Old Hammer day, 07 Mar 26, Entoyment, Poole, UK.
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twisted moon
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hope it goes well.
Eric
Administrator
Well that was fun, my I may stay for an hour or turned into the whole session. Too many lovely people to chat to! So where to start, perhaps with what I brought down. So I took along my Titans and a few tanks since I thought they might interest people being slightly less commonly seen in the wild.
Managed to forget a bolt for the poor Eldar scout! Anyhow I did a few sessions of Dungeon Bowl. I think we mostly managed to muddle through the rules. I'd forgotten quite what a mix and mess some of the 2nd Edition rules were! Still it was fun, lots of heroic tackles and exploding chests and so forth. Lost both the games I actually played.
You might be a be able to clear up one thing, a lovely chap who wandered over to discuss Dungeon Bowl whilst I was playing the above game. said 1st edition... aha I thought here is a bit of history I pass on since this is 2nd, but they insisted that the box box polystyrene pitch version was in fact the first edition and then GW released the A4 box version with the standees after. I'm not going mad, but I'm 100% sure the A4 box was first edition ~1986 with the cardboard standees and the 2nd edition was the normal large box polystyrene pitch, orcs and humans. We then had Dungeon Bowl and Star Players and the Companion books which all expanded 2nd. Then you jump onto 3rd with its cardboard "grass" pitch and the rules were somewhat simplified and you brought in block dice and so forth. Anyhow he was very sure I had the order wrong, but I don't think so. I didn't ever own the A4 sized box edition, but it seems unlikely this came after the shinier proper minis's version?! Not going mad am I? Started to doubt myself a bit, but maybe we somehow crossed wires?
Anyhow history aside, Stuart who seems to organise the local Mordheim scene had outdone himself with a crazy long single world table (with side table for the underworld).
And yes during the day they played their way along the entire length of that...
And the underworld, which was some of the pre-printed cardboard terrain. Looked rather good actually.
Getting back to the older stuff we had a lovely 2nd Edition 40K game
Trevor had brought along a lovely 3D Space Hulk, which alas I didn't find time to play in, but maybe another day soon. We also had a table of random bits of nostalgia
Some "newer" old stuff and some older old stuff like the early campaign packs and WFRP supplements.
Nickinsalak had a 1st edition game going and boy was it pure mini-crack. Lovely stuff. Such an amazing collection.
Anyhow much fun was had and even better not far to travel! Speaking to Gary the organiser afterwards I think they might well having dipped their toe into the tepid bath water that is the ancient we could be looking at another at some point.
Much thanks to everyone who did organising and hauling of collections down, I very much enjoyed saying hello, forgetting names and admiring the metal.
Managed to forget a bolt for the poor Eldar scout! Anyhow I did a few sessions of Dungeon Bowl. I think we mostly managed to muddle through the rules. I'd forgotten quite what a mix and mess some of the 2nd Edition rules were! Still it was fun, lots of heroic tackles and exploding chests and so forth. Lost both the games I actually played.
You might be a be able to clear up one thing, a lovely chap who wandered over to discuss Dungeon Bowl whilst I was playing the above game. said 1st edition... aha I thought here is a bit of history I pass on since this is 2nd, but they insisted that the box box polystyrene pitch version was in fact the first edition and then GW released the A4 box version with the standees after. I'm not going mad, but I'm 100% sure the A4 box was first edition ~1986 with the cardboard standees and the 2nd edition was the normal large box polystyrene pitch, orcs and humans. We then had Dungeon Bowl and Star Players and the Companion books which all expanded 2nd. Then you jump onto 3rd with its cardboard "grass" pitch and the rules were somewhat simplified and you brought in block dice and so forth. Anyhow he was very sure I had the order wrong, but I don't think so. I didn't ever own the A4 sized box edition, but it seems unlikely this came after the shinier proper minis's version?! Not going mad am I? Started to doubt myself a bit, but maybe we somehow crossed wires?
Anyhow history aside, Stuart who seems to organise the local Mordheim scene had outdone himself with a crazy long single world table (with side table for the underworld).
And yes during the day they played their way along the entire length of that...
And the underworld, which was some of the pre-printed cardboard terrain. Looked rather good actually.
Getting back to the older stuff we had a lovely 2nd Edition 40K game
Trevor had brought along a lovely 3D Space Hulk, which alas I didn't find time to play in, but maybe another day soon. We also had a table of random bits of nostalgia
Some "newer" old stuff and some older old stuff like the early campaign packs and WFRP supplements.
Nickinsalak had a 1st edition game going and boy was it pure mini-crack. Lovely stuff. Such an amazing collection.
Anyhow much fun was had and even better not far to travel! Speaking to Gary the organiser afterwards I think they might well having dipped their toe into the tepid bath water that is the ancient we could be looking at another at some point.
Much thanks to everyone who did organising and hauling of collections down, I very much enjoyed saying hello, forgetting names and admiring the metal.
The Serene Badger
Baron
Looks like a great day!
ManicMan
Lord
Elves, Dwarfs & Dungeon Bowl with plastic figures was 1989. It was a spin-off from Blood Bowl 2nd. the first Blood Bowl was 1986 with all card stock, even the minis. 2nd was after they got the plastic casting stuff with things like HeroQuest (I do wonder how much MB helped pay for that bit of kit) which is why the reused them alot.
So... If he was trying to say 1ed Blood Bowl was plastic and second was cheaper card.. He is nuts. IF you are getting confused that there was a version of Dungeon Bowl (like I said, originally called 'Elves, Dwarfs and Dungeon Bowl') which was card, you are confused.
So... If he was trying to say 1ed Blood Bowl was plastic and second was cheaper card.. He is nuts. IF you are getting confused that there was a version of Dungeon Bowl (like I said, originally called 'Elves, Dwarfs and Dungeon Bowl') which was card, you are confused.
Nickinsalak
Vassal
Yes, it was a good day, met some good folks, all with the same mentality! I think next time we will do 2nd edition so we can put even more troops on the table!!
Michael Stockin
Lord
This is my understanding.
I had the grey polystyrene pitch of greatness.
Blood Bowl second edition was 1988?
And then Dungeon Bowl was 1989?
Brother Meredith
Lord
Looks like a great event!
Brother Meredith
Lord
You literally had a copy of the 2nd edition Blood bowl box set and he was still insistent? How odd…
Michael Stockin
Lord
Eric
Administrator
Yep that was my take home. Glad I'm not going mad (you know when someone is very very very sure and you start to doubt!). I wonder if perhaps he didn't realise there had been that first A4 box sized 1st edition, given how popular 2nd was. But whilst I didn't have one to hand to show him I did say that is was a smaller box and all card components. I guess maybe because 3rd edition was a card pitch he thought I meant that? (ie he thought 3rd was 2nd and 2nd was 1st ...) anyhooo not that it matters. We had a nice little natter otherwise whilst I was busy loosing my game!
Only Dungeon Bowl, I didn't take down the actual BB game box - thought I'd keep it and simple! Did do myself a fancy crib sheet of rules however so extra points for me!
Brother Meredith
Lord
Meant there was a copy on the “museum” table. 
Eric
Administrator
A sudden morning thought, maybe the intro games were muddling the water - there was one called Kerrunch which was that smaller square box format, that had a card pitch, but did have plastic models (all those first 2nd ed ones - Humans, Orcs, Dwarfs and Elves) and that came out before 3rd Ed was released. Anyhow it doesn't matter! Might actually think about finishing up my old Polystyrene pitch (or one of them), I started repairing it years ago now and have yet to get back to it. Just realised in linking to that pitch post, the next one my poor war hound I took along has been waiting it's "finishing off" now for a bit over four years now! *sigh*
ManicMan
Lord
Kerrunch was one of the 'we got too munch plastic'. What was weird, is they did 4 games (or atleast, the adverts always put them together) but only 3 of them really fit in with the 'reuse plastic overstock with new card'.. Kerrunch, Mighty Warriors and Ultra Marines are just that, but Space Fleet? nope.. very weird..
anyway.. maybe that might have confused the guy.
anyway.. maybe that might have confused the guy.
Eric
Administrator
Glad you found us Trev, was lovely meeting you and hopefully we shall sneak in the odd game (or natter, or pint or whatever) over the summer! Quite glad I did the cards now, so thanks to Brother Meredith for the inspiration to do them! A reasonable number vanished off in pockets!
