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SPECIFICS
updated
26 mar 08
Overview
The Fighting Hellfish is a gaming
club in the San Francisco Bay Area dedicated to playing tabletop
wargames with 28mm miniature toy soldiers.
The club plays Warhammer
Fantasy, Warhammer
40,000, and Blood
Bowl by Games Workshop. And Warmachine
and Hordes
by Privateer Press. On occassion we mix in a little Zombies
for good measure.
We normally play on Thursday nights with members showing up around
7pm. We are playing at the new Game
Kastle location near San Jose Airport.
Directions
Recognition
The Fighting Hellfish are veterans
of both Games Workshop and Privateer Press tournaments.
For Games Workshops, our members have played in Grand Tournaments
in Seattle, Los Angleles, Chicago and Vancouver, as well as Rogue
Trader Tournaments around California. We have won "Best Army Composition";
"Best Painted"; "Best Sportsmanship" and "Best General"
awards so far. The club was in White Dwarf magazine after it ran
an event at Games Day Los Angeles 2003.
For Privateer Press, our members regularly play in Steamroller events
across the state and have brought home stacks and stacks of Champion
and best factions prize coins.
History
Our
gaming group has been around for over decade and originated at the
defunct "A Place to Play" in San Jose, CA. In the late 1990's, we
moved to Matchplay
in Mountain View, CA. For a few years, the store was renamed Neutral
Ground when it was affiliated with the Neutral Ground stores in
Manhattan, NY and Atlanta, GA.
In 2002, we decided to get more official and named the club, the
Fighting Hellfish. In 2003, our website was launched. Around this
time, Neutral Ground Mountain View dissolved its partnership and
reverted back to Matchplay. In April 2007, Matchplay closed down.
The club is now playing temporarily at Game Kastle.
The name, "Fighting Hellfish," is inspired by an episode
of The
Simpsons featuring Grandpa "Sgt. Abe" Simpson in his
WW2 days leading the Flying Hellfish to glory and grand larceny
on the European front. That episode was in turn inspired by the
60's Marvel Comic Sgt.
Fury and his Howling Commandos. A classic comicbook,
a great cartoon... but most of all it's an excellent name for our
club.
Where
We Used to Play
Our old home, Matchplay (formerly Neutral Ground)
San Antonio Shopping Center, Mountain View, California
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