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From the New York Times, Saturday, Oct 24th, 2009

Historians Reassess Battle of Agincourt
By JAMES GLANZ
Some historians are doubting the Battle of Agincourt's status as perhaps the greatest military victory against overwhelming odds, while also drawing some modern comparisons.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/25/world/europe/25agincourt.html?th&emc=t...

From Salon.com, and news wire stories:

Oct 16th, 2009 | SEATTLE -- Two of eight people accused in lawsuits of illegally distributing Dungeons & Dragons handbooks over the Internet have settled, and the maker of the pioneering role-playing game is seeking a default judgment against a third.

Full story:

http://www.salon.com/wires/ap/business/2009/10/16/D9BCHHL80_us_dungeons_...

The owner of Madhouse UK, Steve Tierney, recently shared the news that Flagship, a UK based gaming magazine, recently decided to make the magazine free to download to the online community. His recent post on his our Yahoo Group read:

I want to thank Ben Bunday for the introduction to Twilight Imperium. I really enjoyed the game. Hopefully, If I play again I can think about my strategy and be a bit more agressive at the right time.

Of course, hopefully next time we shall get a few more Titan players since I was supposed to be GMing Titan. I can certainly understand with it being summer time and the usual suspects having other plans.

Beware!

There is a movie called _In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale_.

This is a bad, bad movie. I guess it is based on a computer game?

It is worse than something a bunch of unskilled gamer dudes would make with their home video camera and a copy of iMovie on a slow Mac. The special effects are only sub-mediocre, but the script is embarrassingly bad.

Strangely, there are a lot of "big" name stars in it.
Jason Stathan is the hero.
Claire Forlani is his wife.
Burt Reynolds is the King.
... and more.

I just want to say thank you for another great gaming experience.

Thanks to Dave for bringing 4th edition Talisman. Having played 1st & 2nd edition since the 80s, it looks like they did a good job updating the game. The few rules changes were nice additions. I hope they consider updating all the old Talisman expansions to the game.

Thanks to Mike for teaching Dominion between the Afternoon and Evening sessions. It certainly proved helpful after Mike and I eliminated each other in Titan.

I want to thank Ralph, Nick, Mike, and Bill for a fun game of Titan. It is always a great to learn more about a game from veteran players. Of course, you never know how the dice are going to roll. I hope everyone had a good time.

I certainly appreciate Nick and Mike helping introduce the game to some new players. I hope at the next Game-a-thon we can get a few more games going simultaneously.

Ciao Y'all,

Hello from sunny South Carolina. I left Schenectady in 1989....any old timers that are still around will know me as Tony LeBoutillier.

I have a number of gaming miniatures, some unpainted and others meticulously painted, they are all over twenty years old and I suspect most are hard to find. As I'm no longer actively gaming I have no need for them.

I can be contacted at tlc2go@juno.com just put SWA in the subject line to be sure I don't trash your missive!

My wife found the news article in the Gazette about the Council of Five Nations convention this past weekend. I had heard of it, and the SWA, back in the early 80s so I thought I would check out the website. Sounds like the SWA has been going strong since its origins in the 70s.

I been into gaming since high school in the early 80s. At that time it was mostly D & D. That carried on into my service in the Marine Corps, where it expanded to a small variety of role-playing, board, and miniature games of the fantasy, science fiction, and historical variety.

The wife and I decided to take a trip to Baltimore in June of this year for a multitude of reasons; we were celebrating our 4th wedding anniversary and wanted to hang out in a cool city. Months prior however knowing of this trip I had asked her if she wanted to attend Games Day with me. I have always wanted to go to Games Day since I have been playing Warhammer 40K since 1989, so I figured now would be a great opportunity.