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Reece, what are the chances of Team Zero Comp taking over Warhammer at Kublacon? Otherwise, I'm thinking of getting a refund and of playing at the Slaughter in Space.

@Reecius Thank you again for having the Event!

I was glad to help you and the guys out when I could.

Thanks Reece, Tyson, and Co. for a great event.

I posted up my low-pro cellphone pics on GE's facebook:

http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.332068146838833.74275.106899122689071&type=1

I'm still wiped out; we got in at just about 1am Sunday and I was up until 5 telling the wife all about the weekend, so I probably need a couple straight days of sleep to make all that time up!

Looking forward to next year. Maybe I'll shoot for a painting prize in 2013...

-Dis.

RiTides wrote:

Goatboy wrote:RD 3 - 9 Dread BA list - Won this one - Stole the Iniative!

Oh man, can you describe his list? I have been really wanting to run this! However, at 1750 it seems to get 9 dreads, he would've had to have 15 Death Company, and probably very little in the way of scoring units. I've figured out how to swing 8 dreads in a 2K list with 20 scoring bodies, which seems decent. Oh, and 11 pods = 6 dreads coming down turn 1

Anyway, would be very curious hearing about that army / list if you can remember anything!

I think yakface played him with his kan wall (hot dread on dread action!).

Phazael wrote:Just going down the names of both GTs thats an insane calibre of player in both events, probably the best players on the enite west coast were there. Going down the lists, just names I recognize, practically half of the fantasy players were former GT Overall/Best General winners and it was pretty damn close to that on the 40k side. Thats about as glowing an endorsement for your event as you could hope to get, Reece.

Hats off to you.

Well, they are missing a couple of top-notch players. It's too bad Reece, Frankie and Will didn't get to play in the tournament, but then hey, someone's got to run the damn thing.

Oh, and not to toot my own horn, but I didn't give Team 0 Comp the chance to get revenge on me this time, but I will next year.

Reecius wrote:
The 40K team tournament went over really well. We had a little confusion on the structure (sorry Dok, and Blood Lord SOldado) and next year we will make sure that everything is crystal clear so everyone knows what they need to do to win.

Dude, it's not your fault we can't read. That's why we call our site 3 for int. We're dumb as bricks! It was just a super bummer to think we were a shoowin and then have our hopes crushed as yakface and janthkin took home the prize. Damn you Yakface!!!
But next time, I'll make sure that mofo actually paints his stuff for an event that requires painting to score!

Congrats to Blackmoor then. It most likely was super close as we all had the same sort of score all the way through. Glad I got best Space Wolf player with an odd list.

The Dread list was 15 DC, 3 DC dreads with Talons, 3 Furioso Dreads with Talons, 1 5 Man scoring squad, and 3 TWL Lascannon/ML dreads.

Dugg wrote:

Hückleberry wrote:

Blackmoor wrote:

Hückleberry wrote:I luckily avoided the douche factor this year.

What about me? I used my now classic Stratigy of keeping my paladins in reserve until the end of turn 5, and then coming on and claiming the objectives and then having the game end for the win!

Haha if thats considered douchie than grey knights in general would be douchie...I actually enjoyed playing against you. I actually did better than I thought I was going to. It would have been interesting to see what would have happened if the game hadn't ended there.

Grey Knights are the Epitome of Douchie. Was that ever in doubt? That said, if the Player running them owns up to the fact they are running the Douchie Army, I do not think the Player is a Douche by default, but on the other hand, if they are running them and they keep trying to convince you they aren't running a Douchie Army well.... DOUCHE haha

If I brought my GKs I might feel insulted. As a veteran from the DH days I feel I deserve immunity from the hate.

Course I don't run Draigo-wing or Henchmen spam.

We'll get the W/L/D info up there, ASAP.

@jy2
We'll be glad to have you next year! That will up the competitive ante one more notch.

@Goatboy
Thanks for taking it so well, that was our mistake.

And you looked smashing in the pink robe! hahaha

Grey Templar wrote:

Dugg wrote:

Hückleberry wrote:

Blackmoor wrote:

Hückleberry wrote:I luckily avoided the douche factor this year.

What about me? I used my now classic Stratigy of keeping my paladins in reserve until the end of turn 5, and then coming on and claiming the objectives and then having the game end for the win!

Haha if thats considered douchie than grey knights in general would be douchie...I actually enjoyed playing against you. I actually did better than I thought I was going to. It would have been interesting to see what would have happened if the game hadn't ended there.

Grey Knights are the Epitome of Douchie. Was that ever in doubt? That said, if the Player running them owns up to the fact they are running the Douchie Army, I do not think the Player is a Douche by default, but on the other hand, if they are running them and they keep trying to convince you they aren't running a Douchie Army well.... DOUCHE haha

If I brought my GKs I might feel insulted. As a veteran from the DH days I feel I deserve immunity from the hate.

Course I don't run Draigo-wing or Henchmen spam.

Meh. GK are just an army. I had a player look at my list and ask if it was cool if he didn't play and we just hang out and watch Goatboys game because he didn't want to play GK again. I don't think this was because my list was particularly heinous I think it was more a reflection of the GK saturation in the field, he played 2 GK players in a row end of day 1, one of whom provided a pretty bad game, and didn't want to play them again. I can respect that, I played Eldar 3 turns in a row day 1 and if I had drawn them a 4th might have let Reece have it! Kidding of course Reece but I understood how frustrating it was to play the same army multiple times in a row and at least I only lost 1 of those Eldar games. The GK hate is a bit ridiculous, they didn't win the event and the majority of GK players seemed to be near the middle of the pack with me rather than up at the top, James, Dok and Blackmoor excepted of course.

Great event Reece, I look forward to next year. Maybe get someone to come Bar B Que next year as food, that way all the different games can be provided with super fresh food, and your team won't be responsible for providing and selling it. I bet a good BBQ caterer would see there was a good profit to be made and sign up. I like the venue, it is different and allows for a very relaxed atmosphere, the area hotels leave a bit to be desired. I stayed at the Days Inn last year and the Ramada this year neither was impressive neither was terrible. I look forward to next year, my goal is to get adequate practice for once and actually place in the top 20 rather than just the top half. I still can't believe how different 2 day 7 round events are from single day 3-4 round events.

Hells to the yeah!

Just got a look at the results! Mission accomplished. I went in to this thing wanting to get Nids into the top 10.

And coming into the second day having to play against Christian's Guard for Round 5 I was nervous.

That was an awesome tourney and I am stoked as hell about coming back next year. Thanks again Reece.

Well GK are a very strong army, but I went 3-0 vs them the past weekend and 0-3 vs battle wagon orks. I'll let you guess what list my eldar think is unfair....
Overall it was a great time. This really showed me that as a whole, the extreme stories you hear about truly are not the norm. All of us cen cal commanders had a great time and didn't have a bad opponent all weekend. Next year I'm taking best eldar general!!

Fantastic event. I really cant say enough good things about this years BAO, as both a player and as a tournament organizer - things went smoothly, the breaks between rounds were reasonable, there was always a judge nearby if necessary, I had 7 fun games against smart opponents, the weather was beautiful, all in all a great time. I will definitely be back next year and will be rounding up the gang from Sacramento to make the short drive. I say keep the location, most of the complaints I heard would apply to any venue - being squeezed for space or the hall getting a little stuffy is normal with 90+ people and I agree with Phazael that being inclusive and easily accessible to all is important.

I have a break down of day 1 on my blog and will be posting Day 2 highlights and a similar update on the Secret Weapon blog as well. I was lucky enough to be on table 1 in round 6 against ChristianA, and although I felt his army was less about maneuver and tactics and more about throwing buckets of dice at me he definitely knows how to use it and is on the ball when it comes to prioritizing targets and making the best use of his units. Hats off to a good guy, I will be gunning for you next time around!

Again, congrats and thanks to Reece, Will, and Frankie. Great job guys!

Sirus

kinda glad on the results, minus, ya know, GK taking a lot of tops

I was there for the narrative event and had a blast. I have to agree with those saying that you need a new venue for this.

I had a blast and having the BoLS guys out was really cool. I like the venue just not the location-- too far! I think everyone would like the idea of it being walking distance from a Bart/Hotel that way anyone flying-in can just go direct to the site.

Other than that was about two KPs over two games away from being a contender sooo close! I will take my tie for 20th place and best Demon though =)

Brought my Tau .. 2 wins, ouch, guess it takes more than pony objectives to win, not that all the other tau players were in the top tiers. But what a lot of fun it was anyway, great event, thanks for putting it on team 0 comp!

Personally I like the venue, I think next year will be even better if the guys do get a second hall. That would allow for things to be a bit more spread out and less claustrophobic. I really felt for the Imperial players in the narrative event they were crammed in pretty tight against that wall.

The other bonus would be less inadvertent butt rubbing! (not that there is anything wrong with that if it is your thing)

Damn 83/92 place. I tried going pure wraithspam but it seems only jy2 has the skill to pull it off. I'll have my originally planned list next year hopefully the spyders will be available for getting revenge on those damn dark angels!

He literally made all of his regular armor saves. I think I took out 2 squads only because of some lucky rending wounds.

Really gotta step my game up this weekend. Do all figures have to be wysiwyg at the Battle bunker tourney? Still working on my spyders and seriously lacking scarabs

The venues location is not very good. Problems like:
Poor airport access.
Driving from the south it is a pain to get too.
The hotels in the area sucks.

So if you are local you tend to have a different opinion of the venue than those that are traveling.

Defeatmyarmy wrote:Damn 83/92 place. I tried going pure wraithspam but it seems only jy2 has the skill to pull it off. I'll have my originally planned list next year hopefully the spyders will be available for getting revenge on those damn dark angels!

He literally made all of his regular armor saves. I think I took out 2 squads only because of some lucky rending wounds.

Really gotta step my game up this weekend. Do all figures have to be wysiwyg at the Battle bunker tourney? Still working on my spyders and seriously lacking scarabs

If you were the one with 15 wraiths in your army, then we've met. I was a spectator briefly in your thrashing of the Tau player. When it comes to wraithwing, poor Tau.

Awww, I forgot to leave my stuff out to get my 3 points for painting...

3 points more and I would have tied Warboss Russ, and beat Grimgobb for 2nd best Orks!!!

Damn my painting follies!!!!!!!!

Rofl.

Defeatmyarmy wrote:Damn 83/92 place. I tried going pure wraithspam but it seems only jy2 has the skill to pull it off. I'll have my originally planned list next year hopefully the spyders will be available for getting revenge on those damn dark angels!

He literally made all of his regular armor saves. I think I took out 2 squads only because of some lucky rending wounds.

Really gotta step my game up this weekend. Do all figures have to be wysiwyg at the Battle bunker tourney? Still working on my spyders and seriously lacking scarabs

Yeah, that was me. My dice that game were trying to make up for all the ones in the game previous. Our game was pretty close and I'm lucky that it ended when it did. One more turn and you would have destroyed me!

J_Dearth wrote:Hells to the yeah!

Just got a look at the results! Mission accomplished. I went in to this thing wanting to get Nids into the top 10.

And coming into the second day having to play against Christian's Guard for Round 5 I was nervous.

That was an awesome tourney and I am stoked as hell about coming back next year. Thanks again Reece.

Congrats !! What was your Nid list if you don't mind me asking?

Glad to see all the positive feedback. Just proof that events without opponent scored sports and comp can work with great results!

I second Blackmoor's sentiments about the location. If it had been closer to the airport, I'd definitely have made it, though I understand the difficulty of finding a reasonably priced venue.

Glad to see some good west coast events doing well. Nice job!

You might want to remove the email addresses under the FoW guys.

If you were the one with 15 wraiths in your army, then we've met. I was a spectator briefly in your thrashing of the Tau player. When it comes to wraithwing, poor Tau.

then we've also met, I was the poor tau player. I was thinking of what i could've done differently, maybe extremely aggressive tactics, focusing all fire on everything non wraith and just leaving the wraiths to kill me as fast as they can hopefully my speedbumps first. It'd be a Killy race though I think Id still lose

Blood Lord Soldado wrote:Awww, I forgot to leave my stuff out to get my 3 points for painting...

3 points more and I would have tied Warboss Russ, and beat Grimgobb for 2nd best Orks!!!

Damn my painting follies!!!!!!!!

Rofl.

Just a heads up, there were no paint scores added to your scores haha. Only W/L/T and bonus points thru out each round.

Also can you break down the number of armies at the event? How many GK, SW, IG, etc that were there .