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Jul. 26th, 2016 11:25 amI've wound up with a pretty good pool of players and characters for my Star Wars game. Had to have a quick talk about tone and expectations with a couple, but they seem to be on board now. First playing session is Friday (7/30) night.
Worst X-Wing game ever on Sunday. Got whupped in three or four turns by a trio of TIE Defenders. I rolled no, none, zero, null evade results during the entire engagement. Just got blown up good. Later games went better - lost by a smidgen to a Ghost/Falcon squadron and ran roughshod over a good mixed Rebel squadron and a Biggs/Phantom/Ghost squadron. I'm having a great time with this squadron of three X-Wings; I'm going to try replacing the T-70 with a non-ace X-Wing and Z-95. Get a little more overall firepower on the table and force two-ship lists to spread their attacks around a little more.
The Republican National Convention was last week, formally making Donald Trump the party's Presidential nominee. That's a hard thing to type - Trump's the least-presidential candidate I've seen in a while. In a sane year, in a sane party, he'd be relegated to the fringes like, say, Buchanan in 2000, but preaching hate and a total lack of substance seems to be the way to go for the GOP this time around. Christ on a cross, Ted Cruz did something to earn a tiny bit of respect during his address - encouraged listeners to vote their consciences, and made the daring suggestion that people who aren't white Protestants were as American as anyone else.
The Dem convention is going on this week, and there are problems. To me, they're a tempest in a teacup. I think that Secretary Clinton is supremely qualified for the office, and more than that, I'm on board with the party platform. Long-term, a Trump- (or maybe worse) Pence-appointed Supreme Court will at best stall and more likely roll back countless civil rights and legal protections.
I'm scared, though. I think that there's enough hatred and partisanship and anarchist-Joker-mindset going around that Cheeto Jesus can win the election. And what then?
Worst X-Wing game ever on Sunday. Got whupped in three or four turns by a trio of TIE Defenders. I rolled no, none, zero, null evade results during the entire engagement. Just got blown up good. Later games went better - lost by a smidgen to a Ghost/Falcon squadron and ran roughshod over a good mixed Rebel squadron and a Biggs/Phantom/Ghost squadron. I'm having a great time with this squadron of three X-Wings; I'm going to try replacing the T-70 with a non-ace X-Wing and Z-95. Get a little more overall firepower on the table and force two-ship lists to spread their attacks around a little more.
The Republican National Convention was last week, formally making Donald Trump the party's Presidential nominee. That's a hard thing to type - Trump's the least-presidential candidate I've seen in a while. In a sane year, in a sane party, he'd be relegated to the fringes like, say, Buchanan in 2000, but preaching hate and a total lack of substance seems to be the way to go for the GOP this time around. Christ on a cross, Ted Cruz did something to earn a tiny bit of respect during his address - encouraged listeners to vote their consciences, and made the daring suggestion that people who aren't white Protestants were as American as anyone else.
The Dem convention is going on this week, and there are problems. To me, they're a tempest in a teacup. I think that Secretary Clinton is supremely qualified for the office, and more than that, I'm on board with the party platform. Long-term, a Trump- (or maybe worse) Pence-appointed Supreme Court will at best stall and more likely roll back countless civil rights and legal protections.
I'm scared, though. I think that there's enough hatred and partisanship and anarchist-Joker-mindset going around that Cheeto Jesus can win the election. And what then?
