Went to the “Warplings and Dumplings” club in Flemington for the first time today. A great bunch of people, that I now hope to get to more often.
The occasion was a “bring and buy” and their Christmas break up Barbeque.
Again I went through another “bring an buy” without buying a single thing. Not sure what disease I have, but I am not liking it!
A great venue for playing dominoes with your father! Although I don’t think the Presbyterian previous owners would approve!
Went to Arcanacon for the first time in a few years and wow, just wow! The objective was to catch up with some old friends and have a game or two of Silver Bayonet.
Warhammer Fantasy, Infinity and Lord of the Rings playing upstairs.
Awesome Infinity terrain
Lord of the Rings table.
Smaug – the one figure army
Downstairs was the main 40k tournament:
Some of the 110competition tables in play
Painting tables
Some of my favourites at the painting competition.
Kill Team competition
40k tables stretch on into the sunset.
Lotsa traders
The BFG guys pod casting live
More Kill Team
Warsurge – a great new games system where literally anything can fight anything across time and space!
Even an onsite tattooist!
The Gaming Arena with their dedicated gaming tables.
Bring and buy stand
More 40k games in progress.
Another trader from whom I bought some static grass.
More 40k.
It was great to catch up with some old mates and roll some dice -more on that in an other post.
MEGA 2024 is a gathering for gaming and modeling fans, focusing on tabletop games. The event opened to the public at 9:30 AM and ran until 6 PM, though I left around 4:30 PM. There were tournaments, reenactment displays, tabletop role-playing, live-action role-playing, competitions, and a Bring-and-Buy area. Food and drinks were available at the on-site bar.
I am the young good looking one!
I was putting on a participation game that saw over 60 young and oldies move dinosaurs around throughout the day. I had a great time but hiding my latent grouch was very tiring!
The initial table set-up with the “munch munches ” on the left and the “stab stabs” on the right. The object for Mr T………Rex was to munch munch the yummy baby “three horns”. The “stab stabs” had to escort their babies off the left hand side of the table or stab the “munch munches!
Having disposed of a “three horne” the T-Rex bull has to spend a turn……….you got it, going “munch munch”.
I had to fight like crazy to get my table right next to the food kiosk and the bar. It was a hard day at the office! This group of dad and five rug rats kept coming back for more.
Munch munch as another “three horn” bites the dust.
The ledger ended up even throughout the day with Guru taking control of the Triceratops for to show em how it was done with a win to even things up after a whole day of munching and stabbing.
Oops another bad day for the “three horns” as the munch munches rule supreme.
The herd doing what they can to protect the “three horn” babies.
An excellent display game of “Pegasus Bridge” put on by the Nunawading club.
Zulus versus the British very thin line.
A sneak preview of the new “Too Fat Lardies” game “Midgard”
15mm participation game of Magnesia run by long time gaming friend, Geoff.
28mm Napoleonic game “participation” game.
An ACW participation game which always had a crowd around the table.
Upstairs was a large game of WW2 “Flames of War”
A WW2 “Chain of Command” North African 28mm game with excellent figures and terrain. I obtained some great modelling ideas from this table.
A whole room was dedicated to an Infinity competition with awesome terrain.
Infinity in action.
The “Lard Zone with my dinosaurs in the fore ground.
Traders galore
Australia’s most well known figure manufacturer Eureka Miniatures supports almost every convention.
Battlefield Accessories are always a regular attender at Melboure cons.
A new local player on the scene with the game mapping software.
GUF a small gaming store chain with a huge inventory.
“True Strike Dice” another new “start up” from Bendigo. Great to see such product knowledge and youthful enthusiasm.
Warplings, a small group of gamers that had some really simple fantasy (below) and Sci-Fi (ab0ve) rules. I wish I had more time to give them a go.
A local re-enactment group with an excellent display. The table of WW1 medical equipment was awesome as was their knowledge of the equipment.
Miniature Horde was another supplier that was new to me.
Warsurge were their from Warnambool with their very successful Kickstarter rules. Warsurge rules allow you to play any figures against any other across time. Kind of like Dr Who meets the land that Time forgot.
A really great day and will happily participate next year.