"Just when you thought it was over, the sky turned black and we all fell to earth..."
In the darkest of timelines, COVID hit and gaming together became a thing few wanted to do. *Few smart people wanted to do. But we kept on keeping on and eventually, the blackness (kind of) passed so that gathering together became a (somewhat) safer gamble.
And, for the first time in years, going back even before the pandemic hit, we congregated to pay tribute to the Sainted Myndo Waterly, for our (going to return to doing it) annual Sixth of June event. It was a bit of a bittersweet occasion - returning to an event we haven't held since 2018 or 2019 was pretty great but we were also missing a lot of the core crew due to scheduling conflicts or illnesses or disinterest or divorce so...
We powered on, however! And we had nongamer guests over just to help us drink & eat the foods per previous events, which was nice. You don't get to interact the same way when you're gaming but it's just really nice to have the homies around.
Matching up, we had me teaching three newcomers Alpha Strike in a stripped down format. The rules, not the players. This time. I originally had thought about doing a team game with a Binary of Clan 'Mechs to a side for the benefit of the new players, but it looked like it would work better for speed purposes if we split up into two 1v1s with a Star per. And yes, I know, Waterly Memorial w/o Word of Blake 'Mechs is kinda weird, but the SO was entertaining guests more than being interested directly in rolling dice, so I just stuck w/what I had easily on hand, and in plastic (for the most part).
I had six prebuilt Stars to use, with the option of pulling more from my "warchest" quickly and easily. Two of the six were designed to be lighter scout elements (for team games) and the other four were evenly matched 275pts, so those are what we used - a Star each of Clan Ghost Bear Rasalhague Galaxy, Clan Smoke Jaguar Delta Galaxy, Clan Steel Viper Alpha Galaxy, and Clan Jade Falcon Turkina Keshik.
A bit of time has passed since then and I drank a lot later that night, so what I do remember is that Brian lost to me, Poppy & Kilcoin mostly had a draw as he had to leave for a work function before coming back, and it was just a really fun time all around. Can't wait to bring the team back together to dive into more advanced rules and unit building, as well as to encourage these fine folks to pick up some box sets and sourcebooks lmao.
THE STAAAAARS
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