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The report for our Frostgrave game is pretty long so I’ll just say that it was epic and extremely satisfying.<\/p>\n
After Frostgrave, we had some time for the dealer hall so we toured the hall looking at things in earnest.<\/p>\n From the Frozen City, we moved to the frozen north of Westeros.\u00a0 CMON had one table open for demoing their two new factions for ASOIF so we waited for some people to finish up their game and then jumped in.\u00a0 The demoer was in a bit of a scramble as he was trying to field two other tables so I let him know that “we got this” and he could focus on the tables with new players.\u00a0 In kind, he said to play a full game instead of the customary “play 3 rounds” and so we went at it.<\/p>\n I took the Night’s Watch and my friend took the Free Folk.\u00a0 After reading through the various new cards and abilities, we got started. The Night’s Watch featured Commander Mormont leading a band of Sworn Brothers and Ranger Trackers.<\/p>\n I’m not sure how well I like the Night’s Watch.\u00a0 Their main troops hit hard with Sundering and Critical Blow but the faction’s “Vow” theme didn’t quite work for me.\u00a0 Most of the Vow cards, which stay on a unit to add a buff, require your NCU to own a particular spot on the Tactic’s board which means you can’t effectively have a lot of vow cards out on the table and expect all of them to work. This may see them struggle at larger point sizes or rely on more NCUs than normal.\u00a0 The ranged cavalry is neat but they are so soft that you can’t let them get into contact with the enemy.<\/p>\n My friend seemed to have a lot more on the “goodies” side with the Free Folk and I’ll admit, I liked the unique play style they offered more than the Night’s Watch.\u00a0 You get a lot of cheap\/weak units with the Trappers and Raiders, led by Tormund, as well as the new Giant units.\u00a0 Also, the Free Folk cards were more fun even when played against me.<\/p>\n Our game ended with the Savage Giant trying to take down my Sworn Brothers.\u00a0 These poor guys kept getting beat down to one or two men, then propped back up by Maester Aemon.\u00a0 At least three times, that giant would swing down on the wounded brothers, needing only a 2+ to hit and automatically wipe the unit out, only to see a 1 drop on the table. I eventually brought the giant down with my ranged cavalry but it took a bit of luck to get there.\u00a0 The game was really fun and I could see myself picking up the Free Folk faction. The only hesitation is if\/when the Others\/White Walkers come out, will they be even more impressive with their undead and giants and ???\u00a0 I guess the game has to do well enough for that to happen but my hopes are high.<\/p>\n Having monopolized the CMON table long enough, we went in search for new prey.\u00a0 I stumbled on this crazy new mech for Dust Tactics or whatever it is called now. This is the direction I had wished the large units were going from the get go but I never really followed the game in earnest so I shouldn’t really have a dog in the fight.\u00a0 Cool mini though.<\/p>\n I wandered over to the Mythic Games booth and saw they had the plastic version of the Dragon sculpt from Joan of Arc available to handle and see. Really excited to get this game in hand.\u00a0 The Mythic Games booth looked a little sad though and not as put together as the previous year.\u00a0 Their case wasn’t as full or as prominent so it didn’t show off their minis as well.\u00a0 They did have several more though so that was something.<\/p>\n Moving on, we saw an empty table for Games Workshop’s Kill Team so we sat down to demo and hopefully get a fuller picture of the game.\u00a0 Unfortunately, what we got was probably the laziest rules overview I’d seen.\u00a0 I don’t know if the demoer was just incompetent or told to say what he said but trying to get the actual rules for the game from him was almost impossible.<\/p>\n Line of Sight? What games do you play? Cool! It works like that. Movement? Same thing, it works like that.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n I don’t think it would have mattered what game we mentioned (we said Warmachine, which, to my knowledge Kill Team does not simply “work like that”), the guy was just feeding us a line to move through the demo quickly. Half the rules I’d heard about before in my first foray into this game were left out and what we ended up with was some random version of Kill Team Calvin Ball (which is now our official term for demoers phoning in straight up BS rules they either don’t understand or were never trained on).\u00a0 Kill Team is going to have to get a hard pass as I don’t have more time to devote to it and what I’ve seen doesn’t seem like what I want to get into.<\/p>\n Note to Publishers: your demoers at these events are your equivalent to a sales force. If you want to move product, make sure they know their shit.<\/p>\n That was all I had time for in the dealer hall as I had to run back to the hotel and get my event material for the events I was running that evening.<\/p>\n First up was my second annual Pitchcar Death Race. We had some returning faces this year and skill won out as an experience Pitchcar enthusiast and Crokinole player ended up taking the gold.<\/p>\n It wasn’t all skill as the White car player was new to both Pitchcar and my Death Race variant and took in second place.\u00a0 It seemed like everyone was having fun and I was glad to see the event fill up completely.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n