Moving to NYC in a coupla weeks...

[ShinHakkaider]

Thanks for all the helpful direction.

In the very short time I've spent on their boards, I've become rather fond of the folks over nerdnyc.com, and found that a handful of them even attended my high school. ^_^

And, yes, being a native of NYC, I -know- that there are five boroughs. (-_-); Still, it seems that the only stores in any boroughs that receive mention are the three already named: Strategist, Neutral Ground, and King's (and, yeah, I don't really venture into Brooklyn, either).

I'd agree with the notion that gaming isn't a big priority because there's so much else to do...out of curiosity, what's the GW shop like? I also paint minis, so it's nice to know that there's still someplace I can go to get figures I like. (I'm -totally- addicted to Confrontation. Aren't they stunning?)

They've opened quite a few GW shops in NY over the past few years. The first opened on 8th & university near NYU, followed by the one in Forest Hills (on Austin Street) then one on the upper east side (Third Ave in the low 80's) of manhattan then one on the upper west side. I've been to all of them except the one on the upper west side and theyre all pretty much the same. They only sell Games Workshop miniatures and games and they pretty much all go for the hard sell. You are just there to be sold to and that's pretty much it. The guys at the Forest Hills store are cooler than most though. If it's Confrontation Mini's you want though I'm afraid that Nuetral Ground is your best (ONLY) bet unless you buy them online.

The Complete Strat has a pretty good selection of Reaper Mini's and they carry GW stuff as well. Hands down though I'll agree that Confrontation mini's are pretty awesome looking. I have a few from before they started making the US distributed versions. They still remain unpainted, I'm waiting until I actually get skilled enough so that when I do paint them they'll look good.

 

[devilish]

Argh....most everyone beat me to it, but nerdnyc has games running
all over the boroughs -- they also have an open-house-gaming
day monthly or bi-monthly, that you can sign up for, IIRC.

I currently run a 3.5 game in downtown Manhattan on the weekends.
Let me know when you're in town @ devilishd _at_ yahoo _dot_ com.

-D

 

[devilish]

double the post - double the fun!

 

[Indigo Veil]

devilish wrote, "Let me know when you're in town."

Thanks for the welcome and open invite, devilish. I really appreciate it, but I'm not really good with anything system-y. ^^;;

devilish also wrote, "Argh....most everyone beat me to it, but nerdnyc has games running all over the boroughs -- they also have an open-house-gaming
day monthly or bi-monthly, that you can sign up for, IIRC."

Yeah, I noticed that, and I'll have to sign up after I go to one of their more informal get togethers...they seem like a delightfully friendly and intelligent bunch.

 

[Indigo Veil]

I've been back for a little over a week, and I'm loving it here.

Oi, nemmerle, if you're still watching this thread, I wanted to mention that I don't have your email address. ^^;; I was going to contact you via those other boards as I had before, but those boards are down, alas. If you'd like to get together for coffee or lunch sometime, you can contact me at indigo.veil at gmail dot com.

Thanks!