Last night I joined my buddy Robin and a couple of new players I hadn't met before for an after work game of 40k. The breakdown was:

Team 1:
Me: Necrons
Robin: Dark Eldar

Team 2:
Dave: Chaos
Pat: Blood Angels

Nice mix of forces which made for an interesting and very fun game. We ended up playing Annihiation with a Dawn of War deployment setup. Now, that sounded grand to me, but it created some..ah...challenges.

See, thing is basically Robin's army didn't start to show up until Turn 4. Like...any of it. And even then, it was VERY piecemeal and there were a couple of very nasty scatter mishaps.

So what ultimately transpired is I was holding back 2500 points of enemies with 1250 points of Necrons under the Generalship of my seriously rusty self!

And yet it was still a blast. I must say I'm quite proud of how I performed. I held the enemy off (and took a few out!) with my Necrons until Robin started to show up in force around Turns 4 and 5. When he finally was able to arrive with his Razorwing, Ravagers etc he started putting some serious hurt on the enemy teams (by then I was down to...uh...I think my Triarch Stalker and 3 Immortals lol).

My list was (remember, I'm far more of a painter than …

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As I've been talking about in some of my recent blog posts, I recently decided to attend my first Warhammer tournament (and really, my first serious/large wargaming tournament...period!).  The tournament in question is called Onslaught - it takes place in Edmonton twice a year (at the moment) usually in April and October. It is primarily run by Ward Karpach, a super nice guy who I've known for years through the local GW store(s).

First thing in the morning, people arriving and starting to set up. The tables were all full during the event.

I'm not sure what prompted this sudden urge to attend a tournament like this. I've never been a really competitive guy (exception: first person shooters!) and as you can tell from this blog, my main interest is in the hobby side of things (read: painting).  I guess mainly it was a desire to get some games in - I think Warhammer Fantasy is probably my favorite wargame, and I haven't been able to get a game going in probably over a year. The prospect of playing 4 games in one day was a little daunting but also appealing, especially given that these would be fully painted armies which always makes the game more fun imo.

I flip-flopped a lot on…

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Wow - looks like I'm really going to Onslaught. I bought my ticket, submitted my list and am reviewing rules and FAQs and all that jazz. Should be interesting - I will likely get completely crushed but it will be cool to play against some new people and frankly just great to play some WFB again :)

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I totally thought that Warp Lightning Cannon post would break the silence on comments - I really like how it turned out. That's about as close to my ideal vision of  what warpstone should look like as I can get :)  I shall continue to have blog envy in terms of the authors out there that pull in upwards of 10-15 comments per post. Posting the latest minis I painted doesn't seem to do it :D   I also still have "Blogger" envy (Google removed the ability to track/enable Followers recently, from non-Google blog platforms if I'm not mistaken).

So anyway, as I continue to try and muster the balls to attend my first Warhammer tournament, I've been trying to figure out a good display/carrying board solution...

- I was going to get the Battlefoam X-Board but I think shipping would be too slow at this point.

- I went to Staples and got a magnetic whiteboard with wood frame, but that had a big air bubble in the surface (as did the others, after I returned it and checked them out).

- I was pondering magnetic boards from Ikea but the dimensions are a  little large.

- I thought about ordering a Realm of Battle expansion pack but the bummer is those 2 tiles are quite flat (I dont own a …

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