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FAQ Off, Or I'll Call The Police

Cominatcha with The Low Down on the Beat Down. So today was FAQ day , and the Cheese Chair took the brunt of the beating, rising in points by 30. I dislike this. Its not the points that make it so clearly build from camembert. Its the idea of f5 Easterlings. That's as good as a 300 year old elf warrior, or as good as Eomer. Keep the buff, but don't have it apply to Black Dragons....but then I suppose that doesn't help you shift plastic crack. Anyhow, with the golden boiz still rank with the smell of parmesan, their presence on the table will still be swelled with Cheese Chair, Cheese Woman and Cheese Mage.  Rant over, what's happening over the next few months? 9th March - Yorks vs Lincs Day Of Fun.  In the wings is a friendly event where from the best county (Yorkshire) come to take on my adopted county (Lincolnshire). A non-GBHL event based on fun and frolics.  17th March - Back In Hull. Something a little different this time, with an escalation event. Start at 200pts,...

When Everybody Plays, We All Win*

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 *no we dont. I win. I won a prize. A proper prize. Not one thats going on eBay tomorrow.  'sup Hobby Fam-a-lam, coming atcha with a post-Hull rundown featuring the good (me), the bad (my opponents) and the ugly (my team members). You'll remember from the previous blog that I had gone to Hull for a one-day, GBHL80 event. We had gone in-force from Lincolnshire to really give those Hullovians a proper taste of dwarvish iron, but in the form of my fist repeatedly punching them in the dick. So lets see what was occuin.  I won this sword for being bloody amazing. Round One...Fight! R1 was a fairly painful affair, as I played an opponent who is just better than me. It was the "run get the prize from the other corner" scenario, and my army plan to stand and shoot was rubbish. I should have hefted myself over and got the prize. I mean, I did give his army a bit of a beating, and I did get the prize. But then he beat my delicate elves to pulp and put the prize back. It could h...