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Tuesday 28 May 2013

Neoscream's Life: 20th to 26th of May 2013

NRX-044 Asshimar (Moblie Suit mode)
Welcome to the Neoscream's Life post. This is a weekly post of some of the things I have done last week and news on stuff from Crooked Dice Games, Mantic Game and the Geek Goddess AJ Lee.

Monday was the third session of the Wargames Workshop MK DreadBall League. For half of us this will be the last session of the league as only the top two teams of each group will compete in the semi finals and finals next month. Will I be playing next month or not in the league? I was on first place in group B at the start of third session with two wins and two loses, so it is up to how well I do in the third session. I forgot my Coaching Staff AJ figure so Coach Renton had to cover for her. With the points I have earned last time, I brought an extra coaching dice to bring the total to three. On the first round I was up against Rob T. Sadly he won the game by one or two points. From that game I earned enough credits for another coaching dice to bring it up to four coaching dice. On the second and final match I was up against Gavin R. I managed to win the match by one or two points. This placed me in still in first place of my group meaning I would be in the semis next month against David B, the runner up of his group. Or so I thought. The next day I noticed an error on Guardians of Tyr's website (the people who are running the leagues and tournaments for Wargames Workshop). They had me down as winning my second game against Carl last month. I massage them about it and I am still waiting for a response.

On Friday I learnt that the Gadget Show is back on TV on the 3rd of June. Jason Bradbury and Pollyanna Woodward are back in a brand new studio, Jon Bentley rejoins them and they are being joined by a new host to the show Rachel Riley.

Now for the Mantic news. CAD images of the DreadBall Mecha has been reviled with a scaled picture next to an Enforcer as well as a CAD image of the prone Zee marker. With the Deadzone KickStarter, during the week the extra stretch goals that were unlocked are: Doctor Gayle Simmonds special character was added to Recon level and above (not including terrain only levels); a free digital copy of the Deadzone Short Story Compilation for every pledge level; the special character Recon Unit N32-19 to Recon level and above; the Ruins BattleZone; the Inferno Drill and three Brokkrs were added to the Forge Father Starter Faction; a Weapon Drone with Energy Cannon/Shield Generator, a Cypher with Fission Beam and two more Cyphers with Flux Rifles were added to the Asterian Faction starter set; the character Nastanza the Huntress free with Recon level and above; an extra scenario for the Nexus Psi Digital Campaign which make it a total of six scenarios; and the Deadzone Compendium which comes with the Nexus Psi Digital Campaign rules, the Forge Fathers faction, the Asterians faction, a painting guide and now Plague ZOMBIES which all pledge levels will get as a free PDF and people who pledged $300 or more will get a free signed physical copy. Also the active goals for the Deadzone KickStarter when I went to bed on Sunday night were: hard plastic plague zombies will be made that are compatible with Kings of War zombies will be made and five will be added to Striker level and above (not including terrain only levels) at $635,000; a Cypher Black Talon added to the Asterian Faction Starters and a Brokkr with Muspell-pattern Rifle added to the Forge Father Faction Starter both at $650,000; and a new scenario to the Nexus Psi Digital Campaign for every 500 backers. This week will be this last week of the KickStarter, let us see what new stuff can be funded.

Next is Crooked Dice Games news. They are now stocking nine new miniatures for use with 7th Voyage from Harwood Hobbies In four packs. The first pack is Kali Cultists that is a three figure pack which has Lesath the Kali Cultist Leader, Kali Cultist and Kali Deathdealer. The second pack Cursed Creatures that features the masked Visier and the tormented Harpy. The third Desert Slavers has a Dervish Avenger and Slave Girl. And the fourth pack is The Princess and the Wizard which speaks for itself. Also I missed two weeks ago, next month will see three time lost travellers. These are: Eliza, Victorian Samurai; Sachs - a mutated manservant; and Genevieve - a martial maid. Eliza and Sachs come with human head on the tab PLUS an alternate Saurian or Toad-face head for variety. Basically they are (with the alternate heads) Vastra, Jenny and Strax from Doctor Who. It has been reviled that they should be in the store on the 1st of June. I have got to order a pack or two of these. Please oh please do a figure based on Clara Oswald.

As the Robotech RPG Tactics KickStarter has finished I have decided to blog about two other KickStarters I have backing. OVA: Anime Role-Play Game and Mekton Zero that I have just started during the weekend.

First off is OVA KickStarter news. Before last week it was funded and several scratch goals were made. These were: a deluxe dust jacket for the physical rulebook; an eBook version of the rules for Swift Samurai level and above; a mobile phone app for the game for Swift Samurai level and above; an add on book called Plastic Hearts as a free PDF for Swift Samurai level and above; and a bookmark that doubles as a reference sheet to the Bounty Hunter level and above. I am currently at Swift Samurai level, but was considering up to Bounty Hunter level until I spotted Mekton Zero. During the week the extra goals that were unlocked were: the Tablet app. Also the active stretch goals for the OVA KickStarter when I went to bed on Sunday night were: Miho will personally pack your package for you and slip in a custom die graced with her own visage for all backers of $30 or more at $80,000. There are requests for more as add ons.

Lastly is the Mekton Zero KickStarter news. Mekton is a mecha role-play from the makers of the Cyberpunk 2020 role-play games that was first released in 1984. It went through three different editions over the years, the last one being Mekton Zeta that was released back in 1994. There was a Gundam game release in Japan back in 2000 that uses the Mekton system. There were plans releasing an English version but it never happen. On Saturday I learnt that Makton is making a comeback via KickStarter. However Zero is not the open world game as the other Mekton games were. It is set it the Algol universe that was covered in the official settings stuff towards the back of the book. By the sound of things you cannot build from scratch new mecha in Zero, but you can customise a premade model and the game compatible with old Mekton Zeta system so you can use Zeta to build bread new mecha. The system used is basically the Zeta, but was some changes to stream line the game and to improve to characters. The initial funded for it was finished during Sunday morning.  Then I went to bed on Sunday night there was currently no stretch goals.

Before the AJ Lee news, let us talk about Extreme Rule. The pre-show match was The Miz verses Cody Rhodes. I was hoping the Miz would win and he did.

The first match was the veteran Y2J Chris Jericho in a rematch against the new be Fandango. At Wrestlemania, Fang Dimbat managed to win against Jericho in his debut match. Luckily Jericho was able to defeat Fang Dimbat.

Next was the Strap Match between Sheamus and Mark Henry. Sheamus managed to pull a shocker by beating the world's strongest man. From a scene from the locker rooms, Mark left almost in tears. Is this Mark leaving for good?

Next was Dean Ambrose of the Shield verses the U.S. Champion Kofi Kingston in a title match. There were worries that this would turn into a three on one match. But Seth Rollins and Roman Reigns headed after walking Dean half way to the ring. It looked like Kofi had the advantage. However Dean managed to shock the world by winning the match and gaining the U.S. Championship. Seth and Roman both came out to celebrate with Dean.

Next was a match that the injured World Heavyweight Champion Dolph Ziggler and the Geek Goddess AJ Lee would be watching closely. Alberto Del Rio verses Jack Swagger in an 'I Quit' Match for the number one contender for the World Heavyweight Championship. Zeb Colter tried making the ref think that Ricardo Rodriguez had thrown in the towel for Del Rio. But the ref watched a reply and saw it was Zeb and restarted the match. Del Rio managed to get Swagger to say 'I Quit', making Del Rio the number one contender.

The next match was The Shield’s Seth and Roman verses WWE Tag Team Champions Team Hell No Tornado Tag Team Title Match. Dean was not at ringside for them. Sadly team Hell No lost the match, meaning they lost the titles. Even though it was Daniel Bryan that was pinned, there is no way I would class him as the weak link.

Sadly due to the bloody cricket I have not seen past here until yesterday (Monday). So I have to quickly write about the last three matches skipping bit I would have liked to talk more about. Randy Orton defeated the Big Show in an Extreme Rules Match. Brock Lesnar sadly defeated Triple H in a Steel Cage match. And WWE Champion John Cena and Ryback wrestled to a in a double count out in their Last Man Standing Match. Cena was badly injury and refused medical help. He was not even on Raw like he is normally.

AJ on Raw
Now for what AJ Lee has been up to this past week. AJ appeared on Extreme Rules back stage on the phone to Dolph. Kaitlyn was being rude and insulting to poor AJ.  AJ made a comeback remark as Kaitlyn was walking off and then Kaitlyn last it and attacked AJ. The officials backstage had to break them up with the Bella Twins laughing their heads off. What does not make things better one of the commitaors (if memory serves me right it was Jerry "the King" Lawler) saying that AJ was picking on Kaitlyn and that she had enough.

This week on Raw AJ appeared twice (not counting the backstage replay from Extreme Rules). The first time was when she was supporting Big E Langston in his match against Del Rio. Big E won the match. It was not Big E's or AJ's fault that the ref is easier distracted by shiny things that should not be at ringside. The second time was the match afterwards. It was AJ verses Layla. Again Aj won by applying the Black Widow on Layla and making her tap out on her ass.

WTF from Main Event
AJ was on Main Event as well last week. I have not seen Main Event as I do not know of any UK airing of it. So this is based on what I seen online. She was supporting Big E in his rematch against Del Rio which sadly Big E lost.

We now move on to the Watch, Listen and Read section of the blog post:

Monday
Brought and Received: A second Vassal of Menoth.

Tuesday
Watched: Episode 1042 of WWE Raw.
Read: Finished chapter 11 (Hard Drive Technologies) of CompTIA A+ Certification.

Wednesday
Watched: Part of WWE Extreme Rules and part of Macross: Do You Remember Love.
Listened: Episode 364 of Anime Pulse.

Macross: Do You Remember Love
Thursday
Watched: Rest of Macross: Do You Remember Love.

Friday
Watched: Last week’s episode of BBC Click, more of WWE Extreme Rules, Battlebox and Beyond: Protectorate of Menoth from Beast of War, five Gadget Show web clips (Gadget News 04.02.2011; GEAR4 Unity Remote; Gaming 11.02.2011; Qwiki, Formulists and Webunal; and Behind the Scenes -Live Studio) and episode 239 of the subtitled version of Naruto Shippuden.

Saturday
Watched: Episode 240 of the subtitled version of Naruto Shippuden, episodes 1 and 2 of Naruto SD: Rock Lee and His Ninja Pals, two Gadget Show web clips (Qwiki and Gadget News 18.02.2011), episodes 311 and 312 of the subtitled version of Bleach and Macross Plus the movie.
KickStarter: Mekton Zero at Citizen Level.

Sunday
Watched: Episode 4 of Vicious, episode 30 of the dubbed version of Naruto Shippuden and episode 3 of Naruto SD: Rock Lee and His Ninja Pals.
Listened: Episode 77 of VG Pulse.


Until next time, armour up.

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