Big Game Hunting Live - three tournaments, one weekend!

by Ben Fardon

This weekend sees Proud Lion play host to not one, not two, but three different organised play/tournament events, and we have tickets still available for all of them!

On Saturday 28th February from 1:30-5pm we're hosting our second Marvel Dice Masters tournament! This one's a Rainbow Draft where your ticket price includes 12 Uncanny X-Men Dice Masters boosters packs (RRP £12.00), and you and your fellow players will open, select, pass and assemble your team from the cards and dice you open on the day. A great level playing field for both new and experienced Dice Masters players.

Each player will receive a Magneto card as a Participation Prize, with further prizes for the winners. Tickets cost £12.50 each.

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Thirty minutes and one quick rearrange of the store later and we'll be rolling up our sleeves for our latest Star Trek Attack Wing OP and our first Open Format STAW event. This OP runs on Saturday 28th February from 5:30-11:30pm.

The Open Format means ANYTHING GOES (provided it fits within the scenario build cost). We're even expecting to see a few of these monstrosities make it to the table!

This is a constructed tournament and each player will receive a blind booster (RRP £12.00), along with the Advanced Targeting Systems Resource Card, plus further prizes for the winners. Tickets cost £15.00 each.

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Then on Sunday we round out our big weekend of gaming with our first Netrunner LCG Draft Touurnament, Cyber War! Running on Sunday 1st March from 11am-8pm, this sees players drawing cards from three special Cyber War products produced by Fantasy Flight Games to allow players a break from the usual constructed LCG play, again creating a level playing field for new and experienced players alike.

Each player will receive one Draft Starter Pack (11 cards and 2 IDs provides a fixed core of essential cards for both Corp and Runner), one Corp Draft Pack (a selection of 40 randomized Corp cards) and one Runner Draft Pack (a selection of 40 randomized Runner cards). The cost of these items are included in the ticket price.

The overall winning player will receive £25 worth of Proud Lion vouchers, enough to cover the cost of the next two Netrunner Data Packs (and still have change for a comic book!). There will be additional prizes of £10 worth of Proud Lion vouchers for runners up, TBC. Tickets cost £20.00 each.

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We do our best to make these events fun and lighthearted; we want to enjoy running them and support the local gaming community in lots of different ways, with Organised Play being a key part of that.

I hope to see some of you this weekend and good luck to all of our players!

Ben Fardon is itching to throw down with a D&D Attack Wing 3BG build, but there just isn't enough hours in the day right now!

Big Game Hunting - LCG Day, Saturday 19th January

Please be advised that if the snow disruptions cause Stagecoach buses to stop running in and around the town, I'll be postponing LCG Day. Check our Twitter feed and Facebook page for updates before setting out tomorrow!

If you love deck-building, collectible card games, but hate the ongoing arms race and expense of CCGs like Magic The Gathering and Yu Gi Oh, you really should take a look at Fantasy Flight Game's clever Living Card Game model.

The games start with a boxed set that costs around £30 and includes everything you need for at least two players. The new Star Wars one includes all the major character cards too, unlike the previous CCG games where you'd hunt for ages for your favourite heroes and villains.

After that, expansions are done through regular 60 card (or more) fixed packs that give every purchasing player the same options, rather than 12-15 card random boosters.

It's a fantastic concept, as it makes the experience about the game and your mastery of it; rather than having superior luck or resources to acquire the rarest cards it becomes much more about designing your decks and understanding the mechanics.

So far Fantasy Flight have released six LCGs. Call Of Cthulhu, A Game Of Thrones, Warhammer Invasion, Lord Of The Rings, Netrunner - based on the popular old Richard Garfield CCG and hugely successful in this new LCG format already in only a matter of months - and Star Wars, the newest addition to the catalogue.

So on Saturday 19th January, we'd like to invite existing LCG players and new players who are interested to come to the store and play! Challenge others to a game, or simply show up and be taught how to play. We'll be hosting Star Wars, Netrunner, Lord Of The Rings and Warhammer Invasion in store, but players of Call Of Cthulhu and A Game Of Thrones are equally welcome!

That's Saturday 19th January, kicking off at 10:30am. Hope to see you there!

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Ben Fardon still fears the shadow cards...