries (yes that's historically wack, but so is Fantasy). The fact that you can paint a unit in a couple evenings is awesome.

I was planning to attend the meeting at 11. Trouble is, how long do people hang out after the meeting is over? Andrew needs all the time he can get to roll is dice. ZING! Take that @Andrewgeddon. First blood has been drawn.

Fellow T9A wargamers! I am pleased to announce that OFCC will be having another 2-day "The Ninth Age" tournament for the 4th year in a row! I will be your TO for this year and I am excited for what this year has brought us. We have seen a recent uptick in T9A activity in the local area, and are ever more connected with our distant neighbors in the broader T9A community. We also have received the long coveted "Gold Edition", so the rulebook today will be the same on game day! Speaking of game day, this year's T9A event at OFCC will be August 17th and 18th at the Hilton in Vancouver, WA. This will be a 5 game series using deployments and scenarios "mostly" taken out of the T9A rulebook. In keeping with OFCC tradition, there will be some adjustments made to both deployments and scenarios in order to provide some unique twists and narrative to your games. UPDATE 7-19 The packet can be found at the bottom of this post! Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns. Attendance List: 1) Jake B. (paid) 2) Gage N. (paid) - Vermin Swarm 3) Aron M. (paid) [*Grudge against Steve*] 4) Andrew R. (paid) - Ogre Kingdoms [*Grudge against Ben*] 5) John (our vermin overlord) G. (paid) - Vermin Swarm 6) Donald P. (paid) 7) Steve Y. (Paid) - Orcs 'n' Goblins [*Grudge against Aron*] 8] Ben K. (paid) - Warriors of the Dark Gods [*Grudge against Andrew*] 9) Jason R.(paid) - Orcs and Goblins 10) Stewart R. (paid) 11) Conor K. (paid) - Saurian Ancients 12) Dane L. (paid) - Kingdoms of Equitaine 13) Scott G. (paid) 14) Josh C. 15) Joel F. (Paid) TICKETS CAN BE PURCHASED HERE! OFCC_2019.docx

@Jason that sounds great! Reach out anytime when you are ready to play, we can find you a game. If you want, PM me your email and I will add you to our mailing group. The new mechanics are fairly straightforward, the WS split is probably one of the biggest changes along with the new magic system. The split in WS was really just to provide design space to have units that are very defensive, but not offensive, or vice versa. In most cases the offensive Weapon Skill (OWS) and defensive weapon skill (DWS) are the same, and are identical to what they use to be from legacy. Things like paired weapons provide you +1 OWS, whereas things like shields provide you +1 DWS (or match your DWS to your enemies OWS, whichever is more advantageous). Similarly they removed the AP gained from strength, and just added AP as a separate stat. This again is to provide design space for stuff that is high strength, but low AP (such as hellfire, the attribute spell for WODG, or the cobalt club, the new face smash weapon for Temple Guard). Still, most things are as they use to be, for instance, Great Weapons still provide +2 Strength, +2 AP. So in many ways, the game is as it use to be, they just broke all the rules down into their most basic component elements. That provides the flexibility to build the game back up in any fashion, leveraging more degrees of freedom for army balance and unit flavor. You also don't have to remember nested rules, such as when "fly" also means that you are "light troops" (free reforms) and "swiftstride". Now, all of these rules still exist for models with fly, but they are explicitly stated in the unit profile. This is to make things easier when you are learning your army. Hope that makes some sense ;D

By Car: 635 miles * 2(round trip) = 1270 miles. Likely it would be 2 vehicles, each probably getting no better than 30 MPG. which is 42.3 gallons per vehicle. So that's 42.3 gal * 2 cars * 3.20 USD/gal = $271 / 5 people = $54 bucks a person on average. Advantage to having wheels in SF, total transit time = 21 hours (round trip) By Train: Cost is fixed $150 round trip per person. Time is fixed, adding 1 hour of "boarding, getting to station) we are looking at 37 hours of travel. By Plane: Looks like you can get non-stop flights to/from for about $250. Factoring in going to the airport and all that jazz, that's like 4 hours per flight, or 8 hours total. I suppose if you could get a table on the train (which is totally possible) we could have a round robin tournament of T9A on the way down. That would be epic...