The Dust Has Settled...

Well, to be honest I've been home for hours and hours by this point.  But I just wasn't in the mood to throw up a blogpost just yet.

Couple Games Today, and A News Flash

Had a couple games today, with a BA list I threw together this morning of varied Space Marines, a mix of actual BA, Zerks, PMs, regular CSM, and a few Scythes tanks.

Just didn't wanna play Chaos, tbh - my Eldar need new Prisms before I de-mothball them, and Orks...well.  My Speeders and Riflemen are on holiday, so no fun vanilla army available, and I haven't enough ML guys built to act as Fangs.

WarpCon Army Poll Results!

MechDar won by a single vote from Orks/Wolves...and I didn't vote, of course!  Pretty pleased with the turnout, thanks guys! 48 votes from 108 readers isn't bad at all (seems like just yesterday there were only 99 of you...ah, memories...) and gotta say I'm fairly pleased with the results, too.  Now, all I have to do is write an army list, that hopefully uses more painted models than otherwise...  :-/

Also, saw Inception yesterday...it was actually really good.  Everyone who's opinion I had asked/read agreed...but while watching it I was thinking 'This is GOOD, but not GREAT' until my friend leaned over and reminded me that they were actually on a plane! Like a sucker, I got sucked in, and was thinking of the van as reality.  Ah well, win some, lose some.

Anyway, that held back my reply to Tyler's email, so I shall try to finish that after I have lunch, which I will be having now, and before work, which is in 3 hours.  Tight timing...especially since I haven't figured out how to get my Blackberry to set email up properly, and so I have to retype the half-finished article, which is saved to my phone.  Bad times.

Fields of Blood 2010 BatReps - Part Two

Hrmmm.  This one will be shorter than the last one.  Essentially, we faced off against a combo of Khan bikes (2x9 strong with AB, 1 squad of 3 Attack Bikes with MM - as many Meltas as possible) and Blood Angel Jumpers (Libby, one Priest, 2x10 RAS with Melta, 1 squad of 6(?) Vanguard Vets with PW and a Plasma Pistol)*

We lost the roll to go first, and were forced to go first.  Shit.

I'll put up plus points first.

But, I'll edit them in, as I'm sleepy.  Until then, my teammate and I finished 13th, for starting 27 teams (that showed Day 1, with 5 who paid but did not come :S ) with 3W,  2 draws and a Loss.  Guys drew us first game second day came 2nd, so that wasn't bad - but, like I said, many times before - Doubles is NOT how you should play 40k in a 'Tournament', and it was truly shitty.  There is no tactical element beyond deployment (if going second) when the opponent is less than 4' away, and you have to say out loud what you think in order to convince your teammate you actually have a strategy in mind, your moves are not random.

And, holy fuck, was time ever an issue.  I think we got to turn 5 twice.

But, this post is for positives, so...

[To be Edited Later]

[Continuing it now...]

Plus points, in bullet form...

• I liked the room, spacious, airy, bright, full of sunshine.

• The location, as in, choice of room within the building, was also quick and easy to access, which especially helped the Sunday, with Registration at ten, and the building opening at ten also.  You may be aware, I also had some slight issues with a certain lower body joint prior to the event.  lol

• Most games seemed to be played with an excellent camaraderie and fun spirit.

• It was nice to see a bunch of friends all weekend, some more than others, of course.  lol

• Met some great guys and good players I didn't know before, which is always excellent.

• Quality of painting was generally high, where models were actually finished.  Some of the omissions for 'Best Painted' nomination were as odd as the inclusion of the Tau/Eldar army, lol.  :p (It wasn't fully painted, and the owners were even more surprised than anyone.  lol.  Conspiracy theorists may suggest it was because they were the only Xenos players not using Orks? ) [Chris' converted Pre-Heresy Ravenwing weren't anywhere near fully painted either, but were also nominated, strangely...{though they did look good, as did the Eldar/Tau}]

• Some conversions were truly epic, and some of my favourites will get posted here sooner or later.

• Prizes being given out for 6 awards in total (Col Shaeffer, Emperor's Champion, Best Painted, 3rd, 2nd, Best General) was good, though not all of them equalled or surpassed the £34 it cost each player to attend, and no-one could really have made a profit on the weekend.  That's not why we play, but it would be nice, no?

• I now have a definite, confirmed opinion on the very concept of Doubles.  lol

• I think I slightly learned a little from one of the losses about my playing Marines.  Two of the losses, perhaps.  I also learned from our first victory, so overall my Marine-playing ability will hopefully have improved as a result.  Not that it couldn't have done so from simply playing warm-up games...

• I actually like Kill Points so much more in comparison.

• I think a few players learnt a lot more about exactly how 5e works, and, without wanting to take credit for their achievements in ANY way - several players I have attempted to improve the general play and understanding of the system of did very well.  Better than me, it must be said.  Don't misinterpret though - they are in no way pupils or disciples of me, lol.  Just friends I want to see do well and if my attempts to help have in any way managed that, then great.

Think that pretty much covers it.  Next up, the much longer negative list...

Bloody Hell.

Right, after that voting process, the armies are tied at 15-15. As a result, I've decided to award the prize to Winterous for the Tau list, based purely on the fact that Stelek (who wrote the DE list) will know the Codex better than I in no more than 6 months (more n'likely)...essentially, Stelek will benefit less from the information I can provide.

On a side note, does anyone else ever suffer Epic Blogger Fail? I've reset my password at least a dozen times in the last month, because it keeps telling me it's wrong when I try to sign in. It could be Chrome's fault, but it never did it before, so unlikely.

Mild rage.

3rd Place announcement!

Congratulations to Josh for his entry, the Necron list!

Highly appropriate to feature Necrons in the Top Three, given the prize, only sorry you don't get one. :(

Congrats anyway, and better luck next time around! :)

Commiserations also to the following:

Endre Enyedy's Necron list,

Fritz's Chaos Space Marines with Spawn Swarm

theHod' Space Marine battleforce

Raptor1313's Tau Battleforce

Tim Lang's SM Battleforce (popular,eh?)

Sandwyrm's IG FailForce

It's Pug's SM

and finally,

Brent's Dark Eldar battleforce.

Well, only the winner to be decided then...another poll for that bad boy, later today.