Origins Game Fair 2013

It was an odd year at Origins this year, the atmosphere of the con was really subdued.  The vendors hall had booths missing from businesses that were sponsors of the show, they just sat empty.  If you were a miniatures enthusiast there was not much for you, the minis games were relegated to an area behind the board game people that was roughly half the size of last year.  But if you like board games it was the con for you, ever time you turned around you saw Settlers of Catan (don't get me wrong I like Catan).

Some cool giant poster in the games hall  (they are like 20 feet tall).

A really cool viking game in progress.

The coolest game at the show was this 15mm ACW game.

I know I just went down for the day on Saturday, but the experience makes me think about not coming back next year.  Maybe I will try to hit some other cons this year to see what they are like.

Grumlok and Gazbag

Gollum

The King of the Mountain

Buckeye Battles 2012

Went to Buckeye Battles again this year, and did massively better than last year. Over all I went 4-0-1, which is great cause I lost a three games last year on day one. My first game was against tomb kings that ended in a draw. Then the next was versus Lizardmen which was a massacre for me, I managed to take off all of his models (he had no slann). Next up was Dogs of War from the independent army list, he had a lot of magic (10 levels) that didn't help him all that much. On to the next day my first game was against Warriors of Chaos with a hoard of great weapon marauders that I beat with my big uns and a hoard of night goblins in the flank. Last game was against Ogres and the key to it was when his Ironguts with his level 4 slaughtermaster charged my Arachnarok spider I knew I would loose it so I directed all of its attacks at the Slaughtermaster to make up for his points(and killed him), in the end it was a minor victory for me. All in all it was a great weekend, and I would like to say thanks to Jeff Parkhurst and all of his crew for running a great event. Here are some random picks I took on the weekend.