Starting in August for players that wish to participate we are going to be offering a player ranking system using the ELO format commonly used to rank international chess players. The system will initially cover Warmachine and Hordes and will then branch our into other games as well.

Cory and I were waiting around for everyone else to show up last night, so we decided to play a 35 point game. I aplogize to Cory and Kevin for playing so slow since they had a game planned ahead of time. I didn’t think Kevin would be there as early as he was and I didn’t think the game would go on so long. Perhaps I should start trying to stick to the 7 – 10 minute turns in Hardcore or something.

Anyway…this game was my second for the Blasted Heath league. I won a 4 player King of the Hill game the previous week against Joel, Cory and Jim.
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Hello everyone, this is your friendly, local Press Ganger writing the first post in a monthly series concerning Warmachine (& eventually Hordes), Mark2, here in Indianapolis.

What is Mark2? Well, simply put, it’s the brand new rules update for Warmachine & Hordes, by Privateer Press.

Why should that interest you? If you haven’t played the game in a while, or ever, you’ll find Mark2 to be one of the cleanest, most balanced rule-sets for a skirmish/army miniatures game ever. Privateer has done an excellent job of refining and simplifying the core rules, while still maintaining the tactical depth and gameplay that has made Warmachine & Hordes the biggest miniatures game outside of 40k.

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