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But seriously.

I am back in Atlanta, teaching Middle School science and have a cadre of 10 or so 12 - 13 year old WHFB and 40K players.  I am in the process of performing a radical cheesectomy on several of them but I will bend them to my will, especially by spanking them silly.

FOR EXAMPLE

This weekend I went to a local store to show them some actual game play and used my WHFB VC tournament list, 2000 points of Blood Dragons vs 'what they had in their box'.

I found myself facing Archaon at the head of 20 chosen knights, 16 Khorne Warriors, 25 Khorne Marauders, Minotaur BSB, Tzeentch 2 on disk, Slaanesh 2 in Chariot, Khorne Asp. champ in chariot,  a weird DoW Dark Elf Manflayer unit 20 strong and a Hellcannon.  I have no clue what it all cost,but none of it survived, at the cost of just over half of my points and I would have done better if there had been some cover, the table wasn't 3 feet wide and my opponent hadn't got the first turn.

I've been out of it for the last three years and I won't have the time to be the fanatic I used to be, plus my home store has gone away.

I'm getting ready to play 7th and 4th.

I'll be pointing the younglings here for advice and army list help.

 

Glad to see so many 'old names' around.

Whoah. Everyone from the past is crawling out of the wood work.

its good to have an old gaurd with a head on his shoulders back again.

Nice to see ya back AMA!

Welcome back!

Welcome back AMA... it's been a while!

OMG! AMA's back!

Welcome back AMA. Thought you'd completely dropped off the face of the planet.

BYE

Close, I've been 'hiding' from the 'Secret Police' (Homeland Security) who keep suggesting that it's only a few days before I'll be thrown out of the country in chains, never to be allowed back.

There is now a Mrs Alchemys and four small dogs, not Dogs of War, but nice none-the-less.

I have retreaded as a High/Middle School teacher and have spent the last couple of years teaching chemistry in a High School in Augusta, now I'm back in Atlanta with some willing Acolytes.

I still have most of my armies.

Ahh homeland security. Gestapo is a more apt nomer me thinks.

Anyways, still into the chaos?

I cant wait until we get you back into YMDC and Tactics.

Not much Chaos.  The Lustwing Opera of Death was wiped out by the new Codex and the 2 small squads and 9 Obliterator army, whilst somewhat effective, was no fun.

I'll wait for 4th edition and see if I can find something suitably effective and Baroque.

Welcome back old man!

The name is familiar to me, but only because I've heard people lamenting, "I wish X,Y, and Z posters were still here." Regardless, welcome back.

These are indeed strange days. Dreams and legends spring to life out of the grass.

EDIT: Now I know where I heard it.  You are credited in the Dakka Jargon Glossary as the creator of Lustwing.

Welcome back!

He was also a fantastically verbose and eloquent poster of tactics and bat reps. I don't even PLAY Battlefleet:Gothic and I enjoyed his batreps. Oh! And the Inquisitor mystery short stories! Man, those were the days.

Welcome back, Archmagos. It's good to have you aboard.

Nice.

I don't think my students could afford this hobby, but I'm glad to see that you've
got acolytes!

Maybe someday I will have my own cult, I mean gaming club...

Always nice to see the return of a veteran.  Welcome back!

Welcome back! I look forward to tales of the second founding of IHOC.

AMA!  Welcome back!  Not sure if you're still tooling around with Mechanicus possiblities like back when, but looking forward to more mechanical madness all the same.

- Boss Salvage

Good to see you!  I can finally cross one name off my list of "you know who I miss at Dakka?".

Good lord!

Welcome back, sir. We've missed you. More Inquisitor stories, please. (Or repost the old ones.)

Posted By Iorek on 10/11/2006 12:37 PM
Good to see you!  I can finally cross one name off my list of "you know who I miss at Dakka?".

Lorek has another list of those he WILL miss at Dakka...after he's through with them.

Muahahaha....

Thanks for all the kind words.

I'm planning on training my acolytes to be 'lactose intolerant', so no more IHOC and AFAIK, there are few/none playing there.

I will repost the old Inquisitor stories.  I don't think that I posted the finish to the last one (Inquisitor vs the Navy)

Bring them to IHOC... We'll break them in correctly...

Now John, you know you were one of the original "Cheesy gits" that founded your version of "IHOC"

 

 

 

Welcome back by the way, come up to the new War Room and see us sometime, we will be there Thursday(tomorrow) night.

 

 

Primarch

Hey, I resemble that remark.

If they were going to respect you, obviously you had to beat them at their own game, right?

Not exactly.

I can and will out-cheese them until they come to their senses.  When they return to the way of Righteous Fluff, they will enjoy their games a LOT more and I will prepare them for tournament play, but at the moment some are in the 'win at all costs' mode.

I've pointed them to this site and I hope they look and ask for help with their tactics and army lists.

At the moment, none of them stand much of a chance against a Therion-style VC tournament list, even with a significant points advantage.  They don't understand maneuver and time and space at all, just shoot and charge.  However, they are only 7th graders.  Just give them some time, they do have brains.

The school has approved a painting/tactics/army list club.  There just won't be enough time for games and I plan to schedule them at local shops every month or so.

Thats pretty cool. I wish I had such a thing in junior high/high school. Especially when the savory Rogue Trader came out.

Wow. I'm impressed.

Great googly moogly, AMA is back!!! 8D I concur with the earlier posters. Inq stories up - check. Exceptional discussion about Mechanicus armies - not yet but soon. Higher level of postings on Dakka - check.

Great to have you back!

I'll add my 'Wow, AMA!' stick to the pile and happily so. Those insightful and elegant writings on tactics on imperial dakka are one of the early links in the chain leading to me having DCM on my title. Good to see you back!

Which stands for????

DCM=Deputy Cheif of Mission, the second in charge of an embassy after an ambassador.

Or Dakka Contributing Member if you must stay on topic.