Is the Judge in Elgin Adam? if so he knows us very well, he use to play with us in Oswego. Ask him if he would be willing to switch nights and maybe we can have two huge turn outs at two different venues each week. Most of us at Graham Cracker are looking for other nights to play.

"rowdyoctopus" sweet........... were else in the World can you talk to a rowdyoctopus??

Bump in hopes to get more players tomorrow.

500 pts no feats

lets have the largest venue in Illinois.....we currently have been having a consistant 10-12 players lets make it 20+

Can we hold 20+? Some players may be standing and playing on back issue bins, but sure, we can!

we can do 50 we'll play on the cars in the parking lot it is still warm out

Fair enough

Next week (10/14) Same Bat Time Same Bat Channel

400 points constructed. Golden Age. Everyone you are using must have a gun somewhere on their person.

Come on down and bring a friend. It's gonna be fun on a bun.

This week (10/21) at the Cracker's of Grahams, we are playing a 600 point constructed game. Pure and simple. No frills, bells, nor whistles*. Bring what you got and see if you can topple the best players at the best venue around!

(*) No collossal figures allowed

Just want to give everybody an update on what upcoming games at Graham Crackers will be.

(October 28th)- 1000 points constructed

(November 4th)- DESTROY ALL MONSTERS!!! Yeah, it's a little bit AFTER halloween, but it's time for our annual game against the big beasts. The Judge has adapted the rules slightly to allow play of Mage Knight's Apocalypse Dragon, Horrorclix's Cthulu, and of course, Fin Fang Foom. Everybody will be playing against AT LEAST these three beasts at the same time. Point value of teams TBD.

(November 11th)- Heroclix Chess. 750 points. Rules are as follows:

1-8 pieces that are either generics/have a minion power
1-2 Rooks- Have to have a damage reducer and a 0 range
1-2 Knights- Must have a move and attack power
1-2 Bishops- Must have a range of 8 or greater
1 King- Male figure who has leadership or mastermind
1 Queen- Female figure 75 points or more

The Chess game is going to be awesome

we may need to have it more than 750????

lets try and make a couple of teams before the 11th and see what we come up with

Can't wait for tomorrow

Chess game doesn't need to be more than 750. You can have anywhere between 6-16 characters. Just so long as you have a representative of each piece. You just can't have any more of each figure than would normally be on a chess board.

My only issue with this format is a nitpick. As everyone knows, in chess, the queen is the most powerful piece by far. I think it should be 100pts or more. Like I said, it was a nit. Otherwise, great scenario.

I agree with your assesment, however, our Judge was going to originally say that you didn't even need a FEMALE figure to be the queen! I had to intervene. A lot of us are trying to play teams that are "Full Board" at 16 characters, so 75 points or greater is actually going to be one of the higher point figures on the board. On top of that, there weren't TOO MANY female figures that are powerful and over 100 points. We would see far too many Skrull-Vels.

Good on ya. That would have been pretty bad oversight.

Ah! That does make a difference. If that's the case, 75pts should be sufficiently powerful.

WizKids is sexist?!? I'm just sayin' the man does have a point.

Yeah, here's a breakdown of all "Modern Age" females that are 100+ points not counting duos since I believe it has to be a single figure and some duos have men/women combined:

1 in Web of Spider-man = Red She Hulk
1 Blackest Night Starter = Wonder Woman
2 Brave and the Bold = Wonder Woman, Power Girl
6 Hammer of Thor = Enchantress, Phyla Vell, Moondragon, Loki, Hela, Valkyrie
5 SI = Ms. Marvel, Ms. Skrull-Vel, Invisible Woman, Susan Richards, Sue Storm
3 Crisis = Mary Marvel, Star Sapphire, Supergirl
4 M&M = Danger, Emma Frost, Storm, Cassandra Nova
2 JLA = Granny Goodness, Wonder Woman
1 Avengers = Iron Widow

Granted, this game is a Golden Age game as almost all of the ones at Graham Crackers are, but that's only 25 different options for 10+ players.

Question on the monster's format. Are our teams supposed to be comprised of all monsters or are we only just going up against the 3+ monsters?

Real question is if we can just skip forward to Nov. 11th and play chess. I'm really looking forward to this one.