Gen Con 2019 purchases

Well here is the pile of loot garnered from Gen Con 2019

Detective L.A. Crimes, the follow up to Detective a Modern Crime Game. A game that my wife (a huge fan of Law and Oder and every other procedural t.v. show out there) loves and I play because I am married to her.

Ticket to Ride, which we discovered everyone in my house loves to play but me!

Action Cats, a game like Cards Against Humanity, but with cats.

Villainous Evil Comes Prepared, the second expansion/ stand alone for the Villainous game, which is really fun!

Giant Book of Battle Mats, a huge flip book of....battle mats for D&D. 

Pandemic Rapid Response, the newest addition to the Pandemic series of games. 

War with the Evil Power Master, the second Choose Your Own Adventure game from Z-Man games. 

A Railgun Squad and a HQ unit to flesh out my Dust Mercenary army.

Tactical Maps for D&D, just like the Battle MAt books, but with different locations. 

Battletech  Tech Manual 3025, so I can toss out some different stompy non-robots when we play the new version of Battletech.

GEN CON 2019 painting comp models

As usual I went to check out what people had thrown into the yearly painting competition.
Sadly we did not go back Saturday..so this is only stuff from Thursday and Friday.

 

Gen Con 2019

Well last weekend was Gen Con and of course me/we attended. 

It was a different trip than years prior as I didn't do a lot of exploring and looking at stuff.

This was the first year I was surprised by what I didn't see more than what I did see.

We spent more time doing the game demo stuff over with a tiny bit of shopping for the game essentials I was looking for. 

This will also get me off my butt and doing some blogging again.

Pics and Stories to follow!

Adepticon 2019 floor models, display boards, army stuff and misc photos

 The following are a few pics of one display board for one of the 40K tournaments.

Who has the time and $$$$ to do this?

Seriously?

 The same goes for the scale megagarant. Why?

Adepticon 2019 cavalcade of models

A big photo dump of Crystal Brush competition models.

Amazing stuff just like always.

Enjoy.

My favorite piece of the competition.

Adepticon 2019 Wreck Age

Wreck Age game with 7 other player review….or…..Why playing with 7 other people really kind of sucks.

I saw an opening to try a post-apocalyptic sci-fi mini combat game called Wreck Age. The game world sounds very Fallout but without super mutants, VATS and the associated accoutrement.

Game play was described as a D6 system with rolls made from various character stats. There are turns where players activate a single model at descending initiative steps. During you turn there are a myriad of activities to do: fight, shoot, search, climb, run, jump, throw ,interact with objects and….pretty much anything you want to try with your little miniatures. At least that is what was happening during our game. I had the pleasure of being the only sober person who had never played before and soon that would become both a blessing and a curse.

The game info

The game objective was to meet and speak with some travelling reporter who was just lucky enough to happen upon a town full of various warbands. By doing this your warband could gain points toward victory. There were also secret side objectives each warband would receive on turn two that when achieved would score points. There were  also chances to get points by trying to kill the reporter, trade with the reporter or kill anyone the reporter had interviewed. 

We are farmers. DA, DA, DA, DA, DUM

Warbands were chosen. I didn’t know/ care what to play, so I was given a group of farmers. I was facing off against some crazed drug carnival guys, another group of farmers, some feral beast handlers, a high tech security force, a super scientist/doctor and his flesh slaves, Wreck Age’s version of the Adeptus Mechanicus, some type of not Necromunda  Goliaths and finally a wasteland squad of police.  Players deployed and I chose to turtle up in a corner since I wasn’t sure who to play and what all my little force could do. I wanted to be defensive and just react a bit on turn one. That was my plan anyway. I did get a quick once over of my force with; a two hand grenade guy, a shotgun guy, a sniper rifle guy, an actual mule and then a guy with a beatin’ stick. 

Adepticon 2019 The Narrative Guys 40K game

Last Adepticon I saw a table 40K game that was on several tables and looked like a recreation of that  book/movie/real life event Blackhawk Down. A small chat later and I learned this was a group called The Narrative Guys. They do large narrative/themed 40K games. I was bummed I didn’t get a chance to try that game, but I did manage to sign up for their game at Adepticon 2019.

This year’s game was titled Nurgle Don’t Surf! I knew (and many more of you out there should know) that this was going to be some Apocalypse Now themed game.

Here a group of Space Wolves needs to travel down a jungle river and stop a traitor guard captain/ Colonel Krutz from doing a bunch of Chaos shenanigans. A patrol boat would carry a Rune Priest and Wolf Priest to the end of the river to confront the chaos themed Colonel Krutz. Along the way Space Wolf units would need to run interference for whatever the jungle was going to throw at us (Nurgle stuff). There were four players vs. two guys running the Nurgle stuff and the game.

We had four squads two heavy weapon filled squads and a regular squad with the Rune Priest and two close combat squads and some jump packing plasma pistol thing squads for the Wolf Priest. I have no idea what these units are anymore since they have all been reimagined and renamed since I quit 40K. I happily took over the close combat units for the Wolf Priest, but was also given the three man giant plasma pistol jump pack squad too. Maybe these were some sort of Primaris Marine thingies?

The goal was to get the two HQ units on the boat and delivered to the shrine at the end of the river. We were also tasked with getting the jump plasma guns and heavy weapons five man squad to the end as well (more for support than anything else).

The pics will detail a lot of the game.

Where it starts......

.....and where it ends in the far left corner.