Malifaux League comes to a close.

Another league comes to close. And even with a random draw, Troy still some how manages to come out on top. Seriously, I almost redrew. Second went to Shaffer.
Final Achievement points:
Patrick - 33
Troy - 29
Nabors - 16
Shaffer - 13

Next up on the league list? Maybe Infinity. Likely end of February or early March.

Hope to see many of you there!

Malifaux League Running Strong

The Malifaux League is almost half way done, though it has been extended until November 30th, due to scheduling conflicts with the Pathfinder Society on the 23rd. Patrick looks to be the leader on achievement point, though everyone is fairly close. As it is a drawing, just entering gets you a ticket. We currently have five players, but I will take more through next week.

Other gaming hasn't been shut down for the league by any means. Last week also saw players throwing down 40K and some after hours Deathwatch/Dark Heresy.

Things are hoping, be sure to drop on by!

The club was rocking!

The club was rocking this last Saturday. There was barely room to walk between all the tables throwing dice. Infinity, Warmachine and Hordes, and Warhammer 40k all rocking across a half dozen tables. It was an awesome sight, I had to stop setting up my own game of 40k(foreground) just to take the above picture.

Two Week Single Miniature Painting Challenge!!!

Two weeks ago, five of us, Shaffer, Patrick, Dave, Nate, and myself all threw in some money for a box of old Space Marine wanna be miniatures. There were four basic marines and a sergeant in the box. There were also several special weapons. Shaffer took the sergeant and the rest of us divided up the special weapons. In the end, nobody used the special weapons, and I believe I alone even bothered to paint them. After two weeks we brought in the models and had them judged by a non-gamer and a gamer on whose was the best painted. I won unanimously with my lightning marine, with Shaffer coming in second with his sergeant with some OSL from a power weapon. The above picture doesn't really do them justice, but they are on display in the case at Hobby Town Fort Collins, back by the darts. You all should come on down a take a look, and why not come on a Saturday and stay for some games in the basement.

Hope to see you there.

VI Edition! Midnight Madness and Release Party

UPDATE #2:  We have a release date!  Sixth Edition will be in stores June 30th!

   Changes have been made below in red.

Sixth Edition is here!

In case you've been living under a cave squiq, in the cave squig's cave, with cave squig ear squigs in your ears, you know that it is the 25th anniversary of Warhammer 40,000 (holy CRAP I'm old!).  What better way to celebrate than with a new edition!  Yes, folks, get out your thinking caps and wallets, the whole shebang is getting reset.  Again.Click below for the teaser video...

http://youtu.be/nef_5gNkGfM

What does the mean for the environment?  Dunno.
What  does this mean for your favorite army?  Dunno?
What does this mean for the Knights of the Gaming Table?...
 It means that, as most of you know, the Knights will be presenting the 40k tournament at Tacticon this year.
Let that sink in...

It also means that on Friday night, June 29th, at midnight (Technically the 30th), we will be hosting a Midnight Release Party and late night gaming session for 40K6E!  We will sell the rulebooks, in whatever form they may be in, and anyone who purchases one will get 20% off any OTHER GW product in the store. Then, we will play VIe until we all fall over.

Where:
Hobbytown USA
3500 S. College Ave
Fort Collins, CO 80525
In the basement...

When: Friday, July 29th at Midnight (July 30th)

See you there!

June Flyers Confirmed Today

Well hey thar folks!

According to retailer announcements sent this morining...the long rumoured, long awaited "Summer of Flyers" is here.  The WD rules article for June will contain flyer rules, and the first wave of minis sees the leaked Marine Stormtalon and Ork Bomma kits, plus a necron flyer.  Neato!  The announcement is below:
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Have at it in the forums!
-Dark Brotherhood
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     Here are the new releases for June. Items in red are ATO only. Also June's WD contains a 40k Rules expansion for using flyers. So if you've sold out of rules issues in the past, this one is going to be the same deal.

Short Code

Product Name

Contents

D Release

USD

49-15

Necron Night Scythe/Doom Scythe

1 Fig Box

2-Jun-12

$45.50

50-21

Ork Bommer

1 Fig Box

2-Jun-12

$45.50

48-36

Space Marine Stormtalon Gunship

1 Fig Box

2-Jun-12

$45.50

89-12

Goblin Shaman

1 Fig Clampack

16-Jun-12

$9.90

89-13

Savage Orc Big Boss

1 Fig Clampack

16-Jun-12

$14.00

Knights' Chronicles

Another weekend has flown by. Pretty easy weekend down in the hole, everyone seemed pretty layed back. Might have had something to do with many nursing hangovers from the night before. Several doing it from home, lazy bastards. Still, the games were definitely rolling. Both Malifaux and 40K saw several games each. There was also a board game that made a surprise apperance.

Nate brought along his Blood Bowl. An interesting game, and despite Nate's and mine good natured hate filled rivalry, I do believe I will be playing it again. I am already working on a Khemri team, with ideas rolling around for a club Norse Team, created from the kindly donation of a dirty thief. Could a custom Pitch be in the works? Maybe!

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Normally, I jump on here, write up what everyone was playing, that things were super fun, and those of you that didn't make it sorely missed out. While all that was true, I want to write today about the awesome that happened after hours. That awesome is Deathwatch and Dark Heresy!

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Pretty exciting weekend down in the hole. Even with all the new space, we ran out of room! We had everything from Infinity to Fantasy to 40K to Malifaux. People painting, people playing, people discussing tactics and eating food stuffs.


It was way more fun than this would make it appear. He isjust concentrating.


Who are all these people? Well, those are the Pathfinder Society peeps, who got the boot from Gryphon's due to some over booking. Glad to have 'em. Rowdy bunch, too.

Painting and Malifaux festivities didn't wrap up until 3:30 in the AM. Talk about rocking it all night long. I am definitely looking forward to next week. I plan to throw down some Malifaux(shocker) and even some Fantasy(say what?) before heading deep into the 41st Millennium for some Deathwatch/Dark Heresy. Hope to see you all there!

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Another week done and gone, but wait, what could this be? Are those painted Genestealers from a Space Hulk set? Could it be it? It must! There are two people who have unpainted Space Hulk sets, and the other one brought his in to paint.

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Could we get any more games going? Why, yes we can, but just barely. I am afraid that the general club MO is starting to die a slow death. No longer do we have one game with 20 people standing around it, now we have 4 or 5 games going at once, with only a few players standing around watching. Could this be the legacy of skirmish? Could games like Infinity and Malifaux actually make more people play? Nah, its something else, because 40K is still alive and strong, and Fantasy is in there somewhere, too.

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Pretty quiet weekend. You know your club is growing when a "quiet weekend" involves a mere 11 players playing games.
The now usual Malifaux was going down, as well as some Infinite. The year of the Skirmish may truly be in swing, because I didn't see any 40K or Fantasy games going on, but there was still plenty of talk.
Look forward to seeing everyone next weekend!

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The league has begun!
The Malifaux League kicked off this weekend. We have 10 players already signed up. The pit was hopping with Malifaux. 4 simultaneous games to start it with a bang. But don't think 4 Malifaux tables shut everything else down. There was still plenty of 40k, Fantasy, and even Infinity to be had. Most games ended kinda early(by Hobby Town standards), leaving just a few people finishing up Malifaux and just general discussion.
I do think DB put it best when he said "2012 is looking to be the year of the skirmish."(Or something like that) Smaller games are definitely on the rise. Who knows, I may even introduce some Operation Kill Zone.

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Holy crap, games! I haven't seen that many people playing games at the same time in a while. It was a fight for space. Fantasy, 40K, Malifaux, even Infinite. Barely room to move. At max I believe we had 5 or 6 games and 1 painting table going simultaneously. It was a riot. Tons of new players, some returning infrequent ones, it was great. We even had some players shoot a video battle report!

I hope everyone had a great time. We are starting our Malifaux league next week, but don't feel like they won't be room for everyone, cause its a small game, and everyone will still be bringing their other stuff. I know I am still looking to get some games. Also, it the first Saturday, so we will be having after hours painting.

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Last weekends action saw Fantasy return to the tables. Dwarves versus Tomb Kings and High Elves versus Skaven. Dwarves and High Elves won. Tomb Kings cried like a ***** and rage quit. It also saw a Malifaux Demo in preparation for the upcoming league.
The event of the night, however, was Munchkin Zombies! It was a 6 player fight to the finish. Well, 5 players, one kinda fell behind. At the end, it was just a matter of who tried to fight a Zombie first, because the next player would win. And the next player was DB.

Don't forget, next weekend is the Iron Man Painting Competition for Genghiscon 2012!

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Another week down at the Hobby Town. The name of the game this week was Puppet Wars. I managed to rope people into not one, but two four player games of Puppet Wars. Being my first games as well, I found it very enjoyable, and can see where players can come up with the rotten combos. I think I will stick with the random draw method, just to keep things kinda under control.
Puppet Wars was not the only game related activities this last weekend, many players from Dark Heresy levels up their characters in prep for the Badab sector. Though Deathwatch didn't happen, there was plenty of talk about Dark Heresy.
Next week looks to be a Fantasy Malifaux prep fest with players for both Genghiscon events trying to get games in. And the week after that is the painting competition, so get those models ready, cause I am bringing the heat.

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Wow, no pictures, shocker. Anyway, apparently people actually read this, because before I arrived it was packed! When I showed up around 7ish, pretty empty, but chairs everywhere.
There was some Dark Heresy to be had, though. And had it was! In one game session, we gained 5! levels. That's not exactly how it went down, be we did have an awesome climax to our current mission. A daemon was banished, killing or prideful inquisitor in the process. After discovering some alien technology we begin a ten year investigation to get to the bottom of the of the alien involvement.
We are now able to fit in with our Space Marines and have almost completed our respective career choice.
I have to say, I am super excited. And the Scum pay scale isn't as awesome as it might appear.
See you all this Saturday.

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Ooooo, a fancy new title. Well, a new title anyway. Not a lot of activity these last two holiday weekends. Mostly just Troy and I throwing down a game of Tau versus Nids. I won both. Morally. A couple of people we don't see often even stopped by yesterday to say hi. I ran out of time to play Scott some Malifaux, I think Troy was slow playing. Jack also dropped by, I think to see if the club still lived. We informed him it did, so hopefully we will see both in the coming weeks. I still owe Scott a rematch and hopefully I will be able to get Ramos on the field.
I won't be there during the day next Saturday, but I will get a Dark Heresy update posted. No, I didn't stutter, Heresy, not Deathwatch. Yay!
Till then, may the Dice Gods give you nothing but 6's. Except on leadership, cause that would SUCK.

State of the club

I run "state of" articles over on my blog, and got to thinking I could do something similar here. I will likely change the name, but these articles will be a bit of a chronicle of the going ons for the club.