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During holidays, unless I actually go on holiday, I'm free pretty much whenever, so weds and weekends will be fine with me. As long as you me know what sort of game you want beforehand so I can come up with an appropriate list, i.e. if you are going for a knight army, trialling a titan, fun list, tournament practice etc.

Ah cool, I'm restarting my old tiny Tau collection from when I used to collect back in 3rd/4th ed. I'm looking for some 500pt starter games. By then I should have enough built (but not exactly painted...) to play a 750pt game if that's? It's been that long I'm practically a fresh starter though

Ok, that's no problem and can easily squeeze in inbetween bigger games. Well if you are around on the Saturday find us and say hello, that is me in the avatar (I won't have the missus on my back, and ive now got slightly less hair), and I'll have an army of yellow ork killa kans and deff dredds. We'll go from there.

I'll see you there then. I'll probably have short hair, short beard and slightly confused look on my face

Just throwing this up, JamesY, could you could make two lists? 1500 and 2000, and I'll do 1500 and 1000, so if Madden makes it, we could team up and play against you, and if not, no harm, no foul?

I'd offer to do 1500 and 2000 but you don't want to see me do 2000 of IG with only 3 tanks and the rest lasguns.

Yeah no problem, I can go up as high as necessary. It'll be a power armoured army in that case, which is no problem as it'll give me the opportunity to try out the crimson fists I'm working on. On a very sad note, I just broke up fluid nozzle on my airbrush whilst painting them, £22 to replace :(

Erk, that's an ouch!

And cheers, I shall enjoy bouncing my lasers off said power armor.
No sarcasm, I'm just a very bad player.

Ah brilliant, Buttery. A 1v2 like that sounds like it would be a good laugh

Sorry to hear about the breakage JamesY :\

@ buttery to me bad players are those who throw models or sulk when things don't go their way. Good players are the ones that make sure we both have a fun game. I'm sure you are a very good player.

@ Madden cheers mate, the part has been ordered so hopefully I'll be spraying again in no time. If you want to bring more than 500 points just say, I can match whatever you want to bring.

Oh, I didn't mean to set the values! I just thought 4000 betwixt three would be roughly small enough to make sure we got a few turns in. I don't know!

I do think you're right, but to qualify as a player it's possibly required that you know the rules.

There are certain rules that I'm seriously struggling to grasp, even though they're logical and people have explained again and again (and again). I hope it sinks in, but I fear I frustrate people.
I do know the order of play, the whys and how's, I just flat out can't grasp armor/saves/pen.

That turned into way more of a gripe than intended, but it's weird realising you're out of practise learning how to do something.

 Buttery Commissar wrote:
Oh, I didn't mean to set the values! I just thought 4000 betwixt three would be roughly small enough to make sure we got a few turns in. I don't know!

I do think you're right, but to qualify as a player it's possibly required that you know the rules.

There are certain rules that I'm seriously struggling to grasp, even though they're logical and people have explained again and again (and again). I hope it sinks in, but I fear I frustrate people.
I do know the order of play, the whys and how's, I just flat out can't grasp armor/saves/pen.

That turned into way more of a gripe than intended, but it's weird realising you're out of practise learning how to do something.

Ha ha, don't worry Buttery, I just meant because he'd said he had 500-750 point that he could bring the extra 250, I had no intention of contradicting you, or trying to turn it into a 'big' game

And don't worry about not knowing rules, that's no problem. I spend my days with 180 teenagers without getting frustrated (much), you not knowing all the rules to a very complicated game really won't be a problem.

I think some of it is that I haven't been in education for nearly a decade, I forgot how to take things in. I ended up with cue cards for my units, for my ref and quick ref for opponents.
That and it's a dog of a system to learn if you didn't come up through older editions.

I picked up the daemon codex to play Slaanesh, and no word of a lie, I'm considering returning it because the sheer number of things to remember makes me feel very very stupid.

Depending what happens between now and then it may well be my first game in 10+ years and even then I only had a few with my old IG army. So my rules knowledge isnt exactly polished lol.

Id be happy to do 500pts it may be too much of a struggle to get the 750pts together by then. Im pretty slow when it comes to the assembly

Ok, well 1500 it is then. I'll either bring my old tried and tested Grey Knights that are fully painted, or the Crimson fists that might only have a base coat of blue on them?

Eh, stick with 2000, I can pick up the slack with some stuff from the box. Either Daemons that I can lend you Madden, or there's some bits I can pull out.

I only have one figure case, so it all comes with me regardless.

2000 it is.

Might have to dust off the land raider.

Thanks Buttery but I will definitely have 500pts by then. But I guess chaos daemons would make a good stand in for kroot if im faced with disaster

Oh! I'm tired as hell. You're Tau, not daemons!

I have a box of 30 painted and based Kroot you may use, plus a shaper. I'll check exact numbers.

Haha I was wondering if youd gotten mixed up.

And thatd be brilliant if I could borrow those. That way I could probably make 750pts then.

It's definitely 30, minimum. I'll know on Friday when I get home.

Did someone mention daemons?

Thought I'd mention here that I'll be heading up to WHW on the 23rd or 24th of Jan with Madden hopefully! (Though I might be jumping the gun a little bit mentioning it, only swapped a couple of messages :O) More the merrier if anyone else would be free!

I'll be there with a friend on the 23rd.
Enjoy your paranoia of where I am in the room.

By the sounds of things buttery, you'll be easily identifiable as the guy being backed into a corner by a nutcase trying to touch your bolt shells...

 JamesY wrote:
By the sounds of things buttery, you'll be easily identifiable as the guy being backed into a corner by a nutcase trying to touch your bolt shells...

I'm far more likely to be awkwardly ignored at WHW, anything girly causes widespread silence/clamming up from British players (I've had more conversations with exuberant Europeans than Brits in all my times visiting).

The staff would be out like whippets if anything kicked off like in that topic, I'm happy to say.

Yep definitely down for the 23rd too. I'll be around for a short while this saturday morning too having a game with a guy who agreed to show me the ropes before xmas. So atleast I will be a bit better versed in the rules by the time I have my games with you guys.

Odd that Ive gone a couple months since starting and not seen much activity about games at whw and then everyones coming from all angles haha

Nutcase..? Bolt Shells..? I may be missing something here.

Edit: Also how frowned upon is it having crisis suits (temporarily) held together with blutac?

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/673506.page

In my teenage years, I attracted a lot of unwanted situations.
It's thankfully not followed me for the rest of my life. Possibly because I am relatively gender ambiguous, and I hang out with better people.

Oh crap that's bad. I only played a little when I was in my early teens/tweens. There was some strange ones but never that strange. Since being back I've still yet to meet a proper fruitcake, but then again I haven't been back long

I'm still not sure how I'd react to an overly angry player either. I guess that will come in time :S

Edit: Scrap the original message - are you all playing on the 6th or 7th?

On Sunday the earliest train gets in to Notts at 11am, whereas Saturday's are earlier.

I have a 1000pts of Sisters (based and primed)...

@Shane BC, AEIOU and myself are playing Saturday morning. It's BC's thread and he initiated the game, so I'll defer to him on the final word, but I'd be happy to drop to 1k myself and for you to join me against them? If you are ok with that buttery?

I can hardly say no to nuns with guns.
Either day is fine, starting at 11 isn't an issue, as I'm also on the train, and I'll be helping my friends set up at opening.