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NOVA 2011 looks to be shaping up to a very good time.

Ratius wrote:If its possible to attend I'd be travelling from Ireland.
Logistically it would be a nightmare to ship my armies despite the best efforts of our carry-case friends :p

If you're looking to bring a 2000pt army, I always find that mine fits comfortably within an army case which fits airline carry-on luggage size restrictions. I always fly with my army in carry-on. The Sabol Army Transport fits exactly within the required dimensions. I believe the Battlefoam equivalent also does (maybe a touch smaller, but with more efficient tray layout). And of course, a regular GW case also does, if you have a particularly compact army which can fit in one of those. Of course, if you've just got DE full of Raiders or something, even the larger cases probably won't quite do it.

Mannahnin wrote:

Ratius wrote:If its possible to attend I'd be travelling from Ireland.
Logistically it would be a nightmare to ship my armies despite the best efforts of our carry-case friends :p

If you're looking to bring a 2000pt army, I always find that mine fits comfortably within an army case which fits airline carry-on luggage size restrictions. I always fly with my army in carry-on. The Sabol Army Transport fits exactly within the required dimensions. I believe the Battlefoam equivalent also does (maybe a touch smaller, but with more efficient tray layout). And of course, a regular GW case also does, if you have a particularly compact army which can fit in one of those. Of course, if you've just got DE full of Raiders or something, even the larger cases probably won't quite do it.

I am still researching how exactly I am going to cram 3 Vendettas and a bunch of tanks (and ~60 infantry) into airline carryon lugguage. You should see some of the diagrams I have been working on trying to maximize those two bags you can take! I am so jealous of Deathwing armies right now...

Fearspect wrote:I am still researching how exactly I am going to cram 3 Vendettas and a bunch of tanks (and ~60 infantry) into airline carryon lugguage. You should see some of the diagrams I have been working on trying to maximize those two bags you can take! I am so jealous of Deathwing armies right now...

Hahaha, who would have thought travel and 'carry on luggage' would have been a form of army comp to prevent leafblowers

Has anyone ever tried shipping their army via fedex to your hotel or something? We do it all the time for business travel, I assume if you ship yourself a package at the hotel you are staying at they can hold it for you until you arrive.

I believe the Hyatt has this service like most hotels do; I also believe Dash of Pepper is looking into doing it with them.

It's actually a pretty legit idea, for those who are flying (which I recommend if you can get a good flight, since the hotel has shuttle service to DCA and the Metro, and everything is on site or within a short walk to any of the billion bars near there).


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http://whiskey40k.blogspot.com/2011/03/warmachine-and-hordes-nova-open.html

Warmachine / Hordes announcement for the Open

People do that for Adepticon every year, especially for bigger army displays for the team tourney. Works great.

FYI, Warmachine / Hordes priced set appropriately within the next 5 to $20 for the weekend's events (+35 for the badge).

Full Details coming soon, but sign up for your Hyatt reservations if you haven't yet.

A couple of notes here -

First, you can reserve your room by following this link, and/or calling the Hyatt.
https://resweb.passkey.com/Resweb.do?mode=welcome_gi_new&groupID=3217963

Second, sign up for a free Hyatt Gold Member Card at the Hyatt website if you haven't - it'll get you a few free nice perks, I use it and love it personally when traveling. It's similar to most other major hotel chain "cards."

Third, do please reserve a room at the Hyatt - it saves you a lot of time and energy, situates you near where everything is going down, and helps the con - in case you weren't aware, all of the major GT's that operate in hotels work off a room sales contract of some sort ... the more rooms we rent, the more prize support we can generate, the less cash it costs the organizers to run it, and thus the higher likelihood we can afford to keep running them!


Finally, and most importantly, we'll be holding a raffle on Sunday afternoon of the GT. Anyone who reserves and actually stays in hotel rooms will get a number of raffle tickets directly proportional to the # of nights they stay, and how far in advance they reserve. Reserving is free, so do it sooner than later. The raffle will include up to a $1,000 cash prize, simply for staying at the Hyatt during the GT.

Invitational Points size set at 1,750
Malifaux events added throughout the weekend for same rate
"Etc."

http://whiskey40k.blogspot.com/2011/04/nova-updates-new-website-incoming-as.html

MVBrandt wrote:

I was pretty pumped, until I saw it was a Warhammer 4000 event.

/sad panda


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Aside from that, I'm trying to pull some strings so I can go.

Warhammer 40,000, Fantasy, Malifaux, Warmahordes, to be precise.

He was goofing on your banner which has a typo!

Man, I was going to go, but I don't want to buy a whole new army and learn a whole new game system.

lol i never saw that... warahmmer 4000.... only preheresy armies please

It's the best game ever. I have to give credit to DaBoyz forum, for catching this first. I have to give criticism to myself for not doing two things subsequently:

1) Replacing the image with the new and accurate one everywhere!
2) Not getting zee joke.

frgsinwntr wrote:lol i never saw that... warahmmer 4000.... only preheresy armies please

New strategy for my Nova 2011 run: DQ opponents on not being wysiwyg.

"It's the year 4,000 bucko, they didn't have your fancy modern power armor yet. Change it."

Now I have the futurama song stuck in my head...

In the year 105-105,

If man is still alive,

If robots can survive,

They may find...

I guess the question is now.... do all of my things that had the logo on it last year have 4000 on them or 40000?

They have 40,000 on them! Haha, oh typos, how I hate thee.

targetawg wrote:

frgsinwntr wrote:lol i never saw that... warahmmer 4000.... only preheresy armies please

New strategy for my Nova 2011 run: DQ opponents on not being wysiwyg.

"It's the year 4,000 bucko, they didn't have your fancy modern power armor yet. Change it."

And then you run into my RT models IG army..................

The NOVA's website will be updated this week, primer packets for Team Tournament will FOR REAL be out.

We still have approximately 40 spots left in the singles 40k event due to up/down fluctuation.

Cool news, that I can't talk more about yet, but a certain well-known author from across the pond is increasingly likely to be in attendance and involved all convention long, as well as potentially some southern developers of high repute.

What happened to your normal handle Mike? All in all sounds like good stuff though. Now if I could focus long enough to pick an army I'd be good

I guess I have two handles on Dakka and simply didn't realize it.

*question answered*

Went hunting again and found the post with the link about the reservation raffle. I was just checking to see how it would be handled but noticed the link mentioned you were still working it out. Registering tomorrow so I will keep checking to see if anything additional needs to be done before arrival.

The raffle is *almost* finished in terms of nuance, but you're looking at some random items, 4 x $250 cash, 1 x $1,000 cash, and your # of tickets = the # of nights you stay factored by how far in advance you reserve.

So, if you're coming to / attending the NOVA, reserve a hotel room, is basically how it goes. Link to reservation is on frontpage of the site, and will still be there when the new site is rolled out in the next day or so.

Let me know if I can help out w/ reg questions, should you have any.

New website now live, content going live over the next day or so; purchasing of tickets still available, still have tickets for the 40k GT, though are starting to look scarce.

Fantasy will be 2,500 points; NOVA bracketing approach, initial offering of 32 spots, 5 rounds Sat/Sun; will be open for sale by Monday.

MVBrandt wrote:Fantasy will be 2,500 points; NOVA bracketing approach, initial offering of 32 spots, 5 rounds Sat/Sun; will be open for sale by Monday.

The IFL still has some fantasy players, I'm going to cross reference this on our forum.

MVBrandt wrote:
So, if you're coming to / attending the NOVA, reserve a hotel room, is basically how it goes. Link to reservation is on frontpage of the site, and will still be there when the new site is rolled out in the next day or so.

Let me know if I can help out w/ reg questions, should you have any.

I might be dense, but I go to the link:
https://resweb.passkey.com/ux/LodgingselectPageAction_ux.do

And I don't seem to be able to find any rooms for the 26-28, are they all reserved?

nkelsch wrote:

MVBrandt wrote:
So, if you're coming to / attending the NOVA, reserve a hotel room, is basically how it goes. Link to reservation is on frontpage of the site, and will still be there when the new site is rolled out in the next day or so.

Let me know if I can help out w/ reg questions, should you have any.

I might be dense, but I go to the link:
https://resweb.passkey.com/ux/LodgingselectPageAction_ux.do

And I don't seem to be able to find any rooms for the 26-28, are they all reserved?

I just gave it a shot myself (I've already reserved) to check it out, this is the link off the novaopen page

https://resweb.passkey.com/Resweb.do?mode=welcome_ei_new&eventID=3099951&utm_source=10336&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=3957408

Select "attendee" then your days, and you should get rooms. I only saw king bed rooms (109.00 a night, still great deal for the area), + some other more expensive swank rooms, but I know there were (and may still be) rooms with two double beds. Have to wait for MVB for that portion