I will go into in depth coverage of the Origins Rogue Trader Tournament soon, but first I promised to post the results of the tourny. Here they are (from a possible 100 points):
|
Rank
|
Name |
Army |
Battle |
Paint |
Sports |
Total |
| 1 |
Patrick Smith |
Eldar |
49 |
14 |
16 |
79 |
| 2 |
Jason Garner |
Eldar |
41 |
10 |
20 |
71 |
| 3 |
Craig Collins |
Dark Angels |
32 |
12 |
20 |
64 |
| 4 |
Daniel Price |
Chaos Marines |
32 |
14 |
17 |
63 |
| 5 |
Andrew Wiegler |
Space Marines |
32 |
13 |
16 |
61 |
| David Talbott |
Chaos Marines |
29 |
15 |
17 |
61 |
| Damon Jenkins |
Eldar |
30 |
14 |
17 |
61 |
| 8 |
Shawn Hawkins |
Orks |
32 |
13 |
10 |
55 |
| Mike Early |
Eldar |
32 |
6 |
17 |
55 |
| 10 |
Allen Bount |
Space Marines |
19 |
15 |
20 |
54 |
| 11 |
Joe Miksa |
Space Marines |
24 |
9 |
17 |
50 |
| Ben Stamm |
Necrons |
20 |
10 |
20 |
50 |
| 13 |
Dan Heial |
Chaos Daemon |
18 |
12 |
16 |
46 |
| |
Christopher Wheeler |
Tau |
24 |
10 |
12 |
46 |
| 15 |
Chris Sheridan |
Chaos Marines |
10 |
1 |
17 |
28 |
| 16 |
Nathan Schrein |
Space Marines |
DQ |
Prize Winners:
Allen Bount -- Winner for Best Painting
Craig Collins -- Winner for Best Sportsmanship
Jason Garner -- Winner for Best General
And finally...
Patrick Smith -- Grand Champion
Thanks one and all for everyone who was there. We all had a great time!
The second day of Origins was the Apocalypse game. Sadly, turn out was somewhat disappointing, but we had a good idea -- seems there was another Apocalypse with the same basic rules going on two tables down. So, we combined the two. The result was a ~95,000 point battle!
Here are some pictures of the action (click to embiggen):
Here is a video showing off the board in the midst of the first turn.
And here are the winners of the award certificates -- "He Died With His Boots On", Most Impressive Model, and Most Objective Points respectively):
All-in-all it was a lot of fun. The only real problem is my feet -- I'm getting too old to stand up all day!
The first day of Origins has (at least for us) come and gone -- and it was a heck of a lot of fun. The 40K Space Hulk games went as well as I could have hoped.
Here are two pictures from the first game:
Here is a picture from the second game. Note the 40KOrigins table behind the action. The black box holds the trophies.
Finally, here is a bit of video of our gaming table:
GBPrime did a great job of explaining the game to our players, most of which weren't experienced 40K players. Score for for growing the hobby!
More to come...
On the literal eve of Origins I present to you all the handouts we will be using in handy PDF format. The first two are "presentation" sheets I did up all pretty like.
Origins Questionnaire
Origins Official Apocalypse Rules
Origins RTT Rules
Origins RTT Scenaro Information
Origins 40K Space Hulk Cheat Sheet
The questionnaire is open to anyone to fill out and send back. We want to know what people are interested in seeing and playing!
No, not that type of booty. Rather, this is the booty you can get for winning one of the awards at the Origins RTT.
An Assault on Black Reach box set for the Best Sportsman and a Foundation Paint Set for the Best Painter.
A Cadian Battalion box for the Grand Champion and a Land Raider Crusader/Redeemer for the Best General.
Add in the trophies and there is about $450 worth of prizes up for grabs. See you at Origins!
As we quickly approach the final line that is Origins I decided to paint up -- wait for it -- another squad of terminators so that the 40K Space Hulk game can have a more varied number of troopers (and because I just like terminators, of course).
These are the Black Reach terminators which if not quite as good as their regular flavored brethren still paint up rather well.
So, how many terminators does this make for me? Take a look:
What you see there is a whopping fifty-five (55) terminators -- both old and new style. That makes for eleven (11) squads of heavily armored, teleporting death. And, this of course doesn't count my dreadnoughts or land raiders.
Only one problem as I see it -- a "mere" fifty-five means I am still a good forty-five away from having a complete 1st Marine Company. Sigh. I think I'll wait a while before finishing that project.
Just a quick post for today -- the newly revealed Ork Battlewagon Upgrade Pack which includes -- drumroll -- the deff rolla.
I guess this means that now I really do have a paint up a wagon or two for my Ork Speed Freaks. Aw, shucks.
You know, it really doesn't take this long to make trees. Not in total anyway. But recall that I'm a 40k gamer with 3 small kids and a 60 hour a week job. Trees don't take this much time, life does. =) Anyway, on with part 3.
This time around, we're skipping over painting and basing the trees (we'll come back to that later), and are instead looking at cheap scenery bases to put all my cheap trees on. Recall that I put a rare earth magnet in the base of each of the large trees? Well that's because I'm basing them on steel terrain bases. Really CHEAP steel, in the form of a used whiteboard that a friend got out of a dumpster for me.
You can see that I've marked the whiteboard up with a sharpie and laid out the shapes of the terrain bases before I make the first cut. Metal this thin can be cut with a hand saw, tin snips, or a jig saw. I prefer a jig saw, partly because I already own one and because it's much faster and neater.
The back of the whiteboard is darker and has a thin layer of rubber. That means this is the side that things will stick to better and will cover in one coat. (The white might have to be painted first, and the paint might not stick.) For this portion, get yourself some PVA glue, a disposable paintbrush, and some box lids. Don't forget to cover your workspace in paper, as this is gonna be messy!
Use the brush to coat the base in glue. Make sure you lay the glue on thick, that there are no gaps, and that it goes all the way to the edge. This may be old news to some of you modellers out there, but it bears repeating. Your flock and gravel won't stick well if the glue is too thin, and your terrain will start going bald early in life. Nobody wants that. =)
I'm using two kinds of material on these bases; brown sand and green flock. The heavier of the two should go on first. Pour the sand out in a pattern on the base, and be generous with it. You'll end up with a mound of extra sand that isn't stuck down, and that's fine. You can quickly flip the base over and catch the excess in the box lid to be reused.
Now on to the other box lid to pour the lighter green flock over it. Again, heap it on. If you have enough, you can even swish the terrain base around in the box to cover it more easily. Then turn the base on it's edge and shake and tap the excess off into the box lid.
Voila. 18 terrain bases. Spray them with acryllic sealer once the glue is dry to extend their lifespan under your miniatures' feet.
Note that the bases on the left look different than the ones on the right. One base was a failed experiment in static grass, and I switched to using finer flock. But the difference in shading on the rest is the glue. The ones on the left were done using PVA glue, and there was enough extra stickiness to trap some green flock in amongst the sand. The ones on the right were after I ran out of PVA glue and switched to a spray adhesive instead. It makes for a thinner layer of stickiness, and there's no extra to trap the second color of flock. I think I prefer the PVA glue ones better.
Stay tuned for Part IV, where I finally get around to painting all these dang trees. =P