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AdeptiCon 2013 – Day 4 – Shenanigans

Posted on April 25, 2013

After the photography class I had about 3 hours to spend wisely before my glazing class. When I arranged my schedule I was cursing this chunk of unused time, but when it came I was glad to have a few hours to rest. The timezone change, late nights, early mornings and jam packed days had started to beat me down.

I went to find my friends and they were all in the Fantasy room talking. If you follow my blog, you’ll know that I’m a huge fan of James Wappel – he’s directly inspired most of my recent hobby activity and he was playing in the Fantasy tournament. I kept looking over at him, but he had a constant stream of fans around him and I didn’t want to interrupt with my useless fanboyism. (I’m miserably shy around celebrities I admire).

Patrick sees me looking over and says I should go say hello. He uses the words “this is about taking it to far”, grabs a sharpie and tells me to get one of my movement trays (the design for them came from James blog). I waved, James waved and says “I didn’t think I brought my trays with me!” He was happy to autograph my tray, and I’m stoked to have had a small conversation with my hobby-idol!

Peter had ordered 3 of a particular type of deep-dish pizza. Everyone we spoke with said “You know that you can only eat a single slice of that, right?” I had 1 and 3/4 and it was intense. We ended up giving away pizza to anyone who wandered past us. 🙂

After food, everyone slowly wandered off to head to a pub and have some drinks. I had another class, and was absolutely exhausted to boot so I stayed at the con and wandered around a bit.

Another shot of the giant gargant.

This guy is so badass.Want!

The “on display” of this thing is awesome. That’s an ork army rocking out to a concert. The bright thing in the middle is a TV screen showing a music video. They had music playing and were selling CDs. Yeah!!

A Tau and Necron alliance.

After that (actually, during that) I was done. I contemplated going back to the hotel, I was so tired. Instead, I found a couch and slouched down into it. My phone was low on power, but it didn’t matter – I was either going to make it, or I wasn’t and I was bored then and desperately needed something. Every time I looked at the clock it had only moved another minute, this was a damn long hour of waiting!

While slouching I saw these 3 fellows climb onto another couch, and then onto each other and do a triple-layer piggy-back.

Somehow I made it to class.

Adepticon 2013 – Day 4 – Photography

Posted on April 24, 2013

Sharply after my day of Blood Bowl, I had a photography class to go to. This was one of the things I was most excited about! My photography reading and research has not been specifically about the topic of taking pictures of models. You read about macro, and they’re talking about bugs and other small things usually. And miniature bloggers don’t write much about their photography. Probably because, rightly so, they believe that their readers are there to read about models, rather than the finer points of focal lengths and depth of field!

At the end, this class wasn’t 2 hours of learning for me, simply because I have done so much research on my own. However, it had more than enough information that I didn’t have already, to make it a terrific class.

The class was held on the 13th floor of the hotel, in another hotel room converted into a gaming room. It had rows of desks with hobby lamps on them, and the previous class had left little piles of green stuff all over the place (man, I wish I’d been able to take that class…)

Here’s a summary of the things I took out of this class, that I didn’t know before:

White Balance
The white balance is apparently the most important thing to correct for. This makes sense, as without proper white balance, your colours will come out an entirely different shade or temperature (cool colours, warm colours) than the “actual model”. But even the words “actual model” are some what strange. I paint and mix and glaze under a florescent “daylight” light, which means that when my models are under another light, they aren’t the same colour I painted on!

You have to make sure that all of the lights you are using are the same temperature, otherwise you can’t possibly white balance. Some of the model will be lit by a warm light, some by a cool light, and there is no balance that can correct for that.

You should use a white card to set your camera’s definition of “white” before you start taking photos. This can be easily done with most prosumer cameras. (including mine) Look for “custom white balance”.

Softbox
He showed us how to make a simple softbox, using some frames, some vellum, and a few Home Depot lights. I have a white box already, but he added a simple white piece of paper in the front of it. This is used to bounce light up from the bottom of the box, which can fill in shadows from underneath the model. It was subtle when he showed us, but still noticeable if you looked. You can use a front light if you want, but you have to use the vellum (or other) to diffuse the light. Otherwise the light looks sharp and harsh on the model.

He used a gradient backdrop to create a simple background that didn’t draw the viewers attention away from the model. You can buy these, our just get one printed out. Most are a blue gradient to white.

I’ll save the step-by-step on creating a softbox, but if you’re interested please ask.

Setup
The human eye has vision equivalent to a 50mm lens (35mm equiv), which means that is the focal length you should shoot at. Don’t use the zoom to bring the model closer or further away, move your camera.

He doesn’t use RAW. Tends to think that it is a lot of memory, and that JPG is good enough since we’re mostly only making photos for display on the internet, rather than a magazine.

Shoot from above or at level with the model, never from below. From below is a horrible angle (insert sidebar about never shooting portrait photos from below). Ideally focus on the face. This follows the advice from my Masterclass painting to highlight the face more than the rest, since that’s where the viewers attention will be at.

Lastly, the best advice of the night: “if your subject isn’t moving, use a tripod”.

Sorry there are no photos in this photography post, we didn’t actually take any!

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Adepticon 2013 – Day 4 – Blood Bowl!

Posted on April 24, 2013

I haven’t really played Blood Bowl in a few years. We once had a strong, thriving league happening in our old GW store, but it fell apart at one point and I hadn’t played since. When I decided to go to Adepticon, I wasn’t feeling in the Fantasy mood so I thought I’d played a number of different games to make up for it. Blood Bowl was available for a 2 day tournament and I leapt on the chance! I converted a whole new team, one which I’d wanted to do for while and applied all of my latest painting techniques to it, to create something that I thought was pretty cool.

The people there were as hardcore as the people downstairs! Many of them had custom boards made, which were very cool looking.

My first game was against a super nice guy, playing Undead. Watch out for the S5, Mighty Blow mummies! He’d obviously played a lot of BB and knew the rules and tactics inside and out, but wasn’t at all rules lawyery. He killed a skink early on. Then he killed a saurus (that requires two 2d6 in a row to roll 10+). His comment “that was game changing”. Then he killed another saurus. My comment “and that kind of seals it…”. I was having a good game, and he was nice, so even though I was horribly outmatched in both tactics and in dice rolling, this was a good time.

In this game, I was shown part of why people still love Blood Bowl. It is an incredibly tactical game. I watched some of his positions, and they reminded me of people studying Chess positions.

I was pretty hung over from the night before, something that I deeply regret at this point. I’m not a BB wizard, but I feel like I have a solid grasp of the basic tactics of the game and how to move models to achieve my goals, but in this game everything was sluggish. He felt sorry for me, and I felt like I needed a drink and something to eat.

I came back after the break to find out that the painting competition had happened in my absence.

Consider a sentence above, wherein I claimed that these models are the pinnacle of my current skill. Several people over the rest of the weekend mentioned that they’d seen them, and were looking for them during the paint judging. And I missed it, because I was hungry and thirsty and hungover and hadn’t paid attention to when the judging was. Frustration.

My second game was against skaven. I knew at this point, since I’d been crushed absolutely in my first game, that I was now playing someone who had also probably lost quite badly. He was great, but his knowledge of the rules was about mine. We had a good game, and I saw him numerous more times over the weekend, and it was nice to meet and talk with someone who I hadn’t traveled with. He won that one.

My third game was against a goblin player. I’ve never played against goblins, but I would do so again in a heartbeat. My opponent was pretty gruff at first, but he warmed up as the game went on. I like to think he got more friendly, the more that his fanatic, chainsaw wielder, pogoer and bomb-thrower did random things. I laughed my ass off that game! We had rolled -1 to pick up the ball for weather, so most of the game was spent trying to pick it up, and hitting each other. Highlight of the game was when his bombardier thew a bomb at my krox. It stuns the person hit by it, and stuns people adjacent on a 4+, a brutal weapon. But my krox…rolled a 6 and caught the bomb. This meant that he got to throw it back! So I tossed it at one of his trolls. I thought I needed an accurate pass to hit, so I used a re-roll when it failed. When the re-roll failed as well, it scattered 3 times and finally came to rest in a clumping of 3 of my guys. Bad spot, but hilarious to watch!

I had to run very quickly after this last game as I had a photography class at 5, so we called the game when he had scored a touchdown and it looked like I wasn’t going to be able to score any back. My third loss of the day.

I wasn’t disappointed about 3 losses, but I was surprised. As I said above, I feel like I have a solid grasp of how to play basic BB. But at the same time, my hitting team couldn’t remove players from the pitch at all. BB is about managing risk, and I got a ton of solid 2 dice blocks every turn, but I couldn’t roll an armour break except rarely, and when I did, it was rarely more than a stunned result with very few models being taken off. I’m not certain what I would do different, except that certain skills might be necessary to put on my team to deal with dodgy teams like skaven and elves.

Before I left, I asked if there was any other opportunity for paint judging. One of the two judges said that the two days were two separate tournaments and that there would be tomorrow. I left feeling like a fool, but ok since I’d have another chance.

The next few posts will be about the two classes I took in the evening, as well as some general commentary. Later!

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AdeptiCon 2013 – Day 3 – Shenanigans

Posted on April 24, 2013

This is a photo of one of the tournament rooms, the larger one that had the 40k team tournament in it all weekend long. Add another room about 4/5ths of the size for Fantasy, another two for Warmahordes and Malifaux, a couple rooms upstairs for Blood Bowl and some of the hobby seminars, a room full of every vendor you can reasonably imagine, and a random amount of people wandering and demoing games in the halls and you have AdeptiCon. Not nearly as large as PAX, but certainly much larger than any tournament I’ve ever been to!

We wandered the vendor hall during our breaks. I wish now that I’d had a shopping list before we went, as I continuously browsed their wares, desperately searching for something I wanted to buy now that the smörgåsbord was in front of me. I left with multiple Dreadball teams, only one for myself. (Somehow I’ve been overcome with a desire to play the rats…)

That afternoon Dale and Chris arrived in the hall with a loud CHOP! and it was nice to know that they were successful in their flights. That evening we walked for a half hour to a local pub (…nothing is walking distance away…) and there we were met with a great surprise – Peter had flown to the con as well! Last we’d heard he wasn’t coming, but apparently the night before he had a change of mind and bought a plane ticket. He hadn’t brought his army and was going to hang out, drink, talk with people and try to record for the Chumphammer podcast.

I got pretty drunk in celebration. 🙂

Tomorrow is the Blood Bowl tournament!

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AdeptiCon 2013 – Day 3 – Fantasy Team Tournament!

Posted on April 23, 2013

An 8am tournament start comes early when you’re 2 hours ahead of your own timezone…

The continental breakfast in our hotel was sparse, but not terrible. Instant oatmeal, an orange and an overly sugared muffin later I’m good to go. The tea was a horrible proposition, but I solved that problem tomorrow.

This event was my favourite at the con. I had so much fun practicing my games with Patrick, playing against two other people. It didn’t feel painful in the way that normal multi-player games of Fantasy feel.

As well, our fluff, such as it was, was hilarious. I should get Patrick to send me a photo of the ransom letter he scribbled out with a black jiffy that says “Dear lizardmen, we have your slann. We’ll give him back if you fight 3 battles for us. Promise! Love, Ajani”.

Our first game was fun, but not the sort of Warhammer I usually play. It was against a brotherly team of Dwarves and High Elves. One of the brothers was much much more into Warhammer than the other, and he pretty much ran the game for the two of them. They stood back and fired war machines until our stuff was dead. We had a chance part-way through the game to salvage it, but a sequence of failed charge rolls left us high and dry. Not even our savior, the Comet of Cassendora, could help us from the deadly dwarven war machines.

Our second opponents.

Our second game was better, in my opinion, and our opponents had a great theme going on. They played skaven and nurgle warriors and had a few conversions in their army that brought the alliance together – dragon rat ogres, for example. Also, because one of the allies was skaven, they rolled to see what their alliance actually was (suspicious, desperate) and played it up pretty well. These guys got our “Favourite Theme” and “Best Opponent” votes. We won this game due to double dimensional cascade on the second to last turn. Skillhammer!

Our third game was against 2 high elf brothers. One of them was so drunk that he didn’t recognize me the next day. The team rules gave bonus points for having different races in the alliance, so these guys lost a ton of points for having dual high elves.

Here are a selection of the most awesome armies around this tournament.

These guys won some award, but I was pretty tired and I forget which one. They were playing undead and orcs and their fluff was that the orc warboss had died and no one had noticed. “Which way should we go boss?” “urrrrrrrrrr…” “Sounds good, boss.” Their display tray was simple, but very well done. I wouldn’t have really noticed much of it, except that when he picked it up to walk past me, I saw the back of it, which had a cave carved into the back. Love it!

These next guys were playing chaos dwarves and ogres, and their display tray was phenomenal. An idyllic fishing village at the top and a gapping hole and massive door underneath. During the Fantasy Championships, one of the guys had built up a massive 3x2x2 treasure chest with an incredible pirate ship on top of it. (Stupidly, I didn’t get any photos of it. >.<)

This was another of my favourite setups, which is saying a lot since it was Empire and Wood Elves and I think they are both silly armies. 😛 It was a large wood on a hill and the Empire were crossing a bridge in a marching formation. Simple, but fantastic looking.

A few Fire Elementals on one of the Chaos Dwarves lists. A surprising number of Chaos Dwarves at the tournament.

This was simultaneously one of the coolest and silliest (in a bad way) armies there. These guys had spent hours converting a Despicable Me army, which was super fun and looked great. The problem was, that it’s very hard to tell what it was – Chaos Dwarves and Skaven – and it looked to much like a 40k army for my tastes. Lots of industrial piping, big guns, rivets, etc. It was a great conversion and great idea, but it left me with a doubt in my mind when I walked away.

Patrick and I were energized by this tournament, and we spent most of the drive back to Vancouver talking about what we think we should do for next year. More on that when we get to it.

(Apologies to those people who saw these photos early – my tablet Published the article while I was still writing it!)

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Adepticon 2013 – Day 1/2 – Getting to the Con

Posted on April 23, 2013

Have a moment at work to spare, so here’s the start.

We left Vancouver around 5pm on Wednesday, to head to Seattle for the night. The con started at 4pm on Thursday, and all flights that got there before 5pm were leaving at 6am from Vancouver (or Seattle), so we saved time and some money by leaving from Seattle instead. We saved about $200 each with this plan, mainly because we got a great deal on a hotel in Seattle because some family members of Patrick’s own a hotel that is about 10 minutes drive from the airport. Pretty awesome!

Getting down there was pretty uneventful, which is nice since the border wait can be lengthy at times. Patrick didn’t kill either of us while driving. We had some great conversation, and we checked in and got to sleep pretty easily. The next morning, we woke up at 4am. We ate leftover fried chicken for breakfast and it was glorious!

Get to Seatac, and because of excessive weather problems in Chicago, our flight was delayed by 3 hours. …I would have loved to have slept in for 3 hours. That 4 hour sleep was the beginning of con exhaustion for me. I tend to need 8 hours a night or I get a little wonky, and being at a gaming convention means that you prioritize the event over everything else (we’ll come back to this topic later). I managed to get an hour of sleep on the flight there so I’m almost human by the time we land.

I had a Necromunda tournament scheduled for 4pm that I had to miss, sine we landed around 5pm. Sucks, but we got to wander around and check things out instead. Lots of big rooms that were vibrating with gaming potential. A few smaller tournaments were running already. There was a vendor in one of the halls with big bins of bitz. Some people were playing the X-Wing with Star Trek models…and flying stands that were as tall as I am. We found some guys building a giant gargant. “Taking it to far” is the watchword for this event, and we had only just shown up with our naive smiles and wide eyes.

These guys were “taking it to far”. The center piece is a mini-TV that will be playing a music video. They were selling CDs done by the ork band.

WAAAGH!!

This place doesn’t have alcohol in their gas stations, unlike in Washington state, so we had a 15 minute walk to a liquor store, followed by a 15 minute walk back carrying a wine box full of beer. Heavy, but important to the weekend. I got an “Angry Orchard” cidar, which was delicious.

Back to our hotel and went to sleep – we have a Team Tournament to play in the morning!

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Adepticon 2013 – Opener

Posted on April 23, 2013

I have a ton of stories to tell about Adepticon. This isn’t one of them, but is rather an opener to let you know that I’ll be posting a bunch of cool photos and a lot of words in short order.

I did a ton of things – Fantasy Team Tournament with Patrick, a 2-day Blood Bowl tournament with the Pahaux Flamewalkers, a photography class, a glazing class and played a few board games. Drank a lot, got hungover, walked all over the suburb of Yorktown/Lombard and met some very cool people. I’ll probably be writing in chunks to split it all up – I’m thinking:

Day 1 – Seattle
Day 2 – Getting to Chicago
Day 3 – Team Tournament
Day 3 – Shenanigans
Day 4 – Blood Bowl
Day 4 – Photography
Day 4 – Glazing
Day 5 – Blood Bowl
Day 5 – Shenanigans
Day 6 – Getting Home

It’s a good thing I really enjoy writing. I hope you enjoy reading! First post will be written on the Skytrain tonight!

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Astronomi-con 2012: Part 2

Posted on August 29, 2012

Oh hell, this always happens. I lost my momentum and now I can’t remember anything about day 2. 😛

Ah well, I’ll make it up as I go along.

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Astronomi-con 2012: Part 1

Posted on August 21, 2012

Time again for the yearly 40k tournament that I look forward to from the time it’s announced until several weeks after it’s over (then I forget about it again for a few months). Get a lot of great people, a great game and some great scenarios together, mix liberally with alcohol and burgers and you have a recipe for a great (almost said terrific) weekend!

I’ll do a small play-by-play after the break, you can skip it if you’re bored easily by long and drawn-out descriptions of board games (and then I rolled a 5 and a 6!), but the first part here should be good.

Aside from the amazing community that comes together for this tournament, the other outstanding part is the scenarios. Astro spoiled me for scenarios from the first time I attended. I’ve always loved jamming on game rules, but…it seems like outside of the Astro organizers, very few people actually want to do this. It leads other tournaments to seem lifeless and limp by comparison. When you play by the basic games in the rulebook, or even some simple modifications on them, you end up with a basic game of “kill the other dude”, a game which I’m not terribly good it.

That game involves tons of study and research amongst 12 (?) armies, with 20 choices each, all with special rules, magic items, wargear, characters that you have to connect together to create the perfect destructive force. I’m not good at that kind of analysis – my brain stops working about 2 pages in. What I am good at – a much more instinct-based form of reasoning, and Astro tends to reward that more. Instead of “kill the other dude”, you play “pick up more boxes than the other dude”, for example. This means you have to think a bit more on the table, instead of front-loading a lot of your thinking, and then applying your choices to how to most efficiently remove your opponents models from the table.

Which, in turn, makes the games much more interesting. For me, at least, because not once in 6 games was I able to out shoot, out melee, or out psychic power my opponent. But 3.5 times I out-maneuvered, and in 5 of the 6 games I felt as though I had meaningful choices to make at every step. That’s a massive change for 40k, in my opinion!

At the end, I came up 2nd in Appearance (painting), 1st in Sportsmanship and 2nd Overall. If I’d known I was a contender for Overall, I would have put more effort into my army list! 😛 Sportsmanship is a really hard thing to win – you have to somehow convince all 6 of your opponents that not only are you a fun-loving guy worth 5 points, but that your army is fun and thematic and worth 5 points, and THEN you have to win more Tournament Points than all the other lucky guys who also convinced their 6 opponents that they and their armies were great. Sportsmanship ties are broken by how well you did at beating people up, the theory being that if you beat up a lot of people and they still loved you, you must be pretty awesome. 🙂 I’ve tied for 1st before, but I’ve never performed so well at the battle part of the tournament to have won that tie-break! Yay me! 🙂

If you want the play-by-play, click the jump. If you don’t, thanks for reading and I’ll have photos of new terrain up soon! (and maybe some photos of the flyer…soooo amazing looking!)

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Astronomi-con Vancouver 2010

Posted on August 25, 2010

So while I was busy not posting here, I finished off the battlewagon, considered the dethkoptas done, painted the animosity orks, found the princess and won the title “Champion of the Universe”.

During the last week before Astro Van (which was this last weekend, and which will be the subject of this post eventually), I was painting up a storm. I wasn’t rushing, but I was rushing. I painted well, slow and with purpose. But I’m not entirely happy with how the colours turned out. More on that in another post, but the point here is that I didn’t feel I had enough time to stop and take a photo and write about what I was doing. So when I get a moment to take some pictures, I’ll try to back-fill.

Astro is the tournament highlight of my summer. As I told a person video-graphing the event – when I first went, I was worried that Duke and Derrick had over-hyped it and so I’d be disappointed. I wasn’t disappointed. This event brings all of the coolest nerds in this city together to celebrate this fine hobby. The scenarios are all interesting, making you think far more than my poor little brain is capable of doing, but I relish the challenge. If you read this, and you play Warhammer 40k and you don’t go to this tournament, I suggest you make time next year around the end of August.

Now that I’ve gushed all over it, we can get down to details. 6 game tournament, and I think I have something to say about all of the games, although I doubt I’ll remember all of them in detail.

Game 1: Damnunition

Each game has a special scenario. For this one you have 6 crates around the table, and pick up (you can carry them) more than your opponent. All difficult terrain is dangerous, which makes it a little interesting. I played against an all drop-pod Space Marine army. I deployed my troops in a tight ball, so I could defend where needed. First turn I spread out just a little bit, setting myself up to take a crate or two, depending on where he dropped. His turn, he drops two pods right in the middle of my army.

I’m an Ork player. Most people expend massive effort trying to get away from me. This guy drops a 10 man tactical squad and a dreadnought with a twin-linked flamer and a flamer in my back porch. Kills a bunch of guys,. I attack back and kill the two units. Next turn he drops more, and I can’t clean them up as quickly.

He won the game. I think mostly because he was directing the flow of the game the entire time. At no point did I have an opportunity to take a squad and grab a crate. Worse, I made HIM able to, because I broke a squad of his, he’d run and auto-regroup and then he would have 2 guys in the back field able to do something.

Game 2: Sulfur Flats

All of the yellow stuff on this table was 6+ cover and difficult terrain. Victory point mission otherwise. The yellow was in just enough places to be interesting.

I played against a Deathwing army that was painted like some Chaos guys. Really cool guy, fun game. My usual weekend goes something like “First game, play really smart, and then brainpower drops rapidly after that.” I felt like I played this game really smart. But it wasn’t enough, at the end he had a squad of terminators that I couldn’t deal with, and he shot me to death. He won that game with shooting in the last turn of the game. I’ll try to remember the scenario. I think it was victory points.

Game 3: Hill 0.25

This scenario is table-quarters, with the massive hill in the center counting as a quarter. So table fifths, actually. I think I played this one smart as well, but again, got a loss.

My opponent was Guard, so there was no way I would be able to hold the hill for any length of time. I kept my troops back and took what shots I could around the edges of his army where he had less ranged. I did ok, until his Heavy 20 tank stomped up onto the hill. At that point I had to remove it, or it would be raining shots down on me. I pulled a cross maneuver to get my meganobs on the tank and my slugga boys on another squad and took them out, hoping that the meganobs could take a little firepower.

Well, they could, but they broke and ran with 3 guys and just kept running. I’ve told myself that I should run my Warboss with them, but that needs some more thinking. Another mistake I made was that I left a tank on top of the hill after the nobs got out. That tank could have held a table quarter and maybe tied the game!

Game 4: Lost in the Mist

A scenario where shooting was reduce to a 5+ against a Demonhunters army. He was screwed from the beginning. I got a win here.

This opponent is funny. I play him every tournament at about the game time. We both lose our way to the bottom of the pile, and then we play each other. I expected to play him game 3, but apparently he got 2 draws so it didn’t happen that way 🙂

This was another game that I felt I played really smartly. I learned a lot about Terminators from Game 2, and I applied that knowledge here. I didn’t rush in, and I didn’t put troops where they were flapping in the wind. I consolidated my forces and applied pressure properly, and I won.

Game 5: Hammer and Ambull

This scenario has 3 monster models that randomly come onto the table. 4+ to come on, if they aren’t on the table. 6D6 scatter in a random direction from the center of the table. These things had a hate on for me – I lost my dethkopas to them and they followed me around for the rest of the game. >.<

I don’t remember much about this game, except that I made a critical mistake in strategy. Playing against Guard, I drove forward through a forest on the edge of the table and flamed the snot out of them. Felt good. And then the Valkyries appeared on the table edge and flamed me back, and I couldn’t take the heat. If I’d tried to stay a little further away from the edge this would have been better. Maybe not though. If I’d gone to the middle instead, I would have been shot by the Guard instead of flamed. Also, his flamers/meltaguns were in Valkyries, so they could drive onto the table. Thinking about this now, I think I was out-deployed, and not necessarily out-played.

Game 6: Field of Screams

Everything on the table except the outside 6 inches was dangerous and difficult terrain. Oh goody.

I would have sworn I was going to lose this game, but somehow I didn’t. Against a shooting Tau army. I spent most of the game trying to arrange my trukks/battlewagon so that they could ferry Orks across the table. Except for some nonsense in the middle with two transports and the meganobs and burnas wandering back and forth (I lost 2/3rds of the burnas to dangerous terrain tests…), this was another well-played game.

Nothing else to say?

I think that’s about all I’ve got for this report. Good tournament, and I’m sad it’s over, even as I recover from the nerd-hangover of the weekend. I don’t really have any other projects in mind right now, but a few floating in my mind:

Write some scenarios. I’ve got two scenarios in mind that I’d like to write. 2 potential Fantasy scenarios, in an attempt at increasing the level of Fantasy scenarios in the world. 1 potential 40k. We’ll see if I do anything with this.
Work on a Tyranid army. The Orks are “done for now”. I’d like to do a shooting/artillery Ork army, but it will be a lot of models and effort. I have 80% of a Tyranid army collected and 50% painted, so it’s less effort. Also I’m trying to design one that might win games once in a while, unlike my Orks. Warseer, here we come!
Build a display tray. I have some plans for a display tray, but my woodworking skills aren’t very good. Trying to get feedback from some people on what to do. I’ll probably post my thoughts on that relatively soon, since I think it’s the project that is most likely to float to the top.
Organize another mini-Astro. Duke and I did a one day tournament last January, and I’m stoked to do it again. We know more now, it can only get easier with time!

Later!

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