Friday, March 9, 2012

Oh the fickle winds of Chaos

Last month I finally shelled out for a Hellcannon to give my Warriors of Chaos some firepower. It came and it's a huge pewter model. It took me 6 hours to file down just the two main pieces to fit together. Its is going to need countless hours of green stuff in order to fix all the gaps and make it look nice before it can be painted.


So this was announced today:
http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/wnt/blog.jsp?pid=1700124-gws


!@#$%^&*!#&*^$@*!#$^!*&#@^(#!!!!  FRIKKIN GAMES WORKSHOP!!!!!!

Thursday, February 23, 2012

Believe it or not.

For the first time in about a year I'm going to play some 40k this weekend. Time to dust off my Box 'o Boyz and let my Orks Waaagh across the table. I'm actually looking forward to it. It'll be good to get some play time with them in again before they get back-shelved when I rebuild my Necron Army.
I have most of the Necrons I want, just short a Ghost Arc or three. But I said I wouldn't rebuild that until my Warriors of Nurgle Army is done. I've made some good headway there. The Lord and Sorcerer are painted and the Knights and Chosen have their armor and horns mostly complete. Just need to add shading and paint all the details, and horses, for them to be done. My Hellcannon came in and after many hours of filing got it all fit together and glued. Its going to need quite a bit of work with GreenStuff before it ready to paint. Darn old pewter models. Very time consuming, but the models look great when finished.

Wednesday, February 8, 2012

Recent Happenings

The Magic pre-release was the weekend before last and had a great turnout. 19 Players entered and it ended up with Chris (Chaos Minion) in first and myself in 4th.
The new set Launch was last weekend but only had 6 players so was rather disappointing. But a couple of them were newer players so it was good to give them some tips on playing and deck building. Steve won first and myself second.
The next tournament will be in 3 weeks but I'm not expecting much of a turnout as the format is prebuilt decks and many don't want to pay to enter as they know they will most likely be beat by those like myself with better decks/more experience.

This weekend I'm eager to play Warhammer Fantasy. My Hellcannon came in and I'm looking forward to trying it out on the table. (if I can get it to fit together...stupid old pewter models). I'm hoping to get in a big team battle so I'll be there pretty much as soon as the store opens.

Friday, January 20, 2012

New Project

So much like all my friends and fellow wargamers at Segmentum North, I am setting a project goal for myself.

Sunday, January 15, 2012

Nuclear Winter Results

Round #
1

2

3





Name Objective Extra Round 1 Objective Extra Round 1&2 Objective Extra Total
Painted
Final Painting

points points Total points points Total points points

bonus

score
Jeff Gleason - Imperial Guard 2 2 4 2 0 6 2 0 8
5
13 39
Mike Eifert - Chaos Daemons 2 0 2 5 2 9 5 2 16
5
21 37
Chris Ashcraft - Chaos Space Marines 2 0 2 2 0 4 5 6 15
5
20 38
Joe Koppinger-Necrons 5 2 7 2 0 9 2 0 11
5
16 17
Justin Theodour - Grey Knights 5 2 7 5 6 18 2 0 20
5
25 33
Ken Roberts - Tau 5 0 5 2 4 11 2 0 13
5
18 18
Taylor Frey - Necrons 5 2 7 5 6 18 5 0 23
0
23 11
Steve Roncoroni - Chaos Space Marines 2 0 2 5 4 11 5 6 22
0
22 14

First place: Justin
Second Place: Frey
Painting: Jeff
Best Theme: Chris
Brad (aka The Emperor) wills it (random choice award): Ken

The moral of the story is that if you get 5 bonus points for a having a fully painted army then make sure you do. The two who scored the highest in the game didn't have fully painted armies and that allowed someone who scored lower to move up into first place.

Many thanks to segmentumnorth.blogspot.com for helping to setup, teardown, and the awesome scenery/terrain provided on several tables.

Wednesday, January 11, 2012

My RPG campaign

I read a book last summer that I like quite a bit: Among Thieves, A Tale of the Kin by Douglas Hulik.
It’s about a rogue in a renaissance-ish setting and how he stumbles into a plot to destroy the empire. I quite enjoyed the characters and really like the setting. I liked the fight scenes the most because I was able to actually see all the moves and fighting described in my head, I’ve done most of the moves used at one point or another in real life. How, you ask? In addition to being a gamer I’m also a member of the SCA, Society for Creative Anachronism, that does medieval recreation. I study and practice a bit of 16th century Italian fencing (Capo Ferro if you were wondering). I actually know and have met the author, he is known SCA wide as Don Simon Moricar, and he is a very experienced fencer so the fighting scenes in the book are very realistic.

Tuesday, January 3, 2012

Organizing and Judging Tournaments

The LGS (local game store) hold 2 annual 40k tournaments every year, one in the winter (Nuclear Winter) and one in the summer (Tournament of Fire). The winter one on MLK weekend is the biggest one and draws the most people. The summer one is usually on a weekend around Independence day so attendance varies as many people go on vacation around then.