Also if your in the area on the 22nd, stop by Knightfall and play some Magic. I will be running the Magic Rise of Eldrazi Game day.

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.

Anyway, in a further rash and misguided decision I decided that with a tournament only a few weeks away I was tired of Chaos and I wanted to switch it up.  Give everyone at the tourney a surprise.  They were use to me playing my Sex for the Blood God list.  Lets give them something they aren’t expecting.  Hell, and while I am at it maybe I can push some wins instead of constant draws against all these Space Marine players.  So I decided to sign up for the 1750 Tourney and  at the FLGS, then a 2000 pt tourney the next week at GameStorm 12 and run a Green Tide Army.

This means that for my 1750 list I would have 11 days to paint 132 models.   This means that every day I would need to get 12 models fully painted, washed, sealed, and based.  And to make it even more difficult my display board painted, converted, and finished.  All of this I would need to have done by the 20th, without taking any time off from work.  This would mean I would have approximately 2 – 3 hours every day that I could work on my models as I work 10 hour shifts.  Roughly an hour before work and an hour to two after work.   I can do it.  Suuuuure.

I will be posting pictures and progress as things go on.  No matter what I will play these damned green skinned bastards at the next tournament.  Whether or not I get full paint points which the tournaments tend to come down to for deciding the winner is another story.  But it should be an interesting experience with lots of me covered in paint and my hands glued to the table.

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.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVITTQG1ZUs

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.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=mtRhJhe8MpM

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.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=UK1PppdlVkc

Points: 2000

Date: 02/06/10

Location: Knightfall Games

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

www.youtube.com/watch?v=OrfTHDGtcD8

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.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlTH8_km9u0