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	<title>Life is a State of Mind &#187; Miniatures</title>
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		<title>Steam Punk and Pirates, Yar!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Jul 2006 11:26:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday Erci accompanied me over to Atelier de la Charrette to help Bob and Peter, Winterbadger, and Bryan test a game of &#8220;VSF: Actions at Parroom Station&#8221; before Bob goes to Historicon to expose more steam punk fans and miniatures gamers to the allure of the Martian landscape. We arrived a little bit late and [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Yesterday <a href="http://sutragirl.livejournal.com">Erci</a> accompanied me over to <a href="http://www.charrette.parroom.net/">Atelier de la Charrette</a> to help Bob and <a href="http://john_arundel.livejournal.com">Peter</a>, <a href="http://winterbadger.livejournal.com">Winterbadger, and </a><a href="http://gr-c17.livejournal.com/">Bryan</a> test a game of &#8220;VSF: Actions at Parroom Station&#8221; before Bob goes to <a href="http://www.historicon.org/">Historicon</a> to expose more steam punk fans and miniatures gamers to the allure of the Martian landscape.  We arrived a little bit late and had to run Japanese and Prussian units along with Bryan&#8217;s Americans against a rebellion in Parroom Station itself, where Peter and Winterbadger were running insurgent royals and the rebel mob of Martian city dwellers.</p>
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Losses were atrocious, but the Imperial Earthmen barely managed to regain control of the city.  An early indicator of how rough the action would be was Winterbadger&#8217;s brilliantly concealed gun taking out my entire unit of Japanese regulars with a single shot in the first turn of the game!
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Note to self, charging into insurgent cities in flying column formation is perhaps a little impetuous and rash&#8230;  It was a lot of fun.
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We learned to make a few tweaks to the game scenario I think, and it was a pretty game.  We took lots of pictures so Bob could post them online at Parroom Station when he gets time.
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<p>If you like gaming with miniatures and steam punk, or just want to see more Parroom Station, try catching Bob at <a href="http://www.historicon.org/">Historicon</a> next weekend in Lancaster, PA, where an example game will be run.  If you can&#8217;t make it to the convention, check out <a href="http://parroom.net/">Parroom Station</a> online.</p>
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All the Victorian SciFi action left us tired and hungry so we headed over to Herndon&#8217;s Worldgate for Charlie Chang&#8217;s yummy buffet &amp; BBQ, then caught &#8220;<a href="http://www.apple.com/trailers/disney/piratesofthecaribbeandeadmanschest/">Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man&#8217;s Chest</a>&#8221; with B&amp;L.  It was not as good as the first movie, but still lots of fun and a nice action-packed yarn.  Stay through the closing credits if you go to see it, there is a silly surprise at the end.
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