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AdeptiCon 2008 Retrospective
Hobbyists from around the world attended AdeptiCon 2008. If you didn’t attend, here’s your chance to see what the excitement is all about, with the AdeptiCon 2008 Retrospective, the annual look at what happened, who walked away a champion, and what the new standards of painting, modeling, and converting are.

AdeptiCon 2008 Retrospective
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AdeptiCon 2009 Dates and Location Announced!
AdeptiCon returns April 3 – 5, 2009 for its seventh year of Games Workshop miniature wargaming madness. Mark your calendars, put in for the time off work, and start making your travel plans, because AdeptiCon just keeps growing bigger and better!

This year we will be moving to the Westin Lombard Yorktown Center in Lombard, IL, located just outside of Chicago.

AdeptiCon 2009 Hotel Information
The Westin Lombard Yorktown Center

70 Yorktown Center
Lombard, Illinois 60148
Phone: (630) 719-8000
Fax: (630) 719-8079
AdeptiCon Room Rate: $109.00/night
Group rate available until March 11, 2009 (Subject to availability)
Parking: Free

Reservations can be made by calling the The Westin Lombard Yorktown Center directly (1-630-719-8000) or by visiting the AdeptiCon 2009 Online Reservation Center.

Full details of our new host can be found on the Hotel Information page.

Join the AdeptiCon 2009 Staff!
Become a part of the AdeptiCon 2009 team! With all the extra space we’re going to have in 2009, we’re looking for volunteers who are excited and passionate about the hobby to help us continue AdeptiCon’s tradition of excellence.

We are looking for volunteers in the following areas:
• Operations Staff (Setup, Registration, Tech Support, Breakdown)
• 40K Tournament/Event Staff
• Fantasy Tournament/Event Staff
• Specialist Games Tournament/Event Staff
• Hobby Seminar Instructors
• Communications *
• Terrain Building (Chicago-area residency required) *
*These groups perform the majority of their work before AdeptiCon. All other groups do their work during the AdeptiCon weekend itself.

Note that with one exception (the Terrain Group), Chicago-area residency is NOT required, so no matter where you live you can help make AdeptiCon 2009 happen!

E-mail adeptuswindycity@gmail.com today with your name, contact info, and areas in which you’d be particularly interested in volunteering. A member of the AdeptiCon Council will get in touch with you. Planning for AdeptiCon 2009 begins in earnest, so join the team today!


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I know a lot of this info is already posted, but I wanted to officially post it here.

Pretty armies. Pretty. Pretty.

Who did the blue and red SoBs? I'm loving the scratchbuilt Exorcist launchers!

The PH EC's with the old school turbofan jumppacks are sweet, too. That's a labor of love to collect and/or convert all of those!

The WHFB Ork Warboss on a "Bike" rocks!

Hot Exodites!

those sisters would be Corey Hink's, a wrecking crew mwmber

I FINALLY know what Mannahnin looks like!

You think a man with the name of Ragnar would play Space Wolves, but that is not the case.

Nice article. I love reading these even though I was there....its fun checking out all the pics and reliving a bit....

like the pic on page 5 where I'm taking one of the Toledo boys out of the Gladiator running! hehe 4th edition falcons HATE exorcists! (I got lucky)

Sweet article centurian 99

Thanks. Apologies on it being so late this year. RL is kicking my butt.

Out of curiosity...would there be interest in a professionally printed/bound Retrospective. Something for next year, obviously, but it would be something that people could pre-order at AdeptiCon and receive in the mail 6-8 wks later.

heheh sounds like a high school year book!!!! I bring last years and get everyone to sign em heheheh...

I am glad you have established your dates so far ahead of time. It makes it easier on me when setting up the Exterminatus for next year. Figures you would pick a hotel I don't have a rewards program with hehehe. Is there food around this place this time or do we eat a lot of frozen pizza again heheh?!?!

Frozen pizza? You ate frozen pizza while at Adepticon last year? We lived off Giordonos, what the hell was wrong with you?

Fishboy wrote:heheh sounds like a high school year book!!!! I bring last years and get everyone to sign em heheheh...

I am glad you have established your dates so far ahead of time. It makes it easier on me when setting up the Exterminatus for next year. Figures you would pick a hotel I don't have a rewards program with hehehe. Is there food around this place this time or do we eat a lot of frozen pizza again heheh?!?!

More restaurants than you can shake a stick at, of whatever style you want, pretty much. And that's just within 10 minutes walking distance.

The whole thing looks like it was an amazing day, truly spectacular. I'm almost seething with envy.

thanks for the retrospective package, it's well weapon and looks really well done.

I hope it's alright ( tough if it's not actually ) I'm gonna steal and pass all this info on.

thanks again !

Frozen pizza? You ate frozen pizza while at Adepticon last year? We lived off Giordonos, what the hell was wrong with you?

Yeah me and a thousand other people hehehe. The only thing we knew was around was that damn place in the hotel and it was way overpriced heheh. I saw some guys that had ordered out and was just disgusted heheheheh. After I get two or three of these under my belt Ill get the hang of the local food sources heheh.

The guys who regularly go to Adepticon from Minneapolis are pretty excited about next year.

I hear rumours that such games as Legends of the High Seas will be played there.

If this is true, I may forgo everything else there just to play this.

Hellfury wrote:The guys who regularly go to Adepticon from Minneapolis are pretty excited about next year.

I hear rumours that such games as Legends of the High Seas will be played there.

If this is true, I may forgo everything else there just to play this.

There was lots of Warhammer Historical going on, including High Seas, Old West, The Chicago Way, and Ancient Battles.

One of the Executive Committee members is a HUGE historicals fan.

Hellfury,

Additionally the guy that wrote Legends of the High Seas will be back again this year and running games again.

Yeah, I heard from Eric Hagen that Tim was there last year. I am soooo going this year.

My only critique on the retrospective is the lack of coverage on the Circuit Invitational. The winner's pictures aren't even there. For those of us that played in it, it certainly was a challenging and worthwhile event. Playing against the best in the country is no cake-walk. That at least should warrant the same coverage the RTT got.