Hi all,

We are in the preliminary stages of settling up the second edition of Bac-con, once again to raise money for the Brain Tumour Charity in honour of Paul Sawyer.
The thread for thd first edition can be found here - https://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/814703.page

I would appreciate any ideas people have for this edition, the initial thoughts are to be having it again at Firestorm Games in Cardiff sometime around April, with a few different games being played with an overarching narrative to tie together.

As before this will be a light hearted meet and play event with time for a couple of games and a raffle to raise funds for a worthy cause.

I welcome any input, thoughts or ideas.

Very much looking forward to this!

A good amount of money raised last time for a good cause, and some fun games in memory of Paul.

I’ve an idea.

Try to recreate classic battle reports. I’m thinking the 2nd Ed one, where a Space Marine armoured column was on the rampage to squish a rogue planetary Governor.

The sort of things that as Nippers we could only dream of owning enough tanks to fulfil, but in the modern day? I could do on my own.


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And of course, I’ve still got some hard to find event and location exclusive models for the inevitable raffle.

If enough people wish to play 2nd ed 40k then go for it!

I have done some work contacting venues to see about dates etc. the most likely appears to be the final weekend of April, most likely the Sunday.


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And it seems our venue is locked in, Bristol Independent Gaming on the 26/04/26.

Door price is yet to be confirmed but it will not be excessive.

We need some preliminary numbers so if you would be keen to attend please vote in the poll attached to the OP.

Many thanks.

Can confirm both date and location, hope to see many of you there!

LI, Heresy for me.

Definitely up for this again! Fun gaming and for a good cause! And BIG is very convenient for me.

Voted LI, as I did enjoy that last time but depend how it works out numbers-wise would equally be up for EA (with my LI models, if someone was willing to teach me!) or big 30k.

Sadly cancer will keep me away from this year’s event. This’ll be right in the middle of my chemo.

Hope it goes great though guys.

Oh no! Sorry to hear about your diagnosis. All the best with the treatment.

 General Kroll wrote:
Sadly cancer will keep me away from this year’s event. This’ll be right in the middle of my chemo.

Hope it goes great though guys.

Really sorry to hear about that mate, I hope it goes well and you get better soon.

On attendance and fundraising?

I’ve still some Event Exclusives for the raffle table.

I know it’s extra work and not necessary practical extra work. But has anyone looked into extending the raffle to online?

It won’t stop me bringing them like, but just thinking of casting the net as wide as practically possible.

It opens up a whole load of hassle with shipping and having to stream the draw so people can see its done fairly as well as having to promote ahead exactly what is being offered and taking tickets, gambling laws, extra pay pal fees etc. I could be sold on the idea but as I look at it, it seems a fair too much extra work for the potential gain.

Hopefully we should have the event structure ironed out by months end and can really get into marketing and getting sponsorship.

 General Kroll wrote:
Sadly cancer will keep me away from this year’s event. This’ll be right in the middle of my chemo.

Hope it goes great though guys.

Very sorry to hear about this. I hope the treatment goes well General Kroll.

Best wishes General Kroll.

A quick update on thoughts for the LI portion of this event, would welcome input from people (for or against, either is good!).

After bouncing ideas around we are looking at 3x, 2 1/2 hour games. Army lists are to be drawn up at 2k pts and no more than 18 activations.
For the first two games there will be no scoring on objectives round 1 and no shooting past 18" (FoW from Tallarn), this will not be in effect for round 3.
Round 1 to be take and hold for 5 objectives.
Round 2 take a central objective.
Round 3 take and runaway with a central objective.

Thoughts?

Ingtaer and I have been beavering away behind the scenes with some help from the Epic UK group to get the format for this year's event ready. The event focus will be on Epic Legions Imperialis and Epic Armageddon, which the event narrative will cover, but absolutely fine if anyone wanted to buy a ticket and play any other game (we are expecting some attendees to play 30k Heresy, Age of Sigmar and Bolt Action).

Webpage has now been updated with more info and PayPal to get the tickets (£15 - all of this amount going to the Brain Cancer Trust).
www.bac-con-epic.com



Event summary:
Date: 26th April 2026.
3 games of Legions Imperialis or Epic Armageddon
Day will include a prize raffle and many terrible bacon-based puns!

I’m up for it! Will also share to the Legions Imperialis Reddit thread if that’s cool?

Also will sort my ticket Friday.

Yes absolutely, please do Doc - the more publicity the better!

Site is now updated with a proper URL, ticket ordering and a donations page. Game & scenario packs should be downlaodable within the next week or so.

www.bac-con-epic.com

Bought my ticket!
Now to write the player pack.

Ah.

So. Like a dumbass? I’m now in Japan on the day.

Pacific or Ingtaer, would either of you be kind to pm your address so I can at least bundle off the exclusive models for the raffle?

Yes thank you Doc that is extremely kind of you!

A shame you are in Japan and can't make it (although not for you ofc) - hoping this year we can build some momentum and we'll be able to make this a continuing yearly event.

Link for tickets: https://www.bac-con-epic.com/sign-up

Sorry to hear that General Kroll, wishing you all the best with your treatment!

And a shame not to get to meet the Mad Doc IRL too!

But I've bought my ticket, as one of the fairly local folk, please let me know if there is anything I can help with Pacific / Ingtaer!

Glad to hear it mate, look forward to seeing you again. And thanks for the offer, we will let you know.

Thanks guys, I’ll let the two Ben’s know the event is on again this year in case they want to head down to it.

Event packs for LI and EA are now up on the site as is the Longshanks registration for LI. Can be found here;
https://www.bac-con-epic.com/details

Tickets on sale too don't forget!

News to come soon on the raffle prizes so please stay tuned.

Nice work getting this going again!

Hi folks - ticket sales progressing nicely so far, and we also have some very exciting raffle prizes which hopefully he will be able to reveal here soon.

In the meantime here is a sneak peek on some of the special objectives being made for the day, for both Legions Imperialis and Epic Armageddon. In running with the bacon theme, pigs will feature heavily!

A quick post to show some of the raffle prizes that will be available to win - these were very generously donated by Mad Doc Grotsnik and will definitely be a grand prize! All proceeds from the raffle will be going to the charity.

I've been invited onto the Crown of Command YT channel this evening to talk about Bac-Con, 9pm GMT

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/live/lXkUWyaRyLE?si=RL0648jLF4k6eAnW[/youtube]

 Pacific wrote:
Hi folks - ticket sales progressing nicely so far, and we also have some very exciting raffle prizes which hopefully he will be able to reveal here soon.

In the meantime here is a sneak peek on some of the special objectives being made for the day, for both Legions Imperialis and Epic Armageddon. In running with the bacon theme, pigs will feature heavily!

Love it! They look great!

Thanks mate! Going for a different theme for each table, so will have an ork theme, Imperial, Chaos etc. For the Legions Imperialis objectives, it is basically just marines fighting + pigs!

Save Our Bacon!

Hi folks - just to say available ticket numbers are now starting to dwindle for both editions of Epic, so if you want your ticket please make sure you get onto the site promptly!

Some of the raffle prizes that will be available on the day.

Hopefully this is ok to share here, links to the auctions for the items that Doc has very kindly donated to the charity drive.
100% of the total going directly to the Brain Tumour Charity (so no ebay or PayPal cut removed). It is currently UK/EU only.

Age of Sigmar: The Steel Rook commemorative release: https://ebay.us/m/jGkKv4

40k Catachan Colonel Anniversary miniature https://ebay.us/m/p2mp1P

As Dear Leader of the Loot Group. And Model Donor? I’m gonna share the links in said Loot Group.

What’s the point of wielding power if you don’t abuse it once in a while?


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Oooooohhhhh, I do love a mild abuse of my own power!

I could test drive a Tonka!

Thanks very much mate! A good number of watchers now so that will no doubt have helped

Looks like some decent action on the auctions! Here’s hoping there’s a bidding frenzy. It’s all for a good cause.

Great job guys! Keep up the good work!

A fantastic result on that! Cheers MDG.
18 days until game day and still a few tickets remain, if you are holding off on buying then get in now!

Many thanks again Doc for the donation, very pleased to say almost £100 raised thanks to the sale! And we are now already ahead of the donation total from Bac-Con 2025.
As Ingtaer has said, only a few tickets remaining so please sign-up now if you want to attend but have yet to purchase a ticket.
https://www.bac-con-epic.com/sign-up

Guess I need to go a-looting sometime soon for next year’s Bac-Con.

Event Only models are usually the good stuff in terms of rarity and desirability.

Less than 2 weeks to go now, but only 4 tickets remaining (either Epic system available) !

Just had this very cool Dwarf Fortress epic terrain donated by the terrain designer Doctor Spork - available as part of the raffle on the day.

Now that’s nice!

Only a week away to the event. Just two tickets remaining!

Some more objectives finished for Legions Imperialis

1 day to go until Bac-Con, we still have two tickets stubbornly refusing to sell! If you are free last-minute to come it should be a fun day of gaming, and some good raffle prizes. Including the Oldhammer books below!

KONICHAWA from the reason I’m not attending because Diary is a dirty word.

Whilst I have my own copy? I’d consider WD Presents 40K Battles a genuine Grail item.

Especially if you is a noob.

Those old catalogs are pure nostalgia though. I’ve got 2-3 on the shelf, including that one.

Army all ready for tomorrow! If you are in the Bristol area and fancy kicking my gak in then we still have two tickets remaining.

 ingtaer wrote:

How DARE you put an obviously evil-coded army on such bright and colourful bases.

Congrats on getting it all done bro, it was fun to follow along with your progress.

Where has my banhammer got too...
Spiders traipsing through flowers is obviously the only way to go, they so pretty.

So after many dice have been rolled, hordes of tiny 6/8mm miniatures slain and of course bacon butties consumed Bac-Con is finished for another year. Will post some pictures from the day later on but we managed to reach a really good donation total to the Brain Tumour Charity, more than double the amount of 2025.

Adding the amount from sales from the items donated by MDG we have reached a total of £845!

We are already making plans for next year and the third iteration of the event. Many thanks to everyone who took part or supported in whichever capacity!

Magnificent!!

I’d love this to grow bigger and bigger each year. Paul Sawyer was such a formative part of the hobby, the one we genuinely looked up to in the pre-internet age.

Getting a bunch of gamers together with a DIY ethos just to have some hobby fun is a great way to memorialise his impact, and raise money for a good cause.

This is great news, congratulations on it not just being a great success, but also a fun event to boot, I've been fed some updates throughout yesterday by my fellow mod and it was a delight to see.



Well done indeed, I am proud of you guys!

Fantastic turn out yesterday and an amazing total reached, thanks to Pacific and the TO of Epic:A (who is not on the forum) for all the hard work and many thanks to those who attended, donated or just send good wishes. Now to make Bac-Con pt3 even better.
Was great to have three game systems running at once and all going smoothly and, on a personal level to meet up with some dakkanaughts and throw dice against Piousservant in a very fun red v red game.

Right enough waffle, pic dump time!

Potential loot for next year?

Warhammer Cafe exclusive Keyrings and Hand Towels.

Yes. Warhammer Branded Hygiene Product!

Sitting in a Metal Bar in Tokyo, and I’ve had an idea. Let me know if you think it’s a silly one.

But…a 2nd Ed Space Marine exhibition game. Using the exact same forces and as near as we can manage terrain and board layout from a White Dwarf Battle Report.

Square, Round or Oblong bases don’t make a huge difference in-game, so if one side is Marines no real reason we can’t use modern models. But any would be fair game. Vintage (god bless you!), third party, 3d prints, whatever.

Embrace the Indy “we’ll do as we please” spirit of the Net Epic community, whilst recreating a Hobby Historical punch up?

Thanks to Pacific and Ingtaer for organising the day!

It really was great fun (even though I went 0 for 3 lol ) and a fantastic amount of money raised for charity too, looking forward to next year's event already!

Congrats all! Amazing work on raising that money for charity and the Bac-con theme objective markers!

I wish I could be there some day. Stupid Atlantic Ocean.

Yeah well done guys, you raised a healthy amount for a worthy cause and look like you had a great time in the process. More of this!