2020 Orkrena of Death commences!

2020 opens with the Orkrena of Death! All term we'll be playing a series of massive multiplayer 40K brawls between the various bosses, gits, thugs and grots of Waaaagh! Snaggatoof (and maybe Waaaagh! Gruntblasta as well) to determine just who is Da Bestest Ork Eva.
Every monday lunchtime we will meet in B04, using randomly assigned characters and engage in a bit of biffo using the Warhammer 40,000 rule system.
As lunchtime has been compressed to 40 minutes this year, you will need to be prompt as we need to start as early as possible to have any chance on completing the battle.

Meganobs Skragga Gitsmasha, Gaz Stompygit, Big Bazza, and Hed Loppa pose for the camera, seconds before dissolving into a big spinning ball of violence.

Da Nobs shout cheerful messages about what they intend to do with their opponents heads across the streets of Orkness.

Orkzapoppin and Orkfiss Belle swoop low in the search for things to drop big bombs on.

A small selection of the dice which will be thrown.

GeekFest19 Paint+Take Survey

Will this be the miniature you paint?
Vote in the survey to choose!

The ever popular Paint+Take returns for 2019, and as always YOU get to choose the miniatures!

You'll find a survey here which will let you choose your favourite minis (don't worry if you change your mind - you can edit your responses after you've entered them)

The survey will be open until May 29th.




What is Paint+Take? It's simple! We supply a whole bunch of miniatures, paints and paint brushes, and YOU get to paint them - and you also get to take home any miniatures you paint!

But wait, in the immortal words of Tim Shaw, THERE'S MORE! There are also painting contests with fabulous prizes!

Word/Cross is a finalist in the 200 Word RPG Challenge.

The 200 Word RPG Challenge is a pretty simple idea for a contest - you have to write an entire Role Playing Game in 200 words or less. Actually getting a game that small which is still exciting and still makes sense is the hard part.
Toppy's game; Word/Cross has been chosen from nearly 800 entries as one of the 50 finalists. The judges are now reading the finalists and choosing the three winners, which will be announced at the start of July.

BATTLE THROUGH THE AGES: Term Three is Historical Wargames Term at LSCWC.

Term Three will be devoted to historical conflict - from the Viking invasions of the 10th and 11th centuries to the 16th century Spanish conquest of the new world.
We will be using the award winning 'A Song of Blades and Heroes' ruleset to help us recreate the great battles of the past as it is at once very flexible and very simple to learn. We will also spend some time on painting and modelling our own warriors to take part in the fierce conflicts to come.

NAZORK at Little Wars Melbourne

Little Wars is on in a fortnight!
Which means the NAZORK Monte Carlork Grand(ish) Prix is on in a fortnight!

Starting grid for the NAZORK easter classic earlier this year

The normally quiet seaside town of Monte Carlork echoes to the thunderous raw of nitro-chewin' smoke-belchin' tyre-shreddin' squig-injectin' engines and the extremely amusing squeaky squeels of any grots who get in the way. NAZORK (Nazgrub's Awesomely Zoomy Ork Racing Kars) is in town for the Monte Carlork Grandish Prix - the highlight of any Ork's calendar. Lap after lap of pulse-pounding excitement, erratic driving, wildly-aimed gunfire and, most importantly, spectacular firey crashes! So grab your oiler squig, strap into 2000 squig-power of death on wheels with a slim chance of thereThe normally quiet seaside town of Monte Carlork echoes to the thunderous raw of nitro-chewin' smoke-belchin' tyre-shreddin' squig-injectin' engines and the extremely amusing squeaky squeels of any grots who get in the way. NAZORK (Nazgrub's Awesomely Zoomy Ork Racing Kars) is in town for the Monte Carlork Grandish Prix - the highlight of any Ork's calendar. Lap after lap of pulse-pounding excitement, erratic driving, wildly-aimed gunfire and, most importantly, spectacular firey crashes! So grab your oiler squig, strap into 2000 squig-power of death on wheels with a slim chance of there being a steering wheel attached somewhere, put the pedal to the metal and race for the ultimate glory of Gork or possibly Mork in the ultimate test of orkyness! being a steering wheel attached somewhere, put the pedal to the metal and race for the ultimate glory of Gork or possibly Mork in the ultimate test of orkyness!

NAZORK uses a specially modified variant on the Warhammer 40,000 8th Edition rules to provide only the finest Orky racing shenanigans! A newly expanded line up of racers includes the classic Warbuggies and Grot Tanks, plus newly added Wartrakks and Skorchas - all of which will be racing through the spectacular environs of Monte Carlork - aka Hampton Games Club's Portheim modular terrain set with the addition of such Orky landmarks as the Hotel Grunthos and Spannanut'z Garage!

Also there'll probably be a zeppelin piloted by an erratic mekboy and other 'natural' hazards to good clean racing.

Little Wars is held at Moorabin Town Hall (a inner eastern suburb of Melbourne, known for it's airport) from 10am on the first Saturday in June. There will be a wide range of other games running on the day, as well as the fabled second-hand table where many strange and wonderful things can be bought cheaply.

NAZORK Season Opens

The NAZORK season has now started! Come to C05 at 1:30PM ever Monday lunchtime to race.

NAZORK uses a modified version of Games Workshop's 8th Edition Warhammer 40,000 ruleset designed to give the best high speed racing gameplay. You can read the 40K rules here.

Places are limited at present but may open up later in the term when more vehicles become available.
For now, here are the seven contestants in NAZORK season 2018:

NAZORK: Easter Championship at Coal Creek; Easter Sunday.

The normally quiet seaside town of Monte Carlork echoes to the thunderous raw of nitro-chewin' smoke-belchin' tyre-shreddin' squig-injectin' engines and the extremely amusing squeaky squeels of any grots who get in the way. NAZORK (Nazgrub's Awesomely Zoomy Ork Racing Kars) is in town for the Monte Carlork Grandish Prix - the highlight of any Ork's calendar. Lap after lap of pulse-pounding excitement, erratic driving, wildly-aimed gunfire and, most importantly, spectacular firey crashes! So grab your oiler squig, strap into 2000 squig-power of death on wheels with a slim chance of there being a steering wheel attached somewhere, put the pedal to the metal and race for the ultimate glory of Gork or possibly Mork in the ultimate test of orkyness!

On Easter Sunday, Gippsland Gamers will be running NAZORK at Coal Creek as part of the easter celebrations.

NAZORK is a fast paced full-contact weaponised racing game for Orks, which uses a modified form of the 8th Edition Warhammer 40,000 rules.

Lennie Small's Pro Patter: A game for playing on electronic devices while you wait for Wargames Club to roll back round.

For your amusement and amazement: Lennie Small's Pro Patter final export edition with bug patches and easter eggs.

End of Year Program 2018

Monday 18th:
Wargames Miniature Painting.

Learn to paint 28mm wargames miniatures
Experience level:

• I know one end of the brush from the other
• I can name colours

What you learn:

• Basic paint application
• Shadow blocking
• Colour blocking
• Drybrush highlighting
• Wash shading
• Side Brushing

What you get:

• A painted mini

Tuesday 19th:
Warhammer 40,000 Mini Tournament

Engage in a mighty tournament to determine who is the best 40K player at LSC using armies, terrain, dice etc. provided.
Experience level:

• I know one end of the tape meassure from the other
• I have read the rules

What you learn:

• Strategy
• Tactics
• Probability
• The meaning of fear when you see you're in charge range of a Forge Fiend

What you get:

• A certificate of VICTORY (if you win)

Armies (300pts each):

• 1st Company; Chandorax XIV Heavy Mechanised Regiment (traitor guardsmen)
• Commander
• Militia squad
• Plague Ogryns
• Leman Russ battletank
• 2nd Company; Chandorax XIV Heavy Mechanised Regiment (traitor guardsmen)
• Commander
• Militia squad
• Mutant rabble
• Sentinel
• Chimera APC
• Blood Drinker Legion (Chaos Space Marines)
• Chaos Lord
• Chaos marine squad
• Rhino APC
• Big Mek Spannanoggin'z Ladz (Orks)
• Big Mek in mega armour
• Boyz squad
• Killa Kanz
• Warboss Snaggatoof'z Ladz (Orks)
• Warboss
• Nobz squad
• Boyz squad
• Trukk
• The Hounds of Khorne (Chaos Space Marines)
• Chaos Lord
• Chaos Cultists
• Hellbrute
• The Sons of Filth (Deathguard)
• Chaos Lord
• Plaguemarine squad
• Poxwalkers
• Da Fists of Gork (Orks)
• Warboss
• Boys squad
• Grot Tanks

Wednesday 20th:
Call of Cthulhu RPG

Take on the role of a scruffy convict and try to survive a zombie outbreak in Sydney Town during the convict days. Call of Cthulhu is a horror game in which the players are pitted against the horrors of the Cthulhu mythos - ancient and evil beings from beyond space and time
Experience Level:

• I know which end of a pencil is the writing bit
• I can count to 100
• I can throw dice without losing them

What you learn:

• Stratgey
• Teamwork
• Probability
• Bowel loosening terror when you confront the dreaded mythos monsters

What you get:

• Bowel loosening terror when you confront the dreaded mythos monsters

Warhammer 40,000: The Skulltaker Legion

Of all the dark and vile gods of Chaos, it is Khorne, bloody-handed god of violent slaughter who is the most warlike. His followers are enraged killing machines who seek only to spill blood and collect skulls for the skull-throne of Khorne. Such are the traitor marines of the Skulltaker Legion.

Our games will involve the following forces:

Lord Khornebullo; The Blood Drinker; a powerful Chaos Space Marine commander, marked by the favour of his chosen god.

Chaos Space Marines; very large, very angry men in red armour who would be very interested to meet new faces and introduce them to the blades of their chainswords. One unit of nine and one unit of five.

Chaos Terminators; even bigger, even angrier men in the super-heavy tactical dreadnaught armour, who have even bigger, even nastier chainswords to introduce new faces to. One unit of five.

The Vivisector: Hellbrute of Khorne; a giant mechanical deamon of bloody slaughter.

The Rhino; A small, basic troop-transport. Driven by a very angry man indeed, and used to transport up to ten marines.

There may be other forces which become involved, such as Deamon princes and minor deamons, and possibly even allies from the Chandorax XIV Heavy Mechanised Regiment; a vile and disgusting group of traitorous imperial guardsmen, dedicated to Nurgle, god of disease, rot, plagues and other such cheerful things.

Warhammer 40,000: Waaagh! Snaggatoof

Richest of all the Orkish clans are the Bad Moons, and even among the Bad Moons, Waaagh! Snaggatoof is known for it's vast wealth, which Blingboss Snaggatoof spends lavishly on the best gear the mekboyz can build.

Our games will involve the following elements of Waaagh! Snaggatoof:

Mistah Stompy - Big Mek in Mega Armour with kustom force filed projector.

Slugga Boyz - A mixed bag of 16 irritable green-skinned louts equiped for melee combat.

Shoota Boyz - A motley crew of 16 enraged killers armed for shotting.

The Nobz Mob - A small elite team of five the richest and baddest of orks, bearing expensive and exotic weapons.

The Grot Tanks - A ramshackle armada of four very, very badly built tanks, built very, very badly by the tribe's grots. Badly.

Other elements may be added, such as Blingboss Snaggatoof himself, Warbuggies, Deff Koptas, or even the infamous Winged Huzzork biker boyz.

GeekFest 2018 Paint+Take

There is currently a survey afoot to decide which miniatures to paint at GeekFest 2018 Paint+Take.
You can go to this link and partake in the glorious democratic process! The survey will end on October 31st.
GeekFest 2018 will occur on January 21st. And you will be there. You will be there, won't you?

Warhammer 40,000 in Term Four.

In the grim darkness of C05 there is only war...

Starting Monday 16th, we will be playing Warhammer 40,000 8th edition in C05 every Monday lunchtime!
40K is the extremely popular sci-fi game from Games Workshop where armies of powerful warriors unleash enormous quantities of stupidly powerful weapons on one another, but no one really gets hurt because it's all done using tiny plastic men and dice.

We will be running:

WAAAGH! Snaggatoof - the richest Bad Moon Ork warband ever to maraud across the galaxy. Known for their expensive wargear and wealth so vast that even their Grots have planes. Currently lead by the Big Mek affectionately known as Mr. Stompy and equipped with 100% scratch built vehicles.

The Skulltaker Legion - Chaos Space Marines dedicated to Khrone, blood-crazed god of battle and slaughter. They are very large, very shouty, very angry, and very interested in drastically remodelling Orks. Into a large pile of Ork spare parts.

Places are strictly limited. Check in soon for army lists.

Remember that any damage to miniatures will result in red cards and payment for replacements either at current retail prices or in the case of converted or scratchbuilt models, at full commission price.

Edge of the Boganverse: A note on attendance.

There are considerably more people interested in playing that there are available spaces. Therefore, any player who does not attend for two weeks in a row will lose control of their character and will be replaced by one of those on the waiting list to join the game.

The Edge of the Boganverse

All places in our Star Wars: Edge of the Empire campaign have now been taken.
I look forward to seeing you all a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away. Or outside C05 on Monday. One of those.

Our campaign draws heavily on the awesome fan film, Star Wars Downunder for it's setting and flavour. Watch the blog for updates and session reports.

Characters:

Sholto: Rodian Thief.

Ellin Daar; Human Scout

Snubellar: Wookie Pilot

Grazz: Trandoshan Marauder

Bryan Streethooner; Human Mercenary

Lira Praxxis; Twi'Lek Gadgeteer

Greelik Zibbs; Rodian Assassin

D47-B01; Droid Doctor

LSCWC becomes a wretched hive of scum and villainy in term three

Participate in grim and gritty adventures in places where morality is gray and nothing is certain. Ply your trade as a smuggler in the Outer Rim, collect bounties on the scum that live in the shadows of Coruscant beneath the Empire’s notice…

Throw strange dice!

Star Wars: Edge of the Empire is the role playing game of scum and villainy in the Star Wars universe. You can play as Bounty Hunters, Assassins, Techs, Slicers, Pilots, Smugglers, Doctors, Mercenaries and more. You can also play as Humans, Twi'Leks, Wookies, Bothans, Droids, Trandoshans, Rodians or Gant as you blast your way across the galaxy in search of thrills and loot. Mostly loot.

We will be using pre-generated characters, which will be published to this blog fairly soon. We will be moving back to our usual C05 location from the first week of Term 3.

Games design resources

A bunch of examples of Print and Play games have been added to our resource folder. These are all fairly simple amateur-made games which are designed to be printed out and then played with a minimum of fuss. You'll have to cut out cards and pieces some times, but that's it. These games are all good examples of what individual amateurs can create - several of them are also re-themes. A re-theme is when you take an existing game, and change the visuals and theme of the game to turn it into something else (the folder includes several re-themes of the popular PNP game Cheese Chasers).
A sub-set of Print and Play games is Mint Tin Games. These are games which are designed to fit in a single 'altoids' brand mint tin (which are about the size of a deck of cards). There are some very clever games of this type, including several which have taken a much larger and more complex game and streamlined it down to the point where it can all fit in the tiny mint tin. It's worth checking them out to see how much game you can fit into a tiny space using limited components.

Making games in Term Two

All though out Term Two we are making our own games!
We are writing rules, making boards and cards, designing boxes, the whole shebang. By the end of the term, all of our members will have their very own, original, hand crafted board or card game. Not only that, but you have the chance to win the coveted SPIEL DES JAHRES (Game of the Year - it's not my fault if the world's most prestigious game design award is German!).

In the first few weeks of term, we will discuss and plan how to design games, including the elements that go towards making a game, rule mechanics and gameplay.
Then we will start to play test our game designs to make sure the rules work and the games are fun.
When that's finished, we'll start working on designing the components - boards, cards, counters, rule books etc.
By the end of term, we will have our games finished and the judging of the LSC SPIEL DES JAHRES can happen!
You can find a resource folder on Google Drive which contains important planning documents, templates etc.

Want to make your game super professional looking? You can actually get it printed by The Game Crafter. The Game Crafter is an online store which prints home made games so they look just like things you can buy in the shops. If you want to use TGC, you'll need to get all of your art onto a computer and make sure it fits the printing templates. Games cost a touch more than things you'd buy in the shops (since they're one offs) and take about a month to arrive (since they're made in the US).
I used TGC to get my game Kitnapped printed, and it's also available for sale from them.

LSCWC Season 2017

Term One: Season of Random Gaming
Boardgames, card games etc. A new game each week, including:
Citadels, Toppollo, Carcasonne, and Kitnapped.

Term Two part one: Craft Term Mk.1
Learn to make your own board and card games.

Term Two part two: Craft Term MK.2
Learnt to paint wargames figures.

Term Three: RPG Term
Play various quick, rules light RPGs including All Outta Bubblegum and Lasers and Feelings.

Term Four: Tabletop Wargames
Take part in multiplayer skirmish games such as A Song of Blades and Heroes and GruntZ.

Toppy publishes game (sort of)

You can now buy an actual, physical, properly printed shiny hard copy of Kitnapped, Toppy's game about stealing other people's cats. It's available via The Game Crafter, a print-on-demand games site in the US. When you order a copy, TGC will print it up, box it up and send it out to you!
And whay would you not want a copy? It's a game about stealing other people's kittens so you can have ALL THE KITTENS!
Go forth and order freely!