Upper Canada Irregulars

Hello there,

Upper Canada Irregulars is nothing if not irregular.  

This blog has been a companion site to the Upper Canada Irregulars Facebook group (for meeting and photos of games) and then the Steam group (for playing games, mostly Left 4 Dead) and finally it became by default a companion to the UCI discord.  You can find nice links to all these on the side bar to the... well side.

I don't think I've done a checkpoint in a loooong time so I thought I should do it, just to bring things up to date if anyone found their way over here.

The mandate of the Upper Canada Irregulars brand is to hook up games for people who kind of know each other.  You can find lots of game groups online and that's swell but it is nice to play things with folks you've played with before, especially things like 4X war games or RPGs.   Now whether you know each other through someone else or even just though Upper Canada Irregulars is immaterial, its all good.  Upper Canada is a geographic thing as well but that geography could be where you grew up, or where you currenly live or where the game is happening or where some of the players live/work/have friends/are traveling through.  Games are more fun when shared and discussed so the Upper Canada Irregulars is  meant to facilitate that.  

The UCI discord server was set up to allow people to discuss a bunch of topics and also to manage voice and video conferencing when playing games online.  The problem I found with the Facebook group was there was no way to have a decent conversation.  When people tried to organize or discuss things on Facebook it got lost in the Facebook shuffle and so it became a place to put up pictures, and then eventually a place where nothing happened.  This blog was set up around the time the Steam group was created, so some of the fun logos come from that time period.  The Steam group is still there and it would still be a good place to join and find other steam players for Steam games if anyone wanted to.  I'd sure be glad to see people using it again since there are now a ton of great action and strategy games on Steam now.  Some good options for board games on Steam would be Lords of Waterdeep, Scythe, Game of Thrones, Root, Wingspan etc.  A ton of great board game adaptions.  Co-op games area favorite of mine and some good ones would be the aforementioned Left 4 Dead (1 or 2), Vermintide 2, Helldivers 2, or Deep Rock Galactic.  There is also 4x games like Stellaris, turn based games like Mordheim and a pile of RTS style games it would be fun to play with folks you can talk to after the battle.  

Last in time, the UCI Discord was created and I'm focusing on that for the moment since it is really great for keeping various discussions sorted and has an old school chatroom vibe, but also you can spin up a voice or video chat very easily, and soon will be able to run Roll20 games (and others) right in the interface.  Sweet right?  When you hit the discord for the first time you land in the lobby.  Make yourself known and I'll add you to the right groups based on what your interests are so you can see what you want to see.  The Member role will give you channels for different topics but I just fired up a role/channel for an upcoming Scum and Villainy game I'm running.  If you want to run a game and need a place to do it let me know.

I would like to see people using the discord to meet and set up games and play.  I'd also like to one day try a bigger get together to play some larger/longer board games in person.  I've been fortunate to play some Twilight Imperium games the last couple years and have posted some of the pics on the discord.  It would be great to see more of that sort of funny business.

That's probably enough exposition for now.  If you want to play a game and tire of endless go nowhere email chains then maybe you can find a game here.