COWCON 2009 Beta Player Pack

The Beta Player Pack is finally available. It took me a while to define some of the soft scores in a manageable manner that wouldn't dissappoint too many people.

Beta Player Pack

I got my first 500 points of Chaos Mortals finished and am underway on the next installment. I'll take some photos when I can find the time and setup my camera decently.

I haven't quite received all of the Iyanden Eldar yet but rest assured, when I do there will be pics of those also.

Eltnot.

It's been a while since I updated this, but you should see some regular posting coming soon.

First bit of news is that COWCON 2009 is booked in for the 17-18th of October. The player pack is mostly complete and should be out soon for some beta testing. The tournament will once again be 1750 points Warhammer 40,000 and run out of the YWCA Hall.

Secondly my Sisters of Battle have had a bit more work done to them and now meet the minimum three colours. Unfortunately I won't be able to do much with them for the next few months though as a short project has come up. Which leads me to the third point:

I've just joined in a Tale of Four Gamers for Warhammer Fantasy. Player will be required to paint 500 points each month for three months and play a couple of games. I've dusted off my Warriors of Chaos for this so will be posting some updates and pics soonish. So far I've only done undercoating but I'm hoping to get a unit of Chaos Knights finished by next weekend.

Recently I purchased a friend's Iyanden Eldar army, and should be taking delivery of it by the end of the month. This will go nicely with my Iyanden pirate army that I'm slowly accumulating models for. As a result of this, I'm now looking to sell my Tau army, all 3500 points of it. If anyone is interested, please let me know.

Lastly, I've really started to lose faith in GW. The slowness at which codices/army books are released and their lack of errata has led me to look for another game system. I still intend to play GW games, but will be spending very little on new stuff apart from finishing off my current armies. As a result of this, I picked up a copy of the Flames of War 2.0 Rulebook off Ebay which should I get my grubby hands on in the coming week. At this point I won't yet be collecting any FoW but will have a look through the rules and chat with a couple of other club member to decide on an army and time period to collect.

So expect to hear more from me soon.

Eltnot.

Tournament Cancelled

Unfortunately due to lack of interest, the 1000 point tournament has been cancelled. This tournament will not be rescheduled because I had to organise time off work to be able to run it as it was.

Sorry to those who had already paid, I will endevour to refund your money as soon as possible.

~Eltnot.

November Tournament

Running a bit behind on when I wanted to get this up, but it's finished now. The Player Pack for my November Tournament is now available for download from the link below:

November 2008 Tournament Player Pack

This year's 1000 point Warhammer 40,000 tournament is a little different from my usual format. Player will be restricted in their army lists by most of the old combat patrol rules. This should lead to some interesting games, along with plenty of squad tactics. This is also the first tournament I've run using 5th Ed so should be interesting.

I must also give credit to ORKtoberfest as the missions are based heavily on those used for this years tournament (I enjoyed them so much and felt that they make a good first 5th Ed tournament setting).

Prizes will consist of the following:
1st Place - $60
2nd Place - $40
3rd Place - $20
There should also be prizes for:
Best General
Best Painted
Try Harder Son Award

As an aside, profit made from this tournament goes to towards increasing my terrain collection which is occasionally used at RWG meets and also at Cowcon. I don't run these to make money, just to help subsidise the cost of building so much terrain. If anyone is looking to hold local tournaments and needs access to some extra terrain, don't hesitate to contact me.

~Eltnot.

I'm not dead, I promise...

I've been a little... absent from my blog lately, but I assure you I'm not dead yet. I'll give a quick update now, but you can expect some more posts within the next few days.

Firstly, the Splendum V campaign hasn't been finished yet. I haven't had much time to work on it lately, but I haven't forgotten about it. I should be getting back onto it within the next week.

Secondly, one of the reasons I've been busy is because I went down to Brisbane last weekend for ORKtoberfest 2008. The tournament was a real blast, and I did rather better with the Sisters then I expected. I'll have a full batrep on that up within the next few days.

Lastly, November is upon us once again, so it's time for me to run another tournament. 1000 points as usual, but this time with a bit of a twist. The player pack should be finished for that this weekend.

In the meantime, stay safe all and Happy Halloween.

~ Eltnot.

Splendum V Teaser

Work is under way on the Splendum V Campaign. The booklet is slowly coming together, or more to the point, it's coming together and growing at the same time. Apparently these kinds of projects have a tendency to do that. Regardless, here's a quick teaser from what has been written so far:

Whispers on the Wind

Gunther braced himself against the bulkhead as the craft visibly shook. “What the hell was that?” he shouted, as he unsteadily made his way the last few metres to the command deck. The shock waves from whatever had just passed them had meant that it was close, very close. “Sir, unidentified energy source, just flew across our bow Sir” replied the officer on watch. “Can you bring it up on the holoscreen Lieutenant?” “Bringing up visuals now Sir.” An image slowly formed on the holoscreen in front of Captain Gunther, and took his breath away. The outline of a Chaos Infidel Class Raider swept slowly across the holoscreen. “Get the Astropath, we must warn command.” Where there was one of those ships, there would be more, and the Splendum system could ill afford an invasion right now. A scrambling sound caught Gunther’s ear, turning to face the source of the noise, Captain Gunther received his second surprise of the day. The beast looming over him was a creature taken straight out of nightmares. Bright red skin, the colour of blood covered a lithe yet muscular body, an elongated head with two curved horns rising from it topped the beast, its mouth open in a snarl, with sharp fangs and a slithering wet tongue. In one hand it held a wicked sword upraised ready to strike. Gunther only had moments to take all of this in before his head toppled to the floor, his neck oozing blood as his body joined his head in a bloody heap.

***

A naval combat team stood ready at the airlock waiting to enter, as the Swiftsure docked on automatic pilot. All attempts to raise the ship had so far been unsuccessful, and manual communication with the crew on board had had no success either. The combat team took their positions preparing for the worst. The scene that greeted them when the airlocks finally opened was nothing like what they expected; blood and gore covered every part of the corridor from floors to ceiling. There were no signs of distinguishable bodies of any of the 200 crew that had been onboard when the ship first departed from the space docks on its long range patrol.

I haven't got an exact date yet for when the book will be finished, but I can guarantee that it will be before the end of August.

~ Eltnot.

Been kinda busy...

It's been a while since I last updated this, so I'll quickly run through what I've been up to, and what I'm working on.

Firstly, Cowcon 2008 was a blast. I placed 10th out of 23 players with my Witch Hunters overall.

Game 1: Massacre Loss vs fester's Pirate Orks.
Had a great game, but luck wasn't with me, nor was the rather full table of terrain. At the end of the game, I had no models left, for just under 1000pts worth of dead orks. This game was the second largest points difference of the tournament (and won me the "Try harder son" award).

Game 2: Major Victory (or Victorious Slaughter, I can't remember) vs Doug William's Dark Eldar.
Had a great opponent that whilst they were shaky on their rules, was still a lot of fun. Had a wonderfully painted army.

Game 3: Major Victory (or Victorious Slaughter, I can't remember) vs Rebecca Stear's Marines/Sisters
We got to see a sisters vs sisters rumble, as well as a Space Marine Sergeant with a power fist, chase an Immolator for four turns without ever doing anything to it. Once again a lot of fun and another well painted army.

Game 4: Draw vs Martin Frost's Eldar
The table we played on made it impossible for me to move a vehicle without taking dangerous terrain rolls. Needless to say, my sisters had to footslog it across the board. Eeked out a draw against a great opponent.

Game 5: Minor Loss vs Alex Rick's Dark Eldar
Got too overconfident and got jumped by unit after unit as they came out of the webportals. Still had fun tank shocking anything I could with Rhinos.

Photos from the event can be found HERE.

I'm looking forward to seeing everyone at Cowcon 2009.

Secondly, I've been absent due to my brother getting married up in Carins, so I headed up there for a week and a half. Had a nice relaxing break and a great wedding.

So now I'm back in Rocky with a couple of projects ahead of me. The main one of these being to get my sister's finished off, hopefully for a 2000 point tournament in Mackay in early November. The other project, and the one that is currently taking up all of my time is writing a small campaign, ending in a pair of Apocalypse battles for Rockhampton Wargamers Guild. Expect to see some teasers for that shortly.

~ Eltnot.