Neoscream's Life: Salute and Problems. April 30th 2017

Welcome everybody to another "Neoscream's Life" post. Sorry for the lack of posts lately. I have not done much to the room since the last post, partly due to Salute. However, I have done a little work on the deck. People who follow me on Facebook or Twitter will know I was at Salute. It was a great day out, but sadly I spent more money than I was planning. I have also managed to do a bit of miniature work done. While at Salute I picked up a new Warband for Frostgrave and two figures I want to paint up (and Heavily convert one) for some friends. So I have been building, converting, undercoating and started painting them.

There most likely be no post next week, due to the lack of gaming and getting ready for Campaign. However, "Neoscream's Painting Table" might be back the following week.

I also have been avoiding writing this as there are things I really want to talk about. But after the whole Shenell thing I know I cannot really. Maybe I should be avoiding using that beeping name (the problem is not Shenell, but the damage that was done to me emotional does effect this), but I used it so that people who know me for a long time will know what I am talking about. I will try to do a brief outline with what is happening, without giving too many details that will course more problems. There seems to be a problem between myself and someone I really like and I do not know how to handle it. It is hurting me not knowing how to solve it. I have asked friends who do not know her for some advice and it mainly just to leave things alone and wait. (No Simon, I am not sending dick pics like you keep on suggesting to do. I know she will not like that what so ever.) However, waiting is hurting more as I just want to get things sorted. To be honest, as I was writing this I am getting close to tears as I feel lost. (But the tears side could be due to the Eczema around my eye irritating my eyes. I know it is a stupid thing, but my life does get me like that sadly.

Anyway, let us get on to gaming.

HeroClix

On Thursday the 20th of April, I went down to York House for some HeroClix. The scenario was "The New Age". 400 points, no figure above 100 points and no ATA's. I went for a "New X-Men" themed team who were:

Cyclops (001 Marvel Uncanny X-Men Fast Forces) 50
Jean Grey (002 Marvel Uncanny X-Men Fast Forces) 50
Beast (003 Marvel Uncanny X-Men Fast Forces) 50
Angel (004 Marvel Uncanny X-Men Fast Forces) 50
Iceman (005 Marvel Uncanny X-Men Fast Forces) 50
Kitty Pryde (023a Marvel Uncanny X-Men) 45
X-23 (037 Marvel Uncanny X-Men) 100
=395 points

To cut things short (as I am writing this just over a week after it happened), I won both my games against Michael and Adrian, but they were close games if I remember correctly. Also like normal, I lost my game against Darren S.

There was no HeroClix on Thursday 27th of April as both Adrian and Darren S called it off on the day and there will be no HeroClix on Thursday 4th of May as both Adrian and Michael are busy.

Cardfight Vanguard Tournament

As I am writing this about a week after the event I will not be going into so many details about the rounds. On Sunday 23rd of April, I went to Wargames Workshop MK for a Cardfight Vanguard Duos Tournament. It was on a Sunday instead of Saturday because of the Magic the Gathering Prerelease event. However, the prerelease still had a very huge turnout on the third and final day of the event. So we were moved to the spare room in the comic book store "Magic Comic Kingdom" (owned by Carl the owner of Wargames Workshop). Sadly the room did not have the room to support a six-team duos tournament. So we had to do a singles tournament. Damn it! So all the planning I did with Wai-Yin was a waste.

I won two of the rounds during the pre top four cut off rounds. One round against a new player called John and the other round was against Wai-Yin which was a close round. Even though Wai-Yin sadly would not agree.

I managed to get into the top four cut off. In the semifinals, I was up against Shell. She won like normal for her and she won the finals too.

After the event, I managed to trade with Shell for my second copy of the new Grandgallop. Just two more to go.

Kingdom Death Monster

This one is easy to write as it is just a copy and paste job (with some little changes) as I have already written it on a new Facebook group I made so that both my KDM groups can interact with one and other and I can share information to both groups at once.

On Monday the 24th of April, I went down to Wargames Workshop MK for a game of KDM. There was no Bob as he had a game of The Walking Dead All Out War with Peter booked. Also, there was no Adrian as he called off at the last minute. So it was just me, Wai-Yin and Michael. We all took our normal Survivors. Wai-Yin took Alice, I took Marth (named after the Fire Emblem character) and Michael took his normal character which I cannot remember the name. As there were only three of us we took a random female Survivor which we called Char.

We hunted a level one White Lion and won without losing anyone or taking any serious injuries. We got enough resources to build upgrade the pool and finally built Wai-Yin's Cat Gut Bow and as well as two more pieces of our third set of Rawhide Armour. Oh and all three of our characters went up an Age and all got an extra +1 to Strength.

As it was quick and we had the time. We sent our Endeavours on Purifying both Adrian's and Bob's current characters and then went on another hurt against another level one White Lion. It was another easy fight. The only problem we would have has was a double Gorm Climate with both at the low result. However, we realised we were safe as it would have only destroyed Resources in the Settlement Storage. Resources gain/leftover from a Showdown are only recorded in Settlement Storage at the end of the Settlement phase. So the resources we just gained was safe and as we spent all the resources before going on the hunt, we had nothing to lose. We finished off the third set of Rawhide Armour and Purified two more Survivors.

There was three mistake made. During the two Lantern Years. The first one was I stupidly got Deadly mixed up with Devastating on the first Showdown. (Deadly is +1 Luck while Devastating is deal extra damage.) Sadly it was done and could not do anything about it, but we did realise we missed out on two critical wounds. However, afterward, at home, I realised I had also forgotten I had Savage one my weapon too. (On Critical Wounds deal extra damage.) So I had only accidentally done one extra wound to the first Lion and I would have done two more damage to the second as I critical wounded it twice. Lol. Facepalm. Oh and the third mistake was that we forgot to use an endeavour when we innervated both years. That is an easy fix. We just un-Purify one of the Survivors, as we could not have done them.

Sadly due to Monday 1st of May being a Bank holiday and the following Monday being Frostgrave, the next KDM game for the Wargames Workshop MK group will not be happening until the 15th of May.

Star Trek Ascendancy

Roxy was back in MK for several days and HeroClix was canceled, we decided to try out Star Trek Ascendancy. We played a two player game where she was the Klingons and I was the Federation. It was at first a peaceful game there was an early Trade Agreement that gave both sides a lot of Production. One side used a stockpile of Production and a ton of warp bonus to create two full-size battle fleets to attack the homeworld of the opposite player. They conquered the defending ships and homeworld with easy and then defended against a counter-attack before taking the planet for their own. The Federation conquered the Klingons using the Klingons own brute force tactics.

Star Trek Ascendancy is an interesting game and I do plan on buying the Brog expansion as well as at least one of the other races so I can do four player games.


Well until next time, until all are one with the Lantern Spark.

Gaming News from Neoscream: 20th May 2016

Welcome to the “Gaming News from Neoscream” post and its my Birthday. This is my weekly gaming news post for miniature games, RPGs and some card games, as well as my miniatures painting and upcoming local events.

“Gaming News”

First off we have the Bushiroad news. With Weiß Schwarz, today sees the release of the Fate / Kaleid Liner Prisma ☆ Ilya Zwei Hertz booster set in Japanese. Also next week will see the release of Sword Art Online Ⅱ Volume 2 booster set in English.
With Cardfight Vanguard, today sees the release of the "Fighter's Collection 2016" booster set in English. Also next week will see the release of G Booster Set 7 "Glorious Bravery of Radiant Sword" in Japanese. This means the new unit type "G-Guardians" have been added to the game as well as the Stride Deck being increased from eight to sixteen.

Next is the HeroClix news. This week we got previews of: She-Hulk and Hercules from Marvel Civil War (not to be confused with Marvel Captain America Civil War).

Now for the Steamforged Games LTD news. Their Dark Souls: The Board Game KickStarter has finished making £3,771,474 with 31,178 backers. It is the second biggest "non digital or computer hardware" game on KickStarter, fifth biggest overall game on KickStarter and the twelfth biggest KickStarter ever.

Since the last post they have managed to unlock: The Ruined Aflis summoned NPC; the Seigward of Catarina summoned NPC; the Sellsword Luet summoned NPC; the Lucatiel of Mirrah summoned NPC; the Eygon of Carim summoned NPC; the Vordt of the Boreal Valley boss expansion as an add-on; the Sirris of the Sunless Realm summoned NPC; the Horace the Hushed summoned NPC; the Seigward of Catarina summoned NPC; a Campaign Mode for the game; the Witch Beatrice summoned NPC; and the Sword Master Saber summoned NPC.

Next is the Modiphius news. With their Infinity RPG, wave one is now expecting to start shipping at the dead of June. The card decks due to artwork problems will be pushed back to wave two. Wave two should now hopefully ship in December now instead of July and wave three will ship sometime next year. Wave three will also contain the Living Campaign system (something I been forgetting to say that it was added).

Now for the Cool Mini or Not news. The pledge manager for Masmorra: Dungeons of Arcadia is now up.

Lastly is the Force of Will news. A new Cluster (like blocks in Magic the Gathering), is coming September with the first booster set and five new starter decks. The new cluster is called The Lapis Cluster. However do not for get about the last bosster set for the Alice Cluster is due out in July.

“KickStarter Dates”

• Wave four of Kingdom Death Monster (December 2013), “Mekton Zero” (digital December 2013, physical March 2014), wave three of “Journey Wrath of Daemons” (July 2014), “Paranoia” (June 2015), wave two of “Shadows of Brimstone” (August 2014), “Zero Agents” (December 2015), wave two of “Robotech RPG Tactics” (December 2013), wave three of “Infinity RPG” (October 2016), wave two of “Slaughterball” (June 2015) have all been delay due to problems and currently have no dates on when these will start shipping.
• Both “Halfling Adventurers Miniatures” (January 2016) and "Mechabrick Upgraded" (March 2016) should be shipping this month.
• Wave one of the “Conan” board game (February 2016), “Myth Journeyman”, "Dropfleet Commander" wave two of "Zombicide Black Plague" (December 2015), "Warbears and Stagriders, Fantasy Wargames Miniatures" (March 2016) and wave one of the “Infinity RPG” (February 2016) should ship in June 2016.
• "The Others: 7 Sins" (March 2016), “Demigods Rising” (July 2015), “Battle System’s Urban Post Apocalypse Terrain”, "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shadows of the Past" and "Odyssey Argonauts" should ship in July 2016.
• Wave one of "The Walking Dead All Out War" should be shipping in August 2016.
• Wave two of the “Conan” board game should ship between July and September 2016.
• Both “Warpath” and the PDFs for "Fragged Empire RPG: Protagonist Archive and Miniatures" should ship in September 2016.
• Both "Rail Raiders Infinite" and "Arcadia Quest Inferno" (June 2016) should ship in October 2016.
• Both wave two of “Journey Wrath of Daemons” (July 2014) and wave two of the “Infinity RPG” (July 2016) should ship some time between October and December 2016.
• "Masmorra: Dungeon of Arcadia" should ship in November 2016.
• “Super Dungeon Explore: Legends” should ship in December 2016.
• "Widower's Wood" should ship in January 2017. 
• The physical stuff for "Fragged Empire RPG: Protagonist Archive and Miniatures" should ship in February 2017.
• "Dark Souls: The Board Game" should ship in April 2017.
• "Ghostbusters The Board Game 2" should ship in May 2017.

"Up and coming Events"

These are local gaming events in Milton Keynes I know of, Guardians of Tyr events at Wargames Workshop Northampton and other events I plan on going to or want to advertise.

• Every Monday (except Bank Holidays) night at Wargames Workshop MK is there Wargames and Boardgamers night.
• Every Thursday night Milton Keynes Wargames Society holds a gaming night at York House in Stony Stratford.
• On Sunday the 15th of May 2016, Guardians of Tyr will be running a Steam Roller Warmachine/Hordes tournament at Wargames Workshop Northampton. (this might be the last 2nd edition tournament in Northampton).
• On Sunday the 22th of May 2016, there will be a Weiß Schwarz Tournament at Wargames Workshop MK. Please check the "Card Circuit M.K." Facebook group for details.
• On Saturday the 28th of May 2016, there will be a Cardfight Vanguard Store Championship and free fight at Wargames Workshop MK. Please check the "Card Circuit M.K." Facebook group for details.
• On Sunday the 5th of June 2016, Guardians of Tyr will be running a Warhammer 40,000 Conquest tournament at Wargames Workshop Northampton.
• On Monday the 6th of June 2016, will be the fifth part of the Frostgrave campaign being played at Wargames Workshop MK. We will be meeting up once a month on the first Monday of the month for ten months. For details please check the "Frostgrave: The Beginning" Facebook group.
• On Saturday the 18th of June 2016, Guardians of Tyr will be running a Steam Roller Warmachine/Hordes tournament at Wargames Workshop MK. (this will be the last 2nd edition tournament in Milton Keynes).
• On Sunday the 19th of June 2016, Guardians of Tyr will be running a Netrunner tournament at Wargames Workshop Northampton.
• On Sunday the 26th of June 2016, there will be a Malifaux Story Event tournament at Wargames Workshop MK.
• On Sunday the 3rd of July 2016, Guardians of Tyr will be running a Steam Roller Warmachine/Hordes tournament at Wargames Workshop Northampton.
• On Sunday the 17th of July 2016, Guardians of Tyr will be running A Game of Thrones the card game tournament at Wargames Workshop Northampton.

Wargames Workshop MK has a £3 gaming fee or £3.50 for tournaments that do not already have a charge.

For rules for Guardians of Tyr tournaments and leagues as well as information on pre booking your place in tournament. Pre booking is highly recommended so they know how many people are coming. So please go to their website which there is a link to it under my links section which are located on the right hand side of this blog.

York House has a £3 on the day gaming fee (unless you are a child or unemployed where it is £1) and a £5 fee for a year’s membership. However the first day is free and they normally only take the yearly membership fee at the start of the year. The hall officially opens at 7PM for us gamers, but normally people start arriving about fifteen minutes early to grab tables.

"Painting and Converting"

This time I have for you all the ten more UFO for the XCOM board game.

On Tuesday's post I should have for you all a Zombie and four Treasure tokens for Frostgrave.


Until next time, enjoy life.

Neoscream's Life: 25th to 31st of January 2016

Welcome everybody to another the Neoscream's Life post. This is my weekly post of life, what games I have been playing, what I have been painting and what I have watching and reading. This week's opening pictures is of the Screaming Antelope from Kingdom Death.

"Life"

The refit at work was chaotic. I will not go into detail as it is work, however I do believe that they should have shut the store than just running the Drive-thru.

On Monday I went down to Wargames Workshop MK to play a game of the new Magic the Gathering board game with Adrian, Michael and their friend Rob. It was an interesting game the problems with the not knowing the rules. Facepalm. However it is not a game I would want to pick up.

On Friday evening myself, Richard and Darren H went down to Simon’s for some Kingdom Death Monster. We managed to do two showdowns. The first being the Butcher and then a Level One White Lion. We got quite lucky against the Butcher. We defeated him with easy with no loss, but that is more lucky rolls and draws. We defeated the extremely easy too, making us think maybe we should have gone for a level two instead. However it looks like the Settlement phase has/will fuck us over as both the Plague Settlement Event, the Armoured Stranger Story Event and bad dice rolls hit at the same time when we had ten survivors. One survivor died due to the plague so the population, was reduced to nine and the Plague event continues to the next lantern year. With this population, it might we had to roll on the aggression table of Armoured Stranger Story Event and we rolled badly. They want to kill five survivors. ???

"HeroClix"

Like normal on a Thursday night, I went to York House for HeroClix. The Scenario this time was: "The UnAmericans". 500 point, only a third (in figures not points) of your team can be American (USA) Superheroes. Just for the record Superman and Supergirl are from Krypton but are considered American (Clark/Kara are USA Citizen) so would count as American.

After some looking (and the knowledge that someone is already using Excalibur), I decided to do a Warriors Three team. OK it is Asgardian themed, but anyway here is the team:

Thor (038 Marvel Chaos) 200
Hogun (002 Marvel Hammer of Thor Fast Forces) 100
Volstagg (003 Marvel Hammer of Thor Fast Forces) 100
Fandral (018 Marvel Hammer of Thor) 101
=501 points

This week we got an extra play, Adrian's and Michael's friend called Robert. Due to Michael grabbing the wrong tin, his and Darren S popped off to get the right one. Both myself and Adrian played a game to see who will get the first round bye. Adrian was using an Excalibur themed team who were:

Pete Wisdom (022 WizKids Marvel LEs) 100
Captain Britain (023 WizKids Marvel LEs) 133
Colossus (002 Marvel Wolverine and the X-Men) 100
Shadowcat (204 Marvel Wolverine and the X-Men) 70
Cypher (012 Marvel Giant Size X-Men) 38
Cerise (023b Marvel Wolverine and the X-Men) 60
=501 points

Sadly I lost so I ended up with the first round bye. During the first round it was Robert verses Darren S which Darren S won and Adrian verses Michael which Michael won. On the second round I was up against Robert. He was using a Joey Wheeler themed team who were:

Red-Eyes B. Dragon (054 Yu-Gi-Oh Series One) 150
Time Wizard (046 Yu-Gi-Oh Series One) 72
Flame Swordsman (037 Yu-Gi-Oh Series One) 95
Alligator's Sword Dragon (032 Yu-Gi-Oh Series One) 108
=425 points

Yes his team was down by 75 points as Michael and/or Adrian made his team and forgot a figure which they did not realised until we calculated his team after Round one. I managed to win this game, however it was close. Also Michael shockingly won his game against Darren S, while Robert had the bye. On the third and final round I was up against Michael who was using a Blue Lantern Corps themed team who were:

Blue Lantern Recruit (007 DC War of Light) 50
Sister Sercy (033 DC War of Light) 66
Ganthet (047 DC War of Light) 175
Brother Warth (045 DC War of Light) 100
Kyle Rayner (031a DC War of Light) 112
=503 points

Like with Adrian's Red Lanterns were very powerful (but not as powerful) and I ended up losing the game. Also Darren S won his game against Adrian while Robert got the bye. Over Michael won last week. For those who want to know, Darren S was using a Brotherhood of Mutants themed team who were:

Pyro (006 Marvel X-Men Days of Future Past) 90
Destiny (011 Marvel X-Men Days of Future Past) 50
Magneto (034a Marvel Wolverine and the X-Men) 65
Spiral (041 Marvel Wolverine and the X-Men) 106
Exodus (056 Marvel Wolverine and the X-Men) 191
=502 points

There is no set scenario this week. In fact it might not be happening as there will be no Michael.

"Cardfight Vanguard Free Fight"

On Sunday I went down to Wargames Workshop MK for some games of Cardfight Vanguard. I wanted to test my new deck out which I talked about last week in the Build Analysis post. The only change I had done to it from comments, was to replace "Super Cosmic Hero, X-falcon" with "Super Cosmic Hero, X-rogue". I got several games in and won about half of them. I am liking the deck, however I do know I need to improve with it.
I also got a chance to check out the commons box and manage to find some old cards to improve my Genesis and Nova Grappler decks.

"Loot Crate"

I received my Loot Crate last Monday last week. January's theme was Invasion and it contained:

An Exclusive X-Files the day has Come T-shirt.
An Exclusive Alien Facehugger Plush.
An Exclusive Space Invaders Vinyl Figure.
An Exclusive the Fifth Element Prop Replica Multi Pass.
Two Exclusive Invasion Mini Art Prints.
An Exclusive X-Files LED Flashlight.
January's Loot Crate Mag.
All new pin badge January.

It was a nice Crate, not great but not terrible. I am a little shock that there was nothing Mars Attacks related in the crate.

The X-Files torch is a great handy thing to have. The t-shirt is nice too. Oh and the change from a badge to a pin badge is a nice move, however it does make my collection look odd now.

Well anyway February's theme will be Dead. Celebrating all things Zombies and Deadpool related.

"Painting and Converting"

For this post I have for you all a Non-Games Workshop Naked Tau Sniper.

On Friday's post I should have for you all three soldiers from the XCOM board game. During the week I managed to finish paining two figure for Frostgrave and two figures from Robotech RPG Tactics. I did technically finished off a a third figure for Frostgrave, my Wizard. However due to an arm disappearing while painting I have not classed her as finished. I need to find a replacement arm as I cannot find the original.
Below is an image of my painting table at the end of last Sunday night or the start of Monday morning.

“Watch, Listen and Read”

Monday
Received: January's Loot Crate.

Tuesday

Watched: WWE Royal.

Wednesday

Watched:That week's episode of WWE Raw. 

Thursday
Received: Two packs of mecha card sleeves for my Dimension Police.

Friday
Watched: Part of that week’s episode of WWE Main Event. 
Received: Two copies of "Legendary Dimensional Robo, Daikaiser Leon".

Saturday
Watched: The rest of that week’s episode of WWE Main Event, that week’s episode of WWE Smackdown, that week’s episode of Weekender’s, episodes 1 and 2 Mazinkaiser SKL, episodes 21 to 25 of Fairy Tail and episode 9 of Cardfight Vanguard G Gears Crisis.

Sunday
Watched: That week’s episode of Weekenders XLBS and episodes 26 to 38 of Fairy Tail. 
Brought and Received: A pot of paint and some card sleeves. 
Received: 99th-gen Dimensional Robo Commander, Great Daiearth.

Still in the post or soon be should
Last Saga bits.

Black Friday Kingdom Death stuff.
Tickets to see Foxes.
Foxes second album "All I Need".
Mechabrick.
Slaughterball team.


Until next time, enjoy life.