FailStorm 12, Updates, Blood Angels, and Ramblings

So it’s that time again, time for GameStorm.  This marks the 12th year that this convention has ran and one would think by now that they would have figured it out and managed to gain a clue by now. So to give a bit of back story to help you understand, they have had a year to plan this convention. I know for a fact that for at least the last six months they have been meeting regularly to work out the details. Yet somehow they managed to not have the event signup system open until less than a week away from the convention.

To further row the failboat along, they then closed event signups three days after they opened them.  Further evidence comes from the fact that the game store just received the fliers for the convention today.  Yes, you heard me right. They sent out the advertisement material and it was delivered the day of the convention.  I could go into more details, such as the fact that there was hardly anyone at the convention today, the bullshit stuff that they did regarding comps that they said they were going to give away to last years event organizers, the fact that the convention wasn’t even setup today, or how most of the material for things wasn’t even there (such as the miniatures for the painting competition).  But I won’t.  Let’s just move the hell along.

For those of you who are wondering whatever happened with the orc painting series I was going to do last week it was unfortunately cancelled.  I ended up getting none of my models fully painted, and they still aren’t painted.  Yay for schoolwork and mid-terms interfering. The tournament went well though at least.  The last mission of the day was sort of a load of bullshit, but overall it was a fun event.  My little sister competed for the first time and ended up getting “Best Sportsmanship” which netted her $70.  Not bad for a first showing.

One last piece of news is that the Blood Angels codex is coming out.  I managed to get my hands on a copy of it and I posted a preview of it over on my youtube site. Video is at the bottom.  I am definitely interested in seeing how well the army plays, and seeing some of the new models that are coming out.  Shananana Ben is working on creating a Stormraven gunship and will be running some test games with the new codex so hopefully will be able to get some videos of that up soon.

I will also be doing a report on FailStorm over the course of the weekend, posting pictures, and may do a live broadcast from there several times.  If anyone is in the PDX area and attending, hit me up and lets get a game in or something.  I will probably be either wandering around, or wasting time playing Magic just to have something to do.