Something that may interest you 40k gamers

Basically if you haven't read about Adepticon - its a big tournament in America which is played for cash, this years one has just been played . It interested me to see what are the most popular armies, so i thought i would share.


- Overall there were 255 players entered in the tournament and they played the following:

Blood Angels: 38
Black Templars: 3
Chaos Daemons: 14
Chaos Space Marines: 21
Deamonhunters: 1
Dark Angels: 5
Dark Eldar: 10
Eldar: 7
Imperial Guard: 32
Necrons: 3
Orks: 32
Space Marines: 28
Space Wolves: 43
Tau: 5
Tyranids: 13

- 43% brought Space Wolves, Blood Angels or Space Marines, But only 3% brought Black Templar or Dark Angels.

- 13% brought Orks, only 15% brought the 5 other zenos races combined.

- Of the 16 legal codexs, 8 of them have been released since Jan 2008. These 8 newest codexs made up 82% of the field.

- Suprisingly low numbers of Dark Eldar, even though the codex has only been out for 6 months.

- Imperial guard has dropped from 66 entries last year, to 32 this year,

- Event organizers recieved 40 counts-as army requests, which are defined as a player requesting models from a particular codex range, to be allowed to be used to represent another codex.  38 of the 40 were for the Space Wolves codex to be used.

- Orks won the 2250 point tournament, Space wolves second, Dark angels third.

- Space wolves won the 1750 point tourny, Orks second, Space marines third.

- Tau were utterly shite in all events, Necrons pretty awfull too.  Dark eldar punched above their weight, so did Eldar although there weren't alot of them. Tyranids held their own but failed to get really high rankings, Chaos Demons did quite well, with some high rankers, Chaos Space marines did pretty well with some high rankers but not consistently great. Imperial guard were generally mid/high rankings, Orks were the same but generally higher.

Mainly for Tristan's benefit

New Slayers from Avatar of War, plastic, 20 quid for 20 man regiment from Wayland games. Just put my Pre-order in. Look at the bloke on the Far right with his middle finger up, epic.

Hive city defence!!! Or wat i'll be using to kick ur ass!!!

Not very good picks but thought I'd put em up anywho!!

Mainly for Jo's benefit!

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mad dok hairys convershun klinik

something to keep the ball rolling.

my necron, and assorted guests

let the dread harvest begin


my foot lord and his imortal retinue

the immortals

my lord feeling rather lonely

there is a gauss blaster in that stasis crate, honest. and i need to re-paint it

this chap ended up legless after a fight with some skaven, nothing a touch of green stuff cant fix though, and theres the skull probe drying in the background.

Introducing Armies - Background

The Rules have been finalised and are almost ready to play, But one thing that we need now is a campaign narrative
To help get some kind of a story together, i was hoping people would take some time out of their busy schedules and write a paragraph or so, introducing their army to the rest of the group. It can take form anyway you like: a short conversation between generals/troops, a imperial inquisitorial dispatch, a scout report, a first person onlooker, or just a third person narration, etc, what we want to know is:

- What kind of themes are you trying to represent in your army
- how do you want to progess the storyline of your force
- Perhaps how your force is going to work against others/how its going to relate to the other races / its general outlook on the situation

Granted, nothing is set in stone so far, so any input  or idea's about the planet itself would be great

- Why is the planet so important to the involved parties
- how can we mesh together the different races into a believable setting

Objective Markers

It's probably about time we got some decent objective markers together so I reckon if everyone could get two or three done up there'll be plenty for our games.
Stuff that's themed to your army would be cool too. Although I'm playing Tau now I built a couple of Guard ones last year:

• A wounded Officer with a Medic tending to him
• A Scout who was sneaking behind enemy lines
• A couple of pilots from a downed Valkyrie

Make 'em complex or simple, as long as they look good, and aren't too large.

I'll post pics of mine in the Painting Section (even though they're Andy-style (unpainted)!)