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Absolutely beautiful! I didn't get a chance to see briancj's Minotaurs or Mr. Malevolent's Space Sharks at the con. I love the strong Greek elements in the Minotaurs and the mix of armors in the Sharks. Definitely inspiring!

I love those even stubbier Stormravens.

Wow, the "professional" pics from the book look sooooo good . Quite an impressive 4-some these armies are. Will be hard to top!

Yes, well... I'm sure the rest of the team hated me as I was constantly asking them for more or different pictures from which to make my selections. Everyone came through in the end though and I think it worked out OK.

The Adeptinomicon was very cool, thanks for putting all that up

Great shots of your display board, and thanks for all the other army pics guys.

Some great pics so far... Part of the problem with the scale of Adepticon was that there was just too much to take in all at once. I did multiple laps of the hall during the Championships and Team Tournie and still missed some cool stuff.

I have uploaded my pics from the event to my Dakka Gallery.

I had a blast, even though I didn't go so spectacularly in the events I played in... 1-3 in the Championships and 2-2 in the Combat Patrol. All fantastic games, though. Being paired against the previous year's winner in the first round of the Championship didn't help



My other games:
Long Fangs ahoy! (Yep, 2 out of my 4 Championship games were Space Wolves vs Space Wolves...)


Bikes, sah, fahsands of them!


Puny Guardsmen, drunk opponent, easy win, right?

LOL! So, I take it the last game gave you a bit more of a challenge than you anticipated?

Great stuff. My fingers are speechless, as it were.

Alpharius wrote:The game we played against the Wardens was the highlight of the Team Tournament for me - a fantastically modeled and painted army and, even more important, a really good group of guys!

Thanks!
You guys were great to play against.
Couldn't have asked for a better group to play!


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Solar_lion wrote:Lastly…
Here is on of my favorites. And also the biggest display in the house. The Lamenters last stand on the DE homeworld.. ( must paint better!!!!) Awesome stuff!

I totally missed those Lamenters.
Freakin' amazing!


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Mr.Malevolent wrote:

IceAngel wrote:My wife just pointed out that I'm the only one without a beard. I may have to work on that for next year!

Yeah c'mon man. Way to fit in haha

I'm also sporting facial hair. Better get crackin Ice, only 360 days left!

Oh man. Ice better step up his game now.
Your still outnumbered man on the facial hair front haha


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This was definitely my favorite.
Note to self: Prepare something for the Crystal Paint Brush competition for next year....

Gitsplitta wrote:LOL! So, I take it the last game gave you a bit more of a challenge than you anticipated?

You could say that, yes...


Results are up on the Adepticon site. 117 out of 254 for the Championship. I'm pretty happy with that. Even happier with the 42 for Paint.... James Wappel scored 45.

Also came 25th out of 54 for Combat Patrol. Given the calibre of the competition, and my to-date usual tournament showings that are generally closer to the bottom of the list, I'm quite content with both of those results.

Nice, Iain! Both of those are quite a good showing, I think, all things considered... top half of the pack . That's also been my goal (although I don't think we made it in the team tourney).

I think we need to get all out dakkanauts together one of the nights next year for a poker night or something similar. I'd say some sort of big game, but I suspect burnout on mini gaming may happen by then.

whalemusic360 wrote:I think we need to get all out dakkanauts together one of the nights next year for a poker night or something similar. I'd say some sort of big game, but I suspect burnout on mini gaming may happen by then.

I cant play poker

Good thing you have a year to learn!

First game against Nids. Git and I teamed up. Note this is not a battle report per say. Just some shots and commentary on what was going on…

Set up and opening move

They Covered the back edge!

Ending of the Nid movement

Mass movement Left – We managed to get off some shots, but not enough to thin the Gargoyles. Sternguard and Assault squads go to work

Genestealers on the flank left…

Move up the center

Genestealers on the right flank

Our Position

Death company drops out to push forward on the left flank

After much Close combat the sternguard flamers melt Genestealers in droves Killing 11. Leaving only 3 . DC dread finishes them.

Ready to sell ourselves to hold or contest the objective on the right.


Push around the center we go ( note we removed the SR to move things easier

Right flanks Nids push forward

Incoming fire takes 2 Marines and destroys Vindi.

DC and SR make a push to the objective

Not quite enough to make it past the wall and into the nids - Game over! Another turn we would have taken their objective , but the would have swarmed ours as well. Fun game.
would of like to see my DC dread go 1-1 on the big guy!

When I talk to these guys later they told me they went up against a IG army and got shot to peices.

Awesome batrep. Yours and gits armies really look awesome together.

if we Only had like 10 Baal predators all lined up.. yeah , that do it!

They we fun guys to play with and we got luck as the spawning ended early in the game.

Git's sternguard again excels in Close combat. Who need vanguard!

SL

Any of you guys planning on going to GenCon in August?

I am not. I got to get ready for Adepticon 2013!!!!!

Afraid not, budget can only handle one con.

Am I the only one disturbed by the terrain piece bottom center?

Gitcher mind outta the gutter.

I will be at GenCon, Dave. Pimping Artemis.

I will be there as well. We may have to have a dakka get together!

Aye!! First round is on me!

By the Emperor our first game was ridiculous!
Four Tervigons puking out scoring units and then to find out our secret objective was to wipe out their scoring units...... face palm.

Me: "Oh look Tyranids.....and....four...Tervigons....."
Brian: "Yeah......."
Brian opens the envelope.
Silence for a few moments.
Me: "Crap"

A couple friends of mine got that mission, and the opposing coalition had all their scoring units hiding in Land Raiders, including an Achilles.

I was referring to the first round of beers

Thing about playing a nid army is you can in between rounds move to you teammates table and snap some pictures of their battle. Not sure the action …




Where did all the Marines go?


Briancj or Mr. M can comment on whats going on better than I.

However much to the codex they took the fight right to the nids!

SL

2nd game against IG and SM .. this time Mr. M. and I
Starting set up


Scouts take shots but are ineffective. Sharks DP seals in the armor. Libby and melta disables the Chimera in the opening.

Flanking bikes jump on the board. SR , Sharks dread and RB start disabling the IG tanks. All the while getting pounded by the Manticore and Thudd gun

Death company deploys to deal with intruders in the quarter of the table

DC take out their rage on the scouts

While the dread feasts of some scout bikers



Bad day to be a scout biker

IG Russes go to work on the sharks Razorback. Sharks pile out o deal with more scouts. More pounding by the by the Manticore and Thudd gun

Finishing up the scouts.. massive fire eliminates all but the Sharks Libby… you can see him on the right side of the DP

Move up to support what we thought was the counter attack with the IG troops.



Push with the DC and assault squads on the left flank. Libby thaken to the Emperors grace ( whats left of him)


Another pounding takes out the other RB. SR and Sharks Dread pound on the tanks

DC moves up.. SR zooms to help put on right flank

Dread takes the brunt of the guard ground attack.


Lamenter assault squad backs up to secure the quarter.

Vindicator tries to take out the remaining enemy RB troops

But scatters almost taking out he Sharks dread

Game ends as the DC and Chaplain take revenge on the veterans that killed the dread.. Game over..