Saturday, June 6, 2009

Monsterpocapalooza 2009!

Blog plug of the day: Damn, I haven't received the final 3 kits and my mega pack.. now this worries me much....

Hello All!

Monsterpocapalooza!! Please head over to the website below for further details and rules regarding this event!

Monsterpocapalooza


From this, we've got to know about Series 4: Monsterpocalypse Now and an exclusive "Full Metal Mega" Cyber Khan. Is that Terra Khan in metal suit?! THIS IS WIN!!

Till then, reach out and crush someone today!

Friday, May 29, 2009

All You can Eat event details

Blog plug of the day: 3 of our event support kits are delayed for a week now. I will try to mail PP for further assistance.

Hello all!

I am here to inform you all that the checklist/achievements have been revealed today! Copy and paste below for more convenience.

Monsterpocalypse Checklist Event
All You Can Eat: I Chomp NY

Player Responsibilities:

Players participating in the event must bring their own figures, maps, dice, and health trackers required for play.

Players should check with the Tournament Organizer (TO) before the event begins on any rules questions they think may arise based on their force lists.

The objective of tournament play is for everyone to have a good time. Players should remain courteous and patient with their opponents and the TO. Players must accept all rulings made by the TO whether or not they agree. The TO always has the final word on rules questions or debates. Players will remain mature, polite, and fair to their opponents.

A TO can eject a player for any incident deemed unsporting. This includes but is not limited to offensive or abusive conduct, bullying, cheating, constant rule arguments, stalling game play, and other immature actions. If stalling is suspected, the TO should be called to monitor play.

Format Information

All You Can Eat is a one-day event for which TOs should schedule at least 6 to 8 hours. The goal of the event is to play as many games of Monsterpocalypse as possible in order to earn achievements that can be redeemed for prizes.

This event is played with any number of legal Monsterpocalypse forces. Players can switch forces between games if they wish.

Time Limits
There is no game time limit, and there are no scheduled tournament rounds. As soon as a game ends, a player who is not currently involved in a game can challenge any available player for the next game.

Checklists

Players receive checklists to track achievements earned in the event. Checklists can be printed out at http://monsterpocalypse.com/.

When a player completes an item on the list, the TO initials the appropriate achievement as earned. These are:

* Played with a full Protector force
* Played with a full Radical force
* Played with a full Fiends force
* Played with a full Destroyers force
* Played with a full Invaders force
* Played with a full Collaborators force
* Played with two or more Protector monsters
* Played with two or more Radical monsters
* Played with two or more Fiends monsters
* Played with two or more Destroyers monsters
* Played with two or more Invaders monsters
* Played with two or more Collaborators monsters
* Played with every Protector monster
* Played with every Radical monster
* Played with every Fiends monster
* Played with every Destroyers monster
* Played with every Invaders monster
* Played with every Collaborators monster
* Played with one or more monsters each from Collaborators, Protectors, and Radicals
* Played with one or more monsters each from Fiends, Destroyers, and Invaders
* Played in a multi-monster game using monsters of different agendas
* Played with a full city including 0 hazards
* Played with a full city including 12 hazards
* Played with a city including all three I Chomp NY monuments
* Had 15 units in play at the same time
* Had all 10 power dice in your power pool
* Earned at least 8 power dice in a single power up
* Destroyed a full-health monster form in a single attack
* Won a game without ever using a hyper form
* Destroyed at least four buildings in one attack
* Destroyed at least four units in one attack
* Dealt 2 damage to a monster in a single unit activation

Prizes

Achievements earned from the checklist can be redeemed for prizes selected from a random assortment provided to the store. When a player spends achievements for prizes, the TO initials the appropriate achievements as redeemed. Achievements can be redeemed as follows:

* 2 achievements = Monsterpocalypse: Rise unit
* 4 achievements = Shadow unit
* 10 achievements = Monsterpocalypse: Rise building
* 24 achievements = Mega form monster

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They are actually easier to achieve than what it seems. In a 2v2 monster game, one can try to complete the achievements below:

* Played with a full Destroyers force
* Played with two or more Destroyers monsters
* Played with a full city including 12 hazards
* Had 15 units in play at the same time
* Had all 10 power dice in your power pool
* Earned at least 8 power dice in a single power up
* Destroyed a full-health monster form in a single attack
* Destroyed at least four buildings in one attack
* Destroyed at least four units in one attack
* Dealt 2 damage to a monster in a single unit activation

And you do not even need to win any games to earn these achievements! It is as easy as ABC, really!

Till then, reach out and crush someone today!

Thursday, May 28, 2009

Playing with my Panasonic LX3

Blog plug of the day: I am testing my LX3, I do not have proper studio or lighting so do not expect studio quality pictures. I used iA which everything is set by the chip. AND, these are not photoshopped, they are raw pictures straight from the digicam.

Hello all! Let me present to you.... The short battle; Zor Maxim VS Tharsis-5!

The battle erupted in the middle of New York city, all citizens had been evacuated by the G.U.A.R.D. Tharsis-5 was roaming in the city destroying everything he saw with his laser beam. Nova ESR was sent to counter attack Tharsis-5 but before she could make it there in time, Zor Maxim revealed himself from the cloak and going hostile against Tharsis-5.

Zor Maxim, in his alpha form. Together with him were Sun Fighters, C-type and S-type Shinobis. His motive was unknown but it seemed that Maxim wanted to shoo Tharsis-5 off from the NY city. But why? What is so important in NY to them SSS?

This is Tharsis-5 upclose, snapshot by an unknown reporter who was in the Imperial State building, 51st floor. Tharsis-5 was also seen together with his usual flying minions but this time, a new unit was also spotted. It looks like mini tripod that was used with digital cameras to take still images, only with huge, tremendous sized head.

The battle started, Shinobis were taking down most of the Vanguards as well as the Marauders. The mini tripod killed the kneeling Shinobi in one blow. The Shinobi collapsed and a moment later, he vaporized into the sky like zealot death animation in Starcraft. Nobody knows why and some even claimed the Martians were actually created by the ancient Protoss. The battle continued for an half hour...

This is it! The Armored Tharsis-5! A body slam from Maxim into the nearby Crystalline building did not do much damage to him at all! Tharsis-5 got up and now he got Maxim under his both huge claws.

Tharsis-5 threw Maxim into the Imperial State building and the building collapsed and erupted in flames, burning Maxim in the process. It was confirmed that the reporter was dead as well. There was nothing could be done as when Nova reached the scene, the whole NY city was totaled and Tharsis-5 was nowhere to be found!

Hope you enjoy this short story, until then, reach out an crush someone!

New Event on the horizon!

Blog plug of the day: There will be a MonPoc Demo somewhere in Cheras by Toybox in this coming Saturday. I will be there, anyone wanna join me for some games + demos this coming Saturday?


Hey guys! I am back from Borneo. xD

After 3 days off from the world (internet means the world to me xD), there has been quite a number of announcements on Monsterpocalypsegame.com.

First of them is the announcement of the closure of Rise Chomps Back event. It seems this is really limited and I certainly hope the one I created for Toybox will be happening. If all else fails, it will be a replacement kit. They didn't mention of what replacement kit it will be but let's hope it will be one subpar to the RCB event kit. If we didn't get to qualify for Rise Chomps Back. Links as below:

Rise Chomps Back closed


Another one; which is interesting cum surprise is the announcement of the event, All You Can Eat Event. This is a 1-day event and you have to score/complete as many gaming achievements as you can in that particular day! All these achievements can be redeeemed for prizes from the All You Can Eat Grab Bag. Confused? O.O yeah me too. I have no idea what prizes are there to be redeemed in that special Bag as well. Let's just hope it will be sweet and fat prizes for all. xD Judging at the scene of Monpoc event, them PP should send us a bigger Bag hahaha!

All You Can Eat event

I couldn't find any information regarding this event yet on Privateerevents.com but will definitely update you all if there is anything about this fun event. Let's start 'Munch'ing like the Terra Kahn in the pic, shall we?

Apart from the announcement, please do check back Monpoc MY before end of day this coming Tuesday for news about a huge promotion for Monsterpocalypse series 3 events. You heard it here first. :)

Until then, reach out and crush someone today!

Thursday, May 21, 2009

Spam bots cleared.

Blog plug of the day: I will have a short trip to Borneo Islands which means I'll not be able to crush cities this weekend. Also, I'll be getting a pro-sumer camera soon and this means two things: I'm gonna starve for a long time and beautiful MonPoc pictures are coming soon. And.. where is my Mega pack? :(

Hello all!

Nothing new in MonPoc scene for the past week but the spam bots over MonPoc Forums have been cleared. Below is the declaration from PPS_Biggie against the spam bots.

Spambot Purge


It took them almost a week to fight against these spam bots. Nonetheless, the securities have been strengthened and all accounts with 0 posts have been deleted. On the other hand, more and more Retribution of Scyrah faction have been revealed. Check out Privateer Press for more juicy juice! xD

Coming next June, I am pretty sure they will come out with Series 3: All Your Base previews as well. Until then, reach out and crush someone today!

Friday, May 15, 2009

SPAMMED!

Blog plug of the day: I complained about the warm nights and hot temperature and now it started to rain like every evening recently. However, my Deimos-9 is not standing still yet!

Hello all!

Last night, as usual, I went to MonPoc forums past mid night for some light reading about our favorite hobby game. There have been a lot of spam topics; either created by the spambots or those spiders. Among the topics, there would be 1 -3 spam topics and would be cleared once the PPS guys or Dvandomz logs in.

Last night, the spam topics were so unbelievable many that it almost took half of the forums page! Of course, as I woke up this morning, everything was deleted. I managed to take a screen shot of it. (See below)

This leads to me of the thinking of power of spams in the age, my workstation mail servers were spammed by Acai Berry pills spams last week, I do get spams in both my primary and secondary email accounts all the time, and I bet you all do. Especially penis enlargement pills. LOL

It's time to strengthen up the forum's security PP!

The screenshot, most of them in foreign language

Till then, reach out and crush someone today!

EDIT: 9.31pm +8 GMT 15/05/09. The forum is getting spammed again!

Sunday, May 10, 2009

Mega Sky Sentinel: Get!

Blog plug of the day: What happened to the weather lately? The gadget shows 30 degree Celsius! Warm and stuffy, 4 times bath per day and I guess that's the main reason my Deimos-9 acted in that way.

Mega Sky Sentinel

Hi guys!

I've got my hands on my Mega Sky Sentinel last night. Woo hoo! Have you got yours? Unfortunately, there is minor conflict here, Leon seems to be missing his though, I wonder why and perhaps I should advise him to write to PP help desk for further assistance.Anyone of you missing yours as well?

Cost 5 to hyper up which is quite balance I'd say, fully loaded with 6 abilities, Beat Back triggers on everything! Can you imagine that? Blast - Beatback, Brawl - Beatback, Power Attack - Beatback. Whenever this guy hits you, you have to move 3 squares back. Or forward, left and right.

Wow! If only his stats were slightly better (except for the 8 defense!!), this guy could be as 'borken' as Mega Maxim! lol

In my honest view, this guy is going to make appearance in your local matches for a looooonnng time! Who could resist Mega Sky Sentinel + Choppers + G1 Strike Fighters? xD

Lastly, Sky Sentinel is just too popular even Firefox has their own. o.O


Till then, reach out and crush someone today!

Saturday, May 9, 2009

More Rise Mega Figures!

Blog plug of the day: Wolf from Wolf Game Shop has contacted me, my Sky Sentinel Mega has arrived! Toybox has got them too. Have you SkySentinel-ed? Hurry and pick them up today.

Mega Yaseth - the rarest among the rares.

Well hello!

Just a quick update here. Privateer Press has announced a new way to redeem your Mega Yaseth! So finally instead of hoping to get him in the random mega redemption process, you can now get him with a combination of 24 box tops -either Rise or Chomp. Good thing for those who saved the booster box tops from Rise, I knew this would happen one day. :) Another thing you should know is ACT fast! It is stated that the supply is EXTREMELY limited! (yes, it was all in caps)


You will see them again! After eight months :)

There was another new event being announced as well; Rise Chomps Back! This means Mega Gorghadra, Cthugrosh and Defender X are back! Hmm.. it was stated that these figures were once totally sold out so perhaps this is a new batch? Anyway, you won't getting all of them, only one of them; randomly. Sounds hard enough for you? Well, you need to participate in ICNY sealed event which means you have to buy another few Chomp boosters just to participate. Only winner gets it. I wonder if anyone would turn up for this though. We had not much luck in numbers with sealed events and it's proven. Especially now when everyone has their needed units/monsters already.

Lastly, as usual, below are the links to the announcements:

Mega Yaseth
Rise Chomps Back!

In conclusion, this comes rather late in the game for a promotion like this. But, good news for those who just got into the game. Someone guessed the Voltron license is gonna cost a bomb, so this could be a form of a PP fundraiser. xD

Till then, reach out and crush someone today!

Friday, May 8, 2009

Monsterwatch Competition!

Blog plug of the day: Being a Press Ganger for both MonPoc and WM/H, I'm thinking to feed this blog with Warmachine scenes and news as well, I don't know whether if it is a good idea or just keep it MonPoc exclusive....

Ulgoth by Monsterwatch Blog. Click to enlarge

Howdy all!

I got this above Ulgoth drawing from Monsterwatch website. It is DAMN awesome with the resemblance close to 100%! I am not sure whether this is an official sketch from PP artists or not but if it isn't, those guys who run Monsterwatch can REALLY draw well despite having bad spelling issue. Ulgloth? It's Ulgoth! :)

Anyhoo, the website was updated today featuring a battle encounter in New York city. (obviously duh I Chomp NY! lol). Please head over to the website and read their close encounter in fluffy way (recommended, you really need to see the Nova-getting-rammed-into-building.jpg). But I will give the summary here:

1. Ulgoth walked in NY
2. Nova tried to stop
3. Tharsis appeared and it became handicapped match
4. Magna appeared, drove away both monsters
5. Nova gearing up to face Magna, Magna vanished.

Although the previous updates were not impressive and the lack of updates, this time really blew me off. I had so much fun reading the short report. You will like it too. However don't ask me why Jake likes female robots so much that one could think he had a fetish for them. xD

If you are interested to join in the Monsterwatch reports; writing your virtual encounter with the monsters, though you can't feature them on the Monsterwatch website; you can always submit them in the official forums. This time, winners will be chosen and definitely will get something, as told by PPS_Kevin. Link as below:

Monsterwatch sightings competition

Those who like to write and read, give yourself a chance and do us Malaysian proud! lol

Till then, reach out and crush someone today!

Tuesday, May 5, 2009

New Series 3: All Your Base poster AD.

Blog plug of the day: I didn't know that there was another store carrying Monpoc until recently. They even have events with official kits! I used to go Comics Corner for card games, I shall be visiting the store soon.

Hello fellow city crushers!

Lately if you have been visiting the official MonPoc forums by PP, you will not be missing a thread with an ad poster showing the actual figures of monsters from Series 3: All Your Base along with the unique buildings. No abilities were revealed though. Pictures below:

The poster

The poster up close

Personally I think the Planet Eater monster is... floating? And that new Cthul monster will drive tentacle lovers crazy.. oops! XD Anyway, the 4 morphers combined to become full monster form will definitely affect the way Voltron plays. But Voltron has 5 lion bots instead of 4.. hmm, maybe special rules? This sure fits their theme "Divided we Stand, United you Fall".

Before I end this post, what happened to my DEIMOS-9 ?? He dozes off???

Poor Deimos-9; tired after a battle

Till then guys, reach out and crush someone today!