I’ll have some pictures of our fleets up by Wednesday. I had some picture issues and some others just need to be edited / touched up.

To start off, I said last week that after GenCon I would be announcing something special depending on how GenCon went. Well, I believe it was a success, so here it is. For those of you in the Terre Haute, IN area, I have been looking into opening my own store. What does the store do you ask? Simple, it will provide a nice, friendly environment for people to come play Collectable Card Games (Such as Magic The Gathering, World of Warcraft, Yugi-oh), Miniatures (Like Warhammer 40k, Lord of the Rings, and Malifaux), and even have some places for you to gather with friends to role play (Dungeons & Dragons, White Wolf, Vampire).

So at GenCon, I was looking for new games, what games were popular, and of course, mingling with my fellow gamers!

Today’s article will conclude what I discovered about Miniatures. Some of you may know the company called Privateer Press. They where showing off a a new game this year, which was sold out of starters every day (they kept getting special FedEx shipments to restock each day) and had a long line to play test. All I know is, it dealt with giant monsters inside of a city. As I saw monsters and skyscrapers on the playmat.

World of Warcraft will be releasing their own game of miniatures, which they had setup for show and you could get in line to learn to play. I believe one friend sat in line for 2 hours, far to long for me, I’ll just buy a starter when they are released and read the rules myself.

Lastly, the thing I actually want to talk about is a game from the company Wyrd. I spent some time talking with the company owner and game developer. They showed us how the game is played, even though the game is in the alpha stage. Which they are hoping to release an open beta some time around the start of the new year. (Again, hopes) There will be an open beta however, where you can download the rules from their website once they come out.

If you know how Warhammer works, or other miniatures, it’s a fairly simple process. The goal is to create a skirmish based game, which uses small armies. In their example of an army, each player had about six units. A hero and some other guys. I’m not sure exactly what the max army number will be, they just stated they didn’t want to have thousand point armies.

Instead of using dice to determine your actions, the deck consist of a normal poker deck with a few extra cards. Mainly a few extra jokers, one good, one evil. The game dev also said that they plan on having a few extra cards for the hero’s that they can use.

There will be four waging factions (One for each suit in a deck of cards) and a faction of mercenaries. Which I believe can be bought into your army by using some of your points.

So now with my brand new un-painted miniatures, I am going to learn to paint these bad boys. So hopefully once I get around to opening my store, I will be able to have paint sessions, events, competitions on painting.  I will keep you updated on my learning process once I get my tools and paints in.

Also, tons of pictures to come!

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