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Alright gang it's fallen to me this year to keep the GE: Pasadena Tournament thread up to date here on Dakka. The July event is right before the BAO.. Details for the July event will be added as they become available, the details for the Hammer of Wrath GT in August are live NOW!

Upcoming Events (these events are reported to the ITC for ranking):
2016 Monthly Schedule:

January 9th: RTT: LVO PRACTICE SESH! FINISHED
February 13th: RTT: St. Valentine's Day "My One and Only" Highlander Event FINISHED
March 12th: RTT: St. Patrick's Day Slaughter FINISHED
April 9th: RTT Showdown - 1650 Points, ITC reported. FINISHED
May 14th: RTT Showdown - 1500 Points, ITC Reported. FINISHED
June 11th: RTT Showdown - 1850 ITC, BAO Practice Event! FB Event Page FINISHED:
July 9th: RTT Showdown - BAO PRACTICE FINISHED
August 13-14th: Hammer of Wrath GT COMPLETED! Brandon Grant takes it all less than a month after winning BAO with the same list. Congrats!
September 10th: End of Summer RTT - Old Hammer Tournament. Check FB for details. https://www.facebook.com/events/1588533031449059/
October 8th: RTT Showdown -
November 12th: Club Challenge -PENDING DATE
December 10th: RTT Holiday Madness!

Pertinent links.
Game Empire Facebook Page
https://www.facebook.com/gameempirepasadena/?fref=ts
TFGRadio Facebook Page
https://www.facebook.com/thosefnguys/?fref=ts
ITC Home Page
https://www.frontlinegaming.org/community/frontline-gamings-independent-tournament-circuit/

See you on the table top.

So get your armies ready and get down here for another smash-up in beautiful sunny Southern California!

First post has been updated.

Next month will be the St. Valentines Day Massacre RTT. It is an ITC reported event.

Before that we have an Apocalypse event in store on 1-30, you can find the details on the FB event page.

https://www.facebook.com/events/948397451893368/

This past weekend was great!

Always a blast playing in these events. Even with the Butchers event in bakersfield, the LVO practice event had 20 people.

What was the other ITC event mentioned in 2 weeks again?

I will have 18 of them. Commence flame-age.

Largo39 wrote:
What was the other ITC event mentioned in 2 weeks again?

There is an Apocalypse game in two weeks, not an ITC event. February 13 is the next tournament and ITC event.

No no there was an announcement of another ITC tournament made by someone Travis had come up at the end of January's event, I'm trying to remember when/where it was.

Largo39 wrote:
No no there was an announcement of another ITC tournament made by someone Travis had come up at the end of January's event, I'm trying to remember when/where it was.

Got it. I wasn't at the January event. Try sending him a message via FB if you can or call the store and ask.

The event announced at this end of last tournament is the one on January 23rd, 10am at "Bunker Hobbies and Games".

I took a business card from one of the guys to remember xD

They have a FB page here : https://www.facebook.com/TheBunkerHobbiesAndGames/?fref=ts

The details for the February Tournament have been finalized. You can view them on the FB page here: https://www.facebook.com/events/168088030228579/

First post also updated.

Already have my Valentine's Day letterhead ready to go!

 Bahkara wrote:
Already have my Valentine's Day letterhead ready to go!

What does this mean?

 sgtpjbarker wrote:

 Bahkara wrote:
Already have my Valentine's Day letterhead ready to go!

What does this mean?

You could check FB. Otherwise, print your list on this:



... in this kind of writing:




My Katy Perry quickie drawing needs work, no doubt. ... Okay, maybe that looks like Gwen Stefani.

Just a friendly reminder that this weekend is the 1500 point Highlander Valentine's Day event.

Read the army construction rules in the Original Post carefully!

Waiting to hear about the next RTT.

Let's do Adepticon missions for the next one!

Then we can see how the Midwest rolls.

First post updated with the official info for the March event.

FB Event here:
https://www.facebook.com/events/235019066840050/

So do I get any bonus points for taking Inquisition or Tempestus as primary?

Sure, I think running Inquisition or Tempestus as primary is worth, and Travis please correct me if I'm wrong on this number, a million Mega Fonzies? Though, running an entire Legion of the Damned army would be a better choice at ten billion Mega Fonzies.

lemurking23 wrote:
So do I get any bonus points for taking Inquisition or Tempestus as primary?

You would gain my undying respect if you played Militarum Tempestus and won.

 OverwatchCNC wrote:

lemurking23 wrote:
So do I get any bonus points for taking Inquisition or Tempestus as primary?

You would gain my undying respect if you played Militarum Tempestus and won.

... and if I win with 63+ spiders?

 Brothererekose wrote:

 OverwatchCNC wrote:

lemurking23 wrote:
So do I get any bonus points for taking Inquisition or Tempestus as primary?

You would gain my undying respect if you played Militarum Tempestus and won.

... and if I win with 63+ spiders?

Then you played Eldar and no one was surprised.

 OverwatchCNC wrote:

lemurking23 wrote:
So do I get any bonus points for taking Inquisition or Tempestus as primary?

You would gain my undying respect if you played Militarum Tempestus and won.

I thought I already had that...

Bah, now you are asking me to win? Jeez, moving the goal posts here. I just said play the damn primary, not win.

lemurking23 wrote:

 OverwatchCNC wrote:

lemurking23 wrote:
So do I get any bonus points for taking Inquisition or Tempestus as primary?

You would gain my undying respect if you played Militarum Tempestus and won.

I thought I already had that...

Bah, now you are asking me to win? Jeez, moving the goal posts here. I just said play the damn primary, not win.

I live by the moving goal post fallacy, I'm married you know.

For consideration ( a no joke post ). Srsly.

The new (March 2016) ITC missions involve ... scoring that is gonna take more time for me to fully *get*. I understood how to score, but the really strategic application/change from the previous scoring method is going to need a bit more rethink. I like them, but couldn't plan well enough. It totally shows since I didn't win any of the Maelstrom mission in all 3 Rounds.

Again, I like the new missions and would like to play them through the Spring before poo-pooing them.

I won the Primaries though. These were:
Round 1 - Crusade with DoW
Round 2 - Purge with VanGuard
Round 3 - Scouring with Hammer&A

This was thanks to going 2nd in all three games. Opponents picked that twice, thinking they'd good a good 'Alpha Strike'. They didn't. I picked going second the one time I rolled to decide. Mainly, I won the primaries using ObSec jetbikes in two of those, FTW. Mission Two was KPs and I simply was ahead there. The last mission, my opponent had no ObSec (one of the new SW lists, 40 wolf-puppies, Azrael and such) so that wasn't hard to win.

3 wins, placing 4th outta 33 guys, behind some good players (gonna NameDrop like it's HAWT) 8 points behind Reecius, a few more behind Jonathan and then Frankie, who had 1st place.

Notable: All of my games only went to Turn 3. Opponents didn't slow play either. We were trying to crank through, but ... it's a lot of Assault Thrust dice rolls. A bit of anecdotal evidence for a push to reduce the Army Points to lower, 1650, 1500, etc.

I hope to hear if Albert, Gabriel or Chris will chime in on why our games didn't go faster (I'm perfectly willing to accept I'm taking too long).

As Casey said above, games finishing was a major problem. The April tournament will be held at 1650.

Casey, if you need to practice the new missions, I am happy to help. I've played them a lot and understand the new mechanics inside and out.

First post is up to date with everything I know. It looks like I'll actually be able to make the April event my first for the 2016 ITC season!

Also, congratulations to Frankie from FLG for winning it all with his dirty, nasty, no good, very bad Tau list.

Great event, thanks for hosting it, guys!

Frankie smashed all before him without mercy, muahaha!

@Overwatch

We missed you at the event, buddy, see you there next time! Your new Wolf List looks nasty!

Concerning the drop in points for this event.

http://www.captureandcontrol.com/2016/03/the-necessity-of-lower-point-level.html

I was bummed I missed so many of you SD guys coming up for the event!

 OverwatchCNC wrote:
Concerning the drop in points for this event.

http://www.captureandcontrol.com/2016/03/the-necessity-of-lower-point-level.html

I was bummed I missed so many of you SD guys coming up for the event!

Yeah, if you'd been there, you mighta done something to keep me outta 4th place!

 Brothererekose wrote:

 OverwatchCNC wrote:
Concerning the drop in points for this event.

http://www.captureandcontrol.com/2016/03/the-necessity-of-lower-point-level.html

I was bummed I missed so many of you SD guys coming up for the event!

Yeah, if you'd been there, you mighta done something to keep me outta 4th place!

Perhaps!

April Event FB Page: https://www.facebook.com/events/1125435654174096/