Its Party-time in the East-End........ 

Its......... H A M M E R T I M E !!!!!!!!!!!

YEAH!!!!!

My boyz fought a hard (and at times frustrating) play-off final last night against Preston, and WON!!! English Premiership here we come, back after two years out!!!! WOOHOOOOOOOOO....



Marlon Harewood was as annoying as ever, winning bugger all headers, oblivious to team-mates around him that are in space and scoring positions. I hope the bugger gets sold and replaced in the summer. He doesn't deserve to follow us up.

Matty E had a quiet game. He normally is our most dangerous player, but last night set up the goal - granted, but didn't really do much else.

The captain, Reo-Coker has no pace........ even defenders were outrunning him.

Repka was surprisingly controlled (it was his last game for us).

I think the best player for us was Ward in central defence. Strong, good tackling, good positional sense....... looks promising for next season.

Our goal keeper, Walker, looked pretty stable, but I think was lucky he got injured near the end of the game, coz he handled the ball outside the box which could've seen a red card, leaving us with 10 men for the last 10 mins *gulp*. Instead he buggered up his knee and was subbed.

We should have had 2 penalities, and at least one of their players should've been sent off (O'Brien - dirty f****r).

We won, and now can look forward to beating Arsenal, Chelsea, Man Utd, and Liverpool. Was I happy.............. do ducks like water????? Pulled a muscle in my shoulder after punching the air and leaping like a mad-man when we scored, got carpet burns on my knees after sliding across the floor towards the TV when the final whistle went, and got no sleep last night after the game...... I was just too high!!!!! Pretty sure the neighbours lost a couple of hours sleep as well with me shouting and cursing the Ref for always giving decisions Preston's way, and also throwing curses at Harewood (god, I really don't like that player).

Bring on the new season, the Hammers are back in town!!!!!!!

Too many projects, not enuff time!

Did an evaluation of all the gaming projects on the go........ way too many!! Not that I'm complaining, it's just a lot to do.

Demos for Dark Age are going well, with the new rulebook coming out soon that will have a slightly different way of playing, with improved forces and stats. Hope my CC arrives soon, coz I need to get some more figures for the new Demo sessions.

Demos for Dogs of War..... hmmm a bit behind here. Have two fire-teams to paint up and then need to run annuver demo. Some kind of stealth mission methinks.

Playtesting for Hetzerdog:

Currently painting up a 2500pt army for "Blood, Sweat and Tears" (a 6mm scale World War 2 game), and hope to have a game in a couple of weeks. Will be taking a lot of notes and piccies during that game coz I'm planning to do a Battle Report for the company so that they can use it for marketing the game when its released.

Also involved with playtesting a World War 2 skirmish game for them. Forces have around 30-40 figures per side (around small 40K size armies). Had a solo game the other day to familiarise myself with the rules. Pretty good fun! They are based on the "Babylons Burning" rules which is an post-apocolyptic skirmish game. Its looking good.

We are also playtesting a World War 1 aerial combat game for them called "Above the Trenches". Hex-based, and using an interesting system for movement and effects. The game feels like a mix between a boardgame and a tabletop game. Should be good for sales since it will appeal to both sets of gamers.

Coming soon is a World War 2 Naval game, featuring battles between battleships, cruisers and destroyers etc etc. The rules aren't quite ready for playtesting yet, but we are already looking around for figures to buy in preparation for when the file arrives in my Inbox.

I'm also (slowly) writing my own full set of rules. I have already written a supplement for Dogs of War which is approved and recognised by Devil Dog Design and also Heresy Miniatures (on whose figures the supplement is designed around). Modern forces vs Demons!!!! The full set of rules I'm in the process of doing is for a small fights, typical of bar brawls and cave encounters. Will probably have the basic game set in a historical period (maybe the days of the Musketeers) and will then add supplements to enable fantasy and sci-fi games.

I also have a HUGE backlog of figures and dioramas to make and paint, not least is my DBA New Kingdom Egyptians that have been collecting dust, half-painted on my painting table for months. Warmachine, Dark Age, Devil Dog, Rackham, Hasslefree, Heresy, Dragon, Essex, Skytrex, Adler......... the list goes on....... and yet I still buy more cool figures! Madness......... but a nice madness. I'm sure Wolf doesn't mind since most of the money goes to his shop!

I should arrange a Confrontation tournament soon, which will mean getting some of those figures painted up.

Also planning to have a Dark Age painting competition, for which I need to work with Dark Age themselves.

Too many projects, not enuff time!!!

Ain't life great?

Shinobi


Currently playing:
The Rasmus - "In the Shadows"

Another bloody Friday night at work........

Friday night............. 8pm............... Shinobi is very pissed off......... wish I were just pissed.

Have to give lectures till 10.30pm.... on a bloody Friday night!!! I'm sure there was some rule somewhere that said that Friday nights were like Sundays........ period of rest, worship (of the almighty nectar), and relaxation.

Imagine having to give a 3 hour lecture on Productivity and Teamwork to a bunch of part-time students who have just arrived from a full working day at their companies, had to drive through the hellish Kuala Lumpur traffic, and now have to sit through 3 hours of management lectures............. crazy!!!

Gonna have some fun with them tonight tho. Teamwork games, including the use of paper, tape, pins, and squirty cream (oi, behave, nothing sexual going on....... just squirty cream, blinfolds and aprons...... *ahem*).

Saturday tomorrow, gonna be giving some demos of Confrontation to try and get more people playing. They've bought the figs but ain't using the buggers. Gonna have to change dat.

My boyz have their final league game on Sunday vs. Watford. We've gotta win to stay in the play-off spots for promotion to the English Premiership................ gnnnnnnnn Stresssssssssssss. Not sure how we'd do if we actually get into the Premiership tho. We don't have a very strong or big squad (thank you for nothing Board members), so I can definitely see a fight for survival and against relegation............. we live in hope.

OK, gotta get back to the lecture hall now.


Currently listening to:

Andrew WK - "Party Hard" - one of the best songs around.

Ever thought about what you'd wish for?????

Sometimes I think about wishes.......... about what I would wish for if I had the chance to have one come true. I'm sure that most people have considered this at least once in their lives.

For some people, they would say... "I would wish for world peace".... kinda reminds ya of Miss World dunnit. Its all bollocks! These people would never ask for this if they had been given one wish. The participants in Miss World would wish for better looks, bigger breasts, an attraction that no man could resist etc etc....

For me, I reckon I would wish for the ability to make pictures come to life, and follow my wishes......... stay with me here, I'll explain.

If you wanted a new car, you could buy a magazine and use the ability to make a piccy of a Porshe, Ferrari, Roller become real.

If you wanted an album, you just buy a magazine and lo-and-behold the album could be yours.

If you wanted to get some revenge on an idiot who pissed you off on the road, just find a picture of a Tiger tank or Battle Robot/Mech and then go find him.

If you wanted some *ahem* fun, you just buy the magazine, video, switch the channel on the TV, and there she would be, all yours for however long you wanted her!

Yeah, that's what I'd wish for.......

Now, what would you wish for??????

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