Saturday, April 20, 2013

Weiss Schwarz Anime Watch!

Want to learn more about the anime shows in Weiss Schwarz?
Here's a list of the anime from WS that are officially streaming right now:



Name
Site 1
Site 2
A Certain Magical Index
A Certain Scientific Railgun
Accel World

Angel Beats!

Bakemonogatari

Black Rock Shooter
No official stream

CANAAN

CLANNAD Volume 1

D.C. & D.C. II
No official stream

D.C. III

Disgaea

Fairy Tail

Fate/stay night

Fate/Zero

Guilty Crown
Katanagatari
No official stream

Little Busters! Anime

Love Live!

Lucky Star

Macross Frontier
No official stream

Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha A's
No official stream

Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha The MOVIE 1st
No official stream

Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha The MOVIE 2nd
No official stream

My-HiME & My-Otome
No official stream

Nanoha StrikerS
No official stream

Nichijou (My Ordinary Life)

Persona 4: The Animation

Phantom ~Requiem for the Phantom~

Puella Magi Madoka Magica

Rebuild of Evangelion (1.0, 2.0, 3.0)
No official stream

Rewrite
No official stream

Robotics;Notes
Sengoku Basara

Senki Zesshō Symphogear

Shakugan no Shana

Sora Kake Girl (The Girl Who Leapt Through Space)
No official stream

Sword Art Online
Tantei Opera Milky Holmes

THE iDOLM@STER Anime

The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya

Vividred Operation

Zero no Tsukaima (Familiar of Zero)
No official stream

Zero no Tsukaima F




UPCOMING Weiss Schwarz sets:


Name
Site

Psycho-Pass

Dog Days

Devil Survivor 2: The Animation

Gargantia on the Verdurous Planet



Thursday, April 18, 2013

The Improved Insert Printer!

The card-sleeve inserts on HeartOfTheCards.com are incredibly useful for Weiss Schwarz players like me who can't read Japanese (I probably never would have tried Weiss Schwarz if those printouts didn't exist). However, they are very inconvenient to print and cut, so I wanted to improve them.

Enter the "Improved Insert Printer".
I made an Excel document that easily takes a list of cards and prints out paper sleeve-inserts. Then, you put them in a card sleeve with your Japanese card and play Weiss Schwarz!

Download it HERE 

The full instructions are in the document.
It requires Excel 2007 or newer, and you will need to enable Macro Content if it asks you.

I'll continue to improve it, so if you have any questions or suggestions, let me know :)

(and thanks again to HeartOfTheCards.com. My Improved Insert Printer uses their translations, but please note that none of them are included in the file. Users must go to HeartOfTheCards.com, get the .txt translation files, and paste them into my document.)

Monday, April 15, 2013

Feature Highlight: The "Pages" sidebar

To the right of the blog area, there's a sidebar called "Pages".
Eventually it will have links to all the most important permanent pages of the site.
Right now it just has:
  • Home: the main page of All Weiß Schwarz
  • Useful Links: A large list of useful websites related to Weiss Schwarz, from blogs to YouTube channels to places to buy specific cards.
  • Game Rules: A list websites with English-language rules. Great for new players learning to play, or experienced players looking for info on specific technicalities.

If you know a site you'd like me to add to either of those lists, let me know!

Sunday, April 14, 2013

Glossary of Weiss Schwarz 'slang'

Weiss Schwarz fans have come up with nicknames or abbreviations for many of the card types and card abilities. There are also several abbreviations used when trading/selling cards online.

I want to create a list of all these nicknames, so you new players can tell what it means when someone says "RRR 0/0 Akiha suicide FT, LF 2k1 CR CX"

Abbreviations:
CX (Climax)
FT (For Trade)
LF (Looking For)
LTB (I'm Looking to Buy)
Opp (Opponent)
PM (Private Message)
SG (Singapore)
TD (Trial Deck)
WS (Weiss Schwarz)
WTB (I Want to Buy)
WTS (I Want to Sell)
YYT (Yuyu-tei): A Japanese site, often used to get single card prices.
#/# (example: 3/2 Miku): Referring to a specific card by Level/Cost and name.

Rarities (copied from http://weissschwarz.wikia.com/wiki/Card_Number):
C (Common): Four in each Booster Pack.
CC (Climax Common): There are 8 pairs per box.
CR (Climax Rare): One of each per booster box. So each booster box has one copy of all the CR cards.
R (Rare): Fifteen in each booster box.
RR (Double Rare): Four (One of each card color) are included per booster box.
RRR (Triple Rare): Holo-foil cards, most of these feature new descriptions and art. Only 4 of these are included in a booster carton.
SP (Special): Holo-foil CC/CR cards or cards with signatures. Only 2 of these are included in a booster carton.
SR (Special Rare): Holo-foil cards, without different descriptions or art. Ten of these are included in a booster carton
TD (Trial Deck): All Trial Deck cards are this rarity, many of them with parallel U or C rarity versions. There are also a number of Trial Deck only cards.
U (Uncommon): Two in each Booster Pack.


Set abbreviations:
MB (Melty Blood)
SAO (Sword Art Online)
PD/PDf (Hatsune Miku Project Diva F (Vocaloid))
Many more

Nicknames:
Suicide/Suicider: A character that can reverse its Battle Opponent when it is Reversed. Example: "When this becomes Reversed, if its Battle Opponent is Level 0 or lower, you may Reverse that Character." Some characters have variations of this, such as putting the opponent in Stock instead of Reversing it.
Mill/Milling: Discarding cards from a Library to the Waiting Room. Example: Brainstorm keyword
Healing: Moving a card from Clock into (usually) the Waiting Room.
Vanilla: A card with no effect. Example: 0/0 3000 characters.
Stick: When damage isn't canceled by a climax, it "sticks".
1k1: A climax that gives +1000 power and 1 soul to all your characters. Often has interesting Trigger icons.
2k1: A climax that draws a card and gives +2000 power and 1 soul to one character. Always has 2 Soul Triggers.



Know of any other common abbreviations or nicknames? Let me know and I'll get them added to the list ASAP.


Maiden Voyage!

Welcome to the beginning of All Weiß Schwarz.
This blog will be several things:
  • A central location for useful and in-depth information about the Weiss Schwarz TCG.
  • A blog for discussion, analysis, and strategy.
  • A rallying point for Weiss Schwarz players in the Rocky Mountain region of the US.
Further information about each of those categories:
  • The collected info about Weiss Schwarz will be called the "Data Hub". All posts related to it will have the "Data Hub" label.
  • Blog posts will all be tagged with "Natron's Thoughts". Once we get more contributors, they'll have similar labels.
  • Our current community is based out of Colorado, so some content will relate to the Rocky Mountain area. Look for the "Colorado" or "Rockies" labels.
  • Also, anything only somewhat related to Weiss Schwarz (such as anime reviews) will have the "Spin-off" label.
Watch the blog closely in the coming week, since I'll be adding content at a fever pace!
(currently in the works: Improved Translation Printer, Retailer and Distributor List, Glossary of Slang terms, and more!)