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Haha! 2 good wins on the Sunday cancel out 4 losses on the Saturday, right?

Had much fun today - 2 great games against 2 great opponents.

Just got back from Maelstrom after scoring a copy of Blitzkrieg which has capped off a great weekend. Thanks for the top company from everyone and big thanks to chimera calvin for setting it all up.

Little lord Fauntleroy, if you were there just as I was leaving then many apologies as I didnt see your post before arriving there today. Noticed someone but I wasnt sure if it was just someone checking out the models/games like the many other onlookers over the weekend. If it was you then sorry for not getting a chance to chat!

Yep, it was indeed me. I guessed it was you but was overawed by your epic hair (seriously, it is legendary) and so didn't approach. Don't sweat it dude .

Oh by the way, it was awesome to meet you, Legoburner! Sorry if I bent your ear when I was sloshed last night - I can't quite remember! I CAN remember mattyrm almost being ejected from Bugman's Bar for 'drunk and disorderly' behaviour, however!

how could anyone give matty a 1 for sportsmanship , most sporting person there. sports mans points should be up though :p i gave everyone a 5 top day and i only played top people

Yeah, I gave everyone 5 points for Sportsmanship too! Had 4 really enjoyable games yesterday, and 2 more today. Big thanks to Chimera Calvin for organising it, & everyone else for being pleasant & smart & fun & stuff.

Battlecannon it phil wrote:how could anyone give matty a 1 for sportsmanship , most sporting person there. sports mans points should be up though :p i gave everyone a 5 top day and i only played top people

Yeah, everyone was sound as feth. All my opponents were really nice, sporting chaps, and I scored them accordingly.

Aye i was minced but i recall everyone was really sound, by the end people were actually telling me what to shoot at because i was so insensible.

Seriously though, a quid a pint?! Thats just.. madness!



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oh yeah, and thanks for jacking it all up Calvin.

mattyrm wrote:
Seriously though, a quid a pint?! AND MATTYRM IN THE SAME ROOM
NOW Thats just.. madness!

Albatross wrote:Oh by the way, it was awesome to meet you, Legoburner! Sorry if I bent your ear when I was sloshed last night - I can't quite remember!

Heh I dont remember you saying anything off, you seemed a bit knackered but still a sound chap. Good meeting you too, except now I read all your posts and mattyrm's posts in your actual accents which takes quite a bit more mental effort on my part

yeah,

mattyrm wrote:Seriously though, a quid a pint?! Thats just.. madness!

Madness? This Is DAKKA!
... yeah I couldn't get my head around it
Me- "£1 a pint?"
BarMaid- "yeah we have too much beer"
Me- "your supposed to have lots of beer... your a pub!?"

Warhammer World was amazing! the GW staff there were great, helping out by finding us army trays and anything else we needed.
Much money was spent of FW stuff and a few extras.
Nottingham itself was pretty cool, the hotel staff showed us around the caves under the Pub!

ArbitorIan TitanPrincepts and I had a great time. Thanks to everyone who sat and shared a drink and a chat with us.
Thanx to my opponents and the Organisers (esp Chimera_Calvin - Great Job!).

I'll be uploading some 60 photos today. Hopefully I'll do a tourney report in the next few days.

thanx again,
Panic...

If I had to leave a positive critique of the weekend.
Is that the only real problems were getting the games to fit in the times especially fighting people that were slow and didn't know the rules too well.
Even if you could fight it really fast then you were unlikely to get passed the fourth turn.

I think the quote of the sunday, repeated by so many people, "is that the goal of today is that we see a game to the finish".

As a suggestion for next time, if we have a weekend we should use it and give every game a chance to be finished properly even if your oppenent is a little slow on the rules. This way you don't go away feeling like if you had been able to have those 2 more turns it would have been such a different result.

The second day was much better for me, fewer games but better more competitive players with closer faught battles.

Twas a great weekend, with lovely people. It was good to put faces to names (and try and remember REAL names) and I managed to avoid the £1 beer long and lose games simply by being stupid rather than drunk.

Today was great though, lots of time to play bigger games at our leisure.

If there were any criticisms (and these really AREN'T criticisms - I had a fantastic weekend and a great set of games), then...

- I found the scoring a bit complex. It may just be that I'm not used to properly organised tournaments, but I was always surprised by the actual score at the end of the game.

- A lot of people didn't get past turn 3. Party this was time, but we also DID have a huge number of horde players. Half our players brought Guard or Orks, so 75% of the games would have featured one BIG army. I think, if the army selections had been balanced more, this may not have been as big a problem.

But yes, I'll go through my crappy photos this eve and see what I've got. A great weekend all round, though.

Thanks, everyone!

Ceorron - our game (my only) on Sunday was easily the most enjoyable one I had the whole weekend - closely fought, ebbing and flowing with each turn, a tactically interesting game of elite Mech Orks trying to wrest their supply dump back from an entrenched rival Ork horde (Battle Missions: All-round Defence) against a challenging opponent.

This is definitely not a poor reflection on my opponents on Saturday - I enjoyed playing each and every one of you. But I couldn't get a game past turn 3 (or turn 2 in two games) - and none of my opponents were slow or didn't know the rules - and hopefully I didn't fall into either category either!

I blame everyone for not popping AV10 Trukks before they hit their lines, KFF or not, for shame! Close combat just takes a long time - and I don't want to rush my opponents, especially as I'd prefer more time to think in some (hopefully not too many!) cases... (As it happens, I think Ketara gave up working out what I was rolling for, and just let it happen - could have saved me time explaining all my rolls!)

I had a great weekend. I put faces to many Dakkites I have (and haven't) come across in my time on Dakka - and four games made sure I had more social interaction than a simple introduction. All the armies I saw were excellent. If anything, my regret is not catching up with more of you - but that is what follow on events are for I guess!

£1 a pint!?! I didn't know that!

Hi Guys,

I had a great day, even though i wasn't playing.

I took a couple of photos while you were playing and should be up in my gallery, go tag yourself or whatever the cool kids do on facebook now.

you're all cool guys next time I'll bring an army for you all to beat...

Daniel

I was glad that MattyRM, Albatross, Battlecannon it Phil, a Corair-impersonator, Taloncab and myself all gave the reputation of our homeland of Middlesbrough good representation. Started drinking at half ten on £1/pint after having only eaten an apple Danish, managed to last the whole day and then inadvertently started stealing from each other!

Great weekend!

Gratz also to Simon for organising a day at WHW and organising it well - it could easily have gone over time!

A big thanks to everyone I played against on Saturday - Ceorron, Croggy, Ketara (Ben) and Taloncab (Chris).

I had a great time and I will use a matte finish on my glazed models!!!

Thanks to IanSturrock as well for a ride back home on his Ctulhumobile!

I had three chips from ians plate and nothing else for 24 hours...

Oh yeah and 13 pints of fermented vegetables.

I learnt alot though, i look forward to the next!

time wasnt a problem for any of my games , made turn 5, 5, 8, and 3 (opponent was dead ) every game finished to end. time for matches was fine for me , some people just play slow.

Battlecannon it phil wrote:time wasnt a problem for any of my games , made turn 5, 5, 8, and 3 (opponent was dead ) every game finished to end. time for matches was fine for me , some people just play slow.

I would be interested in what you played and played against, including approximate model counts, for comparison - as well as the number of assaults

Actually, the number of turns played by everyone, compared against the above statistics, would also be interesting. One hour allows 5 mins for setup, and 5 mins per turn each for a 5 turn game...

Maybe there should be prizes for most and least turns played


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How was your opponent dead in turn 3 of the last game? All their troops would be in reserve for turn 4 and 5!

I only had 1 game not finish fully, the 1st one (ran out of time at end Turn 3), with Taloncab, but I don't think either of us was any slower than the other -- I think we were both just kind of warming up / waking up, and were playing at typical friendly local game place (I've certainly never played to a time limit before).

I was playing guard (best painted ) , and played against
grotts , ravenwing, mech chaos, mech chaos

@ Battlecannon it phil - You played me in the second game, not the third - I lost the third game 20-0 to Talon Cab so I remember

I should add - it is quite possible I am just slow and in denial - I'm sure knowing will be beneficial, if not flattering, for the future! Glad I am such a slow modeler and painter that a horde army was out of the question (Mech Orks, 34 models, at least deployment and first turn - 5 models - was quick...) I think in hindsight, SilverMK2 and I would have had time for turn 3 (10 mins was called during turn 2, so we finished there) - but I doubt it would have affected the outcome (I think we would have both added a second unit into each others' deployment zones...)


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Perhaps my opponents could PM me their take on my speed? (Just to save some embarrassment on my part...)

I'm really fast, but also really incompetent, so.. best not hurry too much.

I played 5 games total over the weekend, reslting in 3 wins, 1 draw, and 1 loss. So overall, a more than satisfactory conclusion.

Battlecannon it phil wrote:how could anyone give matty a 1 for sportsmanship , most sporting person there. sports mans points should be up though :p i gave everyone a 5 top day and i only played top people

It's a joke between us (me, Croggy and Matty) mate. When we was leaving we chatted him for a bit and he was hammered we took the piss saying Croggy gave him 1 for sportsmanship and saying my Orks were spank and painted gak lol. He'll know what we mean, if he remembers! I'm sure I put plenty of smilies and lol's in to make this look like a joke


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Oh, guys. Can you PM me your army lists please so I can put a post up on my blog. If you have any bat reps please can you e-mail them or PM them too.

Blog is www.imperiusdominatus.com. I need lists a.s.a.p if you can so I can get the post up while it's still fresh and not a week behind

I can only echo everyone elses sentiments, great weekend! Thanks to Simon for organising things.

To my opponents my apologies, I definitely fell into the slow horde category, but I like to think the way I bleed points more than made up for it . Plus my thanks to them for being rather cool about my sketchy grasp of the mechanics; 5th edition really is differants from 2nd ed, who knew?

Everyone was really sound but special mentions for the following Dakkaites;

Alb and Matty: for services to drinking

Ben (Ketara) : for making the car journey pass quickly and interestingly and being the only person to loose to me all weekend (at pool incidently), good work fella.

Panic: Kan Wall, I will kill that last one next time!

ArbitorIan: Demons, that was an eye opener! (and indeed spleen opener for so many of my troops!). Great game on sunday, It was nice to finish a game at last and discuss squats with a fellow devotee. I expect to see at least a Gyrocopter if not a Land Train soon!

Legoburner: Its good that the site is in the hands of such a sound person and some interesting rumours too

Out of interest, how did some of you know who I am? Had about 12 people come up and say you're Mercer? lol. Avatar picture maybe?