SquadronROE

Just checking in, I'm planning on being out at Guardian around 1PM.

I can make a reservation at GG (Guardian Games) for Sun, Feb 12, 1-4 Pm.

I have russian & German.

I u want EW French, then ZEKE or Lazarus or both will need to show up.

I'm fine with playing whatever, let's do it!

OK, I think next Sunday would probably be the best for me. So long as we don't get another random snow storm!

Nw

Weather was threatening to be evil, anyway.

It doesn't help that it takes me around an hour to get down to GG anyway. So I need to plan these things.

Shoot! I completely missed this thread saying people would be there Thursday. Plus I've got some personal issues going on I needed to tend to on Thursday. I'm planning on heading to GG tomorrow to browse and hang out. Probably in the afternoon. Otherwise I can try to get out there next Thursday.

I have never played Star Fleet Battle, but played the video game versions of this. I was just the wrong age to get into the really fun games. I never got to play this, Car Wars, Silent Death... All I got was WH40k and some Star Wars RPG stuff!

That said, I would be totally down to play SFB one day if someone would be willing to teach. I love the fluff of Star Trek and even read through the core rulebook (more or less) a couple months ago.

I have a ton of Federation Commander and SFB stuff. I also have the old Fasa Trek game.

So there are 2 games I've been playing pretty consistently recently:

Caves of Qud - It's a roguelike RPG with very simple graphics, but deep gameplay. Currently in Early Access but constantly seeing improvements, it's worth buying on sale if you like post-apocalyptic RPGs. It has a fun feel and a lot of replayability. But if you need more of a pitch, here's this:

Get killed by ANGRY MUTANT PLANTS. Get killed by ANGRY MUTANT ANIMALS. Get killed by ANGRY MUTANT BUGS. Kill a bear and EAT IT, just EAT AN ENTIRE BEAR. KILL EVERYTHING. Descend into the DEPTHS OF THE WORLD and retrieve ANCIENT TECHNOLOGICAL ARTIFACTS. KNIFE-FIGHT a GIANT DRILL ROBOT and WIN. Be a COOL WASTELAND KNIGHT. Be a TWO-FISTED COWBOY. Be a HOMICIDAL NINJA TURTLE with an AXE and a SHOTGUN. SPONTANEOUSLY BURST INTO FLAMES. Get into a GUNFIGHT with a HYENA-MONSTER and accidentally anger a HERD OF MAJESTIC HULKING DEMON HORSES with your crossfire. Fly into the air like a BEAUTIFUL EAGLE and then SWORD-FIGHT a GIANT DRAGONFLY. MIND CONTROL a TWO-HEADED BOAR and MAKE IT WEAR CHAIN MAIL and KILL YOUR ENEMIES. Encounter a LEGENDARY PLANT with an INTIMIDATING SKULL MASK and the ability to THROW FIERY DEATH FROM ITS HANDS. CONTRACT HORRIFYING DISEASES. Go to THE DEATHLANDS and discover that THE DEATHLANDS are called THE DEATHLANDS because they will KILL YOU DEAD. HACK OFF A ROBOT’S HEAD AND EAT IT. Get into a SLEDGEHAMMER DUEL with a ‘ROIDED-OUT SUPERCANNIBAL. Be SO TECHNOLOGICALLY ILLITERATE that you BREAK A BOX OF CRAYONS attempting to figure out what it is. Be SO TECHNOLOGICALLY GIFTED that you can make an ACID GRENADE out of a PLASTIC TREE and a FOLDING CHAIR. Build your own FLAMETHROWER. Build your own LASER GUN. Build your own HANDHELD NUCLEAR BOMB and BLOW YOURSELF UP WITH IT. Collect MAGMA in a CANTEEN. Pour MAGMA into a pool of ACID to see what happens. DRINK MAGMA. TELEPATHICALLY LOCATE an enemy and HATE IT TO DEATH with your TERRIFYING BRAIN SORCERY. Have your LEGS CUT OFF and then REGROW YOUR LEGS and pick up your previous legs and EAT YOUR OWN LEGS. Encounter your EVIL TWIN and then summon six of your own GOOD TWINS to fight your evil twin’s SIX EVIL TWIN TWINS in a FOURTEEN-WAY PSYCHIC LASER DEATH RAVE and then BURN TO DEATH when all of the combined PYROKINETIC MIND FIRE from all of the TIME CLONES causes the ENTIRE MAP TO COMBUST AND MELT.

The other game I've been playing is probably of more interest to the group here: Warhammer 40k: Sanctus Reach. It's a pretty good implementation of the tabletop rules into a PC format. While it only has 2 armies currently (Space Wolves and Orks), they are well-done. I haven't played 40k since 3rd edition, so I honestly don't know if it faithfully reproduces the tabletop game, but I know it really feels like a tabletop game. And while I'm no huge fan of Space Vikings, I do love Space Marines in general and love the feeling when my Terminators shrug off round after round of gretchin blunderbuss shot.

It also lets you design and field your own army from a list of possibilities, which I always loved about the tabletop game.

Nice, would anyone be able to run me through a quick game so I can get a feel for the rules and stuff before I sink money into mini's? My wife brought up the very good point that I haven't actually played yet.

Yes. Right now we are doing a LW Battle of the Bulge Campaign.

 

BTW, we have an Early War Flames-of-War tournament on SAT, MARCH 25

http://www.ordofanaticus.com/index.php?/topic/29699-dogs-of-war-2017-fow-early-war-tournament-mar-25-official-thread/

 

If that does not work for you, we could schedule a casual game in Portland or Oregon City.

For early war french the best books are blitzkrieg which covers the battle for france and burning empires which covers the fighting in the Levant and Greece including my favorite the French Foreign legion.  

 

Great war is different and interesting to fight.  I have a German army ready to go and my buddies each have a french and British army to us

Great! Thanks! I'll start reading through the books. Are people still meeting up at GG on Thursday nights?

I'm finally all settled in to our new place and stuff, so I can start thinking about the army I want to pull together. What rulebooks should I grab for French (early war French nationals and free French) forces? I've grabbed a book for later-war Russia (I think, at least). As well, Great War seems really interesting. I grabbed the rulebook for that too, has anyone actually played that at all? I bet it'd look beautiful on the table.

Squadron, I'm usually at GG on Thursdays (I'm out of town this week) but if you show up on a Thursday night around 6pm I'd be more than happy to lend you an army and play a demo game or two with you.

 

Is there an army in particular you are interested in collecting?

Honestly I'd love to do some sort of interesting army, like French. French military (historically) was fairly decent tactically, just their logistics and strategy was utter balls. So it'd be neat to see a large number of Char's or whatever, see how they could do against other early-war stuff. If that's seriously awful and I would hate myself for playing it, the secondary choice would be Russian.

I'll stop by some Thursday night in the near future and take you up on that offer. Sounds fun.

There are guys that play at GG on Thursdays typically. Other than that, I don't think there is a regular meetup or time. FoW has been around for a while, and there are a good many of us who own it...but sadly just a few that seem to play it regularly.

 

p.s. you might want to change your avatar, that ice cream cone looks a little too flesh colored ...

who says that's not intentional

(it's not, oh god gonna change it now)

Whenever I go to Guardian Games I see the massive amounts of FoW stuff they have, and I've been slowly collecting rulebooks for the game. It seems like a pretty interesting system, is there a good group in Portland that plays it? I'd love to get in a demo game at some point to just see how it plays (I've played other historical mini's games in the past and they can be hit or miss), and just figure out what has a bunch of players and what doesn't.

Very cool! I didn't realize there was a historical wargaming society out here.

Does anyone actually play Deadzone? I've got a huge amount of stuff for it, including some unpainted terrain. I haven't unpacked it since the move, but if people want to play down at Guardian or something sometime I could be convinced to do so.

May is the month I will paint my miniatures.