Little Wars Melbourne 2015

Little Wars Melbourne 2015 is just around the corner! On may 31st, Moorabin Town Hall will be stuffed to the rafters with mighty gaming geeks, gaming gloriously!
And Toppy is running stuff!

Over the course of the day, a complete four-game A Song of Blades and Heroes campaign will take place! Will you help Prince Imraldiir of the Blessed Peacock and his sneaky Wood Elves defend their native oak trees against Goblin lumberjacks? Or will you take sides with Bzak Butt-Scratcher, chief of the Flatulent Mountain Goblins and try to fell the trees for your own fell purposes?

• Play over all new terrain built especially for the occasion!
• Play using almost all new figures painted especially for the occasion!
• Roll dice!
• Lead your armies to glory!

Have you ever wanted to cram two (yes! two!) Rampage sets together to play eight-way Kaiju carnage? Or do you yearn to experience Tsuro, or the sweet sweet taste of noshing down on skyscrapers in King of Tokyo? Mad Juzzy the Flutis (aka Mr. Abicare the flute teacher) will be running a table featuring a veritable bonanza of boardgames! Rousing cheers!

An introduction to role playing, in the form of a stand-along Dice Chucker session set in Harran! Take on the role (and partial costume!) of one of six mighty heroes, and set out on a perilous quest involving skyships, lighthouses, goats and pirates!

• Play over new maps!
• Play using new paper figures made especially for this event!
• Roll dice!
• Learn rules!
• Achieve VICTORY!!

Voyage of the Crosswise Albatross: Our new Dice Chucker campaign.

The continents of Harran were ripped from the planet's surface 1776 years ago in the War of the Gods. Ever since, they have floated above the world-spanning ocean, held aloft by the powerful magical fallout left from the cataclysm. Now, Professor Galverston Rudge of the Academy of Stahl Point claims to have found an ancient document which may just lead to an artifact powerful enough to put the shattered world back to the way it was.
The professor, and a hand picked team of adventurers will set out aboard the Crosswise Albatross on a perilous journey to restore Harran to it's former glory, facing terrible perils and fearsome challenges in quest of the ultimate prize.

Voyage of the Crosswise Albatross is our new Dice Chucker campaign. Every Friday lunchtime we will gather in the Wargames area outside C05, and, using pre-generated characters, set forth on this epic journey. This is a role-playing game, meaning that each player acts as one character, and has complete control over the character's actions. Characters can learn new skills, acquire new knowledge, and uncover powerful new magic items to aid them on their quest. We will use the powerful, robust, fleixble, and extremely easily learned Dice Chucker V.3 system of rules. The only limit on your actions is your imagination and ability to roll dice.

Voyage of the Crosswise Albatross takes place in the Skyships of Harran universe, a universe shared with Gippsland Gamers, and which will also play host to Wrecker's Moon, a participation game to be held at Little Wars 2015 in Melbourne.

Swimming Sports

"I can't wait for this race to be over so I can play Gubs..."

Due to the annual house swimming sports, there will be no LSCWC session on Friday.
Alack and alas.
There will, however, be the now traditional Gubs school on the bank at the swimming sports, along with impromptu Magic: The Gathering among those kids who are also members of Gippsland Gamers. Or who have MTG decks for their own devious purposes. Possibly also Pokemon.
Huzzah.

A Song of Blades and Students league: COMMENCE!

The A Song of Blades and Students League will kick off next Friday outside C05 at Lunchtime. This Friday (the 30th) there will be a 'learn the rules' session during which you will... learn the rules.
Entry is open to all staff and students. The more games you play, the more points you can get, and the better your chances of being crowned eternal champion.
Huzzah!

You can see the current league ladder here.
You can check out the available army lists here and sign up to lead one here.

Geekfest game sessions announced!

Details of some of the Geekfest game sessions have been released.
The Battle of Coal Creek:
A wargame using the Fanticide rule set, and fought over a scale replica of part of the Coal Creek park itself.
Murder on the Transvaal Express:
A Role Playing game held in a railway carriage - can you discover which of your fellow players in the murderer?

Further details forthcoming.

A SONG OF BLADES AND STUDENTS - LEAGUE -

            In 2015, we shall spend term one playing a Wargames League. Much like a sporting league, this will involve a number of teams (or in this case Warbands) under the leadership of inspiring coaches (in this case, Wargamers) vying for the coveted position of premiers.

            Each week, LSCWC members will play games of A Song of Blades and Heroes against one another. At the end of the session, victory points will be tallied, and used to determine the ladder. For the first week, opponents will be randomly selected. In subsequent weeks, opponents will be selected based on victory points – players higher up the ladder will play other high-ranked players, while those lower down will play against people with similarly low scores.

            Only those players who turn up for sessions will play games in a given week, those who do not come will obviously not be able to gain any VPs for that week.

            At the end of the term, the player with the highest total number of victory points will be crowned as the winner of the league, and showered with glorious prizes. There will also be runners up, and possibly other awards much like those given out in such frivolous pass times as football.

            Armies will be provided, and will include the following warbands:

• ·      Orc Boar riders
• ·      Teeming ratman multitudes
• ·      Egyptian undead
• ·      Goblins (with trolls and a dinosaur!)
• ·      Vikings and their rather large bear
• ·      Wood Elves
• ·      Dwarves
• ·      Samurai Bunnies
• ·      Frogmen
• ·      Beastmen
• ·      Chaos Warriors (in two flavours!)
• ·      Anything else Toppy can come up with in time…

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.