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AdeptiCon 2008 – April 11-13
Crown Plaza Hotel, Rosemont, IL (Just outside of Chicago)
Less than two weeks remain until AdeptiCon 2008, the “Can’t Miss” event of the year. Here’s the last bit of news before the Big Event!

Games Workshop Guest of Honor Spotlight
We caught up with Phil Kelly and asked him to respond to questions near and dear (or not) to the heart of every Games Workshop Hobbyist. Find out what you don’t have to ask him during the AdeptiCon weekend! View the spotlight at the link below:

http://www.adepticon.org/files/2008kelly.pdf

Three last minute Q&A sessions with Games Workshop Games Developer Phil Kelly have been added to the AdeptiCon 2008 events schedule. Each seminar is limited to 20 tickets.
Friday Events
2:30PM - 4:00PM - Phil Kelly Interactive Q&A Session
7:30PM - 9:00PM - Phil Kelly Interactive Q&A Session
Saturday Events
10:30AM - 12:30PM - Phil Kelly Interactive Q&A Session

Online Registration Closes on April 8th!
Online registration for AdeptiCon 2008 will close on April 8th at 1700 CST (5:00 PM Central time). After that, you can still register onsite on Friday, Saturday, or Sunday at AdeptiCon itself. But don’t risk missing out on the events of your choice – register online at http://www.adepticon.org/cart today!

Last chance to play – Tournament Waiting Lists
If you would like to get your name on a waiting list for an event that has sold out (i.e. is no longer available in the webcart), please send an email with your first and last name along with the event name to awc_nfp@yahoo.com.

The following events are sold out as o 04/02/08:
Lord of the Rings Team Tournament
Warhammer Fantasy Championships
Warhammer 40K Combat Patrol Tournament

Please Note: Waiting lists only apply to tournament events. There will not be a waiting list for free events, demos or seminars. Please feel free to stop by the Open Gaming area at any point over the weekend and they will do their best to fit you in to a game and/or introduce you to the people running the demos for an ad hoc session.

Master-Class Auction Entries
You’ve all seen the greens of this year’s limited edition AdeptiCon model. As in previous years, we’ve sent copies of the model to noted painters in the hobby (many of whom are teaching one or more of our Hobby Seminars) and will be auctioning off these superbly-painted figures at AdeptiCon 2008.

Click on the link below to go to our gallery of Masterclass Auction entries:
http://www.adepticon.org/gallery/main.php?g2_itemId=3809

Shop ‘til you Drop
AdeptiCon 2008’s vendor hall will feature many of our sponsors, listed below. In addition, the Games Workshop Chicago Battle Bunker will be offering many of their standard Games Workshop product, as well as making ForgeWorld products available onsite.

Companies:
Games Workshop
Forge World
Black Library
Gale Force 9
Blue Table Painting
The Warstore
Armorcast
Hammer and Brushing Painting
40K Radio

Win A Free Army!
All participants in one of our Warhammer Historical demos will be entered into a raffle for a chance to win a 2000 point Spartan army supplied by Artizan Designs, as well as a chance to be the first player with the new Romans from Wargames Factory. Remember, all demos are FREE with your AdeptiCon weekend badge.

Sponsor Highlight: Wargames Factory
Wargames Factory www.wargamesfactory.com is a new manufacturer of 28mm multi-part hard plastic miniatures suitable for Warhammer Ancient Battles, Field of Glory, and other historical battle games. The first sets releasing in late spring include Caesar's Legions and Celt Warband with 48 figures per box and retail for $29.95. Additional ranges will include Medieval English and French (Longbowmen, Men-at-Arms, Knights, and Crossbowmen), Imperial Romans, Ancient Greeks, and the armies of the Third Crusade. Miniatures are produced in 100% recycled hard polystyrene plastic and will be available at your local hobby store and TheWarStore.com.

See you at AdeptiCon 2008

Can someone please either:

Beg Phil Kelly to write the upcoming SM Codex for 5th ed.

or

Invent a time machine and make him do it, just in case he hasn't already?

Thanks!

Bah, Mr. Kelly gives his love only to the Xenos. Filthy, filthy xenos-lover

Pity I'll miss another Adepticon, always seems like a rocking time.

- Salvage

I'm looking forward to Armorcast.

uh I may sounds stupid for asking but who is phil kelly?

Among other things ...

Guy who wrote Codex: Tyranids, Codex: Eldar, Codex: Orks. Maybe other ones, but the xenos books that stomp across the tournament scene are all his babies.

- Salvage

Yeah have him write the SM Codex so that they can have that one, completely broken unit that everyone takes.

Good plan.

Ozymandias, King of Kings

Wouldn't it be nice to see terminators again, though? (and not in their donkey cannon spammage role)

Ozymandias wrote:Yeah have him write the SM Codex so that they can have that one, completely broken unit that everyone takes.

Good plan.

Ozymandias, King of Kings

I'm guessing you'd rather have Jervis write it then, and have all units suck equally, and not have it really matter what you took, because it won't be much fun either way?

Screw Obi Wan, I'm thinking Phil is our only hope!

Phil is the man.

He has been our only hope for a long time.

I can only hope Jervis gets booted, or goes to 'specialist' games (that's squat land for GW devs) and PK takes over.

He's been such a fun humor man for so long I can only hope he can keep it up for another decade without cracking like Jervis and Gav (and 5 other idiots) did.

oh I see. Cool.

agreed. Phil is 40K's last hope

The Hammer & Brush's weblink seems to be broken.

Alpharius wrote:

I'm guessing you'd rather have Jervis write it then, and have all units suck equally, and not have it really matter what you took, because it won't be much fun either way?

Screw Obi Wan, I'm thinking Phil is our only hope!

You mean an actually balanced codex with few ambiguities? Yes, I would. Tell me, can Stormboyz fleet? How about Nobz or Warbosses on bikes? How about Deff koptas? And for balance: What are the odds of killing a Holo-Falcon with a single Lascannon shot? How many Carnifex's can you fit into a 1500 point list? I find it immensely amusing that these travesties are written off and PK is adored in spite of them.

That being said, I think he can write a good codex, he just needs playtesting to keep him in check.

Ozymandias, King of Kings

Yes!

Exactly!

Right!

Er, huh?

GW won't pay for playtesting, Ozy.

If you haven't figured out the company is in the tank yet, and hasn't had proper playtesting of any sort for several years now, can I come smoke what your smoking?

I just need the spatial coordinates for whatever planet you're on, so I can beam myself up too.

Phil's the only one who seems to be able to develop the right creative vision and keep lists competitive while adhering to the general streamlining that's GW's current fad.

He hasn't been perfect, although at least one of his mistakes (Shock Troops) may have been forced upon him. And the Ork codex just needed a good proofreader. If you've never written professionally, it's pretty hard to proof your own work. You overlook mistakes and ambiguities because you know your meaning regardless of whether the copy says it clearly. Problems in the Ork codex are more of a failure of GW's editorial processes than a failure of creative vision.

And really, it's not like the CSM codex -- the paragon of meh -- is ambiguity-free. But it is free of an interesting or fresh creative vision, IMO.

How were 'Shock Troops' forced upon him?

Ozymandias wrote:And for balance: What are the odds of killing a Holo-Falcon with a single Lascannon shot?

No idea. I suck at math and the last Codex I boguht was the current Codex: Tyranids.

Ozymandias wrote:

Alpharius wrote:

I'm guessing you'd rather have Jervis write it then, and have all units suck equally, and not have it really matter what you took, because it won't be much fun either way?

Screw Obi Wan, I'm thinking Phil is our only hope!

You mean an actually balanced codex with few ambiguities? Yes, I would. Tell me, can Stormboyz fleet? How about Nobz or Warbosses on bikes? How about Deff koptas? And for balance: What are the odds of killing a Holo-Falcon with a single Lascannon shot? How many Carnifex's can you fit into a 1500 point list? I find it immensely amusing that these travesties are written off and PK is adored in spite of them.

That being said, I think he can write a good codex, he just needs playtesting to keep him in check.

Ozymandias, King of Kings

Yeah I wonder too. Phil Kelly is meh. If Jervis actually wrote everything it wouldn't be bad at all. It'd be like the third edition rulebook's army list which are pretty fun if played against each other.

Oh and that single lascannon shot kills a holo-falcon 1 out of 3 shots.

stonefox wrote:

If Jervis actually wrote everything it wouldn't be bad at all. It'd be like the third edition rulebook's army list which are pretty fun if played against each other.

Yikes!

That's all I have to hear, er, read...

We do NOT want the return of 3rd Edition.

Well, I know I don't want that...

It actually made me drop 40K until, well, 4th edition.

What's wrong with the army lists in the 3rd ed. rulebook? Try a few games with them sometime and you'll see they were pretty well balanced with one another.

He didn't say 3rd edition, he said 3rd edition codexes. Big difference. EDIT: Apparently I need reading comp too. I missed that he said the lists in the Army Book... Been a long time since I played with those.

Still, I like Phil, I saw him at LA GD (last year?) and he impressed me as someone who loves the game and wants to do right by it. I just don't get the ooohing and aaahing over his books which I don't feel have been that great. Steadily better, I'll admit, but not great.

Stelek: Once again, reading comprehension is your friend. I said that PK's work needs to be playtested. Time to get you some glasses or make the font bigger on your screen or something.

Ozymandias, King of Kings

I like Phil AND Jervis, myself. Let Jervis write the main rulebook and Phil write the Codices!

Pariah Press wrote: I like Phil AND Jervis, myself. Let Jervis write the main rulebook and Phil write the Codices!

Sounds like a good plan to me!

Probably too late for it to actually happen, but, well...