w00t, at it again

Well, I am posting. Not a whole lot knew as I am stuck at work for most of this week end. Nothing is good going into the Christmas season for me as our second car just took a giant crap and there is nearly no chance it will be fixed soon. Between that, and no money to pay any bills with we are nearly up a creek without a paddle. Still, if I can manage it I am going to try to pick up a NintendoDS for my fiancee for the holiday. I know someone that is selling theirs used with Nintendogs and a couple of other games so it isn't a bad deal. If I can get MarioKart for it, we will be hooked up and kickin' tail (or more actually being kicked) on line with that in the near future.

Next week is the big 2nd session for DnD and I have been lazy thus far and haven't written their adventure for it. I am hoping to get that whipped out on Tuesday, though I might try to work on it tomorrow night. I at least have my mind made up as to what we will want to do for the next mission and they should have alot of fun. This will definately be a more difficult session then their first, but I won't get too tough as they are still all rather new to the game, at least the edition, and still need alot of hand holding.

WoW has seen Magnorock, my main (48 Tauran Warrior), spend most of his time just trying to generate cash. Of course, he has been questing some in the Feralas and I finished a couple of quests recently, but nothing big and no levels. God, I am so close to 50 I can taste it. Of course, then I have another 10 levels beyond that before I hit the coveted 60 where I can claim to be Mag the all mighty! I did start working on an alt on Lightbringer again, Foedror a lvl 15 Tauran Shaman, and nearly leveled with him today. I like the character ok enough, but I don't know anyone on the server yet and haven't run into my buds who also play there to do any questing as a group. Looking forward to that day as this character will have more potential down the road then my current main.

Anyways, take care and good gaming.

Posting Again

My goodness, a second post this month. It is amazing what I can get done when I am sitting at work on Turkey day!!!

My overall lack of gaming lately has been terrible, but I did get in a good game of Warhammer last night where my beastmen faced off against a Nurgle daemonic legion army. The game was really finished before our models hit the table, but I still came close to being able to find a way to victory. It was a moment of brilliance, and accident, in the way I was able to bottle neck his center of plague bearers and the 2 nurgle chariots. However, I didn't just have enough room to hit his plague riders with the second chariot that would have crushed the unit and set me up to sweep his left flank. In the end, I managed to kill the plague riders after they had rampaged most of my right flank with a lucky irresistable force that sent my minituars charging into them and two units of nurglings. Meanwhile, most of my army was either fleeing or dead and papa nurgle daemon himself was still just above half wounds.

I don't think I could have played that game any better then I did. If both my bray shamans hadn't failed thier first unruly tests I may have been able to hold back some and use a greater scatter tactic that I had intended to force a draw instead of a loss. It would have been my greatest shot based on what I bring to the table for an army. However, their failing caused my army to need to surge forward some, which then made it more of a game of bottlenecking his units and trying to break the right flank. I certainly couldn't have held off on that critical charge against the plague riders and of course the chariot did whiff on the impact hits which could have saved me there. Even killing one of those riders on the charge may have left me in a position to win the combat instead of auto breaking because of their fear.

I leveled to 48 with Magnorock a couple of days ago on WoW. I really have lost some of my inspiration for that game since I started to reach the higher levels. I tried my run at building a guild, but it seems that is falling flat. With any luck, getting a ventrillo server up and working will help but I have lost a large portion of the members and we certainly won't be getting back. I am hoping to get some game play on a couple of other servers this week end where I know some other people and hopefully that will be better and more fun. As for now though, things seem to be stumbling along there. The game is a great game, you just need to have other folks willing to help you and play with. Something I haven't had with Mag for the last few levels.

Have a great Turkey day.

Forever gaming

Wow, my gaming life has not allowed me the time I should to post on this blog and for that I am sorry. Things have been pretty interesting for me in the last couple weeks though and it looks like I am going to be getting a new DnD group together this weekend. Of course, I have the be the dungeon master for the group, but I am used to it. Most of the folks have played before, but it has been a long time for all of them so I am curious to see how things go.

I don't want to clue in any on what is going to happen in the game, but I am setting it in Waterdeep of the Forgotten Realms and will be adventuring that area of the game world. We may expand a little, depending on how I feel about the group but I have a great initial story line started for them and only time will tell how exactly this will go.

For WoW, things haven't been as good lately. The guild I started has been rather dwindling as the numbers continue to drop as folks flock to the larger guilds. This sucks for those few who have been loyal to the guild. I am hoping to influence them some with the introduction of a Ventrillo voice server and really am hoping to have that up and running by Saturday of this week. I need to redo the website for the guild as the first one was rediculously poor. I just haven't have the real motivation to take on a project like that.

I have had a couple of surprising Warhammer games, most recently I played a gent at 2150 points with my chaos beastmen of Nurgle versus his mortal chaos worshippers of Khorne. This was definately one of the toughest games I have one, as really the mortal armies of chaos seem to always have the advantage against my beasts. Still, I was able to pull off some amazingly lucky charges and tactical moves that really kept me in the game, and even just squeeked out a victory in the end when I finally broke his chosen knights with his chaos lord. It was a beautiful day to run them down.

Keep gaming folks,

Ben