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Hey folks!

I wanted to share a couple of pictures (shameless pride!) and inspire everyone to step up their game to enjoy the rewards!

1. The Secret to my Tournament Success!


2. Things I haven't figured out to do with yet:


I've won a lot of stuff at tournaments over the last two years. The picture is what is still in boxes that I haven't poked around with yet.

Not pictured here (because they aren't shrink-wrapped anymore)

1. $480 worth of store credit at several stores that I haven't cashed in yet.

2. 1x Demolisher, 5x razorbacks, 3x las/plas predators, 6 landspeeders

3. The blisters back there are Njal Stormcaller, Mad Dok, and Mephiston

4. All 3,000 points of my Dark Eldar (entirely free through tournament winnings)

5. Two battlewagons, 30 Lootas, Snikrot, three Ork trukks, and two more Stompas (one of which was too big in the box to fit in my luggage for the flight home from a GT)

6. 30 tactical marines, a captain, and 24 assault marines.

7. 15 Missile Launcher devastators, 6 lascannons, two multi-meltas, 5 autocannons

8. 3 other Space Marine Dreadnoughts.

I think that's about it. Most of my Orks were also tournament winnings, but I don't remember which I bought and which I won, and a good chunk of my Tau were tournament winnings as well, but I traded them out for my Necron Army.

So practice! Work on those skills! My Dark Eldar, Space Wolves, Blood Angels, half my Orks, and most of my Necrons were funded by playing. I've traded some of my winnings for things I need as well. Open your mind, think outside the box, and fund YOUR next army through tournament winnings.

And ENJOY yourself while doing it:

Huh, I think if you put a watermelon helmet on your head, you'd look eerily similar to your avatar.

Needs a fu manchu first.

Hey, if you run out of space, I could always take some of those SM vehicles off your hands!

Good haul of stuff. Now you should let me alleviate you of the burden of such swag.

Wish I could win stuff

You play SW? I thought you said they suck
cool stuff i'm a younger gamer so am excluded from some tournaments.

No, I don't play SW. Or BA.

But I had run out of stuff to get, so got those armies too. My current store credit is my venom / new Necron fund.

Whats the pont of this thread and how other then "you can win stuff if you play in them" does this have anything to do with tournaments besides showing off?

Grimgob wrote:Whats the pont of this thread and how other then "you can win stuff if you play in them" does this have anything to do with tournaments besides showing off?

90% of posts on Dakka are repetitive and have no point. Stop being a gloomypuss, post your own!

Yea, but wernt you the one complaining about pointless threads like this clogging up Dakka. Dang it I'm feeding the troll thread arnt I.

Grimgob, don't you have a standing order from Frazzled not to troll me on Dakka? Shhh...play nice.

Give us some pics!

Holy gak !

i'm jelly of ur free stuff makes me want to start playing tournaments again :(


Please don't try and circumvent the language filter.

Farmer wrote:Holy gak

i'm jelly of ur free stuff makes me want to start playing tournaments again :(

Why did you stop? Bringing home loot for your skills feels great! =D

yes there is a standing order not to troll anyone on Dakka and I'm not trolling just asking a legitimate question about this threads point concerning tournaments. but no there is not a specific order placed upon me concerning you.

Dashofpepper wrote:

Farmer wrote:Holy sh1t

i'm jelly of ur free stuff makes me want to start playing tournaments again :(

Why did you stop? Bringing home loot for your skills feels great! =D

I wish the local GW gave out prizes like this for tourny wins.

You can always buy more stuff...

Lets see your trophies Dash! Thats the REAL prizes!

Happtgrunt: Those are prizes from one tournament, but rather from many.

liam0404: Actually, I don't keep trophies; never have for anything. I've always been rather spartan.

That;s fair enough - and I guess winning store credit is more practical.

This is most impressive!

Dashofpepper wrote:Happtgrunt: Those are prizes from one tournament, but rather from many.

liam0404: Actually, I don't keep trophies; never have for anything. I've always been rather spartan.

I know, but besides the vets at our store almost bullying other people to put money in a pot for the winners (probably them to), the store dosent give out kit prizes, only trophies.

Happygrunt wrote:

Dashofpepper wrote:Happtgrunt: Those are prizes from one tournament, but rather from many.

liam0404: Actually, I don't keep trophies; never have for anything. I've always been rather spartan.

I know, but besides the vets at our store almost bullying other people to put money in a pot for the winners (probably them to), the store dosent give out kit prizes, only trophies.

Hrm...make a list to beat up on the vets and take their prize fund.

I need to start putting together pics of my loot. It looks so awesome put together like that.

It's a nice stash of winnings, and absolutely fine to brag about it here. Where else are you going to get to brag?

Dash- 'Hey, how's it going?'

Woman at Bar- 'Um, fine.'

Dash- 'You know, I win a lot of toy soldier tournaments.'

Woman at Bar- 'Wow... what do you get for winning?'

Dash- 'Unopened boxes of toy soldiers.'

Woman at Bar- '...'

Dash- 'You should come see my dining room, the entire table is covered with unopened boxes of toy soldiers.'

Woman at Bar- 'I'm good.'

Much respect, thats quite a haul of free stuff! Hope to play against you sometime to see your epic strategies.

Dashofpepper wrote:

Happygrunt wrote:

Dashofpepper wrote:Happtgrunt: Those are prizes from one tournament, but rather from many.

liam0404: Actually, I don't keep trophies; never have for anything. I've always been rather spartan.

I know, but besides the vets at our store almost bullying other people to put money in a pot for the winners (probably them to), the store dosent give out kit prizes, only trophies.

Hrm...make a list to beat up on the vets and take their prize fund.

Mech IG and Mech Chaos. Both go to NOVA and other big tournaments all the time. Doing that would be a little hard to do...

But hey, at least our team group is ready for greyknight smacking!

Oaka wrote:
Dash- 'You should come see my dining room, the entire table is covered with unopened boxes of toy soldiers.'

Woman at Bar- 'I'm good.'

Interestingly enough, I'm called upon an embarrassing amount of time (usually at work) to explain my hobby, in part because a friend of mine who I met through 40k passed my resume on to the plant manager, which is how my resume in front of eyes that cared.

During my interview process, I had to explain how I knew my friend (He's an applications engineer), explain 40k...I'm the project manager for nuclear construction at our plant. I've had to go through the "Well, its a tabletop tactical simulation that's really too nerdy to explain" a bunch of times.


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Happygrunt wrote:

Mech IG and Mech Chaos. Both go to NOVA and other big tournaments all the time. Doing that would be a little hard to do...

Sounds like you need to bring Space Wolves, long fangs, rune priests, and a couple of drop pods with some Logan nastiness. That'll teach 'em!

Dashofpepper wrote:

Happygrunt wrote:

Mech IG and Mech Chaos. Both go to NOVA and other big tournaments all the time. Doing that would be a little hard to do...

Sounds like you need to bring Space Wolves, long fangs, rune priests, and a couple of drop pods with some Logan nastiness. That'll teach 'em!

But that would require me starting space wolves...

My blob IG can do REALLY well against the chaos player, but I dont know about the IG guy. He is good. A great guy, but REALLY good.

So far I have won...



Not bad considering I've only ever entered one tourny (and won it)

Happygrunt wrote:


My blob IG can do REALLY well against the chaos player, but I dont know about the IG guy. He is good. A great guy, but REALLY good.

Blob IG? Even better. 27 HWTs. Missile launchers and a few lascannons smattered around. That'll do the trick.