Adepticon Update!

SeerK here with a quick day 2 update almost live from Adepticon.  The WayGate crew is currently running our all day Firestorm Armada Grand Tournament, also known as The Schaumburg Prime Offensive. Friday we ran demos of Firestorm Armada and Firestorm Planetfall.  We got to catch up with the Crew over at Firebase Delta Podcast as well. We will be recording with Phil a d Company tonight after the tournament.

The crowd is great this year and despite my lack of 40k love it was nice to see the GT in full swing and all of the team tournament displays. So enjoy the photos!

Lange fron Jaded Gamercast and our local Ba'Kash Austin. Left is Phil, the host with the most of Firebase Delta Podcast

Until next time......

Crush the Alliance and as always.....

REMEMBER DRAMOS!!!

Adepticon Day One!

Adepticon 2015 Day 1

SeerK here once again, bringing you some almost live coverage of Adepticon 2015.  Yesterday was a good start to the week. We did demos of Firestorm Armada and Planetfall in the afternoon. We had quite a few people stop by the booth and say hi and try out the games. I was very happy to find out that there are a lot of Firestorm players out there, but were not active or had not tried out the new rules set.  We got them educated and I think we will have quite a few more new and newly active players again.  The new venue is huge and Adepticon has not even come close to filling the whole space.

I got to meet up with some old friends and meet some new ones as well. I want to give a shout out to Justin, Cyrus, Kevin, Seth and Brandon from Secret Weapon and Iron box Games for letting me work with them at the booth for a couple hours. It was also awesome shaking the hand of my favorite games designer from years past, Mr. Andy Chambers. I also got to try out Infinity by Corvus Belle finally. I am hooked. 

  The new venue as I stated is huge. If you are enroute or planning on attending next year, make sure you have comfy shoes.  I have been getting my cardio in walking from my room to the convention part of the hotel.   Enjoy some pics from day one. We are experiencing technical difficulties so I apologize for the short post. The WayGate laptop decided to die as I went to post, so i am relegated to my Ipad.

Until next time, crush the Alliance and as always......

REMEMBER DRAMOS!!!!

Adeptidone

Well, after a long week of recovery, finally the Adepticon Review.

It was a crazy year this year for Adepticon.  As I'm sure most of you know, the major events sold out in hours, not days!  I was one of the unfortunates to not get signed up in time, placing my team on the waiting list.  If we didn't get in the Team Tournament, I knew we would go.  This fact left me tentative to sign up for any other events or classes, so I didn't bother.

I'm really hoping they expand the field again next year allowing more participants into their "premier" events.  With the vendor hall moving out of the main hall, I feel there's the space to handle the expansion.

What I liked about the event:

• Loved the energy!  Tons of great armies and great players.  Everyone I had the pleasure of facing across the table was excellent.  If memory serves, our 4 hour drive from Lansing was the shortest journey made in my 5 games.  California being the longest journey.  Now that's some dedicated hobbiests!
• Registration was smooth and painless.  Swag was good too, especially for a late registrant.
• Loved the vendor hall being in its own area.  Lots of awesome vendors showing off great new products and aspiring Kickstarter projects (If you live in a hole and haven't heard of it yet, google it and search the gaming category.)  Picked up some awesome lava pools from Mr. Dandy.  I'm going to have to squeeze them into the painting rotation soon.
• As a Death Korps of Krieg player, I loved that the Forge World event miniature was a DKoK Quartermaster.  Great miniature.
• Painted armies are a requirement.  It's such a pleasure to play against another painted army.  The game is awesome with unpainted miniatures, but it's simply amazing with painted forces.  It really brings the game to life.  I wish more tournaments required painting.
• Getting to hang all weekend with 3 good friends.  Weekends with the guys are always filled with good memories.  The Tilted Kilt on Friday night was an experience in and of itself.
• The terrain placement rules worked very well.  So well that I'm planning on implementing them for events I run in the future. 
• It was great that they incorporated the random objectives and terrain rules.  Adepticon worked hard to incorporate all the new rules subtleties of 6th edition and they hit a home run.  We truly played 6th edition, not some hybrid 5th/6th you hear in some of large tournaments out there.
• I love that this event gave me the motivation to get 1000 points painted.  Nothing like a deadline to get you moving in the right direction.  I'm happy with the fruits of labor to this point.
• The Crystal Brush competition by Cool Mini or Not was pretty awesome.  Many incredible miniatures on display there.

 

What I didn't like (disclaimer: many of these have NOTHING to do with Adepticon):

• They sold out too fast.  I wish they had expanded the field more and allowed more teams in.  I would have signed up for a bunch of painting classes and maybe another miniature event had I not missed out on the initial sign up.  I probably should've taken the chance that we'd work our way in via the waiting list, but I was hesitant to do so. 
• The charity raffle should be done Saturday night, not Sunday night.  I think they'd create way more buzz and raise a lot more money when more people are around (and drunk).
• I signed up for the text notifications of table assignments and never received one text.  Guess there's some bugs to work out there.
• Toll roads suck.  If your teammate tells you to skip the tolls booths and pay online afterward, don't.  It's a pain in the ass.  Just pull over and pay the stupid tolls.
• We gave ourselves way too little time to get our force together.  By choosing Dark Angels when the book came out only gave us about 3 months to assemble, paint, and practice.  Not nearly enough time.  Most of our army wasn't painted up to snuff, and it really hurt our overall score.
• While our display board was OK, in the future it needs to be well above OK.
• The number of Heldrakes and Necron Flyers was stupid.  Expected, but stupid.

What I learned:

• If you have to go on the waiting list and you're in the top 20 on the list, assume you're going to get in and make sure you sign up for anything else that interests you ASAP, don't wait.  This was my single biggest mistake.
• It's hard to do well with elite armies in 6th ed.  With our combined 1/2 Ravenwing, 1/2 Deathwing force, we just couldn't afford to absorb casualties.  Every lost model really hurt, bad.  I've been feeling this about 6th from the get go, but this event really sank it in deep.
• In an event like this, you have to be able to deal with flyers.  Our plan was to ignore them and play against the rest of our opponent's forces.  Well, when your opponent pretty much only has flyers, it's kind of difficult to ignore the rest of their force.  This strategy proved difficult for us.
• Army lists should pretty much be solidified 6 months before the event.  Practice is critical for success.  We had some practice but didn't really have a chance to practice against really high level type lists.  We didn't have time to truly expose and address the holes in our lists.
• Make sure I don't have any plans when registration goes online.  I'd better be hitting the refresh key 2 minutes before it opens.
• Take more pictures!  I don't take nearly enough at events.  I need to make a concerted effort to rectify this bad habit!

Even when you don't do as well as you had hoped, 40K is still a damn fun game and a great way to spend a weekend.  Thanks to everyone who runs Adepticon and donates their time to the enjoyment of the hobby.  It's greatly appreciated! Here are a ton more pics from the weekend!

Adepticon Photos from our Friends!

TJ here with some great photos from Adepticon. Even though military commitments kept me from my favorite event, some of our friends in the Dark Future Games Facebook group posted some pics of the incredible stuff on site. First we will look at the gorgeous Crystal Brush entries, then we will take a look at some pics from the tables.

Test of Khaine Adepticon Primer Announcement

I want to take the opportunity this afternoon to help get the word out about the Test of Khaine, an annual tournament held at Evolution Games in Lansing, MI by my friend and fellow club member, SeerK AKA Josh as we know him. This year he is running the event as an Adepticon GT primer on April 13 and I have to say that he puts on a good show and Evolution has plenty of space for a huge event. With that said, I am sure some of the best players will also show up, so if you really want to test your Adepticon list and theory under the Primer Rules and FAQ, then this will be the place for people in Michigan to do it.

A Simple, Fair Method For Terrain Placement: Video and Interview!

One of the things people have a hard time adjusting to in 6th edition is terrain placement, specifically when set up by the players. Now, yes two decent human beings should be able to do it with no problems, but not everyone is always a decent human being (even me). With that being said, Ken Blakely of the Second Founding posted a video explaining a method he pioneered that was a precursor to the current Adepticon Primer method that will be used this year for the GT.

Now, before you turn your nose up or move on, give the video a view and see what they are talking about. Myself and Chuck play with this method in all of our pick-up games, regardless of whether or not the tourney we are practicing for uses terrain placement. Not only do we find this modification fair for both parties, we find it to be a fun way to help set the conditions for your army and that way neither player can blame the board set-up for their win/ loss without pointing the first finger at themselves. Enough of my thoughts though, below is the video, demonstrated by Greg Sparks (American ETC Captain) and Adepticon 2012  Warmaster, Brad Chester.

Combat Patrol Tournament this Saturday at Evolution Games

Hey guys,

Just a reminder that this Saturday, at Evolution Games in Lansing, Michigan there is a combat patrol tournament going to happen!  I hope to see you all there!

The 40k Friendly at Adepticon: List Ideas

This year, instead of trying to scramble together a team for the Team Tournament at Adepticon, SAMSQUANCH MONSTER and I have decided to both enter the 40k Friendly!

With this comes a different set of challenges, first and foremost, with the advent of 6th edition, I actually have to build my Vendettas (what they have only been new in box for a year and a half...) and some other nice things to round out the 1500 points of my list. That's right... instead of the 1850 we have been playing at we have to scale back down to 1500... In fact with how 6th edition is, its not just a scale back to me. It is a whole rethinking of the list.

With this in mind I thought I would start testing a list that I came up with earlier this week. I don't mind feedback on it from my fellows on the net so here we go!

Adepticon Primers are Up and Other News

Old School here with a little update for those of you who will be attending Adepticon for the 40k side of things! I am posting this because I know as well as anyone how the little things get away from us on the way from pre-reg to the event, so let's take a look. First off, the 40k Championships have a primer now, so check it out and start tooling your lists and tactics for the missions. Next, how sweet is this Goat up here?

The Road to Adepticon 2013: Will You Be Joining Us?

Old School here to let folks know that we will be attending Adepticon 2013, as we have in previous years, in force! Here is a run down of the events the DFG team will be involved in, let us know what you signed up for:

Winding up for 6th or winding down from 5th, which are you?

As we wind our way down from 5th edition, and the rumors of 6th edition coming out as early as next month, our FLGS has seen some interesting attitudes towards the news. We have seen both excitement and begrudging of both the new and the old, but no matter what we have to look forward.

Adepticon Battleforce Box Winner!

Old School here to announce the winner of our Adepticon Battle Force Giveaway. I just want to start by saying that we ended up with 326 total entries into the contest from Thursday night to the wee hours of Monday after the poker tournament. We had tons of fun, met a lot of hilarious people, hung out with friends new and old and drank like the viking gods of old!

I want to thank everyone who entered the contest and had a few laughs with us this weekend, but there can be only one winner, so let's get to it!

Adepticon Fantasy Coverage 2012!

Old School Termie here with the pics I took from the Warhammer Fantasy GT! Fantasy alway brings it hard in the painting and conversion department, so let's take a look ...

Adepticon 2012: 40k Friendly Tournament Pics!

Old School here continuing coverage of the Adepticon GW events with the 40k Friendly tounament, apperently, the only place you can find a good Tyranid army, lol! Here we go:

Adepticon 2012: My Personal Favorite Army from the 40k GT!

Old School here and I know we just covered a ton of 40k GT stuff, but I wanted to take the time to show off one army on its own. I am a big Chaos fanboy and this is easily my personal favorite army out of the whole group today. Angry Richard, the creator was really humble, but his work is amazing, between the conversions, the theme and the paint. Let's pay homage to an awesome Dark Mechanicus themed Daemon army:

Adepticon 2012: The armies of the 40k GT! Part 2!

Old School here continuing coverage of the Friday 40k GT's amazing armies! Thanks to everyone who put in the work to amaze us all with this incredible work. Without further jibber jabber, here they are:

Adepticon 2012: The armies of the 40k GT! Part 1!

Old School here with the first in a two - maybe three part series on the Friday 40k Championship Tournament, there are so many armies here and every year it seems the quality of armies present steps up a level. Anyway, without a whole lot more talk, let's look at this first installment, more to come all weekend!

Adepticon Troop Box Winner and an Update on The Battleforce Giveaway This Weekend!

Old School here to announce the winner of our Troop box give away and also to announce an update to our battleforce giveaway at Adepticon this weekend. Here are the details:

Win a Battle Force or a Troop Box! We Have an Awesome New Banner!

 

Old School here with HUGE news from our crew! News about our new banner, our new shirt, our BIG CONTEST FOR ADEPTICON and our new contributor (if he drinks our Kool-Aid), Lucky No.5 of the Eye of Error! Let's talk about the contest first!

 

Death Star Update.... no more orks...

So with great sadness I have to report my orks will not be making their appearance in the team tournament as planned. Unfortunately I had to move for a new job and both things combined meant that I was not getting things done in time.

Fear not however, for there still shall be an appearance by the mighty Lord Solar Steve and the rest of the team. Instead I am playing a guard list that is very death starry... in fact I believe I am fielding the main gun from the Death Star...

That's right... I am fielding the magnificent Deathstrike Missile Launcher... protected by 3 Leman Russ Executioners with side sponson plasma cannons... Here is the full list just for kicks... it might change up a bit but so far this seems like the best options for most fun.


Heavy 1
Leman Russ Executioner + S.S. Plasma Cannons x3

Heavy 2
Deathstrike Missile Launcher

Troop
Vet. Squad w/plasma gun & Lascannon

HQ
Techpriest Enginseer


That's it... 4 kill-points of awesome...

Oh and just to let my opponents in on a great secret... so maybe you'll let me shoot the Deathstrike Missile Launcher... Every time It goes off... I am taking a shot... so.... fun times!!!!!!

Cannot wait to see everyone again this year and enjoy ourselves!

Until next time, burn some heretics, kill some mutants, and do it always....

FOR THE EMPEROR