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Two months to the day till the tournament.

Here is my 3rd edition Space Marines which are PIP that I am using for the tourny. All the vehicle are MK1.

 Pipboy101 wrote:
Here is my 3rd edition Space Marines which are PIP that I am using for the tourny. All the vehicle are MK1.

dude this is awesome, im jealous haha! gotta love the old MK1s way better imo

Yep, I love the MK1 chassis. All of the tanks were saved from people on EBay. They were very easy to repair. You should have seen some of them which were a total mess.

Almost one month till the tournament and everything is still a go. Only need to finish of things on the bases and the army is done. I am so looking foward to this.

The tournament is this Saturday. I am going to try and set up late on Friday so all the tables are ready to go. Hope there is a good turn out. See you all then.

What a bust. After alot of people said and promised to be there last week only one of the owners that help set this up and I showed up. The weather was not a factor, parking was not a factor and resources were not a factor. One of the people that promised popped in not to apologize but to tell use how bad the Hobbit movie was. Well I posted on the FB for the community that I had a special prize for first place that I was keeping under wraps that would have been on top of the normal prizes, a $300.00 sword. My messages blew up from therlse same people wanting to hold the tournament again.

I spent nine months building an army, putting together calculators for all the dexes and advertising getting this thing ready. I spent nine month and the people that promised to be there can't even pull themselves away to keep a promise for several hour. F U people!

 Pipboy101 wrote:
What a bust. After alot of people said and promised to be there last week only one of the owners that help set this up and I showed up. The weather was not a factor, parking was not a factor and resources were not a factor. One of the people that promised popped in not to apologize but to tell use how bad the Hobbit movie was. Well I posted on the FB for the community that I had a special prize for first place that I was keeping under wraps that would have been on top of the normal prizes, a $300.00 sword. My messages blew up from therlse same people wanting to hold the tournament again.

I spent nine months building an army, putting together calculators for all the dexes and advertising getting this thing ready. I spent nine month and the people that promised to be there can't even pull themselves away to keep a promise for several hour. F U people!

Sorry man! As a local I could of rallied some support for this and perhaps showed up this weekend because it was a rare weekend where I was free. For these kind of tournaments you have to be very proactive putting out constant reminders. Between escalation dropping and the hobbit releasing this weekend I doubt there was much 40k going on at all. Cant speak for others but escalation has kind of put a damper and uncertainty in the game for me.

I'm sorry to hear that.

It sucks hard to see an event not work out...

nkelsch wrote:
God, I remember how sick the ork Speed freek codex was... Burnas everywhere, 1 turn assaults, Choppas...

Don't forget the kustom forcefield vehicle blobs with their bubble invulnerable save for vehicles with its range measured from the vehicle the mek was riding in.

I rather liked 3rd edition holofield falcons with starcannons.

The sad thing is that I put it out there almost every week. Talk to everyone I could and we had alot of people that said they were going to show that honestly lived 5 miles away. How much of a nerd do you have to be to break a promise because you can't wait till the evening showing of the hobbit.

Sorry to hear this, sounded like it could have been a fun event. Nerds can be tremendous flakes sometimes.

I feel for you man, that would have been mint.

I'd say screw 'em, the people in your area are donkey-caves and unfortunately that seems to be the norm =(

Damn, dude, that sucks! I just found this thread and the idea was awesome. Third Ed. was good times.