FULL HOUSE! Club Meeting - 19 June 2016

Mate! Sturges Road Community House was chocka-block on Sunday! You should have seen the place, it was jumpin'! If there was every any dispute (and to date there hasn't been, I'd just like to point out) that TCOW is THE GREATEST gaming club in Auckland, they've been well and truly dispelled!

We had games of all shapes, sizes, genres and colour. We had tanks. We had Wizards. We had dropships. We had cards. We had it all! Do you wanna see what we had? Sure you do, that's why you're here!

Frostgrave

Molly's Frostgrave campaign is well and truly underway with 2 tables of spooky looking terrain dominating the centre tables this week. Jon and Molly paired up while Bool and Martina walked their respective bands through their paces among the frozen streets.

Humans, Elves, Orcs (yeah, Orcs can be wizards too!) all vying for the best of the treasures and to get their spellbooks bolstered for the next time they ventured into the chilly surrounds of the frozen city.

Flames of War

Damo has done it! His completely unrealistic and historically inaccurate Japanese tank horde has taken shape and decided that it needed some competition! And what better way to introduce them to battle than against a German SS tank army, right?! I think we all know how this one is likely to end....

Damo managed to hold on here for quite some time, with his NGFS taking care of a single Panther while his air-wing failed to make any inroads into the far superior German armour. A hard-fought 5-2 to Darren. He really had to work for it!

Dropzone Commander

The Leprechaun's Tale continues with the Shaltari assaulting into the UCM through the building and monorails of Kobenhavn.

Monorail, monorail, monorail!

I'm unsure as to who won this one, but having played against the cheaty Shaltari before, I reckon it might have been them!

Bolt Action

Monkey and I decided to have a crack at some Bolt Action. Monkey brought his SAS and I brought my SS, so it was the battle of the S! He even had a tank on his side, which didn't make me feel so bad about bringing one!

The thing about Veteran units is that they're pretty small, so this one was a blood-fest! Lots of dead elite troops on both sides by the end of it! Monkey had to hold the objective in the centre to win. I just had to kill him....and I got so damned close! Last turn of the game, all the SAS are off the boxes and he runs a FREAKING OBSERVER in as his last action! Bastard!!! Such a fun game though!

Magic

Despite the TCOW Commander league being concluded the previous meeting, our group of card-floppers couldn't help but walk the Planes for a little while.

I believe the next organised play will be the next Conspiracy set, so watch this space!

But there you have it! Another TCOW in the books, and a successful one at that! If you're interested in Gaming in Auckland, why not come and join us. Details of meetings are on our Facebook page.

Next meeting is on the 3rd of July, so we hope to see you there!

Alternate club day gaming

When the news from the glorious leader arrived that there would be no club on the 22nd May there were some people who accepted it, some got angry, some broke down in to tears but a few of us decided no, we will not go quietly in to the next week, we are not cancelling the apocalypse, dice will be rolled in anger!

On the Saturday we held the first games of -

This is set up as a narrative driven escalation campaign set up to bring players who are just starting out to near full sized games.

You can find the primer document here which sets out the start of the story, how to participate, how to sign up and how to submit results.

The first day 3 starter box games were played. These represent the UCM Expeditionary Force arriving on New Asgard and dropping in to a cauldron of fighting with no allies on the ground. Communication has yet to be established with local Resistance forces with the Scourge fully entrenched on the planet, PHR pulling the strings and Shaltari arriving and throwing themselves in to the fray.

GAME 1

Damian's Resistance "Warriors of Týr" vs Greg's UCM "Force Fair Dinkum"

Rapiers deploy to cover the Bear APCs and infantry heading to the objective building,

    

                   Resistance tanks move in on the Rapiers           

Kraken and Gun Wagons join the fray.                       They do a mighty job clearing the skies.

20 Resistance troopers with their homemade RPGs focus fire on one Sabre MBT and score a kill.

         

Bear APCs having lost their ride are                   The Rapiers cover the Bears beautifully allowing 

driving an objective off the table with                                   them to escape the battlefield             

Resistance in hot pursuit                                                                                         

Final score 4-2 to the Resistance with the UCM taking heavy air losses but still strong on the ground force.

Resistance survivors of the first encounter with these strange vehicles of unknown design.

GAME 2

Faizal's Resistance "Odin's sons" vs David's Shaltari "Clan Aiur"

What starts as a calm city block.

Ends up with a bloody mess in the large centre building as every infantry model in the battle take part in one almighty CQB with the Shaltari Braves coming out on top.

Final score 1-0 to Clan Aiur. 

Note: David will have a video report of this available at a later time and I will link that in to this.

GAME 3

Greg's UCM "Force Fair Dinkum" vs David's Shaltari "Clan Aiur"

UCM Rapier spot the lighter armoured Tomahawk MBT and start to unleash countless rounds over a couple of turns overwhelming the Shaltari shields and winning the exchange.

With David having one objective off the table and Greg holding another the game looks all but done, until Greg unleashes everything in to the building housing the Shaltari infantry, crushing them as the building collapses around them and shattering the Haven gates using it as cover.

Final score 2-1 to Clan Aiur. 

Note: David will have a video report of this available at a later time and I will link that in to this.


On Sunday 23rd games of Malifaux were also played, below are some pics posted in the TCOW Facebook page by Martina and from the NZ Malifaux page which you can find here.

The crew all set up and ready to cheat, legally of course.

Desert mash.

Bayou bash.

As always amazing terrain by the Malifaux crowd.

So even with the club day rug pulled out from under us games were had and plastic/metal men and women were destroyed in a multitude of savage ways. 

The games must go on.

CAMPAIGN!

One of the best ways of playing any kind of wargame or tabletop game is in a narrative campaign setting. Over the course of many individual games in your chosen system, your force/warband/gang gets better or worse at what they do depending on how well you play.

And of course...the could get dead.

Starting over the course of the next few club meetings, we're going to have a few campaigns starting in a couple of different systems.

So, if you're interested in getting involved in one of these campaigns, just on to the TCOW Facebook page and get involved! 

Alignment of Toys! - Club Meeting 24.04.2016

They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them.

This weekend saw the remembrance of the sacrifices our forefathers made so we can enjoy the freedoms we hold dear today. We will remember them.

CLUB MEETING!

It was a long weekend in Auckland and you know what, we still had a full house. Players being shuffled around to fit everyone in and everyone laughing and having a great time!

And of course, I know that you know...and you know that I know that you know...what we played! Total system count = 6

Frostgrave

Frostgrave continues to get some great following here at TCOW and this week, Molly took Andrew and Jon through an intro game as they both had not played before. I love the terrain being used for Frostgrave, it just ticks all the boxes!

Flames of War

As always, a club stalwart! We had 2 games being run at the end of the room, both MW and LW varieties. Gav and Pat were indulging in a little MW action with Gav's Germans and Pat's Kiwi's taking a run at each other.

Mike and Darren we're ensconced in the LW side of things with Darren's Germans trying to hold back Mike's Brits through the bocage.

This is Not a Test!

Dan and Harrison marched into the Wasteland in search of bottle caps. As Harrison's warband was a little more formed than Dan's, the difference rule kicks in....so of course Dan chose to add 25 dogs!

Dropzone Commander

A couple of starter box games of DZC this week as people start getting a bit more involved in this system (me included). Dave and Pablo played first and then Pablo walked Faizal and I through another one. I really like this game so am very excited to get some bit painted up.

Dungeon Saga

Before I went off and hit some 10mm games, I took Faiz and Monkey through the first quest from Mantic's new dungeon crawler. Mistakes were made but everyone had fun and we're gonna look at doing a campaign for this one!

Magic

The battles of the Planeswalkers continues at TCOW!

Monkey and I also played some Modern....this happened.

Hedrons.....ALIGNED!

See y'all next time.