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I'm so stoked for this one. Trying to bring 6 of us down. Does my army have to be fully painted or just 3 colors?

 Julnlecs wrote:
I'm so stoked for this one. Trying to bring 6 of us down. Does my army have to be fully painted or just 3 colors?

From the page one post:

"Painting is Required to win BEST OVERALL. All other prizes, save Best Painted, can be won with out a fully painted army. There will also be a Best Army award to the player voted to have the best looking army at the event."

Travis uses the old gw method of paint judging

My Daemons are coming out of retirement for this one.

That moment when you give up trying to get them all 3 color min, and you simply enjoy an evening of painting.






I can almost hear Adam's eyes watering.

I see your Pathfinders Casey and raise you...



and a close up of my stand in Lynx

I'll raise and call.

All of the above models are even more impressive in person. Some really talented people and awesome armies were there. The place was packed with 36(?) players or more and I had 3 great games against some cool opponents. Tony with the Daemonkin and I had a splatterfest in Turn 1, John taught me a few painful lessons about Tau shootiness in Turn 2, and Trevor showed me what a Culexus does to Summoning armies in Turn 3. I think all my opponents were from SD and hope they come up again.

Got a new GK Codex so watch out in May!

Results:

Best Overall - Mike S. Necrons
2nd - Julio R. SM
Best Paint - MikeFox's orks
Best Sportsman - Tony S.

@Bladewalker
I got to play your John Tau guy Round 1. Yeah, I mentally hiccuped and failed to start all my stuff on the table to skip the Interceptor capabilities of Broadsides. Even though I play the same army. Played him to a Draw.

Nice guy, though.
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It was very cool of so many to come from so far.

 Brothererekose wrote:
Results:

Best Overall - Mike S. Necrons
2nd - Julio R. SM
Best Paint - MikeFox's orks
Best Sportsman - Tony S.

@Bladewalker
I got to play your John Tau guy Round 1. Yeah, I mentally hiccuped and failed to start all my stuff on the table to skip the Interceptor capabilities of Broadsides. Even though I play the same army. Played him to a Draw.

Nice guy, though.
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It was very cool of so many to come from so far.

I am really happy Tony won best sportsman. My game with him was a ton of fun as usual, he's a great guy to play whether he is winning or losing. I wish I could have stayed for a bit after the event but it ran long and my parental duties beckoned...

Congrats to the winners!


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Here is my Capture and Control post on the tournament yesterday. It's really mostly a rant about mission design... Enjoy the salt!

http://www.captureandcontrol.com/2015/04/tournament-wrap-up-but-mostly-rant-on.html

John you should check out Killadelphia Missions. They are exactly how you mentioned in your blogpost.

 Julnlecs wrote:
John you should check out Killadelphia Missions. They are exactly how you mentioned in your blogpost.

Will do, thanks for the heads up!

I'm totally with you John. I thought it was my feeble brain making the missions seem difficult to grasp! You don't need to play every aspect of every 40k mission in every single game of a tournament. You can achieve the same "test every aspect of the list" approach by creating a variety of missions over the course of the day(s). I understand there has to be at least primary and secondary missions to create a good spread on a 3 game tourney but they need not be multi-tiered and differently scored.

If you want to make sure MSU isn't over powered (hello?) then add a KP mission, if you want to make sure that elite armies are spread thin then add a 5 objective mission or scouring, if you want to test army mobility then add a maelstrom mission... etc.

One last comment: Modifying the maelstrom table sucks, straight up. Leave it as it is and allow players to discard the cards that can't be scored... I play with my 8 year old son and it was common sense for him to do that the first time we fired up a maelstrom mission. Let me add my codex maelstrom missions too please. That is all.

Front page has been updated.

First of all I'd like to thank everyone who came out for the April tournament; it was a blast for me and I hope you all had an equivalently great time!

To get the ball rolling for discussions on the May event, We're back to 1850. As I said on the event page, 2k was fun but I feel it's just too much. That sentiment was echoed by people I've spoken to in the store since the event, one comment in particular is that 2k felt like "kitchen sink territory", which I don't disagree with.

Given the saline levels in regards to mission design, we'll be keeping it real simple for this one. Book missions, one Maelstrom and one Eternal War for sure, with the potential for a throwback mission based on one of the old RTT scenarios from days of yore. More than likely if I decide to run such a vintage mission it will be a classic Victory Points setup, tweaked to fit in with the modern era.

**EDIT**

And I totally forgot to mention the Ranged D issue! So, how bout it gents? With Craftworlds getting what appears to be easy access to Ranged D, are we talking about no "non-codex" Ranged D already, kind of like how we said codex LoW only at the dawn of 7th?

**/EDIT**

Again, thanks to everyone who made it out on the 11th, I look forward to the next one!

...I'm still bringing the Big Squiggy.

 disdainful wrote:
First of all I'd like to thank everyone who came out for the April tournament; it was a blast for me and I hope you all had an equivalently great time!

To get the ball rolling for discussions on the May event, We're back to 1850. As I said on the event page, 2k was fun but I feel it's just too much. That sentiment was echoed by people I've spoken to in the store since the event, one comment in particular is that 2k felt like "kitchen sink territory", which I don't disagree with.

Given the saline levels in regards to mission design, we'll be keeping it real simple for this one. Book missions, one Maelstrom and one Eternal War for sure, with the potential for a throwback mission based on one of the old RTT scenarios from days of yore. More than likely if I decide to run such a vintage mission it will be a classic Victory Points setup, tweaked to fit in with the modern era.

Again, thanks to everyone who made it out on the 11th, I look forward to the next one!

Yes, I am also rather salty on that subject after using the BSB missions!

I didn't chime in on the points level in previous discussion but I agree with you and the others that 2k is too big. Not only is it kitchen sink but the games, and turns, seemed to just drag on forever.


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 MikeFox wrote:
...I'm still bringing the Big Squiggy.

It's ok, I'll be bringing a shiny new Strength D equipped Eldar army

Just kidding, I'll bring more Centurion stars which is functionally the same as a Lynx, right Travis?

 OverwatchCNC wrote:
It's ok, I'll be bringing a shiny new Strength D equipped Eldar army

That'll be me, so we're covered.

If the new Eldar book is any sign of things to come, I FEAR what may be given to us Tau players...

*Crosses Fingers* strength 10 broadsides, strength 10 broadsides, strength 10 broadsides...

Nah, Tau are just gonna get detachment-wide Fast Shot in exchange for being forced to take Vespids. You heard it here first.

You know what, I could be ok with that. One of the few here who actually likes vespid and has tried to make them work.

 gameandwatch wrote:
You know what, I could be ok with that. One of the few here who actually likes vespid and has tried to make them work.

This makes neither you nor me that smart, man.

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*If* the new 'dex really tickles my fancy, I might try it out for May. I am hoping to continue Tau CakeIceCream, but if you guys are really hoping to sink your teeth into the latest Elvish Cheese, I could be your huckleberry.

I really hope I can start making it to these soon. Working weekends sucks. Hopefully I change shifts soon

I'm actually not too salty on eldar getting the D since they already have something similar. As always its just people overacting on the internet. I just think the lynx should be deleted from the ITC approved LoW lists, at least locally. We'll have to wait and see what the ITC decides to do long term though.

Regardless it cant be any worse then triple-tide, which was worse then triple hell drake, which was worse then cron flying circus spam, which was worse then flyrant spam....

Shoot it dead, then assault it with MANZ.

 MikeFox wrote:
Regardless it cant be any worse then triple-tide, which was worse then triple hell drake, which was worse then cron flying circus spam, which was worse then flyrant spam....

Shoot it dead, then assault it with MANZ.

Point of technicality, but I believe it was the entirety of Codex: Grey Knights that preceded Croissant Rodeo as the meta powerbuild of choice. You have to go back a loooong way for Tyranids to pop up in cheese flavor.

 Loch wrote:

 MikeFox wrote:
Regardless it cant be any worse then triple-tide, which was worse then triple hell drake, which was worse then cron flying circus spam, which was worse then flyrant spam....

Shoot it dead, then assault it with MANZ.

Point of technicality, but I believe it was the entirety of Codex: Grey Knights that preceded Croissant Rodeo as the meta powerbuild of choice. You have to go back a loooong way for Tyranids to pop up in cheese flavor.

Truer words... not until recently have nids been considered heavy on the cheddar, but even still, the nid powerbuild isn't winning tons of tournaments so...

Where are the rules for extra VP's for LoW? Is that used in your tournies? Does it apply only to Super Heavies or all LoW? Thanks for any info!

They are totally used for tournaments, at least any ITC event meaning any GE event. Granted they only apply to fatties taken in a LoW slot.

They are in the Escalation book; War of Attrition and Impending Doom.

So of you have a LoW and the opponent doesnt they get +1 to seize. And for every 3 hull points/wounds done they get +1 VP to the secondary mission.

 MikeFox wrote:
They are totally used for tournaments, at least any ITC event meaning any GE event. Granted they only apply to fatties taken in a LoW slot.

They are in the Escalation book; War of Attrition and Impending Doom.

So of you have a LoW and the opponent doesnt they get +1 to seize. And for every 3 hull points/wounds done they get +1 VP to the secondary mission.

Thank you sir, I saw the part about HP but missed the wounds counting. I'm mainly looking at Draigo and Dante so only 1 bonus VP for taking them out?