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Sold me Down the River
I shouldn't be at this point, but I'm still regularly surprised at how good getting together with some friends to move little toy spaceships around a table is for my mental health. I went to Heroes with two Armada fleets and four X-Wing squadrons yesterday. Only got in a single match - an Epic X-Wing game. Lost, but managed not to bring shame to my ancestors. Did find that I need one more B-Wing maneuver dial, so an eBay seller is going get a few bucks out of me for that.
I sicced the Bs, flying in a wing, on a wing of TIE/lns early on, and while the B isn't a dogfighter, it does punch hard. The Bs also had the GR-75's point defense lasers providing cover, and that was good for a couple of shots most rounds. In hindsight, I should have used the Bs for their intended purpose and attacked my opponent's Gozanti instead, but I only had five fighters in my squadron, and needed some counter to my opponent's wings. All in all, a good match and good scenario, and we'll do it again in a couple of weeks.
I've gotten the idea to try and write some gaming stuff for publication again. I'm looking at FFG's Android setting for one of the products, and since I'm here for the immersion, I snapped up the five novels FFG published a while back. The first one, so far at least, is plenty enjoyable - we've got a murder mystery going on, going with the setting's theme of "The world changed. Crime (or people) did not." I don't expect that these are going to be life-changers, but so far, I'm having a good time in the world.
With luck, I'm going to run a Dungeon Crawl Classics game this afternoon. Would have done it last weekend, but car trouble and floods and everything else conspired to force the delay. This should be fun.
My trusty, but aging, iPhone is probably getting succeeded this afternoon, too. It's solidly into the obsolescent category, with the latest OS update being a couple years old, a slowly failing battery, and a couple of other issues.
I sicced the Bs, flying in a wing, on a wing of TIE/lns early on, and while the B isn't a dogfighter, it does punch hard. The Bs also had the GR-75's point defense lasers providing cover, and that was good for a couple of shots most rounds. In hindsight, I should have used the Bs for their intended purpose and attacked my opponent's Gozanti instead, but I only had five fighters in my squadron, and needed some counter to my opponent's wings. All in all, a good match and good scenario, and we'll do it again in a couple of weeks.
I've gotten the idea to try and write some gaming stuff for publication again. I'm looking at FFG's Android setting for one of the products, and since I'm here for the immersion, I snapped up the five novels FFG published a while back. The first one, so far at least, is plenty enjoyable - we've got a murder mystery going on, going with the setting's theme of "The world changed. Crime (or people) did not." I don't expect that these are going to be life-changers, but so far, I'm having a good time in the world.
With luck, I'm going to run a Dungeon Crawl Classics game this afternoon. Would have done it last weekend, but car trouble and floods and everything else conspired to force the delay. This should be fun.
My trusty, but aging, iPhone is probably getting succeeded this afternoon, too. It's solidly into the obsolescent category, with the latest OS update being a couple years old, a slowly failing battery, and a couple of other issues.