What I Learned Today

You Got Hacked

exial — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 11:17:27 +0000

I done got hacked

Due to stupid password security and old out of date extensions the site I maintain for my workplace I done got hacked. This is what happens when you take site security for granted.

But at least I get to listen to this great music while I am rebuilding the site hopefully with less holes.

The music is Whorythmics by Jax

The Young Ones!

exial — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 12:27:48 +0000

That's just typical! Five minutes before the most important party of my life and the house is destroyed by a giant sandwich.

Ah the fun of running organized play in a new guild. As the raid leader for my SWTOR guild I am having the same problem you always have in a young guild, not enough attendance. We are still running flash points in SWTOR as our guild members level up and we have a tank and two damage dealing players that show up like clockwork, but a healer continues to elude us. Last night we were able to scare up a healer to help us out but that isn’t always the case. I am not complaining though as I have been part of this cycle before. In my wow guild it took almost two years before we became stable and large enough to have routine Raid nights so I am not going to sweat the lack of people.

Oh and if you have a high level healer on Tarro Blood server Sith side and are available Wendsday nights leave a comment we would love to have you along.

Legen…… wait for it……. dary

exial — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 15:45:54 +0000

Katarina Leading the Charge

Last night I was only able to get a little bit of game time. So I fired up League of Legends, a fund DOTA clone. I have only gotten to level 11 ( I only get to play about a game a day average) but I fund it fun, and unlike SWTOR I don’t end up with a 4 hour story to finish.

Days go by and still I think of You…

exial — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 15:05:10 +0000

What a fun weekend. Saturday morning we all loaded up in the car and headed for kingston @Crazybetter and I along with the ‘rents in law had tickets to see a cabaret production staring our nephew as the Emcee. The show was great the costuming was awesome and the nephew was spectacular. The set did resemble a tardis with a shelf, but the black box theatre space made the musical that much more immediate.

Welcomin

The next day we relaxed a bit and then all bundled into my buddies car and headed to the Wizards Tower for sunday night warmachine at my LGS. This week in stead of just playing each other on a different table we very promiscuous with our gaming and played against as many partners as we could manage.(wink wink, nudge nudge say no more, say no more….) I was horribly stomped upon by Karchev and his behemoth then I was able to pull out a win in a mirror match against a Cygnar force led by pStryker. Then I barely was able to pull out a victory against Menoth when Amon strode forward swinging his mighty chain, fortunately for me he missed the hunter creeping up on him and caught a shell to the head. A win for me Yay!

NOM NOM NOM I eat your jacks NOM NOM NOM

With a nice long weekend already in my pocket and one more day to go I spent a lazy monday playing SWTOR and doing some light cleaning but when my wife got home we were able to get two games in. Amon made his presence known and killed eHaley without too much trouble. Next Constance Blaze took the field her faithful hunter her only jack, but troops as far as the Eye could see. She was able to rally her troops to victory and take Amon down.

On a side note if your significant other weaves, large cones of warp and weft make great blocking terrain

Cabaret

exial — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 15:39:39 +0000

Yesterday @Crazybetter and I headed to Kingston to see cabaret. My nephew sang the part of the Emcee, a crazy bugger who gets more tail than anyone else. The show was awesome and we had a lot of fun. On a side note we stopped at the Copper Penny and had some yummy food with generous portions.

And now a picture of my Nephew as the Emcee

To Cabaret!

Choir of Menoth, In the key of Awesome

exial — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 15:22:16 +0000

So last night between a fun choir practice and work @Crazybetter and I were reading some more rules and it looks like the choir is better than i thought. The missing piece of the puzzel is that magic weapons dont cause magic damage. That means that my Gun Mages still can’t shoot him. Arg! I guess its time for the Ironclad to get out his hammer and smash.

Sing, Sing a song, Sing out Loud, Sing out strong.

Looking forward to some awesome gaming this weekend. Also I get to see my Nephew in a production of Cabaret. Looks like it is shaping up to be fun!

Time is short, Too short

exial — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 15:19:41 +0000

Played a test game of the new 2012 time limit 3min for a 15pt army. This is short, really short, I mean you wont believe how short. It’s fine for the first turn, everybody just runs. but as soon as combat happens it is barely enough time to roll the dice. I guess I am just not experienced enough. Or more likely they didn’t really test it much at the extremes. (15pt, 200pt) I guess its time to work out a 35pt army. I will need one anyway for game summit next month. @Crazybetter had a worse time than I did so for right now we will go back to unlimited time. I think its time for some more objectives!

Steamroller 2012 is out

exial — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 14:11:55 +0000

The new Steamroller is here:

No not that one, this one: Steamroller 2012

Yay! The steamroller rules for those who don’t know are the tournament rules for Warmachine. They have not only all kinds of boring stuff about how long turns are and who fights who but they have a bunch of scenarios to make the game more interesting. Tho I have not played in any tournaments I like to be prepared should one crop up so I am reading all the rules I can. @Crazybetter and I tried to use the beta rules a while back and ran into a problem where we didn’t have the cards that come in the final version of the rules. This will no longer be a problem, got them all printed out and in card sleeves. Let the fighting begin!

Two days of smashing and Skorne

exial — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 10:24:25 +0000

On Friday we decided to go to out LGS (Local Gaming Store) and join in to there Warmachine night so we called up 2 buddies in the hope we would have 2 ready made opponents in case there we no one of our skill level around. One said he would come the other was going out of town for two weeks but what were we doing on Saturday. Thus began two strait days of nightly Warmachine gaming.

On Saturday night I was up against some nasty Skorn. I managed to pull out a win ( a turn two assassination with an arc node and a charger) but later we found out I had read a rule incorrectly and had given the extra dice to the chargers damage in stead of his aim, looking back the word deadeye in the name should have been a clue. A hollow victory, but a victory none the less. Ill take it where I can get it.

Last night @crazybetter and I loaded up a friend and headed out to our LGS. Now we live in a small community outside of the local city so we packed up the car and headed out on a 45min drive to the store. Good company made the trip go quickly and soon enough we were outside the Wizards Tower. This was @crazybetter’s first time gaming in public and didn’t know how she was going to like it. We got a table and set-up a little 15 point game and had at it. @crazybetter’s Menoth attrition game was in full effect and Stryker had taken damage and I had lost a light Jack and a lot of boxes on my heavy before the charger was able to get loose and fire Kreoss down. A win for the boys in brown. Unfortunatly for me since we were in the store my wife picked up a choir of menoth and I will have to contend with that for the next week. Lots of fun!

Storming across the table at Kreoss

Warmachine Evening at Home

exial — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 14:27:13 +0000

Last night my wife and I were able to get a night of Warmachine gaming in. We played five battles using the battle box armies, mostly strait kill box games, and I have found that caster killing is the way to go. As the evening wore on we did try more and more different things. We boosted up or armies to 15 points, my wife added a second repenter and I changed everything by fielding eHaley and a Squire with my battle box jacks. My wife quickly developed the hatred of eHaley that I had heard expressed by other non Cygnar players on the internet. One of the big aspects of eHaley I had not considered was the fear of your own troops it engenders. You cant hide behind your heavy if every time my turn rolls around I use him to beat you into submission.

The Last game was different for us, we broke out the steamroller 2012 rules and rolled some dice. Our first scenario came up with a nice one with interactive objectives. So since I am not a tournament organiser I went off to the internet to find the cards, which as far as I can tell don’t exist. So we rolled some more dice and we got a capture the area scenario with reinforcements, hey that we can do. So we sett everything up and charged in. I managed to win both matches we played on that scenario, the first because my wife assumed the scenario would take enough pressure off the caster to not have to protect him fully, and of course I just smashed him. The second I won with my eHaley battle box buy controlling things out of the zones and racking up a points win.

All in all a fun night. We have decided to head out to the Warmachine night at my local gaming store, so if you are out at the Wizards tower in Bar haven on Sunday look for the brown coats, and come over and have a game.

And now a pic of the table ready eHaley. I am not 100% pleased with her but I can at least field her now.

The Pole Dancing eHaley in all her brown coat glory