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Hussar Problem Solved

I mentioned that while I was up at the Wargames Holiday Centre I was hoping to make a few purchases. Well,I did indeed, and here are a few pics of some of them. Mike has been selling off quite a few units this year in order to "slim down" the collection (for example, having nearly 180 x 36 man French btns seemed a bit OTT), and I hoped to buy a few units I'd always really liked. High on the list were these 2 regts of Austrian Hussars, 1 of 36 men and another of 48 (Wish they were both 48's).

One of the problems I've always had with the Austrian army is the hussar uniform. Now I know they invented the things, but I've always thought the Austrian hussar uniform looked more at home in Billy Smart's Circus than on a battlefield. All that purulent bright green, stupid red trousers, and yellow plumes...Give them some long, floppy shoes rather than hussar boots and they would have looked better.
Subsequently I've never had any great desire to paint any. So from years ago when I first saw these rather more subdued paint jobs they always appealed. They are all wearing overalls and the green is (a more realistic) darker shade.  Despite this they are still suitably gaudy enough for hussars, with their red shabraques with yellow piping and either bright or dark blue dolmans.

They are (naturally) the Elite miniatures castings, painted and converted by Doug Mason. All the sabres are pins soldered into the hand and are very tough. Even after many years of service up in Scarborough I only had to replace 3 swords out of 84. Doug has done plenty of bends and twists to these figures. There are only 4 basic figures here, officer, trumpeter and 2 trooper figures, and he really has imparted an incredible sense of movement to the models which really look the part of hussars at full tilt

I just did a minimal amount of work on the bases to blend them with my standard basing. Just an oilwash and highlight then some grass clumps added. I also gave them a quick new coat of gloss. I had contemplated giving them a matt coat, but they look infinitely better in their original gloss glory. I'm developing a bit of a theory about gloss V matt: Gloss varnish isn't terribly fashionable these days which is actually a bit wierd. There is no debate about it bringing out the colour and establishing a visual contrast between the figure and its base, this is simply optical fact. Nonetheless, a lot of folk "prefer" matt these days. Anyway, my theory is, that gloss varnish makes well painted figures look even better and badly painted figures look even worse, while matt varnish just dulls everything down to a more median uniformity (no pun inteneded). So for Mr Average painter (like me, and most of you) we think our stuff looks better when we matt varnish it, because gloss just shows up all the cock-ups, while matt is more....forgiving.
Anyway, thats my theory.

These figures were painted by someone who really knew what he was doing, and it shows up even better in the flesh than through the lens of my rather inadequate camera.

These weren't the only figures I bought from Mike, there are more (I just kept peeling off the tenners until he said stop) but the rest will have to wait for another time.

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Tariffs And The Sixty Dollar Board Game

With 25% Chinese tariffs taking effect this month, I'm already seeing solicitations for board games with significantly higher prices. The $60+ board game is likely to be the norm, up from an average of $45-50. I wrote on my Facebook author page I thought my board game sales were likely to drop by 40%. That's a really high number and it's complete speculation, but let's take a look at what we know.

We know very little. If we try to read the tea leaves of market forecasts, they're concerned with publicly traded companies, most of whom can absorb some or all of a 25% tariff. Best Buy sources enough Chinese products with high margins, they may not even raise prices, just take the hit. For us small retailers, sellers of speciality goods without enough margin to absorb tariffs and no cushion to absorb higher costs, they just predict doom and gloom. A 25% tariff is a necessary 25% price increase.

One example of how price increases directly affect sales from comes from the auto industry. When vehicles rise in price, for every dollar of price increase, demand drops by .87%. With a 25% increase in price, we should expect a 22% decrease in sales using the auto industry numbers. That's our baseline though, a starting point. Buying a vehicle is different than a board game.

If you don't like Chevy dealer A, Chevy dealer B isn't going to have a significantly different price. That's because vehicles are sold through a closed dealer network and gross margin on board games is about 45% compared to 8-10% on vehicles. There's no wiggle room to sell you a Chevy Colorado for 25% off, even if dealer B wanted to. And there's no online clearinghouse for a third party to devalue a new Colorado. If you don't want to spend $60 for a board game at my store, there will always be someone selling that game for 20-30% off online, even in the age of MAP price protection. There is someone selling that same game with an MSRP of $45, right now for $30-35, which is probably half the regional sales of that game. It's more complicated than that though.

As the price of an item increases over psychological thresholds, the pressure to buy it online increases dramatically. Most store owners will tell you once a game hits a certain price plateau, sales drop off considerably as customers seek better value. It's why many of us sell so many little card games and so few $100 board games. The impulse purchase, in which calculations don't play much of a role, is probably around $30-40 nowadays. At $40-50, there's some thinking and we lose a lot of sales to discounters, and at over $50, there's a lot of thought into how to acquire that item most efficiently.  We are certainly earning that business in some fashion. And that's where board games will go, breaking that price ceiling (the one I artificially created for this example).

If you think this will be business as usual, we're going from a strong economy to where, "Markets are pricing in rate cuts in September and December." Markets are already signaling they expect pain in the second half of the year with interest rate increases up a quarter percent. My store sales for 2019 are up a staggering 20%, due to a number of factors. I'm predicting I end the year up 4% due to tariffs. It's a complicated bit of bistro math, but I'm expecting a lot of pain. I know I'll be doing a lot of dancing, I just don't know the tune.

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The Nebulous Void, Curio Shop For A Tabletop Roleplaying Game

 

Tickhill antique shop, early 1900s

The Nebulous Void looks like the antique shop where you would find a cursed item, or a great treasure. Packed on the shelves of the main room are curiosities from everywhere. There are always items the customers, here and now, have never seen before. Scattered throughout the shop are the mundane, the artistic, the rare, and the extraordinary.

A sign sits on the counter opposite the front door that reads, "Be careful of what you touch." If the proprietor is asked what that means he responds with a smirk and "Many of the pieces are fragile and irreplaceable. It is up to the person looking to ensure they do not have to buy something they don't want or can't afford."

This elderly shop owner has an age defying look. He has strabismus, his light blue eyes don't look in the same direction. His right eye looks to the upper right of while his left looks slightly to the left. This doesn't affect his vision in any way, but it is hard to tell where the man is looking. When he is talking it is hard to tell who he is looking at. His grey hair is still streaked with some black. It is pulled back and held at the base of his skull by a ribbon. The ribbon's color is always changing, sometimes it's different when he re-enters the room. His hair and eyes seem to contrast with the smoothness of his skin. There are few wrinkles on his face and his hands look like they belong to a young man.

The proprietor's wardrobe is a broad collection of fashions. It includes pieces from the past and from all over the world. There are times his ensemble is coordinated for a specific look and then are other days where it appears he was dressed by the combined efforts of toddlers.

When referring to himself, the elderly man calls himself The Proprietor of the store, or another similar title. He never gives his name. If pushed, he will simply claim there is power in a person's true name. If they need to use a name call him Mister Void and changes the subject.

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The Proprietor has the uncanny ability of seeming to know what a person in his store is looking for. It is almost like he has listened in on the plans the people made to visit him. Many times he states he doesn't have what they are looking for, but he has something else they would be interested in. Something he has just set out in the back room.

There are two public rooms in the Nebulous Void. The front room contains a wide assortment of items that range in value and description. It is something that these items remain on the shelf, but every person has the feeling that they should not even try to take something they haven't purchased or been given.

The back room is behind a curtain of an old patterned blanket. This is where people are ushered to look at a specific item or items The Proprietor has deemed they would be interested in. The back room has a door leading out the back of the building and a staircase leading to the second level of the building. Inside the room are a couple of tables. All of the tables except for the one in the middle of the room are scattered with items. It looks like the old man has been sorting through the items. Again, it appears there is stuff from many different times and places.

The center table has a couple of odd items and the main pieces he wants to show to the particular customer he thinks will be interested in. It is never known for sure what The Proprietor will have laid out on the table for display.

If people are interested in seeing what is happening at the Nebulous Void, they can watch it from outside. It doesn't appear The Proprietor ever leaves. Food and drink are delivered on a regular bases from different markets and a person shows up every couple of days to take garbage out the back door. None of these people can add any additional information about the shop.

There never seems to be many people visiting the store. When someone is in the Nebulous Void, it is a rare event another enters. One of the mysteries that may be seen is someone entering the store and then doesn't leave. They may also witness a person leaving they never saw enter.

If a person is hired to watch the store, the report is even vaguer. The person didn't see anything except a customer or a delivery being made where the person entered and left a few minutes later. If they are hired over a few days, the daily reports are almost identical for each day.

The Nebulous Void is also a place where oddities can be sold. Basically anything can be sold there at a fair market value. But once something is sold there, the person will not see it again. They may try to go back and purchase it, but will be calmly told it is no longer available.

Game Master Notes

The Nebulous Void is a place that can be used in practically any game setting and be manipulated in many different ways. It is a place that could be in different campaigns in completely different places and still be the "same" place. Some ideas that can be used in your game are:

The Nebulous Void is an intersection of time and space. The Proprietor manages this gate for travelers. He doesn't share the information readily. However, the players may be given information that will allow them to gain the help of The Proprietor and his abilities to get them someplace else.

The Nebulous Void doesn't fully exist on this plane of existence. It is a place that is there when it is needed. At other times it cannot be found. The Proprietor is an existential being that is only partially grounded in existence and inhabits time and space in a manner that other creatures are unable to fully comprehend. It could just be that the artifact he just purchased is unavailable because he placed it back in time so it could be found when it was needed.

There are many ways The Proprietor and The Nebulous Void can be twisted to fit that oddity needed to give rise to the level of the unexplained.

 

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EGLX, Day 1: Come Find Me This Morning At The Mentor Lounge!

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The EGLX developer conference kicks off today! My first order of business is to help warp young minds at the Mentor Lounge! Come find me and all the other mentors in room 713B at 11:00 this morning to partake of our pearls of wisdom! Hope to see you there!

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Download Tekken 6 Full Version For Pc

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Welcome to Tekken 6 is one of the best fighting game especially for fighting lovers that has been developed  and published by Bandai Namco Games.This game was released on 26th November 2007.

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System Requirements of Tekken 6 For Windows PC

• Operating System: Windows XP/Vista/ Windows 7 ( 64 Bit )
• CPU: Intel Pentium 4 or later.
• Setup Size: 700 MB
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