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If you haven’t gone to Games Day or a Grand Tournament yet there’s still time. Games Day Altanta and Baltimore have already happened. So has the Las Vegas Grand Tourney.

But, there’s still Games Day Chicago and Los Angeles. Plus, the Chicago and Baltimore Grand Tournaments. Below is the schedule of the remaining Games Days and Grand Tournaments. There’s also links to the pages for each event. Plus, at the bottom we’ve provided links to Buying Tickets, Tourney Rules, Painting Guidelines, and other necessities.

July

• 27-28th - Chicago Grand Tournament
• 28th - Games Day Chicago

August

• 11th - Games Day Los Angeles

November

• 2-4th - Baltimore Grand Tournament
  

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written by ^Raven^

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40k, Lord of the Rings, Warhammer Fantasy.

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After devoting a lot of hard work I am happy to announce that we have a newsletter. It will, hopefully, be a monthly newsletter delivered to your e-mail.

The newsletter will feature blog and podcast news, sneak peeks, rumors, articles and more. It will also share upcoming events like local gaming leagues, tourneys, and much more.

To subscribe all you have to do is e-mail cwfgamecast@wargamingforums.com (Titled “Subscribe”). Sign-up now and keep informed about the happenings in the world of gaming!

You can also read the newsletter by going to CWF Game Cast Newsletter.

To contribute to the newsletter write articles on the blog. We use content from the blog for the newsletter. You can write anything you want related to gaming. It is the perfect way to talk about your gaming group, favorite game store, popular game, and upcoming leagues or tourneys.

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The Baltimore Games Day was held this past weekend and as soon as GW releases content we’ll gladly discuss it here. To whet your appetite we have a photo of the Slayer Sword winning model. It was painted by Natalya Melnik (click her name to see her photo)

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written by ^Raven^

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Back on May 31st I wrote Games Workshop New Store & The Future of Gaming. It drew heavily from then recent conversations I had with game store owners and a great blog article, Predictions: 2007: The Game Industry, written by Ryan S. Dancey.

On June 1st I wrote Addendum: The Future of Gaming 2. That released new information, with my observations, drawn from another Ryan S. Dancey article entitled Followup: 2007 Game Industry Predictions 2.

If you haven’t read those articles before I suggest you do. They provide the background information to bring you up to date for this article.

In Massachusetts there are 3 Games Workshop stores. One is in Harvard Square in Cambridge, yes near that Harvard. One is in Danvers in the Liberty Tree Mall. The last one is in Natick in the Natick Mall. I found out last night that GW Harvard Square will be closed within a week. A close friend of mine is friends with one of that store’s employees who passed on the information. To verify the information I went to the forum of Danger Planet Games and found they have a GW Store in Harvard Square closing. Please read that thread for more information.

I don’t know the reason for GW Harvard Sq.’s closing but I do know there is a sign in the window telling people to go to Danger Planet for good gaming and GW products. There is irony here because GW has screwed Danger Planet over so many times that GW and DP are in somewhat of a feud, or so my friends term it. As such DP has removed all GW product from their store excepting a small section at the back of the store for some 40k product.

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Are you ready for 20 minutes of the most laughs, excitement, and fun shooting a bunch of ducks minus the blood and gore? If so Sitting Ducks Gallery by Playroom Entertainment is for you.

Sitting Ducks is one of my all time favorite games currently tied with Connect Four as most often played card/board game. Ducks is intended for ages 10+ but is real fun for all ages. Last night at Battleground Games in Abington I played Ducks for 2 hours with most of the people in the store. We never dipped below 4 players and maxed out, twice, at 6.

Nothing is funnier than ganging up on the “gay” (purple) duck in homage to Tinkie Winkie of the Teletubbies. Nothing is sweeter than getting revenge on the person who keeps turning your ducks into duck l’orange. Nothing is better than hiding your duck under another duck and a Bottoms Up card. Nothing is more incredible than Sitting Ducks!

Gameplay is simple enough for the youngest child, most feeble minded, and the drunkest gamer. Each player picks a color duck (Blue, Green, Orange, Transgendered/Curious Yellow, Gay Purple, and Girl Pink) and then must be the last player with ducks alive in the game. You achieve this by shooting, misfiring, hiding, and changing the arrangement of the ducks.

The art of diplomacy can save your duck at a key moment but your “ally” will just as soon shoot your duck in the back when the moment is ripe. There are a plethora of cards to help you in your mission. You can Take Aim (necessary to do before shooting), Shoot, move the Line Forward, Move your duck Ahead, Move your duck Back, Fast Forward your duck, Bump a target Left or Right, Duck and Cover behind another duck, Bottoms Up behind another duck for a turn, Disorderly Conduckt and Duck Shuffle to rearrange the line and the deck, Quick Shot a duck without aiming at it first, Double Barrel to aim at two ducks at once, Two Birds to shoot two ducks at once, and Misfire to kill a duck next to one that has a target.

If all this hasn’t convinced you to buy and lay Sitting Ducks Gallery nothing will. But, you should definitely go to RPGNet for more information on the game.

written by ^Raven^

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