Dakka Dakka Mooooo!

Whew! What a weekend!  Adepticon 2019 is in the books and it was a hoot! I got to play some games,  see some "famous" people, and got to see a bunch of vendors.  I had a great time and I will tell you all about it.

Sooo Close

Adepticon is only days away.  As I have mentioned I am meeting up with Dave from the Tabor Warhammer League in DC to play in the Long War Doubles Tournament.  As the day approaches I thought I would set my expectations for the con.

Three Day Adepticon Industrial Display Board Challenge

Howdy all,

I managed to get some Thursday evening gaming in at the local Damascus Powerfisters this last weekend and ran into a club friend - Dave. He knows my limits on spending this year, and offered a trade - The Chaos side of Shadowspear for a display board.

A sneak peak!

first dradt of my Adepticon army

So after leaving my poll up for a few weeks I have come to the conclusion that I will bring Tau to adepticon.

Here is a first rough draft.

Full army minus the riptide

WIP: Riptide and adepticon talk...

 My Zaku model finally came in so now I have my head for my second Riptide. 

A non friendly game in the friendly...

This weekend I had a blast during Adepticon.  The Friendly was cool.  I had 2 great games with a couple of good guys. However, there is always an however,  my middle game was not what I expected. before I get into the details here is the description  from the friendly event page:

"The AdeptiCon Warhammer 40K Friendly is at its core a casual event. The emphasis is on rolling dice, drinking a beverage of your choice and enjoying a game of toy soldiers. A game you might have played in a wood-paneled basement before the advent of Grand Tournaments and Independent Circuits…if you are indeed that ancient. To that end, players are encouraged to bring flavorful, thematic, and/or hobby-inspired lists that reflect the rich background of the Warhammer 40,000 universe. The Warhammer 40K Friendly is about the overall journey, one where individual performance should be of secondary concern. If this is your idea of a good time, then you have found the right event! If you have a difficult time letting go of your competitive nature, you very well might have signed up for the wrong event and should get added to the Warhammer 40K Gladiator and/or seek a refund!
It's like, how much more friendly could this be? And the answer is none. None more friendly. Armies that are obviously not in the spirit of this event will receive merely a two word review. How do you get there you might ask? Well, AdeptiCon 2013 is one louder, isn't it? It's not ten. You see, most gamers, you know, will be playing at ten. Where can you go from there? Where? Eleven. Exactly. One louder."

with that being said I give you my opponents list:

Primary - space wolf

Drop pod with 2 rune priest wit Jaws of the wold wolf each and min grey hunters.
Drop pod with 1 rune priest wit Jaws of the wold wolf each and min grey hunters.
drop pod with longfangs
drop pod with min unit of grey hunter
Allies- blood angels
Drop pod blood company, librarian with blood lance

5 drop pods... 3 jaws and a blood lance....

If this was a normal tournament I would not have a problem with this list since it is legitimate and would be highly competitive.  I just don't think this a friendly list.  I think someone missed the memo.  Maybe I am wrong.  Maybe I am overreacting.  In my opinion Jaws is cheesy by itself but 3 of them?  Maybe they got the dreaded 2 word review.  Then again I don't know what review my army got so maybe it was cheesy as well.

When it comes down to it though it was a quick game I and I got to go cheer on my buddies in their endeavors.  Chosen1 was playing a cool Polish guy who ended up winning best painted army in the Friendly.

Over all it was a fun day.  I had a great time.  I hope I get to go again.

Questions? Comments? Nom nom noms?  

All Your Tau Belong to Us...

One of the team tournament armies was a Tau / Necron army.  Yester day I had a few images of the display board today I have my video of the board.

They had some cool conversions with the wraith torsos instead of the tank cupolas. They also had some neat objective markers on meing a tau being transformed another is a warrior walking through  a teleportation gate.

They even had  a tomb vault with lights showing the raiding of another tomb world to gain more troops. hope you enjoy the video.

here is a good shot of the lighted tomb chamber

Tomorrow I will talk about my experience in the friendly and how I did.  until then...

Questions? Comments? Pew pew pews?

Shots from Adepticon!

today I am winding down from my first Adepticon. I took a bunch of pictures but only a few came out so the lesson I learned is bring a real camera not your phone or video camera.  Also I found that doing ballte reports is impossible.  I had a hard time hearing anything in that place.  I apologise to any opponent that I faced and had to ask them to repeat themselves.

So it begins

We got to adepticon late on Thursday and got registered. I got in a demo of. The game Wreck Age. While the game was entertaining I found the minis a bit weedy.  I guess I prefer the heroic scale not the true scale.

Look Mom I'm on TV...

or in this case You Tube. I am planing to document my adepticon experience so to make sure that I could take video, upload them, and put them on this blog I did a little test run.  I had some brain farts when naming my units but I got through it.  so with out further ado.

Question? Comments? Nom nom noms?

Getting ready...

This weekend is my first Adepticon ever.  I am going with Chosen1 from Team Snake Eyes an Chambers from The Back 40k. I am getting pretty excited.  I am avoiding any and all hard compitition though if I had a team I would love to do that but not this year. This year I am doing the friendly as well as Combat Patrol.