Hello everyone. I recently picked up Imperial Assault late last year. I started off playing a campaign and was immediately hooked. I finally got around to trying out skirmish about a month ago, and I loved that even more. I couldn't help but buy all of the Imperial Assault sets after that. I've been doing tons of research on team composition, command cards, etc. I would love any advice from the more experienced players out there, but more importantly, I would really like to know where I can play around Philly. I keep reading about how Philly has produced great tournament players, but I can only find one location near the city to play, and it's not one that I really want to go to due to the difficulty of finding parking around there. If anyone has any info, I would love to hear it.
Newcomer near Philly
Hello!
We have a growing IA community at Top Deck Games in NJ that meets weekly on Thursdays. I am also looking to promote some Friday IA gaming at Redcap's Corner in West Philly (likely the one you referenced with street parking). Feel free to reach out to the local players on our SJ/PA facebook group too! I can dig up a link tonight.
36 minutes ago, Smashotron said:Hello!
We have a growing IA community at Top Deck Games in NJ that meets weekly on Thursdays. I am also looking to promote some Friday IA gaming at Redcap's Corner in West Philly (likely the one you referenced with street parking). Feel free to reach out to the local players on our SJ/PA facebook group too! I can dig up a link tonight.
Thanks for replying. Top Deck is only about 30 minutes from me, so that isn't bad. Yes, I was referring to Red Caps. I would love to go to that one, but it really has accessibility problems. I just moved to Philly a little over a year ago, and I'm quite surprised by the lack of places to play games. I would think somewhere this populated would have a larger demand than what the two stores in an hour radius can handle (with the exception of Magic, because somehow that is still everywhere).
We have a huge X-Wing community in the area at stores like Redcap's, Top Deck, Showcase Comics (in Swarthmore), ATKM, Games Keep (in West Chester), etc. Our IA community has been growing over the last few months but the majority of our players are at Top Deck on Thursdays and Games Keep on Sundays. Redcap's Corner has plenty of free street parking off of the main avenue and hopefully regularly Friday players soon.
I did notice Redcap's does Star Wars games every Friday, maybe I'll need to try to check them out at some point seeing that they are the closest one to me by far, I'm just west of Philly in the Manayunk area, or I'll need to check out Games Keep on Sundays. I'm lucky enough to have a girlfriend that enjoys playing IA with me, but we are both total novices at list creation, so it would be great to see some veteran insight.
Hey I'm in Manayunk too! Here is the SJ/PA group link as well. Whenever you need a game at any of the local shops, just post there and I'm sure you'll get replies.
Thanks for linking that group. They have a lot of really useful info on there.