We Are the Champions!

Well even though one of my teammates beat me to the punch I’m putting up more of the details and breaking it to anyone who doesn’t read his blog or that hasn’t heard yet.

 In Order: Aaron, Nick, Brad(Me), Andrew

That’s right my friends. My team of ringers carried me to the top spot at the 40k National Team Tournament. The team consisted of Nick Nanavati, Aaron Aelong, Andrew Gonyo and myself. All of us have either won Best Overall or General at a GT in the last year. I met Nick two years ago at the first Nova and met Andrew and Aaron this year at the Nova. I got along great with all three and thought it’d be a great group to get together. Well, at least one that wouldn’t kill each other or inspire other teams to kill us (outside of pure jealously for our amazing good looks that is J).

Adepticon - Army Option 3

Here is my third and likely final option since I didn’t have the time to finish up my Admech Daemons like I’d planned (stupid real life getting in the way). It’s another all foot list but one I think is very strong. You’ll notice that it’s a bit different from the list I won the Darkstar with.

Adepticon – Army Option 2

Here is the second bag that is sitting by my front door in anticipation of leaving on Thursday. I think you can guess from the picture which book this army crawls out of.

Adepticon – Army Option 1

With Adepticon fast approaching I figured I’d put up some of my army lists over the next three days. So this is my first list I’m considering taking to Adepticon. Everything is painted to a decent standard and I’ve done well with this sort of list in the past.

So........Adepticon

I know it’s been nearly a month since my last post but life just got a little to nuts personally for me to spend much time on the hobby. However it looks like things might finally be moving toward normal and with Adepticon on the horizon I figured I’d put some stuff up here.

First off I’m super excited for the 10^th year of Adepticon and can’t wait. My schedule for the weekend looks like this:

Thursday: Arrive in the early afternoon. Meet up with some friends and team mates. Basically register and socialize J

Friday: 40k Championships! It’s a 4 game day for those who aren’t aware. I currently don’t know what I’m bringing yet but I’m sure I’ll figure it out before I head out in six days.

Saturday: 40k Team Tournament. My team, “They Shall Know Fear”, will be rocking it out with GK’s. I’m looking forward to an awesome day of gaming with Nick, Andrew, and Aaron. And thanks to Andrew we’re going to have a fully painted 4k worth of GK’s stomp the yard with.

Sunday: Either hanging out or playing in the final 16 from the Championships. In all likelyhood I’ll be hanging out J so I’ll probably be bouncing around noon or so. Might get a game in against some people from across the country that I don’t get to see often.

Hope to see you guys there. If you’re around and see me don’t hesitate to say hey!

I’ll be trying to post more often leading up to and after Adepticon J

ADEPTICON!!!!!!

So I'm sick.....3 nights of drinking and sleeping for 3 hours a day might have worn me down a bit. Doesn't mean it wasn't a hell of a good time! I played in the Championships on Friday and the Team Tournament on Saturday.

Adepticon Championships (Qualifier)

So here is what I'm going to be running for the "Big Show"
No display board because the one I did have died during the move to Minnesota and I've been to busy to get one built up.

I'm making good on all my talking up of Nids and taking them to one of the two largest tournies in the US. We'll see how it turns out!

The list I'm using Today:

HQ

Prime-100
Dual Bone Swords, Toxin Sacs

Prime-100
Dual Bone Swords, Toxin Sacs

Elite

2 Hive Guard-100

2 Hive Guard-100

2 Hive Guard-100

Troops

10 Termagants-50

10 Termagants-50

Tervigon-195
Catalyst, Toxin Sacs, Adrenal Glands

Tervigon-195
Catalyst, Toxin Sacs, Adrenal Glands

17 Genestealers-238

17 Genestealers-238

Heavy Support

Carnifex-190
Dual TL-Devourers

Carnifex-190
Dual TL-Devourers

That's the final 1,850 version of the list that I've worked up. Haven't actually gotten a game in yet but I'm confident I should be alright. And with the adjustments to the scorable objectives I think I'm in a good place to start. I've got high hopes for good terrain. All in all I'm looking forward to today!!!!

Batreps and photos will follow after I get back from Adepticon.

Off to Adpeticon!

So I'm off this morning to Adepticon. Leaving around 6am for my 7-8 hour drive. Looking forward to getting there and getting myself set up. For anyone reading this that's going don't be afraid to say Hi! Look for my dakka avatar on my T-shirt:

I fully expect some hellos from you bastards :)

On Saturday I'll be in the Team Tournament with my buddy Reece and some other peeps from the Dakka crew in the Dakka Detachment #2 and running my all foot guard. Gonna be a blast.

Sunday is gonna be a hangout an bounce relatively early day unless I somehow manage to wind up in the Championships on Sunday.

Gonna be a good weekend. Hope to see some of you guys there!

Tyranids for Adepticon?

So I've been thinking of some variations of the Nids I like that I might be able to play at 1,850. I truly hate 1,850 for Nids cause I can't seem to get what I want out of it but I've got a few new ideas. Here are two of the lists I'm considering. They both are a little different from what I normally run but I think they've got the depth to make it work.

1,850 Deathwing w/RW Support!! (My first army is back!)

Ok, so most of you probably don’t remember but way back in the dark days of 2^nd edition GW released an “army box” of Ravenwing. This was basically what the plastic battleforce is now but it was an entire army back in 2^nd edition. It even came with a metal Tornado (or ravenwing landspeeder as it was back then).

Fast forward to third edition and you’ll get to see the very first army I even fully painted. Multi-wing Dark Angels! Terminators, Bikers, Speeders, and regular Joes. I was really, really proud of this back in the day but with new plastic terminators and the wheel turning and DA’s becoming less and less effective my interest waned. I still loved the look of the models. And any of you that have seen my DIY chapter can tell I love the Iconography of the DA’s and the robed monastic look. So when the new FAQ came out it wasn’t even a question. I’m back on board! Now they will still match my normal DIY so they’ll be white and blue instead of bone and red but I’m like a little kid again. So much so that my Adepticon all foot IG might just be limited to Team Tournament and my DA army of smiting goodness may be my “Championship” army.

Adpeticon Daemon List: A Twist!

So I'm ordering my real daemon army this week for Adepticon Team tourney and probably for other events since I can't seem to shake playing my daemons. Stupid fun and challenging army....

So here is a Daemon list I was considering running. I think it’s got what it takes to make a mess of the current meta-game. And I'll explain why at the end of this.

1,850 Terminator Lists for Adepticon! Which one?

So I’ve been on a huge terminator kick lately and have been looking for a way to field an army including minimum 20 of the buggers at 1,850. I’m tempted to roll something like this out for Adepticon so here are 3 different lists I’ve come up with from codex SW, BA, and CSM. I’ll try and highlight the difference and what I think the list will suffer against briefly for each list.

Adepticon - Dark Eldar List #2

HQ

Baron-105

Elite

3 Trueborn-146

3xBlasters, Venom w/2 SC’s

3 Trueborn-146

3xBlasters, Venom w/2 SC’s

3 Trueborn-146

3xBlasters, Venom w/2 SC’s

Adepticon-Daemon List #2

So another list I’ve been considering. Damn Nick (Yermom) for constantly getting me re-excited (yeah, I made it up) about Daemons anyway. Now I’m not a huge fan of Fateweaver so I don’t think he’ll ever make an appearance in my lists but I’ve been thinking of some slight tweaks I could do that might work out. This is what I’ve come up with for it so far.

Adepticon-Dark Eldar List #1

So I'm excited because my stuff finally came in back home and my wife is gonna send it out tomorrow so I'll have some new pretty models to build while I'm stuck out here. This got me thinking about running them at Adepticon in a few months. So here is something I've come up with that doesn't include the Baron.

First Adepticon List-Daemons!

While I doubt I'll run Daemons for Adepticon (Randomness over 4-8 rounds isn't good) I threw this list together tonight because I thought it would be fun. It's a combination of some of the things I've seen from Yermom and my normal style of list.

HQ

Bloodthirster-270
Unholy Might

Herald of Tzeentch-100
Bolt, Chariot, Master of Sorcery

Herald of Tzeentch-100
Bolt, Chariot, Master of Sorcery

Adepticon 2011 Here I Come!

So due to some recent happy turnarounds it looks like I'm going to be attending Adepticon this year. Naturally I'll be signing up for the Championships and possibly the Gladiator on Sunday (in case I'm not in the top 16) but I am officially looking for a team to join or to build a team to attend the team tournament.