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I just oversaw the destruction of Beaverton Oregon...
« on: April 05, 2008, 12:51:42 AM »
And had a ton of fun doing it! :)

Just wrapped our Friday night event and got back to the hotel a while ago.











The Americans kicked the everloving snot out of the invading People's Army.  :-)

I am going to scrape together some food and have some coffee and crash.  :yawn:

Today was a good day.  :drunksailor:




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Re: I just oversaw the destruction of Beaverton Oregon...
« Reply #1 on: April 05, 2008, 12:53:31 AM »
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Re: I just oversaw the destruction of Beaverton Oregon...
« Reply #2 on: April 05, 2008, 01:00:15 AM »
What in the wide world of sports are you doing?
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Re: I just oversaw the destruction of Beaverton Oregon...
« Reply #3 on: April 05, 2008, 11:41:17 AM »
What in the wide world of sports are you doing?

Running events at a Miniature Gaming convention this weekend.

Table top gaming with painted figures and terrain.

Embracing my inner geek. :-)




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Re: I just oversaw the destruction of Beaverton Oregon...
« Reply #4 on: April 05, 2008, 12:39:47 PM »
Did you make any of those models? They are very good.  I have never understood these games at all, I wouldn't have the first idea how to play but it looks fun.



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Re: I just oversaw the destruction of Beaverton Oregon...
« Reply #5 on: April 05, 2008, 12:52:32 PM »
I H5'd you cause the US won -- is there a website that explains these games?
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Re: I just oversaw the destruction of Beaverton Oregon...
« Reply #6 on: April 05, 2008, 12:57:18 PM »
What in the wide world of sports are you doing?

Running events at a Miniature Gaming convention this weekend.

Table top gaming with painted figures and terrain.

Embracing my inner geek. :-)

Wow, where was this at? I grew up there (went to Aloha HS) and raised our kids there. It's only been a few years that we moved to Douglas County.

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Re: I just oversaw the destruction of Beaverton Oregon...
« Reply #7 on: April 05, 2008, 01:46:56 PM »
Very nice. I miss the days where I could go play a good fun game of Twilight 2000 or D&D or Starfleet Battles.
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Re: I just oversaw the destruction of Beaverton Oregon...
« Reply #8 on: April 06, 2008, 01:08:32 AM »
Did you make any of those models? They are very good.  I have never understood these games at all, I wouldn't have the first idea how to play but it looks fun.

Some of them are model kits for train layouts that I assembled and painted, some of them I built from scratch out of prefabricated 4x4" architectural kit pieces.  The ruined buildings are cast resin.  I did paint and detail everything myself though.  And all of the miniatures are hand painted except for the robot looking guys. :) Those come with the paint job already done.  The camera flash generally bleaches out the paint jobs a little so the figures in the pic above look a little flat. In kinder light they look more like these:


I also do quite a bit of "Scratch Building" stuff.  The piers and the lower warship here I built from scratch:


Mostly it's a matter of taking toys or model kits and sort of "Bashing" them into what you need.  It's sorta expensive and time consuming, lol.

I H5'd you cause the US won -- is there a website that explains these games?

There are a slew of websites for individual games.

How it works is that each player gets a "Unit" that could be a squad of guys or a couple of tanks, ect...

There is a handout sheet that goes along with the units that details how far they can move per turn, what kind of weapons they have and what they can do.  Movement is in inches across the tabletop, as are ranges for weapons.

When their turn comes up, they decide where they are moving, measure and push the guys around. When they fire at an opposing player ranges are measured against the values for the weapon and dice are rolled to determine hits.  Another chart tells you if you wounded, killed, or screwed up your targets morale.  When a figure gets "Killed" the miniature is pulled off the table.

There are victory objectives. (Take this or that piece of terrain or hold this position for so many turns, ect...)

Events usually run 3-4 hours depending on the size of the game.  We had 10 people playing 10 different units on both sides in the game we ran this weekend.

I started doing WWII games 10 years ago and switched over to the stuff you see above about 5 years back.  My partner and I are going to have a set of gaming rules in print and on sale by late fall, God willing, lol.





What in the wide world of sports are you doing?

Running events at a Miniature Gaming convention this weekend.

Table top gaming with painted figures and terrain.

Embracing my inner geek. :-)

Wow, where was this at? I grew up there (went to Aloha HS) and raised our kids there. It's only been a few years that we moved to Douglas County.

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Lincolshire Illinois is where the convention is.

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Re: I just oversaw the destruction of Beaverton Oregon...
« Reply #9 on: April 06, 2008, 01:08:57 AM »
What in the wide world of sports are you doing?

Running events at a Miniature Gaming convention this weekend.

Table top gaming with painted figures and terrain.

Embracing my inner geek. :-)

Embracing is one thing.  Groping and molesting is another matter entirely.  :-)
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Re: I just oversaw the destruction of Beaverton Oregon...
« Reply #10 on: April 06, 2008, 01:14:24 AM »

Embracing is one thing.  Groping and molesting is another matter entirely.  :-)

And you got a H5 for that!   ;)




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Re: I just oversaw the destruction of Beaverton Oregon...
« Reply #11 on: April 06, 2008, 01:14:52 AM »
Some of them are model kits for train layouts that I assembled and painted, some of them I built from scratch out of prefabricated 4x4" architectural kit pieces.  The ruined buildings are cast resin.  I did paint and detail everything myself though.  And all of the miniatures are hand painted except for the robot looking guys. :) Those come with the paint job already done.  The camera flash generally bleaches out the paint jobs a little so the figures in the pic above look a little flat. In kinder light they look more like these:

My brother used to paint models for D&D.  I never got into it... I was too busy messing around with my Tandy 1000.
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Re: I just oversaw the destruction of Beaverton Oregon...
« Reply #12 on: April 06, 2008, 01:20:02 AM »
The landscaping and architecture always looked interesting.  There is a show about model trains on PBS ("Tracks Ahead") that always has some intersting stuff.  Some of it is done really, really well.  Some is not so great.
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Re: I just oversaw the destruction of Beaverton Oregon...
« Reply #13 on: April 06, 2008, 03:38:04 AM »
What in the wide world of sports are you doing?

Running events at a Miniature Gaming convention this weekend.

Table top gaming with painted figures and terrain.

Embracing my inner geek. :-)

Embracing is one thing.  Groping and molesting is another matter entirely.  :-)
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Re: I just oversaw the destruction of Beaverton Oregon...
« Reply #14 on: April 06, 2008, 11:25:57 AM »
I cut afford the time or money for minis so I stuck to the old hex-map and counters type games.

This is me (blue) invading Transylvania:



As I had already swept his front line units and had a large armor force sitting south I was in perfect position to recieve the enemy's reserve forces that were expected to--and in fact did--materialize on the East-West highway. They fell right into my pocket you see pictured and I had transitioned my troops from an offensive to entrenched defense posture.
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