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Sky Galleons
Is that 3.99 inches or 4.01?
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Sky Galleons of Mars
I organized this game for RoPeCon as a sort of last minute thing.
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Hulk
You never know who you bump into at the con...
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Ray Greer
Guest of Honor from Hero Games.
"Don't quit your day job!"
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Setting up a table
If I bothered to zoom, I might know what game this is.
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WH
A game of WarSpammer in progress. No wait, was WarHamster? WarpSpasmer? I'm pretty sure war-something...
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Alien Abduction
I ran out of time to prepare... The game is Gomi Design's Abduction.
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Abduction
Initial setup.
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Abduction table view
I personally found these tables a bit too narrow for my tastes.
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Abduction aliens
They're blue, they're scary and they got a wicked spaceship -- so what's the problem?
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The work begins
I really wonder why I bothered to do all this?
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Mount Doom
Or maybe another doom-laden mountain?
Impressive model, but how do they actually play on it? And where do you store it?
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WH
Unpainted, unassembled miniatures on a bare table...
But hey, it's the game that counts, right?
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Mount Doom
Closeup of the waterfall.
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Abduction
The aliens advance.
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Abduction
Futile resistance.
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Abduction humans
When I went to buy some toy soldiers for this game, I learned that they don't sell toy soldiers anymore.
No shortage of "Combat Peace Fighters" though...
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Rick Priestley
I think. Someone this manic must be from old school GW.
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Rick Priestley
There are good guests of honor, and not so good guests of honor.
Rick was definitely one of the better ones.
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Dark Rick
I guess it's Rick again, but the picture's too dark to tell and I'm too lazy to load it into GIMP.
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Mount Doom
There are troops, but I never saw them move.
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Mount Doom
Sideview.
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Abduction
I was having a shortage of players, and get very bored.
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Abduction
VERY bored.
Actually, these cards are kind of FAQ for the game. I got thoroughly fed up with people zooming in for a WarSpamster game, asking a few stupid questions and fleeing in horror.
"No, this is not WarSpandex"
"Yes, those are smurfs"
"Yes, you can play this game"
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Moomin Beach
This was the last RoPeCon I went to.
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Moomin Beach
As usual, the convention oganizers did not provide me with the blue cloth they promised. Thus, white sea.
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Moomin Beach
Die Amerikaner approach.
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Moomin Beach
The peaceful village.
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Moomin Beach
Another shot of the assault fleet.
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Moomin Beach
Pride of the pirate navy.
Actually, this ship is contemporary. She's really a Portuguese training ship launched in 1939.
Though I doubt the deck mounted 88's were in the original.
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Moomin Beach
MTB's test their mettle.
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Moomin Beach
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Moomin Beach
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Moomin Beach
The defenders ready themselves.
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Moomin Beach
Hit the beach!
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Moomin Beach
Looks like they're in range...
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Moomin Beach
Action moves inland.
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Moomin Beach
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Moomin Beach
Looks neat so far.
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Moomin Beach
I wonder why I have so many shots of this?
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Moomin Beach
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Moomin Beach
Someone's trying to flank.
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Moomin Beach
"I'll never get through all those dice!"
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Moomin Beach
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Moomin Beach
The empties were used as hit markers.
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Steve Jackson
Last time around, Steve was much better. Don't know why.
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Not Steve Jackson
This is not Steve Jackson, this is another hairy American. He had those blinkyballs and I think he had moved to computer games (traitor!).
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Moomin Beach
Die Amerikaner are off the beach.
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Moomin Beach
In retrospective, the beach stage was much too short. Should have rescaled the battlefield.
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Moomin Beach
A pair of Corsairs zoom in for air support.
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Packing
Even a simple game like this requires insane amounts of stuff to haul.
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Sugarcube Castle
This picture proves I'm not the only one there with a sick, twisted sense of humor.
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Sugarcube Castle
Ha! But it's not a complete castle.
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Unicorn and maiden
The one-armed skeleton is hidden out of view.
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RopeCon 2005
Troops advancing in Gemigabok's 1808-1809 game.
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RopeCon 2005
I rather like the terrain thay made for this occasion.
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RopeCon 2005
DBM game in action.
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RopeCon 2005
More DBM.
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RopeCon 2005
A line of BloodBowl players.
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RopeCon 2005
Classic BattleTech.
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RopeCon 2005
The con crowd.
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RopeCon 2005
A panel on roleplaying in MMORPG's.
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RopeCon 2005
A panel on designing a game based on romantic myths.
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RopeCon 2005
A map from a Glorantha game. I guess it's Dragon Pass, but I don't really know anything about Glorantha.
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RopeCon 2005
More WFB action. There are so many pictures of WFB games simply because there were so few other miniature games around.
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RopeCon 2005
I took this picture because I liked the paintjobs.
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RopeCon 2005
Epic games in action. Or maybe it's just one big game, I don't really know.
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RopeCon 2005
More Epic gaming.
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RopeCon 2005
The Doom boardgame. The pieces actually look rather nice. Maybe I should buy this, if just for the pink demons...
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RopeCon 2005
A demo of some homebrew game that looks a whole lot like Space Hulk. A little more emphasis on production values might be a good thing.
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RopeCon 2005
Spot the odd one out. I took this picture simply because they had Stephen J. Turnbull's Samurai Warfare lying on the table.
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RopeCon 2005
It's so b lurry I can't even tell which game they're playing, though I think it's WFB.
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RopeCon 2005
This couple was dancing in the lobby. By themselves. But not all that badly.
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Queen Victoria
She came out looking a bit like an old maid. But then again, a colorful dress wouldn't suit her and plain black is just dull.
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RopeCon 2005
A game of Epic in progress.
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RopeCon 2005
I believe this was a Confrontation demo.
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RopeCon 2005
One of the miniatures gaming tables.
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RopeCon 2005
More gaming tables.
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RopeCon 2005
Ah, the goold old bare-on-bare: Barely undercoated minis on a bare table.
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RopeCon 2005
More gaming tables.
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RopeCon 2005
Magic the Cash Cow in progress.
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RopeCon 2005
Lots of neat stuff on sale. I think these were locally made though the usual Far East imports were also there.
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RopeCon 2005
More swords, this time latex.
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RopeCon 2005
And more latex swords. They look pretty good actually.
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RopeCon 2005
The crowd.
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RopeCon 2005
More people. I'd guesstimate roughly 1/3 were dressed up.
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RopeCon 2005
Nice Harlock outfits.
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RopeCon 2005
The girls like dressing up, though I did see one male fairy, complete with wings. Didn't manage to get a picture though.
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RopeCon 2005
More costumes.
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RopeCon 2005
Reminds me of an old Scorpions song...
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RopeCon 2005
Ran out of tables?
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RopeCon 2005
Trolls or something?
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RopeCon 2005
Juhana Petterson puffing his new book, which actually is rather good.
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RopeCon 2005
Guy Windsor teaching the finer points of swordplay.
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RopeCon 2005
It's Guy again. I really liked his piece. Usually martial arts instructors are hard pressed to form a single cohesive sentence, but Guy knew how to handle an audience.
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RopeCon 2005
Guy and the art of Spanish fencing.
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RopeCon 2005
Guy Windsor demonstrates Spanish fencing techniques with one of his students.
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RopeCon 2005
Guy demosntrating a salute.
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RopeCon 2005
More swordplay on stage.
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RopeCon 2005
Greg Stafford with a minder. RopeCon's had a bunch of rather boring guests of honor lately, but Greg was a hoot. Really great guy, and one of the real pioneers to boot.
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RopeCon 2005
Dancing.
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RopeCon 2005
More people.
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RopeCon 2005
I think it's a DBM game by the DBM tournament guys. Not my cup of tea.
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RopeCon 2005
More bare-table action.
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RopeCon 2005
Gemigabok put up a very nice War of 1808-1809 game (Finland's involvement in the Napoleonic wars and the final straw for the Swedish camel).
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RopeCon 2005
Closeup on some of the stuff from Gemigabok's game.
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RopeCon 2005
Gemigabok's table from the other side.
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RopeCon 2005
The camo cloth is not such a bad idea, but the hills just don't fit.
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RopeCon 2005
The miniatures side of things was maybe 90% WFB, 9% 40K and 1% others. I was a bit amazed there was so little 40K.
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RopeCon 2005
More WFB games. More painted armies this year too, which is always nice.
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RopeCon 2005
Games of WFB in progress.
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RopeCon 2005
More WFB games in prgress.
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RopeCon 2005
WH40K in progress. I just knew this had to be in the con... It's the game hon, who cares about the miniatures? Erm, yeah right, I'd rather play ASL.
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RopeCon 2005
More 40K. I like the yellow tanks. I find it extremely boring when people don't have the balls to deviate from the canon color schemes (and black primer doesn't count).
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RopeCon 2005
More unpainted hordes for 40K.
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RopeCon 2005
Rather nice looking 40K game. Except what are the ruins doing on a nice green golf course?
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RopeCon 2005
Warmachine demo. And the only Warmachine game I could spot. Vey nice painting, though.
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RopeCon 2005
More WFB action.
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RopeCon 2005
Nice pyramid, even though in general the tables were pretty much like this: completely lacking a unifying theme.
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RopeCon 2005
More black primer legions.
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RopeCon 2005
More WFB tournament action.
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RopeCon 2005
Still more WFB.
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RopeCon 2005
Interesting flag designs.
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RopeCon 2005
Very nice Tau outfit.
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RopeCon 2005
I have no clue what they're playing.
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RopeCon 2005
More costumes.
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RopeCon 2005
Looks like 40K action.
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RopeCon 2005
Warhammer 40K action.
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RopeCon 2005
I like the turret design.
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RopeCon 2005
More costumes.
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RopeCon 2005
A demo game of Kaukopartio (roughly equivalent of LRRP).
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RopeCon 2005
More of Gemigabok's neat terrain.
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RopeCon 2005
Gemigabok's terrain. Rather nice and authentic looking.
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RopeCon 2005
DBM game.
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Hair
There's a game there behind all that shiny, lustrous hair.
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Gemigabok's 1808-09 game
Once again, superb terrain. It never comes out that nice when I do it.
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Space Hulk
Hand crafted Space Hulk board. Pretty nice work.
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