Wow ok well lets hit you with it. I have been involved in tabletop gaming / RPG gaming for the last 20 years. Than includes working for gaming companies and just casually playing games. For the last 6 years I have (all but once) exclusively play'd Games Workshop games both 40k and Fantasy.
But now I have decided enough is enough. GW I still play and I played it exclusively for so long for many reasons (I'll come to that)
Due to random price rises my personal pocket change, what I want from a game Plus another mysterious point I will get to latter I have decided to look for more games to play.
This journey I want to share with everyone who will listen, with reviews, best of's, rumours and tournament scene.
o I have play'ed Games workshop games exclusivly for the last few years
(all but once) but why? GW is the biggest gaming company and everything I want
is really at my fingertips. I enjoy playing games most of all and GW has a store
in most every large town that once or twice a week I can pop down to and play
against old and new faces. Thats just what I want. I want to access information
whenever I want be it while bored or looking for new releases or whats available
to buy. GW have a website dedicated to all that and more.
so Basicly ~I have become a lazy gamer and as a Lazy gamer GW
gives me all my lazy ass needs when I need it.
Because
I'm a lazy gamer I quickly eat up the price hikes and over priced rule books
that as far as rules go, are as old as I am and are (compared to many other
systems) frankly stale, with a you go~I go style of play, that lead to some
games feeling like an exercise in rolling tomany dice, rather than a top of the
market stratigical and tactical game that it once
was.
Now I once did find a game. All by
accident. Called Confrontation by a French company called Rackham. I was still a
thrall to GW at the time but I became mesmerized by this French skirmish game.
The models were'nt models at all but sculptures and reasonable in price. They
had a website with figures that were painted better than I knew figures could
be. The system was innovative with cards and dice that allowed reactive choices
doing things in your oponents turn no less. To top it off rules were not only
available to buy but could be downloaded free !! heresy!! I hear you cry . I was
simply blown away by all of it, the game, the website, the tournament scene and
even the ridiculously over priced magazine which I subscribed
to.
So Rackham went the way of the pair. they
changed the rules about 3 times in a few months odd I thought. (all
downloadable) The the director at the time announced that the models were going
to be made in plastic and pre-painted..... hmmmm. Then a few short months after
this another announcement confrontation as we know it was going to be scrapped
and replaced by a large unit you go I go style game. what the
Fu*K!!!
I was ...... upset..... and any how Who wanted a perfect
game where there was a new tournament every 3 months and only cost £12 to enter.
or board games that included exclusive miniatures.
Well
frankly guys and gals.... I want it back all the rackham stuff all the fun all
the feelings of it the new inovative system the new way to play it, read it,
live it and I attempt to use theese pages to go through games we have on offer
today maybe tomorrow and some older retro stuff and discover a new Rackham
Confrontation, and I want you with me on such journey.
But now I have decided enough is enough. GW I still play and I played it exclusively for so long for many reasons (I'll come to that)
Due to random price rises my personal pocket change, what I want from a game Plus another mysterious point I will get to latter I have decided to look for more games to play.
This journey I want to share with everyone who will listen, with reviews, best of's, rumours and tournament scene.
o I have play'ed Games workshop games exclusivly for the last few years
(all but once) but why? GW is the biggest gaming company and everything I want
is really at my fingertips. I enjoy playing games most of all and GW has a store
in most every large town that once or twice a week I can pop down to and play
against old and new faces. Thats just what I want. I want to access information
whenever I want be it while bored or looking for new releases or whats available
to buy. GW have a website dedicated to all that and more.
so Basicly ~I have become a lazy gamer and as a Lazy gamer GW
gives me all my lazy ass needs when I need it.
Because
I'm a lazy gamer I quickly eat up the price hikes and over priced rule books
that as far as rules go, are as old as I am and are (compared to many other
systems) frankly stale, with a you go~I go style of play, that lead to some
games feeling like an exercise in rolling tomany dice, rather than a top of the
market stratigical and tactical game that it once
was.
Now I once did find a game. All by
accident. Called Confrontation by a French company called Rackham. I was still a
thrall to GW at the time but I became mesmerized by this French skirmish game.
The models were'nt models at all but sculptures and reasonable in price. They
had a website with figures that were painted better than I knew figures could
be. The system was innovative with cards and dice that allowed reactive choices
doing things in your oponents turn no less. To top it off rules were not only
available to buy but could be downloaded free !! heresy!! I hear you cry . I was
simply blown away by all of it, the game, the website, the tournament scene and
even the ridiculously over priced magazine which I subscribed
to.
So Rackham went the way of the pair. they
changed the rules about 3 times in a few months odd I thought. (all
downloadable) The the director at the time announced that the models were going
to be made in plastic and pre-painted..... hmmmm. Then a few short months after
this another announcement confrontation as we know it was going to be scrapped
and replaced by a large unit you go I go style game. what the
Fu*K!!!
I was ...... upset..... and any how Who wanted a perfect
game where there was a new tournament every 3 months and only cost £12 to enter.
or board games that included exclusive miniatures.
Well
frankly guys and gals.... I want it back all the rackham stuff all the fun all
the feelings of it the new inovative system the new way to play it, read it,
live it and I attempt to use theese pages to go through games we have on offer
today maybe tomorrow and some older retro stuff and discover a new Rackham
Confrontation, and I want you with me on such journey.
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