Cottage Con & Free Comic Book Day, Yay!

Another few busy weekends of gaming and just cool stuff.

The first event was the annual Cottage Con hosted by a friend of mine, Rob T. He opens up his cottage to a bunch of his friends and we play board games all weekend. Tristan and I arrived a little late due to some previous commitments so we missed the first night and morning of games but once we got there we enjoyed playing a number of games, BBQ some food and had a great breakfast cooked by the host.

Some of the games we played were Smash-Up, Dust the Strategy Game, Gloom, Elder Sign, Lord of the Rings LCG, X-Wing, Werewolf among others and there was a stack of games there that we never got to.

Speaking of which one of the games there was Clash of Cultures which I had wanted to try but didn't get the chance so Shawn let me borrow the game and give it a try at home which Tristan and I did. It's a good game and does the  civilization style of game very well without being complicated.

The next weekend was Free Comic Book Day. Last year my wife and I took the kids and met Shawn at one of the stores and then went for lunch which made for a pretty fun day. This year Michelle was heading south of the border so the kids and I took her out to the airport early in the morning, then we killed some time at a Tim Horton's and a playground till I figured it was late enough to call Shawn up. This time we went and had breakfast first before hitting the stores. We went to Monster Comics first as Mike usually runs a store wide sale at the same time. We got some comics and Tristan picked up Small World Underworld while I picked up the last expansion for Tide of Iron, Fury of the Bear. Shawn stocked up as well and then we went to Strange Adventures, both their old and new location and Games People Play(no comics but I hadn't been into this store yet). Our last stop was at Quantum Frontier for a Halcon BBQ. By that time I think my youngest had had enough and so had I to tell you the truth but another great Free Comic Book Day and I look forward to next year.

Later in the week Tristan and I played a 2 player Small World and then Michelle joined us for a 3 player game and I believe I won both.

The Call of Cthulhu rpg campaign is continuing with the investigators starting the climatic conclusion, I expect that some of us will not remain quite intact, well our characters anyways.

On the modelling front I have been doing some work getting my Flames of War armies finished(well they never really get finished do they). I am working on a late war German and American force as well as finishing off a model of an AAV-7 by Dragon models for my modern 20mm USMC to use with the Force on Force rules.

I am hoping to get some Flames of War to the table soon as well as some Force on Force.

Cottage Con - Clash of Cultures

Elder Sign

Dust Strategy

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Mage Wars I believe.

Warhammer Invasion

Dust Strategy continues.

Smash Up the new hit of the con.

The popular Zombicide.

Another Smash Up game getting started.

Legendary the Marvel deck building game.

X-Wing.

Darth Vader (me) about to be taken out.

My AAV-7 nearing completion.

A row of M4's awaiting decals and details. These are a mix of Battlefront and Plastic Soldier Company.

The other angle showing some M10's and Priests.

 
  

Malifaux Weekend 2013

This past weekend I hosted my 3rd annual Malifaux Weekend and for the second year I used the Gaining Grounds tournament format from Wyrd Miniatures.

All told we had 8 players including me and we were able to fit in all 3 rounds on Saturday which is pretty good for us as we tend to eat up a lot of time chatting...and eating. Again it was pretty relaxed and I think everyone involved had a good time. I supplied 2 tables and 2 more were brought by other players. Chet is making a very sharp game table with a place for cards on either edge and a sunken center section to insert terrain pieces and although the terrain wasn't quite finished the table looked very nice indeed.

My crew was locked in with the Guild and I stayed with a Perdita crew with only a minor alteration for my second game. The first match up was random and I played Alex on the mansion table managing a win against his Rail crew. Alex is a new Malifaux player but seems to know the game quite well already.

My next game was against my son Tristan and his Marcus crew on the Graveyard table and in this round I got a tie.

The last round was against Shawn(my nemesis perhaps!) again on the mansion table and I lost this round though the game was fairly close.

So the top three were: 1st Shawn, 2nd Ian and 3rd Tristan. I placed 4th. Honorable mention perhaps goes to Chet for possibly causing the most casualties while losing every round!

And of course thanks to my wife for letting the house be invaded by a bunch of gee...I mean gamers and feeding us all while entertaining two not quite old enough to be gamers.

But of course the main thing was everyone had a good time, we played games, ate food, had refreshments and just generally enjoyed the weekend.

After the rounds of Malifaux were played we cracked out some other games. We played Werewolf Saturday night and a variety of games on Sunday including some more Malifaux, Tide of Iron, X-Wing, Lord of the Rings LCG, Legendary: A Marvel Deck Building Game and Smash Up another card game.

Soon this event may have to be moved to a slightly larger location and perhaps open it up to more people.

After that was all done and the house returned to normal I started to do some work reposing an Infinity miniature adjusting the position of a gun in a PanO Orc trooper's hand. I never liked the way it was positioned and when I accidentally broke it off it seemed like a good time to make some modifications.

The Frontier town.

The Mansion board.

The Grave board supplied by Ian.

Chet's Badlands board.

Ian and Chet in the foreground, Tristan and Ed in the background.

The action at the Graveyard.

Julian and Shawn battling in the Frontier town while Alex and I fight at the Mansion.

Round 2, Julian and Ed.

Me and Tristan fighting over the Graveyard.

The action in the other room.

Hey, it's Alex reading the stat card!

The round match ups.

And the final standings.

Repositioning the gun. I cut off the stock, pinned the arm and filled the gap with Green Stuff.

A better view to see the angle.