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How many did we get in the end?

I think 47 or 48 between the two... funny thing is people are now more interested and since we closed we are having to either turn away or up the rates.

How many for 40K?

19 for 40K, 28 for WHFB.

I say turn away the late-comers. I find their lack of faith...disturbing.

Or... accept a random one more for 40K to even it out... 20 people going at it is IMO better than some guy with bye.

If he didn’t have an even number I’m sure he’d be using a ringer/fill-in player. Byes are for the birds. Folks are paying for five games, not four.

Five games with only 20 players is actually kind of an exciting prospect. It’s not perhaps as big as you’d like a GT to be, but there’s certainly no chance of multiple people with all-win records at the end. And our chances at the prizes are that much bigger. And we can still hang out & drink with the square-basers, so there’s enough guys for the social side of a GT event.

Looking forward to it!

Mr Manaheim is correct. If we have one more customer interested in 40k we will swing it if not I feel I will have to lay some plastic smack down upon you all______. OO also the warstore was able to get a hold of a box of sanguinary gaurd with their other prizes.. cogh cough I mean they didn't send anything nope nadda nothing!!!

So far We have Dragonforge prizes, Trollforged prizes, Battlefoam BIG PRIZES, Thewarstore.com sent some kickin loot, I know Mike from Showcase said his was in route. Only thing I am waiting on is GW and Chapterhouse so ya exciting stuff. We have Thomas Wynn making the trophies and every person is going to get in their swag bag 4 objective markers/ tokkens amongst SOOOOOO much other stuff. Prizes are pretty solid all around so I for one am really exicted.

Awesome, awesome, awesome. I just stocked up on objectives at Adepticon, but I can always use some more! They're like bling for 40k players!

Agreeing w/ Ragnar. Fantastic. I'm really getting excited for this!

I heard the final 40K count went way past 20 - true?

Do we have a final head count for each system?

Final head count was/is 30 for WHFB, and 19+ringer for 40K.
You can see the final list of people in the Brawl forum, unde Vis Bostonia section.

I thought a couple of extra attendees might have snuck in right at the wire. Cool either way.

Mannahnin wrote:I thought a couple of extra attendees might have snuck in right at the wire. Cool either way.

From what i can tell, there were two drops at the last minute. I think it was a couple folks who didn't get their lists in on time and took the 5-point penalty. Not sure, though.

Their were two drops saddly at the last moment. Only one of them didn't get his list in on time but it was a work thing.

So does that mean there are still 20 or did it go down to 18?

Grimwulfe wrote:So does that mean there are still 20 or did it go down to 18?

18 atm but I still will ahve a ringer on hand just in case.

Soooo excited! Getting up at 4am for the drive will be brutal, though.

Good Luck to all involved.
I'll be there only to take pics.

Sanctjud wrote:Good Luck to all involved.
I'll be there only to take pics.

Bummer. I was hoping to trade Marine Biker stories with you!

Heh, if you really want to play against riderless bikers, horses, and bloodcrushers...wait wut?



Nah, my army is far from done for it, and I didn't really want to roll with my 30 terminator based plague marines...legal in 4th ed, not consent (which I got) in 5th ed...but I anticipated some grumbles. Oh yea, and scratch build 'true-scale' dimensioned rhinos...

Yea...not really something fair to the other players in terms of a modeled army (not to be confused with modelling for advantedge ).

Yup, the bikers roll out some other time.
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I look forward to seeing all the lovely armies and I'm hoping for lots of carnage.
I swear I'm a good luck charm Though talkative, so I"ll have to try and keep it shut.

Ya its busy here at my home and the other organisers as we are doing the final prep on packets. When it's all said and done something between 500-600 sheets of paper for the 50 people... Crazy I tell ya.

Photos from Fantasy & 40k on Saturday. I just dropped in for about a half hour just to check things out so I don't know anything else; what round this was or anything, but enjoy these. Tons of beautiful armies that these photos give little justice to.

The Armory:



Prizes:




Painting contest: (I think these are only the models that people were not running on tables)



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Fantasy first, 40k after photo #45 or so:







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These rhinos were lit from the interior.

It is almost 7pm...

...do we know the winners yet?

Friendliest player is Troy, and he is such a likeable fella!

40k
Winner Wyatt Traina(was on team pink shirt for those of you at adepticon.. pleasant fella)
Best Sportsman: Alex Fennell
Best Painted: Todd Boluc
Players Choice:Leland Smith (had a lovely deathwing army)
Best General: Terry Smith(the look on his face of shock was priceless)

Fantasy
Overall: Andy Small
Best Sportsman:Ronen Yair
Best Painted: John Leblanc
Players Choice: Luke Weissman(orges should win something every now and then )
Best General: Jarrett Messing

Painting Comp
Fantasy:
Gold:John Leblanc(wow arely discribes it)
silver: Lenny Caira
Bronze: Brian Mcmillan

40k:
Gold: I will have to look back as the name escapes me
Silver: Leland Smith
Bronze: Wyatt Traina

Empchild wrote:40k
Best Painted: Todd Boluc

Bolduc, actually. My handwriting is atrocius.


It was a really great first year event. I drove down from Maine for it, and was not disappointed. I faced some really great armies, both in list construction, and modelling/painting. I ran the Ultramarines featured in one of the 40Kpics taken by InquisitorMack, the shot with allthe Assault Marines bunched up between the Rhinos.

Some very very close games that were decided on the final turn, or on the roll of one or two dice. Made for awesome drama at the end of a game, win or lose. Personal favorite moment forme was the final turn of my final game, where I had one Assault Marine Sergeant sitting in the open after his whole squad had been blown up by ordnance and Vendetta lascannons. A Russ Demolisher opened up on him, and I had him go to ground to avoid giving up a killpoint. I needed that 6+ save...and I made it! Huzzah!

I placed 6th out of 20 entrants, and took the Best Painted award for 40K (by default, because I think better armies took higher awards, especially Wyatt Traina.)


Many thanks to Empchild and his helpers/cohorts for putting on the event. Overall, it was a very positive experience, and not because I was a winner taking home a trophy.
My one minor suggestion for next year would be to rent or borrow some sort of audio device, be it a PA system or a bullhorn, for making announcements.
Also, I took down the handwritten overall 40K placement list and forgot to hand it to you, Alex. If you want it, let me know and I'll email or PM its contents to you.

Is there a link to all the scoring and results?

I'm dying to know how my friend Jim did with his Dark Elves!

Yup thats me with the crazy beard. Thanks for the compliment. Had allot of fun hope everyone else did as well.

WHFB was posted separately from 40K, so I'm not sure on the overall points there. Iknow the WHFB organizer will be posting the scores someplace soon.