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My friend Dave & I competed at the Origins Pairs tournament this Thursday. It was the first tourney for either of us(outside of some local game store campaigns) and we got schooled. Dead last overall. But the experience was great and it was alot of fun, with great opponents and some very nice looking figures.

I really regret that none of the pics I took of this army http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/244874.page came out. I remember following his blog last year and his army looks fantastic in person- I was sorry that we didn't get paired against him and his partner's stunning yellow Tyranid army.

First overall went to the Praetorian IG/Blood Angels pair you'll see below.

To anyone else who played, I'd love to see your pics and input.

Hey, you guys had some great looking armies. I played the praetorians you faced in round three, and your IG put mine to shame.

It was a fun, well run tourney.

Cool

Blood Angels and IG?

This is the aforementioned Dave from LuigiX's first post. Just wanted to hop on and second everything he said. This was a fantastic tournament: friendly opponents, great looking armies, fun games. Here's some pictorial evidence of our dodgy strategies:

Cool, love seeing the Xenos Scum getting blasterized!

More pictures of this event are up on our website now..

http://www.40kOrigins.com

And I think I see some people I know from here in there!!!

Also visible is the size of the hall we were playing in.. sheesh that place was HUGE!

Heya, Tau player here. I gotta say, you guys had one awesome looking force, and it was quite cool in compostion too. It was a pleasure doing battle with you.

As the ringer army in the tourney (we had 7 teams and needed 8), we thought Tau would be a fair matchup to a force containing black templars on account of the vast difference in HTH capability. (And that demolisher cannon by all rights should have made short work of my battlesuits.) And sure enough, the dreadnought that did make it into HTH annihilated 4 squads all by himself! Crunch, break, flee, overrun, consolidate, repeat. Hillarious!

Looks like a fun event! Great looking armies, too.

were there any scheduled theme 40k games at origins? i only went once to the con but found it to be the perfect size for me. gencon gets too busy/sweaty/sticky for my tastes and origins reminds me of the old gencon at the mecca center in milwaukee. there's always enough games scheduled that you'll never have nothing to do but not too much to make sense of it all. as for the hall, yeah... it's huge!

warboss wrote:were there any scheduled theme 40k games at origins? i only went once to the con but found it to be the perfect size for me. gencon gets too busy/sweaty/sticky for my tastes and origins reminds me of the old gencon at the mecca center in milwaukee. there's always enough games scheduled that you'll never have nothing to do but not too much to make sense of it all. as for the hall, yeah... it's huge!

I can't speak for 40kOrigins or for porkuslime...but I will anyway! Yes, they did have some themed events. One was a Tyranid Attack! which used 'Nids against (I believe) Imperial Guard. They also hosted a couple of kid friendly events with orks. On Sunday, they did a speed dating tourney . From the way porkuslime described it to me, there were 45 minutes per round. You sat down at your table and were provided with a small army. At the end of 45 minutes, each person moved to the table to their left or right (can't remember which) and played that army. Rinse, repeat. Sounded like a blast, just didn't have the time to take part in the event.

I would like to second (or third or fourth...whatever number we're on) the fact that the guys there were great. Everyone I talked to that was involved with 40kOrigins and even the players in the tourney were very nice and answered any questions that I had (and I had quite a few). So, if anyone from the RTT is on here, thanks for letting me bug you about your armies and allow me to take pictures.

So.. Post your pictures!!!!

It was really nice to meet you in person, as well as Polonius, and Old Man Ultramarine.. (my regret is that Cyporiean was missing from the booth every time I stopped by)

-Porkuslime

Yeah, the 40kOrigins crew had a grand total of 26 events scheduled. (1 apocalypse game which cleared 100,000 points, the pairs tourney, the 8-army speed tourney, the 40k RTT, and 22 mini-games (many of which were for kids and beginners). Porkuslime and myself did most of the tournament reffing, but we had 9 staffers in total.

And we'll do it again next year.