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**kronk**

Requizen wrote:
On a different topic (and maybe this isn't the best place for it)

I really enjoyed the competitive nature of Adepticon. It was a lot different than just meeting up with friends and playing a game during the week, and I'd like to try another tournament or event to sate my competitive nature. But, alas, I don't particularly have the funds to fly out to the West Coast to do all of the events over there.

Are there other Chicagoland or indeed just midwest 40k events? Obviously aren't going to be as big as Adepticon, but something interesting at least would be fun.

GenCon is in Indianapolis. They have nearly every game under the sun, from RPGs, to card games, to board games, and many miniatures games, too. 40k is not a big draw there, but I think there was at least 1 event last year.

It's July 30-Aug 2 this year. It's only a 3 hour drive (or so). This will be my 13th since 2001.

**Requizen**

Hulksmash wrote:
@Requizen

Bugeater in Omaha in June (Normally 60+ for 40k)
Renegade in Minneapolis in November (Normally) (Normally 70+ for 40k)
Michigan GT in Lansing(?) in September (50+ for 40k)
And I dont' know if the Indy Open is happening this year or it's date but the Indy Open in Indianapolis. (no idea on size)

All are 2 day events.

Good to know, thanks!

kronk wrote:
Requizen wrote:
On a different topic (and maybe this isn't the best place for it)

I really enjoyed the competitive nature of Adepticon. It was a lot different than just meeting up with friends and playing a game during the week, and I'd like to try another tournament or event to sate my competitive nature. But, alas, I don't particularly have the funds to fly out to the West Coast to do all of the events over there.

Are there other Chicagoland or indeed just midwest 40k events? Obviously aren't going to be as big as Adepticon, but something interesting at least would be fun.

GenCon is in Indianapolis. They have nearly every game under the sun, from RPGs, to card games, to board games, and many miniatures games, too. 40k is not a big draw there, but I think there was at least 1 event last year.

It's July 30-Aug 2 this year. It's only a 3 hour drive (or so). This will be my 13th since 2001.

I know about GenCon, I almost went last year but stuff came up. Sad, because I missed Jim Butcher signing things :(

I didn't know they did 40k events, is it just friendly games or is it more of a mini tourney?

**kronk**

I honestly don't know. It was the first time I'd heard of people trying to play 40k at GenCon. It's not really their venue. But, with that many gamers, I can see them pulling off a tournament, even if it's just Kill team.

Edit: I found this thread on Dakka for some of last year's events.

Link!

**DCannon4Life**

Darkstar http://darkstargt.com/ might be one.

**Dozer Blades**

The best thing going for daemons is mucho warp charge and casters that don't worry about periling. A lot of smart Daemon players summons in the beginning to generate even more warp charges.

**chipstar1**

kronk wrote:
Requizen wrote:
On a different topic (and maybe this isn't the best place for it)

I really enjoyed the competitive nature of Adepticon. It was a lot different than just meeting up with friends and playing a game during the week, and I'd like to try another tournament or event to sate my competitive nature. But, alas, I don't particularly have the funds to fly out to the West Coast to do all of the events over there.

Are there other Chicagoland or indeed just midwest 40k events? Obviously aren't going to be as big as Adepticon, but something interesting at least would be fun.

GenCon is in Indianapolis. They have nearly every game under the sun, from RPGs, to card games, to board games, and many miniatures games, too. 40k is not a big draw there, but I think there was at least 1 event last year.

It's July 30-Aug 2 this year. It's only a 3 hour drive (or so). This will be my 13th since 2001.

Maybe not for long...

**Tomb King**

chipstar1 wrote:
kronk wrote:
Requizen wrote:
On a different topic (and maybe this isn't the best place for it)

I really enjoyed the competitive nature of Adepticon. It was a lot different than just meeting up with friends and playing a game during the week, and I'd like to try another tournament or event to sate my competitive nature. But, alas, I don't particularly have the funds to fly out to the West Coast to do all of the events over there.

Are there other Chicagoland or indeed just midwest 40k events? Obviously aren't going to be as big as Adepticon, but something interesting at least would be fun.

GenCon is in Indianapolis. They have nearly every game under the sun, from RPGs, to card games, to board games, and many miniatures games, too. 40k is not a big draw there, but I think there was at least 1 event last year.

It's July 30-Aug 2 this year. It's only a 3 hour drive (or so). This will be my 13th since 2001.

Maybe not for long...

Rumor has it they might head to KC.

**Requizen**

chipstar1 wrote:
kronk wrote:
Requizen wrote:
On a different topic (and maybe this isn't the best place for it)

I really enjoyed the competitive nature of Adepticon. It was a lot different than just meeting up with friends and playing a game during the week, and I'd like to try another tournament or event to sate my competitive nature. But, alas, I don't particularly have the funds to fly out to the West Coast to do all of the events over there.

Are there other Chicagoland or indeed just midwest 40k events? Obviously aren't going to be as big as Adepticon, but something interesting at least would be fun.

GenCon is in Indianapolis. They have nearly every game under the sun, from RPGs, to card games, to board games, and many miniatures games, too. 40k is not a big draw there, but I think there was at least 1 event last year.

It's July 30-Aug 2 this year. It's only a 3 hour drive (or so). This will be my 13th since 2001.

Maybe not for long...

Last I heard, the Con was going on but when the contract with the state of IN is up, they don't think they'll renew.

**RiTides**

Let's focus on AdeptiCon in this thread, we've got others for discussing GenCon... Thanks

**DJ3**

Darkwynn wrote:
Justin,

I think Mission 4 was huge though for daemons. I was fine with all of the other missions expect on that mission.

The secondaries could be blown out so much that the objectives didn't matter. When Nick (Yermon) and I played the table behind us had a portal glyph and summon on the opponents side and created something like 15 units. Just heard the opponent stated that the game was dumb.

Nobody would disagree with that; the missions and scoring system were all great except for that secondary on mission 4/8. It was clearly a mistake.

In my round 4 game I held fewer objectives and still won 22-8. My round 8 game was a bit of a blowout, but it didn't really matter anyhow because I had so many units ready to jump into the backfield by the end.

**Toofast**

Would you guys mind posting your lists? 1 week out I have yet to see a single top list from Adepticon :(

**Tomb King**

Toofast wrote:
Would you guys mind posting your lists? 1 week out I have yet to see a single top list from Adepticon :(

Eventually when I find the time to sit down I will be doing reports:
http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/640488.page

**HerraMauno**

The third place necrons was:

Cron cad
Zahnrecht
Orikan
5 Immortals
5 Immortals
5 Wraiths, 2 Whipcoils
5 Wraiths, 2 Whipcoils
4 Wraiths, 2 Whipcoils
3 Spyders
2 Spyders

Allied detachment eldar
Farseer, bike, mantle, alanath
Bikes

Canoptek harvest
6 Wraiths, 3 Whipcoils
3 Scarabs
Spyder

1848

**House Griffith**

HerraMauno wrote:
The third place necrons was:

Cron cad
Zahnrecht
Orikan
5 Immortals
5 Immortals
5 Wraiths, 2 Whipcoils
5 Wraiths, 2 Whipcoils
4 Wraiths, 2 Whipcoils
3 Spyders
2 Spyders

Allied detachment eldar
Farseer, bike, mantle, alanath
Bikes

Canoptek harvest
6 Wraiths, 3 Whipcoils
3 Scarabs
Spyder

1848

Curious as to how this placed so well.
Is the general tactic something along the lines of wraith/spyder shame?
Meaning: multiple fast, tough units claiming tactical objectives and creating target priority issues for the opponent, with support from the awesome Zandrek and the Hulk (Orikan)?

**RobPro**

Adepticon, per the mission primer, seemed to favor MSU. I don't know that wraiths and spyders count as "shame," but they're definitely handy. I don't know how this list would tackle 3-5 flyrants but it should have been solid at scoring maelstrom points (especially with Zandy to help cycle cards).

Did the Farseer have any particular tricks?

**HerraMauno**

List was designed to win maelstrom. Sandy with duble point from objectives in scarabs gives you alot of points. That list also has very good board control which meas that most objectives are available for you. Farseer was mostly for summoning.

Against a flyrant heavy list that list would have just had to endure and score objectives, which i think it can definitely do. But I don't think Joonas had to play against any nids.

**RiTides**

MSU seemed really good at the LVO, too... a few really strong units with a lot of MSU seems to be pretty prevalent in the top lists from both events.

Nick Nanavati wrote up his first four games on Torrent of Fire and will be posting the other four next:
http://www.torrentoffire.com/6807/what-i-saw-and-what-i-killed-at-adepticon?cigx=d.cac,stid.233,sid.65685,lid.6,mid.261

He played Phil Dubbe (Remedy on here, a really tough draw for Round 1!) and Nick Rose in Round 4. A good read!

**Slayer-Fan123**

House Griffith wrote:
HerraMauno wrote:
The third place necrons was:

Cron cad
Zahnrecht
Orikan
5 Immortals
5 Immortals
5 Wraiths, 2 Whipcoils
5 Wraiths, 2 Whipcoils
4 Wraiths, 2 Whipcoils
3 Spyders
2 Spyders

Allied detachment eldar
Farseer, bike, mantle, alanath
Bikes

Canoptek harvest
6 Wraiths, 3 Whipcoils
3 Scarabs
Spyder

1848

Curious as to how this placed so well.
Is the general tactic something along the lines of wraith/spyder shame?
Meaning: multiple fast, tough units claiming tactical objectives and creating target priority issues for the opponent, with support from the awesome Zandrek and the Hulk (Orikan)?

That seems about correct. Nemesor can get some crazy bonuses from either enemy units or the Warlord Trait tables, while Orikan only adds onto the insane durability. I don't even want to know how many Bolter shots it takes to kill a Canoptek Harvest Wraith with Orikan in the squad!

**adamsouza**

House Griffith wrote:
HerraMauno wrote:
The third place necrons was:

Cron cad
Zahnrecht
Orikan
5 Immortals
5 Immortals
5 Wraiths, 2 Whipcoils
5 Wraiths, 2 Whipcoils
4 Wraiths, 2 Whipcoils
3 Spyders
2 Spyders

Allied detachment eldar
Farseer, bike, mantle, alanath
Bikes

Canoptek harvest
6 Wraiths, 3 Whipcoils
3 Scarabs
Spyder

1848

Curious as to how this placed so well.
Is the general tactic something along the lines of wraith/spyder shame?
Meaning: multiple fast, tough units claiming tactical objectives and creating target priority issues for the opponent, with support from the awesome Zandrek and the Hulk (Orikan)?

5 Spyders + Canoptek Harvest = Turn 1 charge with Scarabs, with RP
2 Units of Immortals to sit on your objectives
4 Units of Wraiths to reach out and kill/tie up someone
Farseer zipping around the board making a nuisance of himself.

Looks like it coud easily tie up or hold all 6 objectives by turn 2.

**krootman.**

RiTides wrote:
MSU seemed really good at the LVO, too... a few really strong units with a lot of MSU seems to be pretty prevalent in the top lists from both events.

Nick Nanavati wrote up his first four games on Torrent of Fire and will be posting the other four next:
http://www.torrentoffire.com/6807/what-i-saw-and-what-i-killed-at-adepticon?cigx=d.cac,stid.233,sid.65685,lid.6,mid.261

He played Phil Dubbe (Remedy on here, a really tough draw for Round 1!) and Nick Rose in Round 4. A good read!

He can thank cook for talking him out of running this stupid pod list we tested the weekend before adepticon lol

**RiTides**

Yeah, the article talks about that

. I'd actually copied the whole thing in here after linking to it, but Chip of ToF asked me to remove that, and I've respected his wishes of course. Definitely worth reading though, hilarious how he changed his mind the morning of and went back to running daemons after bringing all the pod marines all the way to the con

**Toofast**

I played pod marines against Nick's daemon list tonight. All those re rollable 2++ and 3++ get really annoying. AP1 means nothing against invuln so my melta was less effective than bolters and grav cannons needed 6 to wound everything worth shooting them at. We played Nova mission 2, I lost 3-2 on primary mission points but 4-0 on secondary. I can definitely see why this list won it all.

**Tomb King**

Just curious... I ordered the void shield generator that adepticon was offering. I still have yet to receive the model. Anyone else having these issues? They didn't have them at the event thanks to a logistical error. The group running the booth said they would mail them out but gave no time table.

**Inquisitor_Malice**

Tomb King wrote:
Just curious... I ordered the void shield generator that adepticon was offering. I still have yet to receive the model. Anyone else having these issues? They didn't have them at the event thanks to a logistical error. The group running the booth said they would mail them out but gave no time table.

I will follow-up with them and provide an update in this thread. Thank you for letting us know and feel free to send me an email at greg@adepticon.org with any other questions.

**RiTides**

Unfortunately Games & Gears has been a bit behind schedule-wise on their other boards and terrain, too... logistics is not their strength :-/ although the products look good to me.

**Matthias**

Tomb King wrote:
Just curious... I ordered the void shield generator that adepticon was offering. I still have yet to receive the model. Anyone else having these issues? They didn't have them at the event thanks to a logistical error. The group running the booth said they would mail them out but gave no time table.

We'll be collecting everyone's mailing address this week and Games & Gears will then be shipping everything out. I don't have an exact date, but it seemed like it would be soon.

**Tomb King**

Inquisitor_Malice wrote:
Tomb King wrote:
Just curious... I ordered the void shield generator that adepticon was offering. I still have yet to receive the model. Anyone else having these issues? They didn't have them at the event thanks to a logistical error. The group running the booth said they would mail them out but gave no time table.

I will follow-up with them and provide an update in this thread. Thank you for letting us know and feel free to send me an email at greg@adepticon.org with any other questions.

Thank you for the quick response. I know I will get the model... was just wondering as to the time before i do is all.

Matthias wrote:
Tomb King wrote:
Just curious... I ordered the void shield generator that adepticon was offering. I still have yet to receive the model. Anyone else having these issues? They didn't have them at the event thanks to a logistical error. The group running the booth said they would mail them out but gave no time table.

We'll be collecting everyone's mailing address this week and Games & Gears will then be shipping everything out. I don't have an exact date, but it seemed like it would be soon.

Awesome, thank you. If you all could post when they go out that would be great.

RiTides wrote:Unfortunately Games & Gears has been a bit behind schedule-wise on their other boards and terrain, too... logistics is not their strength :-/ although the products look good to me.

Yea I saw the void shield that they had on display at Adepticon and I was pretty impressed. I am eagerly waiting the arrival on mine. Though they will be banned from most events by the time I get it assembled and painted.

**DJ3**

Been meaning to get up same game summaries as well (had a few people asking for list details and didn't want anybody thinking I was ignoring them) but got a pretty bad cold after the con; would like to get them typed up sometime this week before I forget everything!

**adamsouza**

Are there any pics of this void shield generator, and are they still available ?

**yakface**

adamsouza wrote:
Are there any pics of this void shield generator, and are they still available ?

You can see painted pics of it here, but you have to scroll a ways down the page:

http://www.adepticon.org/?paged=2

Its on the Games & Gears website, but as a Convention only deal:

http://www.gamesandgears.co.uk/fieldgenerator.aspx#sthash.LAr5GX0T.dpbs