Wednesday 21 January 2009

The Terrain has left the station...

Another week of frugal gaming and another crushing defeat for my Scavvy gang in Necromunda. I may have to stop posting about this and it can be safely assumed that every time I post I've just lost a game of Necromunda! It was a bit of a different game this time as Matt had to mount a rescue mission to reclaim his Ganger who I'd captured in the previous game. To represent where the ganger was being held I made a small terrain piece using Hirts Arts blocks and some pieces of polystyrene. To cut a long story short, I managed to roll badly before the game had even begun, this left me with only a single gang member to hold the prisoner. I chose my leader as it also gave me some zombies to use, but this backfired as Matt's gang managed to kill my leader with a single shot as my zombies wandered aimlessly around. His gang then walked in and freed their mate. Game over.

I managed to mitigate my losses by feeding the leader's body to the rest of the gang to save spending credits on food (frugal gaming at it's most gruesome!) before electing a new leader; Septic Dave, the tentacled mutant.

In my last post I mentioned going to Salute
this year and an anonymous poster mentioned the idea of a 'virtual salute' where you spend a day looking on the internet at the websites of the traders listed as being at the show. This sounds like a really good idea (though not good enough for me to cancel my London trip) and I may develop it to create FrugalCon. More ideas as I make them up.

As well as a bit of Necromunda (and some games of Loopin' Louie with my daughter), work is nearing completion on my Mordheim Post Office. Next week I'm planning to have a full write up on how it was made, with loads of photos. So come back and visit for that one!

Happy Gaming.

3 comments:

Ruaridh said...

Hmm, it sounds like you are sharing Steve's dice. He keeps losing games too! :-)

Love the idea of Frugalcon. I think I may come to that one. I envisage a teleconference where we can all look at the websites and chat to our mates, since shows are more social events for me. I shall not be going to Salute for reasons of thrift so the Frugalcon alternative sounds good.

Witteridderludo said...

Some more ideas for FrugalCon:
Demo games broadcast over webcam...
Pbem games...
Server based games?
Speed painting comp on the webcam?

Hmmm, there sure is some potential with the idea...

Michael S/Chgowiz said...

I've definitely caught the bug for cheap gaming - found an awesome monster on the Walmart clearance shelf. Thought you might like to know the "cheap" definitely resonates!

Now if I could just find people in my area willing to share their Hirst molds...