Wip future releasese

That's great, but it appears to be the same pic three times?

Yeah, the poster is just ninjaing WD and GWs website.
It's the standard format these days.

Sorry more on the way

Do we see a hint of a land speeder there?

Yeah but that's old news, already on FWs website.
http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/New_Stuff

I must have that Sons Dread!

I must have... more pictures from Gamesday!

Just spoke to someone with forgeworld.... Couldn't tell me much but he said "ok I will tell you one thing you asked Kharn will be coming"

Some of Horus and iron hands contemptor

That Command Squad looks cool.

Marines, marines, and marines.

I know they're a big seller and all, but can we have something else? We're not even seeing Guard releases anymore from FW.

 MajorStoffer wrote:
Marines, marines, and marines.

I know they're a big seller and all, but can we have something else? We're not even seeing Guard releases anymore from FW.

What, the return of Imperial Robots isn't enough for you? I wish I could afford these and paint the with the quality they deserve.

Mmmm castellax bots, me wanty

UNCLEBADTOUCH wrote:
Mmmm castellax bots, me wanty

This, so much this. Give me all the things, nao.

I'm going to have to bite my fist so hard to avoid buying one of the IH Contemptors as well - I already own two of the things

Any chance of better pics of that...Blanchian Thing(Archmagos Veneratus, perhaps?) that was in the corner of the robot pic?

Any word on who won the Slayer Sword?

What pray tell is the Warhammer picture in the background?

Bloodhorror wrote:
What pray tell is the Warhammer picture in the background?

Old art:

I don't think it is.... It seems to have a Tank or something at the Top does it not?



Or is the picture you linked only Part of the Art?

Only part of the art. To the left, there is a burning tower.

Any better pics of the Iron Hands dread? And is it just Sons of Horus getting command squads, or everyone?

Love the Sons of Horus command team. The guy with the axe has very strong parallels to the Chosen Champion. Very cool all around!

As a pre heresy world eaters collector my favorite part of games day was hearing that there will be a kharn, also i heard from multiple people there forgeowrld/and gw that kor phaeron is one of the best looking models theyve ever seen. Also spoke to someone who read the Unremembered Empire and said its fantastic one of the best yet.

That Castellax is pretty cool, always nice to see more units for Khador.

Is that really it? Or are people just not putting the pics up yet?

In the grim darkness of the future there are only Space Marines.

Hopefully something at Gamesday will showcase something that isn't just Forgeworld product, cool as it is.

That's it? You go to Games Day and all you have are a few shots of some FW models in a case? I hope it's because you were too busy having fun or something.

The Game Days outside of UK usually are pretty crummy in terms of new releases/sneak previews.

this thread needs more pictures

 Breotan wrote:
That's it? You go to Games Day and all you have are a few shots of some FW models in a case? I hope it's because you were too busy having fun or something.

Yeah, you're right, how stupid of me. We've all been kinda missing the point of Games Day, it isn't about sneak peaks and product previews and all that, it's about having fun!

More specifically, the fun you have engaging in your favorite hobby: waiting in line for hours to buy regularly available GW product at full retail.

Sons Of Horus, Woo!

I also spoke to Jeremy vetock and he said he wants and is pushin for a fallen angels supplement as well as other dark angels supplements

 Kanluwen wrote:
The Game Days outside of UK usually are pretty crummy in terms of new releases/sneak previews.

The Gamesday in the U.K. are pretty rubbish as well.

 Pwn'd You wrote:
I also spoke to Jeremy vetock and he said he wants and is pushin for a fallen angels supplement as well as other dark angels supplements

Good to hear! Here's hoping it gets the green light...

 Pwn'd You wrote:
I also spoke to Jeremy vetock and he said he wants and is pushin for a fallen angels supplement as well as other dark angels supplements

That'd be neat, but if it's still just being "pushed" then it would probably be over a year away.

I love the direction their taking the son of horus armour/kits now, makes them much more unique. Also I'm VERY intrigued by the thing to the right of the robot...

Gamesday was pretty underwhelming.

I had fun but it definitely did not live up to the standard I'd hold the biggest gaming company's flagship convention to.

The swag bag was weak, a few buttons, a cup, a cheap water bottle and a pretty well done purity seal patch. The bag wasn't too bad itself, was useful to carry things throughout the day. I don't imagine they spent more than a whopping 5$ per bag.

The make and takes were really sparse, splitting 2-3 sprue sets among 4-5 people. It was nice to get free stuff, for sure, but with a 50$ ticket and no free mini it'd be nice to get something of decent value.

There was NO model painting.

There was a station to get your realm of battle board painted which was cool, but was only for people who were willing to buy or already had one.

There were some tables where you could play whatever scenario they had going, and GW provided 500 pt forces for people without armies to play. There wasn't any completely free play tables that I saw, I could be wrong though. I was told GW employees wouldn't allow you to play anywhere but at the designated places with designated forces.

The store had no discount at all.

Forgeworld offered the usual free shipping and ordering things without free shipping was great.

Fantasy Flight Games had demos of Relic and Blood Bowl card game, which was cool. The volunteers running it weren't very knowledgeable on the rules, but they were enthusiastic and cool which was fun.

The Space Hulk game was up to demo. Looked cool, but a bit clunky and not intuitive. I dunno if it's worth the 30 bucks or so, but the people there were pretty awesome and it looked cool.

I don't think they sold more than a dozen of those exclusive minis, and EVERYONE I heard talking about it were pissed about it.

Dan Abnett was awesome and hung around at the tables signing for longer than scheduled.

Vettock was super enthusiastic talking to people who approached him.

So, for a 7 hour event, there were THREE make and take events (Ork Biker, Empitre pegasus knight, terrain) which were about an hour each, some pretty weak 40k directed gaming, FFG demos, and models to look at.

I would NOT go again unless the event was extremely close, as I traveled by car from Connecticut. The real thing that kept me from being unhappy was meeting up with friends from all over the country.

What does the exclusive mini look like? Was it really colombo again?

Nevermind, found it. Huh, not as good as his last one in my opinion (but maybe because I actually have that one). I know the pictures aren't quite a fair comparison but eh




edit: goddamn I can't get this to work. Either the new one is working or the old one is working, not both
reedit: thanks Ouze, missed that /. I blame the fact I'm doing my tax at the moment...

Here's that FB image hosted in Picasa



You're missing a / in the last tag there, should be [/img].

 Ouze wrote:
That Castellax is pretty cool, always nice to see more units for Khador.

I don't even play Warmachine but that is the first thing I thought too (well, more "Wait, has someone's warmachine model been put in the wrong cabinet by mistake?").

Some sneak peeks from Games Day US.




Sons of Horus Command Set.


Iron Hands Contemptor.


Assault Squad with power weapons.


Sicaran Battle Tank

Whoa, those last 2 pics- nice!

Interesting name for a tank, not the proto-Russ that some of us thought it was.

Honestly I have to agree that this was under par even for games workshop. I bought the mini as I can use it but I don't see why others would. Even the demon minis were misshandled by the judges( they broke mine and several other people). Not the Volunteers but the judges they even pulled out several pieces and handed them to people in line so they could take pics. So much unprofessional mishandling and horrible judging couple with no other comps like costumes etc. GW promised this would be the best yet and after 7 games days for me this was the worst hands down. The only good part was the convention food as those BBQ nachos were outstanding.

Btw I have tons of pics but they are on my phone and if I attach them then they will be in Dallas database so until I can get home and transfer them sorry all.

That Iron Hand dready is unfortunately lacking in iconography. Especially when compared to the Sons of Horus, Minotaurs and Emperors Children Contemptor dreads.

One of the lesser loved chapters getting a look in at last and even then it's still not as good as the others. Thats not to say that it isn't still nice looking, because it is.

I like the look of that tank but dislike the price tag and probably will dislike the model if i ever had one in my hands.

Really kicking myself for getting an assault ram a few years ago. Low quality, low detail tiny model. Shame it was my last gw putchase

Excited about that Iron Hands Contemptor! I like the new tank as well, but I hope the treads are easier to put on than they were for the Proteus!

Those MkII Lightning claws

 SilverMK2 wrote:
Really kicking myself for getting an assault ram a few years ago. Low quality, low detail tiny model. Shame it was my last gw putchase

Whoa, really? I would've thought the assault ram was a good kit! Nice to know, though...

Agreed about FW prices, of course... they're Significant

agreed the MKII lightning claws are amazing. The sicaras looks great (and nicely fits into the land raider/predator missing link category)

and is it just me or does the sons of horus commander/captain remind you guys of the dark vengeance chaos marines?

Liking the sicaran tank, looks like a pre-land raider type

Also should have mentioned the spiky Mk IV legs with the SOH command set, it's a shame bodies will likely be one piece casts like a number of recent FW models (Space Marine Captain and Standard Bearer, Destroyers, Recon)

How much are the Games day figures.Wondering if its worth me grabbing one in september in the uk.

So there was no 40k mini?

I have a bunch of pictures from Games Day here. These include pics of the Armies on Parade, terrain, some Golden Demon entries, etc.

I also have a sort of funny story from Games Day. I was looking through the program at who all from the Design Studio was in attendance. I saw Chris Peach listed, and it said he was the "Studio's master of army painting." So I went over to ask him a question about a painting technique. He is in a conversation with another guy so while I wait for them to finish their conversation, I pull out my pen and program and start circling the sessions that I want to try to get in for the rest of the day. As they finish up their conversation and the other guy walks off, he sees me standing there with pen and program in hand. He immediately pulls out his pen and says all excitedly "Let me guess: you want me to sign your program?" I'm like, "No, i was just planning out the rest of my day, but I do have a painting question." He looked sort of deflated when he realized I didn't want his autograph. Who do the GW guys think they are, rock stars or something? lol

He was a nice fellow though, and I did get some good painting tips. I just thought the whole "autograph" thing was a bit comical.

 Lord_Mortis wrote:
I have a bunch of pictures from Games Day here. These include pics of the Armies on Parade, terrain, some Golden Demon entries, etc.

Are all those from Gamesday?

That place looks abandoned.

any news on black fire pass or any other warhammer forge stuff?

No, it was a huge crowd. The place it was held at was huge and provided more than enough space for everyone. 1000+ people were there, but because there was plenty of room for everyone to move around and get from one session to another without having to walk through people, the place didn't have that "packed" look.

The place was huge but here was so little happening that the event areas often had massive queues.

1k people is not a big convention. At all.

 Malika2 wrote:


Sicaran Battle Tank

Hey baby, come here often? I like this, I like this a bunch.

 ironicsilence wrote:
this thread needs more pictures

More pictures? Usually we get more info and pictures. Where is all the info? GD really seemed to have slacken off. I remember even last year there was excitment on the forums over Games Day. It seems dead now.

Is this the things to come for GW now? I mean if you can't dazzle on your own shows, what is there to expect then?

Honestly, this Games Day seems to be a big failure on GW's part, according to all the pictures and comments I've seen so far. The "premier" event for the "world's best miniatures company" doesn't seem to be very spectacular. Some cool models, but no open gaming? GW just seems to not care so much these days. I'll be at the Ogre launch party from Steve Jackson Games in October, and I bet that will be a blast.

Nice to see a painted version of the new HH battle tank. Not quite sold on its appearance, though. Something about it just doesn't look right to me.

I think it looks fantastic, Is it for marines?

 ThouShallNotHeal wrote:
I think it looks fantastic, Is it for marines?

Pretty emphatically, yeah.

 Lord_Mortis wrote:
I have a bunch of pictures from Games Day here. These include pics of the Armies on Parade, terrain, some Golden Demon entries, etc.

I also have a sort of funny story from Games Day. I was looking through the program at who all from the Design Studio was in attendance. I saw Chris Peach listed, and it said he was the "Studio's master of army painting." So I went over to ask him a question about a painting technique. He is in a conversation with another guy so while I wait for them to finish their conversation, I pull out my pen and program and start circling the sessions that I want to try to get in for the rest of the day. As they finish up their conversation and the other guy walks off, he sees me standing there with pen and program in hand. He immediately pulls out his pen and says all excitedly "Let me guess: you want me to sign your program?" I'm like, "No, i was just planning out the rest of my day, but I do have a painting question." He looked sort of deflated when he realized I didn't want his autograph. Who do the GW guys think they are, rock stars or something? lol

He was a nice fellow though, and I did get some good painting tips. I just thought the whole "autograph" thing was a bit comical.

I knew someone who got their codex signed by loads of people at a gamesday so they probably do get asked. It's probably more exciting for people who are meeting 'celebs' for the first time.

I really like the look of some of the new FW stuff thats on its way, the Robot especially !!
From what I have heard it was just as bad as the UK games day, to which I always attend but only to meet up with a few people nowadays as the even itself is always a let down, in fact actually it sounds like the US one is actually better !!
we dont get a grab bag in the UK !!

Can we get those pics posted on here Mortis? Some of us don't have Privacyabusebook accounts.

What I want to know is what the hell that little floaty thing next to the Battle Automata is. It looks very Ad-Mech, but no one seems to have any photos of it.

Pre heresy guard would be good.

 Goliath wrote:
What I want to know is what the hell that little floaty thing next to the Battle Automata is. It looks very Ad-Mech, but no one seems to have any photos of it.

From pins of war and its an older picture

Mechanicum Magos Dominus

 Lord_Mortis wrote:
No, it was a huge crowd. The place it was held at was huge and provided more than enough space for everyone. 1000+ people were there, but because there was plenty of room for everyone to move around and get from one session to another without having to walk through people, the place didn't have that "packed" look.

Yeah, 1000+ people really means very little as far as conventions go...

I want it!

 ThouShallNotHeal wrote:
So there was no 40k mini?

There is only one GD mini each year.


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And yeah, the lack of any actual news out of GD is hardly surprising. It was fairly obvious that this would be the case when GW started thinking that people knowing what they are working on more than 5 minutes before release would result in the complete destruction of the wargaming hobby.

And 1000 people for a US gamesday... again, not a surprise, since from memory that was about how many tickets they said they were selling... But it is ridiculously small, and seems hardly worth the effort. The last Oz games day I went to had supposedly over 9000 attendees. In Australia. A decade ago.

I won't say much about demon other then this was the most unprofessional job I have ever seen. Models broken and poorly treated by the judges no less. The judges pulled out some and handed them to random people so they could get pics. How do I know tet were random because I know who's mini it was. Even worse announcing a winner who wasn't even in the category is horrible. Thank god she had some integrity as others won't. It was just an awful demon and games day and to see winners and top 5s who violate GWs own rules is a disgrace to the comp. truthfully those three judges made it an utter joke.

Would be nice to see some pictures from the Golden Demon, they're usually the highlights of games day photos for me.

Sicaran battletank is double-plus good!11

The Contemptor TL Heavy Bolters are the bomb - drum-mags FTW!

 Darkmoonlight wrote:
any news on black fire pass or any other warhammer forge stuff?

I guess they are still in penal legion sculpting Space Marine shoulder pads.

 Alpharius wrote:
I must have... more pictures from Gamesday!

https://www.facebook.com/5P4Z0UT/media_set?set=a.155862194443470.36921.100000590708219&type=3

I apologize after the photos from games day. I just posted them straight from my phone.

No need to apologize - and thanks for sharing the pics!

Pic inc BTW I am lower row on the far right.

I'm excited for a whole Mechanicus army...

Spaz431 wrote:

 Alpharius wrote:
I must have... more pictures from Gamesday!

https://www.facebook.com/5P4Z0UT/media_set?set=a.155862194443470.36921.100000590708219&type=3

I apologize after the photos from games day. I just posted them straight from my phone.

Thanks for the pics! No need to apologize for giving to the community.

Curious, was there anything significant about the mounted daemonette and the nurgle warrior? Did they win anything?

Ok I have another 50-60 pics but they range from the demon diner to the after parties and no need for that.

At first, I thought this guy had a really gnarly mask on...

nice one, Empchild...
your Stormboy looks awesome!!!

i look forward to seeing the official pics, with proper lighting...

cheers
jah

Not mine a friends and the avatar was Aaron Lovejoys. I had 4 entries this year 3 made first cut etc. the friend took silver on the Ork for his 4th demon I think.

Nice tower!

 Empchild wrote:
Not mine a friends and the avatar was Aaron Lovejoys. I had 4 entries this year 3 made first cut etc. the friend took silver on the Ork for his 4th demon I think.

Did Aaron manage to take the Slayer Sword this time? I know he was putting his efforts into the mounted daemonette. Saw it in person and looked awesome.

silent25 wrote:

 Empchild wrote:
Not mine a friends and the avatar was Aaron Lovejoys. I had 4 entries this year 3 made first cut etc. the friend took silver on the Ork for his 4th demon I think.

Did Aaron manage to take the Slayer Sword this time? I know he was putting his efforts into the mounted daemonette. Saw it in person and looked awesome.

No

This thread is full of so many amazing minis.

 Empchild wrote:

silent25 wrote:

 Empchild wrote:
Not mine a friends and the avatar was Aaron Lovejoys. I had 4 entries this year 3 made first cut etc. the friend took silver on the Ork for his 4th demon I think.

Did Aaron manage to take the Slayer Sword this time? I know he was putting his efforts into the mounted daemonette. Saw it in person and looked awesome.

No

Boo! Who managed to snag it? New on the Golden Demons is very spares this year.

No comment honestly as this years demon was different to day te least.

They're getting sloppy.

Good news there are lots of photos, the first ones here are mine and can be found with the rest at http://apocalypse40k.blogspot.com/

Loken gets first dibs, then we can start adding here along with the interviews I did with the designers. I got more pics incoming but 10 hour drive killed me.

 Oaka wrote:


At first, I thought this guy had a really gnarly mask on...

Besides the cool mask, the photographer managed to three women in the same photo at a GW event - impressive!

T

There would potentially be more women at GW events if people stopped making such a big deal about it...

 insaniak wrote:
There would potentially be more women at GW events if people stopped making such a big deal about it...

Amen.

Female players can be more fun, I find they tend too use their imagination more

I ain't going anywhere near that comment....


Is there any more pictures of the dragon thing wrapped around the castle? I'd like to the front of it.

woah, I don't mean sexually...

This is the first thing I thought of when I saw that tank.

Bahahaha. Nice.


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May the force be with you young pricerocketers,

 ThouShallNotHeal wrote:
They're getting sloppy.

I will admit I tried. It was my first attempt at the golden demon competition. This was also my first games day. My entry was the night lords hellbrute with the chainlink power scourge. You cannot win if you do not try. Over the corse of the next year, I am going to try and learn more about nonmetallics and object source lighting.

 Empchild wrote:
I won't say much about demon other then this was the most unprofessional job I have ever seen. Models broken and poorly treated by the judges no less. The judges pulled out some and handed them to random people so they could get pics. How do I know tet were random because I know who's mini it was. Even worse announcing a winner who wasn't even in the category is horrible. Thank god she had some integrity as others won't. It was just an awful demon and games day and to see winners and top 5s who violate GWs own rules is a disgrace to the comp. truthfully those three judges made it an utter joke.

I'm curious for details? How did they manage to try to give a trophy to someone outside the category? And what do you mean by rules violations?

 Howard A Treesong wrote:

 Lord_Mortis wrote:

He was a nice fellow though, and I did get some good painting tips. I just thought the whole "autograph" thing was a bit comical.

I knew someone who got their codex signed by loads of people at a gamesday so they probably do get asked. It's probably more exciting for people who are meeting 'celebs' for the first time.

It's probably just as exciting (if not, more!) for people like Chris Peach. Their 15 minutes, or day in the sun.

Spaz431 wrote:

 ThouShallNotHeal wrote:
They're getting sloppy.

I will admit I tried. It was my first attempt at the golden demon competition. This was also my first games day. My entry was the night lords hellbrute with the chainlink power scourge. You cannot win if you do not try. Over the corse of the next year, I am going to try and learn more about nonmetallics and object source lighting.

your painting is great, I meant the event itself

Quite a cool variant of the storm eagle!

I personally really like that sicaran battle tank hope that has 40k rules too!

Thanks for all the pic's people!

 ThouShallNotHeal wrote:
woah, I don't mean sexually...

Relax dude. I was only taking the piss.

timd wrote:
Besides the cool mask, the photographer managed to three women in the same photo at a GW event - impressive!

Actually 4.

 Empchild wrote:
I won't say much about demon other then this was the most unprofessional job I have ever seen. Models broken and poorly treated by the judges no less. The judges pulled out some and handed them to random people so they could get pics. How do I know tet were random because I know who's mini it was. Even worse announcing a winner who wasn't even in the category is horrible. Thank god she had some integrity as others won't. It was just an awful demon and games day and to see winners and top 5s who violate GWs own rules is a disgrace to the comp. truthfully those three judges made it an utter joke.

Could you describe what rules weren't followed, and how the woman came to 'win' a catagory she hadn't entered?

Thanks for the pics of the gold demon entries, Emp!

Re: judging, what can you do really? It's subjective... probably best just to move on.

 RiTides wrote:
Thanks for the pics of the gold demon entries, Emp!

Re: judging, what can you do really? It's subjective... probably best just to move on.

Indeed and thus I am personally. People will see for themselves in time.

Yeah, curious to see winners myself and what entries won that broke rules/what rules.


I didn't even bother trying to enter my orks because I use 3rd party heads for example, so I would be a bit bugged if they gave medal to someone who did that as well, while the rules dissuaded people like myself from even entering on account of those same rules.

Sounds like it was handled pretty unprofessionally

 Kroothawk wrote:

timd wrote:
Besides the cool mask, the photographer managed to three women in the same photo at a GW event - impressive!

Actually 4.

I knew that >_>

 BrookM wrote:

Bloodhorror wrote:
What pray tell is the Warhammer picture in the background?

Old art:

Next WHFB boxed set to feature Empire vs Beastmen. You heard it here first folks!

Correct me if I'm wrong. After reading posts from Dakkas that attended this 'event', I get the feeling that it was what you Americans would describe as a giant crapfest, is this correct? I thought these gamesdays were meant as a way to generate new interest, loads of big reveals of new products, lots of things to do, you know, worthwhile. Instead from what I read this event was just going through the motions, offering very little but expecting you to spend megabucks then kindly leave?
It seems like you were expected to pay a lot for an entry ticket then realise you were infact paying to get into what seemed to be a glorified retail outlet. Surely they have to do better than this, otherwise why bother?

Well here's my unsorted uncommented Pics
http://smg.photobucket.com/user/Foda_Bett/library/Travels/2013%20Memphis%20Games%20Day

Slipstream wrote:
Correct me if I'm wrong. After reading posts from Dakkas that attended this 'event', I get the feeling that it was what you Americans would describe as a giant crapfest, is this correct? I thought these gamesdays were meant as a way to generate new interest, loads of big reveals of new products, lots of things to do, you know, worthwhile. Instead from what I read this event was just going through the motions, offering very little but expecting you to spend megabucks then kindly leave?
It seems like you were expected to pay a lot for an entry ticket then realise you were infact paying to get into what seemed to be a glorified retail outlet. Surely they have to do better than this, otherwise why bother?

No, they really, really don't. If the gaming industry has taught me one thing, it's that gamers will pay good hard cash for absolutely nothing, if they're committed to the company enough.

GW can charge whatever they want for people to come to their retail outlet, because they can convince Bill (or Billy's mom, if he's young enough) that it's exciting.

PP's charged $10 for 3 low res image files and the fans still lick their boots. They could probably have included that as a KS option, too, come to think of it.

...I was going to try for rounding it out with a 3rd example, but those are the only companies that seem to have the clout to really gouge their customers like that.

 Agamemnon2 wrote:

 Empchild wrote:
I won't say much about demon other then this was the most unprofessional job I have ever seen. Models broken and poorly treated by the judges no less. The judges pulled out some and handed them to random people so they could get pics. How do I know tet were random because I know who's mini it was. Even worse announcing a winner who wasn't even in the category is horrible. Thank god she had some integrity as others won't. It was just an awful demon and games day and to see winners and top 5s who violate GWs own rules is a disgrace to the comp. truthfully those three judges made it an utter joke.

I'm curious for details? How did they manage to try to give a trophy to someone outside the category? And what do you mean by rules violations?

Really interested to see what crapfest went down here. One horrible thing with judges handing figures to random attendees, those attendees might not be random. Talking with friends who are professional figure painters, the boom to your sales/prices that comes with winning the Slayer Sword means there is fierce competition. I could see a friend of one of the top entrants "accidentally" dropping a leading competitors fig.

It sounds like the group of judges they got were pure amateur hour who never judged this competition before and had no clue what to do.

Does anyone have a pic of the winners/sword winner?

New pictures by Cocanour over at CMoN:
Golden Demons:
http://s209.photobucket.com/user/bcocanour/slideshow/Games%20Day%202013%20Memphis%20TN/golden%20demon

Armies on Parade:
http://s209.photobucket.com/user/bcocanour/slideshow/Games%20Day%202013%20Memphis%20TN/armies%20on%20parade

Slayer Sword Winner:


Won gold for Large Warhammer Model. I can see why people are going WTF, it is a Forgeworld model and should have been in the Forgeworld category.

*edit* just saw it also won Forgeworld BIS. Thought a figure couldn't win multiple awards?

THAT's what won????... wow.... the is not up to par for me for a sword, it is pretty good, but not stunning for me... and ya, it's a FW model...

 Pwn'd You wrote:
I also spoke to Jeremy vetock and he said he wants and is pushin for a fallen angels supplement as well as other dark angels supplements

I love Rumor Telephone. Check out what Natfka wrote based on this:

via a Reader here at Faeit 212 wrote:
Jeremy Vetock announced at games day that there will definitely be a fallen supplement coming, however we dont know if this is for DA or CSM.

 pretre wrote:

 Pwn'd You wrote:
I also spoke to Jeremy vetock and he said he wants and is pushin for a fallen angels supplement as well as other dark angels supplements

I love Rumor Telephone. Check out what Natfka wrote based on this:

via a Reader here at Faeit 212 wrote:
Jeremy Vetock announced at games day that there will definitely be a fallen supplement coming, however we dont know if this is for DA or CSM.

I was just about to post this.

Is it just me or has Natfka gotten even worse in terms of post quality?

@silent25: thanks for the links...

as to the Sword winner, and your general question, a mini can (and must to get a Sword) win multiple awards at one contest...
it has to be a gold winner already to be eligible for the sword...
so gold + Sword is two...
a previous Demon winner may not be entered again in a later Golden Demon...

the Forge World BIS can go to any model, even one that didn't win a trophy in it's category....
it's just whichever one the FW guys think is the best...

just because a mini is Forge World doesn't mean it can't win the sword...
if it can be entered in a normal category (Open category is not eligible), it can win the Sword...

cheers
jah

Yeah, sorry...that's definitely a really nice paint job...but compared to past winners...not Slayer Sword nice. If that won..the field must have been pretty "meh" this year.

 Dr. What wrote:
I was just about to post this.

Is it just me or has Natfka gotten even worse in terms of post quality?

He just has a bad filter. People send him stuff and he posts it. He's an aggregator and it shows.

 Dr. What wrote:

 pretre wrote:

 Pwn'd You wrote:
I also spoke to Jeremy vetock and he said he wants and is pushin for a fallen angels supplement as well as other dark angels supplements

I love Rumor Telephone. Check out what Natfka wrote based on this:

via a Reader here at Faeit 212 wrote:
Jeremy Vetock announced at games day that there will definitely be a fallen supplement coming, however we dont know if this is for DA or CSM.

I was just about to post this.

Is it just me or has Natfka gotten even worse in terms of post quality?

He just passes on the rumours (i.e. He's not a source). Therefore, if the number of correct rumours remains constant (I think it's actually dropped in general), but his site has been attracting more and more people, the signal to noise ratio will be pretty appalling.

Back on topic: where are the pics of the FW Apocalypse book? This is the second event they've showcased it at and I still haven't seen any pictures (except for the ones on the FW website).

-Shrike- wrote:
He just passes on the rumours (i.e. He's not a source).

Not to go too far OT, but that isn't correct.

For rumors that he directly posts and no one else has posted (hence his 'inbox' rumors), he is the source. This is no different than Hasting's source or Harry's source or Ghost21's source. Anytime you are the first one to post a rumor, regardless of what secret ball or spy or whatever you got it from, you are the source.

Nafka writes the catchiest headlines to grab the most traffic. And he's damn good at it.

BTW the red avatar of Khaine won gold as well and was the slayer winners and the blue one didn't even place so yep. I will say whoever took the photos had some decent shots of my work though the light was reflecting so it didn't show the shades to well.

Also since asked I will say a couple of reasons why this was the worst games day ever. The JUDGES were manhandling models (I.E I saw one pile a bunch into his hand like they were his armies minis) they were dropping them (over 6 that I personally know of were broken when in years past maybe one...maybe). A duel entry had 3 models on it and was not on a base(both violations of the rules). Finally as stated they announced a winner for the Duel Cat that wasn't even in that category and they didn't even know. These are all rookie moves and honestly a bunch of us were chatting afterwards this coupled with so many more reasons made this the worst Games day ever. I'm not going to discuss the judging as hey if you got a demon congrats but suffice to say one of my friends won several and just tossed them on the ground because that's pretty much what they meant this year in most of the categories. I don't mean just set it I mean tossed it.

I compete in a lot of painting comps and believe me you learn to have thick skin. You gripe a little have a drink then move on because as stated it is subjective. A bunch of my friends and I go to these and we win and lose but you still have an overall good time. I didn't hear anyone of them say they had a good time this year and that is honestly saddening because of the amount of money and time you put into being able to go to one of these such events.

How sad it is that Games Day preview pics now consist of a small handful of Forge World models. Games Workshop itself used to display a bunch of upcoming releases and have product seminars at Games Day where they'd discuss things they were working on that wouldn't see release for a year or so. I can't believe anyone is excited about this or Games Day any longer.

I guess if you never attended a Games Day years ago you have no idea what you missed, but otherwise it's nothing but a reminder of how much GW has lost its way when it comes to making their customers literally want to celebrate GW products.

timd wrote:
Besides the cool mask, the photographer managed to three women in the same photo at a GW event - impressive!

T

I managed to take that picture! lol

Snrub wrote:I ain't going anywhere near that comment....


Is there any more pictures of the dragon thing wrapped around the castle? I'd like to the front of it.

This is the best I could get. There were people crowded around the table playing a game so I didn't want to be rude and interrupt someone playing just to get a pic.





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Slipstream wrote:
Correct me if I'm wrong. After reading posts from Dakkas that attended this 'event', I get the feeling that it was what you Americans would describe as a giant crapfest, is this correct? I thought these gamesdays were meant as a way to generate new interest, loads of big reveals of new products, lots of things to do, you know, worthwhile. Instead from what I read this event was just going through the motions, offering very little but expecting you to spend megabucks then kindly leave?
It seems like you were expected to pay a lot for an entry ticket then realise you were infact paying to get into what seemed to be a glorified retail outlet. Surely they have to do better than this, otherwise why bother?

Well, here are my thoughts on Games Day 2013. Was it the "OMG, greatest Games Day ev-ah!" type of event? No. Was it good for what it was? I would say so. There were 3 sessions where you could build a model for free and take it home. For Fantasy, you got to make a Pegasus rider and you could then play in the floaty cloud tower game. For 40K, you got to make an Ork biker and then you could play on the lava table. These two sessions ran from 10am to 3pm, every 30 minutes. So, if you went to these sessions multiple times a day, you could walk away with several Ork Bikers or Pegasus riders. There was also a Make and Take terrain session that ran 5 times that day, where you could either make fantasy or 40K terrain. For Fantasy, they dumped out a box of sprues that contained a citadel wood base and trees, Garden of Morr sprues, and some fantasy fences I believe, as well as each person getting a modular movement tray to build your stuff on. For 40K, you got Cities of Death sprues and Battlefield Accessories sprues, as well as each person getting a modular movement tray. I only sat down for one terrain Make and Take, and I managed to snag 2 mausoleums, a fence section, and the death statue from the Garden of Morr, as well as a movement tray. I didn't even assemble them completely and just stuck most of the bits in my free GW swag bag. There were several people who were doing these terrain sessions over and over looking for certain bits and walking away with complete Garden of Morrs and Citadel Woods. So, technically, you could make back the cost of the ticket with the amount of free models you got. Free models that you could later turn around and sell.

The multi-player games they had going on were cool, as you picked out a tray of models and then picked a 2x2 section to deploy in. They had 6 different armies to choose from I believe (for the 40K game, anyway), and you got to use models such as the FW Great Unclean One and Blight Drones. I don't play Fantasy, so the only thing I remember for the Fantasy games was Ogres Vs Beastmen. They also had open gaming and had some new scenarios set up for the open gaming tables. Fantasy Flight was there, and there were several people enjoying games of Relic, as well as some playing the Space Hulk video game.

They of course had their retail store there, which included Forge World stuff. I wasn't there to buy anything (I support my FLGS instead) so I had no interest in that part of Games Day, although the line for Forge World was very long, as would be expected. I also wasn't there for the guest speakers, as they aren't going to reveal much info anyway, but people were lining up to go into their seminars. I was there to play some games on some awesome looking tables, make and take some free models, and take lots of pictures, and that is what I did.

So, for me, Games Day was what I expected, because there were only certain things I wanted to do, and I did them. I guess if you went with the expectation of finding out what the next release was going to be or see a lot of sneak peeks at future models (why would you, considering GW's policy of not revealing anything) then I guess it would be a let down. But I went with only certain things to do in mind, and at the end of the day, I can say I enjoyed it. But depending on what you were expecting, then YMMV.

Thanks Lord Mortis, thats a good shot. It's a gnarly looking conversion to be sure. Any idea what it was supposed to represent?

 jah-joshua wrote:
@silent25: thanks for the links...

cheers
jah

No problem, guess I should have clarified myself. Knew you needed a Gold in a category to qualify for the sword, but didn't realize you could pull a hat trick with winning FW-BIS, a gold, and SS.

Though I didn't realize some of the giant FW models could qualify for the standard categories, but with the recent giant plastic models, I suspect that may have changed.

 Snrub wrote:
Thanks Lord Mortis, thats a good shot. It's a gnarly looking conversion to be sure. Any idea what it was supposed to represent?

From what I briefly heard the GW guy explaining, each tower was controlled by a wizard of some sort. I think that model was supposed to represent the wizard/magic user in control of that particular tower.

*sigh* part of me was glad I missed it this year and part of me wishes I hadn't.

While I think that there was definitely some craziness in judging results it is a typical GW thing. This year just worse than the last.
As for the Slayer Sword I'm guessing there are several details we don't get to see.

 Empchild wrote:
...and to see winners and top 5s who violate GWs own rules is a disgrace to the comp.

How so? I didn't get much of a chance to view all the Demon entries this year.

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Snrub wrote:I ain't going anywhere near that comment....


Is there any more pictures of the dragon thing wrapped around the castle? I'd like to the front of it.

This is the best I could get. There were people crowded around the table playing a game so I didn't want to be rude and interrupt someone playing just to get a pic.

That's a pretty conversion lol .

As Gamesday has been over for a bit now---going to necro/lock this thread.