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Hey everyone, Wargames Con is back! We're helping them out by handling ticket sales through our web-cart. So, if you'd like to attend this very fun event, follow the link below to read about the events and snag some tickets.

https://www.frontlinegaming.org/community/wargames-con-2016/

You can also check out their FB page for any questions: https://www.facebook.com/warGamesCon/

They've got:

40k Champs
40k Narrative Events
Apocalypse
40k Team
X-Wing
X-Wing Teams
Warmachine and Hordes Events
Infinity Events
Vendor's Hall
Great social aspects and of course, it all takes place in lovely Austin, Texas.

See you all there!

Can't wait! It will be so fun

Looking forward to this event.

Who is coming to WGC this year?

Hi Everyone, we are under two weeks away from having a fantastic weekend of fun! I've got some good news and some bad news.

The X-wing and Infinity events are going to be cancelled. However, from their fiery ashes arises a new event that anyone can participate in!

PAINTING COMPETITION!!!!

$5 entry fee gets a model of yours entered into the competition in one of 3 categories: Large/Vehicle, Small, and Unit. Any model entered after the first will only cost you $1. Awards will be Best Overall, Best Large/Vehicle, Best Small and Best Unit.

Make sure to get your tickets for the events you would like to play in and/or hotel room booked!

https://www.frontlinegaming.org/community/wargames-con-2016/

I will be for sure. Excited for the 40k Championship event!

and the countdown continues..........

Is there anyplace we can go to see live updates? Or pairings?

I was literally googling trying to find the same thing and came here, a friend of mine is playing there and wanted to see.

 Zach wrote:
I was literally googling trying to find the same thing and came here, a friend of mine is playing there and wanted to see.

Here you go:

http://tinyurl.com/wgc2016

I'm a bit disappointed in the setup. Minimal terrain, felt boards, and nowhere on the website did it say this was a battle points tournament. Most of us found out after the third round.

Ah thats kind of a bummer, they didnt offer a primer packet?

Yes they did,but it was not advertised as such. The script of the packet was about an small as you can get.

At least know one cheated at this event

thejughead wrote:

 Zach wrote:
I was literally googling trying to find the same thing and came here, a friend of mine is playing there and wanted to see.

Here you go:

http://tinyurl.com/wgc2016

I'm a bit disappointed in the setup. Minimal terrain, felt boards, and nowhere on the website did it say this was a battle points tournament. Most of us found out after the third round.

Mechanicus finished in the top spot. Interesting.

40kmaster1 wrote:At least know one cheated at this event

Pretty strong language.

40kmaster1 wrote:
At least know one cheated at this event

Do you mean that NOBODY cheated, or do you mean that you KNOW about somebody cheating at Wargames Con?

I think the less we go down that path, the better.

I regret that I wasn't into tournament 40k when I lived in Texas, or I would have attended one of the Austin or San Antonio tournaments. I hope you guys had a good time.

My friend was told by Jon wolf that there was more terrain but it wasn't used by the person who set up the tables. He didn't really seem interested in being involved this weekend. Its a shame to see the once mighty WGC fall so far. None of our group of five attendees will be returning. That's assuming there is evert another WGC.

The pairings were a horror show. The pairings were wrong twice. The third time I was told that anyone could just find a new opponent from the nearby tables, but just to let them know who was playing who. Face palm

Terrain was a little skimpy, of course my Dread Mob did not care thankfully. I had some really good games, nice playing against new people. I was frustrated with the pairings day one though, the second time didn't effect me thankfully.

 Shinkaze wrote:
My friend was told by Jon wolf that there was more terrain but it wasn't used by the person who set up the tables. He didn't really seem interested in being involved this weekend. Its a shame to see the once mighty WGC fall so far. None of our group of five attendees will be returning. That's assuming there is evert another WGC.

The pairings were a horror show. The pairings were wrong twice. The third time I was told that anyone could just find a new opponent from the nearby tables, but just to let them know who was playing who. Face palm

There was indeed more terrain but it was not good terrain so I choose not to use it. Volunteerism this year was very low and I only got the tables finished in time with the help of attendees, so I had little to work with. In the coming year I plan on fixing the terrain issue.

As to pairings, yes we had a mishap in the third round that really only affected about 6 people but when it happened I did not know that so it did indeed appear to be a horrow show and I apologize for that. Everything else went smooth though! I hope you had a good time regardless.


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 thejughead wrote:

 Zach wrote:
I was literally googling trying to find the same thing and came here, a friend of mine is playing there and wanted to see.

Here you go:

http://tinyurl.com/wgc2016

I'm a bit disappointed in the setup. Minimal terrain, felt boards, and nowhere on the website did it say this was a battle points tournament. Most of us found out after the third round.

The complaint about terrain is valid, I plan on fixing that next year. Why are felt boards bad? We have always had felt boards in previous years. We can't have all Fat Mats as they are really expensive to have 50 tables worth. The only reason we had them last year was frontline gaming was helping us and brought their own mats. Which is also the only year we have NOT done battle points.

Felt boards was not terrible, but in certain areas it was lumpy. Just got used to the FAT mats. I had one person in my group play on a space that was 63 1/2 inches wide. The ticket on the website says its an ITC tournament. We took that to mean W/L.

Caldera02 wrote:

 Shinkaze wrote:
My friend was told by Jon wolf that there was more terrain but it wasn't used by the person who set up the tables. He didn't really seem interested in being involved this weekend. Its a shame to see the once mighty WGC fall so far. None of our group of five attendees will be returning. That's assuming there is evert another WGC.

The pairings were a horror show. The pairings were wrong twice. The third time I was told that anyone could just find a new opponent from the nearby tables, but just to let them know who was playing who. Face palm

There was indeed more terrain but it was not good terrain so I choose not to use it. Volunteerism this year was very low and I only got the tables finished in time with the help of attendees, so I had little to work with. In the coming year I plan on fixing the terrain issue.

As to pairings, yes we had a mishap in the third round that really only affected about 6 people but when it happened I did not know that so it did indeed appear to be a horrow show and I apologize for that. Everything else went smooth though! I hope you had a good time regardless.


Automatically Appended Next Post:

 thejughead wrote:

 Zach wrote:
I was literally googling trying to find the same thing and came here, a friend of mine is playing there and wanted to see.

Here you go:

http://tinyurl.com/wgc2016

I'm a bit disappointed in the setup. Minimal terrain, felt boards, and nowhere on the website did it say this was a battle points tournament. Most of us found out after the third round.

The complaint about terrain is valid, I plan on fixing that next year. Why are felt boards bad? We have always had felt boards in previous years. We can't have all Fat Mats as they are really expensive to have 50 tables worth. The only reason we had them last year was frontline gaming was helping us and brought their own mats. Which is also the only year we have NOT done battle points.

This was in no way a smooth tournament to be honest. The felt mats I can understand if you can't have every table with actual mats, but the terrain set up and the amount of terrain was a joke. With the event lasting this long over the years you would think at least making your own decent terrain out of styrofoam would have been better than what was provided. As for the changes in pairings, it was both round 2 and 3 which for some people with quite a bit of models in their list makes it quite a hassle that the changes in pairings should have been handled a lot different. The painting judge at the end of the tournament was not even judging the painted armies as best painted as it was represented in the rules and gave it to someone who did not have as good of a paint job as to him being themed g I Joe, which is total bull as where were far better painted armies than his. If your going to make your own rules than use what is actually stated for the tournament then you might want to tell the people that attend and maybe more can find out what the judge likes more as a theme and not waste time painting our armies I guess. For me and some of the people I went there with, the only thing that was good about the tournament was the players we played against although some of them need to try and play a bit more fair or at least learn the rules of their own army before coming to a big event. Don't think we will be coming back to this next year though.

Any army list run downs? Always interesting to see shifting meta from the large events.

Lots of Eldar, Taudar, and Daemons on the tables. I played one DA/IK list, 5 IK list, Taudar, Eldar/Inq, and DA. Team games we faced Tau/Eldar, Tau/Tau. BA/ Ad Mech

 Byte wrote:
Any army list run downs? Always interesting to see shifting meta from the large events.

via BoLs.

The Winning List (Geoff Robinson)

WAR CONVOCATION

SKITARII (610)
+5 Vanguard – 55 pts
-Omnispex (Alpha)
-Plasma Caliver x2
-Conversion Field (Alpha)
-Digital Weapons (Alpha)
-Phase Taser (Alpha)

+5 Rangers – 65 pts
-Transuranic aquebus x2
-Omnispex (Alpha)
-Conversion Field (Alpha)
-Digital Weapons (Alpha)
-Arkhan’s Divinator (Alpha)

+5 Ruststalkers – 160 pts
-Conversion Field (Princeps)
-Digital Weapons (Princeps)
-prehensile Data spike (Princeps)
-The Omniscient Mask (Princeps)

+5 Infiltratrors – 185 pts
-Infoslave skull (Princeps)
-Conversion Field (Princeps)
-Digital Weapons (Princeps)
-Phosphoenix (Princeps)

+1 Ballistarii – 55 pts
-Twin linked Cognis Lascannon

+1 Dunecrawler – 90 pts
-Icarus Array
-Cognis Manipulator
-Mindscanner Probe
-Cognis Heavy stubber

Cult Mechanicus (435)
+1 Tech-Priest Dominus – 105 pts
-Eradication Ray
-Phosphur Serpenta
-Stasis Field
-Digital Weapons
-Infoslave skull
-The Scryerskull Perspicatus

+3 Kataphron Destroyers – 165 pts
-Cognis Flamers x3
-grav-cannon x3

+3 Kataphron Destroyers – 165 pts
-Cognis Flamers x3
-grav-cannon x3

Imperial Knight (425)
+1 Knight Crusader – 425 pts
-Storm Spear rocket Pod
-Carapace Melta gun

Librarian Conclave (Ultra Marines)(380)
+1 Tigerius 165
+1 Ultra Marine Librarian – 95pts
–Axe
-Melta Bomb
-Level 2
+1 Ultra Marine Librarian – 120 pts
-Terminator Armor
-Staff
-Level 2
-Auspex

Inquisition (149)
+Coteaz 100
+Xenos Inquisitor 49
-Pskotroke grenades 15
-3 Servo skulls 9

TOTAL: 1999

I found the event to be very fun, with minimal snafus (with the mid-turn pairing issue being the only one of note; luckily, I only had to swap to the adjacent table, so we just kept all our powers and forged onwards). The venue/hotel was nice, and the hall spacious. The terrain was indeed sparse, but this sounds like an issue that they have since sorted for the following year (which I am hopeful to attend).

On the other end of the standings spectrum, I played Inquisition (with assassins) and had a blast. I managed to snag a few cam-phone photos of a chunk of the armies, if anyone is interested.

Anyway we can get a list of the Corsairs armies? Would love to see what they ran.

Carter Leach

or

Nicholas Gower

Thank you!