Confirmed

We have so much to look forward to in less than a month!!! Heroclix, Magic, Dungeons and Dragons, Oh Gnome You Don't, Pathfinder, Warhammer 40k, Prizes, Pizza, Ascension, and whatever anyone else wants to bring to the tables. This is going to be a festive day for sure. No news, just excitement!

Have a good day!

WAAAAGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lzz5mXg9z2o&NR=1

This guy's waaagh friggin rules!

Updates for July

I hope you all had a happy 4th of July and enjoyed the Star Wars Clone Wars Marathon on Cartoon Network Yesterday. Anyways on to the updates. First of all I would like to mention some of the games we will be playing on August 6th that are not tournaments. There is a fun boardgame(great for kids) that we will be playing called "Oh Gnome You Don't!" It reminds me of Candy land, and its hilarious. Basically what you are trying to do is get from one part of the board, to the last part while steeling gyms from other players, selling items in the local shops to get more gyms, and it's fun. Quick too! Another game I want to play, just gotta round up everyone else interested, is called Ascension "Chronicle of the godlsayer." It's a trading card game where you don't have to buy more cards than what comes in the game. No Boosters, rare cards, etc. Just buy it, get your friends, and play. The idea is to win by getting the most points through defeating monsters and having certain cards. It's fun. The last one I want to mention is Pathfinder RPG. We don't have a tournament for it, but I think it is necessary for all the 3.5 fans to make the move to this system. It is well written, everything is in one rulebook, and it puts a new twist on races and classes you already know from Dungeons and Dragons 3.5 and it's respective sourcebooks. Such as one of Sorcerers. When you take the sorcerer class you take a bloodline which in turn makes your sorcerer more focused. Sort of how Clerics have domains or how you can take paragon paths in 4th edition. I highly recommend making this switch.

Thats all for now. Will update again as more news follows.

Heroclix Online early review

We finally have it, Heroclix online. This is similar to how Magic Online works, where it works on the same format of playing. The control Screen is great. You can see your collection, create forces, purchase boosters, find tournaments and find open games. Right now for the price of 1.95 plus a starter set and in July, an exclusive figure, you can't beat it. Worth it for that. It's even the Fantastic Four starter, so you get an AMAZING doom figure. Now for the bad news.

Navigating in the map, during play is kind of... questionable. It's not impossible to get where you want on the map, but it does take patience. You cant just click a point and drag your mouse quick (when I did it it took me everywhere but where I wanted.) You have to finesse it, and move only in short increments at a time. The next thing that is kind of... That's pretty much it, everything is straight forward and the actions are great. I plan on playing more, and when it takes off, expect to see bozziusmaximus at plenty of online tournaments.

Thanks
Jared

http://wizkidsgames.com/blog/2011/06/21/announcing-heroclix-online/

Check out our youtube channel! First video here!

Without further a do, the first video from us, the Effingham Gamer's Group. There will be much more to follow. Soon I'll have pics of these guys painted.

http://www.youtube.com/user/effinghamgamersgroup?feature=mhee

Interesting tips and thoughts concerning modeling (Warhammer 40k)

So I was thinking about ways to make it cheaper to make an Army for Warhammer 40k. You really should decide how vested you are willing to be in this hobby. First thing, a dollar amount, because this game is expensive. Skipping a few of the next things, how can you cut costs? Go to your kitchen, take the tops of your betty crocker buttery spread, and even the cans them selves, and cut them into useful shapes that you can basically cut, glue, bend, and reshape in order to have materials. There is a cost cut for plasticard. Now the next thing is glue. I used to be a strict advocate of the 1.00 for 4 to 6 packs of tube from Wal Mart, but I have learned that the games workshop glue is so much more efficient and solid. So use the good stuff. Next is your army build. If you are doing marines, you can take weapons and parts, even ink pens, and create guns, barrels, your favorite old army toys, and even do custom weapons. Same thing goes for imperial guard. Another thing, if you are playing Orks, you're imagination is your only limit. Go nuts, turn the army tank from the green plastic army men bag into a small looted wagon, cut the top off of it, take those Betty Crocker tops, cut some sheets to shape it to a more orky look with teef and gubbins, maybe wires from an old speaker cable, then the ink pens that are dead, spill the guts, take the lid, cut then into halves, make something to mount them, looted wagon with a boom gun. Really just general things to consider when you are wanting to save a buck on this hobby.

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