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 Hulksmash wrote:
Holy poop on a stick. I've been seriously gimping my DK's! I didn't realize until the above made me check that they removed the FAQ question about the DCCW not doubling the DK's strength and that the rulebook made it work that way now......Ouch.

He's a beast now. A (ch) that can challenge, throw Str. 10s at a decent Ini--and reroll.

Yeah, they were already beastly but now they attack landraiders with 5 St.10 attacks

 Hulksmash wrote:
Yeah, they were already beastly but now they attack landraiders with 5 St.10 attacks

Though losing the 2d6 armor pen makes me a bit sad, yea, they're pretty awesome now. The character piece is my favorite, as most units only really have one weapon that is going to threaten it (powerfist sgt, etc).

@Target

But hitting on 3's is pretty huge. And the look on people's faces when I get charged and challenge is priceless. Either let me kill your sergeant or let me kill your squad, you decide

Yeah, overall after figuring that out, I'm seriously considering running two of those bad boys and letting them go crazy.

I hope like 60% of the armies are not GKs! At least if I lose my first game and get banished to the Xenos room I won't have to play GK all day

I am myself quite curious how things will change up.

Also, from our own playtesting, flyer spam armies don't do well against many different match-ups, so I'm curious how many of those will show up and/or if they'll actually do well.

We're so very close now!

 MorgrimDark wrote:

 Hulksmash wrote:
This is getting so close! I'm totally not sure if I'm taking my Daemons or my GK's. Daemons are more fun but my GK's will be easier to play 11+ games with.....

Two weeks from today I'll be landing and gearing up for a great gaming weekend. Looking forward to seeing everybody again this year.

Daemons v5.5 put paid to my Guard army last week. Flamers and screamers pretty much mince foot slogging armies...

Seconded, "breath of chaos" spam destroyed my foot slogging SW w/IG allies last night.

So, as the numbers come rolling in ... the raffle alone at the NOVA (one ticket for every loss, among other things) now has over I believe $20K in prizes to be given out across the length and breadth of the weekend.

Dot your i's and cross your t's attendees ... make sure you're filling out your schedule during the event to make the most of your trip, if you haven't yet. As we start to fill more on the side and evening events late in the game, we run out of room for 'em ... don't miss out on the Narrative, or seminars, or the like.

Is there going to be much of an opportunity for pickup/open gaming? Mostly curious because of the whole maybe I'll be playing Sunday, maybe I won't deal with the GT.

I also just remembered that I need to email you guys and let you know that I can attend the first round now. I think I'll go do that now before I forget again.

There's plenty of opportunities for open / pick-up gaming, and we'll even help organize that on Sunday morning to a degree.

Additionally, you'll be able to drop into things like Seminars should you wish, or register for them in advance.

There's also always the Narrative, which continues on Sunday and which you can take a round off of during the weekend, and there's ALSO the opportunity to visit DC (unless you're a local, and then I totally get it).

Long and short, there'll be formal and open gaming opportunities, seminar opportunities, vendor opportunities, and random social / tourist opportunities.


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As a PS - The NOVA Open's open gaming is 24/7. Any open tables (and there should e open tables for ALL game systems, by design, at all times) are available at any time, day or night, for open gaming.

There are a few additional areas around the halls where you can play different kinds of games should you so desire.

Is the Bar Crawl a go again this year?

Was so worn out from traveling last year and was hoping there would be another shot this year.

Unfortunately there's no bar crawl this year. There just wasn't enough time to properly structure it in. That said, I can help advise on "spur of the moment" bar crawl activities (just find me and ask where to go and how to get there), since the entirety of Washington DC is Metro accessible from the Hyatt (with a very short trip to the heart of the city, Crystal City is basically part of DC).

We'll probably be adding more and more social activities involving the city proper back in next year, as we stabilize our large expansions into seminars, higher numbers of vendors, and a full day gaming and activities cycle (vs. just "during the day" tournaments).


I did personally greatly enjoy the bar crawl last year, and can't help but reiterate a bravo to the New England team that managed to go to EVERY SINGLE BAR on the crawl (it wasn't designed for that to be possible, we hadn't thought), and still made it up in time for the next day's GT (well, except for one ...).

SO CLOSE!!!!!!

And yeah, I'm looking forward to it a bit.

I am ridiculously excited at this point. Also, we've had like 44 sales in the past 2 days, of various things, mostly new people who are signing up for Convention stuff last minute.

I can't wait to welcome everyone ... the staff has been monumental, and the spit and polish to this year's event is palpable in everything from our signage to our lit monuments.

We're all very excited to share the by far biggest, most populous, and most polished NOVA Open yet. Move in starts for us Wednesday morning at 8AM!

Can't wait to see you again, also, Mr. Townsend ... class acts always welcome.

Can't wait, just a few more days...and only a few models left to paint Who all is going to be at the welcome social from Dakka?

I will be at the welcome social soaking up the beginnings of the event...I am sooo pumped...I was not near this excited for Adepticon and this year was my first Adepticon...I think that says alot about what MVB/Laurie and the staff are doing here...I will be cruising in via vehicle Thursday around noon or so...Hope everyone has safe travels...

Hey Mike, I know I'd PM'ed you about this before but didn't end up swapping my GT registration for any other event. So can you just give it to some chap who registers late (i.e. let them play for free)? Seriously, I don't have anything to do with it otherwise Or I guess you can just take it as a donation to the event if that is not possible to work out. Whatever you like, really!

I am still going to use my weekend badge and come check everything out. Looking forward to it a lot! Question is will Hulk rock this event like his team did Nova

Sounds good, buddy


Also, make sure you pick up your swag bag and your guidebook ... the guidebooks this year are professional magazines, basically, and worth having / hanging onto ... no reason not to pick yours up even if you can't play.

I'm overwhelmed as I start listing off what we've been able to improve this year ... based on survey responses we literally tried to simply fix everything:"

We made the hotel cheaper, the add-ons cheaper, the mark-ups cheaper, the beer cheaper, the food cheaper.
We got full cell and 4g/3g service throughout.
We paid for additional lighting to be brought in throughout the hall to brighten it up.
We brought in seminars and tons of vendors (including some that were requested in survey).
We brought in even more swag and prizes, I think like 60 or 70k in total prizes.

There’s more, I think … but basically everything that was requested in survey response, we did our best to bring in. And, we kinda almost did it all haha!


And when I say we, I mean we ... the NOVA staff surges to as many as 80 volunteers, and a tirelessly amazing partner. They're the ones to thank, anyone who enjoys this weekend!

Okay great

I must have missed the beer being cheaper......hmmm.....

Mike, is there food on site? I know there's the weekend meal deal, but I'm talking about other than that. I imagine some of the vendors could make a killing simply selling granola bars and sodas.

A killing that's against hotel policy and competes with them, so sadly no. meal deal is tasty and affordable, though, and the NOVA even slightly subsidizes it to achieve best reasonable rate.

MVBrandt wrote:
A killing that's against hotel policy and competes with them, so sadly no. meal deal is tasty and affordable, though, and the NOVA even slightly subsidizes it to achieve best reasonable rate.

Ah, forgot the hotel serves food. May have to look at that meal deal.

Only benefits you to haha

The NOVA doesn't get anything from the Meal Deal; in fact, again, we actually pay a little if you order one. It's just important to us to make sure attendees have GOOD food available to them affordably without having to leave the convention, between rounds/etc.

Should we bring a copy of our army's FAQ? Or is that included in the mission packet?

Bring a copy of your FAQ's. Only FAQ provided is clarification from that the non-existent BRB FAQ should clarify.

I'll be heading over in about an hour and a half for the welcome social and first round of the invitational. I'll be wearing either a Green Day shirt or a striped white shirt and black shorts, if you see me say hi

Holy hell there are a lot of flyers at the invitational! Most armies seem to have 3-5 of them! Lots of cool armies out there! The monuments look awesome!

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/the-11th-company Game being streamed live and been really good so far