Grey Matter Games

Unit 2 / 94 Kildare Rd

Blacktown

NSW 2148

02 8814 8700

 

The Tin Soldier

46 York St

Sydney

NSW 2000

02 9279 2668

 

The Tin Soldier

Shop 1 / 448 High St

Penrith

NSW 2751

02 4731 4623

 

The Last Redoubt

858a Pittwater Rd

Dee Why

NSW 2099

02 9981 3240

 

Five shops in the ACT and one in Tasmania also stock Derivan Minis and this information can be found on www.matisse.com.au

 

q       WARMACHINE

This popular game is now played regularly at WSGS and we are looking for more PLAYERS. WE have a committed player who will be attending all our meetings to ensure everyone will get a game. Beginners and experienced players welcome, please see Daniel for a game.

 

q       Family day 5/12/2004

The December family day will have Teddy Bears Picnic playing as well as being the last club day to work on a Christmas diorama,  5/12/2004

 

q       December Display day, BEST Christmas Diorama 19/12/2004

Family entries are welcome. A nominal $2 entry fee for non members. Lots of prizes and encouragement awards, its Christmas so please join us and have some fun.

 

q       FULL THRUST Campaign will recommence on the 6^th of February

 

q       WSGS interclub challenge will be hosted by the Western Warriors

POSTPONED UNTIL January 30^th 2005 at Baulkham Hills.

 

Arr,

Its bout time we ad a Snatch at da gold me Hearty’s

I is ritten up o’ set of rules to spice up de Pirates standard rules,

for a 1 day campaign, and here they be-

 

1. All players will start with 10 gold pieces to buy their ship with, only one ship per person at this pre-game stage, you will be able to buy more ships as the day and campaign goes on. The points of the ship are its cost in gold, and no crew except oarsmen can be bought without a special treasure card, more on that later. Any unused gold goes into the treasure vaults for use later on.
2. The Game Master, will place all the islands before the players choose a base, and the treasure randomly after all the bases have been chosen.
3. You can choose your own base island every round, the order that the players choose their home islands in is subject to a secret bid. All players before each round will be able to see the layout of the islands and secretly bid an amount of gold, the highest bidder will choose their island first down to the lowest bidder last. Players can choose to bid 0gp, and all ties at the same bid will be broken by a die roll, highest choosing first.
4. At this point the game of Pirates is standard and is played as such, the object is to take as much treasure for yourself as possible, the only exceptions are- the round goes on until all the treasure from the neutral islands is taken to base islands, or when only one player has ships floating. Also note if a ship is sunk on the water that had treasure that treasure is lost, not as in the base rules.
5. War booty- if you derelict an unfriendly ship and successfully toe it to your base island you will sell it at the end of the round, the bounty will be ½ of the original ships cost rounded up. But by all means use it within the round as if it is yours. As usual all treasure on it is now yours and any surviving crew become special treasure for you, again more on that later.
6. If you have a ship sent to the bottom, you can buy it back for ¾ its cost, if you had a ship bountied you can buy it back for ½ its cost, always round up. Either way all the crew on the ship is lost.
7. Crew you ask, I will be modifying some of my treasure tokens to indicate the basic crew noted in the rule book, when one of these is found and delivered to you home island you can in-between rounds buy the appropriate crew to man any of you ships, nationality doesn’t matter here and use the bade rule book cost. In the campaign I will not be using any special crew. The only crew readily available are oarsmen, and they can be bought at any in-between round for any ship.
8. We will play as many rounds in the day as possible, and in-between rounds you can use your gold to buy more ships etc. at the end of the day the person with the biggest total gold in treasury and cost of their ships is declared the winner, and bill be the most hated Pirate in the Spanish Main

 

I was thinking of running this on the 19/12/04 for the first time, please send me your thoughts, and notes of interest in playing. Rob. rob.harradine@bigpond.com

 

q       Should WSGS Display days be open to the general public and other club members to enter?

WSGS works closely with a lot of other hobby clubs and in general all the clubs open events up to other club members in recognition of these close ties. I'm proud to say we work closely with the Emperor's Legion, the Western Warriors, we help the Southern Battle Group with participation games at MOAB each year and recently Mitchell helped the EMIRS out in Bondi.

 

For the last three years we have also work closely with APMA, inviting them to Leviathan and they have in turn assisted us with judging during the Leviathan painting comp. We have welcomed and encouraged APMA members to enter our display days, which they have and it has all been very encouraging.

 

Unfortunately despite 3 requests in three years they have declined to open up their display days in turn to WSGS members.

They have said that non APMA members can enter the two annual unofficial modelling /- painting competitions as individual run the unofficial competitions and not APMA. I don't know what the issue is and to be honest I’m very disappointed

 

My initial response was to look at barring APMA members from our display days from 2005 and I did tell the APMA committee this, but in hindsight, I think that would be the wrong response. I understand APMA have their own display days and it is their decision, I also think they their decision is wrong. To reply in kind would make not just me but our club, just as wrong. WSGS has always been about involving other clubs and growing the hobby as a whole, and I think WSGS should not become so narrow minded, that we start closing main stream activities to members only. Therefore despite my angry response to APMA, I’m asking Ross to keep our Display days open to other clubs and the public to participate in.

The new display day organiser for 2005 is Ross Heenan.

 

Ross is yet to confirm next years display days, however the draft is as follows.

q       6th February                                  Best WWII unit

q       7th August                                      Best Sci Fi Creature

q       18th December                              Best Christmas single miniature

Ty.

q       Ancients Campaign (No miniatures needed)

Here is an idea, for a very simple campaign. Once a month you write a (to the point) email telling me:

·          What you want to do with your country

·          Where this is to occur

·          How you are going to do it

·          Why it should work.

 

If you are available for a game then indicate that on the email and if you can organise a game. Otherwise the results will be purely based on whether you have convinced the referee. (ME) Given the format this can be as simple or as big as you make it. Orders due by THE 1ST FRIDAY OF THE MONTH.

For  map just use any world map.

David                Anglo Irish                     Britain

Scott                Scots Irish                     Ireland

Andrew             Pre Feudal Scots           Scotland

David Short        Vikings                         Norway, Sweden, Denmark

Mitchell             Crusaders                     Holy lands and Sicily

Tony                 Byzantine                      Greece, Turkey and Balkans

Phil                   Roman                          Italy, France

Gary                 Carthage                       North Africa, Egypt and Spain

Steve                Sassanids                     Persia and Arabia

Pat                   Samurai                        Japan

Craig                 Bactrian Greek              Afghanistan

Max                  Mongol                          Mongolia and the Russian Steppes

Ken                  Ming China                    China (Ken I'll play your miniature games)

 

First turn, due by the 1st Friday in December 2004, Ty.

 

q       What your club (WSGS) did in November

q       Bunnings Norwest Ladies (FAMILY) Night Tuesday 9^th November 6p.m. to 9p.m.

This was a good night, my kids have had their Santa photos so we don’t have to worry about it later in December.

We got a lot of interest and I wrote out club details to two families before I got to leave for the night.

 

q       Bunnings Warehouse Norwest - WSGS Promotion and Fund Raising BBQ

q       Saturday 27/11/2004 (Volunteers so far, Michell, Ty (morning only), Ross, 2 more needed)

A special thanks to Michell, Ross, Jacqueline, Angie and Beau for helping out at the Bunnings Fund raising BBQ. After getting there early (7.30am), we started late with a slight hick up with the gas cylinder. (Next time we bring a spare, something to learn from) Still Jacqueline rushed out and got the cylinder refilled. I left at 9.40am because Kim had the NSW school spectacular on at the Entertainment centre. Just when it looked like we were going to be short staffed (only 2, Michell and Ross), Beau saved the day when he turned up (his employer didn’t ring him to work on the day) so he came to Bunnings to help us.  In future we will stick to around 50-55kgs of sausages, 65kgs was way too much, despite being told that we would sell them, we didn’t. Drinks however sold like crazy, and we raised after expenses close to $1000 for the club. Ty

 

 WSGS Meeting Dates for 2004 Next meeting highlighted in BLUE

q       5 December

q       19 December

 

 

 

 

q       2005

q       16^th January (1st meeting after the Christmas)

q       6^th February

q       20^th February

q       6^th March

q       20^th March

q       3^rd April

q       17^th April

q       1^st May

q       15^th May

q       18^th and 19^th June (Weekend meeting)

q       3^rd July

q       17^th July

q       7^th August

q       21^st August

q       (NO meeting on Fathers Day)

q       17^th and 18^th September (Weekend meeting)

q       16^th October

q       6^th November

q       20^th November

q       4^th December

q       18^th December