Dream Pod 9's Badlands Rally Show Your Colors Competition Entries

Contest Details
"In advance of the Heavy Gear Badlands Rally preview release at Gen Con this August, Dream Pod 9 is announcing the Show Your Rally Colors rally gear painting and rally gear persona contest. Paint up what you would like to see as your personal Rally Gear, with racing strips or a flashy paint scheme,  go all out on it.  This is not a conversion contest, you only need a stock Gear miniature which must be from either the North, South, PRDF, NuCoal  or Leagueless factions and it must be a Gear,  no striders, tanks or other vehicles. The entry deadline is Monday morning  October 7th, 2013.

Also, we want you to create your Rally persona as well to post with your miniature photo, with a Rally Gear name and its "call sign", Pilot name and "nickname", and Pilot Byline "what they like to say".

Here is an example of the Rally Jerboa  which is included in the game box:

Rally Gear Name: Rally Jerboa "Booster"
Rally Pilot Name: Sam Yatani "Skyhigh"
Pilot Byline: "Every cockpit equipped with a big red button labeled 'booster'."
(Please nothing inappropriate, we reserve the right to make any changes required.)

All entries will have their Dream Pod 9 Forum Title changed to their Rally Gear name and its call sign as a reward for entering. There will be two winners of The Show Your Rally Colors, the first will be for the best Rally Gear paint job. The second winner will be for the best Rally Gear Persona, including the gear name, call sign, pilot name, nickname, byline and rally gear painted with your matching personal  paint scheme (this is not judged on the painting quality).
Each winner will receive a special set of terrain to place on top of the Badlands Rally Map for a full 3D racing feel. Set includes 4 stoneheads standing, 4 stoneheads submerged in the sand, 1 small stoneheads trio, 1 badlands tower, 1 badlands shed, 1 destroyed hunter, 1 destroyed jager and 1 barnaby gear transport wreck."

Entries posted on Dream Pod 9's Forums

Here are my entries for you viewing pleasure! Let me know if they have a good chance against the other entries. Comment below.

Rally Gear Name: Rally Pitbull "Wrecker"
Rally Pilot Name: Jack Andretti "Wheeljack"
Pilot Byline: "If you're trying to ruin my day, you're gonna have to try harder."






and

Rally Gear Name: Rally Pitbull "Reaper"
Rally Pilot Name: "Kid Death"
Pilot Byline: "If you pick a fight with a god of death, I can't guarantee your soul's safety."



 

Walk the Plank with Mayday Games - A Review

Greeting gamers! For those who have read my previous blogs, you know that I spend a lot of time on +Kickstarter. Well, one of my many pledges lead to the game Walk the Plank by +Mayday Games. Walk the Plank is defined as a board game in which the premise is the captain needs to thin down his crew by having them fight for survival by trying to push the other pirates of the ship.

Loads of fun as you play with little wooden markers called meeples standing as you crew. Every player gets a set of cards to play 3 at a time per round which dictates what your pirate meeples will do. These cards are played face down and one at a time each player flips open a card until the turns go around 3 times. These cards allow your crew to shove other crew members forward, run back to the ship, pull down other pirates, extend or retract the planks. The cards must be played strategically in the right order as you must follow what the card says even if it forces you to push your own crew off the plank. I you are the last pirate standing, you are in the captains favor and your crew or what is left of your crew survives.

To add to the fun, for our second game, we played exactly the same rules but instead of choosing the cards to play, we took cards randomly face down. This really was a twist to the game as no one knew what their crew members would do. My kids found the random play more fun and exciting. This is a very well made game and easy to learn. I look forward to playing the sequel Get Bit! where the pirates that were Walked off the Plank, have to swim away from the sharks. Until then, happy gaming!