Again with the HO plastics

The wife and I went over to Gettysburg for the weekend, and I dragged her into the Gettysburg Toy soldier store.  They did have a lot of stuff, however mostly not my scale or period. 

They had a lot of fully-painted 54mm figures of various periods that were pretty cool, but too expensive to play with.   They had a ton of really, really cheap Civil War plastic army men, for obvious reasons.

The only 25mm metal figures they had were either Napoleonics or Civil War.

What they did have were a ton of 1/72 scale plastic figures, which are just a noticeable step down in size from what I use at the table (approximately 20mm).
The appealing thing about them is that they run about $10 for 50 figures, which is super way better than lead.


I did buy 2 boxes of WW2 guys, who I thought would actually do for Sci-Fi or modern games.   When I got home, I ordered a box of Gangsters and a box of Policemen online in the same scale.  I had been eyeing them since Fall-In last year, and decided to jump on it now.

I'm also looking at various modern and sci-fi lead figs of various types.  I told my wife that if I ever bought another Dark Ages spearman she is to slap me hard.  I don't play with all the Dark Ages, Ancients and Medievals I've already got.  

Now I'm just rambling.    I'll stop.

What is Modern Technology For?

I was reading a Flash Gordon comic book on my Kindle Fire Tablet, and it suddenly hit me.  "Why am I not listening to Queen playing the Flash Gordon theme song?"   I mean, what else is modern technology for, other than that.  In mere moments, I was listening to Flash Gordon while reading Flash Gordon.   There is no better time than this.

Lamest...Villain...Ever

One of the free comics I read over the weekend was the first issue of the original Guardians of the Galaxy.   These Guardians are completely different from the Second Version of the Guardians of the Galaxy, upon whom the movie was based.

Anyway,  their enemy in the issue was a villain with one of the lamest names ever for a super-villain....get ready for it....TASERFACE.    Yes, you read it right the first time....TASERFACE.   He had a powerful suit of armor, but he could shoot people....WITH HIS FACE.   Lest you doubt me, behold

Discovering digital comics

Guess what, grandpa, they also have these things called telephones, that let people talk to each other from hundreds of miles away.

I got a Kindle Fire tablet last week, and one of the things I've gotten into are digital comic books.   The killer app for me was the feature from Comixology that allows you to scroll through panel to panel, not page to page.  It makes it much more legible and enjoyable than looking at a PDF or something.

I've enjoyed many free books, and bought some others.  I particularly like the fact that you can get a whole story-line easily without any fuss.   That's one thing that deters me from buying them in hard copy, coming in mid-story and then missing later issues.  It's also awesome that I don't have to store them or chuck them when I'm done.

The only danger is how easy it might be to accidentally spend way to much money on stupid comic books.

Calling Dibs

I'm calling Dibs on being Judge next week.    I want to yank a plot-thread I've been waving around for a year or so.   I also want to set the parameters for the clearing out of the Island of the Dead, since Yoeville will never thrive until that is accomplished, as Andrew has pointed out.   Perhaps the dungeon portion will be still automated, and if Andrew wants to do a lightning round, we can still do that, but I want some time to play out a few things with me as full judge.

1 more level

Many of us are 8th level now, only 1 level from the stronghold levels.    I go back and forth all the time as to whether to try to rule over some peasants, or just run my sacred order of neo-Ardean assassins.


Despite the fact that I get the Savage Worlds or Homebrew Game or Traveller itch every now and again, I'm pretty excited that we're actually reaching the "name levels"  and are going to start building stuff soon. 


Should we perhaps have a page on the campaign wiki for each person who builds one's stronghold?   We need some sort of uniform of monitoring what people are doing, time and effort wise.


I know Jason has been banging away with Badaxe Jack all along, how much paperwork is involved?

Worst movie ever

It was called "The Meanest Men in the West" and xfinity on demand claimed it was a 1970 movie starring Charles Bronson and Lee Marvin, both fine drunk and violent movie stars. However, it turned out to be 2 episodes of the series "The Virginian"  one from 63 with Marvin, and one from 67 with Bronson.  The two episodes were incredibly hamfistedly edited together in pretense of making a single story, and padded out with pointless stock footage of cows and random pioneers.  I am just glad I didn't spend any money on it.