A Song of Blades and Students

This end of year program, why not take part in a Wargames Tournament?
A Song of Blades and Students is a twelve-place event which will be run on Wednesday 10th using the award winning and stupidly easy to learn A Song of Blades and Heroes rules set. There will be a 'learn to play' game first, followed by four-five rounds of destructive one-on-one action. At the end of the event, victory points will be tallied and the winner announced!

Twelve separate warbands will be provided. So far these are:

• Frogfolk
• Beastmen
• Dwarves
• Ratmen
• Orcs
• Vikings
• Samurai Bunnies
• Wood Elves
• Goblins
• Chaos Warriors

Two further warbands will be announced closer to the day. Or possibly on it.

Master Painter 2014: Voting opens.

Voting is now open for the Master Painter 2014 competition! All six entries are on display in the cabinet in the general office, and photos will be posted online later today. To ensure a level playing field, names have been kept secret, and will be revealed when the winners are announced. Cast your vote in the poll at the top of the page by selecting the entry you consider to be the best painted. Remember, this is a contest of painting skill, so take a good, hard look at each figure and check out how real it looks before deciding.

 This year's prize is a choice of three large monsters from the Reaper Bones range; An Ogre, a Minotaur and a Swamp Troll. The winner will be announced on September 12th.

Also in the display cabinet, you will find our Steampunk Generators from earlier this term. They are currently basking in the spotlight of public adulation, but they will be used in a game very soon.

Gippsland Gamers Holiday Program - ANNOUNCE!

The GG September Holiday program has just been announced. You can go check it out in detail here.

As part of Coal Creek's Pirates Day program, there will be games of Pirate's Treassure run every hour from 11-3 on Sunday 28th September. $5 per session and the chance to win chocolate! Arr!

PegFlight: The Great War - build and lead a squadron of WW1 Biplanes to victory in the clear blue skies over the floor. $10 per player, Thursday 25th, 1-3.30pm. Huzzah!

The Great Battles of Napolarbear: Winterloo - take part in the last great battle of the Peninsular War, twixt the blue-coated legions of Napolarbear and his arch rival, the red coated soldiers of The Duke of Walrusington. $10 per session, October 2nd, 1-2pm and 2.30-3.30pm. Woot!

MASTER PAINTER 2014 UPDATE

Thanks to a generous donation from Mr. McGillivray, the Master Painter 2014 prize will now include... PAINT!* Yes! If you win here, you get to take home paint so that you can ALSO paint at home! Huzzah! Woot! Jubilation!

Be like this guy - IN THE COMFORT OF YOUR OWN HOME!
only not at GW HQ in Nottingham, in the mid '90s and named 'Mike McVey'...

*Note that said paints are second hand, from the Collection of Mr. McGillivray, and you need your own brush. Also I have not seen them yet, he spoke to me of these things at recess today.

Master Painter 2014

Ah, Masterpainter, the contest of choice for the discerning student miniature painter. Learn mystic secret techniques such as the wash and drybrush! Gain access to a vast array of paints in startling shades! Wield teeny-weeny brushes! Marvel at the figures supplied by the nice bald men at Eureka Miniatures!
Painting starts 15/8 in B11.
Voting starts 22/8 right here on the blog.

Artists impression of what we are painting, as painted by notorious winner of 'Best Painted' at HGC Malifaux Weekend, Toppy.

And after we paint them... WE FIGHT!

We fight in a mighty arena death match on a weekly basis using our own personalised figures in a mad quest for ultimate glory! And prizes! The edible kind! Indeed, as the old saying put it "The rewards of awesome are shiny and potentially cake-based."

International Talk Like a Pirate Day and how it relates to gaming.

International Talk Like a Pirate Day is just around the corner. Also just around the corner, but on a more convenient date is Pirates Day at Coal Creek. In honour of the occasion, Gippsland Gamers is running free participation pirate games dressed as pirates.
Behold the full and frank details here.
Or see the details of the more mundane aspects of Pirate's Day here.

UPDATE: The Shire Council has decreed that there is a cost involved. Bah.

Terrain For Students

Starting August 1st, LSCWC will be running some hobby sessions instead of game sessions.
The term 'hobby' is used by game geeks to refer to all of those activities which are an important part of gaming, but which don't actually involve playing the game - things like painting figures for RPGs and making terrain for Wargames. We will be starting with some terrain building for a few weeks, followed by some figure painting. All in time for you to enter your masterpieces in the Terrain For Hippos Annual Terrain Compometition (Toppy's internationally renowned blog's internationally renowned contest!)
This will mean that we will be moving to the art building.
It will also mean you need to vote on what you want to build and paint.
Which you should do right now, using the cunning poll at the top of this page.
Note: poll results sometimes take a little while to show up. Be patient.

If you have any ideas not covered by the polls, post them in the comments and they will be considered.
Check out Terrain For Hippos for ideas.

UPDATE:
Looks like we'll be working on some steampunk generators on Friday1st. They'll be a combination of these two projects:
Skaven Reactor
Warpstone Mine
As to painting, it's looking like Fantasy Villains. Since Reaper Miniatures is blocked by Netbox Blue, I won't paste links here.