The 'Geeks End o' Year Stats

Aldie, at Boardgamegeek, has posted the Top 100s in all sorts of categories. And I'm on a couple of them!

For Files, I have three entries: Dominion Horizontal Card Box Dividers, Command and Colors: Ancients Combat Reference, and Fields of Fire CC Play Aid. I was a busy beaver.

Even better, in the Session Reports I have six entries! They are for A Most Dangerous Time, Napoleon's Triumph, Unhappy King Charles, Memoir '44 - Hedgerow Hell, and the two ASL sessions posted here on this blog. Woot!

I have no shame in tooting my own horn, those things took a lot of time and effort. Thanks to everyone who thumbed me and I look forward to telling more fun stories of my games on the blog and the 'geek in the new year!

Files:
Dominion - http://www.boardgamegeek.com/filepage/45908
CC Ancients - http://www.boardgamegeek.com/filepage/40962
Fields of Fire - http://www.boardgamegeek.com/filepage/39295

Sessions:
AMDT -
http://www.boardgamegeek.com/thread/408061/a-short-but-mostly-dangerous-time
NT -
http://www.boardgamegeek.com/thread/384766/a-first-game-of-napoleons-triumph
UKC -
http://www.boardgamegeek.com/thread/431970/happy-in-the-end-a-session-report-of-unhappy-king
M44 -
http://www.boardgamegeek.com/thread/399595/hedgerow-hell-is-memoir-heaven
ASL D1 -
http://www.boardgamegeek.com/thread/420737/d1-guryevs-headquarters
ASL U15 -
http://www.boardgamegeek.com/thread/477162/u15-battle-for-the-warta-line

TABSCON XIX Recap

Another TABSCON has come and gone and despite a city-wide garbage strike, the TABBERS have hosted another fun event. Hightlights? The nice weather, the guy who won six raffle prizes, and scrub's first game of full ASL!

Andy who frequents the blog and is a fellow TABBER has been planning my imminent demise in ASL and today he fulfilled his lifelong dream of concurrently teaching an ASL newb the ropes and hanging him with them. Haha! Seriously though, thanks a lot to you Andy! The severe beating was a gentle one. A slightly more thorough AAR is to follow but here's a pic of the scenario, D1 - Guryev's Headquarters, a DASL scenarios! Shiny big maps!

I also got a chance to play Conflict of Heroes (dug it out to teach a new player), and No Retreat!. The latter to teach Kozure and John -- I think they were both impressed that the whole Eastern Front could be played in a reasonable amount of time on a ledger sheet of paper-sized map.

I also dragged the prawn along and he filled in as my substitute in a game of A Most Dangerous Time with Ben. Alas, the prawn discovered too late that housekeepers are not combat troops and his home castle was take by marauding Oda.

Thanks again to Andy for a great time. My brain was suitably mushy afterwards. Thank too to the TABSCon Steering committee. See you guys in September!

Now where the hell is my VASLeague opponent?!

TABSCon XIX June 2009 & other stuff...

1. Alright you apes, TABSCon XIX is just four weeks away on June 27th!

That's the good news. The even better news is that my previously unavoidable social engagement on that day is now kaput and I'm free to attend. Andy, rev up the ASL machine -- I'm ready for a full ASL learning experience (or butt-kicking). Peloton, let's ASLSK-it-up!

Consider this an invitation for anyone in the Greater Toronto Area (and beyond) to get down to TABSCon and get your gaming on!

2. Battles Magazine has launched and has gotten a ton of good buzz. So, I continued my one man quest to restart the moribund global economy and purchased a copy. It arrived in less than a week and long story short, it is worth every penny. I have never seen such a graphically pleasing wargame magazine. And the content? It's great too. Go get yourself a copy if you're a wargamer -- it even has ASL and ASLSK scenarios!

3. In non-ASL-related news, I will soon have a published article in MMP's Operations Magazine. Alas, it's based on this and not ASL, loyal readers. Never fear though, I've been pondering a submission based on ASL(SK) for Operations in the future.

4. Lastly, thanks to everyone who has been emailing me comments about the blog. Much appreciated!

p.s. Happy Birthday to Mrs. scrub. She's, uh, 27 today. Yeah, yeah, that's it...