GZG ECC V Con Report

Hi all,

Here's another con report for the GZG East Coast Convention:

Saturday morning: FMA Pirates, run by Nick Caldwell. Nick winged it
masterfully when the players decided to do strange things. For example, when
the group of Martian natives made it to the
pyramid-shrine
(their objective) at the end of the table, Nick says, "Okay, the Martians
place their hands on the shrine and it begins to glow." One of the Martian
players says, "We activate the force shield!" Nick, knowing very well that he
didn't plan to have a force shield in the scenario, says, "Okay, you activate
the force shield." Later, when the shrine explodes, the force shield contains
the explosion, killing all of the Martian natives trapped inside!:)

Saturday afternoon: Carnage Con Queso (SG2), run by Adrian Johnson. This is
the second year that this event was won by deception & guile: "...winning?
Who, me? No, I'm not winning... you should go attack Tom Barclay..." Adrian
did a great job of keeping things moving, even though there were nine
different players in the game. Fortunately for me, nobody was willing to
challenge me for my pile of cheese, and I ended up winning the event. As I am
now "Keeper of the Cheese" this year, I'll be the one to run next year's
scenario.

Saturday evening: Racing to Ruin (FMA), run by Tom Barclay. The previous two
events had been loud, fun games with lots of energy, however this one turned
out to be more of a thoughtful tactical exercise. I discovered (again) that
Chris DeBoe is a real gentleman, even as an opponent
-- given an opportunity to blast 2 of our troopers out in the open with
a plasma gun, he passed up the shot because the plasma gunner couldn't have
seen them from where he was on the table. Despite the ending, Tom ran an
excellent scenario.

The prizes for the events & the painting contest this year were incredible
-- I won a 15mm scale APC from DLD productions, and it looks great!
(...and
I HATE resin kits.) Mark, Jon and Jerry did a fantastic job organizing the
convention this year!

> Saturday evening: Racing to Ruin (FMA), run by Tom Barclay.

I'm a member of the "All games are role-playing games" line of
thought.  If I'd wanted to be most efficient, I'd have t-ported my CO
and plasma gunners to the top of the pyramid where they could see everything,
then just aim and shoot. But my CO was a motivation 3 so I didn't see him as
being willing to risk himself when he could send a lower caste instead.

> Laserlight Wrote:

> I'm a member of the "All games are role-playing games" line of

A fellow heretic! Pleased to meet you!

2B^2

I am a member of this group as well. Sometimes when playing people who
actually want to win (Not just see what will happen (see I really am a role
player!)) I am surprised when they do something that is tactically correct
but not in line with what the troops would know/do.

Great stuff.

Bob

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