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Astronomi-con 2013 – Post

After my last game, comes the packing up time. Sometimes this is a relief – tournaments are hard, stressful times as much as they are fun, and packing your army up means you don’t have to think about Warhammer or objectives or your boyz running away anymore. As well, since I recently bought a new K&R case for my boyz, packing up was a joy of organization.

Usually we go for dinner after the tournament, but Derrick had to run – his boy apparently had been quoted “Robert angry at popa” and that’s a good reason to get out of there quickly. My own girl had been away at a family wedding all weekend, and we were glad to be able to catch up.

The final results were…

  • Jason Dyer, Best Terrain! I think he missed winning it the first year he brought his trench table, simply because A-Club had been churning out fantastic terrain at the time. Or maybe it was Dean Gilbert’s Egyptian table or…there’s so much fantastic terrain at this event, I couldn’t even explain what happened. Anyway, Jason won it, and the competition was fierce with Linton bringing those great looking tables I mentioned earlier and Peter Carlson bringing two tables of terrain as well.
  • Steve Franks, Best Army List. I didn’t see his army list unfortunately, so I don’t know what it looked like. But it had to be damn good to beat mine, which apparently won me a 9/10! (I was going for Arts & Crafts points this year. :P)
  • Craig Fleming, Best Single Miniature. That’s me! I had once again put my Warboss up for my best model – it has a ton of character, with a squig launcher, a raging ork in some mega-armour and a grot and it’s great. Jason came up to me at one point and said “I’ve been voting for your warboss for 2 years now and you keep not winning. Put something else up, put your plane up.” Nick Daniels said something similar. Moments later they came up to me en masse and I heard out from far away “He’ll bend to peer pressure…” and they all but demanded I change my BSM model to my plane. I acceded. Not 10 minutes later a person came by and told me that if I’d put my warboss up, he’d have voted for me. gaaaaarrhrghlrghlrghlrghlrhlg!
  • James Chen, Best General. I don’t know to much about him except that he’s really friendly and he played a mean game of Eclipse on Saturday night, beating second place by 10 points!
  • Peter Carlson, Best Appearance. Every single model in his army was converted in some way. He was a great guy who’d driven up from Eastsound, WA with his army, his subtle but amazing display board and two tables worth of great looking terrain. He also learned and came second at Eclipse in a single night!
  • Findlay Craig, Best Sportsman! Findlay being a newcomer to the scene, I can only imagine that this came as a monumental surprise. He was fun to play against, and I look forward to seeing him around the community.
  • Les Sohier, Best Overall! Les totally deserves this award – he’s a great guy that continually puts out a fun and friendly attitude. He’s a good player, and his army looks good. He’s got the trifecta, and that’s what wins you Overall! Congratulations Les!
Dakkajet

I now get to call this “my award winning dakkajet”.

Here’s a photo of my paint judging score sheet. (You can read it better if you open the image). 29/40 is pretty niiiice. At the same time, I know where a few more points are being locked up – my boyz are, in general, pretty basic. I think their skin is really well done, but their pants and shirts and the details of zippers and buckles and such are somewhat rough – from a time before I had decided to slow this stuff down. Hopefully I’ll remember that this is my desired project for Astronomi-con 2014!

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My paint scoring sheet.

That’s the end of my Astronomi-con 2013 coverage. I hope you’ll consider coming next year! This event is unlike any other, with interesting and thought-provoking scenarios on every single table. If you like your Warhammer “thinky” and less “bashy”, come to Astro. That, and the community continues to be filled with the most amazing people – and now some of them have CHOP! Sunday free passes. 😛

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1 Comment

  • Muskie
    August 25, 2013 at 12:41 pm

    Competition in Vancouver must be really light if they let you, James, and Lee all win. What would the Toronto guys think?

    Congrats!

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