A FAB Journey Podcast

LSS produce World Tour Weekly and I thought it would be fun to have an Aotearoa Armory Weekly looking at Flesh and Blood in NZ. The idea is to give an overview of the FAB news particularly what is relevant at the community level. Look at the heroes that are winning the armories and other events in New Zealand. To highlight local events both LSS sponsored and community or store created. I would lov...

LSS produce World Tour Weekly and I thought it would be fun to have an Aotearoa Armory Weekly looking at Flesh and Blood in NZ. The idea is to give an overview of the FAB news particularly what is relevant at the community level. Look at the heroes that are winning the armories and other events in New Zealand. To highlight local events both LSS sponsored and community or store created. I would lov...

Calling Auckland is the biggest FAB event in NZ this year. It was great to get up there and not only play but also meet all the people. I first came across Flesh and Blood at Calling: Auckland 2025. Well actually the Auckland Card Show 2025 which also was the home of the Calling last year. I didn’t play in the Calling or any of the side events last year we just did the Learn To Play. Different Ven...

LSS produce World Tour Weekly and I thought it would be fun to have an Aotearoa Armory Weekly looking at Flesh and Blood in NZ. The idea is to give an overview of the FAB news particularly what is relevant at the community level. Look at the heroes that are winning the armories and other events in New Zealand. To highlight local events both LSS sponsored and community or store created. I would lov...

Calling Auckland is the biggest FAB event in NZ this year. It was great to get up there and not only play but also meet all the people. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit afabjourney.substack.com/subscribe

LSS produce World Tour Weekly and I thought it would be fun to have an Aotearoa Armory Weekly looking at Flesh and Blood in NZ. The idea is to give an overview of the FAB news particularly what is relevant at the community level. Look at the heroes that are winning the armories and other events in New Zealand. To highlight local events both LSS sponsored and community or store created. I would lov...

LSS produce World Tour Weekly and I thought it would be fun to have an Aotearoa Armory Weekly looking at Flesh and Blood in NZ. The idea is to give an overview of the FAB news particularly what is relevant at the community level. Look at the heroes that are winning the armories and other events in New Zealand. To highlight local events both LSS sponsored and community or store created. I would lov...

LSS produce World Tour Weekly and I thought it would be fun to have an Aotearoa Armory Weekly looking at Flesh and Blood in NZ. The idea is to give an overview of the FAB news particularly what is relevant at the community level. Look at the heroes that are winning the armories and other events in New Zealand. To highlight local events both LSS sponsored and community or store created. I would lov...

LSS produce World Tour Weekly and I thought it would be fun to have an Aotearoa Armory Weekly looking at Flesh and Blood in NZ. The idea is to give an overview of the FAB news particularly what is relevant at the community level. Look at the heroes that are winning the armories and other events in New Zealand. To highlight local events both LSS sponsored and community or store created. I would lov...

If it doesn’t exist make it yourself or in my daughter’s case ask dad. Apparently there isn’t a class guide out there that makes fun of the classes at the same time. Well there wasn’t because here it is my friends. A Guardian’s Guide To The Other Classes takes a tongue in cheek look at the other classes or more the people that play those classes really. This is a public episode. If you'd like to d...

LSS produce World Tour Weekly and I thought it would be fun to have an Aotearoa Armory Weekly looking at Flesh and Blood in NZ. The idea is to give an overview of the FAB news particularly what is relevant at the community level. Look at the heroes that are winning the armories and other events in New Zealand. To highlight local events both LSS sponsored and community or store created. I would lov...

LSS produce World Tour Weekly and I thought it would be fun to have an Aotearoa Armory Weekly looking at Flesh and Blood in NZ. The idea is to give an overview of the FAB news particularly what is relevant at the community level. Look at the heroes that are winning the armories and other events in New Zealand. To highlight local events both LSS sponsored and community or store created. I would lov...

RTN Card Merchant Hamilton was the second competitive tournament that my daughter and I have taken part in. This one was bigger than the Store Champions Qualifier that we took part in last year. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit afabjourney.substack.com/subscribe

We really got back into the swing of things this week. We got to 2 armories and had our highest value card pull so far! Check out the Cardboard section for that. Also we had a really successful armory so read about that below as well. News I think that LSS are having an extended festive break as there’s not been much news. There has been an announcement about how you receive any monetary prizes bu...

Some times things just don’t go to plan. Family commitments got in the way of one armory, we then forgot something meaning we couldn’t make another armory and finally another armory wasn’t on due to the public holiday. Will I even know what to do when we get to an armory? With Road To Nationals coming up we are seriously lacking in play time. I’m not that fussed about the Road To Nationals side of...

With this being Christmas week both Gateway Games and Gaming DNA’s armories were cancelled. We were too knackered on Tuesday to make the 3 hour round trip to Card Merchant Hamilton’s armory meaning a week with no armories. I think this is only the second time in the 21 weeks since we took up FAB that has happened. Also being Christmas there’s not been much news. The only thing really has been the...

Welcome to An Armory Guide To Aotearoa where I aim to visit and review every FAB armory in NZ. Gaming DNA is at the northern end of central Hamilton, near FMG Stadium. If you’re staying in a hotel in the centre of town it’s walkable but a long walk. Chances are you’re going to be driving. There is some street parking and with a supermarket carpark just across the road, parking isn’t a problem. On...

It’s been really busy over the last couple of weeks so I have some catching up to do. Last time we talked, my daughter and I had been to the Auckland Card Market and bought a box of Welcome to Rathe. The intention was to do a box opening video, things got busy so we did a quick opening. We didn’t get anything interesting so decided not to bother posting it. I won’t be buying old boxes for opening...

I’m so late with this post, will my memory of last week hold up? We did a couple of different things last week as well as getting to our local armory. My barber friend Levi had bought a box of Super Slam in the Black Friday sales so we recorded a box opening . My daughter and I popped along to Gateway Games for our local armory on Friday night and then on Saturday headed up to Auckland for the Car...

It’s been a busy playing week for us. We made it to 3 armories this week. I know that I said that the armories in Hamilton weren’t going to be regular and are more treat armories but we got to both of them again. This week I also got my haircut. Stay with me, there is a Flesh and Blood connection. As all barbers do, he asked me what had I been up to? And I responded that I’d started playing a card...

Welcome to An Armory Guide To Aotearoa where I aim to visit and review every FAB armory in NZ. Gateway Games is my LGS and the armory that I get to most weeks. If you follow A FAB Journey you might have already read about my first experience down there . Gateway Games is located in Bethlehem which is technically on the western side of the Tauranga but is the northern approach to the city. Yes Taur...

We are heading into dad joke territory with the title this week. We made it to Gaming DNA for the first time which was very cool. Going to new stores does hurt the bank account though as you get to see a different range of deck boxes and stuff. We also got to our local armory at Gateway Games and did some shopping there too. News The quiet after the storm. There was news about who won worlds and c...

Yes I have ripped off a famous title. Hopefully no one mistakes this post for a work of Shakespeare. We did however visit both Hamilton and Tauranga this week for armories. First up it was Card Merchant Hamilton where we have been for a Skirmish and a Store Championship Qualifier but not an armory before. Then it was our regular Gateway Games. This week also saw the release of Armory Deck: Rhinar...

I have posted 3 predictions pieces recently. What’s Coming Up In 2026? where I look at what I think will come out in the releases. Who Gets A Deck In 2026? where I try to predict the armory deck releases. What Is A Flesh And Blood Showdown? I think the title is enough for this one. So how well have these predictions stood up now we’ve listened to the LSS Keynote at Philadelphia Worlds? What’s Comi...

Lots Of Cobwebs Week 14 - We Get Back To Our Local Armory What is a Flesh and Blood Showdown? https://afabjourney.substack.com/p/what-is-a-flesh-and-blood-showdown After not playing much for the last 3 weeks, it was good to get back to our armory and play again. There were a lot of cobwebs from not playing and I really could do with playing a bit more. Maybe just going through my deck to remind my...