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Today at the LA Bunker Vs. Chigago Bunker event over 4000 tanks participated in the event, allowing the US to take the record from England. The battle was brief and fairly one sided, with LA wiping out Chicago in their opening salvo.

On the plus side of things, It was the first battle I had been in that crossed state lines, with video feed from LA to Chicago and back, a very interesting experience, plus my side won.

It was a little disappointing that we spent more time setting up than shooting.

Hopefully someone else at the event took pictures, there were some amazing tanks there.

Only 4,000?

Wheres HBMC? i'd guess he has close to that on his own
All still grey of course

Holy Crap that a lot of tanks nice job U.S.A whoot!

Well done! Records are meant to be broken, so next year has to be even bigger!

I had a tanksGiving at my local hobby center to. It was fun, glad you had fun at yours too

YAWN!

lol we were taken out it one round??? did we even shoot back

Awesome stuff. Somewhere Patton is rolling in his grave though

Did the USA use the correct method for being legit?

Were the tanks/MC's Fully built and painted? And were they actualy tanks? Last time i heard the US of A trying for the "most tanks" record they even counted bikes!!

from the way i heard it was anything with an armour value but i could be wrong i guess

Superscope wrote:Did the USA use the correct method for being legit?

Were the tanks/MC's Fully built and painted? And were they actualy tanks? Last time i heard the US of A trying for the "most tanks" record they even counted bikes!!

hahaha no.... I didnt make it to the tanksgiving at LA bunker but trust me when I tell you that it wasnt even close to all painted... they allow gargantuan monsters, small walkers (killa kans and such) and didnt have a whole lot of guidelines... no bikes though I assure you

JD21290 wrote:Wheres HBMC? i'd guess he has close to that on his own

My Tyranid army has more tanks than that.

JD21290 wrote:All still grey of course

Not true - there is a painted Russ, two painted Land Raiders and a painted Vindicator in there. And a painted Dread and Land Speeder for that matter.

Photos or it didn't happen.

The one in England... did they count it from several stores?

Didn't the guys in Chicago do one bigger than this on their own previously?

Howard A Treesong wrote:Photos or it didn't happen.

qft

Superscope wrote:Did the USA use the correct method for being legit?

Were the tanks/MC's Fully built and painted? And were they actualy tanks? Last time i heard the US of A trying for the "most tanks" record they even counted bikes!!

I was in Maryland, the rules were nothjing with a WS. So no dreads, MCs, bikes etc. Even defilers were out.

But they were not good at all about enforcing assembled/painted. The kid next to me had primed, turretless falcons he counted as Fire Prisms.

How exactly did the whole vid feed thing work? How was targeting/range/LOS determined etc?

chaos0xomega wrote:How exactly did the whole vid feed thing work? How was targeting/range/LOS determined etc?

No idea. In Maryland we just fought the other side of the room, occasionally we got calls that another store hit us with a missile or we hit another store with one.

I assume it meant something to someone.

I know we will the Manager at the NYC store.

Poor Don.

chaos0xomega wrote:How exactly did the whole vid feed thing work? How was targeting/range/LOS determined etc?

There was no targeting, range, or LOS. The location or facing of vehicles didn't matter. Vehicles could've been left in their cases, or left at home, without having had any effect. Some players were using unopened vehicle kits as tanks, placed on the table.

-Everyone was BS 4, for simplicity.

-The goal was to roll to hit and penetrate an imaginary av12 target with all of your vehicle's weapons, as though you were firing at a vehicle within range of all your weapons.

-Each player recorded how many damage-inducing rolls (glancing or penetrating) they scored. There were no rolls on the damage tables, as there were no actual vehicles to damage- every glance or pen against the ghost you were "attacking" just got you one "hit".

After everyone had rolled to hit/damage their imaginary target, the total number of "hits" in the Chicago bunker were added together, and compared with the total of the LA bunker, who were also doing this.

Whichever bunker got the most "hits" (this was around 1-2 thousand hits) was the winner that round. There were two rounds.

No vehicles were ever actually damaged.

It wasn't really a battle, so much as a "which store can roll more 3's" contest. If there was a record for the biggest actual 40k tank battle, this event shouldn't be considered as a challenger to that record.

I never considered that there might be stores in Manhattan, looks like three. Can't believe they can afford to be there.

If faeslayer is telling the troof, this is shameful.

Please tell me the IG had a role in this battle.

That is the most shameful, pathetic, sad excuse for a game I've ever heard. I'm disgusted to be part of the same hobby as the people who organized this. I think I'm going to sell all my warhammer stuff immediately and never play this game again...

...or not.

But seriously, that just sad.

Howard A Treesong wrote:Photos or it didn't happen.

Cheers!

http://www.dakkadakka.com/gallery/images-518-5315_Tanksgiving.html


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jabbakahut wrote:I never considered that there might be stores in Manhattan, looks like three. Can't believe they can afford to be there.

Used to be 3, now there's 1.


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Shadowbrand wrote:Please tell me the IG had a role in this battle.

The IG had many rolls

No offense, but that sounds like a pretty lame event. It might not have been as bad if they were at least all painted.

As far as I know... except in painting competions and the like.... Fully painted armies is NEVER required at the LA Bunker for ANY events... Not even in tournaments are you required to bring a painted army... I dont believe the post that said unbuilt models still in box were played... But they should definitely make it a rule to be able to have your stuff painted to join certain events...

I have no idea why folks are slamming this like a nympho girl at a frat party.....But I demand pictures!!!!

Here's the photos I took:

http://picasaweb.google.com/sleaton/TanksgivingGWChicagoBunker2009#

There were a couple models I wish I'd gotten shots of, but apparently I didn't. A great blue camo tank group, and a nurgle daemon prince with jet turbines on its back... oh well.

faeslayer wrote:a nurgle daemon prince with jet turbines on its back...

Were the turbines off an A-10 kit and the owner a large man of Swedish descent?