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 Pacific wrote:
So after some attempts to get some additional ticket sales through FB have to say the results have been more than a little disappointing. Other than attracting some absolute sociopaths who crawled out of the gutters to attack our using AI art (and seemingly completely prepared to ignore the context of this being a charity event to raise money for someone dying of cancer) it's got very little traction.

Does anyone have any other ideas or other groups that they can share the event with?

Considering the cause, the very reasonable ticket prices, and that this is a currently a supported game I was expecting these to be snapped up in short order.

Some real gak guzzlers have crawled out the sewers it seems, its very disappointing. If the real situation wasn't so sad, it would have been amusing seeing all the trash look like this in those threads:



You are more than welcome to promote the event on the 6mm wargaming and terrain facebook group here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/266872090170793/.
Stick to advertising the legions/Epic 40k side and it will be ok. (I know you have other games planned on the day, but if the main post is focused for legions, I can slipped it past the crew!)

There's always some crybabies there too, those that get their knickknacks in a twist that Epic and anything GW doesn't belong on the page as they think it should be a historical page, but epic is 100% allowed on the page. There are probably better pages to advertise the event but:
1- As the support on those 'pure' epic pages has been gak, even if only one person takes notice its for a good cause!
2- I'll ban anyone that gaks up the thread there. I'll misuse my admin powers this one time for a good cause quite happily.
3- Almost the entire admin team of the page are Epic 40k or Ex-Epic 40k players.
4- My job has been overly busy and banning people gakking a thread up there over the next day or two would lift some of the tedium and its for a good cause so it would give me good christmas vibes!

Send me your Ad copy to Eric- at- BloodandSpectacles <dot> com and I can post it on my blog, message board, and a social post for you.

All I can say is "sorry!" for providing the AI art, I had hoped to use a favour or two with an artsy contact of mine, but alas, favours apparently have an expiration date. Also they were whining something awful about how "exposure was not enough" or somesuch.. whatever.

Partial lame joke aside, it does annoy me that people focus on that aspect and not the actual goal of this endeavour. 😒

No, thank you so much BrookM - you answered the call when we really needed something for the FSG advert!

Thanks so much everyone for the suggestions, really appreciated!

RexHavoc - was that you posting that image on FB? Honestly I was almost crying with laughter, absolutely brilliant.

I may have accidentally lost my rag with I think the 3rd or 4th person to mention the AI art
Thankfully I think the one site admin banned one of the losers that kept on going on about it (and who also tried to make out that the whole thing was an attempt at a scam). Honestly, it is pretty pathetic, they must sit at home searching through posts to get enraged about.

 ingtaer wrote:
Cheers for leading the charge on that and sorry you had to deal with the crap, its always a delight...

There are a couple of other things that will hopefully drive some more interest like some prize support but that is waiting for the new year when I have the funds to buy it available!

So far despite the polling here we only have LI sign ups and three people have not contacted me to sign up so I do not know what is going on with them.

I am also in contact with a Warcry groups TO/EO about having him run a event concurrently but we have a few logistical issues to sort out before that can be announced formally.

I wonder if the raffle portion needs to be divorced from the physical in order to draw more interest and allow wider participation, so far we have 2 companies and 5 people having pledged to provide stuff for that.

I’ll check with my group to make sure we’ve all emailed you. Pretty sure I sent an email for two of us, but the other in our group may have forgotten to send his.

I am pretty sure your group is sorted but if you could double check that would be great thanks.

Might be making a weekend of this, as it’s also Warhammer World’s Anniversary.

Figure rock up here, get my face smashed in, retreat tail twixt legs to Nottinghams, then eventually home while I’ll wildly falsify my success.

The event got a good shout out on the Advancing Fire Podcast - this is the Facebook page, but if you search for Advancing Fire it should pop on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and all good pod-catchers
https://www.facebook.com/p/Advancing-Fire-Podcast-61550025570902/

The Podcast is well worth a listen if you are into Legions, it's a good laugh, very laid back and Tom & team are some of the main community organisers for Legions in the UK so you will always get to hear about events on the page first, as well as in-depth looks at the new releases (the latest is covering the new Mechanicum book).

Still little movement on those tickets left unfortunately, I'll do some repeats on the Facebook groups (this time without the AI art haha)


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Have just put this together for the purpose of eye-catching

Cheers for getting the shoutout! 🤘🏻

Nice!

I posted it on a couple other places online. Hope it fills up!

Edit: Made this for my Socials and Blog coming out on January 3rd.

Thanks so much for taking the time to do that Easy E!

That's a great design for a social media advert, I will use it going forward.

And made a post in the Loot Group.

Thanks for the work on this guys. I will be ramping up my efforts when I get a break from work.

And Easy E, thanks for that! Will ask FSG to use that as our splash image... hopefully they respond this time...

New picture looks great btw guys.

Finally some movement on my end, Art of War are sending some stuff my way! Going to have to see whats what and take pics when it arrives but I am thrilled at the prospect!


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Happy to say that Buy the Same Token are also sending some stuff. Lovely to see the community getting involved.

Awesome news!

Well I am glad some one has happy anyway...

Support from Buy the Same Token arrived today.

Nice!

Nice one!

Will share the new picture on my socials too, more visibility can't be a bad thing!

Follow-up thought ... seems unlikely many (if any) folks will be bring big titans for a 2k game of LI, but wouldn't it look good to have some titans taking part in the mega-game? Is it worth bringing some extra titans for the big game, or if it's easier I wouldn't have a problem with swapping to a Titan maniple based list for the afternoon game (I'm not convinced it'd be much fun to play with/against in a regular 2k game)? Thoughts...?

Well I can say that no one who has signed up and sent me an email has listed their faction as Titans, Knights or either form of Mech. Cannot say as if that means no one is bringing them at all though as I haven't asked for lists...

So, it is entirely upto you! If you think you will have fun with Titans in either format then feel free! I agree that it would look more spectacular but fun should be the first priority.

Which reminds me that I need to email FSG... again.

I’ll bring some titans for the big game. Not sure if I’ll be bringing one in my 2k list yet though, but I might.

Just had a thought this afternoon while playing a game of LI.

Will we be using any house rules at the event, if so what?

1-short month away!

I hope you managed to sell all your tickets.

General Kroll- was there anything in particular you are thinking of? I am keen to use the Tallarn Fog rules for the 1v1 games to avoid the possibility of turn 1 feels bad moments.

Easy E, there have been no further sales.

All;


More swag, this time from Art of War.

 ingtaer wrote:
General Kroll- was there anything in particular you are thinking of? I am keen to use the Tallarn Fog rules for the 1v1 games to avoid the possibility of turn 1 feels bad moments.

Easy E, there have been no further sales.

All;


More swag, this time from Art of War.

Only thing I can think of off the top of my head is the omission of light at on heavy bolters for marine flyers, there must be other typos and such that we ought to clarify.

https://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/814638.page

Had a look at this, but what do other LI players/attendees think?

Can you guys take pictures for those of us who are stuck on the other side of the Atlantic?

I've shared the event around a few places, doesn't seem to have helped drum up much extra support though.

And cool, even if I don't bring any titans in my 2k list I'll bring some along for the afternoon game! (though I might have to use some in my list as I'm not entirely convinced I'm going to get everything painted in time, though I am trying...!)

I am sorry to say that life has taken a turn for the worse for me and my attendance is severely in doubt as I need to go into hospital for surgery the day before the event. I am trying to reschedule it but it seems unlikely.

I would ask that someone please volunteer to take over the running of the event on the day and let me know soonest so that I can get the various bits and bobs I have collected sent to them in time for distribution.

The raffle/auction will also not be happening I am afraid to say, only the tokens and templates I have posted previously will be allowed to be sold as such.

I am really sorry about this and was really looking forward to it (and giving MDG a kicking ;p).
For those I still owe email replies to I will endeavour to get that sorted as soon as I am able as well as contact FSG to let them know when I know who is taking over.

Again, I apologise and hope to see you all next year if we can make this a yearly thing.




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Okay, all outstanding emails have been sent and FSG have been notified.

If anyone is wishing to make an off the cuff donation then they are welcome to do so using the paypal address ingtaer@dakkadakka.com

Hi folks, have had a quick catch up with Ingtaer and have agreed to handle the running of the event on the day.

So rest assured it will be going ahead as planned.

And importantly Ingtaer gets to look after his health and not worry too much about pushing you soldiers around.

Will be some more comms sent out during next week.