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Necrons it is. New and improved from the qualifiers of course. Did you decide on Anoka OMU? If so, I hope you grab a t3 with me. See everyone saturday, and GL all.

Dashofpepper wrote:I'm bringing squats.

Do eeeeeeeeeeeeeet!

If you win the tourney with squats counts-ased, i'll buy you something... god knows what, but i'll buy it, and post it to you, so help me.

General Hobbs wrote:

don_mondo wrote:Over 300 miles to the nearest semi location, I don't think any of our local winners are travelling. Nine stores in VA held prelims, but zero semi locations in the state.

Its 300 miles to Philly?

Dunno....if you are going to Showcase Comics, have fun!

Showcase is in Philly? We thought it was Pittsburgh for some reason. So 160 miles insn't too bad............. Course, I never get to play anyways, I'm always the guy that runs the local event. Flying home for my mother's 70th birthday this weekend anyways.
And I think most of our local players are attending a local charity tourney this weekend instead of driving to Ard Boyz.

asugradinwa wrote:If anyone is comming up to Woodinville, there is a GREAT breakfast place in Maltby about 10 minutes away called the Maltby Cafe, they have the biggest Cinnamon Rolls I've ever seen! If anyone comming up wants to split a roll then send me a PM and we can meet up that morning.

Thanks for the tip! Dunno if I'll make breakfast, but hopefully we'll draw each other in one of the rounds. I'll be the guy with the (mostly) converted Daemons.

asugradinwa wrote:I'm 95% sure I'll bring my Salamanders, however, there is a part of me that thinks Tau could be very good given the missions. All 18 spots for the semi finals in WA are taken. I just hope I don't run into jet bike Eldar in the 2nd mission.

I think that Ernie's took a while to fill up because it's the same weekend as the OFCC, an invitational 2 day tournament with 80+ players.

The location I'll be playing at also lost a decent chunk of the actual winners from the first round because of another invetational tourny being hosted the same weekend as the second round of Ard Boyz. On the bright side I guess I'll be playing a decent amount of lower ranked players. We'll see if that helps my 45 KP ultrablue's win again. NOTE: I Managed to find away to put more kill points in the army than I did for the first round! So now its 45 KP for the first round of the semi's. I've maxed out every FO slot available to me.

See you in the semi's!

Tau got me into the semis and it'll be what I'm taking, I have no idea what everyone else is showing up with although I know one of the other guys is bring Kan Wall Orks.

I was going to bring out the CC Nidzilla again, but I am pretty much skipping the semis this time around.

Why for Phazael?

Actually, I don't have squats to bring. :(

I'm bringing the 286 Ork swarm of doom.

I'm taking Ghazzy led Mech Orks (i know, how creative). Me and another guy have to drive up into Arkansas because GW would not let our local store hold the semi-finals.

Kitzz wrote:Necrons it is. New and improved from the qualifiers of course. Did you decide on Anoka OMU? If so, I hope you grab a t3 with me. See everyone saturday, and GL all.

Nah, I'm going to Springfield, IL

I know of 5+ people from my area going to Anoka.

Heading to Battleforge in Austin.only a 3 hour trip.should be fun playing my SM instead of Necrons this year.

Toxxic wrote:I'm taking Ghazzy led Mech Orks (i know, how creative). Me and another guy have to drive up into Arkansas because GW would not let our local store hold the semi-finals.

Arkansas is actually a great place if you get away from Little Rock (one of many armpits of the world). I'd love to know what decision process GW used to determine Semi-Final locations.

Pretty sure it was a dartboard with first round store names on it

That sounds suspiciously accurate, knowing what the events team over here is like, hulk. Have you been spying again?

(And if you have, whats the release date for the next necron codex? )

Nobody_Holme wrote:That sounds suspiciously accurate, knowing what the events team over here is like, hulk. Have you been spying again?

(And if you have, whats the release date for the next necron codex? )

The Events team (ie Games Day planners/organizers) had nothing to do with it. The Ard Boyz is a Retail (Trade Sales?) operation. Locations were determined by Retail, not Events. When I tried to get an answer as to why VA, with 9 prelims, didn't have a semi location while PA, with 7 prelims, does have a semi location, I didn't really get any answer other than maybe we'll switch it around next time.......

Oh. Trolls are useless.

Who the hell let the trolls organise a tournament?

(for the un-initiated, the trolls are the chaps in sales, usually reffering to the callcentre blokes)

Simply put: Just like all my other competitive play, I'm taking first... err I mean Orks.

On a slightly more serious note, I kinda look forward to getting beaten. Been a while, and from what I've heard I'll be having a pretty good chance of it at Phoenix down here in the ATL(ish).

Nurgleboy77 wrote:Good luck to everyone (unless you are in Cleveland, TN!)!

I'll see you there with 2 in tow!

Heading to Battleforge in Austin.only a 3 hour trip.should be fun playing my SM instead of Necrons this year.

I'm also heading to Battleforge in Austin. I have to drive from Baton Rouge LA, its about a 6-8 hour drive.... so.... yeah... should be fun!

Hulksmash wrote:Why for Phazael?

Variety of reasons. I have to get the stuff ready for the Fantasy Slaughter, for which there is going to be a test run with BBQ at one of the league's house Saturday. I also am not much of a fan of the venue and the pro-smurf direction that the game has taken pretty much has deflated a lot of my interest in the game. I enjoy rolling out the big bugs, but I just don't feel like going 3-0 again in the semis and not advance because of people point trading and myself not playing cutthroat enough.

don_mondo wrote:

General Hobbs wrote:

don_mondo wrote:Over 300 miles to the nearest semi location, I don't think any of our local winners are travelling. Nine stores in VA held prelims, but zero semi locations in the state.

Its 300 miles to Philly?

Dunno....if you are going to Showcase Comics, have fun!

Showcase is in Philly? We thought it was Pittsburgh for some reason. So 160 miles insn't too bad............. Course, I never get to play anyways, I'm always the guy that runs the local event. Flying home for my mother's 70th birthday this weekend anyways.
And I think most of our local players are attending a local charity tourney this weekend instead of driving to Ard Boyz.

Mondo, Please remind me to slap you silly, the next time we're drinking beer at the Wharf Rat. No wonder you never come up to visit. )

41 confirmed for the semi-finals in PA, at the moment. A few have called to drop out, and I haven't heard if replacements are on the way.

Edit: Make that 44 now. Finished 4 tables today. Time to make 2 more tomorrow. How many folks are going register on the last day??

Nobody_Holme wrote:That sounds suspiciously accurate, knowing what the events team over here is like, hulk. Have you been spying again?

(And if you have, whats the release date for the next necron codex? )

As all good students of GW procrastination know, the next necron codex is always coming out a year from whatever day it is. DE are the same.