Buckeye Battles 40k recap

Ok, so you figured out I was at Buckeye Battles this year...and I made it all the way through! WooT!

I need to start by saying thanks to Dan Corbett from GTA and all of the Buckeye Battles crew for another excellent event. I had three awesome games against 3 fully painted armies and 3 awesome guys!! I took an unusual mixed list for a change, allied Daemons from every power except Khorne.

Ahriman
3x 9 thousand sons
2x obliterators
Heldrake
Chaos Storm Eagle
Keeper of Secrets
10 pink horrors
3 plague-drones with rot

In round one I played Zach and his Necron/Chaos alliance. Zach has been playing Necrons for a longtime, but was totally new to Chaos. His list used 2 squads of chaos marines in Rhinos with a flying Daemon prince as his allied group. The Necrons were three units each with a twin.

He had 2x destroyer lords with warscythes and mindshackle scarabs each in a unit of 6 wraiths with 3 whip coils. He also had 2 9 man units of Immortals with Tesla as well. His plan was essentially to split into two forces and run a pincer. Those destroyer lords are powerhouses and they did a number on a couple of my units. I shot one down (warlord) and then tied the other up with Ahriman and a unit of sons. My horrors and the keeper tied down the right side and Ahriman the other. Everyone else went into the middle and held him there.

In the end I contested the middle, held the right and he held the left, but I had Firstblood from his prince, and his warlord was down. Minor win for me. I Look back now and I should have been casting invisibility on Ahriman instead of, or concert with Iron Arm as this would have slowed is damage on me and I could have lasted a turn or two longer than I did on the left. That would have left me free and clear in the middle for a much stronger win.

Game 2 was an exercise in frustration against Joe and his Tau. He had a Riptide and 3 sets of battlesuits with Aun'Va and fire warriors in a ruin. I lost the keeper and the Storm eagle before either was able to act, and almost 600 points of my army with them. Even so I fought back to a real squeaker of a loss. I had two models moving in to contest his home objectives only to lose them on the last turn.

Round three was against Wes with a Tau?Space Wolves allied force. Wes used a unit of Thunderwolf cav as a hammer, and Aun'Va with missile based suits and fire warriors to hold home base. I learned from my mistakes against Joe in round 2 and held back until round 3 to shoot down 30 marines 2 vindicators, and the cav before jumping on his Tau contingent. In the end his broadsides were all that was left, with a total of 3 wounds remaining....win for me. 

I had a great day and 3 incredible games. Looking forward to next year already!

Buckeye Battles recap.....hopefully later today

Hello all. I went to Buckeye Battles 40k tournament yesterday. It was another great tournament. I  have a ton of things to get accomplished today, but I will try to have pics and a round by round breakdown up in the next day or so.

Origins 2013 post event thoughts

Well today is the last hurrah for another great year at Origins. We had some great attendance again and we thank all of you for coming out and gaming with us! We had a few speed bumps, but those are always associtaed with events of this size and complexity. We are now growing very quickly, and look forward to adding some new faces, events and fun for next year!

The Tau genetics farm table drew quite a bit of interest! The scenario worked itself out well, but we still have terrain and model tweaks to make. This will be back next year with more tension and excitment (and new models) for you to see and experience.


The Dwarven forge Fantasy game has grown and will see even more refinement next year as attention to this little gem adds up.

The Necromunda game was a huge hit again, and we plan on a few surprises there. (hint:there might be some more terrain in the works)

The 3D spacehulk game has done well but we have deicded to remove it in favor of the more modern Zone Mortalis rules. These are published for free from Forge World and can be found HERE. These rules really allow us to open up the game and I have HUGE plans for a really cool terrain set for it....(hidden tunnels, line of sight limits, moving rooms....my list of ideas is almost infinite). I will need to modify them a bit to work with our planned terrain, and 6th edition, but the core will stay intact.  Plan on seeing a new terrain piece for this in 2014 on par with our Necromunda table!

The Blackwater Gulch table did incredibly well, and has a super fun system, but that little burg needs some sprucing up! Look for table updates and more games next year!

All of our intro games have continued to expand, we are making only minor tweaks and fixes to those.

The Warhammer 40k team, RTT, 8 army challenge, and flyer battles remain unchanged going into next year!

We havea zany fun, and crazy event planned for next year, as well as the return of the apocalypse mega game!

Thanks again to everyone who came and gamed with us! We had a ball and hope did too. Come and see us in 2014, we have BIG plans! We will have the tournament results and a few big picture dumps incoming as soon as we can get some sleep and get our families to forgive us for disappearing for 5 days! See you next year!

Terrain prep for this year's Tau Genetics farm game.

Last year we brought our "A" game with the Necromunda events, this year we are bringing another new event with us. The Tau genetics farm is a scenario designed to test your teamwork. Get in. Get the genetics data the Tau have collected, and get out alive!

These are some Work in progress pictures that should give you a good sneak peek at what this table should look like. Come see it in person at the 40k Origins area of the Miniatures hall, and throw down. Can you survive the Tau's automated defenses and get out alive?

Base-coat started

Finished base-coat

details, details

GW and Forge World to attend Origins 2013!

Yep, that's right, you read it here! Forge World and GW are both in attendance at Origins this year! Forge World has confirmed on their events calendar, so start saving now and come join us at Games Workshop's return to the independent convention circuit!

Robotech Kickstarter

I watched the Anime TV show when I was growing up, and the whole look and feel of this skirnish game has really struck a chord in me. I played a demogame at Adepticon and that really got the juices flowing for the robotech universe.

 I bought into the kickstarter at the "battlecry" level. As you can see it comes with a TON of stuff! Only 2 days left to get in on this one, go check it out here.

Adepticon Day 4

Team tournament day two....all pressure is off and the fun just keeps coming!

Round 4 saw the ravenguard square off against the dark angels first and second companies.  Nick and I faced down the first company with Azreal AND Ezekiel! That and somewhere north of 30 terminators!

We deployed in a corner building, and I had my techmarine fortify it. The scouts acted like a screen from the small incoming fire. For some reason the Dark Angels dropped in midfield and walked across the board. Nick and I let them come, and then deployed all of Nicks Elysians into the objectives on the opposite side of the board while my marines held onto the original building. In the end we pulled a primary win with linebreaker for the guard in their deployment zone. One of these guys is a painter for GW so you can imagine how beutiful the army was.

Allan and Nick faced off against the Second company and pulled a draw against what looked like more than 60 bikes!!

As tired as I was I didnt think to get any pics (sorry guys, awesome armies!!!!).

Round 5 put us against sisters and home-brew marines. While we won this round we learned just how SICK twin hand flamers on seraphim can be....ouch 47 wounds on a 10 man tactical. Nice guys and good game with no pressure what so ever!

Allan and Nick took a draw against the eldar/marine combo on the other table.

The awards were next, and we waited anxiously for the raffle winners to be announced. None of uf won anything but a good time, thing is we don't care, the good time was what we went for.

After the awards we went back to Portillo's for dinner (garbage salad, YUM!), and then off to the Fantasy Flight Games after con mixer. Allan did an excellent impersonation of a dying colonial marine trying to fit in a gym locker (if you know Allan you know how funny this is) to win a free copy of Sedition wars. We got a good two hours of Relic in as well. Great time and new friends made.

Is it bad that we spent the entire trip home hammering out our lists and ideas for next year?

Adepticon video

Robotech Skirmish demo. I tried this and LOVE the way it flows.

Adepticon day 3 Team tournament

We are light on pictures due having an AWESOME time! Round one was versus Da Boyz from New York.

LOSE...but to a crazy nice team of guys and a really nice Tau army.

Round two against "I heart crabs", or as we call them the Swedes. Seriously cool guys from, wait for it.....Sweden.  they were offering shots and beer, having a rockin time and enjoying the day like no-one else.They were playing Necron Air mixed with IG blob squads defending the ground. They had some crazy blue and green flyers, but seriously clean and good looking paint. Solid strategy and a mistake or two were the only reason Allan and I could crack them. Allan and I drew and so did Nick and Wolf.

The third game was against "2 inch Charge" and their chaos marines/traitor guard combo. 4 drakes and a blight drone, plus a flying prince, my half tabled them, and the other team drew.

Adepticon Day 2

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