Adepticon Recap: Warhammer Team Tournament

The third day of Adepticon.  Usually at this point I'm so exhausted (which I was).  This time, I got to slow things down, relax and play a game I had no clue how to win at!  We took a very themed pirate all gunpowder list comprising of dwarfs (me) and empire (Dan).  We knew we didn't have a shot but wanted to just have fun, drink rum, and roll some dice.  We accomplished that!  Honestly at the end of the tournament I started picking up on strategies for Warhammer, so I think I can actually do OK once I get a proper list.

That's a lot of boats, and sea monsters!

Our team, MFSM (Most Friendly or Mother F'n Sea Monsters) teamed up with another two friends of ours that themed nautical armies as well.  The rule was each army had to have a sea monster.  The other team, Drew & Max did lizardmen and undead. 

Max, Drew, Me, and Dan

Max and his undead parrot missing an eye and losing a wing!

Here's some shots of our armies.  Since Dan couldn't take a sea monster, his kraken was the Beasts spell 6 that could be summoned.  Sadly the beast never stayed in play since every time he cast it, he either forgot the spell on a miscast or some other nasty result. 

That's an undead MFSM, yo!

Drew's beautifully painted lizardmen

Sea barge lizardmen style

Drew created the MFSM template to show where his turtle was on the board if there were problems

What a beautiful MFSM. Lots of sculpting.

The Kraken attacks.  As you can see, the wizard has a fishing pole to "summon"

We had a great time getting our butts kicked going 0-3.  One of our highlights in the first game was Dan's harpoon carrying wizard (or sea monster hunter), was able to successfully cast the amber spear and killed a dark elf war hydra.  That's a land-sea-monster hunter at it's best. 

Our army ready to be slaughtered!

Firing from the hill

The two cold ones pictured charging the artillery hill successfully killed most of our army!

The custom MFSM dice being throne that successfully killed the Hydra.  See the harpoon wizard calling the shot!

Our last game didn't go much better, we got run down by some ogres and orcs.  The highlight of the game was my "anchor" unit of thunderers on the right flank.  They were charged by a big unit of savage orcs.  I proceeded to kill 9 in the stand and shoot volley and in two combat phases caused the remaining boss to route.  He rolled double ones... which normally would mean an auto run down, but not my stunties... I rolled double ones as well and since I subtract one, I basically stood still.  Must have been a rum break.  I proceeded the next turn to shoot him down, I guess pirates aren't much for a fair fight.

shoot as much as possible before they get here!

The artillery hills before the ogres came and wrecked house

Dreaded double one's

Here's a few of the pictures of armies I was able to take.  As usual I was having such a good time looking at them I didn't remember to take shots.  I missed a great beastmen and "evil" wood elf army that looked absolutely beautiful together.

"Conquistadorks"

for those of you that know me, you know I have a love for conquistadors!

civil war dwarfs!

Those are some freaky looking spiders.  Very creepy, I love them.

Overall a very fun time and I appreciate the players choice award!  It was fun being back to Warhammer after a ten year hiatus.

Adepticon Recap: 40k Team Tournament

Sorry it took me so long to begin posting again on the Adepticon recap.  The slow bandwidth at the hotel really sapped the life out of me.  Here's what I'm preparing for this week:

- 40k Team Tournament (right now)
- Warhammer Team Tournament (Tuesday)
- Cool 40k Armies (Thursday)

I found out that I ended up placing 8th overall in the first day of the 40k Championships.  That really made my day - so close to getting the top spot, another win would have probably done it!

Now on to the team tournament coverage.  We started out early (6:30 am) to begin judging.  Unfortunately we didn't get judged until right up until the start of the tournament so I didn't get the chance to look around and take pictures.  That is one of my favorite parts of the tournament so I think next year I'm going to volunteer to judge.  I've done every Adepticon and it's about time I give back on my favorite event.

Jeff, one of our team Red's most vocal members!

I got so swept up in the games, I didn't take any pictures after the first round... stupid me.

Back to the coverage!  We set up the massive diorama.  On the left side (left as you're looking at it) was Chicago Kamikaze's Team Yellow.  On the right was our Team Red.  In the middle of the coliseum we split the sides down the center.  Here's some shots of setup and it finally together.

For "Team Red", Jeff's army was primary green, Aaron's was primary purple, Matt's was primary red and obviously mine was primary silver.   We had some hellion races going around our side of the board and underneath it.  The race doesn't stop for a civil war!

Alan is giving the display a mustache ride

I think the backdrop really set off the display.  I'd like to give a big thanks to Greg Hedges for all of his help on it.  In the end we ended up getting Best Xenos.  When I used to be a part of another group for the team tournament we won that award 2 years in a row with Tau and Orks and almost got it with Tyranids.  Now I am happy to say I've taken almost every xenos in the team tournament!

For the games, my pairing ended up basically getting a tie every round.  I don't know what the deal was but we just had a hard time getting full points.  We always either got the primary or secondary objective but never both.  As the previous day, we got 3 Grey knights players.  That meant that between both days and 8 games of 40k, I went against 5 Grey Knights players, 2 marines and 1 ork.  I guess if you can't beat them, join them (yeah I'm putting together GK's this week for NOVA).

Here's a shot from the first round.  My beasts coming out of the webway was a constant threat and I never had an issue getting the portal out.  I really want to now take a look at doing a portal hybrid list.  I think it would do well. Our first round had 3 storm ravens.  My partner had the heavy wytch list so we tried to surround and assault the vehicles.  It worked once and killed all the passengers.

so close, just got a weapon destroyed!

In the end we had a great time.  I only had one game where I wasn't too happy with an opponent, other then that great sports.  Sorry for the lack of pictures during the round but here are a few of the armies I was able to capture before getting games in.  Like I said, next year I totally plan on judging so I can get tons of pictures of set up armies and themes.

I love this display board, clean and very Necron

It's a trippy Necron yellow brick road.  I love the surreal backdrop!

The great themed team from Montreal!  They never fail to disappoint.

As usual they had great propaganda.  I love the pamplets.

Back to assembling GK's.  Totally on the bandwagon.