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New pictures by Cocanour over at CMoN:
Golden Demons:
http://s209.photobucket.com/user/bcocanour/slideshow/Games%20Day%202013%20Memphis%20TN/golden%20demon

Armies on Parade:
http://s209.photobucket.com/user/bcocanour/slideshow/Games%20Day%202013%20Memphis%20TN/armies%20on%20parade

Slayer Sword Winner:


Won gold for Large Warhammer Model. I can see why people are going WTF, it is a Forgeworld model and should have been in the Forgeworld category.

*edit* just saw it also won Forgeworld BIS. Thought a figure couldn't win multiple awards?

THAT's what won????... wow.... the is not up to par for me for a sword, it is pretty good, but not stunning for me... and ya, it's a FW model...

 Pwn'd You wrote:
I also spoke to Jeremy vetock and he said he wants and is pushin for a fallen angels supplement as well as other dark angels supplements

I love Rumor Telephone. Check out what Natfka wrote based on this:

via a Reader here at Faeit 212 wrote:
Jeremy Vetock announced at games day that there will definitely be a fallen supplement coming, however we dont know if this is for DA or CSM.

 pretre wrote:

 Pwn'd You wrote:
I also spoke to Jeremy vetock and he said he wants and is pushin for a fallen angels supplement as well as other dark angels supplements

I love Rumor Telephone. Check out what Natfka wrote based on this:

via a Reader here at Faeit 212 wrote:
Jeremy Vetock announced at games day that there will definitely be a fallen supplement coming, however we dont know if this is for DA or CSM.

I was just about to post this.

Is it just me or has Natfka gotten even worse in terms of post quality?

@silent25: thanks for the links...

as to the Sword winner, and your general question, a mini can (and must to get a Sword) win multiple awards at one contest...
it has to be a gold winner already to be eligible for the sword...
so gold + Sword is two...
a previous Demon winner may not be entered again in a later Golden Demon...

the Forge World BIS can go to any model, even one that didn't win a trophy in it's category....
it's just whichever one the FW guys think is the best...

just because a mini is Forge World doesn't mean it can't win the sword...
if it can be entered in a normal category (Open category is not eligible), it can win the Sword...

cheers
jah

Yeah, sorry...that's definitely a really nice paint job...but compared to past winners...not Slayer Sword nice. If that won..the field must have been pretty "meh" this year.

 Dr. What wrote:
I was just about to post this.

Is it just me or has Natfka gotten even worse in terms of post quality?

He just has a bad filter. People send him stuff and he posts it. He's an aggregator and it shows.

 Dr. What wrote:

 pretre wrote:

 Pwn'd You wrote:
I also spoke to Jeremy vetock and he said he wants and is pushin for a fallen angels supplement as well as other dark angels supplements

I love Rumor Telephone. Check out what Natfka wrote based on this:

via a Reader here at Faeit 212 wrote:
Jeremy Vetock announced at games day that there will definitely be a fallen supplement coming, however we dont know if this is for DA or CSM.

I was just about to post this.

Is it just me or has Natfka gotten even worse in terms of post quality?

He just passes on the rumours (i.e. He's not a source). Therefore, if the number of correct rumours remains constant (I think it's actually dropped in general), but his site has been attracting more and more people, the signal to noise ratio will be pretty appalling.

Back on topic: where are the pics of the FW Apocalypse book? This is the second event they've showcased it at and I still haven't seen any pictures (except for the ones on the FW website).

-Shrike- wrote:
He just passes on the rumours (i.e. He's not a source).

Not to go too far OT, but that isn't correct.

For rumors that he directly posts and no one else has posted (hence his 'inbox' rumors), he is the source. This is no different than Hasting's source or Harry's source or Ghost21's source. Anytime you are the first one to post a rumor, regardless of what secret ball or spy or whatever you got it from, you are the source.

Nafka writes the catchiest headlines to grab the most traffic. And he's damn good at it.

BTW the red avatar of Khaine won gold as well and was the slayer winners and the blue one didn't even place so yep. I will say whoever took the photos had some decent shots of my work though the light was reflecting so it didn't show the shades to well.

Also since asked I will say a couple of reasons why this was the worst games day ever. The JUDGES were manhandling models (I.E I saw one pile a bunch into his hand like they were his armies minis) they were dropping them (over 6 that I personally know of were broken when in years past maybe one...maybe). A duel entry had 3 models on it and was not on a base(both violations of the rules). Finally as stated they announced a winner for the Duel Cat that wasn't even in that category and they didn't even know. These are all rookie moves and honestly a bunch of us were chatting afterwards this coupled with so many more reasons made this the worst Games day ever. I'm not going to discuss the judging as hey if you got a demon congrats but suffice to say one of my friends won several and just tossed them on the ground because that's pretty much what they meant this year in most of the categories. I don't mean just set it I mean tossed it.

I compete in a lot of painting comps and believe me you learn to have thick skin. You gripe a little have a drink then move on because as stated it is subjective. A bunch of my friends and I go to these and we win and lose but you still have an overall good time. I didn't hear anyone of them say they had a good time this year and that is honestly saddening because of the amount of money and time you put into being able to go to one of these such events.

How sad it is that Games Day preview pics now consist of a small handful of Forge World models. Games Workshop itself used to display a bunch of upcoming releases and have product seminars at Games Day where they'd discuss things they were working on that wouldn't see release for a year or so. I can't believe anyone is excited about this or Games Day any longer.

I guess if you never attended a Games Day years ago you have no idea what you missed, but otherwise it's nothing but a reminder of how much GW has lost its way when it comes to making their customers literally want to celebrate GW products.

timd wrote:
Besides the cool mask, the photographer managed to three women in the same photo at a GW event - impressive!

T

I managed to take that picture! lol

Snrub wrote:I ain't going anywhere near that comment....


Is there any more pictures of the dragon thing wrapped around the castle? I'd like to the front of it.

This is the best I could get. There were people crowded around the table playing a game so I didn't want to be rude and interrupt someone playing just to get a pic.





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Slipstream wrote:
Correct me if I'm wrong. After reading posts from Dakkas that attended this 'event', I get the feeling that it was what you Americans would describe as a giant crapfest, is this correct? I thought these gamesdays were meant as a way to generate new interest, loads of big reveals of new products, lots of things to do, you know, worthwhile. Instead from what I read this event was just going through the motions, offering very little but expecting you to spend megabucks then kindly leave?
It seems like you were expected to pay a lot for an entry ticket then realise you were infact paying to get into what seemed to be a glorified retail outlet. Surely they have to do better than this, otherwise why bother?

Well, here are my thoughts on Games Day 2013. Was it the "OMG, greatest Games Day ev-ah!" type of event? No. Was it good for what it was? I would say so. There were 3 sessions where you could build a model for free and take it home. For Fantasy, you got to make a Pegasus rider and you could then play in the floaty cloud tower game. For 40K, you got to make an Ork biker and then you could play on the lava table. These two sessions ran from 10am to 3pm, every 30 minutes. So, if you went to these sessions multiple times a day, you could walk away with several Ork Bikers or Pegasus riders. There was also a Make and Take terrain session that ran 5 times that day, where you could either make fantasy or 40K terrain. For Fantasy, they dumped out a box of sprues that contained a citadel wood base and trees, Garden of Morr sprues, and some fantasy fences I believe, as well as each person getting a modular movement tray to build your stuff on. For 40K, you got Cities of Death sprues and Battlefield Accessories sprues, as well as each person getting a modular movement tray. I only sat down for one terrain Make and Take, and I managed to snag 2 mausoleums, a fence section, and the death statue from the Garden of Morr, as well as a movement tray. I didn't even assemble them completely and just stuck most of the bits in my free GW swag bag. There were several people who were doing these terrain sessions over and over looking for certain bits and walking away with complete Garden of Morrs and Citadel Woods. So, technically, you could make back the cost of the ticket with the amount of free models you got. Free models that you could later turn around and sell.

The multi-player games they had going on were cool, as you picked out a tray of models and then picked a 2x2 section to deploy in. They had 6 different armies to choose from I believe (for the 40K game, anyway), and you got to use models such as the FW Great Unclean One and Blight Drones. I don't play Fantasy, so the only thing I remember for the Fantasy games was Ogres Vs Beastmen. They also had open gaming and had some new scenarios set up for the open gaming tables. Fantasy Flight was there, and there were several people enjoying games of Relic, as well as some playing the Space Hulk video game.

They of course had their retail store there, which included Forge World stuff. I wasn't there to buy anything (I support my FLGS instead) so I had no interest in that part of Games Day, although the line for Forge World was very long, as would be expected. I also wasn't there for the guest speakers, as they aren't going to reveal much info anyway, but people were lining up to go into their seminars. I was there to play some games on some awesome looking tables, make and take some free models, and take lots of pictures, and that is what I did.

So, for me, Games Day was what I expected, because there were only certain things I wanted to do, and I did them. I guess if you went with the expectation of finding out what the next release was going to be or see a lot of sneak peeks at future models (why would you, considering GW's policy of not revealing anything) then I guess it would be a let down. But I went with only certain things to do in mind, and at the end of the day, I can say I enjoyed it. But depending on what you were expecting, then YMMV.

Thanks Lord Mortis, thats a good shot. It's a gnarly looking conversion to be sure. Any idea what it was supposed to represent?

 jah-joshua wrote:
@silent25: thanks for the links...

cheers
jah

No problem, guess I should have clarified myself. Knew you needed a Gold in a category to qualify for the sword, but didn't realize you could pull a hat trick with winning FW-BIS, a gold, and SS.

Though I didn't realize some of the giant FW models could qualify for the standard categories, but with the recent giant plastic models, I suspect that may have changed.

 Snrub wrote:
Thanks Lord Mortis, thats a good shot. It's a gnarly looking conversion to be sure. Any idea what it was supposed to represent?

From what I briefly heard the GW guy explaining, each tower was controlled by a wizard of some sort. I think that model was supposed to represent the wizard/magic user in control of that particular tower.

*sigh* part of me was glad I missed it this year and part of me wishes I hadn't.

While I think that there was definitely some craziness in judging results it is a typical GW thing. This year just worse than the last.
As for the Slayer Sword I'm guessing there are several details we don't get to see.

 Empchild wrote:
...and to see winners and top 5s who violate GWs own rules is a disgrace to the comp.

How so? I didn't get much of a chance to view all the Demon entries this year.

 Lord_Mortis wrote:
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Snrub wrote:I ain't going anywhere near that comment....


Is there any more pictures of the dragon thing wrapped around the castle? I'd like to the front of it.

This is the best I could get. There were people crowded around the table playing a game so I didn't want to be rude and interrupt someone playing just to get a pic.

That's a pretty conversion lol .

As Gamesday has been over for a bit now---going to necro/lock this thread.