ACTA DIURNA
Western Suburbs Games Society News
August 2004
Commentarii Senatus (Comments from the Senate)
The committee members for 2004/2005 are; Trevor Williams (President), Stephen Black (Treasurer), Robert Harradine, Ross Heenan and Pat Sibbald. Congratulations on their election and thank you to those members
that are committed to the club to run for a committee position.
Trevor Williams (Club President)
q Ancients
The club ranking system has been re-established and all ancients game results need to be sent to Ty. Any rule system may be used provided both players agree. If there is no agreement the default rule system is
Australian Tactika.
To maximise the number of opponents you can play we try and get the Ancient players to attend on the 3rd Sunday of the month, (15th August)
q Campaigns
The club has 3 campaigns running at present. New players are encouraged and assisted.
q Battletech (1st Sunday of the month) see Rob.
Next campaign date 1st August
q Full thrust (1st Sunday of the month) see Ty Next Campaign date 1st August
q 40K (3rd Sunday of the month) see Ross
Next Campaign date 15th August
q MOAB. (October Long Weekend)
Matisse have sponsored MOAB with $900 retail value of product for the painting competition and Battlefront NZ will be present at MOAB making the Flames of War comp at MOAB the National championship. WSGS will
be at MOAB running 2 pariticipayion game games (One table is run by Russell Hooke a WSGS life member and the other table needs some club volunteers. Ty will run Teddy Bear’s Picnic on the Saturday afternoon.
1st August 2004 – Family Day, Display day and BBQ
The Display day theme is Best Military Machine. (Air, Land, Sea or Space.) DON”T FORGET TO ENTER.
Entries received before 12.30p.m. Entry fee for non WSGS members $2 per entry. WSGS members may enter one miniature for free and then the fee is $1 per additional entry. Engraved Glass trophies for 1st and 2nd place. Prizes for 1st
place, 2nd place and best entry and encouragement awards for painters 14 years or under.
q Leviathan
2004 Part 2 – Role Play and Miniatures Hobby Convention and Tournament will be held from Friday evening to Sunday, (13th –15th August 2004). Entry forms are on our web site www.westernsuburbsgamesociety.com
q Bunnings Warehouse Norwest - WSGS Promotion and Fund Raising BBQ
q Saturday 28/8/2004 (Big Day at Bunnings with a water saving promotion)
q Sunday 26/9/2004
q Saturday 27/11/2004
Without these fund raising BBQs we could not afford to have our membership so reasonable and afford our insurance and rent. These BBQs give us a presence in the community to attract new members, promote our hobby and basically pays for our insurance. We
need 3-4 volunteers on each day to cook and serve approximately 300 sausages and bread rolls with about 10kgs of cooked onion. Please see Mitchell and Ty to assist.
q MOAB (October Long weekend (2nd,3rd and 4th October 2004)
Refer to news, we need volunteers for this to again. See Ty
q Matisse Open day 16th October from 10am to 2p.m. (set up at 9.30am)
Gary and Ty have already committed to attending, 1-2 more volunteers are needed.
q WSGS ALL WEEKEND MEETING 16th and 17th October
Arrange your big battles for this weekend to play over both Saturday and Sunday, your game is only limited by your imagination.
The last mission was the most difficult yet with the team losing 3 spaceships and learning to work together when approaching the enemy, not to go in piece meal or with the smaller ships holding the centre. Seti
Alpha 3 however was secured and the aliens eliminated at the end of the day. Players always welcome, see Ty.
There are a number of different reports floating around about how this battle was won by the Romans, and how a great and glorious Celtic uprising could fail. Caesar
not only beat the Celts but his Greek Ally has now become a dependent given the terrible losses they suffered.
The truth is the Celtic C-C in his overconfidence deployed his troops poorly and it meant that his divisions would be victorious at the expense of the other Celtic Allied Generals. Celtic tribes are now
bickering among themselves, swearing allegiance to Rome in return for revenge against the Celtic C-C.
Rumours of a Celtic Noble receiving Roman gold are false, he accepted a Roman Villa instead.
Note - We had 11 players on Saturday and 5 players on Sunday. It was a great introduction to the second edition of Tactika and a very social weekend.
q Flames of War
This game has become a real regular at the club and has been played every meeting for the last 2 months. New players are always welcome.
q WSGS Inaugural Dinner 10/7/2004
We had 13 adults and 8 children attend our first WSGS dinner. (I had expected 16 adults, however one was ill and pregnant (congratulations Sandra) and two pulled out that morning sick (Kieleigh and Serge)
It was a successful night with good company and lots of food, we could have fed another 6-8 adults with the food remaining. Out of the 13 adults, only 3 were current members, the rest were ex members who used the dinner to catch up on some old
friendships. The kids all played well (no fighting all night) and had a session with some instruments playing medieval music.
Given I had over catered, I didn't have any money left over to beef up the prizes, however we did have prizes from:
Grey Matter games, Mark Fenlon Miniatures, Eureka Miniatures, Shadowforge, Dymocks Penrith, Infinitas (Sci Fi and Fantasy Book shop now at Civic Arcade in Parramatta.) Every child received a miniature from Grey Matter games and the venue was provided
rent free by Michael and Jin.
It was a challenge to cook most of the food and serve it at another venue however once the food started coming out it went smoothly. Out of the food, the only disappointment (from the Cook's perspective) were the Patisse (little traditional Maltese
pastries). I couldn't get the second Weber BBQ working correctly so I only cooked 8 on the pastries and threw out the uncooked ones at the end of the night.) When cleaning up I noticed I hadn't opened the air vent on the second BBQ, silly me.
What did we cook? Charcoal Roasted 3 large legs of Lamb with rosemary, 30 baked potatoes, 8 baked onions, 14 litres of Vegetable soup. (the stock used a smoked ham hock), 10 litres of Beef strew. (It was thickened using potatoes and beans, no flour was
used) We also had 40 bread rolls and 3 cakes. To drink we had 16 litres of juice and six 750ml bottles of Ale (Home brew) My home brew received some praise too, which pleased me no end.
Trivia
We used 10kgs of potatoes, which was cheating as potatoes were not available for Europeans during the dark ages or medieval times.
Help - Webber BBQs/ Gas burners
I'd like to thank Steve Stopford and Tony Wilkinson for the Webber BBQs. WE could not have had a Charcoal roast without their assistance. I only burnt my hand once. We used the club BBQ, whoever purchased that BBQ really did a good job.
Mitchell also provided a gas burner, Jacqueline dropped it off after work at Grey Matter Games during the week.
Given she works in the city that was very thoughtful of Mitchell and Jacqueline.
Good Company.
I'd like to thank all those that made the effort to attend. Over the years the club has seen a lot of good people join and it was good seeing you all together enjoying the company and a meal together.