Epic Battle of the Atlantic Avengers Associates

Underground Temple, City of the Elokians

Off to the left  is the City of the Elokians
River with dock on the top.
Temple with blue columns in middle.
inside the foyer, Sonora (left) has entangled Lumiere (right)
with her 7 giant ground sloths, rainbow colored.
By the River: Wild Wind clocks Doctor Decibel, Stiltman fights for the Redeemer.
Armageddon punches on Mister Foot the Sasquatch, to act as a
distraction for Quantum Rider, who kicks him around a little.
Telsa used teamwork to take down some bad guys.

Friday, May 17, 2013. AAA Campaign.

Died and Went to Gamer Hell

What - is this 1992 ?   

"New" products on the game shelf consist of 

• Battle-Tech : Re-Vamped
• Shadow-Run : Re-Hashed
• Hero-Quest : Re-Dux

 And dribbling in nearby are Rifts (Necro Edition),
D&D Reanimated, and
Vampire (OMG why is that still alive)

It's like Microsoft bought out the gaming industry.

"Let's recycle junky crud that didn't work 20 years ago,

  slather it with maybelline, and sell it again!"

Forward to the Future   That's my new motto.

After long preparation for Hordes of the Things, I found out that one of my favorite players of the game has no further desire to hang out with me anymore. I can understand that, but not understand why he couldn't be honest about it, or told me before I did all the work. But I shall look on the bright side, somewhere somehow, people that like HOTT will show up and I'll get to use these new armies somehow.

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Also in my D&D campaign I had to sack the whole thing.
I had seven players, and five of them were unable to be polite during the game.

• one talks quite a bit about other miniatures games during RPG time.
• one cannot silence his cell phone or stay off of it. Which I could understand if he were a doctor or had a life; but he does not.
• one cannot help but contradict me and correct me on the rules.
• one cannot show up on time, or stay awake
• one cannot quit playing other video games or music during RPG time.

At some juncture a tipping point was reached, and the signal-to-noise ratio  grew too lopsided, and I disbanded the weekly game.
But I remain positive. Somehow somewhere there are people who can politely join in a gaming group.

Hex Boards for Combat Game

HEXES

for a game I'm planning
not unlike Space Hulk

Don't Call the EPA, they're Also in on the Conspiracy

Bench Transformers:

The Gang: Griffon the News Van, HRT the Bus, and Chessex the Train; investigate the BASF factory for dirty goings-on. It was easy till Griffon got waylaid by a blob of toxic sludge.

He was using the nearby walmart parking lot to scope out the BASF lot. the whole area drains into a settlement/easement pond, so it gets the waste from both the factory and the distro center. One lady died and one was injured but the PCs killed the monster. So the fight stymied the investigation into the disappearance of Broad-Side .

Analysis of the samples revealed it was a combo of radiation, toxivore bacteria, and Nexus energy. Since the BASF factory "guards" also had a nexus lazer last week, there's dirty work afoot. Why has BASF branched out big into government contracts in the last year and a half?!?

PICTURE, left to right:

Griffon, the Toxic, the dead woman, Gwen from Wal-Mart, and HRT the Bus

Miss Gwen from Wal-Mart also disappeared after her arrest. Eerily, she was just a victim of the sludge attack, but was charged with embezzlement, released on bail, yet ended up in the van with the BASF "guards". Griffon bribed the tech admin at Wal-Mart to get the undoctored surveillance tape, which inadvertantly revealed that others were interested in the Transformers, or maybe the sludge.

Ongoing projects:
Analysis of the Nexus radios at PHF, tapping the traffic cameras, augmenting the regional traffic cameras, converting the captured Nexus Lazer into something useful.
Burgerama, Pimpticon, and Shredder are still casing the airport.
Griffon, Crow-Bar, and HRT will continue gathering info on BASF.
Klondike will do the science analysis at the base while Incoming guards and assists.
Chessex will be quietly digging an ingress tunnel into the BASF building, from the nearby rail-head at Lee Hall.

What's that Burning Stench ?

Bench Transformers,
Episode I
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Another day on the Peninsula dawns with the Transformers hard at work. Picture: dousing a Chemical Blaze

Crow-Bar gets some old Ford Fairlanes to run again,
and Chessex hauls 120Ktons of coal from Richmond, and
near evening Griffon films a crime-rescue drama in downtown shipyard land.

Then on the way back to base, to post his video to sell to the news channels,
Griffon gets a burning, itching sensation on the back of his neck.

They find out they are implanted with a mission chip, which encourages their performance of their mission, which is to A) build up the base, B) remain hidden, C) perform jobs that build up supplies of money and goods and D) be loyal heroic Auto-Bots.

This is all well and good, but who made the chips and why were they put on our heroes ?
Only Griffon has had his removed so far.

They follow signals at NN/PHF, and find 2 jets there have been equipped with Nexus-Energy recording radios. The PCs steal the radio w/its drive and data.

they analyze data, and find out voices of 12 Auto-Bots. Yet only 9 Auto-Bots are locally known.

They investigate Blow Flats road. find Mercs who arent that intimidated by Auto-bots and have a Nexus-Energy laser.


Crow-Bar starts a Fight with teh Black-talon Mercs.
on the right in yellow is Chessex in his mole-drilling rig form

here's the Team Line-Up

EAST COAST, REPRESENT: USA 50 Miniatures

Miniatures based on the heroes of USA-5O (LINK)
Click on a picture to see it expanded.


Miss Providence, GreenTech
Rhode Island, Vermont


Jersey Devil, Independence-1
New Jersey, Delaware




Granite, Bucherondeau
N.Hampshire, Maine


New York and Connecticut

USA 50 Miniatures

Brick Muppet

BRICK MUPPET

that would be like a super-deformed Thing, right?

all for Kenny T.

DIVINE RIGHT

Minarian Legends

ULTIMATE SHOWDOWN of ULTIMATE DESTINY

ULTIMATE SHOWDOWN of ULTIMATE DESTINY

Santa Claus has snuck into the Evil backfield

to heal Batman. Also notice Optimus Prime

standing where Godzilla used to be...

Williamsburg Muster

ULTIMATE SHOWDOWN of ULTIMATE DESTINY

ULTIMATE SHOWDOWN of ULTIMATE DESTINY

Jon Krigbaum Versus Saint Nicholas

Nuff Said.

Williamsburg Muster

ULTIMATE SHOWDOWN of ULTIMATE DESTINY

ULTIMATE SHOWDOWN of ULTIMATE DESTINY

Just before the BAT-MOBILE exploded.

Doc Ock, the Terminator, Mussollinni

and the Care Bear are about to frikkin Die.

Williamsburg Muster Event.

ULTIMATE SHOWDOWN of ULTIMATE DESTINY

ULTIMATE SHOWDOWN of ULTIMATE DESTINY

Santa and the Power Rangers have thrown down

on Krigbaum and Johnny Depp.

Williamsburg Muster

WILLIAMSBURG MUSTER

WILLIAMS

BURG 

MUSTER

click on any 

image for 

a larger shot.

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Lord Duffenbach,

and Colonel Craine.

Commanding Troops and most importantly, 

TANKS, in the MULTIVERSAL environment.

WILLIAMSBURG MUSTER

WILLIAMSBURG MUSTER

Doctor Whitehurst, and his able assistant Dannelly survey 

the wreckage of the UN town at the Jumpgate. 

Commander Davis was not afraid to use the Rockets

in a civilized cityscape.

WILLIAMSBURG MUSTER

WILLIAMSBURG 

MUSTER - 2009

Ken Whitehurst debuts 

his TANK GAME. It had

a descriptive name, like 

POLYVERSAL, 

apparently since it, uh, 

since it used stuff from 

all genres of Armored 

Combat War Games. 

It was interesting, and 

played well despite the 

complex Morale Rules.

Personally I would have 

named the game 

POLYNOMIAL, so that 

the math-phobic would 

know into what they

were getting.

ULTIMATE SHOWDOWN of ULTIMATE DESTINY

ULTIMATE SHOWDOWN of ULTIMATE DESTINY
post-game show.
The Good Guys have triumphed.

(L-R): Jordan Shorty, the Craiginator, Power-Mad, and the lovely ladies of the Audience. they were laughing so hard at us making up the reasons why things went the way they did.

ULTIMATE SHOWDOWN of ULTIMATE DESTINY

ULTIMATE SHOWDOWN of ULTIMATE DESTINY
Lights, Camera, Action!


the curtain went up on USUD the Game at MARS-CON in Virginia.
there will be a return Engagement at Williamsburg Muster in February.
Above see the Care Bear has put Godzilla and Chuck Norris Asleep. (Most Heinous)

ULTIMATE SHOWDOWN of ULTIMATE DESTINY

your Game-Master Egyptoid, Mr. Jordan, and Mr. Power-Mad.
at right he's making sure Darth Vader has range to use the Jedi mind trick
to politely tell Bat-Man where he can stick his Entangler Gun.

Turtle to the Rescue

ULTIMATE SHOWDOWN of ULTIMATE DESTINY
the turtle (tm) rushes up to heal one of the POWER RANGERS,
who has been singed by fire.