Where has the battle gone?

So, for the past 2 years I have been a participant in something I consider to be the kickoff of my gaming year. It is an event called "Battle for the Cure" run by the Iron Fist League out of Northern Virginia. Usually this has already come and gone though. Yet here it is, early may, and there has been nothing posted about it. Well, me being the greedy git that I am and enjoying my local tournaments. I thin I will have to add trying to organize a BftC style tournament to my to do list for this year with the proceeds going straight to the Susan G Komen Foundation. I will have to track down the rules for the past two years and see what they were then see if I can build support for this at either The Game Vault or at FTW games, possibly even both, and maybe even work it up to a two weekend or 2 day event with both Warhammer 40K and Warmachine.

Here is to gaming for a cause.

After Action Report

Well, I have just finished the Battle For The Cure at The Game Vault. The tournament was ok. It was for a good cause so I cant complain too much. The first scenario was against Matt. He played a Nid army. The army itself wasnt overpowering, the scenario though was a different story. Pretty much you ended up with an Attacker and a Defender. The attacker had to sit in the middle of the table on an objective. The catch was that in order to move you had to make a morale check to move if you werent fearless. For his nids that wasnt a problem since most were fearless, for the Tau though it was a paralyzing rule.

The second game ws a long range sniping game with a guard player which ended up being a tie. The final game was against a Chaos army which was very well designed and was very very close.

I am sure I will go into more detail later, right now though it is just late and I honestly dont have the energy to go into detail. I did pick up 16 kroot for 17 bucks at the auction after the tournament and a few DE for 10 bucks too. They are the old DE but Michel is interested in learnign to play them, or at least in collecting them.

I am considering running a list with 1 squad of 20 kroot and 12 kroot hounds as one squad. I figure a giant blob of pissed off kroot coming at someone might keep them from assaulting my fire warriors and crisis suits.

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/