Tagged: games plus
CSW Hobby Night- FLGS Edition
Jon, Mike, and I got together for another hobby night. We had a great time, and everyone felt like they make good headway on their projects. Mike was running a GW Dreadnaught assembly line. He also managed to assemble some sort of Space Marines. Jon finished some fine detail work on this sweet Bushido dragon ... Read more
Bushido Day At Games Plus
Matt and I visited Games Plus to participate in their Bushido open play event last Saturday. Unfortunately, I was too focused on gaming, and I only snapped 3 pictures of the festivities. Michael, our event organizer set up 3 simple tables to use. They were filled with a mix of terrain from Sarissa Precision, and ... Read more
Quake and Mourn Campaign: Raid on the Arboria of Vitu Daru
(Editor’s note: We played the first session of our new fantasy campaign this week, with 7 players in attendance at Games Plus. We played at least 8 individual games and will try to produce battle reports on most of them.) In the first game, my Wild Druids of Vitu Daru were performing a ritual using ... Read more
Games Plus Miniatures Auction Coming Up Oct. 6
This weekend many of us here in Chicago will be making the pilgrimage to Games Plus, an excellent suburban game shop that’s hosted many of our game nights. Oct. 6 Is their twice-annual miniatures game auction, and it’s a fantastic opportunity to gamers to get their hands on miniatures, terrain, hobby supplies, rulebooks and more ... Read more
Auction Report: We Came, We Saw, We Bid
Last weekend a handful of us ventured out to Games Plus for the twice-yearly games auction. We made a point to attend the miniatures day, when thousands of minis — boxed and loose, painted and unpainted — were auctioned off in a marathon bidding session lasting from 10 a.m. to about 8 p.m. These photos ... Read more
Playtesting “This Is Not A Test”
Last week we had our regular game night at Games Plus, a venerable gaming establishment in suburban Chicago. Tim and I were planning to try out This Is Not A Test, a forthcoming post-apocalyptic ruleset being developed by Joseph McGuire. (Full disclosure: I did a bit of contract editing work for Joey on this product ... Read more
Carnage in New Chicago: Our 2nd Annual Halloween Zombie Game
This week we hosted the second installment in our annual Halloween zombies game. For our initial effort last year, Tim (our zombie gamemaster) set the bar pretty high, with a walk-right-up-and-play urban horror game featuring desperate survivors and mindless zombies. This year, we turned the dial up to 11 with more terrain, more players — ... Read more
Naval Thunder report: Battle of the Denmark Strait
A few months ago four of us made the long trek out to Games Plus in Mt. Prospect to play our club’s first naval game. With only a few people attending, it made sense to play a battle with a small number of ships. The one I picked happened to also be one of the ... Read more
Where you’ll find us this weekend
This coming weekend is the Games Plus spring auction, an annual event that draws gamers to suburban Chicago for 10 straight hours of auction fun. It’s a great place to find deals on rare, OOP or just plain weird miniatures and gaming paraphernalia. The event runs for four days, capping off the excitement with the ... Read more