Fear and loathing in a galaxy far far away

Well I have as many before and after me become kind of a X-wing junkie. I actually got a Swedish version of the game from my wife soon after the initial release and I bought some of the iconic ships that came in the first waves especially the rebel ships. But I didn't play it that much, mainly because of other gaming commitments.  For long I frowned upon all the weird ships they were releasing.

But early this year one of my friends that lives in my neighborhood contacted me and asked if I wanted to play some X-wing after work. We played two more evenings that week, I was kind of saying "I will stick to the rebel ships". I bought some ships, and then I heard from a friend that had bought a substantial collection of x-wing ships recently. He had to many of the Imperial ships that I didn't have, so I went a head and bought them from him. Another friend that was getting out of the game had a gaming mat and some more ships... What do you know soon I had a massive collection of X-wing, how did this happened?

During this year I have attended many X-wing tournament, big and small. For many it seems that the advantage of X-wing is a good game mechanic, pre-painted models and/or list building options. But for me its really the amount of players and events to play, I have to play a game a lot to get good at it. One more thing that is great about it, even if its great for competitive play, we also had massive fun in my gaming group with Epic play (more points and larger ships) and we even played a co-op campaign.

So Dennis, when will we play again?

Some results:

13 Mars - Store Championship, Malmö 22/34

• Prototype Pilot + Chardaan Refit
• Prototype Pilot + Chardaan Refit
• Keyan Farlander + Stay on Target + Advanced Sensors
• Ten Numb + Mangler Cannon + Veteran Instincts

26 mars -  Store Championship, Gothcon 33/35

• Academy Pilot
• Academy Pilot
• The Inquisitor + Push the Limit + Tie/v1 + Autothrusters
• Krassis Trelix + Heavy Laser Cannon + Tactician

9 april - Store championship, Malmö 8/30

• Binayre Pirate + Guidance Chips + Cluster Missiles
• Binayre Pirate + Guidance Chips + Cluster Missiles
• NDru Suhlak + Lone Wolf
• Boba Fett + Heavy Laser Cannon + Crack Shot + Glitterstim

14 maj - Spring kit, Malmö

• Results lost in space.

11 - 12 juni - System open: Naboo, Copenhagen

• Whisper + Agent Kallus + Fire-controll system + Veteran Instincts + Advanced cloaking device
• Captain Oicunn + Determination + Moff Jerjerrod + Intelligence Agent x2 + Proton torpedoes + Dauntless + Engine upgrade

2 juli Regional 2016, Malmö 20/36

• Whisper + Veteran Instincts + Advanced Cloaking Device + Fire-Control System + Intelligence Agent
• Captain Oicunn + Predator + Engine Upgrade + Emperor Palpatine + Rebel Captive

9 juli - Regionals 2016, Warcon 25/40

• Green Squadron Pilot + A-Wing Test Pilot + Adaptability + Push the Limit + Autothrusters + Proton Rockets
• Tycho Celchu + A-Wing Test Pilot + Daredevil + Push the Limit + Experimental Interface + Proton Rockets
• Horton Salm + Twin Laser Turret + Plasma Torpedoes + R4-D6 + Guidance Chips

So whats next? Some summer kit playing both at home in Malmö and Kalmar. And by the way I just bought...

Golden Kami II - a Bushido tournament

During this years Gothcon we held the second Golden kami. This was the second time Peder and I organized a Bushido tournament at Gothcon, last year we had ten participants. This time around we had 14 players (me included) and many new faces!

We decided to play four games, with these scenarios: 'the Messenger', 'the Idols', 'Botoku' and 'Omaju'. The theme cards had really made an impact this years as only one or two players didn't use any and Temples 'Righteous warriors' being very popular, all four temple was based on that theme. I also played with a theme, a less successful though, Yurei´s 'Death and decay'.

After four games we had a winner, Magnus! Thanks to all that attended and especially those that helped and brought along terrain.

The Results

1. Magnus "Wendel" Wendel - Temple

   

   Erik - Magnus - Martin 

2. Martin "MartyOne" Holmgren - Tengu
3. Erik "ErikS" Sundberg - Temple
4. Rickard Andersson - Temple
5. Peder "Bobo" Harty - Savage wave
6. Andreas "Isak" Isaksson - Ito
7. Samuel "samuelmichaelsson" Michaëlsson - Yurei
8. Erik "McGordon" Sjöberg - Silvermoon
9. Jonas "Ecksen" Rådemar - Savage wave
10. Max "Nakuni" Christiansson
11. Mark Lagerlöf
12. Johan "Ret_johanem" Malmström - Yurei
13. Victor Holmqvist
14. Klas "Klasseman" Edlund - Temple 

Magnus was playing with this:

• Master Po - 12 
• Oki Shisa - 11
• Yumi - 9
• Yukki - 8
• Hotaru - 6
• Aiko - 4
• Righteous warriors
• Kami of Eternal earth - (4)

Part 2: Gothcon 2015 - Wild West and Bushido

Second day of Gothcon (or third if you count Thursday). As we got a lot of questions about doing demo games of Bushido during the tournament on Friday, we decided to run a Bushido board next to the Dead mans hand scenario.

Part 1: Gothcon 2015 - Bushido tournament

As usual gamers from all over Sweden gathered in Gothenburg this Easter, for Swedens largest gaming convention, Gothcon. This year Peder and I managed to arrange to events over the weekend, a Bushido tournament and Dead mans hand scenario. As the last two years we joined the loose gaming group that is nerds nest, its a group of like minded players that bring either own designed games or scenarios most of the time centered around miniatures. A new thing for this year was that for some reason we were placed in the same building as the shops. The reasoning for this was that we were supposed to draw gamers to the shops, a bit strange as almost all games in Nerds nest is either small games (sales wise) or home brew rules.

Gothcon 2014

Gothcon XXVIII

This year at Gothcon (an annual gaming convention in Gothenburg) I teamed up with a friend of mine, Magnus, to do a Bolt action scenario. At the time when we started to plan the scenario we were both commited to painting the units for a campaign from the skirmish Campaign series: Monty´s EPSOM, so it felt natural to use that book as inspiration.

After some discussion we decided to use the scenario "Royal tanks". It´s different than many other of the scenarios in the series as it is a meeting engagment, so neither side is defending. This we thought would make a great scenario as an introduction to Bolt action. It pits parts of the 15th Scottish Division against elements of Kampfgruppe Weidinger  somewhere between Caen and Villers Bocage.

Gothcon 2014 - Bilderna

I väntan på min Gothcon rapport kommer här lite bilder som blev tagna under påskhelgen.

"Japp, jag har gjort allt helt själv!"

Andra slaget om Corinth

Tog bilden för att Magnus såg fokuserad ut, inser nu att han mer ser ut som om han spelar Warma/Hordes. Uttråkad! ;)

"Vafan, har du hittat fyrkantiga lampskärmar??!?"

By fire and sword 

Snyggt som vanligt 

Infinity

Den lede fi

Hjärnor

Populärt Corinth 

Krim någon?

Vilken ilska i den blicken! :) Mr Sportmanship...

Gothcon 2013

Årets Gothcon blev något lite nytt för min del. Jag har arrangerat saker för, men denna gången så körde jag

demo spel av Bolt action. I samarbete med lite vänner som samlat lite olika figurspel under namnet Nerds nest. Allt från Micro simuleringar där Sovjet unionen invaderar Sverige under 80-talet till Skrimish spel i form av Bushido.

Gothcon blandade karameller.