The first of Many

Well, This is the first of my Blog posts for the year, and maybe further. I want to give you an overview of what I am doing here. My friend and I are planning on playing in as many local 40k tournaments as we can throughout the year. In addition we hope to explore the facets of a number of armies while learning more about our own and our primary armies. Personally I have a Imperial Guard and a Tau Army. The Guard Army is basically about 110 guardsmen and a Chimera, Leman Russ, 3 Sentinels, and Yarrick. Pretty much the blob from hell. The Tau army is slanted heavily towards Commander Farsight. The army consists of 3 Devilfish, a Pathfinder team, 50 Fire Warriors, a Hammerhead with the parts to make the Railhead, Ionhead, and Skyray, 3 Broadsides, 3 Sniper Teams, and about 20 Crisis Suits plus Commander Oshovah. Anyway. For the year I have planned already three events.

The first of these is in Richmond at FTW Games on January 22 2011. This is an Ard Boyz style tournament that is 1850 points and has no painting score, basicially just a rockem sockem robots feel to it. This is also the tournament I will be preparing for over the next couple of weeks. Info about it can be found here:
http://www.stonypointrefugees.com/viewtopic.php?f=33&t=4349

The second is a Rogue Trader tournament at The Game Vault in Fredericksburg VA on February 26 2011. There havent been any rules posted about this one yet. I am hoping though that this will be a good event as the last couple RTTs held there have been plagued with small problems more due to some of the players then the events themselves.

The last one I have lined up already is the Battle for the Cure 2011 on March 19 2011. This is also at The Game Vault. This is a 1750 point tournament with a twist in that you get bonus points for Breast Cancer ribbons, Pink units, and not taking vehicles (It is a cross-fundraiser for Walk for the Cure). I participated in this last year and am glad to be going back again. Specifics about this event, and the cause it is for can be found at the following sites:
http://www.thegamevault.net/forums/index.php?topic=4334.0
http://ww5.komen.org/