Well, Skirmish '08 is now come and gone. The stress of putting a game together, building the terrain, painting the figures, and trying to entertain some gamers is gone until next year. Skirmish is primarily a historicals convention and this is its third year and they have always been kind enough to allow my decidedly cracked games in and it's been commented that each year the game gets better and better. Well, practice does help as I never ran a game at a convention before I signed up for Skirmish in 2006.
The game was "Our Weapons are Useless Against Them!" which should have been entitled "Their Weapons are Useless Against US!" as the only truly frightening casualty during the game was 'Howling Mad' Murdoch of A-Team fame trying to leap on to an alien from the rooftop of a van and falling off onto his head a giving himself a concussion. I had truly horrible rolls the entire game which pretty much allowed the players to wholesale walk over the alien invaders. Who are the invader? Well, they were a mix of Warzone Dark Legionaires, Warzone Children of Ilian and twenty of these things which I built after being inspired by our own Cyborg Trucker.
I used Astounding Tales! 2nd edition to run the game. Sure, it's designed for 20-30's pulp but I figure a broom handle Mauser of old is probably about the same stats as an Uzi of modern day times. A couple tweaks to the rules and it was off and running.
The sad part is that while I remembered everything for the game itself, I forgot my camera and have been forced to beg the players at the convention that took pictures of the set up to send me some pics.
The organiser of the convention snapped a few pics and I immediately stole them of course.
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