Chatter Of The Squirrel

The Black Spot #5

December 7, 2006 on 11:53 am | In WARMACHINE |

Who is a Press Ganger?
This is Norman, your local Press Ganger.

I’m the guy judging tournaments, and being roped in by gamestores to do demos for WARMACHINE and HORDES. [These games kick so much ass, they have to spelt in all CAPS].

“But what is the Black Spot, Captain?” - Jim from Treasure Island
I’m starting up this newsletter as a means to get word out to the small crew of Privateer Press fans out there. I’ll use the newsletter to keep everyone updated on the local WARMACHINE and HORDES scene. Especially notices for demos or tournaments happening locally. When new stuff comes in. What kind of new stuff to expect.

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Tournament Reports
On the night before the postponed HORDES event, the bulk of the players messaged me that they’ve gotten sick. Seems that there’s a bad bug going around Settler’s Cafe… I myself was crippled by two different germs in a row.

So, that tourney is so DONE! It’s not meant to happen. And we’ll just let everyone throw in at the Guts & Gears events at Cineleisure. Hope that one will be blessed with greater success. More details below.

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Upcoming Tournaments
15-17/12/06 Cineleisure
Sci-fi & Fantasy Con in honour of the launch of Eragon.

Wolf’s Game Shop was invited and promised a lot of tables. Wolf is planning to throw in a lot of effort and resources for this one, but we’ll need everyone’s help to make it a successful con too.

There’ll be a fair bit of Warhammer Fantasy and Flames of War happening. Confrontation and Privateer Press will have tournaments.

We’ll have a large space to fill, so we’ll do one big event to pull in EVERYBODY.

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16/12/06 (Saturday) Cineleisure 1pm
350pts HORDES + WARMACHINE RUMBLE

This is the Guts & Gears event. Beasts will fight Jacks and vice versa.

We want everybody to come and participate. I’ve made the point cost low, so that new players will join in, so please do not disappoint me. These tournaments are not about who wins. It’s about who PLAYS!

Wolf wants to make this a pre-registration event. We need to count heads. We need to know how many tables to prepare. We need to plan how much terrain to make ready. So, if at all possible, please register for the event at WGS before the 10th Dec. Very short notice, yes… and chances are that some of you won’t even read this email by then… But well, them’s the breaks I guess.

Either register or RSVP me at my email (ratatosk@pressganger.com).
Or you could turn up on the day itself unannounced, just because we’re Malaysians, and we’ll fit you in anyhow… But it will seriously help everybody out if you can pre-register or tell me if you’re coming or not.

Entry is a mere RM5. There’ll be Best of Faction certificates for both WARMACHINE and HORDES.
And hopefully we can get hold of some freebies from the organisers to give away too.

The Eragon event will probably start running way before noon. But the tournament will begin at 1pm.

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17/12/06 (Sunday) Cineleisure
750pt WARMACHINE

All those who are ready, and will be able to make it for a 750pt event on this day, please RSVP me. Then we’ll see if it’s worth running or not. At my current count, I’m probably looking at 2 tables only, which is fine enough for a game, but it won’t do justice to the event venue. We might be able to hook some S’porean players up to compete with us, but I can’t bet on their coming and build an event around that possibility.

Anyway, if enough people can RSVP, then we’ll just have a small event on the quieter Sunday.

And throughout all this, I’ll like to have some WARMACHINE and HORDES demos going too.
A show of hands who’ll like to help me out?

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The Crow’s Nest
To follow-up on the previous Figmentia Saga… Someone just threatened to nuke the writer. That’s on top of the bomb and arson threats already.

Anyways, one of us had written a letter to the editor, and we won’t know if it gets printed or not, but the letter was shared with me. Here’s a fascinating snippet from the impassioned writing.

“A casual observation of those involved in this hobby will reveal an astonishing fact, most of us are male, most of us are single and most of us are lacking looks and figures above average.”

*sigh*…

The truth stings, doesn’t it?

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Phat Lootz
Had a discussion with Wolf, and he’ll bring in P3 paints, if enough people place orders for them.

For those of you who are new to the hobby, and don’t already have a huge collection of GW paints, these P3 paints are great value and worth buying.

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Also, Wolf is having a 10% sale on ALL Cryx products until the end of the year.

Where are our Cryx players?

At present, there’s still some Harrowers, Leviathans, Satyx Raiders, Epic Skarre, Reapers, random blisters on the shelves.

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Wolf is also trying to encourage some HORDES action at his shop.

Play HORDES there, and earn 1 pt. The points can be used to redeem free HORDES merchandise later.

Remember that there’s a table rental charge at Wolf’s now. This applies to all games, even card games and boardgames. These table rentals pay for the electricity. But for HORDES players, the money you pay for table rental just goes into a piggy bank for you to redeem that free mini later.

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The Bilge
This issue has been a little late coming out cos I was busy playing Bookworm Adventures Deluxe .

And after I’d conquered that, I was reading http://goblinscomic.com.

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Epilogue
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