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06/18/16

Origins! Gale Force 9

Lots of minis = lots of fun! ~

Corinne Mahaffey, 18 June 2016

What is your new game?
Flame of War for Team Yankee, GF 9 Tyrants, and Battlefront Tanks

What is your favorite game?
Flames of War.  I love the depth that Flames of War because of the attention to detail given to the different scenarios.   Our tour players are second to none.  Awesome guys!

What is your favorite mechanic?
In New Tyrants the deck building and board supremacy influence each other, yet each can be considered a separate game in itself.

If you like ____, then you will like ____.
If you like X-Wing, then you will like Tanks!  Tanks! is just as fast and furious as you are used to in X-Wing.  You are just playing history instead of sci-fi.

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06/18/16

Origins! Day 3 Wrap-Up

After the day 1 vendor rush settles down, people start playing games for reelz ~

Corinne Mahaffey, 18 June 2016

The general assault on the dealers room that began yesterday at 10 am continued, somewhat abated, today.  Today was the day everyone sat down to ponder their 5 minute or 5 hour games over their favorite caffeinated beverage – a particular necessity for those whose last game of the day would end at 10 am the next day.

Tragically for Queen and Country, the Hive won a marginal victory at the end of a three day battle for the control of a hive in the Amazon.

The Grogheads booth saw lots of traffic in all its games; Liberty or Death is so popular, and so sold out, that we have had offers to buy our demo copies.

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06/17/16

Origins! Day 2 Wrap-up

Origins Day 2 Report ~

James Sterrett, 17 June 2016

Day 2!  We laughed, we played, we did not cry.  That we will admit to.

Lines were still long in the morning, with some people needed over an hour to get their badges.  That slowed the flow of people into events a bit but the hardcore crowd got stuck into their gaming as the day wore on.  Not yet at the level of Saturday’s hordes, though!

Photos from Corinne Mahaffey, click to enlarge

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06/16/16

Origins! Day 1 Wrap-up

What does Wednesday at Origins look like?  It depends on what line you’re in ~

Corinne Mahaffey and/or James Sterrett, 16 June 2016

Day One Report

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All photos by Corinne Mahaffey; click to enlarge

The big news of the day:  Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday struck GAMA’s systems, disconnecting their registration database from their front end in the convention center.  For some time, this slowed picking up pre-registration badges to a crawl and created a line that extended most of the length of the convention center.

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