Plastic Crack

Well last Friday, a large heavy box turned up for me at work. Upon opening I found it to be filled with goodies and packed with love and care by Adam from Alpha Hobbies in Brisbane. Enough ramblings, here's some of the stuff you can win at this year's COWCON:

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To4G Completion

Well I had intended to take photos of my progress along the way but always seemed to be a little to busy painting all of that purple. Today though the competition came to a close thankfully. I now have 1500 points of Slaanesh themed Warriors of Chaos and have played my first games with an entire army actually painted by me, which is a first in my 14 years or wargaming! I took some photos on my dodgy camera of the armies but will take some close ups of some of my models with the gf's better camera and some proper lighting. Enough of me blabbing, pics:

Wonna's Bretonnians line up Damo's Lizardmen

Damo feeling confident

Wonna concerned about "Exploding Magical Dinosaurs"

Damo's Terradons sweeping around a flank

Damo's Lizardmen

My Slaanesh Warriors of Chaos

Wonna's crusader themed Bretonnians

A game of Space Crusade going on at the club at the same time

Some of the players getting in some practice games for COWCON

James playing hide and seek with his Necrons

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COWCON 2009 Player Pack

I have finished testing and the Player Pack is now available.

Player Pack

You can find further information on the RSGA forums

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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.

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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.