Neoscream's Life: 8th to 14th of July 2013

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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, Robotech RPG Tactics, Mekton and the Geek Goddess AJ Lee.

With my Tonsillitis this week, on Monday and Tuesday I was fine. I ever want to Warmachine/Hordes Journeyman League (more on that soon) and pick up the Convergence stuff on Tuesday. However from Wednesday I started to act up again which was a problem as I was back at work on Thursday. Lucky it cleared up again during the weekend.

Like I said above on Monday I went to the Warmachine/Hordes Journeyman League at Wargames Workshop MK. Sadly the Convergence stuff was not coming into the store until Tuesday (as the official release date was not until Wednesday). However a ruling was made that people could change to Convergence from the second week (which will be on the 22^nd of July). So I picked up the Rules, templates and a pack of tokens and used my Protectorate of Menoth two-player starter Battlegroup which I picked up at Campaign for this week (well I had to borrow the stores Crusader as I oddly got two Vanquishers). On the first game I was up against Niall Sherry who was using a Trollblood Battlegroup. This was my second game ever and I lost which was understandable. On the second game I was up against Martin Copperwheat who was using the standard Protectorate of Menoth Battlegroup. This time it ended up being a draw, but I might have ended up losing if time was not called. Lost one, draw one. Not bad for a newbie of a game that has been around for just over ten years. If I remembered to use my feat in both games thing might have worked out better. Anyway I am reading up on the rule and busy getting my Convergence readily for the second week which is on next Monday. This will mean next week’s Model Painting post will be on next Wednesday and the 7TV Listings for the Doctor Who team will be on ever Friday (if HeroClix is cancelled), Saturday (if there is no games night) or sometime the following week (most likely a double bill that Wednesday if that happens.

On Saturday night, me Darren, Richard and Simon got together online and played three campaigns of Left 4 Dead. I had never played Left for dead before. It was great fun play online with them, only wish I could have gotten a working microphone before the third campaign. Hopefully we can get more of these gaming nights in the future as I rarely see Simon these days.

Next is the Mantic news. Beta rules for the  Season Three DreadBall teams Zees and Asterian are now up on Jake Thornton’s blog Quirkworthy.

Now for the Robotech RPG Tactics. The survey is now out, however there in no pledge manager for the add-ons yet. Also with Mekton Zero news, the survey is now out.

Next is the Warmachne and Hordes news. This week releases were the Forces of Warmachine: Convergence of Cyriss book, Formula P3 Paint Set for Convergence of Cyriss, Convergence of Cyriss Battlegroup Starter and Convergence Heavy Vector (Cipher/Inverter/Monitor) watch I brought all of apart from the paints as you might have seen some of in yesterdays Model Painting post. Also this week the KickStarter for the computer game Warmachine Tactics was started and it has done quite well. We have beaten the original goal, unlocked all four original Factions in Multiplayer and all four first wave Mercenaries for Multiplayer (Eiryss the Mage Hunter, Greygore Boomhowler, Kell Bailoch and Gorman Di Wulfe) by the time I went to bed on Sunday. Known stretch goal still to go are: a Character Colouring system at $760,000; the four character Warjacks of Apotheosis plus a mystery bonus add-on at $850,000; single-player mission pack called “Fire and Ice” at $1,010,000; and four more Mercenary characters (currently un-named) each at $1,021,000, $1,032,000, $1,043,000 and $1,054,000.

There was no real news from OVA or from Crooked Dice last week.

Now for what AJ Lee has been up to this past week. AJ appeared on Raw twice last week. Her and Dolph Ziggler had words about their pact to both be champions. The second time AJ had a tag team match. She was teamed with Alicia Fox and they were up against Kaitlyn and Layla El. Oh and Big E Langston was at ringside. Kaitlyn wants to go after AJ but Layla tries to hold her back. The match started with Layla and Alicia. Later on in the match AJ wanted to be tagged in and Alicia obliged. But out of noweher AJ was attacked from behind by Kaitlyn. Alicia and Layla try to regain control. However Kaitlyn spears AJ on the floor and then she punches AJ while the referee has given up on trying to control things. The ref called it no Contest but it should have been Kaitlyn being disqualified. Big E ended up carries AJ to the back. On AJ related news from Raw, that bitch that cist AJ her GM job on Raw, Vickie Guerrero, was fired. Sweet.

AJ was also on Smackdown last week too. It was the first ever in ring Divas Championship match contract signing. AJ, Big E, Kaitlyn, Layla, Teddy Long and the other Divas (minus the Bella Twins and the two new ones). After a little bit of doodling AJ signed the contract and then warned Kaitlyn that if she signed the contract AJ will embarrass her more than she had ever done before. Kaitlyn signed the contract and then AJ revealed her secret weapon, Kaitlyn’s texts to her fake secret admirer Big E. In the texts Kaitlyn slagged off some of the other Divas, which AJ read from the phone Big E used. Kaitlyn tries to take the phone and AJ says ‘HULK SMASH’. Good one. Keep the comic book references come. Anyway, Kaitlyn got pissed off. Kaitlyn basically said that she would not be manipulated by AJ again and she will not loss to her again. AJ slaps Kaitlyn and Kaitlyn pushes AJ and pushes the table and traps poor AJ in the corner. Kaitlyn attacks AJ but Langston pulls Kaitlyn off AJ. Kaitlyn slap Langston and then she hits a spear on AJ.

Like normal the Money in the Bank results will be covered next week. Hoping to report good news.

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

Monday

Brought and Received: Warmachine Prime Mark II soft cover book, Warmachine templates and Protectorate of Menoth counters.

Tuesday

Watched: Episode 1049 of WWE Raw and this week’s episode of the Gadget Show.

Brought and Received: Forces of Warmachine: Convergence of Cyriss soft cover book, Convergence of Cyriss Battlegroup Starter and a Convergence Heavy Vector (Cipher/Inverter/Monitor).

Wednesday

WRL: Nothing.

Thursday

Brought and Received: Bits and bobs to decorate the bases of my Convergence figures.

Friday

Received: Left 4 Dead 1 and 2 for the PC.

Saturday

WLR: Nothing.

Sunday

Watched: Episode 683 of WWE Smackdown and two Gadget Show web clips (“Gaming: 22.03.2011” and “Philips Airfryer”).

Until next time, Armour Up.