03-30-2010, 11:53 AM
So Adepticon 2010 is over with and after the dust has settled we managed to not win any awards. There were a number of wins for me in a different sense.
Arrived Friday night, met a lot of people, talked and basically just hung out for hours. Browsed the vendor hall and won one of the $100 prizes from Sabol Foam from their Fortune Cookie promotion. Starting off well! Ran around taking pictures of the Warbands/Size Matters tournament which I’ll hopefully get posted eventually.
SATURDAY-
Saturday I participated in my 1st and hopefully not my last Generals Challenge Tournament. This is the one Chuck and I had been talking about where you change armies every round.
Game 1: I drew Warriors of Chaos Vs. Demons of Chaos played by the overall winner Jeff. The game was going fairly well for me, obliterated the Bloodletter unit. A single Chariot managed to take the Nurgle unit down to 1 guy. My 3 Chaos Ogres not only fought and defeated a unit of Fiends, but then took it to the Flamers who were hiding in a building before being eventually defeated by them. My big Marauder unit with my Lord and a sorcerer in it was the fail of the army. He got a Demon Prince and a Slaneesh chariot into it’s side, I lost by 1 and ended up breaking on an 8 with a BSB re-roll. That caused the loss and Jeff’s beginning of other eventual win. Had this game gone differently who knows how the GC would’ve turned out for me.
Game 2: I got Ogres Vs. Dwarfs played by Robert. Having fought and lost to Ogres twice at Core Comp last fall and playing a list that was a prime example of the ‘Cookie Cutter’ style list over from the Ogre Stronghold I felt I would have this game well in hand. Around turn I think 3 it was clearly going my way, I was hitting multiple units and breaking them here and there, the Yetti’s did their job running around a tower and slagging some thunderers who had previously been panicked out of it on a lucky roll. The Yetti’s would have had no problem booting them out of the house I think; but this turned out to be faster I’m sure. It was turn 4 where things suddenly turned around. I was getting excited and made a charge I shouldn’t have which resulted in some Ironguts getting ran down with a Butcher and giving up an extraordinary amount of points. In the end though I still managed the win, particularly when the Rhinox got up and killed some Quarrelers and some Leadbelchers came around a forest to kill the Bolt Thrower.
Game 3: Drew Dwarfs Vs. Dark Elves. I know the opponent didn’t listen to the show at the time and I don’t know if he ever will, but I think his name was Rick and I apologize if it wasn’t. Anyway, having played our friend Ray’s Dark Elves only a ton of times I could pretty much guarantee I had this game in the bag. The only real question was the Hydra whom I ended up stuffing all my characters into a unit against so that I could max combat res. him and eventually break him. After that it was a lot of cleanup here and there.
Game 4: I had the new Skaven Vs. VC. A guy named Dave, whom I shall refer to as Drunk Dave did what I will call ‘playing’ this game. Now I can appreciate drinking at a convention; but wait until after the tournament to get drunk. So I had no idea how to play Skaven, and he had no idea how to do VC. I knew from the beginning that this wasn’t going to be a lot of fun. Bummer on the lack of knowledge on our parts; and also on the drunkeness from him/ highly buzzed from me. The game was most assuredly in his favor on turn 3 and I decided to call it. I figured I’m sure he’s a nice enough guy when sober and I didn’t want to have misconceptions about him just because of a bad/drunk game and since neither of us were going to win anything I decided to just let it go.
All around I had a ton of fun and would happily play in this style tournament again. We went upstairs to the room with the guys from Pointhammered afterwards and recorded for about 30 minutes which involved lots of drunken yelling, cursing and lambasting of eachother and our personal character.
After the recording Chuck and I set up in the Grand Ballroom looking to offload our bitz and such that we’d brought with us to trade/sell off. I most definitely walked away from the big bitz trade happy. I sold my 1st ed Space Hulk, all my extra Dwarf stuff, a Dragon, Bommer’z Over Da Sulphur River, some WE stuff, a Tau Tank, some Star Wars mini’s and more. Total take away was nearly $200 for me; not to mention at some point I found that one of the 40K TT players had left a 6 pack of Bud Light under a table. As if drinking slowly all day and then having Vodka with the Pointhammered crew I now proceeded to hammer a 6 pack in about 30/40 minutes. Chuck trying to be the voice of sanity pointed out that we had a tournament at 8a.m. and he went to bed. I made it back up to the room around 1a.m. at which point I promptly kicked Chuck out of bed and forced him to record some show.
SUNDAY
This had me participating in my first Team Tournament. Probably wont be my last, but we’ll see. I think I honestly enjoy single player games more. Don’t know… Since chuck has already posted the results I’ll just copy and paste his bit in here and maybe change it a bit.
Game 1: Vs. DE and WoC. It was a list themed and built around 10 Chaos Trolls with a character (LD8) and a BSB behind them with a banner making them Stubborn. We eventually got to the character killing it and threw two lances into it after the first held for a turn. After the character died we ended up breaking the unit. They also had a whiff from their chariot on my knight unit that ended up breaking through a Hydra (doing 3 wounds) and then my knights overran into the Hydra (broke and ran through catching it) and made the chariot run again. By then though the center had fallen and we got the win. Fun game and never faced a list like that. It was very interesting; at the beginning we were very unsure how we were going to break the big Troll unit.
Game 2: Vs. a double WoC team. Guys claimed they forgot their armies and brought what their friends made for them. Four FC naked marauder horsemen; four Levels 2’s and 2 big blocks of infantry. 14 Dice equivalent between the two of them. Everything was radius death, or pick out no armor save spells. My 2 paladins were dead by turn 2, all knight units were looking for cover by turn 3. We ended up retreating into hiding by turn 3-4 and then they had to chase us down. We got a low sportsmanship score which we didn’t think that fair, one nice guy the other guy whatever. We did what we had to do after we realized what kind of list it was so ran and hid. Still got beat…
Game 3: Vs. a team from Canada using HE and Brets. Chuck misjudged a lance charge oops… Even though I told him to run with them Chuck was like no, they gotta wheel, it was in by a half inch sigh; I hate it when I’m right sometimes. Knowing we had no chance we did many foolish things from walking my Alter Noble up onto a hill to Chuck just kind of flailing his Lances out into the open. The guys were good about it but if you don’t go undefeated you don’t have a chance. We called it I think at bottom of 3 or top of 4. Chucks army was basically gone and while I was only missing a unit of Treekin and the Alter Noble there was no chance of me beating two armies.
So… All in, and all done. I was sick as a dog on Sunday, and not just from the drinking, apparently a number of people who don’t drink were also feeling rather ill that day. I was good around noon after I voided the contents of my stomach, but that didn’t bother me too much. Will I go back? Of course I will. It’s a chance to get and see and play things and people you never would otherwise. I picked up a really nice looking River and Bridge from the vendor hall on Sunday which made me happy. I also found some really old models still in shrink that I’d been looking for; and at a really good price too! I stayed for cleanup that evening and afterwards went out to Sushi with a bunch of the other Fantasy people who had also stuck around, drove home super late and really shouldn’t have. Probably fell asleep a dozen times and even managed to clip a deer that I probably would’ve seen sooner had my eyes been open. No real damage though.
Chuck and I will get together and record a last wrapup for the show this week; hopefully I’ll have it all ready for Monday morning the 5th of April. Thanks for the read!
Arrived Friday night, met a lot of people, talked and basically just hung out for hours. Browsed the vendor hall and won one of the $100 prizes from Sabol Foam from their Fortune Cookie promotion. Starting off well! Ran around taking pictures of the Warbands/Size Matters tournament which I’ll hopefully get posted eventually.
SATURDAY-
Saturday I participated in my 1st and hopefully not my last Generals Challenge Tournament. This is the one Chuck and I had been talking about where you change armies every round.
Game 1: I drew Warriors of Chaos Vs. Demons of Chaos played by the overall winner Jeff. The game was going fairly well for me, obliterated the Bloodletter unit. A single Chariot managed to take the Nurgle unit down to 1 guy. My 3 Chaos Ogres not only fought and defeated a unit of Fiends, but then took it to the Flamers who were hiding in a building before being eventually defeated by them. My big Marauder unit with my Lord and a sorcerer in it was the fail of the army. He got a Demon Prince and a Slaneesh chariot into it’s side, I lost by 1 and ended up breaking on an 8 with a BSB re-roll. That caused the loss and Jeff’s beginning of other eventual win. Had this game gone differently who knows how the GC would’ve turned out for me.
Game 2: I got Ogres Vs. Dwarfs played by Robert. Having fought and lost to Ogres twice at Core Comp last fall and playing a list that was a prime example of the ‘Cookie Cutter’ style list over from the Ogre Stronghold I felt I would have this game well in hand. Around turn I think 3 it was clearly going my way, I was hitting multiple units and breaking them here and there, the Yetti’s did their job running around a tower and slagging some thunderers who had previously been panicked out of it on a lucky roll. The Yetti’s would have had no problem booting them out of the house I think; but this turned out to be faster I’m sure. It was turn 4 where things suddenly turned around. I was getting excited and made a charge I shouldn’t have which resulted in some Ironguts getting ran down with a Butcher and giving up an extraordinary amount of points. In the end though I still managed the win, particularly when the Rhinox got up and killed some Quarrelers and some Leadbelchers came around a forest to kill the Bolt Thrower.
Game 3: Drew Dwarfs Vs. Dark Elves. I know the opponent didn’t listen to the show at the time and I don’t know if he ever will, but I think his name was Rick and I apologize if it wasn’t. Anyway, having played our friend Ray’s Dark Elves only a ton of times I could pretty much guarantee I had this game in the bag. The only real question was the Hydra whom I ended up stuffing all my characters into a unit against so that I could max combat res. him and eventually break him. After that it was a lot of cleanup here and there.
Game 4: I had the new Skaven Vs. VC. A guy named Dave, whom I shall refer to as Drunk Dave did what I will call ‘playing’ this game. Now I can appreciate drinking at a convention; but wait until after the tournament to get drunk. So I had no idea how to play Skaven, and he had no idea how to do VC. I knew from the beginning that this wasn’t going to be a lot of fun. Bummer on the lack of knowledge on our parts; and also on the drunkeness from him/ highly buzzed from me. The game was most assuredly in his favor on turn 3 and I decided to call it. I figured I’m sure he’s a nice enough guy when sober and I didn’t want to have misconceptions about him just because of a bad/drunk game and since neither of us were going to win anything I decided to just let it go.
All around I had a ton of fun and would happily play in this style tournament again. We went upstairs to the room with the guys from Pointhammered afterwards and recorded for about 30 minutes which involved lots of drunken yelling, cursing and lambasting of eachother and our personal character.
After the recording Chuck and I set up in the Grand Ballroom looking to offload our bitz and such that we’d brought with us to trade/sell off. I most definitely walked away from the big bitz trade happy. I sold my 1st ed Space Hulk, all my extra Dwarf stuff, a Dragon, Bommer’z Over Da Sulphur River, some WE stuff, a Tau Tank, some Star Wars mini’s and more. Total take away was nearly $200 for me; not to mention at some point I found that one of the 40K TT players had left a 6 pack of Bud Light under a table. As if drinking slowly all day and then having Vodka with the Pointhammered crew I now proceeded to hammer a 6 pack in about 30/40 minutes. Chuck trying to be the voice of sanity pointed out that we had a tournament at 8a.m. and he went to bed. I made it back up to the room around 1a.m. at which point I promptly kicked Chuck out of bed and forced him to record some show.
SUNDAY
This had me participating in my first Team Tournament. Probably wont be my last, but we’ll see. I think I honestly enjoy single player games more. Don’t know… Since chuck has already posted the results I’ll just copy and paste his bit in here and maybe change it a bit.
Game 1: Vs. DE and WoC. It was a list themed and built around 10 Chaos Trolls with a character (LD8) and a BSB behind them with a banner making them Stubborn. We eventually got to the character killing it and threw two lances into it after the first held for a turn. After the character died we ended up breaking the unit. They also had a whiff from their chariot on my knight unit that ended up breaking through a Hydra (doing 3 wounds) and then my knights overran into the Hydra (broke and ran through catching it) and made the chariot run again. By then though the center had fallen and we got the win. Fun game and never faced a list like that. It was very interesting; at the beginning we were very unsure how we were going to break the big Troll unit.
Game 2: Vs. a double WoC team. Guys claimed they forgot their armies and brought what their friends made for them. Four FC naked marauder horsemen; four Levels 2’s and 2 big blocks of infantry. 14 Dice equivalent between the two of them. Everything was radius death, or pick out no armor save spells. My 2 paladins were dead by turn 2, all knight units were looking for cover by turn 3. We ended up retreating into hiding by turn 3-4 and then they had to chase us down. We got a low sportsmanship score which we didn’t think that fair, one nice guy the other guy whatever. We did what we had to do after we realized what kind of list it was so ran and hid. Still got beat…
Game 3: Vs. a team from Canada using HE and Brets. Chuck misjudged a lance charge oops… Even though I told him to run with them Chuck was like no, they gotta wheel, it was in by a half inch sigh; I hate it when I’m right sometimes. Knowing we had no chance we did many foolish things from walking my Alter Noble up onto a hill to Chuck just kind of flailing his Lances out into the open. The guys were good about it but if you don’t go undefeated you don’t have a chance. We called it I think at bottom of 3 or top of 4. Chucks army was basically gone and while I was only missing a unit of Treekin and the Alter Noble there was no chance of me beating two armies.
So… All in, and all done. I was sick as a dog on Sunday, and not just from the drinking, apparently a number of people who don’t drink were also feeling rather ill that day. I was good around noon after I voided the contents of my stomach, but that didn’t bother me too much. Will I go back? Of course I will. It’s a chance to get and see and play things and people you never would otherwise. I picked up a really nice looking River and Bridge from the vendor hall on Sunday which made me happy. I also found some really old models still in shrink that I’d been looking for; and at a really good price too! I stayed for cleanup that evening and afterwards went out to Sushi with a bunch of the other Fantasy people who had also stuck around, drove home super late and really shouldn’t have. Probably fell asleep a dozen times and even managed to clip a deer that I probably would’ve seen sooner had my eyes been open. No real damage though.
Chuck and I will get together and record a last wrapup for the show this week; hopefully I’ll have it all ready for Monday morning the 5th of April. Thanks for the read!