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IMO, the new Reaver Titan could be just the thing put the "Superheavy can't win" adage to the test.

And if it does... so what?

BYE

I think it would be awesome to play against a Reaver, even knowing that I would really have no chance of winning.

Frankly, I'd rather play in the Warhammer Escalation on Friday night though.

That's what makes Adepticon pretty cool (though I still haven't attended one...), you have a ton of gaming options!

Ozymandias, King of Kings

Green Blow Fly wrote:Agreed HMBC. The gladiator is one of the BIG events at Adepticon. Many people who have played in this event at previous Adepticons have stated that no army featuring a super heavy has ever won the event. I am going with attitude advocated here to just have a good time.

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Hi. I'm new around here

If I had a Reaver painted, I'd show up with it. It's too cool not to use.

Anyway, the Team Tourney interests me more.

[EDIT]: Ahh! I lost my 'Hammer of the Witches' user title. I really should become a DCM just so I can have 'Commissar Calgar' written up there. *checks through all options* Heroic Senior Officer will do...

BYE

Thanks for the clarification Cent.

: )

I am wondering if this is the year for a super heavy to win the top spot. Who knows... anything is possible. Hee.

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It's gonna be Orks w/Stompas winning the Gladiator just to start another round of Orkses is overpowered whining on the forums, and it shall be glorious.

H.B.M.C. wrote:
[EDIT]: Ahh! I lost my 'Hammer of the Witches' user title. I really should become a DCM just so I can have 'Commissar Calgar' written up there. *checks through all options* Heroic Senior Officer will do...

BYE

You should become a DCM and join us in the insanity that is the Mosh Pit(and 200+ pages of FAIL).

Best. Indy. Con. Ever.

Always had a great time. Depending on what you play in, you will almost certainly run into some competitors who are a little bit too serious for a toy game, but overall I have had some great experiences.

My favorite part of AdeptiCon is actually just the process of preparing for the 40K Team Tournament over the course of the year!

This year's venue is going to be GREAT compared to past ones. Free parking, Chicago Bunker is like 5 mins away, cheap food and shopping all around the area.

In terms of non-Gladiator 40K on Friday night, I think they also have open gaming?

- Blackbone

Every year I'm less and less thrilled with the team tournement.

...I may actually drop it next year to play in the Fantasy Championship.

THAT would be one awesome weekend.

Gothic Championship
Fantasy Championship
40k Championship

no more of the "jeez I'm sick of playing 40k!" that you normally feel during the last game of the tournement.

Deadshane1 wrote:Every year I'm less and less thrilled with the team tournement.

...I may actually drop it next year to play in the Fantasy Championship.

THAT would be one awesome weekend.

Gothic Championship
Fantasy Championship
40k Championship

no more of the "jeez I'm sick of playing 40k!" that you normally feel during the last game of the tournement.

Until this year, I was enjoying Fantasy -> 40k Team Tournament -> Gothic Tournament. Then someone moved the Gothic tournament. :(

That sucks for you.

However, I dont have to play in the Gladiator now Yahoo!

Having now read through (or should I say swam-through-and-tried-not-drown-in) Stelek's rants against Adepticon I am just... almost at a loss for words as to how one could hold that opinion.

Ok, so the INAT FAQ rubs some people up the wrong way. You can't make all the people happy all the time, and a ruling on one army's favour is always going to disadvantage someone else - that's cool. I can even sort of see the 'What right do they have to blah blah blah' argument, but then again I've always been of the opinion that a tournament organiser has final say on what gets played.

But to actually say that Adepticon is hurting the hobby? Come on now. Every year this has been happening I've seen report after happy report from the various teams that show up, endless threads full of great photos, and read battle report after battle report. It sounds like a blast. And for someone like me who can't attend because I live on the other side of the planet, I look forward to Cent99's wrap-ups and the funny BatReps that Janthkin always puts together.

How can this do anything but beneift the hobby?

Really, whatever respect I had for young Stelly went out the window when he began those rants. It's off base, needlessly offensive and reeks of a kind of elitism that I thought even he was above (but clearly I was wrong there). And not to rag on him any further (lest I incur the Wrath of Yak), while the INAT FAQ might get in some people's craw because of all the rules changes, the notion that GW 'hates' it because GW doesn't like people changing ther rules is just nonsense. GW has always said for the longest time that they encourage people to experiment with their rules, even going so far as to make their own FAQ's non-official so that people can change and play with whatever works for them.

Anyway, I wish I could go. It'd be great to play in the team tourney as I like the idea of team games with mini-lists (my last game of 40K was one of those, Marines/Eldar/GKs vs Orks/Chaos - great fun!).

BYE

-=Edited by Iorek - Restored post. Just remember, it's not kosher to rag on someone who can't respond, and you're coming close.=-

I like Adepticon and my favorite part is the Team Tournament.

What I am not fond of is the Gladiator. I know Forge World is popular in the mid-west, but almost everywhere else it is not played much. Also there is a certain prestige of winning the Gladiator, but I wish there was another viable option on Friday (Yes, I have an Eldar BFG fleet; no I am not going to play it). Maybe next year they can go back to the Invitational as a mini-Gladiator and have it on Friday.

H.B.M.C. wrote:
Come on now. Every year this has been happening I've seen report after happy report from the various teams that show up, endless threads full of great photos, and read battle report after battle report. It sounds like a blast. And for someone like me who can't attend because I live on the other side of the planet, I look forward to Cent99's wrap-ups and the funny BatReps that Janthkin always puts together.

Excellent point. Probably the "happy-season" for me here at dakka. Gotta love the reports and some of the guys here put a massive amount of effort into the description of every single game and the tournament as a whole.

Id go, even tho I dont play anymore. All the seminars, booths and such. That has so much to offer for any hobbyist.

Im going Saturday evening/Sunday, even if I have to walk.

I just hope I'm not too late to meet a lot of people. Its the main reason I am going. Surely people who come for Fridays 40k events will stay for Sundays tourney.

I'm going to attend next year for the first time. I think I'm planning BFG Tourney Friday, 40K Team Tourney Saturday and Fantasy Team Tourney Sunday.

I dont know that much about Adepticon but it seems a few of my friends are thinking of going this year instead of GD Chicago. My question is how does the Rogue Demon comp stack up against the Golden Demon? As far as you guys know are there more/less competitors? Thoughts on the prestige of the award? Being that i dont know much about the Con my thoughts are still that winning a GD is a bigger accomplishment than a Rogue Demon.

Thoughts?

Like a lot of things in life, you get out of it what you expect. If you expect a bunch of cheesy, angry players with over the top displays - that is what you'll see. If you go looking for a bunch of cool new guys to play, you'll see them.

I'm not crazy about the over the top displays that people come up with. I don't think that 'helps' the hobby, although some are cool and oh-wow-amazing. Maybe if I didn't have kids, I'd be doing the same thing though.

As I've said before, most years we've run into 1-2 TFGs at the tourney, and most of the rest of the players and teams were great fun and great sports.

I went to one of the early Adepticons when Hobbytown USA was sponsoring and running it. They held it in a local venue close to their store, and the 40K tournament had maybe 32 players? I got to play against a Blood Angel by the name of Jeff Chua, who was polite and easy going, while at the same time being one of the hardest opponents I have ever faced. I missed the next year, but I remembered what a great time I had, and I've tried to get to every Adepticon since.

I won the 40K event overall and either best painted or sportsmanship that first year, I forget which (old age and dementia), even though I told them one player can't win multiple prizes! Obviously when Jeff took over they tightened up the rules and standards for the events, which is a big part of the appeal for me. "Fences make good neighbors" is an adage that applies.

I like to win things, but in the several Adepticons I have been too since the first, the closest I've come is the "let the dice fall where they may" prize in last years team event with our Necrons. I cherish this prize more than some of the overall wins I have, because of the level of dedicated and competitive players at this event. I've never come away from Adepticon without a lot of great stories and new friends.

Oh FFS. We can't even mention his name? That's absurd.

BYE

It's like Beetlejuice, if you say it too many times, he reappears.

Ste-
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Ach du meine Güte, gar nichts klappt mehr, so'ne Scheiße!

Those grapes are sour said the little red fox. Hee!

G

dietrich wrote:It's like Beetlejuice, if you say it too many times, he reappears.

So from now on we just refer to him as Beetlejuice? Sounds good to me.

Beetlejuice's Blog is always good for a laugh. You go there, he rants and raves, then if you come back with something to make him look stoopid, it doesnt get posted up. (despite how he says he doesnt silence people, I've had two of my posts not make it public) Anonymous posting is frowned upon and used as a way to deviate from the main topic to make the anonymous person look like a coward despite any valid points they may make. Beetlejuice seems to have garnered a following of fanboi's that ALSO have the freedom to berate anyone who disagree's with him, so the blog is either "agree with Beetlejuice or be crushed under a bunch of teenyboppers that are able to give attitude just like Beetlejuice and not be moderated."

Basically, any serious discussion there is a joke. If I was to go and preach the wonderful weekend that is Adepticon there, I'd be smashed by Beetlejuice and his mindless followers. Instead, I go occasionally to read the "rudeness" that he spouts...when I'm bored.

Beetlejuices opinion on whether or not you should go to Adepticon?.....file 13 that garbage. He's an angry little man...his blog shows just how much of one.

Nothing to see here, folks. Move along.

So my post was re-re-edited to put his name back in. And reporting my reaction to what someone said on a different site is hardly 'ragging' on someone. And if I really was 'ragging' on him, you wouldn't've have restored my post to the original wording, now would you?

BYE

FearPeteySodes wrote: My question is how does the Rogue Demon comp stack up against the Golden Demon?

The competition will not be as good as the golden demon (generally), but there will be past golden demon winners you will be competing with.

As far as you guys know are there more/less competitors?

There are a less entries at the Rogue Demon.

Thoughts on the prestige of the award?

The Golden Demon is the standard as far as the award of excellence to mini painters. The Rogue Demon is a lot less prestigious.

In defense of the Rogue Demon. There is a lot of talent involved ( and over the years it has gotten better and better ) and we always give away some great swag to the winners. While not as prestigious as the Goldem Demon awards ... it's more of a every man sort of competition.

I will drop a little bit of future knowledge...AdeptiCon is now it our 7th year of operation and I think it is pretty safe to say that we have exceed our own expectations and vision of what we wanted to make AdeptiCon. ( Thanks to countless volunteers and attendees !!) There is definitely a desire to bring the same sort of passion and commitment that we have on the tourney event side to other aspects of the convention. It is not going to happen over night, it will be a building process but I look for the painting competition at AdeptiCon to definitely kick it up a notch not only this year but in years to come.

-Hank