Slackness

So I've been a little slack updating the blog lately.  And painting.  That being said, I have been doing a little painting and helping my girlfriend assemble her Chaos Daemons army hopefully in time for Orktoberfest.  We're still waiting on the stuff to come from Maelstrom so I'll be emailing them again...

I recently played in a combat patrol tournament put on at the club by Wonna.  Despite missing out on the first game (due to a player being absent and being the odds and evens player for the event), I still managed to score third place with my Eldar, so fairly happy with that.  I had to paint up a Shrieker Jetbike to fill out my force, so I'll take some photos of it tomorrow along with the rest of the army that I used.

As to why I've been slack, well there are a few reason/excuses.  I was a bit sick earlier in the month, and since then, I've come across a game called World of Tanks.  It's currently in beta testing, but is shaping up to be a fun game.  You can find out more about it HERE.  If you want to chat to me in game, I'm signed in as Eltnot.

So more content coming soon... well as soon as I stop playing with tanks.

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.

2008 Combat Patrol Tournament Roundup

Well the dust has settled and all of the gamers have gone home. Everyone seemed to have a pretty good time for the day, with plenty of tight battles along the way (except for the crazy first round with 4 massacres!). We got off to a bit of a late start (due to a missing player and timely printer problems), but the day ended pretty much bang on time. At least this time I was awake when people started to arrive :-D

The placing were as follows:
1st - fester - Orks
2nd - Rob - Space Wolves
3rd - Justin - Witch Hunters
4th - Craig - Imperial Guard
5th - James - Necrons
6th - Wonna - Imperial Guard
7th - Damo - Ravenwing
8th - Brad - Space Marines

Before I finally finish rambling, and get onto showing you all the pics, I want to hear people's feedback. What did you like, what didn't you like, and what can be done better? The feedback that I receive for this tournament will help make later ones better for all involved.

-Eltnot

Justin's Eversor gets in amongst the Necrons

Damo's Ravenwing Sgt. Vs Rob's Wolf Guard

One of the tables before too much carnage got underway

Games in full swing

The Eversor doesn't fair so well against the orks.

Wonna's Guard deploy into the ruins...

...but fester's Orks lay down a hail of fire...

...before swarming over the guardsmen.

fester's take and hold objective (Russbot)

2008 Combat Patrol Tournament Update

I'm extending the deadline for payment and army lists. However, if you don't get the army list to me in time, you will score zero for Army Composition (as I need time to go over them and mark them).

Edit - Places are starting to fill up, so get your submissions in soon.

Eltnot

2008 Warhammer 40,000 Combat Patrol Tournament

EDIT - The date for this Tournament has changed to Saturday the 26th of April. The Player Pack has been updated with the new info. (I only just remembered that I had a Buck's Party on the Saturday and there is no way that I'm going to be able to run a tournament after spending a day and evening drinking with engineers.)

Greetings all,
For those of you who have played in my last tournament, everything you have been told is a LIE! No not really, but this year’s CP tournament will be vastly different to the one I ran last year. This time a greater emphasis has been placed on the theme of your army, along with painting and sportsmanship. Also, the missions that will be used, are whilst originally based on the missions from the main rulebook, have all been varied in at least some manner. I have also tried to string the missions together in such a way so as to portray the actions of your forces over a single day. I hope you like it, and look forward to seeing all of you on the day.

Tournament Player Pack

Below are some pictures from my last CP Tournament: (Thankfully provided by fester)

fester's Orks ready to fight

My Tau doing what they do best... hiding away from everything big and scary in the universe...

Craig's Banshee Exarch decides to go toe to toe with one of Brock's War Warkers.

We had enough time left over after all of the games to play a mega battle.