I managed to pick up Starcraft: Brood War which is an expansion to Starcraft: The Board Game yesterday. I'm looking at putting together a game on Sunday (5th April) afternoon (hoping to start between 3-4pm). The game will likely last 3+ hours.

If you're interested in joining in this game please get in touch and let me know. Either use my contact form or post a comment here.

I recently started working on a campaign for Full Thrust and needed a map. Space based hex grid was preferred. I started hunting for one and came across an app for generating hex grids.

mkhexgrid is pretty flexible. You can output the map in several different file formats, control the number of hexs, the colour, weight and opacity of the lines and you can add user defined coordinates to each hex (or each x hexes). There are more settings and options that I've not explored yet also.

I got an e-mail from Chris over the weekend. It lead to the newly formatted rule book for Full Thrust Lite. I have to say, it's pretty swish. The rules appear to be the same but the examples in the book are now much clearer.

I'm going to see if I can find an economical way to print this off in full colour. If anyone has access to a colour laser printer could you let me know?

I'll also see about getting some of the fleet sheets printed and laminated.

I've attached the files here but if you want to grab them from GZG you can from this link; http://tinyurl.com/c4mcwz

Progress is happening slowly on this. I've found myself swamped at work, but given my current situation I'm not minding that. It does mean I may be absent from the Club for a few weeks. Looking at billable hours extending into the evenings. I won't be there tonight either but that's due to a stag night for a friend getting hitched this weekend.

Hey all,

I'm not going to make it tonight. Today is the anniversary of the death of a friend and colleague of Luci's so I'm going to be staying with her tonight.

On another note, I'm looking at starting the Full Thrust campaign soon.

Who is interested in playing in this game?

The "manual" can be found here.

Hey all,

There were 2 updates to Drupal Core in the last 2 days.

Drupal Core is the base application that drives this website. It's well maintained and has an excellent upgrade process.

The site was updated to Drupal 6.8 about an hour ago. I've not seen any problems yet, not that I expect any.

If anyone spots anything that is broken and can be replicated please send me a message through the Contact Form. If that appears to be the source of the problem e-mail me at bugreports[at]evolved.net.nz instead.

Cheers,
Gold

If you're new to the website and a Cavs member please read this.

Hey all,

I recently came across a micro-blogging system called Laconica which is the software that drives Identica. This is Free, Open Source Software and pretty much allows us to set up a local install of Twitter. The other thing that I like about this system is that it's distributed and you're able to "follow" people from any other system running Laconica. Also, the various supporting services actually work. i.e. Having posts delivered via IM and being able to post from IM.

Does anyone have any photos from any recent events? I'm wanting to test the setup and management of galleries and figured the easiest way to do that would be by using a couple of real events.

Last night Chris introduced me to Full Thrust which is a starship combat game. People may have seen Chris playing it before. He's done a pretty good job modding some of the ships with LEDs where the thrusters would be. They look pretty cool.