Sunday, March 31, 2024

2024 Yearly Plans and Goals 1st quarter

 


            Only one out of many has been completed. The FW table took just a ton of time. Those first few weeks this year I had sitting around was the only reason it got done at all. I had no idea how much work was involved. 

1.) Finish the FW city table for AdeptiCon.

            Failed to get the table to an event. No Pa tourney, No AdeptiCon.


        A Roman Republican army was pulled out of storage, based and shields completed for Saga. No Saga gaming yet.

Wednesday, March 27, 2024

AdeptiCon 2024 Day 4 Epic Tourney

 


All the AARs are late. No time. We were running and gunning all day and night. 

            After Warmaster cigars and scotch have my head hanging this morning. Dew is going down like acid. The carrying in of gear and setting up of table brings back Worlds. Just not half as bad as the 1st morning in Scotland.

            Epic tourney in open gaming again. 12 players with 4 waiting hoping for extra tables or a no show. 
            I got Andy and the Tau round one. I played well, average dice. A gap opened and termies teleported in turn 2 for his BTS, crisis suits. I roll poorly and kill 4 out of 6 and fail to save. 3 of mine are dead. Then snake eyes. Had the termies not been wiped out. The game would have ended my way. Andy won 2 - 1, DTF & BTS to BTS.
Andy believed he need a 2 point lead to win. The tournament rules state you must have two points to win.


            Round 2 I drew Ben with Ork stompy things. He was a new player. More of a teaching the game than playing. Sallies 3 - 1, T&H, TSNP, & Blitz to BTS.
            Round 3 I got the guy that came over from England. He won the Warmaster tournament. He had some version of steel legion. 2 hydra detachments, centaurs, Tbolts, manticores, armored fist, and 4 leman Russ detachments. 
            Turn one both termies teleport, kill one thing each and bounce straight back to the foam. After a moment of panic, and more broken units a design not of my planning saves me. The gods spoon feed me a Scipo strategy. Those broken units reformed behind the last line. Which he pushed into and stalled. Sallies win Blitz, TSNP, T&H and DTF to BTS.
            Now I lost my BTS in every game. It was one of the two drops. It was the hammer also. This was a point given away in design. I need to be smarter!
Kal's pictures. I failed to take any.



            We had a small problem. Super new players playing players with some experience. This created  butt hurt and ruined games. The TO and me were not watching them close enough. The players with some experience failed to call the TO or me over when things were confusing or smelled like bullshit.
        *Only Devastator marines FF 3+
        *When forced out of a transport and the infantry do not have a save. They get a 6+ co er save.
        *Road March. The dude made 4 total moves and then shot. 1 there is no shooting on a March action.  2 Declaring a “Road March” only grants an automatic Action test pass. 3 all units have to be one the road and remain on the road. 
        *Every player did not know units in cover get a cover save. But not the to hit modifier.
        *”Cross Fire” cannot be used in assault 
        The Road March occurrence was as FUBAR as it gets. 40K game play cheat level bullshit. The dude was brand new playing someone who has limited stick time. Stick time knew it was funky but waited a turn to say something. After which neither could agree to a gentlemanly fix. So hate 
In the future. 
When welcoming players we need to ensure the TO is known. The rules lawyer is known. Whenever something smell funny they must call one of the two over. The TO must patrol the tables all tourney with special attention new players. 

Andy is Champion and Jesus' Imperial Fists got best painted.

Cool Tables


I bought
Warmaster3D  buildings
Red fatigue B&P dice
Tiny resin jungle plants

THE MOUNTAIN

Bought = 506
Sold = 52, 5 detachments

Painted = 353
28mm = 46
20mm = 0
15mm = 96
10mm = 0
Epic = 40
Terrain bought = 30
Terrain painted = 170

Printed Terrain = 0
Minis Printed = 0

Games = 8
Games hosted = 0

Books 
Bought = 3
Read = 1

2023

Bought = 321, 6 collections, 6 armies, 4 buildings
Sold = 142, 166 Detachments, 6 Armies, 1 Collection
Painted = 950


Tuesday, March 26, 2024

AdeptiCon 2024 Day 3 Warmaster Tourney


All the AARs are late. No time. We were running and gunning all day and night. 

            Warmaster is in Open gaming. Open gaming blows ass because. We are placed here originally because lighting in the other rooms blew. Then we wanted visibility. It blew because;

    * Everyone interrupts you, wants to tell you 400  years ago they played. Lost, sold, still has the minis.

    * You cannot walk around the tables.

    * Staff wants the tables for cellar dwellers to play.

    * It’s crazy loud. Dudes screaming ork bullshit. Mini blender frat boys doing frat bullshit. Getting bulldogged by some YouTube chicken choker cause his followers need pics.

A British dude won. I cannot remember his name.

An Ork army won. I cannot remember that dudes name either.


            The tourney was over sold by 8 with 14 players entered. One of course took a piss. We became odd man out. Game one was a bye round for me. 

            Game 2 was against Pat. I denied the left flank. Zero action occurred. A gap in Pat’s line opened. Alexander time! The Cold Ones shot the gap and ate. I broke Pat’s army taking 17 out of 20 points. At the end of round 2 I am in first place.

            Pat was so nice. He got a paint chip eater that never played a game round 1. 

        During my game with Pat the hotel staff in Albany called. The WiFi collapsed in the hallway. I dropped out of round 3. I had too much to handle. Which would have effected whoever I would have played in round 3’s experience.

            St. Pete’s in Albany is a horrible hospital. They are lazy, unprofessional, and lie to you. WiFi arrives via EMTs at 2:30. She is moved into the ER right away. The staff does a once over and disappears. She is not hooked up to any machine. The attending never shows up. 

            They tell her they have a code. St. Pete’s is not a 1, 2, or 3 level trauma hospital. No one goes there if they are coding. Nor would you go there if you mite code out. 2nd lie we are waiting on blood work. No blood was taken. No blood work ever ordered. 

            A local coworker shows up with his wife. The chair the Wifi is in has dried blood running down it. When the Wifi gets up to go to the bathroom the chair moves. There is a lake of dried blood under it. There is trash in the halls. The bathroom she went to a trucker destroyed.

        After 3 hours of breaking balls for any update I get the floor nurse. Her only response is I I I I I I I I. 2 hours of phone calls later I get the head nurse. She says the attending is coming in. Wifi calls back, he walked away. She hits the call button non stop. I get the attending on the phone and resize his asshole. 

        Blood work is ordered, a machine is hooked up. At 3am she final gets a professional. CT, ultrasound, skull scan, CT contrast for the legs, pregnancy test, piss test, every test. 36 hours late shoulders shrug and they release her.

        Sunday night after we got home I sent the state health inspector the photos!


Cool Tables


THE MOUNTAIN

Bought = 496
Sold = 52, 5 detachments

Painted = 353
28mm = 46
20mm = 0
15mm = 96
10mm = 0
Epic = 40
Terrain bought = 22
Terrain painted = 170

Printed Terrain = 0
Minis Printed = 0

Games = 5
Games hosted = 0

Books 
Bought = 3
Read = 1

2023

Bought = 321, 6 collections, 6 armies, 4 buildings
Sold = 142, 166 Detachments, 6 Armies, 1 Collection
Painted = 950


Monday, March 25, 2024

AdeptiCon 2024 Day 2

 


All the AARs are late. No time. We were running and gunning all day and night.

        AdeptiCon is so large it needs 2 convention centers. 8000 punters at 60ish a pop is dam near 500,000 USD in just ticket sales!!! The second hotel, where historics. This hotel has a city brew attached! A Perry’s is next door. WTF??? Why are we not there? I am eating at Perry’s!
        Kal was in the Medieval Saga tourney there.

            The Schaumburg convention center is a mad house of fatties and the unwashed. It’s 10am and dudes smell like they live in my hiking boots. The food options blow. They staff never set up the water stations.
            Painting like pro is the new thing. Dudes just there to hang out in a room all day and paint next to some Golden Deamon winner. They paint all day, nothing else. The vendor hall is 40% paint sellers. 
            I score 16 terrainscape tiles, 4 river, 12 flat from some hold out company liquidating stock in the hall way.


            Traitor guard Vs BAs. Chicago Matt score a massive, dope as hell, BA army completely painted from some dude in London? I need to test the Traitor Guard with Manticore support option. All this occurred as Matt was running Steel Rift tourney. 
            The BAs teleported in, ate manticores. Retained with a Thawk and death company. It took 9 flak shots, 6 hits on the way in. Nothing. Death company ate the other manticore. I picked up all the blue dice and everyone of those suckers went in the trash. Back to the original GW white little dice.
            
BAs 4-1. I got BTS. BAs missed out on Blitz.

            The Malcadors were game dominating. The manticores never got a chance. Teleports and air assaults are a game breaker for TG. They lack the ability to reposition. 
            As long as the army remains slow and unable to change the game via movement, Malcadors on garrison are a non issue. You place them on over watch to lose the ability to protect your 3 unit detachments.


            Afternoon I played “Get to the Extraction.” It is a first person shooter game combined with D&D type stuff and a Video game. Kind of like an old video game half way translated to a miniature game. I hate video games. D&D ain’t me. But this game was cool. You can pound beers and be baby sat by the app.
                You control an operator, tier 3 or 2. There are tier 4 to 2 operators that run around against bases on the environment around the mini. You escape, rescue, take out, get Intel or loot, and QRF type missions. You choose what your mini does then all charts or calculations are auto generated via an app. The app keep stats, health, ammo, experience, kills under your log in.

Cool Tables
    
            I spoke with this dude. I think there is something wrong in his application. He said throughout the day he continued to increase the size of the seal team boarding. 5 boats are assaulting. It is normally one boat and less than half a team.



            Dinner at Perry’s. They are a big money steak house like Ruth, State Street, Fleming’s, or  Branded. Perry’s steaks are ok. The pork chop is what makes Perry’s a chub factor. I first sat at a Perry’s in Houston. Everyone said you want the chop. I am a steak dude. I gave in got the chip. Now it’s a full on throbbing chub for Perry’s chops.

            Pat, Chicago Matt and I had Perry’s. Pat got a salad. Matt a steak. Can you guess? Yep chop!

THE MOUNTAIN

Bought = 496
Sold = 52, 5 detachments

Painted = 353
28mm = 46
20mm = 0
15mm = 96
10mm = 0
Epic = 40
Terrain bought = 22
Terrain painted = 170

Printed Terrain = 0
Minis Printed = 0

Games = 4
Games hosted = 0

Books 
Bought = 3
Read = 1

2023

Bought = 321, 6 collections, 6 armies, 4 buildings
Sold = 142, 166 Detachments, 6 Armies, 1 Collection
Painted = 950

Sunday, March 24, 2024

AdeptiCon 2024 Day 1


All the AARs are late. No time. We were running and gunning all day and night.

So…………The FW table packed for transport takes the whole back of the Acura. I had to choose to bring only one table to support the event or the promised multiple tables. After everything the FW table is a no show for AdeptiCon.
    In the restock, re stow, I left my dice and event badge at home. At 00:30 Wednesday, I asked the wife to FedEx them to the holiday inn. She never found my badge. Because I know, I am retarded. I believed I left it behind. It was with me the whole time!
    We got to Youngstown by midnight-midnight 30. The lads were in the beds. Me on the military cot. All were snoring away. 
            We drove 4.5 hours Tuesday. Then up at zero 7 for the remaining 6.5 hours. Not counting the time change.  Then chicken stuck, straight to the ER. We are all getting old. This is going to happen more and more. Me being me, if there are meds you need. It would be best to inform your mates. Trying to make shit work on the side of the road is FUBAR.
        Great hospital. No wait. No BS.


            11 hrs later we are at AdeptiCon. Badging and swag was a thousand times better. The swag was good. Nothing I play and a waste for me. The church and marines will get everything.  Who do I find right away, Jesus. Could not believe he was just sitting there.

            15mm samurai. Samurai Night Fever! Mori Vs Otomi??. It is the Mori expansion. I did not think the rules represented the way the Japanese fought at the time or were organized. The movement and turn sequence was easy enough. Combat had you roll two dice and divide. That part  ate at me. Why not roll 1 and skip division?


Cool tables night 1

THE MOUNTAIN

Bought = 496
Sold = 52, 5 detachments

Painted = 353
28mm = 46
20mm = 0
15mm = 96
10mm = 0
Epic = 40
Terrain bought = 6
Terrain painted = 170

Printed Terrain = 0
Minis Printed = 0

Games = 2
Games hosted = 0

Books 
Bought = 3
Read = 1

2023

Bought = 321, 6 collections, 6 armies, 4 buildings
Sold = 142, 166 Detachments, 6 Armies, 1 Collection
Painted = 950