The E-A portion of Kublacon (29 May 2004 in San Francisco, USA) was great...
Among the highlights were:
- Saturday's 2pm E-A game by Craig and Aron:
A Gigantic six sided Titan/Troops/Armor bash between six players who didn't know who was Traitor and who was Loyalist. They had to move a command stand within 45cm of the enemy to get identification. I played the Eldar NPC who got utterly wiped out due to Craig's miscalculation of how much Eldar would be competitive. The players were supposed to defend or destory and eldar warp gate in the middle of the map. Despite being wiped out early, it was a great game. I really enjoyed it.
Game participants were:
Rory Ross, Craig Robertson, Eric Royer (Chern), Maksim-Smelchak, Aron Clark, Tim, Steve Kohler, and some other people I don't remember.
1. Maksim-Smelchak - Eldar NPC
2. Rory Ross - Loyalist SM/Titan player
3. Tim ? - Traitor SM/Titan player
4. Eric Royer (Chern) - Loyalist SM/Titan player
5. Aron Clark - Loyalist SM/Titan player
6. (a father and son team) - Loyalist SM/Titan player
7. Steve Kohler - Traitor SM/Titan player
8. Craig Robertson - Gamemaster
- Saturday's 8pm E-A game by Chad:
An ten-person introductory game between an Imperial side and an Ork side allied with one chaos SM detatchment. Both sides were really skirmishing with no overt objectives (although there were some objectives on the table). Eric (Chern) and I played on the Imperial side (Eric with a Mechanized Fist detatchment and myself with IG arty). It was a good game. Eric and I wiped out Ork Stompa and Boyz warbands with the help of a Baneblade player. I had to leave before the game ended so I hae to wait to hear from Eric for the rest of the results. Jervis introduced the game and explained the system to everyone (All but the gamemaster, Chern and I were newbies to the game).
Game participants were:
Rory Ross, Eric Royer (Chern), Maksim-Smelchak, Peter Hansell, Ray Snyder, Chad Martens, Jervis Johnson (unofficial referee and introduction) and some other people I don't remember.
- Meeting Jervis and getting my photo taken with him.
Eric and I chatted Jervis up, but didn't really hear anything newsworthy. He had a copy of Fanatic Magazone #1, which was nice. He says that Fanatic Mag #5 is already done and that they are keeping ahead of the curve. Campaign rules are coming.
- Chern's (Eric's) new E-A army cards.
Eric is working on IG now. The cards look great!
- No Epic on sale!
There was no Epic on sale at the con although there was a guy with some E-40k sprues at the flea market, but he wanted insane money for a bag of mostly E-40k SM and Ork sprues. No deal. GW and FW had no official representation at Kublacon. I bought a copy of Silent Death (starfighter) rules for $5.00 USD and a ton of 6mm terrain buildings from armorcast, Ironwind and a few other companies. I also got a box of BT mechs and two Ronin - Duels mecha.
Correction:
Jeff Hyatt reminded me that there were some E-A rulebooks at the con, but they sold out very early in the con. He explained that it's too hard for retaillers to get Specialist Games products in the USA. He also didn't like my calling his Epic bag "insanely-priced" to which I replied that I have unrealistic ideas about Epic pricing since I have too much! He's a good guy and I was happy to hear from him on TMP.
Here's his reply thread:
TMP forums - Jeff Hyatt's Reply to Maksim-Smelchak
Two Epic games and meeting Jervis made for a nice con!
I'll try to write more later.
Shalom,
Maksim-Smelchak.
P.S.
Kublacon's URL:
http://www.kublacon.com/
