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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 Games,
Robotech RPG Tactics, Warmachine and the Geek Goddess AJ Lee.
On
Monday was the third Warmachine/Hordes Journeyman League week. This time it was
25 points. My force was:
Aurora,
Numen of Aerogenesis -6 (to Warjacks)
Cipher
Heavy Vector 9
Inverter
Heavy Vector 8
Mitigator
Light Vector 4
Galvanizer
Light Vector 3
Clockwork
Angels unit 3
Clockwork
Angels unit 3
=24
points
On
the first game I was up against David Copperwheat (I think). My official
opponent Matt Luckett had not turned up. David was using a Khador team. I will
not be writing up my opponent's teams now as it was a nightmare to work out
what is what when you are new to the game. All most all of his force had
stealth. Being mu sixth game ever and first time ever with using Units, I have
a feeling that I was not using the Clockwork Angels right, as they died too quickly
without doing much. I ended up losing the game with my Warcaster being killed.
My next game was against Barnaby O'Callaghan. He was also using a Khador team.
I decided to swap Aurora for Syntherion as I did better with him last time,
more due to the regeneration and upkeep spells. The Clockwork Angels died again
and I got to use my Reconstruct spell for once. However a missed shot from my
Hot Shot Cipher scattered onto my Inverter. Me and my opponent thought it was
safe as the attack was POW 6 once the Inverter had Armour 19, but sadly I
rolled a triple six which killed off the Inverter before I could cast
Reconstruct on it again. In the last seconds of the game he killed my warcaster
due to the hole left by the Inverter dying. So that was two games lost. The
Geek Goddess works in strange ways. LOL. The next one will happen on the 19th
of August (the Monday before the next DreadBall Tournament) and it will be 35
points. I might stick to Syntherion and try to stick with Vectors.
And
now for the chaos, and I am not talking about work or the Geek Goddess. As Pete
is leaving Milton Keynes, and that we have not done role play for nearly a
year, Richard and Nathan had arranged a role play gaming weekend. Basically it
was originally meant to be Friday, Saturday and Sunday. The plan came along
about when I got but to work from my sickness and I asked Richard to let me
know ahead of time what weekend so I could try to book it off work if I could.
However Richard told me when on Thursday, the day before it happened so I could
not book it off. Facepalm. So we had to do it Friday and Saturday in the evening.
The plan was on Thursday that it was happening at Richard's and that Nathan
would be running an unknown Fantasy role play. However it was changed to
Nathan's about two hours before we were meant to meet up, (again, face palm)
and Nathan was running a heavy modified DnD 3.5 game. So I could not bring my
physical copies of the books as I was at work and did not have the time to head
home to get them. I got there at six liked plan as well as Pete and of course
Nathan, but Richard turned up at seven, which cut character creation down to
three hours. Pete forgot to bring his books or laptop even thou he knew what we
were playing. Richard, like me, did not know what we were playing so he did not
bring his books (I think he only owns two). And Nathan only had edition 3 as
hard copies and Pete has them, which he did not bring ever. I did have my
tablet had the PDF’s on them and I had the PDFs on Dropbox so I could get them
on my phone, however it takes several minutes for a book to up load (that is if
it does not somehow fail to load. Oh and Nathan had to PDFs on his laptop too,
bus he needed the laptop most of the time. So we found it hard to create
characters. Then about nine Nathan reviled that he could not did Sunday to
everybody, so we only had four hours to play a game on Saturday. Face Palm. By
about quarter to ten we realised we would not be able to finish character
creation tonight and never me or Richard had the time to do them before
Saturday’s session. So we had to call role play off sadly. Instead we plan on
playing some board games. For those of you who are interested in the characters
we playing, I was going for a plan and simple Human Wizard, Richard was going for a Celestial Human Cleric,
and Pete was going for a Double Ganger Bounty Hunter. Again it was a meet on at
Nathan’s at six. So on Saturday both me and Pete arrived a six shape and
Richard arrived a couple of minutes before seven. Face Palm. We were also
joined by a friend of Nathan’s called, Lisa. We had DreadBall, Zombicide and Munchkin
to play. Nathan decided that we will play DreadBall as he was just getting into
it. I was using my Robot team, Nathan was using his Season One human team,
Richard borrowed my Forge Fathers team and Pete was borrowing my Veer-Myn team.
I played against Richard while Nathan played against Pete. Nathan won his game
against Pete with a seven point win. After a very long game that took up all
our time I won my game against Richard by two points. The game took about two
and a half hours. It does not help with Richard taking ages to decide what to
do. Sadly Pete did not enjoy the game as he is not a fan of two player games.
We all realised that we should have played Zombicide first. Pete will be missed
and hard to replace. 
On
Friday before work and character creation I popped down to Wargames Workshop MK
to pick up a game I have been considering on getting for a while. The board
game Zombicide. I had watched both KickStarters for it, but sadly never backed
it due to other KickStarters happening at the time. During the first one I had
DreadBall and during the second one I had Deadzone and Robotech RPG Tactics.
The scary thing is I have seen the $10 KickStarter exclusive figures selling
for about £60 on the second hand market. Wow, what a mark up. Well anyway you
will be seeing painted figures soon.
During
the weekend we had a major problem with the shake and ice cream machine. On
Friday it was making ten tons of noise. One of the cogs in the back of the
machine was rattling around loss. We called an engineer to fix it. The hole
that holds the gear had widened due to wear and tear. He had to replace the cog
and a couple of bits that go with it, but sadly he had to order the points in.
Because of this the machine failed its heat cycle during the night and I had to
come in early on Saturday to get the shake side back working again as the store
manager was not understanding the instructions I was giving him. As we realised
now that it will fail the heat cycle as the ice cream side was not working, I
had to come in Sunday (my day off) to fix it again. So I got there at about
8:15AM on Sunday to fix, but when I got there I found that it for some unknown
reason it did not fail its heat cycle. So I went back home. Then I received a
phone call at about 2:30PM from the manager saying that at 1PM it went into
heat cycle and has failed. This was odd as it is only meant to go into heat
cycle during the night. As I had already came into do it he said that he will
leave it for me to do on Monday. I asked him to pump out the shake base and
keep it in the chillier, which he agreed to do. However he never did.
Next
is the Mantic news. I forgot to say last week that the bills for the extra
stuff for the Deadzone KickStarter survey have been sent during the weekend and
beta rules for Rebels and Marauders have been posted. Also now beta rules for
vehicles are up too. On DreadBall news all of the Season Three stuff has been
printed and is currently having photos taken for packaging and the rulebook.
The third and final DreadBall survey will be sent any day now (in fact it was
yesterday). Also Mantic is gearing up for a new KickStarter and a massive
website update which will include a new look website and a updated Mantic
Points section that will include the DreadBall MVPs Gabe, Nightshade and Wyn.
Now
for the Warmachine and Hordes news. New preview images of Temple Flameguard
Protectorate Unit, Idrian Skirmishers Protectorate Idrian Ally Unit, Skarlock
Commander Cryx Thrall Unit Attachment, Eiryss the Mage Hunter Commander
Retribution Epic Character Unit Attachment, Accretion Servitors Convergence
Solos. Reciprocators Convergence Unit, Raluk Moorclaw the Ironmonger, Trollkin
Sorcerer Trollblood Solo and Night Troll Trollblood Light Warbeast were all
posted this week. All this and more will be released durring November. This
coming Wednesday will see the release of Exemplar Vengers Protectorate Cavalry
Unit, Trollkin Warders Trollbloods Unit, Gobber Tinker Mercenary Minion Solo
and Convergence of Cyriss Token Set. I plan on getting the tokens during the
next Journeyman League. The Warmachine: Tactics KickStarter ended last week and
the new stuff we got from updates and unlocks by the end were: All backers now
gained Warmachine based skins for the computer game DoTA 2 (but you will need
the game DoTA 2 and one of its DLCs to use them), single player Onslaught mode,
co-op play, a third single player mission pack called “Dark Seduction”, Magnus
the Traitor’s Battlegroup, Mercenaries as a playable faction and Retribution of
Scyrah as a playable faction. The KickStarter managed to make $1,578,950 and
had 19,829 backers. The stretch goals that were sadly not made are: the
Mercenary Warcaster Ashlyn D’Elyse and her battlegroup at $1,769,000; and a Map
Editor at $2,019,000.
Next
is the Robotech RPG Tactics news. The Pledge Manager will be closing in loss
than three weeks time. Also a preview image of the YF-4 Fighter mode was released.
Now
for the other KickStarters news. With OVA the rulebook is close to completion
but is being delayed by artwork. It will more than likely be released later
than planned. With Mekton the miniatures are being done on computer and 3D
images of them will be reviled when they are done.
There
was no Crooked Dice Games news this week.
Now
for what AJ Lee has been up to this past week. AJ was on Raw twice last week.
The first time was when she came out in the middle of "HULK SMASH"
Kaitlyn's match against Layla El. This distracted Kaitlyn to course Layla to
gain a "Flawless" victory and then AJ and Layla went off together.
The second time AJ appeared was when she was supporting Big E Langston in his
rematch against the rat Dolph Ziggler. Dolph was doing better than Big E this
time around. Kaitlyn came out to attack poor little AJ and their fight
distracted Dolph which Big E used to win the match. So Kaitlyn cost Dolph the
match.
Both
AJ and Big E were Miz's special on his talk show MizTV that was on Smackdown
last week. Sadly do to things like the bloody Ashes, I have not seen Smackdown
yet. BEEP. BEEP. BEEP. But I know it lead to a match at SummerSlam. I will talk
about it next week.
Now
yet us talk about SummerSlam as it is on this weekend. As of Friday morning
last week five matches were announced and the Miz will be the host of the show.
Also like I said above there is now at last another one now from Smackdown.
There is WWE Champion John Cena verses Daniel Bryan. Daniel Bryan is good and
should not be underestimate, but I want John Cena to win. Well it will be one
of Aj's exs as Champion anyway, unless Randy Orton cashes in his Money in the
Bank contact on the winner. Then there is "the Best" CM Punk verses
"the Beast" Brock Lesnar. I want to see Punk win, but will his blood
thirst for Paul Heyman cost him? Then there is World Heavyweight Champion
Alberto Del Rio verses "One More Chance" Christian. I want to see
Christian won this one. Then there is Kane verses Bray Wyatt the leader of the
Wyatt family. I like to see Kane win but I can see it being three on one. Then
there is former friends Cody Rhodes verses Damien Sandow. Just beat the crap
out of each other. And lastly the mix tag team match of Divas Champion and Geek
Goddess AJ Lee and Big E verses "HULK SMASH" Kaitlyn and the rat Dolph
Ziggler. If you do not know who I am checking for you deserve a slap. |
| Sneak Peek of next week's post. The MVP Chris Nord. |
We
now move on to the Watch, Listen and Read section of the blog post:
Monday
Watched:
Two Gadget Show web
clips (“Surprise Special: Ortis” and "Gaming: 05.04.11”).
Listened:
Episode 370 of
Anime Pulse.
Tuesday
Watched:
Episodes 1 to 9
of Season 17 of Watch It Played and episode 1052 of WWE Raw.
Listened:
Part of episode
205 of Manga Pulse.
Wednesday
Watched:
This week’s
episode of New Tricks.
Listened:
Rest of episode
205 of Manga Pulse.
KickStarter:
Paid for the
extra stuff from the survey for Deadzone.
Thursday
Listened:
Part of episode
206 of Manga Pulse.
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| Sneak Peek of next week's post. The MVP Drake. |
Listened:
Rest of episode
206 of Manga Pulse and part of episode 207 of Manga Pulse.
Brought
and Received:
Zombicide.
Saturday
Listened:
Rest of episode
207 of Manga Pulse and episode 208 of Manga Pulse.
Sunday
Watched:
Episode 5 to 8
of Yu-Gi-Oh! Zexal.
Listened:
Episode 7 of Fan
Pulse and episode 80 of VG Pulse.
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