The news has been making the rounds across the websites but I thought I’d weigh in briefly on Ares Games’ announcement that they are developing a starship battle game set in the Battlestar Galactica universe. The game “scale” looks to be a dogfight scale game with players controlling a number of individual fighter scale ships.
image from the publisher
My friends and I were looking for a time to get a lot of gaming in but realized we didn’t really have the time to go far so we decided to have a “house” Con. To us, a House Con is where someone hosts open house gaming for a time, usually a weekend or so and people come and go but we more or less treat it like round-the-clock gaming.
The beginning of the year doesn’t just include resolutions and goals but it means preparations. Even though August is a ways off, planning for the biggest show of the year, Gen Con, starts now. Yesterday, the first volley of activity for this great convention started with the opening of event submissions.
See Recap Day 1 or Recap Day 2 or Recap Day 3
The last day of the Con was here and my big Loopin’ Chewie Tournament was in the morning. I say “big” because it had apparently sold out all 36 slots. Last year I had four people show up so this was going to be interesting.
See Recap Day 1 or Recap Day 2
Just like Friday, my friend and I cleared Saturday morning to run over to the Mythic Games booth and try out the other scenario. This scenario is supposed to show the games non-fantasy options and be less narrative and focused more on strategy.
As I said in my Day 1 report, seeing the Time of Legends: Joan of Arc display case had me ditching events to check it out in the dealer hall. My friend and I lined up at the appropriate entrance and bee-lined to the Mythic Games booth to sit down for a demo as soon as the hall opened.
It’s been a while since I’ve done a Walking Dead Wednesday but I did seek out Mantic to see what things were coming up from this great minis game.
Thursday opened the Con with its typical crush of attendees all vying for position at the main entrances.
At Gen Con 50, we were able to talk to the Hawk team and get a rough idea of the major changes coming to Dropzone 2.0. These rules are still in beta so may change and are mainly from my notes so I may have missed or misinterpreted them:
So we’re in the Indy Airport, Granite City and Gen Con is over. I was obviously way too busy to keep up with the blog but I have a lot of notes ready and will try to get them out in the next week or so.
It was a spectacular Con and I’m excited to work on my events for next year.
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