The Far Side 2.0

Once upon a time, in a clubhouse far far away... there was a bunch of loons playing space games week in, week out.

They where called... The Far Side of the Galaxy!

But life started happening and slowly but surely, like the excellen A Call to Arms Babylon 5 game from Mongoose Publishing, the light sizzled out and we all went our way, sadly even loosing one of our own in the process, but we know he smiles from above and "den mottigen Djoef" will ever be tied to his name.

Yet recently, the wind has been changing.  Spurred on by Andy (who briefly was a non-posting co-poster on the blog here if you remember that far back) the idea first was tossed out, and now is becoming reality again, of relaunching the Far Side, aka Far Side 2.0, and we even have a new logo:

Now, what did the Far Side stand for actually I hear you ask, apart from having a fun friday night "with the lads"?  Well, we had mainly two points we stood for:

* Play spaceship games and Future War Commander, both a terribly small niche at the club,  and as such looked like the oddballs in the clubhouse.  Okay, that might have been for other reasons, like the loadest bunch of 'em all, hence why they put us in the back, or, here it comes, "the far side of the building".

* The second point is in the new logo: we never stood for unpainted models!  Very occasionally, you could put a vessel on the table but that had to be at least in it's base colours, to try out,but as a general rule if it wasn't painted, you weren't allowed to play along.   That did sound elitist perhaps, but for us that was, and still is, an aspect of the hobby.  You can't imagine, even with our busy adult lives (hey, we weren't kids anymore back then already) how fleets got churned out in no-time for gaming.

Those where the values we had back then, and which we will carry onwards again in 2.0 even though it'll be hard to bring the whole gang together again.

And they actually got featured in an old wargame magazine from the UK, when that visited our clubhouse, as seen here:

Ah, the good old times, and now let's see if Andy, fully supported by me and Nemesis, can fire it all up again!