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Sounds like a blast. What ships were you using in X Wing?

EDC

Sounds wonderful. How life should be. Can't wait for pics. Really glad you had a good time.

X-wing is fab. Good job, the basic tie remains, still, one of the best ships in the game, and tie swarm is the shark in the meta. Serious game design, that.
No BMG?
Glad you had a great time

Here's a few pics of the Knight Fight and Wardens from AdeptiCon, along with a hint at Gits' exploits, although I'll let him share the results

The final showdown of the Knight Fight (originally 7vs7). Solar_lion and Gitsplitta* (*and IceAngel, hiding in the back for this pic ) vs Lorek and Joel. But will it end with Gits' final moment of glory, or the agony of defeat???



And from earlier, a mirror match between myself (using nerdfest's wonderful knight) and Solar_lion, while IceAngel directs traffic



Wardens group picture! Only two non-Dakkanauts pictured, do you know who is who?



And this amazing army, which doesn't have a connection to any of the above but is too good not to share. I love some well done counts-as



I had such an incredible time! Thanks to the Wardens for being so fantastic to game and hang with, and for awesomely helping at my booth once again! The gaming in the evenings was the best I've had in a long time, I really enjoyed it. Cheers guys

"Getting to play Yorkright in a 2v2 match... and getting my butt kicked by a bunch of orks. (also a cheater)"

I believe you lost because you did not listen to your partner in that game ;-D. That ork list was played by our friend and he totally stomped my Ynarri army the game before.

Was great meeting RiTides and Solar-LIon, would love to get a game in with either of you next Adepticon.

gummyofallbears wrote:That sounds like a lot of fun! How are the miniwargaming guys in person? I might be planning a trip over there this summer, so I can use all the info I can get!

The MWG guys were great, I couldn't believe how "up" and positive they stayed with hundreds of people constantly demanding their attention. I spoke with Josh who was really nice & asked me excellent questions about what I liked and was interested in. I didn't want to waste a lot of his time as I really just wanted to say thanks and keep up the good work... but I'd say their on-line persona's are pretty spot-on.

gummyofallbears wrote:Also- any hints at what you picked up at adepticon?

Toys: Some FW but as prices were greatly inflated, I kept it to a minimum. 5 cacaphoni, 2 packs of EC dice, EC transfer sheet and a praetor show-only model. Some paints and basing supplies that are hard to find. Some Black Site X laser cut terrain to go with my DOW laser cut terrain from their kickstarter last year. OH, and some really cool containers (as in over-seas, huge, ship-borne containers) with famous "evil company" logos from SciFi. Going to hold off on showing you those until I get my full set. They're just too cool to spoiler. Spent most of my money on decent food from the hotel restaurants rather than the "convention food" they were selling at the back of the hall. With a teenage boy in tow we went through my mad money at a good clip... but it lasted just long enough.

evildrcheese wrote:Sounds like a blast. What ships were you using in X Wing? EDC

Whatever Imperial fighter comes in the basic set (one x-wing, two Imperials). No shields... 3 HP? We didn't do any upgrades or anything. In the end it was just me and an (I think) undamaged x-wing & I wore him down over several turns and finally took him out. Solar_lion thought it was an impressive feat... who am I to argue?

Yorkright wrote:"Getting to play Yorkright in a 2v2 match... and getting my butt kicked by a bunch of orks. (also a cheater)"

I believe you lost because you did not listen to your partner in that game ;-D. That ork list was played by our friend and he totally stomped my Ynarri army the game before.

Indeed! I certainly had the most charming teammate at the entire event. I would have listened to her more carefully but she kept claiming I was trying to cheat you... daddy's little girl that she is and all...



Soooo.... I was looking through the photos I took this year on either my camera or my phone. I didn't really take a lot... but what I have will make two battle reports... one for the Knight Fight that Solar_lion ran, and one for my 30k game with Master Azalle. I do have a few random pictures of neat armies... but I'll save those for the annual "Adepticon wrap-up" thread that Solar_lion usually starts. I will leave you with a couple of interesting pics that are topical and relevant.

Pic #1: Really cool conversion for an AdMech army. This is supposed to be a Dragoon. He had a great conversion for an Iron Strider as well but unfortunately my picture didn't come out.



Pic #2: History in the making... the view from inside RiTide's Modbitz booth.

It was definitely great meeting you, Yorkright, it's clear Gits has an awesome gaming group with you guys up in Madison! Also one that is quite good at playing 40k

Edit: Ninja'ed by Gits!

Seems like you had a good time. That AdMec conversion looks great as well!

I like the looks of the knight-fight! I gotta ask, what's the turnout for younger players, cause i'm thinkin' of going next year. At the same time, I assume most of(if not many) the attendees are Dakkanaught, or is it just your little group there Gits?

There are THOUSANDS of people who attend JATW. Dakkanaughts make up a very small percentage. It's all table-top games (well, figuratively speaking), not just 40k/30k. Infinity, Star Wars, Saga, Warmachine.... you name it. More than I can count.

They used to have a 40k junior championship... not sure if they still have that or not. The events are volunteer run... so it just depends on what people want to step up and lead.

Thanks, idk if i'd fit into a "junior" tournament, i'm a high schooler. I was just asking cause I have no clue what the turnout is in way of ages.

Gotta say the jealousy inducing randowm pics throughout were a welcome distraction to my days! nothing better than seeing your mates playing games with only knights on great boards while they enjoyed themselves

Looking forward​ to solar_lion's wrap up, don't forget to link herein!
On another note, great shot of the navigator household. I've been following it on here - yup, he's one of us! Weirdingway.

So how do modbitz work, and what are they?

@JATW: Well, the Junior Championship went all the way up to 16. So good for sophomores at least.

@graven: I'll let RiTides handle that.




Looking through my photos I decided I had enough to do a "Knight Fight" battle report of sorts.

Things you need to know about the rules...
- There were up to 14 knights on the table at once.
- It was a "Resurrection Battle", so any knights destroyed could immediately enter the fray again in the next turn.
- The turn you entered you could only run.
- Rules were simplified, but not so much that the individual knight configurations lost their character.
- Movement was simplified.... move 12", run 12", charge 12" (unless your knight had some special rule... like my lancer which was allowed to run 18")
- Victory points were awarded based on hull points removed from opposing knights in shooting or assault. Having your own knight explode & then the explosion doing hull points to your opponents did NOT count towards your total.
- The table was huge (three standard long-tables put together) with amazing, really large terrain which absolutely made the game as cool as it was.
- Turns were done like Tie Fighter... only with playing cards, so if you moved first you'd shoot last & visa-versa.


In fairness I missed the first turn or two as RiTides & I came in late.... so unfortunately I don't have a pic of the original deployment. Maybe I can steal one from one of the other players...
I also want to apologize for the wonkiness of the colors in these photos. My phone camera is damaged and it's color processor is obviously not working properly, so I did the best I could to address it... but it's kind of random.



This is how things stood when I finally got to the game, both sides... fully engaged across an urban battlefield. The team I was assigned to is the one on the left. Master Azalle was our "king". I should point out that Ramos painted the red and blue knights, Solar_lion painted the pruple knights and the orange knight atropos(?) and Nerdfest the silver knight atropos(?). I'm pretty sure the black knight near the top of the photo was Azalle's.



The boss (MA) told me to just charge forward until I hit something... so that's exactly what I did. For those of you unfamiliar with the FW knight lancer... it's a knight specifically designed to kill other knights. It's not very good at anything else... but it fulfills it's primary mission extremely well.



Here I am after running deep into the enemy's deployment zone facing off against Lorek's and his charming lady's knights.





During my activation, I charged into the blue knight, destroying it. During his, Lorek charged into me... We brutalized one-another, leaving my lancer on 2 HP and his knight on 1. The following phase the lancer finished him off and narrowly escaped being destroyed itself due to it's shield which can be used for a 5+ invul in close combat.





Here is Solar_lion laying down the law. It was a bit chaotic with the way each knight was activated... but it was a TON of fun! He worked really hard on making this happen, thanks man. The guy in the green is the gentleman who made all this amazing terrain and allowed us to use it for hours after he'd planned on taking it down (for a fee of course). SL's trying to convince him to sponsor the event next year (where we hope to make it official) by providing the terrain for us to use without cost.





Here are some famous Dakkanaughts enjoying themselves during the game. It looks posed almost but this was just a random shot.... as you can see things were pretty intense. There are three mods in this photo, though I'll let you guess who is who.





What follows are a couple of shots of the general melee. Just sit back and enjoy the cool models on this amazing table!







Finally, the resurrections stopped... and most of us left on the table had very few hull points left. Now it's a fight to the death. From left to right... Ice Angel, Solar_lion, SL's brother Joel, Lorek and I. (the knight way in the back at the edge of the table is not in-play)





SL's knight gets gunned down, I take a charge from Lorek's blue knight, but emerge victorious... leaving Ice and I to face Joel. Keep in mind that Joel's knight has more hull points than both Ice and my Knights combined. At this point I went for an outflank to try and hem Joel in and prevent him from being able to shoot at and potentially kill both of us in one turn.




Joel's knight falls back the only way it can, but is eventually caught by Ice Angel. The two destroy each other in a fiery conflagration of man and machine... leaving my Lancer as the last knight standing and the only one that was never actually destroyed.




Hope you enjoyed the report. Solar is still tweaking the system and hopes to offer it as an official event next year. Perhaps 2 tables, 10 knights each.

That looks like awesome, mad fun. Cracking stuff!

Truly looks amazingly fun. Beautiful board, beautiful Knights.

That table was so awesome, really made the event shine I think . Hopefully Solar can requisition the terrain for next year, too!

On the ModBitz, this was my first reveal of a magnetic construction toy I've been working on, with the next event being the Bay Area Maker Faire in two months. I'll have more to post closer to that and will be adding a few more pieces that people requested at the event in the interim (along with finalizing the production process, as these were all made with a silicone mold). It was really great seeing kid's eyes light up when they saw the booth, and their parents having to drag them away afterwards . I'll certainly share the info when we're close to launch!

Thanks again to the Wardens and especially Gits for his enthusiasm and help at the booth - he really is a people magnet, as you might have guessed from the blog

Haven't had a chance to get back into painting as my son (Thing 1) has been occupying my painting desk working on that mass of Necrons he was inspired to finish thanks to Adepticon. Unfortunately he's at the "tedious" stage where he's doing the same thing over and over on dozens of figures.

Will have a chance to get in a game tonight at our weekly get-together at the local store. I think I'll have one more opportunity, then nothing until June. Just in time for Sigmarization I guess.



Couple of funny observations from Adepticon...

Thing 1 and I wandered around the main playing floor while some of the big tournaments were going on and made the following observations...

During the championship... we counted 11 Magnii.... in some cases fighting each other. We also saw two Celestines on the same board though they weren't actually fighting each other yet.
During the team tournament... it appeared that about 90% of the armies were either eldar, chaos or some marine variant.... the surprising part was that AT LEAST 50% of the armies we saw were eldar or chaos. God help us when the Yvarra (sp?) army becomes legal to play, it'll be nothing but Eldar.

 Gitsplitta wrote:
God help us when the Yvarra (sp?) army becomes legal to play, it'll be nothing but Eldar.

It's spelled R-A-P-E

Gits, while Thing 1 is occupying your territory, you could post up the report of your EC's encounter with my DA

No cheating involved. The Emprah just likes me better!

@Azalle: Excellent idea, now all I have to do is find the Sim card and card reader.... I know I brought them into the house...

CleansingFire wrote:
No cheating involved. The Emprah just likes me better!

' Mike drops'

Thanks for playing nice with Brent. He was thrilled to get in a game with his New World Eaters. Now to crush those Children!

Had a lovely little game of my AdMech vs. Tau with Sadowsun and a million marker lights.

Knight... "boom!"
Dominus... "boom!"

Ahhh but then the rust stalkers and infiltrators made it into assault and the long-range AdMech firepower started to wear the tau units down. Never did touch his heavy support much, but I chewed on everything else (we both did actually) and my card draws were pretty consistently achievable.

Final score (maelstrom game): 13-10, AdMech victory

Really fun, really close fight. Shadowsun survived to fight another day. Bits of the dominus were last seen inch-worming towards each other as he slowly re-assembled himself after the battle's end.

Lol, poor Dominus but congrats on the good showing!!

Thanks! The first turn-and-a-half were pretty ugly as the Tau's 30+ marker lights just made a mess out of everything in range. In spite of that I managed to secure the majority of my maelstrom objectives and by turn three had taken a pretty decent chunk of the marker lights down, which made the rest of my army more survivable as the game went on.

Man-of-the-Match had to be the Infiltrators. They took out a small unit of marker drones, then a large unit of fire warriors w/ drone support. The Tau had to dedicate enough fire to getting rid of them that other key units survived longer than they otherwise would have. Dune crawlers, Castellan robots and Breachers also had a very good evening. Nearly everything contributed though. Even the knight which was blown up in the very first shooting phase absorbed the entirety of the Tau shooting in turn 1, leaving the rest of the army unharmed. My opponent commented that he'd positioned himself to take out the knight in turn 1, but it'd left him largely out of position for the rest of the game. I could see that as my assault troops had a pretty clean line of approach along a solid line of buildings which blocked LOS.

Congrats on the win.. tough codex to beat.

Ritides is was great to see you there and as always what trip is complete without see Gits... I mean I even got a picture with him and felt like I was a celebrity.....

@Eiluj: You WERE the celebrity! I was just lucky to get a pic with a famous YouTuber!


@SL: Indeed. I must say I'm getting less and less torn about fielding the War Convocation... because without it, I get my butt kicked pretty consistently. I think most of the units in the two AdMech codecii are good... they're just too expensive to be competitive (small "c") without all the buffs you get from the formation. It'll be interesting to see what changes 8th brings. I'm wondering if formations will be a thing of the past...

Wow. I have been gone too long.
Amazing to see that you're still so active. Tried to catch up on a lot, but my absence has given me tons of blogs to go back through.
As expected, your skills have definitely improved, but it has been about 3 years since I stepped away, so It's really cool to see all that you have been able to accomplish.
I'm back lurking, but not sure if I'll get back to posting my own work. Currently working on a Skaven Blood Bowl team. Nice to be back into the hobby again, but really nice to see you and some of the boys never left.
Look forward to following your work again, Gits! Cheers!