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To anyone who attended AdeptiCon 2007:

AdeptiCon would like to collect some "sound bites" to use for our promotion of the event next year.  Anyone who attended is welcome to contribute.  Please make your response as brief (1-2 sentences) as possible. I also need your real name, as well as your hometown.  By posting in this thread, you give us (AdeptiCon) the right to quote you in part or in full, in any AdeptiCon publications or promotional materials that we use.

AdeptiCon: For gamers, by gamers.

Hey Bill,

I've got two you can pick from:

"I have discovered the center of the miniature gaming universe, and it is in Illinois."
(from my thank you letter to Bloid and Adepticon staff)

"In short, if you are a Games Workshop fan and you can only attend one event a year, you owe it to yourself to make that event Adepticon. "
(from my article on Adepticon Inital thoughts)

Russ Wakelin
Webmaster
www.DakkaDakka.com

Hometown: Nashua, NH

This event really seems to have grown into something very special - we need an European version!!

I had most the Dakka crew in my hotel suite for some beers and food. The observation was made that the only thing missing was Migsula.

So what are the chances of getting you on board for Adepticon 2008?

Maybe Dakka Detachment II will finally exist and be the first European team at Adepticon.

I second the need for a Euro one Failing that I'd love to come over for 2008 or 2009

Just to say from the pics it looked fantastic

You may use any of this... i posted it a few days ago:

Me and my fellow team mates, Dokz Toolz, began working towards playing in this year's adepticon almost immediately after playing in the previous years team tourney... Aside from one member going to jail and the other joining another team (We were 2 players short, but that was only a hicup right?).

We played orks last year (team J2D2 for those who care), and for some god aweful reason we thought it would be fun to grind out another 4 games with orks this year (like running uphill in skates dragging a body). ORKS ARE DONE FOR US, horde armies take way too much work to roll and physically manuver.

Anyhow, we were totally psyched never the less!

... Even though each and every game was a struggle... That is how orks roll... PERIOD, we had the best time running away, whaaging and comeing back for more. Orks never tear anyone up on turn one, but you know what they can do? Have a bad ass looking warboss, run a heard of tooled up nobs... rip up rhino's and use them as trukks... they can drag a Leman russ back to the shop, replace the plugs, splash it red and roll out shooting! We gave our opponents not only a game... they had something they have never seen to look at as well!

For all our efforts...
We finished DEAD MIDDLE of the team tourney! #45. We could not be happier. Running that army against the Zilla Nids was like making a paper airplane out of rocks and trying to make it fly. We tried to make that sucker fly! It did not fly.

As a team we had a great time. We did not win, nor did we think we would. We met a bunch of people that also dig plastic soldier games and had a kick ass time.

I played in the individual 40k championships the next morning... Lord that's alot of gaming. I again finished right in the middle. I have no illusions of my 40k skill... Again, I could not be happier to have held my own with all those gnarley lists. And... again I met some really awesome guys that played well, but were still able to make me feel really welcome across the table. I would love to play people like this all the time.

I took something pretty critical home from all this.

Coming back into town, I was thinking what was the difference between playing here and there. It was clear to me with this one example:

During one of the games I got shelled by a barbed strangler... As I was playing about 40 eldar guardians and have that template splash me was not good I took it in stride. I simply took the template, placed it on top of about 4 full models and 4 partials... I nodded and said 6 fulls and 2 partials... After rolling covers and stuff I lost 4 guys... I gave the "sad face" for my poor guys got the boom stick in the face but whatever.

My point is... At my local hobby shop, as a whole, when a template weapon is hit, they make damn sure of what is in, and partial and maybe sorta partial... ARGH.

I think the philosophy is, "If you dont win, you are stupid"... Not only are they smarter, they are better as a person. Its like on a whole different level/style of playing. In fact, in comparison to what I experienced this weekend... It sucks!

I returned home on Sunday night and was up at the shop on monday night running the local 40k campaign.

I played two games. I decided to play them like I was in Chicago still and did not know my opponent and wanted them to be having fun instead of looking for shady play and watching for them trying to take that extra inch and cover those extra few models illegally.

I won the first and lost the second.


Most importantly, the games were fun!

See you all next year!

Here is some pics from the good times:

http://s169.photobucket.com/albums/u215/theblklotus/

" What more needs to be said, this is the best place for grown men and women to come and play with little Toy soldiers for a weekend. "

JD Murphy

Marshall, MN

A weekend experience by gamers for gamers, reminiscent of the GTs of old - only better. Where else can you find seminars and tournaments, which test your skills and abilities to the max, in a mature (for the most part) environment?

Adepticon - better than waking up in the morning and finding that she's gone.

 

Mick Jaggard

Aurora, IL