I like it but like the Castor it annoys me that it's Quad Battery has 2 attacks rather than a logical 4 (used to be 4 with Fusillade-4 for the Battlecruiser!). I can see they made the 2 attacks do 3 damage with Crit-1 but still.

They don't exist yet it seems and a Designer just said to me 'rarer'. So a ships going to appear with them later I presume. I still don't understand why they are not just more powerful but twice the Thrust but so be it.

@@intruder313 I thought as much. Wierd that they already have a super carrier that would’ve been perfect for them but I guess we’ll wait for the super-duper deluxe carrier 😁

@brianalice It even target ships in orbit _from_ atmosphere, which is a little silly. Of course, it only hits on 6s in that case.

Status is per fired weapon, so i guess you could place all three. But it targets ships, not groups. And as long as your target is in coherency they will ignore Defence Offline and Navigation Offline. I think Nuuks will be great to hinder Battlecruisers and Colossal Ships. Or lone survivors. But not against groups of ships.

That’s the justification for ships like the Baleares, right? Fast carriers still matter?

was about to type it, thanks for pointing it out.

Where was the "entire hall dedicated to miniatures gaming"? I know there was a section in Hall C for miniature gaming events as well as some specific miniature gaming groups in Hall C, but I wouldn't call that an entire hall. Years ago, there was a dedicated miniature gaming hall, then a back section of a hall for miniature games and vendors, now it's just pockets of them in the gaming hall from what I seen.

@@kevinprice7620 it definitely wasn't an entire hall dedicated to minis gaming, but just looking at the map of the main gaming hall: just game space - HMGS has 2 islands both at 40x40 - Ohio War Kings had a 20x40 space - Buckeye Gamers had a 40x40 space - Red Shirts had a 40x50 space some retail space included - Mantic and Warlord each had a 20x40 - Catalyst had their own 40x40 space - the guys from the video had a 20x40 space note that this does *not* include the guys from Ares that had a mix of minis + tabletop stuff, or the minis table in our area, or all the games from folks like Frattenspiel that were just 'general' minis events and not nested under a specific group or org no, it wasn't an "entire hall" but it was more than there's been in a while. It just definitely leaned much more historical than it had in a while, and there were noticeably fewer sci-fi games that would fall into the WH40K camp

I'm just typing up stuff as I listen so there will be a chain here. The app is always bad and there were a lot of people complaining about it being very unfriendly to users. Letting people into the vendor hall at the same time the vendors get into the hall is such a bad idea, it makes things harder for the vendors to open and the visitors can't interact with the booths after paying extra for this access.

Any professional company should be explaining the reasoning behind their requirements so everyone can understand the reasons. If you just say because I know better is very childish and not how you should be sharing a professional relationship with your vendors. There has to be a reason they're requiring it, such as GAMA's insurance is forcing them to require vendors to have workers comp? We won't know since they won't say

Do you check in with registration? A lot of those people working at registration are volunteers and don't really have a lot of knowledge when fixing these badge issues.

Day passes are crazy at $45, there aren't any signs showing where to go for registration and absolutely no advertising anywhere in Columbus near or outside the convention. Most people I talk to here in Columbus in the board game scene haven't even heard about origins before.

Thanks for sharing with us, that's unfortunate to hear how tough it is to be a vendor and interact with GAMA staff this was my second year as an attendee and I had a great time. I've wondered what it's like as a vendor so it's nice to hear the other side

They missed the note in the header that the price in 2023 was per table.

@@kristingenchi7697 Even before that, Pride and Origins didn't always line up. Back in the 00's it often overlapped with 4th of July weekend. Other years, it overlapped with ComFest, which was even more of a parking nightmare than Pride.

They clearly didn't know about most of what was going on outside of their immediate space in the Exhibitor's Hall.

We run the TTCombat booth and bring our extensive stock of their games, so we aren't there as just a FLGS. This is part of a deal with TTCombat to cover their presence at US shows. At other Conventions we de very well, to include GenCon. Anywho, they have wanted us to keep trying to go to Origins because they had been going in the past pre-pandemic and wanted to try to keep going and see of it recovers. We gave it multiple tries and I just don't think it makes sense for their IPs and products (anymore). They sort of have too many SKUs for a smaller booth too, but the real catch is attendance and do those attending have even a small interest on their games?

@@WhereYouGoForGames Thanks for the explanation.