Car-Nage!

Got to play two back to back games that featured Car-Nage!!

The first game drew me in with a very appealing table on a printed commercial map called "The Junk Yard."  The rules were GASLAND.  

The two images show my cars that I picked to drive in the game.  There was some objective markers that were added to the map and we were to drive over them and "arcade style" pick them up and add the weapon system to our car instantly and get to utilize them in the game.

The big picture.

I liked the layout and the vehicles a lot and thought the movement templates were a good idea.  I did not like the rules.  My car did not move over 12" in the entire event.  I did get to shoot the weapons and involve myself in some of the mayhem but it was not a satisfying game if I were to be driving a car.

Here is another vehicle from the game.  Super cool and enticing but I will not become a Gasland gamer.

AXLES AND ALLOYS

This is the second game I played and I have a lot of experience with this one so I am a little biased.

In this tabletop smash 'em up car game I got to drive a super fast car with a machine gun on top.  I drove in a series of turns that appeared to be a car driving an obstacle course. Many many feet of distance were covered on the table.  

I do like this game and will continue to play.  I do not like the loss of control rules in this game and if I ever umpired a game would make several changes to the rules.

1. Movement templates.

2. Cars mounted to 1.5 x 3" cardstock.

3. Better reaction to loss of control direction die.

4. Better Chance to hit based on comparative speed not just speed.

Axles and Alloys is the better game for me.

Recruits Convention Report 2018

Welcome to the Penny Whistle kind hobbyist.

Sit back and enjoy a visual tour of my gaming hobby at the local 

Recruits Convention

Lee's Summit High School

Friday night - had to have played some games but the camera was not brought out to record anything.

Saturday AM:

First game I got in was a Jay Wiley original production mashing Flash Gordon and Star Wars together.  I was assigned the heroic group of Star Rangers led by Dash Dixon.  Here is my band of spacefaring good guys.

The game is called Galactic Heroes and is just like the Western Gunfight game that Jay produces from his own publishing company.

My space women taking out some baddy with a boomerang grenade.

Some more space soldiers sneaking up on my position to the left.

Big Gronk my space monkey getting ready to hold the corner of that building against the space marines.

Microwave gunner taking aim at Stella Starchild....

An overhead shot of the Tatoine-esque space port.

Sand storms obscured the area at times and allowed me to make a pretty good dash for the space shuttle.

Mr. Jay Wiley himself presiding over the game.  A true Master Game Master.  Jay always has the top notch storyline to go along with great figures and super playable rules.

The table left of me with two factions of space robots and soldiers.

The table to the right of me with two more factions of space baddies.

Lance Lazer with a pile of dead Microwave Soldiers

Pretty cool game.  I made it to within a move of the shuttle with one droid in tow but was shot down on the gantry way.  When you get the chance to play a Jay Wiley game jump right in and if he is game-mastering it so much the better.  'Round these parts folks ask WWJD?

DBA Tournament

Played Steve and got killed quick.  Lost a general in the most ridiculous tactical mistake and also rolled bad dice.  1's.. However my poor generalship more than made up for lousy die rolling.

Played Terry and again was beaten down with the loss of a general.  This time the die was even but I still persisted in mistakes.

Was glad to see Terry play.  DBA is such a good game.

Played Steve G. and this time I won with audacious General use.

That's me with the parasol.

Terry and the Cavemen

Terry C. and I had been watching this game get set up and decided to give it a try.  It is a home grown Paleolithic world sand box with the victory going to the team of cavemen that can build a temple.  Temples are built with the resources collected through hunter gatherer activities that are all across the board.

Card driven turns meant that you may get to go ahead of a competitor.

Terrain provided chits that had numeric buying power.

The board definitely had advantageous entry points that I would look at in a future replay.

Terry's leader facing off against a herd of wollies.

Me pounding rocks.

Display Game

This was set up just for the fun of it.  I would have run it but it was not in the program and a late set up didn't attract enough player interest.

Most of this was painted by my fifth grade students.

Thanks for looking in on the blog.  Check back often for more toy soldier fun.

Recruits Convention 2017

The annual Recruits convention in Lee's Summit, Missouri was a wonderful time.  I went as a player this time around and had a great time getting in some wonderful gaming time with old friends and new acquaintances.

I have played in this GM's French and Indian war game before and I always relish the chance to push around some 54mm lead figures from Jenkin's collectibles.  I played as a militia commander and was tasked with defending a small settlement from attacking Indians.

He would not live to see the next day....

That's me with the pistol.  A gallant figure and he fought bravely in the game.

The "settlement."

This time I sat astride a destrier and fought in a medieval knight melee.

Again I died valiantly and not necessarily all that epic.

Great 90mm game.

And then I drove around in a bad-ass Dodge with a machinegun mounted on the hood.

Had an epic flaming fireball of a death in this one.

Bought some old football miniatures at the flea market.

All of these and some more for $1.00

Bought a significant piece of electric football history with this acquisition.  This was a private sale that was arranged after a war game acquaintance asked if I would be interested in looking at his game from his childhood.

I was very lucky to acquire this item.  A prized piece in my set collection.

The 1970 Electric Super Bowl.

Chiefs vs. Vikings

Complete, near mint condition.

I played in two DBA tournaments as well but never took any photographs.  I used my ancient British  Book II. 57.

Cheers.