Amusing video on the history of the Space Marines.

New Project

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

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.

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 16^th 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.

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.