PoTY and a WFB update.

Hello everyone. Today I have two things to talk about, well actually three. First of all I just want to say that it's almost impossible to find a good Futhark font on these interwebs. I think that may be due more towards differing oppinions as to which norse runes correspond to which letters. If anyone knows of one, plese let me know.

I have a small update on our WFB league. I sent my proposal to Tim yesterday. It's really a dumbed down version of mighty empires, which acctually makes it a lot more fluid. Each side (Order vs. Disorder) gets a starting set of tiles as their territory and one night a week (league night) both sides gather people to A) Decide on stratagems (one campaign effecting, and one game effecting per week) and B) decide which tile will be fought over (decided by the side that won the previous week. Then everyone has a whole week to play as many gamesas they can and the side with the ost victoies is considered the winner and gets the tile. Repeat as necessary. Here are some highlights:

Campaign Strategem: Season Change

When this card is played the season canges from the one it currently is to
the next season along the track in this order Autumn/Winter/Spring/Summer and
has the following additional rules:

Autumn: Harvest - each side gets an extra 2d6 x 10 gold
Winter: Bitterfrost - Every unit is -1 ld for hiving to fight in the
cold
Spring: New Wicks - an extra d3 3" forests are placed on the board in the
usual manner.
Summer: No change (play as normal)

Game Stratagem: Prisoner's Word

When this card is played your side benefits from intel garnered from
'interrogating' a prsoner and you may Redeploy a d3 units after normal
deployment. These units must stay within your normal restrictions for
deployment.

When these cards are played everyone would benefit or suffer from te
effects of the Season Change, and everyone who played a game for the side who
played Prisoners Word may redeploy a d3 units. I like the extra level of 'strategery' that goes into this, don't you think it's all kind of exciting?

In other news. The Inquisitive's first annual Player of the Year Tournement will be held on Sunday the 17th. We're starting at 2:00 and I'm very excited to break the Knights of Russ out again. I'm calling the force Odinshunt. wish me luck.

My List:

Wolf Lord Gibson - Frost Blade Belt of Russ, Saga of Majesty
Wolf Priest Jaegir - stock

Dreadnaught Kvasir - MM
6 Wolf Scouts - MG, PW, Meltabombs
5 Wolf Guard - PF/BP, PF/Bt, CMG/PW, CPG/PW, BP/PW

9 Grey Hunters - MG, Rhino
8 Grey Hunters - MG, Rhino
5 Grey Hunters - PG, Razorback - THB
8 Blood Claws - PF

2 Land Speeders - MM
1 Land Speeder Typhoon - HF/Cyclone

Land Raider - stock

New Year New Focus

Wow, there's so much going on I don't even begin to knw where to begin. I guess I'll begin in resolution season. I have only one resolution this year - I need to get away from the food sevice industry. Seriously I need to look at the food service industry like the French army did in every engagement they entered in the 20th century and get the french out of there. The only problem I see is at this point I'm not qualified to do anything that will make more money than I make as a beer filling shot maker. I guess if I could make it 2002 again I could go back to developing photographs. Or I could make it 1996 again and go back to playing in bands - where as both seem like great ideas. I beleive that I need to embrace a new, more modern skill set.

What are my skills and qualities that would make me an asset to a hiring institution?

Well aside from the normal resteraunt bull sh!t like, "deals well with the public." All of my skills are better suited to running gaming events: "uses overly developed imagintion to create massive multiplayer scenarios for local gaming group" or "can paint an HQ/Lord model in one sitting with great attention to details around the eyes" or "shows new and interested people how to lose their hrd earned fun money via the shortest possible route." I swear, if the gaming industry were a growth industry that did not suffer from an overly saturated list of aspiring employees I'd be so awesome at it. <-- look Ma! I ended a sentence in a preposition!

In other news, Anna and I finally closed on the house, and after a week where I worked nine shifts, we've actually been able to start our renovations. Yesteday we bought 855 sq.ft. of brazilian hickory wood laminate flooring, and later that evening and for a good 4 1/2 hours today I scraped the popcorn ceiling off in the guest room. Tomorrow, Anna will join me and we will try to finish the much larger master bedroom before I have to work tomorrow. After that we will sand and repaint both ceilings in a more flat, less spider friendly manner. Then I install the floors and get to use my new jigsaw!

On the game front, I have less time this year for games and hve to narrow it down to one, maybe two for the time being. I'm too totally addicted to heroclix to give that up, so I will still play that casually with a few people and then I'm stuck with a decision between 40k and WFB. When we welcomed the Mellenium I played WFB and I think I myreturn to my roots for the new decade. Of course this means that my 40k playing will be relagated to casual one off games at best, and a majority of my creative nergeies will go into making WFB as popular at the Inquisitive as 40k has grown to be. Yesterday Tim Wilson, the owner of the Inquisitive approached me with an idea he had to begin a WFB league that would very loosely utilize the Mighty Empires rules and he asked me to brain storm some Ideas on how to run it. I will have more detials as weflesh things out.

Well, good night everyone. Thanks for reading.