Category Archives: Conventions

#21 – Playin’ and Slayin’ – Gen Con Champions

Posted by Troy

Another Gen Con has come and gone. The guys recall their adventures at the greatest four days of gaming and review a few of the games they played there: Reef, Tiny Epic Zombies, Shogunate and many others. In “Play it or Slay It” this time they review the new Age of Sigmar themed TCG released at Gen Con, Warhammer: Champions.

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Our theme music is by FADEBACK

Things we’ve been playin’ and slayin’ (show notes)

Wrath & Glory
Reef
Tiny Epic Zombies
Kids on Bikes
Outbreak Undead 2E
Shogunate
Race for the Galaxy
Tags
Expanse RPG
Trogdor the Boardgame
Witchborn
Frostgrave
Resident Evil Boardgame
Ashes of Creation
- The Ashen Herald
Warhammer Age of Sigmar: Champions

Upcoming Events

Chaos GT Oct 6-7 Huntsville AL
FlatCon October 12-14 Interstate Center, Bloomington, IL
RockCon Oct 19-21
Dragonfall – Oct 19-21 Elmhurst, Ill
Essen Oct 25-28
Holy Havoc – Nov 2-4th
GameholeCon Nov 8-11

Posted in Conventions, GenCon, PaS, Podcasts, Tournaments

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Tags: Age Of Sigmar, Boardgames, boardgaming, D&D, Frostgrave, Gaming, Gen Con, GenCon, Kickstarter, Kids on Bikes, miniature games, Podcast, Reef, Shogunate, Tiny Epic Zombies, Warhammer Champions, Wrath and Glory

#20 – Playin’ and Slayin’ – Gen Con 51 Prepisode

Jul 26

Posted by Troy

It’s time for the annual Gen Con Prepisode! The guys preview some of the new games they will be looking to check out at this year’s Gen Con and provide some tips and tricks to navigating the best four days of gaming with 60,000 other people. But that’s not all. This episode Ty also recaps his adventures playing AoS at Midwest Meltdown.

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Our theme music is by FADEBACK

Things we’ve been playin’ and slayin’ (show notes)

Galaxy Trucker
Flamme Rouge – Peloton
Adeptus Titanicus
ABCs of D&D, 123s of D&D
#DrakeGate18 Twitter Thread

Gen Con 2018 Things to Check out

Transformers CCG
Warhammer 40,000: Heroes of Black Reach
Robotech: Attack on the SDF-1
Kick-Ass: The Board Game
Forbidden Sky
My Little Scythe
Wrath & Glory
The Witcher RPG
Warhammer 4e RPG
Star Wars: The Roleplaying Game 30th Anniversary Edition
Vampire: The Masquerade 5th Edition Core Book
Detective: A Modern Crime Board Game
Reef
Kingdomino: Age of Giants
Scythe: Rise of Fenris
Tiny Epic Zombies
Kitchen Rush
The Big Score
Neon Gods
Kids on Bikes
Outbreak Undead 2E
Terraforming Mars: Prelude
Chronicles of Crime –
Clank!: The Mummy’s Curse –
Blue Lagoon
Choose Your Own Adventure: House of Danger
Pantone: The Game
Pandemic: 10th Anniversary
Oxna Bears All/Aetherium Rhommox

Gen Con Featured Artist – Alayna Danner

Sun King Brewery – Everlasting Gamer

Upcoming Events

GenCon Aug 2-5
FlatCon October 12-14, 2018, Interstate Center, Bloomington, IL
RockCon Oct 19-21
Dragonfall – Oct 19-21 Elmhurst, Ill
Essen Oct 25-28
Holy Havoc – Nov 2-4th
GameholeCon Nov 8-11

Posted in Conventions, GenCon, PaS, Podcasts, Tournaments

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Tags: Age Of Sigmar, Boardgames, boardgaming, D&D, Flamme Rouge, Gaming, Gen Con, GenCon, Kickstarter, Magic, Magic the Gathering, miniature games, Podcast, Scythe

#18 – Playin’ and Slayin’ – Origins and Lords of Waterdeep

Jun 28

Posted by Troy

Ty returns from the Origins Game Fair and tells us all about it. This episode also premiers the “Resurrection Review” where the guys pull an old game off the shelf and see how it holds up. The game they review this time is Lords of Waterdeep.

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Our theme music is by FADEBACK

Things we’ve been playin’ and slayin’ (show notes)

The Ashen Herald
Alayna Danner webstore
Interview with Alayna in Episode 13
Dresden Files Cooperative Card Game
Dicey Peaks
Frontline No Komrades
Origins
Warhammer 40k Wrath & Glory RPG
Warhammer Age of Sigmar: Champions TCG
The Little Gamemaster
Getaway Driver

Upcoming Events

Midwest Meltdown – July 21-22
GenCon Aug 2-5
RockCon Oct 19-21
Dragonfall – Oct 19-21 Elmhurst, Ill
Essen Oct 25-28
Holy Havoc – Nov 2-4th
GameholeCon Nov 8-11

Posted in Conventions, Origins, PaS, Podcasts

Adepticon Space Hulk and Zombicide:BP Event Rules

Apr 2

Posted by Troy

I finally got around to posting the rules and maps from this year Space Hulk and Zombicide Black Plague Adepticon events.

Posted in Adepticon, Space Hulk

#14 – Playin’ and Slayin’ – Adepticon 2018 in Review

Apr 1

Posted by Troy

It’s the Playin’ and Slayin’ review of the best four and a half days of miniature gaming in the world. Ty, Josh and Troy recount the end of the Hobby Road to Adepticon, the games they played and stuff they bought, the highs and lows of tournament play and all the amazingness that is Adepticon 2018.

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Our theme music is by FADEBACK

Things we’ve been playin’ and slayin’ (show notes)

Adepticon
Crystal Brush
Blood Art Studios
CK Studios
Dave Taylor – ARMIES & LEGIONS & HORDES
Dinosaur Island: Back from Extinction
Harry Potter Miniature game from Knight Models
Batman from Monolith
Pacific Rim: Extinction
The Lost Islands – 3D printable Terrain for RPG and Wargames
Zombicide in Space coming in April
Humble Bundle – Black Library
The Order of Vampire Hunters
SAGA
Gaslands Tokens – Death Ray Designs
Aetherium

Upcoming Events
Brew City Brawl AoS GT 4/28-29
Nexus Game Fair 5/31-6/3
GenCon 8/2-5

Posted in Adepticon, Conventions, PaS, Podcasts, Space Hulk

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Tags: adepticon, CK Studios, Duncan Rhodes, Kickstarter, miniature games, Podcast, Vampire Hunters

#12 – Playin’ and Slayin’ – Anvil Eight Games Adepticon Preview

Feb 20

Posted by Troy

Will from Anvil Eight Games is in the studio! The guys preview Adepticon, the greatest four days of miniature gaming, and what Anvil Eight Games has planned for their “home ice”. In the Play It or Slay It review Will tries to convince us why we should all be playing SAGA, the Heroic Age Miniature Skirmish game.