Anyway I have been able to have a steady gaming schedule for once in my life thanks to having a set work schedule. So every Tuesday and Thursday I have been going to a place called Games & Stuff in Glen Burnie (Highly recommend this place if you are in the Maryland area) and playing various board games with my new friend Jeff. Whom I met through hosting a Legend of the 5 Rings demo.
We were the core group of a 3 person play group for L5R, but it did not last. It slowly dissolved to just Jeff and I and then we decided to switch venues at the suggestion of Jeff and play board games. And we have been playing a lot! More so that we have been playing a lot, but not necessarily a lot of different games, but we are working on it. Only because my memory is a little fuzzy probably from being sick as I type this.
WARNING! Lots of pictures of what we have been playing incoming! HIT THE DECK!
All those games pictured have been good fun! I recommend checking them out. I am sure I am missing several other games we have played, but oh well.
Another thing I decided to get into:
Well let me expound at length about the basic premise.
You see my friend Kurt plays Warhammer 40k and is very kind in letting me use one of his armies when we play. His main army is Tau and his other is Grey Knights. I usually play the Grey Knights. Earlier in life I played the Eldar. Never got more than a 700 point army as I was a middle school kid with no job and GW was overpriced then. Kurt and I had recently played a game using the long overdue Tau codex for 6th edition and I no longer felt invincible with my Grey Knight paladin HQ squad. But it was great because Kurt finally got a sparkle of hope in his eye that GW finally recognized him as a paying customer and making his 2600 point army viable again after several years.
So this got me considering getting into Warhammer 40k and building up an army again. I was feeding off our mutual excitement of "Hey! The Tau don't suck anymore!" This was short lived when I looked at the GW site at Eldar units. Dire Avengers, 5 plastic figures, $35. Nope! Wraithguard, 5 plastic figures, $50. Nope! Are you kidding me!? 5 guys for 35 to 50 dollars? Why the price disparity and why the hell are they that expensive when it is plastic? Oh yeah, it's GW.
Thus my interest was quickly taken to the back of the chemical shed and shot dead. Now, go look at the Flames of War stuff, especially the Open Fire! boxed set. I will use Open Fire as an example.
In it you gets
11 tanks (both British & German)
105 infantry (both US Airborne & German Grenadiers
2 PaK40 Anti tank guns
Quick Start guide with 2 army lists
Full color rule book (The whole 296 page rule book)
Dice, carboard counters and terrain
And how much is it you ask? Off amazon it is about $70. It's a ridiculously great deal. Over 100 miniatures and a full rulebook!!
What does GW offer?
Dark Vengeance has much similar things as the Open Fire set. Though it's rulebook is about 272 pages less than the full 6th edition version.
Though it may seem like I am bashing Warhammer 40k, I really don't mean to seem like it. It is really like the buisness of GW itself that I am bothered with.
Lets wrap it up!
If you are interested in the World War 2 historical setting and/or want a more reasonably priced miniatures war game that is a cheaper alternative to Warhammer, give Flames of War a shot.
Also Battlefront would give you a free mini rulebook (like the one in Open Fire) if you had the hardcover of the previous edition (http://www.belloflostsouls.net/2011/12/breaking-flames-of-war-3rd-edition.html) and that is the SECOND time they have done it.
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