Dec 10

CWF Holiday Gift Guide 2007

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There’s snow on the ground, online stores are giving deadlines for Christmas deliveries, and at least one fight between disgruntled shoppers made headlines in the mall. Must be time for the CWF Holiday Gift Guide.

Last year the Holiday Gift Guide was presaged by coverage in the CWF Game Cast podcast. Of course that isn’t possible this year with the podcast on hiatus. Instead we hope to make this guide better than before.

Shopping for gamers isn’t as easy as one expects but is easier than you think. We broke our guide down into three price categories. Under $15 (or the Friends ideas), Under $50 (family and loved ones) and $100 and up (group gifts or treat yourself).

Under $15

  1. Sitting Ducks Gallery - $15.00. This is our #1 overall pick for this gift guide. Please see our review of Sitting Ducks Gallery for more info. FLGS, Amazon.com ($7.49).
  2. CCG Boosters - Price varies but usually $3.99-$4.99. Magic, Yu-gi-Oh, and World of Warcraft are most popular. Lorywn is a great new Magic set, there’s tons of new foils for YGO, and new WoW set called March of the Legion. FLGS, Online Stores.
  3. Warmachine Warcasters - Usually costing $6.99-$9.99. Nice looking figs and a requirement for every Warmachine army. Great combo gift with the latest No Quarter. FLGS, Online Stores.
  4. Chessex 16mm D6 - $4.50 for set of 12. This showed up at #1 in last year’s guide. FLGS, Online Stores.
  5. Zap A Gap Glue - $3.99-$12.99. All models need glue for assembly. This is a perfect stocking stuffer. FLGS, Online Stores.

Under $50

  1. Citadel Modular Gaming Hill - $25. Nice looking prefab, modular, terrain to help you get jump started with playing a game. FLGS, Games Workshop Online Store.
  2. Regiment/Squad Box - $9.99-$49.99 (depending on game system and item). FLGS, Online Stores, Games Workshop Online, Mongoose Publishing, Flames of War
  3. Video/Computer Games - Prices Vary. In particular Guitar Hero 3 for PS2 or Xbox 360. Online Stores, Best Buy, Target, Circuit City, EB Games.
  4. Warhammer 40k Apocalypse Rulebook - $49.99. This must have book transforms 40k into a game of epic proportions with thousands of models on the table including Baneblades and Titans. FLGS, Games Workshop Online Store.
  5. Manga/Anime - $7.99-$9.99/$12.99-$19.99. Gamers love anime and manga. Anyone who plays Tau knows this to be true. Pick up some Bleach, Black Cat, and Yakitate!! Japan. Or, get some old school Eva or Bebop DVDs. Best Buy, Barnes & Noble, Amazon.com.

$100 and Up

  1. Citadel Tool Kit - $120. GW created all news tools. Much improved and better than almost anything else. Comes in a nice case with clippers, files, hobby knife, pin vice, sculpting tool, vice, and razor saw. FLGS, Games Workshop Online.
  2. Paint Set (Vallejo, GW) - Prices vary. FLGS, Games Workshop Online.
  3. Nintendo Wii/Game Consoles - Prices vary. Best Buy, Toys R Us, Amazon, etc.
  4. Professional Paint Job - Price varies. Have your army professionally painted. Check our Blue Table Painting for an example.
  5. iPod - Prices vary. Great way to listen to music while you game or quick reference your army list that you saved as a txt. Online Stores, Apple.

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Jun 15

Sitting Ducks Gallery

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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.

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