Results, Feast of Blades Qualifier, 24 July

I’m waiting on an email back from the FoB organizer to see exactly how many qualifying spots we have.  Right now it’s just 2, and those two people are Max Hill and Andrew Fenner.  For more information on the Feast of Blades event in November, go to http://www.feastofblades.com/

The full tournament results:

NAME	CODEX	OVERALL
Max Hill	Orks	95
Andrew Fenner	Tyranids	92
Jordan Cafolla	Blood Angels	90
Egan Ulbricht	Space Wolves	87
Jonathan Cooke	Eldar	85
Hank Padilla	Space Marines	84
Mike Welch	Daemons	84
Bryan Nelson	Blood Angels	83.5
Jesse Schopper	Blood Angels	82
Kevin Meeks	Space Marines	81
Hun Schmidt	Necrons	67
Andrew Culp	Space Marines	64
Alex Blair	Eldar	62.5
Filemon Aragon	Grey Knights	59
Demetri Cervone	Imperial Guard	38

Good turnout, good games…. thank you for attending!

Results, Doubles Tournament, 17 Jul

It wasn’t the most organized tournament I’ve ever run, but it sounds like people had a good time, and had some really close games.  Thank you to all who attended!

I did get feedback on Sunday regarding how to improve the Doubles format, and the tournament in general, but if there’s further comments please post them here or on Meetup.

To the final results:

Players	Codices	Battle Points
Chris/Bryan	Black Templars/Blood Angels	45
Egan/Andrew	Space Wolves/Tau	39
Brett/Sean	Dark Angels/Grey Knights	36
Rod/Vince	Marines/Thousand Suns	34
Kevin/Harrison	Marines/Space Wolves	34
Todd/Brian	Imperial Guard/Blood Angels	33
Hank/Filemon	Relictors/Grey Knights	30
Andrew/Andrew	Marines/Imperial Guard	12

In total, $150 of GW prize support were awarded to 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place, as well as $80 to the tie for 4th.  Next time, I think there might be an automatic award to a non-power armored team!

Feast of Blades

So Gruebot asked about this awhile ago and I have some news.

The organizer of Feast of Blades has contact us here in New Mexico about becoming a part of this event.

The qualifier tournament would take place here in ABQ on July 23rd with the FoB event being held in Denver on Nov 4-6.  The main focus is an invitational tournament.  Each involved store can send their 1st and 2nd players (or alts) from the qualifier tournament.

To call FoB a ‘tournament’ isn’t quite right.  To be honest, from what Chandler the TO talked about, this sounds like a 40k festival.  Think gaming convention but with a focus on 40k (and I think Fantasy, but maybe not at the same time?).  Alongside the Invitational will be an Open GT that anyone is allowed to play in.  This came about from earlier this year where 50 non-invited players were at the Invitational just to watch.  Also, think of 40k event imaginable and they’ll have it.  Apoc games, Arena battles with special characters, painting comps, fluff games, you name it.  There will also be countless prizes for anything from winning a game with less than 13 models on the table to playing 40k for 15 hours straight and winning an actual purity seal (the beginnings of which you can see on the FoB blog).  Like I said, think convention or festival.

The couple of events I’ve been to in Colorado have been really well run with great players.  The 40k community up there is solid.  I think Gruebot would say the same.

I think this is going to be a fun event and I for one will be attending no matter what.  So, as a 40k community, are we interested?

Results, NOVA Tourney, 25 Apr

Considering it was Easter Sunday, great turn out!  I’m hoping that means in June, when we meet again, we’ll have over 20 players.

Best Overall

Andrew Fenner	96.11
Mike Welch	95.78
Jim Gallegos	92.22
Hank Padilla	86.22
Jordan Cafolla	84.89
Jesse Schopper	81.44
Patrick Bartalotto	72.89
Jonathan Cooke	70.00
Mike Meade	68.89
Brian Roubillard	68.11
Matt Winter	67.89
Marcus Martine	66.78
Andrew Konecki	63.78
Hun Schmidt	55.33
Mike Lantz	53.11

Best General

Jim Gallegos	52
Andrew Fenner	48.5
Jonathan Cooke	45
Mike Welch	42.5
Jordan Cafolla	41.5
Jesse Schopper	41
Andrew Konecki	38
Hank Padilla	34
Hun Schmidt	28.5
Matt Winter	28
Brian Roubillard	26
Mike Lantz	26
Marcus Martine	24.5
Patrick Bartalotto	23.5
Mike Meade	23.5

Everything ran much smoother for me as a TO this time (except us starting later than I had planned) but as always I’m open to suggestions.

I will cement a time with Active Imagination in about a month for the next tourney, but expect the last weekend in June.

Pictures, NOVA Tourney Feb 27th

Results, NOVA Tourney Feb 27th

Thanks everyone for a great tournament!  I hope everyone had a great time.  Despite itching to roll some dice, I really enjoyed being TO and look forward to next time.

The big improvement for next time will be more space between tables!  It was a little tight for tables 1-5, but I appreciate everyone’s patience.  Also, note that all entry fees went toward prizes.  Next time I’ll have gift cards ready to go starting game one for exceptional or lucky achievements throughout the tournament.

Best Overall

Hank Padilla	91.33
Travis Brooker	85.11
Jeremy Lefebvre	77.78
Jordan Cafolla	76.67
Bryan Nelson	75.33
Mike Lance	73.33
Hun Schmidt	71.67
Alex Denbaars	70.67
Keith Lyons	70.67
Andrew Fenner	70.00
Mike Meade	69.94
Egan Ulbrich	69.67
Matt Springer	68.89
Brian Robillard	66.00
James Gallegos	63.33
Jake DeLong	62.22
Gavin Frasier	62.00
Damian Albillar	61.11

Best General

Andrew Fenner	45
Jeremy Lefebvre	42.5
Hank Padilla	37.5
Bryan Nelson	37.5
Mike Lance	37.5
James Gallegos	37.5
Travis Brooker	35
Damian Albillar	35
Matt Springer	32.5
Jordan Cafolla	30
Hun Schmidt	30
Alex Denbaars	30
Keith Lyons	30
Egan Ulbrich	30
Mike Meade	27.5
Jake DeLong	25
Brian Robillard	22.5
Gavin Frasier	22.5

Regarding painting scores.  Since there was only 1 fully painted army and a handful of mostly painted armies, the painting scores were generally as such with 40pts being the maximum:
10pts for having an army
20pts for having an army with no proxies
30pts for having a fully painted (ie 3 colors and basing) army
Those are the baselines scores and then from there points will be added based on how well the army is painted, and how much of the army is painted.  I’m open to suggestions, but I think this is the best way to approach painting scores until more painted armies are fielded.

I think the scoring system worked in general, but will be evaluating that as well.

Again, thanks for the great turnout and see you in two months!  And get painting!

40k Campaign at Ares Wargames

Ares Wargames will be restarting the campaign that began in January.  The start date, as far as I know right now, is March 6th.

A few rules will change, to include what Critical Locations actually do, and what the campaign victory conditions will be.  Unless other changes are suggested, the rules will remain the same so here’s linkage to them:

Campaign Rules

Campaign Rules Addendum

Veteran Skills Chart

As a bonus to those who participated in the first go-round, you will be able to carry over Veteran skills to the new campaign.  If you have resource points remaining I suggest you remember to spend them before we get going and that data is lost.

As always, if you have questions post a comment here, email me, or head over to the Ares Wargames forums.