Our first stop on the way back home was Grognard Games, this was actually our first time visiting the store. We had meant stop in one time during AdeptiCon but never made it out. I knew the owner Todd back from when he owned Crooked Hat Games 2002-2005 and I heard good things about his new store and wanted to check it out. The size was decent for a gaming store, it was not huge, but it still had plenty of tables for miniature and card games and then the right 1/3 of the space was the actual store. It was sad not to see any Privateer Press items, but he had the usual Games Workshop and a few niche games like Guild Ball, Arena Rex and Batman Miniature Game items. Grognard was actually doing a Black Friday sale so I was hoping to find something. There is nothing I need for Guild Ball, but I always still like to look just in case, and that is when I saw he had Arena Rex. I recently passed up the online sale that Arena Rex is having (I still have a few unfinished models, so I really did not need more), but Grognard was doing a 40% sale on Arena Rex, so I perused the couple of pegs that he had and came across 'Atrox' a Beast for the game. I thought why not, it is always nice to have another Living Hazard to go with 'Leo'.
'Atrox'
I then made a note to myself to check out the D6 dice that they had. I did not purchase any Union dice for Guild Ball, and they do not make dice for the Order, so I wanted something that would go with my purple casino dice I have for them. For now I was just looking for something for the Order (where I can still order the logo dice for Union) and I came across some Purple/Black dice with Gold pips and thought these would do.
Once shopping was done, it was time to make the drive back home, but seeing how we were in Chicago, I had to route our way home to stop at my favorite Italian Beef restaurant, and no it is not Portillo's, my favorite is actually Buona Beef. Now that lunch was done, we could finally head home.
As were approaching the Michigan state line, I asked my son if he wanted to stop at one more store. Heroes Haven is in Michigan City and I have played Bolt Action there a few times myself, but my son had never visited. Heroes Haven is a mix of comic book and card games with a few miniatures thrown in. Not many miniatures, a few items of X-Wing, Games Workshop and I was actually shocked to see a few model for Arena Rex (nothing we really need at the moment). Then up on the wall I saw 2 Starter Sets for Star Wars Destiny. I heard this game is pretty popular, but I have yet to try it. They had the new Legacies starters of 'Luke Skywalker' and 'Boba Fett', I thought these two would be perfect fro my son to try. I doubt I will expand on the game, just wanted another quick game to throw down when time is tight.
Now I just have to wait for all my online Black Friday orders to come in.
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