Origins 2011 Coverage -- Saturday

Posted by Ranillon on 28. June 2011 00:57

The main action on Saturday was of course our 40K Rogue Trader Tournament.  But, it wasn't all that was going on...

Introduction to Warhammer Fantasy

I spent most of my time running both the Introduction to Warhammer event and its follow-up our Dwarven Smithy game that featured Dwarves vs. Empire.  Both of our Introduction to 40K and Warhammer events were spectacularly popular and almost always full up.  In many cases people who had the first taste of either game in the Intros quickly signed up for the larger scale "intermediate" games such as the Dwarven Smithy.

The Meeting at the Dwarven Smithy

This particular games was especially enjoyable with plenty of amazing and unlikely rolls really adding flair to the event.  In one memorable Empire turn the force's Fire Wizard managed to blow up himself and most of the group of spearmen with him.  This caused the unit to run which in turn produced failed panic checks in the nearest two Imperial regiments as well.  Then, to top off everything off in the following shooting phase the Empire's great cannon proceeded to explode into bits!  The dwarfs found this all properly entertaining, no doubt taking out the beer steins and bags of popcorn to sit back and watch the fireworks.

Fortunately, the fleeing half of the Empire army subsequently managed to finally make their leadership checks and return to the battle.  That and the later charge of the Imperial cavalry made a good fight of it, but in the end the dwarves successfully defended their smithy.  All involved had a great time and hopefully Warhammer Fantasy has gained a few new permanent players (they certainly asked me plenty of questions about how to get into the hobby).

Anyway, on to the Warhammer 40K Rogue Trader Tournament coverage.  Here are a whole gaggle of pictures from the event (Click to see larger version):

More to Come...