Back In Ye Olde Saddle (Or "Please, sir. May I have some more [pain and suffering]?")

THE BLOG THAT WILL NOT DIE!

Gentle reader, did you think you were rid of me so easily?  ('Of course not,' I hear you murmur.  'After all, aren't you stoopid enuff to play Khador in the first place?')

Alas, 'tis true and where I have touched neither Cyanoacrilic Acetate, nor Spray Primer in perhaps a year, I did return to the world of tournament play this weekend last.  [GASP]

I know.  I find myself boggled about the whole thing as well.  So after a frantic search to scrabble up my models and dice, and scrape (literally) the dust off my gaming bag, I set a tentative foot inside ye LFGS for another beatin'.  Well, sort of.

I was not well versed on Mk. II, despite my lastminutecrash immersion.  I remember that I spent a lot of time flipping my Kodiak card over and over wondering what had happened to 'All-terrain.'  Even my dice seemed to have pity on me, for a change.

I won a 4 to 2 points split on time, and lost a 2-4 the same way, and lost 2 to caster kill.  The games I enjoyed the best were against Warmachine factions.  Every time against Hordes it went something like; "bite, claw, claw, buy an attack, buy an attack, buy an attack, buy an attack.  Dead yet?  No?  Buy an attack."

Overall, it was fun to be playing again.  Even losing can occasionally be instructive. 

So what now?  Well, the ginormus pit that is my basement isn't much cleaner than it was when I spooed playing.  As always other projects will beg for time.  All-in-all, I think I may be back.

Farewell Mk1 (almost)

Ooh my aching skull!

It didn't really hit me. I thought I still had some time to get some of the Legends or even Superiority minis thrown together. I looked forward to building Fenris or Beast-09 (although with less glee after my disasters with Drago). I wanted to play with some Kazany or Iron Fang Uhulans before the demise of my tiny-text cards. (Where was that rule for the Greatbears again? flip-flip-flip)

But with the early release of the cards and rules via the intrawubz, my time has gone the way of the flying toaster screen saver. Some of the most expensive I don't yet own, much less have assembled. Ooh, methinks I'll have a busy and CA glue covered fall!

Teh Warm-machine Uptick...

...or "All standing in line for 45 minutes gets you is sore feet."

Sooooo, Gen Con 2K9. I went. I made sure I was there for the 'big announcement." Everyone knew it was going to be something about the video game. What else could it have been? Mark 2 is in final revision, the Retribution source book was released at the Con, No Quarter isn't due until next month....

I do appreciate the meeting to lay the rumors to rest and to let the populace that the game is definitely going forward. Aside from that, a little more content would have been nice. A huffing Juggernaut while awesome, seemed a little underwhelming for the wait. Maybe Juggy should have taken a punch at something, or Sorcha swung her maul...

Gratuitous Gloating: All the samples were Khador! Yeah! In yo' face other factions! Ironclad? Nope. Bonejacks? Nope. Menothy-thing? Nope. The Motherland was representing!

(ahem) Yes, the graphics were cool. Yes the textures were cool. Yes, the idea is cool. Will I buy it? If I don't have to switch computer systems to do it, yes I will. Will I play it? Oooh...see, there's the real question.

I'm sure the manufacturer doesn't care. I don't play a lot of games right now, aside from free stuff on Face Book, and a few notable sims. FPS doesn't interest me in PC format, and I don't own any of the newest game consoles to consider it. If the newest titles of my favorite franchise, Metal Gear havent' prompted me to pick up a PS3, I don't think this will either.

I guess if it doesn't require costly and time consuming upgrades to my machine, and isn't a real budget-buster, I will probably pick it up, if for no other reason than to support the line.

Of course I am saying the same thing about Mark 2, but for different reasons.