Registration is up.

http://www.showcasecomicsandgames.net/apps/webstore/

Cost to attend: 0.00

Cost to attend and eat my food all weekend long: 20.00

Dakkacon is a mostly unorganized event you can blame on the guys in the DCM mosh pit. We get together a couple of times a year for board games, specialist games, mini campaigns, and open gaming. They'll be sort of a schedule at some point.) People will bring BFG, Bloodbowl, and other games you don't see a lot of. Cataan and Red Dragon Inn will always show up, along with any other boardgame folks want to play. Some of us even rise to the occaison and set up one day campaigns or mini tournaments. And any gamer can organize and run something if they want to. Very open schedule. Last time Kid Kyoto ran a scenario game with Horus vs the Emperor, and we've had 500pt campaigns for both 40k and WFB. I'm working on a Chaos Warbands campaign, using the old Realms of Chaos books. Feel free to PM me if you feel up to running something.

The only cost is for food, and that's totally optional. I'm going to be feeding people from Friday to Sunday for the low, low fee of 20 bucks. Ask anyone who went to Border Raids what the food was like if you're curious. Jin and RiTides attended, and still alive to speak of it!

Having just finished Border Raids, I got a good idea of how far I can stretch a buck. Your 20 bucks for Dakkacon will be food on Friday Night, Saturday and Sunday. I'll pick up many cases of water, fruit, hard pretzels, and snacks. Coffee and donuts in the mornings. Meals will be sort of ongoing, and I'll be warming up one crockpot after another as it gets eaten. Chili, Red Beans and Rice, Sausage sanwhiches, London Broil Sandwhiches, Beef Stew, Chili Dogs, and Squig Surprise!. It's high on fat, protein, and tasty bitz. Low on veggies. But it seems to be what disappears the fastest and gets the most compliments.

More details to come. But we'll be rolling dice and playing something all weekend long.

Update:

Schedule now reading for main events:

Friday Afternoon:
Meet and greet, grab a game of your choice.

Friday Night:
25pts Warmahordes tourney (Participate as though you possess testicles etc!)
Late Night painting: The local Club, BigGunz-NE is doing one of their Iron Painters. These usually go all night with much coffee and redbull and then we go out to eat around 6am at the local diner. The store will provide lots of paints, basing materials and hobby tools. You provide something to paint and lots of caffeine. This also means you can game until 6am!

Saturday morning/afternoon
- Be there for 9.30am - play begins at 10am
1000 WH40k tourney (In the grimdark future of the 41st millenium there is only war... and Mike's infamous London Broil sammichs!)
$10 dollar contribution: these will be added together as a prize voucher for the winning team.

Saturday Night:
Brushfire Demo/Meet and Greet, Open Gaming, Board Games, =I=Munda/Deathwatch hybrid.
Probably a speed painting contest.
Boardgames, open gaming.
Set up for Warbands campaign on Sunday. Maybe sneak in some early games?

Sunday morning/afternoon -
Be there for 9.30am - Play begins at 10am
1000pt Warhammer Fantasy Battle: WARBANDS (take your brave army into the realm of chaos and bathe in the weirdness of the chaos mutation charts (AKA Party like it's Slaves to Darkness)

A gentle reminder that this event is about meeting your fellow dakkanauts and enjoying a weekend of gaming, the tourneys are ultralight and the emphasis is on fair play and rolling off what you can't immediately agree on. It's not about beardy stunts or waac mentality. Please play nice.

This last year was the best time I had gaming all year, tournies included! Highly recommended... and already registered for the food

London broil sandwiches. damn Mik, you hit my weak spot. too bad I am way to far away to attend.

lord marcus wrote:London broil sandwiches. damn Mik, you hit my weak spot. too bad I am way to far away to attend.

Take 15 lbs of London Broil. Add a dry rub to spice it up a bit, grill until well done. Let cool for 6 hours, covered so they don't dry out. Slice into 1/4" strips. Dump into crockpots. Boil up a gallon of beef broth of Au Jus, and poor over the steak, put on low for 12 hours, or until it crumbles to the touch. Add sandwhich rolls, cheese, condiments, and horseradish sauce. Mix with 3 dozen games.

Produces 2 empty crockpots about an hour later.)

I'd really like to come to this, schedule permitting.

Looking forward to this.

Mike, may I request Hambugers?

*drools T-T

I need to move to Philly

I will demand pics though. Even if I can't go I still wanna see what happens.

That sounds awesome, but I am currently based in the UK, which makes distance an issue, and that also happens to be the weekend of APOCAFEZ! (Crazy apocalypse game up in Nottingham run by a guy with a fez)

I second the request for pictures!

Aquaterry

I expect to be there. I can bring all my Blackwater Gulch stuff and run demos too if ya like. But not sure what day I could make it.. sunday for sure, but Saturday might be tougher to swing.

It's marked on my calendar. I should be able to make it Saturday 28th.

Hmmm... This may give me the kick in the pants I need to paint some models and get back to blogging.

With any luck I'll be able to make it down this year. Best store I've ever been in, must be awesome to game there too.

Sigh... wish I could be there. I made two of them and always had a great time. I can post my latest Emp vs Horus rules if anyone wants to run it.

But I might make the Dakka meet up in Japan so it's all good.

Good luck with the event. Hope it goes well and stays fun.

The Stompas will be there!


Here is the WIP List of Events we are working out for the weekend...


Friday Daytime Meet n Greet
Opening Gaming, Bring your armies and party down. (I'll bring the BFG with me if someone's up for a game?)

Friday Night
Warmahordes Bloodbath - tourney.

Sat Daytime
40k Tourney:
Sat, Starting at 10am
1000pt 40k warband smackdown: Bring 1k of warhammer 40k army and deliver great nastiness upon the enemy.

Sat Night
Brushfire Demo
Board games, Drinks and food (mebbe someone wants to run Emperor Vs Horus again? )

Sunday Daytime
WHFB Warbands/Tamurkhan thingy (Mike's campaign, featuring the return of the legendary D1000 mutation chart!) - Mike, let us know!

I was going to be there Saturday to demo Blackwater Gulch as well, however it's looking like I'll only be able to make it on Sunday instead. So, I'll be there all day Sunday

Looking forward to that Necros! (also, bring your alienids for Mrs S to see, she loves em!!!!)

WIP schedule looks great! This is a great mark for me to have my first 1000 point DoA list assembled, which I will be sure to have with me

I would absolutely attend this. I can only wish for a local store that's run the way you seem to run yours.

There's nothing stopping an enterprising antipodean dakka shopkeeper and D-nauts starting up 'Dakkacon Australis'...

Man. I really need to figure out a way to attend. Is there a way to convince a company to hire me, not start working until after Dakkacon, and give me a nice fat signing bonus so I can afford the trip?

Unfortunately Philly is kinda out of my traveling range at this time due to family issues and work.

To ensure a degree of 'family friendly' atmosphere for the 40k 1k tourney, you will be randomly placed in teams, to avoid any 'powergamer/powerbuild/powercodex' upset (there will be a very wide range of player experience here and we want it to remain in good spirits for all).

How many per team will depend on numbers on the day.

MeanGreenStompa wrote:To ensure a degree of 'family friendly' atmosphere for the 40k 1k tourney, you will be randomly placed in teams, to avoid any 'powergamer/powerbuild/powercodex' upset (there will be a very wide range of player experience here and we want it to remain in good spirits for all).

How many per team will depend on numbers on the day.

I would like to place a $5 bet on the over for Grey Knights armies at 8.

You might be wrong! This is a real laid-back event... maybe you'll see Tau

What about Squats? I've never seen a squat army before.

As long as you're using a current codex and everything is clearly explained to the opposition re counts as, before the battle, then no worries.

Definitely looking forward to this!

mikhaila wrote:

lord marcus wrote:London broil sandwiches. damn Mik, you hit my weak spot. too bad I am way to far away to attend.

Take 15 lbs of London Broil. Add a dry rub to spice it up a bit, grill until well done. Let cool for 6 hours, covered so they don't dry out. Slice into 1/4" strips. Dump into crockpots. Boil up a gallon of beef broth of Au Jus, and poor over the steak, put on low for 12 hours, or until it crumbles to the touch. Add sandwhich rolls, cheese, condiments, and horseradish sauce. Mix with 3 dozen games.

Produces 2 empty crockpots about an hour later.)

I hate you Mike, it's 11:48pm christmas day, everythings closed and I want STEAK NOW!!!!! I read that off to the GF in the next room and now she's cursing you also.


This sounds like a great time and awsome event. I love seeing stuff like this posted. Now I thinks I might have to join the moshpit to see whats happens at the 'after party'

Update:

Friday night WarmaHordes tourney is for list of 25pts. Please plan appropriately.

Mik, how do we present the meal tickets?

Do we print out the e-mail, or what?

MeanGreenStompa wrote:Update:

Friday night WarmaHordes tourney is for list of 25pts. Please plan appropriately.

Excellent, that's perfect for me!

Update:

Schedule now reading for main events:

Friday Afternoon:
Meet and greet, grab a game of your choice.

Friday Night:
25pts Warmahordes tourney (Participate as though you possess testicles etc!)

Saturday morning/afternoon - Be there for 9.30am - play begins at 10am
1000 WH40k tourney (In the grimdark future of the 41st millenium there is only war... and Mike's infamous London Broil sammichs!)
$10 dollar contribution: these will be added together as a prize voucher for the winning team.

Saturday Night:
Brushfire Demo/Meet and Greet, Open Gaming, Board Games, =I=Munda/Deathwatch hybrid.

Sunday morning/afternoon - Be there for 9.30am - Play begins at 10am
500pt Warhammer Fantasy Battle: WARBANDS (take your brave army into the realm of chaos and bathe in the weirdness of the chaos mutation charts (AKA Party like it's Slaves to Darkness)

A gentle reminder that this event is about meeting your fellow dakkanauts and enjoying a weekend of gaming, the tourneys are ultralight and the emphasis is on fair play and rolling off what you can't immediately agree on. It's not about beardy stunts or waac mentality. Please play nice.

CHAOS WARBAND RULES

After spending much time with my beloved copies of Realms of Chaos last night I really want to run the old school campaigns using those rules and charts. It explains so much about my early chaos models I'd forgotten! Is this why I made these wacky chariots pulled by chaos beasts, and converted all these spawn?

Sadly, unless we had a whole month, I don't see it happening, considering we'd need to a day to roll up and model warbands, and a couple of hours between each round to for book keeping.) I like Mordheim, but comparing it to these rules is like comparing a Coors lite to a microbrewed german beer that you can only get in that little inn by the black forest. The beer that gets you drunk off one bottle and you wake up with hair in places you shouldn't even know about.

For Dakkacon, I'm going to be liberally stealing tables and mutation charts from the books, and applying them to your armies. A few things at the start, plus extra warping affects as your armies progress. You may even pick up chaos 'followers' to add to your army. I'm going to be bringing in a large chunk of chaos bits and pieces, minos, beastmen, chaos warriors, etc, plus some older monsters. Added to the armies i have at the shop, should give enough fodder.

So, some guidelines and fluff:
1) This is for fun, and your army should be an attempt to go along with the idea of the old chaos warband campaigns like Path to Gloria. No 'Deathstar' type armies where you have 3 heroes in one big unit. No 200 model skaven slave units. The old warband rules were about a mighty champion of chaos and his ragtag band of followers. Not really an army, more of a mutated chaos mercenary force.

2) If you bring demons, it better be colorful, painted, and fluffy as hell. Also you might want to either bring a pure force from only one chaos god, or take your chances when your army turns on itself. Old chaos didn't get along nearly as nicely as they seem to now.)

3) Even if you bring a non chaos force, it represents some wannabe chaos champion. Outlawed Bretonnian knight who killed his brother in a duel, An empire champion that's one step ahead of the witch hunters after joining a cult as a way to political power, an elf that dealt with sorceries he shouldn't have touched and wants more power....Design the force you want, but build it around one character who will become your chaos champion.

4) Forces should be light on missle weapons, warmachines should be quite rare. Monsters are perfectly fine, lots of them in the old fluff. Stuff like a war altar, volley gun, or similar is out entirely.

5) If you want to be inventive, email me about what you want to run, and have models for. Old stuff like Fimir are cool, chaos dwarfs of whatever flavor, dogs of war, etc. Mounting your character in a chariot is also an old accepted idea in the old rules.

6) General guildlines for unit sizes: 5-15 for most infantry, up to 20 for stuff like gobbos or skaven. 1-5 for cav, 1-3 for monstrous cav or infantry.

7) 1000 pt armies, no more than one wizard, no lords,

8) You can dedicate your warband to khorne, nurgle, tzeentch, or slanesh, or to chaos undivided. You don't have to pledge your hero at all..yet.
Obviously, once you take a patron, that should affect your warband. Khorne doesn't like wizards, Tzeentch does. etc.

9) If it makes for a good story and you have the models, you can mix a bit of something else into your army. Ogres, dogs of war, any chaos units, etc are fine to mix into another warhammer army. Have fun with it.

10) People that have interesting ideas, and nice models to reflect will be a bit more rewarded at the start than armies designed to win a tournament. Chaos is fickle.

11) All models should be painted. Models without paint suffer -1 to all stats!

12) You don't need to buy a hero to carry your banner. You may pay the points for a champion instead + 25pts. The model has the stats of a normal champion, can join units like a character, and carries your army standard. You can pay points as normal to make the banner magical.
This lets people take an asb, but still fit it into a 1000pt list.

When you have an idea of your 1000pt army, email it to me at ShowcasePA@aol.com and I'll ok it, and maybe add some goodies to it.

During the day, I'll pair folks up and you'll play several games. Your forces will mutate, you'll gain followers, and hopefully you'll gain gifts for your champion. Winning helps, but not always in a way you might like. Chaos Gifts is a very broad term in the old books.)

Email/PM me if you have questions.

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Chowderhead wrote:Mik, how do we present the meal tickets?

Do we print out the e-mail, or what?

Sorry, missed this.) No worries, I get notified of who sent in paypal. And not to worried. If someone says they paid, they paid.

MAN that sounds fun.. I wish I could come... arrrgh.

It isn't TOO far.. just one state away... sigh.

Get a carpool of guys together and drive out.)

Yeah, get your self to it porkuslime!

The hotel we all stay at is a good rate. This is always a cool event and a great chance to meet folks from Dakka!

As much as I wish..

She Who Schedules the Family has plans for us all on that weekend involving In-Laws and a drive to Indiana.. (which is entirely the wrong direction)

Mik, I hope you do this again mid summerish!

Why are all the cool get togethers on the wrong side of the country?

WTB something decent in Southern California besides 40k nonsense.

Just reserved the room for myself/Wehrkind/Jin/Boss_Salvage . Got 10% off for mentioning the Granite Run Mall / Showcase Comics rate.

Mike, for the warbands you only want 1-3 models in a monstrous infantry unit? Just want to make sure I heard that right. I don't think I'm even allowed to run less than 3 in a unit, and I've never tried 3 trolls... . Is 6 too many, as I usually consider that the min?

Also, will you kind of modify army lists when folks arrive because I imagine we'll be all over the place . I'll be sure to use my painted models, -1 on stats across the board is heavy

Sounds like a lot of fun!!

Aerethan wrote:Why are all the cool get togethers on the wrong side of the country?

WTB something decent in Southern California besides 40k nonsense.

There is nothing stopping the West Coast getting it's Dakkacon on, nor central US Dakkacon for that matter or anywhere else. It would require a strong FLGS stepping up and some dakkanauts putting in the effort to make it happen. What you have to do is be prepared to travel to it and to sacrifice your own convenience for a geographically central store.

Dakkacon - East Coast is still a fairly small affair, that's proven really valuable for us to create a core of dakkanauts to organize the events and coordinate over the 6 months between each one (we have a second event in July), we're building on it each time and given a couple of years it's going to be a regular feature on everyone's calendar for the area. In the main it strongly concentrates on the social aspects of wargaming and meeting online pals. It's a wargaming holiday with your fellow dakkanauts, good humor and relaxed games.

RiTides wrote:Just reserved the room for myself/Wehrkind/Jin/Boss_Salvage . Got 10% off for mentioning the Granite Run Mall / Showcase Comics rate.

Mike, for the warbands you only want 1-3 models in a monstrous infantry unit? Just want to make sure I heard that right. I don't think I'm even allowed to run less than 3 in a unit, and I've never tried 3 trolls... . Is 6 too many, as I usually consider that the min?

Also, will you kind of modify army lists when folks arrive because I imagine we'll be all over the place . I'll be sure to use my painted models, -1 on stats across the board is heavy

Sounds like a lot of fun!!

Mostly just guidelines Steve. For warbands you can take less than normal unit requirements. A troll army with it's main block being 6 trolls would be fine. This is a very loose and inventive format, and I'm using bits from old books as well.) Say you wanted to run just throgg and his trolls, or a few other of the monsters he attracts? I'd probably allow you to take a Trool champion, standard, and musician (which could be a troll thumping on a large goiter, excessive flatulence, - both examples of 'musicians' in the old books.) One troll can be upgraded to a champion, and carry your army standard, which should be large, ragged, and reflect Throggs' grandeur.)

I'm breaking out old chaos stuff I haven't used in years. The old OOP dragon ogre is probably going to carry my standard, based on an old warband in Lost and the Damned. I've got about a dozen old chaos models and Fimir I want to use, that I see in those old 'Eavy Metal pages. They need love and attention. Too many years sitting in a display case.

Dakkacon.. ere we go!

1000pt 40k.. Yes.

other than that, I'm not sure what else to bring..
I'm still deciding whether or not my Dwarves can go darkside and join in on the Chaos warbands.

How bout a 40k free for all walker maddness table?!

DX3 wrote:Dakkacon.. ere we go!

1000pt 40k.. Yes.

other than that, I'm not sure what else to bring..
I'm still deciding whether or not my Dwarves can go darkside and join in on the Chaos warbands.

How bout a 40k free for all walker maddness table?!

Bring it on. I have a lot of orky walkers.)

mikhaila wrote:

DX3 wrote:Dakkacon.. ere we go!

1000pt 40k.. Yes.

other than that, I'm not sure what else to bring..
I'm still deciding whether or not my Dwarves can go darkside and join in on the Chaos warbands.

How bout a 40k free for all walker maddness table?!

Bring it on. I have a lot of orky walkers.)

..counting your super, uber, orky, gorky, morky, mega-ega Gargant ?!

"Bring it down!"

I would love to go but unluckily i work the night shift on weekends in nyc :/ next time ill have to go!

SOoo... I noticed that the 1000pt 40K tournament implies that it's for 'teams'. "$10 entry to go towards the winning team."

Any details on this??? Clarification??? Type-O perhaps??? I don't know what to make of it.

oni wrote:SOoo... I noticed that the 1000pt 40K tournament implies that it's for 'teams'. "$10 entry to go towards the winning team."

Any details on this??? Clarification??? Type-O perhaps??? I don't know what to make of it.

So everyone chips in a tenner, they all go into a pot and the winning team (of how many people we don't know) gets that amount divided between them in a Showcase Comics voucher each.

Just a bit of fun... and a nice reward for the winners.

Teams will be randomly selected btw, so you'll be part of a group with folks you may well not know.


Again, it's not a hardcore tourney, just a bit of fun. We all threw a $5 into the pot last time as I recall for the 40k tourney.

Ah, so it's bring 1000 points.
Get paired up with another 1000 point player.

And together, unleash 2000 points of death and destruction on other two man teams?

DX3 wrote:Ah, so it's bring 1000 points.
Get paired up with another 1000 point player.

And together, unleash 2000 points of death and destruction on other two man teams?

Again, it's coming down to how many show on the day as to how many in a team, but no, it will still be 1 vs 1 at the table, just that you will be separated into teams (so if there are 30 folks there, we might divide you into 6 groups of 5, 5 groups of 6 or 3 groups of 10 for example), the winnings divided up among the team that scores highest Overall when their wins/losses and draws are all added up. I thought it would make for a good way to meet folks rather than be forced into playing alongside a total stranger.

It should also accommodate the wide range of player skills we'll see on the day as well as ensuring no one shows up with an aggressive list and 'owns' everyone else when the purpose is to game rather than win.

Yeah, I thought it was a lot of fun last time to have "teams". Simply, people who you won't play against whose wins get combined with yours. Makes for more camaraderie

mikhaila wrote:Mostly just guidelines Steve. For warbands you can take less than normal unit requirements. A troll army with it's main block being 6 trolls would be fine. This is a very loose and inventive format, and I'm using bits from old books as well.) Say you wanted to run just throgg and his trolls, or a few other of the monsters he attracts? I'd probably allow you to take a Trool champion, standard, and musician (which could be a troll thumping on a large goiter, excessive flatulence, - both examples of 'musicians' in the old books.) One troll can be upgraded to a champion, and carry your army standard, which should be large, ragged, and reflect Throggs' grandeur.)

I'm breaking out old chaos stuff I haven't used in years. The old OOP dragon ogre is probably going to carry my standard, based on an old warband in Lost and the Damned. I've got about a dozen old chaos models and Fimir I want to use, that I see in those old 'Eavy Metal pages. They need love and attention. Too many years sitting in a display case.

Got it! I won't take any more than 6 in a unit, for sure. Might also break out the dragon ogres, just cause they're awesome... and can take a champion which should be fun as a bsb!

Will email you when I have a list! Might include a giant, because it sounds like the kind of event for one

AhHA.. I'm understanding now.. it's all coming together!

I'll have my old GW books with me Friday night for folks that want to tune ideas for warbands, ....or to look at the old Heretical knowledge they contain. I re-read the origin story for the Emporer last night, his descendants the Sensei, the Illumiati, etc. Great stuff that hasn't really been reprinted anywheres.)

Just sent in my list for the Warbands for your perusal

I'll be working out warband with you on Friday also.

Gaming Garage is sending a couple of guys over to run Malifaux demos and play games on Saturday night. They all just got into it and have been playing and painting up gangs furiously.

Sweet, been eyeing that game for a while.

This is turning into a real convention of games!

For the Chaos (or wannabe Chaos) Warbands event, folks have started sending me in their 1k lists, and I've started handing out gifts, daemon weapons, and attributes, in exchange for small requests from their chosen Chaos power. (Hint: They are quite vain and love large banners singing their praises and showing you love them.)

mikhaila wrote:For the Chaos (or wannabe Chaos) Warbands event, folks have started sending me in their 1k lists, and I've started handing out gifts, daemon weapons, and attributes, in exchange for small requests from their chosen Chaos power. (Hint: They are quite vain and love large banners singing their praises and showing you love them.)

So, you have to declare one of the big 4 or Undivided?

MeanGreenStompa wrote:

mikhaila wrote:For the Chaos (or wannabe Chaos) Warbands event, folks have started sending me in their 1k lists, and I've started handing out gifts, daemon weapons, and attributes, in exchange for small requests from their chosen Chaos power. (Hint: They are quite vain and love large banners singing their praises and showing you love them.)

So, you have to declare one of the big 4 or Undivided?

Don't have to, but it limits you a bit on your choice of 'Rewards'.

"Khorne will gift you with Frenzy and Chaos armor for praising his name, or Tzeentch will make you a wizard and you can ride around on a spiffy flying disc. Or you can have tentacles and a fishtail."

"wow, tentacles? Cool!"

Rewards or Attributes/mutations?

Cos I'm thinking of painting my armor red for this...

Red is good.)

I'm playing this in the spirit of the old rules in the ROC books. Your Patron Chaos power gives you rewards for beating up champions of his upstart inferiors.

No Patron means no gifts, but the chaos wastes are always happy to let you roll on the attribute table and pick up a few mutations.)

So I'd encourage folks to think about choosing one of the 4 major powers, or pledging themselves to Chaos Undivided.

mikhaila wrote:For the Chaos (or wannabe Chaos) Warbands event, folks have started sending me in their 1k lists, and I've started handing out gifts, daemon weapons, and attributes, in exchange for small requests from their chosen Chaos power. (Hint: They are quite vain and love large banners singing their praises and showing you love them.)

I have some converting to do!

RiTides wrote:

mikhaila wrote:For the Chaos (or wannabe Chaos) Warbands event, folks have started sending me in their 1k lists, and I've started handing out gifts, daemon weapons, and attributes, in exchange for small requests from their chosen Chaos power. (Hint: They are quite vain and love large banners singing their praises and showing you love them.)

I have some converting to do!

Yeah, I'll be making good use of the Iron painter on friday night.) I converted a Nurgle Chariot pulled by XXX tonite, for my lord to go into. Have to do the banner on my Dragon Ogre, and decided to paint up a unit of 1980's beastmen in nurgly colors. And need to do new bases for them. I like to do cool bases when it's small stuff like Mordheim. This is 29 models, but mostly the pestigors.

Just fyi, I'll be there Saturday now instead of Sunday. Probably from around 9 or 10 till around 5 or 6. I'll run demos of Blackwater Gulch for whoever wants to check it out. I'll bring all the models and some scenery too, I'll just need a 4x4 space and maybe a few trees and stuff

Cool. Looking forward to seeing the game.

Warband list accepted by Mike, Orks getting packed into boxes, perhaps I'll even dust off the Battlefleet G...

House Stompa is prepared!

I wish i could make it but the GT ticket up for grabs at the Colonial qualifier At maplewood hobby in Nj is way more tempting...

So, based on the title of this thread, I guess tent cities are OK?






Could always cancel the hotel room, you know...

Two days to go. WOOHOO!

Curious if there will there be the ceremonial gathering at Ruby Tuesdays?

oni wrote:Two days to go. WOOHOO!

Curious if there will there be the ceremonial gathering at Ruby Tuesdays?

Always.)

Working tonite on finishing the sculpting on rot beasts, and cooking up the sausages and steaks. Hopefully I'll keep the nurgle out of the food, but no promises.)

Just wanted to say I had a great time meeting some people. I am a Dakka and War Gaming newbie and it was a great environment. Ill be making the trip to showcase comics more often once my army is painted up.

Hey hey, Mrs S and I had a great time as always! Winning the 40k tourney was very cool (and highly surprising! ) and had lots of games laughs and aftergame booze with the Dakkanauts!

Let's take a look at what we got up to;

Friday Night was WarmHordes night (not many pics, Mrs S and I went for dinner at a very good restaurant in town)



Saturday Morning saw the 40k tourney kick off, we paired and all chipped in 10bucks for a prize, I got paired with a very cool necron player and we took 1st place, I won all 3 of my games, very pleased with how my army held up.
(here's grey_death's green marines enjoying the consenting company of some blue marines...)



(Oni's marines spy something running towards em...)

(they shall know no fear...)

(smokin...)

(down the barrel of a gun... or 6...)

(more marine on marine action!)


Then, as the afternoon dust settled from the 40k, onto the special games.

Necros brought his Wild West game to show us and, after taking a look through the rulebook, I'll be ordering my copy soon!




cyporien brought her Brushfire game to show us and playtest, I'm personally loving the warthogs/lions/hyena faction.





Flames of War abound!






Malifaux as well!




Mrs S painted her new pet...


And then, as is tradition, some of us hardcore boys n girls headed to Rubys for a proper noshup, good nerd-talk, booze n bragging rights!
Cheers!

That's me lookin pretty in the front, sippin on a Bombay Sapphire (went on to consume a few more and then about a litre of wine back at the dakkanaut love-in at the hotel)

Sunday morning, we stumbled bleary eyed into the store, ready to enjoy the favour of the Dark Gods, WHFB warbands kicked off (although some sneaky types had already got in a number of games the night before)

Not pointing any fingers, Jin n Wehrkind...


Mutations all round!





frenzy means dice, lots of em, Red for the Red God!


Meanwhile, our excellent host, Mike, is chewing bubblegum and kicking ass with his Nurgle warband of Dooom!
Skaven should be an easy meal...

Mike is feeling good!

...ahem...


But his luck certainly returned, here is his great nurgle toads stunning the crowd and beating the snot out of RiTides' dragon ogres, who fled and got eaten, nom nom!


Had a great time, hopefully we can do another in July as with 2011 and also keep building on getting more and more Dakkanauts to join in, meet those you've been talking to for ages on the site and bask in the glory of Mike's excellent store and amazing hospitality.

Again, thank you Mike for hosting us and making us feel so welcome, you're a scholar and a gent!
Dakkanauts, it was great to meet up with you, old friends and new!

Till next time!

Mrs. S' painting is getting better--and she started at a pretty high level to begin with!

I think I'm gonna have to try to get out to one of these things...

I gots a few images as well...



A Panorama of the store!



Wehrkind's Celts!



Jin's White Lions!

My poor dragon ogres! Nice pics, MGS, I especially like the one of some of us at Ruby Tuesday's afterwards . I had a ton of fun, and will get my few pics into this thread, too

Annnnnnnnd here's some more!





















See you next time!

Man that looked like a blast. And loved the shirt MGS If I go next year, I think Ill have one made up that says KC IN DA HOUSE or something lame like that

It was definitely a great time, Thanks to Mike for being a gracious host - Thank you, MGS for organizing the 40k Tourney.

Wish I could have stayed longer - but I'm lucky to have gotten out for the few hours I did

Until next time ~

Not a problem, it was highly enjoyable and it was great meeting you!

It was indeed a blast, even if my Ultramarines got stomped by Grey_Death's Sons of Medusa.

Chowder, I'm still waiting on the picture of me at Dakkacon

Alfndrate wrote:Chowder, I'm still waiting on the picture of me at Dakkacon

Cyp took it.

Nag her!

Was a lot of fun for the short time I got to be there Next time I'll bring an army for pick up games at least even if I can't make it to the tourney.

Damn. US gets all the fun...

Gah, 29 hour drive to get there.. so that is out. $500 for flight hotel... that one is out too.

Dang it, you guys just need to be closer

It was a blast! I can't wait for the next one. That tournament was 3 rounds of the most fun battles I've ever played. Thanks to everyone who organized and/or participated. A great time, really!

Great to see all you lads as usual! A very good time, even if everyone was kind of burned out by the time we got to Sunday's Warbands madness I know I was.

I brought my camera into the store every day, and it never left my backpack. Too good of a time!

BlueDagger wrote:Gah, 29 hour drive to get there.. so that is out. $500 for flight hotel... that one is out too.

Dang it, you guys just need to be closer

The hotel just round the corner from the mall is $67 per night for a kingsize if you pay in advance. It's nice and clean and right next to a good diner. The advantage to this is you are also able to participate in the after-after party!

Necros wrote:Was a lot of fun for the short time I got to be there Next time I'll bring an army for pick up games at least even if I can't make it to the tourney.

Thanks for running the Blackwater Gulch demo, I thought it was quite fun!

NP glad ya liked it

Folks who attended, please do pm me with suggestions for future dakkacons, I am looking at late July for the Summer one this year and ahead to the next January one.

Let me know what you thought of the schedule of events and ways to improve.

Will do! I think getting out in front of it is a great idea, although I think I need a week for my brain to retract to its' normal size now that it's been stuffed with nerd-overload from a weekend of fantastic gaming

I think an earlier night (morning...) is recommended next Saturday night, so that we are at least half alive for the Sunday games.