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The night before:

Those are the fantasy tables, right?

My buddy Eric Hagen made some hills for warhammer ancients this year because of the deplorable state of those hills used for ancients.

Not knocking adepticon at all, because its gotta be hard to make terrain for that many games and I am sure thy depend on a lot of people donating their time to make stuff for the event.

Anyways, if you see Hagen, tell him dat "orks is da best!" He will agree and you will have an instant friend.

Yeah, please tell me those are fantasy tables. I would hate to see the cavalcade of Adepticon BatReps arrive over the next couple of weeks and see nothing but bare tables in 40K games.

Those are the anti cover save 5th edition tables, lol.

Yeah, most of those tables are looking pretty sparse, terrain-wise.

Of course, there are a lot of tables in that picture, I can sympathize. But still....

H.B.M.C. wrote:Yeah, please tell me those are fantasy tables. I would hate to see the cavalcade of Adepticon BatReps arrive over the next couple of weeks and see nothing but bare tables in 40K games.

40K tables start at least Row 3 in that picture(those are grey Building Ruins).

Old Man Ultramarine wrote:Those are the anti cover save 5th edition tables, lol.

Yeah, Adepticon now has a tagline:

Adepticon - F**k your Orks!

Gonna be fun.

Yes, those are Fantasy tables. The terrain on the 40 tables still looks a little light to me, but I'm used to so much terrain that skimmers really do have an advantage.

Also, Sabol's Red Orktober (there's a scavenger hunt game to go along with it; you're given a list of bits, and you have to draw on a diagram of the ship as to where they are).

Wow iorek o_o


are you at that place right now?

Is the first picture a pretty good gauge of the size of the room or is that only a part?

Wow Orktober is bigger than I thought and thats an awesome way to mount it.

Sorry, what the hell is the huge beautiful orky thing?

sA

you just said what it is assassin

Im pretty sure they are going to play a game on it. I guess some parts lift away or something.

H.B.M.C. wrote:Adepticon - F**k your Orks!

Classic. I almost urinated....

From what I understand the hunt for Red Orctober is kinda like a Space hulk deal where a number of players running squads of Orcs and Marines fight it out. Could be wrong.

As far as the tables. Those are definatly not the 40K tables. The 40K tables were almost all primarily done at my LFGS. By Dave Creswell, Brett Malone (owners of Cap. City Games in Spfld., IL) and literally a "TON" of volunteers. Adepticon is one of if not the biggest independent con in the US and you gotta respect the ludicrous amount of effort that goes into it.

I'll be there this weekend; but wont be arriving until tonight around 5. Thanks for the early bird pics.

H.B.M.C. wrote:

Old Man Ultramarine wrote:Those are the anti cover save 5th edition tables, lol.

Yeah, Adepticon now has a tagline:

Adepticon - F**k your Orks!

QFT

What I was thinking last night. Awesome.

H.B.M.C. wrote:

Old Man Ultramarine wrote:Those are the anti cover save 5th edition tables, lol.

Yeah, Adepticon now has a tagline:

Adepticon - F**k your Orks!

With the subtitle:
btw, Yakface plays Tau!

I'm sad that I cancelled my trip, but there's more important things than toy soldiers. Adepticon is always a great time.

@ dietrich with sarcasm......

But really is there anything more important than dollies and greasy old men for the weekend.

LOL

I didn't have anyone to go with and didn't want to run hotel myself. Then today, I stop at store in my hometown and hear owner went to Adepticon and then recall he offered me spot in his room. I felt a tear on my cheek!

Damnit to hell, I say

Old Man Ultramarine wrote:I didn't have anyone to go with and didn't want to run hotel myself. Then today, I stop at store in my hometown and hear owner went to Adepticon and then recall he offered me spot in his room.

Beware of old men who play with dollies who offer to allow you to sleep in their quarters.

The first time with Malfred was the last time.

Malfred is an old man?

No, but he IS a paedo.

You sexy beast you, Malf! Those blissful nights. Those suppositories that resulted.

jflesch wrote:The 40K tables were almost all primarily done at my LFGS. By Dave Creswell, Brett Malone (owners of Cap. City Games in Spfld., IL) and literally a "TON" of volunteers.

So, what, like ~5 of your average gamers?

Must be busy since no new pics up yet!

GMMStudios wrote:Wow Orktober is bigger than I thought and thats an awesome way to mount it.

I thought of several better ways to mount it, but for some reason the cops disagreed...

Adepticon Friday for me:

1. I live in the city, and yet I missed my turn and ended up taking an extra hour to get there.
   
2. Tried to get breakfast, was told it would be cash only at the drive thru. And I was still lost at the time.
   
3. Line during the first hour to pick up packets was long.
   
4. Yakface pretended to talk to me so I wouldn't feel lonely.
   
5. Spent minutes searching the Red Orktober for something called a "master battery".
   
6. Made fun of AncientSociety for playing a girl in Combat Patrol and losing. Sexism demanded that I'd get to make fun of him if he won, too.
   
7. I think that's how people feel when they play me, though.
   
8. Armorcast guys were trying to talk up some new Techwalk stuff they had in the works. They knew they had me.
   
9. Realized I hadn't brought extra deodorant and I was still hungry.
   
10. Dragged Grand Preceptor to Target and bought food.
    
11. Forgot the extra deodorant.
    
12. While I was buying food at Target, they opened the concession stands.
    
13. Told that no outside food was allowed in the ballroom.
    
14. Lorek and AgeofEgos stalked me through my purse. I should have taken a picture with them but wanted to leave no evidence.
    
15. Plastic Legions John gave me his old army tray to display the Wood Elves.
    
16. The tray was too big. No wonder he made a new one!
    
17. Tried to pretend that my Wood Elf army belonged in that room filled with beautifully worked armies.
    
18. Realized I had no "objective marker" for the tournament.
    
19. Stole one of Mannahin's.
    
20. Got spanked by a Warriors of Chaos army at a thousand points.
    
21. Two local gamers in the seminary stopped by to say hi. They had their Deacon gear on. I asked them to hang around in case I had to face Undead.
    
22. Got spanked by a Vampire Counts army at two thousand points.
    
23. No Deacons to be found.
    
24. Stalked one of Janthkin's games with his cool metallic Eldar.
    
25. Got spanked by a Vampire Counts army at three thousand points.
    
26. No Deacons to be found.
    
27. During the tournament, I stared at an opponent's crotch long enough to inform him to zip up his fly.
    
28. Asked Centurion99 if I could play with my models on Red Orktober , and he told me he would kick me in the nuts just because.
    
29. Ran because yakface asked me out on a date. With the other guys, that is. Wait, that sounds ickier...
    
    

Yes, more pics tomorrow. Sleep now...

Maybe I'll make it out next year. It always looks like a good time.

Is there much non-GW action to be had? How about Specialist Games like Mordheim and Battlefleet: Gothic?

Oh, just bring your 40k!

Lotr is big. Epic doesn't get too many, and BFG gets a few.

AncientSociety runs the Necromunda, so you can message him to find out how that
went. I'm not so sure on Mordheim.

malfred wrote:Oh, just bring your 40k!

Oh, alright....

Maybe I can get enough of a current edition army painted up by next year...although it's been so long since I played 40k I'm pretty sure whatever I bring would get annihilated. I guess I could probably play Fantasy too, if I wanted to go the "mainstream" route.


Of course, if anyone is planning on some Flames of War or Warmachine/Hordes for next year, that'd just be swell.