Free Comic Book Day!

Last weekend was Free Comic Book Day and this has become an annual family event. For the 3rd year in a row the whole family headed into town to visit a few comic & game stores. As has become the tradition we picked up our friend Shawn on the way in and hit our first store, Monster Comics, which also has a store wide sale. My youngest picked up some free comics and some Mario figures while my oldest bought a boardgame, Gearworld the Borderlands by Fantasy Flight Games while I picked up a couple of rpg's,13th Age by Pelgrane Press and Fiasco by Bully Pulpit Games and a couple of boardgames, Fortune and Glory by Flying Frog Games and Love Letter by AEG. We have yet to play any of these but I am looking forward to giving them a try. From there we all went for lunch and then another comic store, Strange Adventures before dropping Shawn off at one more store on our way home. A good day!

Also over the weekend I played a game of D&D 3.5 continuing the Shattered City campaign run by Suzanne and I also ran a game of the Dragon Age rpg this being the 3rd session of that campaign with a total of 4 players now that my son has joined in.

By the end of the weekend I almost felt gamed out!

I have continued painting miniatures for Muskets & Tomahawks working on a unit of 10 British infantry and the British commander but did not get a chance to finish off the unit. Hopefully I will get the time this week and then I will start the French forces.

Also this month is our annual boardgame weekend, Cottage Con, held every year at my friend's cottage. This is always a lot of fun and I am looking forward to it. Next month we are trying a similar event we are calling Cottage Quest for a weekend of RPGs' . A bunch of us are all chipping in to rent a cottage and we are planning on running a bunch of different games with a few of us taking turns being the GM's. If this works out well it will become an annual event as well.

And now a few picks of my Brits.

My commander so far.

Marching.

Firing.

All the troops that are underway.

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

? not sure ?

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.