As much as I'd love to go, currently struggling on two counts:
1) the trip certainly wasn't cheap last year, and that was without drinking with the leds, something I'd much prefer to add to the experience this time if possible.
2) My Blood Angels (of Blood) aren't going to be painted. No chance in hell. Haven't got all the requisite sponson and turret weaponry even, or the Razorbacks to put my infantry in, or all the Land Speeders I need...
My army could be 100% built in time, no question. Painted though, even to just 3 colours, seems very unlikely indeed. While I'm not a good painter by any stretch of the imagination, I'm a perfectionist one, and can't simply glob dabs on to fulfill the minimum standard when I'm taking the army on a 1000-mile round trip or however far it is.
It's a damn shame, cos I wanted to go, but accepting defeat early means everyone will get over the disappointment so much sooner. Ho hum.
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yeah it was a very expensive trip last year for you - what with the jacuzzi and all :)
Yeah, army issues are why I'm not going. If the army isn't converted and painted to my standards I won't use it. I can't do a three colour cop-out and go like that, especially not that distance.
Whens the next tournament you think you'll be ready for?
most probably it will be Q-Con. But only if they play 1750-2k. Anything lower, or a doubles, and Rick isint interested....lol.
Well Arkham run a tournament every 3 months or so, latest is 1850 but its sold out. I'll be heading to that one if I can get my army sorted in time.
Doubles is great for the ego... if we win its cause I'm great, if we lost its cause my teammate was shit. Of course if you finish 13th you must both be shit, right TKE? :)
Is that where he finished at GW's doubles tournament 2 years ago?
Came 6th in that one myself.
2 problems for me with Arkham.
1) I live in Newry
2) The tickets are always sold out when i here about their tournaments.
Really annoying.
Err I couldn't possibly tell you, or even point you in the direction of his excuses... (http://hobbyinfobythekingelessar.blogspot.com/2010/06/ill-put-up-plus-points-first.html)
Never been there and I always missed out as well, but...
1) I live in Enniskillen. I always win these "but I live out in the middle of nowhere" contests :)
2) I *think* there may be a way to sign up and receive an e-mail notification, but I'm not 100% sure, or how you'd go about it.
I never meant to imply that i live in the arsehole of nowhere (Hell its only an hour drive to Belfast and one and a half to Dublin).
Just that its a pain in the ass to have to go to Belfast just to play a tournament (Never mind just to play a game. There is no gaming scene in Newry).
And Arkham beats us both. It is in the arsehole of nowhere, and it is in the most unassuming building when you eventually get there.
Been there once, and if i wasnt with someone who had already been there i never would have found it.
There probably is, but so far as i can figure you have to be a member of the club to get them. And you have to pay to be a member. £50 odd gets you the year. But when i would rarely use it, its not worth the money.
I didn't infer that you did mean that, I was just messing.
There's no scene up here either, I get my games at tournaments and the odd time I'll head to Belfast and see if I can get a game, but I find the calibre of opposition to be lacking for the most part.
Bugger, looks like I'm going to need to head up with someone then... ah well, I still need to do my army so I'll burn that bridge when I come to it.
Bit of a trek for you just to play a game...lol. You visit the GW store for the games??
Doubles fucking sucks.
Hate Doubles. Shitty concept, breaks the game. :p
As for the jacuzzi, I really should've used it at least once before I left. Sigh.
Hopefully I'll be at an Arkham event or two this year, at a Wasters one, and Q-Con. Fingers crossed. But my BA are 2k, and don't scale down as well as I'd like. :(
Well, most of the tournament i've heard about up at Arkham are around the 1850 or lower mark.
Same with Wasters i would say.
so you may have to try and scale it down. That or play with one of your other armies.
Q-Con though is probably going to be around 1500pts again, or at most 1750pts, which wouldnt be too bad.
Doubles do suck. But breaks the game?? I dont think its that bad.
And you actually had a Jacuzzi???? I thought he was just joking.
What the hell did you have the Jacuzzi for???? And dont say chicks....lol
I am disappoint.
I'm assuming that the non-car travelling was the worst part of it? 9 hour trips don't look like fun.
You could always crash with people for free down here but you'd be on their time then fwiw.
@Death Korps - yeah GW Belfast, normally during the week as I can't stand to be down there on a saturday, its like a bloody creche. I'm like a noob slayer by necessity. I suppose it doesn't help that I run mech guard either, although I haven't been down in a while maybe they're better now?
Ha, thats your problem then. You need to go to one of the Gaming clubs.
Queens' Dragonslayers Society aint bad (me and Rick are a part of it). Most players are quite competant...as in we have all played in a tournament or 2. Not to say many of us make it into the top 10 (I came 37th at Q-Con last year using Tau.....and it really wasnt a good list either. Just what i had at the time and i wasnt bothered playing with my Guard. Funny thing is i still got some congrats for not coming last with them as expected...lol) but we do know a thing or two about the game.
Or failing that you could go to the new coffee shop/gaming store up on the Stranmillis Rd. Never been there though so i have no idea what its like in terms of opponent caliber
Oh, and dont hold your breath. I go in every tuesday to see a game being played before i go to Dragonslayers. I have to say that im very disappointed with what is being pasted as competitive gaming.
In fact i think when me and Rick played in there once, we had one of the only real competitive games i've seen in there. Granted i lost miserably, but i gave it a good go at trying to beat him. And my inclusion of RR would probably scream that i wasnt being serious. But i always like to use RR on occasion because i want to see what their best usage would be (had a thought on that today as a matter of fact).
Actually Stormy, I like long train journeys far more than car. I get carsick, although it's a TON better than when I was a kid, that kind of journey would be too much for my fragile constitution to resist Nurgle's 'blessings'. As long as I have my ipod (which tbf, I don't at present) or my laptop and a capacity to use it, I would last no problem that journey again.
Jacuzzi was just a part of the bathroom, not like I requested it specifically. Lol. Dunno if Cork chicks would be worth it, probably catch something. Hahaha.
Only real downside of last year's trip was lack of flying bases. Well, and there were some etiquette things I was surprised by, but gloves off for next time. ;)
Chris - no chance they're better, I haven't played in GW for months and months myself, and without schooling, they just get worse and worse. Slayers is a better average level, but not exactly hiving with skilled players either, and as for Serenity Games that I assume is what you mean Joe - it's not really any better. There you're more likely to find players who think they're the bee's knees, but are crap...assuming you can find any 40k players at all.
Joe, 90% of Competitive games played in that store in the last 3 years have involved me. Lol
Actually i meant Nerdtopia. Never knew where Serenity games was.
Which is why i said our game was only 1 of the competitive games. The only other two games i remember were:
you and Mark
and me and Mark
(these were the days when he put his paint brush down and played with his DA....lol. Sammael was on the table against me, and my ST Sgt held him up in combat for 2 turns. Still quite proud of that...lol. But thats all i remember of that game....other than losing)
As for slayers. I did say we were competant players. Not skilled...lol.
If you want players like that you need to go to Northern Wasters.
But all in all, we do make a concerted effort to play well. Unlike those in GW.
Oh, and heres a question. Would you consider a tank that has pivoted on the spot to have moved for the purposes of disembarking from a vehicle??
I was always under the belief that it did. But recently when i was in i was told that it didnt. But it doesnt make all that much sense to me as to why it shoulddnt. Because technically the tank has moved desptie the pivot not being counted as part of the movement of the vehicle.
That last statement may have answered it, but i wanted to get someone elses opinion, as i dont trust anything Ciaran says as far as i can throw him.
While "pivoting alone doesn't count as movement" that's only for the vehicle itself, though I haven't my BRB here to get you a quote.
Embarked models still count as disembarking from a moving vehicle.
Thats what i thought and told them, but was universally told i was wrong.
At least i now know that they are all idiots and not me.
pg 67, first bullet point
if the vehicle has already moved (including pivoting on the spot), the passengers may disembark but may not move any further...
This again prove that those who play in the shop are idiots (and thats including the staff).
They all told me i was wrong and refused to let me look at a Rulebook to check that i was right/wrong.
Even the guy i was trying to help told me i was wrong. One would have thought he would appreciate help, considering he was going to lose the game (it happened at the start of the game, turn 2, but i could see that he was losing with what he took. And im no Marine player)
(Oh and to Rick.....it was Simon i was trying to help)
Sadly, it's no surprise. Lol.
surprised you didn't just walk off when they refused letting you look at a rulebook... that reeks of we're wrong but don;t want you to prove it.
Chris, maybe double guard it for any future doubles tourneys? your tanks my blobs, so while you keep shooting into and around my men i'll hold them in place... my men know their duty is to die holding the enemy.
ps: Lisburn gaming club is prob one of the better ones around for masses of 40k players. Worth a look as you can ask and the guys incharge get you opponents.
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