It's been a while. We've also all started playing lots more games. Is it time for another meet-up?

I suspect with the variety of things people are now playing (or not playing) having a single theme is not going to fly. However, as long as we all know that and are happy to bring and play a mix of things, who is interested in setting something up?

When is best for everyone and what's the best venue? 1 day or a whole weekend?

I'm open to day or weekend but I would caveat that by saying my wife has the power of pregnancy veto on the weekend idea (I think she'd be ok with it though provided I can find cheap accomodation).

I can play/bring:
WHF
40k (I'm not keen on this as I haven't spent any money on new edition gimmicks).
Malifaux
Dreadball
Kings of War
Dominion
Talisman
Chaos in the Old World
Battlestar Galactica
Dwarf King's Hold
Project Pandora (sort of as currently unassembled)
Doom of the Eldar
Battle for Armageddon/Chaos Attacks
Horus Heresy (+bonus WD end game)
Space Crusade
Heroquest
Warhammer Quest (maybe, in my parents loft atm)

Yeah, why not. If we make it a weekend people can do 1 day if needed.

When are we looking? I'm busy for the next 6-8 weeks or so with a house move looming...

Stuff what I like to play:
Blood bowl (need to make a team, but can proxy/borrow I expect)
Aeronautica
Dominion
A Game of Thrones the Card Game

Stuff what I would like to play:
Infinity
Malifaux (2.0)
Dust
Dreadball
X Wing
A Game of Thrones the Board Game
Actually, pretty much anything by FFG


Where will we be holding this?
Membership wise - Birmingham seems the logical place.
If the NE boys are coming then Mansfield looks good again - there is a new venue not too far from Maelstrom, can't remember what it's called though - or that place in Notts that keeps popping up (Warstore?)...

Baragash wrote:the power of pregnancy veto

Keeping you at home to try and get pregnant or are you telling us she already is?



My list:
Some 6th ed n00b 40K is possible
X-wing
Chaos in the old world
Heroquest
Any of the Mantic games
I'll probably have Storm the Castle by then too
Bugmans

Up for trying anything else really



What about dates?

Are we looking at this or early next year?

Unfortunately the 2nd one 14 weeks today.

I'm not sure dates is a huge deal for me in general other than before November or probably after February.

Congratulations!

well i can do the three weeks starting right now (as i've escaped on holiday as of yesterday) or last two weeks of august. However, I've already booked up one of those weekends.

Id be interested too however id need to know well in advance because between now and july im booked up with work and brothers wedding....oh and last 2 weekends in august lol
As for games i can bring dreadball and i have some saga models (no books yet >.<) and 40k stuff

Baragash wrote:14 weeks today.

Then congratulations are in order

I probably can't make it this side of Christmas with other stuff already booked up. How about we look at a whole weekend in March next year? That gives people plenty of time to book it in work/family calendars.

mattjgilbert wrote: who is interested in setting something up?

Well Stunty doesn't visit here anymore, and we've learnt not to trust Nige, I would now health wise class myself on nigh on to nige like reliability terms, so that leaves a kind of Spack (probably working) Matt (probably selling mantic somewhere.. but if your all spamming mantic maybe he can write it off ) Ljundhammer (moving house).

Ljundhammer wrote:Where will we be holding this?
Membership wise - Birmingham seems the logical place.
If the NE boys are coming then Mansfield looks good again - there is a new venue not too far from Maelstrom, can't remember what it's called though - or that place in Notts that keeps popping up (Warstore?)...

should we approach this thing in notts city centre?

Is anyone here still around from the birmingham club or did they all leave after the rather disapointing last meet? (as brum is also quite central).

Baragash wrote:Talisman
Chaos in the Old World

I'm in, but I do see them as pub games, like apocolypse where it doesn't matter if someone wanders off to play pinball for 40 minutes.. so would depend on the setting. (CiOW actually needs a fair chunk more attention, its just a similarlarly fairly long time frame)

Baragash wrote: Space Crusade
Heroquest

I humongously suggest space crusade OVER heroquest.. one is a lessor version of the other (unless your talking about bringing the emminenatly stealable £300 expansions), we can include minis we have etc etc.. I'm up for space crusade(preferably with jervis johnoson orks and termies addons) like a shot.

I could probably throw down a noob game of kings of war.

I would love to have a semi drunken evening playing some form of arkham horror board game thingy.. but I don't have it..

I can throw in seaside and intrigue for dominion,

models for space hulk (we suggested a while back doing a giant spacehulk with multiple teams and multiple DMs)..I lack (legit) board pieces.(I can bring a suitcase of 80 genestealers)

Dreadball and malifuax-depends on how much me and Lh pick up between now and whenever.

Can throw in a bloodbowl table and a couple of teams,

Hopefully I'll have command and colours-battlelore-battle for westeros up and running by then..but its just 2 player and runtime on box says 2 hours.(hundreds of counters and flag banners)

I could play 40k but frankly I think I'm the only person who'll turn up who still plays it with a smile here. So why even pretend it will be on offer, with all the 40k dribbling hate we might get more venues open to us not playing it.

Ljundhammer wrote:A Game of Thrones the Board Game..

Whilst it gets good reviews, its length and bookkeeping is the anti LH..Check out this picture.. Top left 3 tables are for which person starts which phase in which order.. the others are various victory contions etc etc.. I enjoyed it.. but only because i was drunk and it was a bit like that game where you had to bid for fruit to win greece.

I would really like to try Arkham Horror as well, but I don't own it either.

A friend has got them, inc the yellow sign expansions, but borrowing it is out. If we get a firm date I might try and invite him (although more to sell you his awesome games systems than just to bring a game we don't have).. he's currently alpha'ing a tabletop game.

March sounds good ill ask around at the raiders tonight if anyones up for it...im in for 40k but if someone can get gorkamorka set or even the mordheim books id love to play those again...otherwise im game for anything

killmaimburn wrote:I would love to have a semi drunken evening playing some form of arkham horror board game thingy.. but I don't have it..

You can have my 2nd ed cthululhuhuhu box set and do it proper-like.
I'm still happy with 40k if I can get there.

id love to come, especially as it sounds like its turning into a celebration of the 'hobby' and not just 40k. the more systems the merrier as far as im concerned. I like KMB's idea of a huge game of space hulk, I haven't played one of those since the early 90's, theres a couple of space hulk boxes in my loft so fingers crossed they are still full of the floor tiles, I had about 3 sets at one point, I know I have the genestealer blips and the psychic cards because I found them last night.
I could bring heroquest, space crusade, zombicide, x-wing, saga and bolt action if any of tham are needed/required

I'm up for a meet, but I'd only be able to manage Saturday at a weekend. I can bring along anything I have, Space Hulk (most recent release) and Aeronautica are nice and portable. Haven't played 40k 6th ed and likely won't get chance before the meet, wouldn't mind watching a game or two but I probably won't play. Can bring models if someone wants to borrow them for an Apoc game though, as always I have a few companies worth of tanks, plenty of super heavy tanks, aircraft, and 3 titans.

Wargames Foundry is the location in Mansfield that might well be suitable, would need to check with them about available weekends once we can settle on a rough date. I don't know of any places in Birmingham/West Midlands but I could ask around, the Rogue Traders club is held in a room at a community centre and can only manage 3 or 4 gaming tables, plus there's no food and drink onsite although there's a fish and chip shop nearby

I've registered on the forum for the Redditch Wargaming Society (http://forum.redwarsoc.com/index.php) as that's pretty close to Birmingham and if I get approved by the moderators then I'll ask if anyone knows of any venues in the area that would be suitable. These guys run their own events and have one at the end of this month, so they might be able to suggest some places. Might even be able to do a combined event and get a bunch more people to play with and to spread out the cost of hiring a venue if required. There are loads of social clubs within 1 mile of my house, let alone the rest of the Birmingham/Solihull area

EDIT: I've asked about venues on the RWS Facebook page, and I've also contact the Gaming Club Network (GCN) about requirements to join as they offer support for running clubs and events so might have some useful info too.

I'd be up for march!

In terms of gaming, I can support the following:
Bloodbowl (I have enough teams to share, LH)
Dreadball (KMB-u can pick this up after a few turns on the day, so be prep required)
KoW
WHFB
40k (I'll play with a smile!)
Deadzone (if all out by then)
Malifaux
Other board games (DKH would be great for end of day/pub gaming)

I would love to meet up with you guys - finally be able to put some real names, and faces to the AoS names!
I play:
40K
WFB
FoW
Deadzone (we have the scenery - or even better, the game!)
WH Quest

would like to try:
Dreadball
Warpath

I always lost at Bloodbowl, Necromunda and Space Hulk - they don't appeal! Never played Space Crusade, but used to have Heroquest and Advanced Heroquest!

March would be fine with me, but in all honesty, I can do pretty much any weekend from Mid August onwards.

well, if I can get there, i'll bring 40k and Lost valley of the Dinosaurs

berger15 wrote:would like to try:
Warpath

I don't know if we're having a whittling process down to common games or if its a everybody brings everything, 10 tables of different games on rotation taster thing.. but if its a former.. Warpath is something even the insidious agents of mantic ( ) appear not in tune with (beyond buying miniatures to substitute for other companies models). I'd also rather not just have 2 mantic tabletop games replace 1 GW tabletop game as the core/springpoint.. but thats just me and my crazy 1 man shouting at the storm way.

berger15 wrote: but used to have Heroquest and Advanced Heroquest!

I lost my advanced heroquest in one of a family members purges (see other thread on treasure).. however I do have the rules somewhere again,lots of current era rats, led bretonnians and corridors.. what (really) did it play like?

Warpath has some problems including, but not limited to, congenital defects (assuming KoW would simply port and not identifying some issues with the KoW system) and schizophrenia (is it a ridiculously convoluted mess large skirmish game or a more Epic level system).

The work Hellebore has done on WP1.1 is quite promising, but Mantic is more focussed on not 40k a more granular system.

There you go kmb, equal opportunities put down

I could probably make a March meet up but don't have my rotation planner that far in advance but at a rough calculation I could make it. As I've said to the lads at the Raiders due to me working away I have to be careful as to what games I play, I just don't get the playing time to learn other systems so for me it would be 40k, WHFB and FoW. I could bring Man O War, need to find my ships but I have a full set of it and all the expansions.

Baragash wrote:Warpath has some problems including, but not limited to, congenital defects (assuming KoW would simply port and not identifying some issues with the KoW system) and schizophrenia (is it a ridiculously convoluted mess large skirmish game or a more Epic level system).

The work Hellebore has done on WP1.1 is quite promising, but Mantic is more focussed on not 40k a more granular system.

There you go kmb, equal opportunities put down

I think Ronnie wants to make it mass battles again. Who knows what Alessio will do with that brief...



Lost Valley of the Dinosaurs... that's one of the games in the game chest at my parents' place. I think we played it with the kids last time we were there.

IMO they should do both because.... why not?! Rules are relatively cheap to make in comparison to models so if they can have an Epic-style 28mm game and a 40k-style 28mm game surely they sell more man dollies, no?

I guess the question is whether to build on WP2 or DZ for the 40k-style game....or start from scratch (well, alternate activation + scratch)

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