There was a great turnout for the event with lots of good players showing up.  It ended up being 3 rounds with 14 people.  Overall though the entire tournament ended up being sort of lack luster though.  The missions were okay, they just really weren’t designed with a tournament in mind it seemed.  The most common outcome of the day was a draw, with me getting three draws and a crushing defeat (my last opponent tabled me), which was actually slightly better than average.  Pictures and some video from the event below.

For my first one out I wanted to start out strong to get the ball rolling.  When I was thinking about it I quickly came to the realization that in all of the 40K Community there is one unsung hero everywhere.  This is the person that no one ever thinks about, few people if any talk about, and everyone just sort of generally ignores until they need them.  Who is this person you might be wondering?  It’s the employees and owners of the local gameshops and clubs that we all play at.  These people tire endlessly to give us our models, cut us good deals on our supplies, and make sure that we have a place to play and tournaments with great prizes.  Yet no one really stops to consider that they are there.

I got a chance to sit down and talk with Chris, the owner of the local game shop Knightfall Games, where I spend most of my time when I’m not working, at school, or doing stuff for the site.  Heck, most of my videos are even filmed at his site.  Chris runs a great shop that I highly advise anyone in the Portland area to come by and check out and maybe bring your army along.  He has several really nice tables in the shop, open gaming almost every day of the week, a large amount of terrain that he has either made and assembled himself or gone to great lengths to procure.  Always an interesting guy to talk to, and makes spending time at the shop really enjoyable. I found it to definitely be a learning experience to do this interview.

The fact that he took time out of running around the shop getting his todo list done to sit down and answer questions alone shows that he does care about his players and always makes time for his customers.  So if you ever have time I would suggest swinging by, no matter if your just getting started, have questions about this game or any others, looking for a new game to play, or just looking for a great place to hang out.   Now if he would just get my Rockstar Punch flavored crack in stock…

Points: 1500

Date: 02/15/10

Location: Knightfall Games

Comments: There is a tournament coming up at KFG here in a couple of weeks so a lot of people are scrambling about trying to get their lists done, get tactics in line, and finish painting their armies.  As Ben is one of the toughest opponents I generally face he is a good choice for some practice against.  I actually managed to tie him this time through a combination of more defensive playing and some changes to my list.

Also I wanted to let everyone know to check out a couple of videos that Chris the owner over at Knightfall just put up in the last day or two.  The first one is here, this one has the music that he asked me to make for his videos.  For my first time back at creating a track in two or three years I thought it turned out really well.   The second one is here.  This is a video that he made testing out his new camera featuring some of the models from my Chaos army and some really nice stop motion photography.  Definitely check them out.

Thought I would give a sneak peak of some of the things that are to come.  First off, more videos.  As you may have noticed there was a flood of new posts all with battle reports in them.  I was originally going to make a page and just slap them on there but that is to static, doesn’t send out notices to any of you people that actually care to subscribe, and a few other things.  This way you can also leave comments on them either here or on youtube.  Huzzah!

Next up is I plan on starting some videos in several different series.  Things like painting, converting, assembly, playing, explaining the rules, etc. are going to be the biggest ones.  I also plan on doing a question and answer series as well as possibly a series of articles and maybe accompanying videos on tactica. One of the big things that I want to do but I need to work out some of the details with people is videos of unboxing of some of the new swag and goodies that come out either before they are released or as soon as they hit shelves.  Give all you gibbering fanatics a chance to see what is in the box before you buy it, that sort of thing.

So if you guys have any ideas for videos, things you want to see, suggestions you want to make, or questions that you want answered send them in!  All feedback is more than welcome, and I promise not to make fun of anyone for anything they send in (unless you just want me to). Just drop them in the comments, send me a message or email, or use the contact form on here to send in your ideas/suggestions/questions/concerns/tips/tricks/lessons learned on the best way to hide dead hookers/whatever!

Points: 2500

Date: 02/13/10

Location: Knightfall Games

Comments: Our second battle that day. Ben is a really good player and have sort of a grudge match going on. I’m slowly getting to where I can almost tie him.

Points: 1500

Date: 02/13/10

Location: Knightfall Games

Comments: First game of the day against Ben and his Space Marines. He is a really good player with a solid list.

Points: 2000

Date: 02/06/10

Location: Knightfall Games

Comments: My first time playing against Necrons and I got royally stomped.

Points: 1500

Date: 02/06/10

Location: Knightfall Games

Comments: I had just played this person against their normal Space Marine list and destroyed him, however, I forgot to tape it. For the rematch he brought his Nurgle CSM list out and throunced me.

With that in mind I have added a gallery where I will be putting the pictures that I take of my miniatures, various other peoples miniatures, you when you are in your room and think no one is watching (oh, I’m watching.  Don’t worry), things like that.  I have also added a section for battle reports .  This is where you will find the gripping video capturing of my games of Warhammer 40K and other peoples down at Knightfall Games (or on the rare occasion I go somewhere else those videos too), and occasionally other peoples battles if they look to be more interesting than me loosing.

I also plan to start posting more as is probably obvious by two whole posts already this year.  I will be doing articles on painting, modeling, and playing what else but Warhammer 40K (and maybe other stuff to if I get bored).  I am still slowly trying to redesign the layout of the site but I suck at making the pretty.  Damn it Jim, I’m a programmer not some mouth breathing mac user in the colored pencil department.

So for those of you I haven’t offended yet, check back again later.  I’m sure at some point I will manage it.  For those of you that I have, it’s okay.  We all knew eventually you would find a dictionary and look up what all those big angry letters mean.  It had to happen sooner or later.