Well I haven't posted for a while but I thought I would start using this blog to post my preparations for the upcoming OFCC 40k tournament coming in Oregon. I have already submitted a list to my team captains and am currently in the process of building the list. The list is going to contain seven speeders and two predators so I need to buy some models before the tournament rolls around. Currently I have four speeders and one Predator tank. In creating the list I was looking for something that was not to overpowering but had the potential to be very destructive early in the game. I thought a seven speeder offensive would accomplish that nicely.
I really don't have a lot to put together in the time I have left before the tournament so I can't see not being ready for it. With that in mind I am also going to be working on some other projects that are important to me as well. I just got a Cassius model that I really want to paint and play with a few times just for fluff purposes. I don't think he is much better than a normal chaplain but he is one of my favorite characters in the fluff so I want to play him.
I have come to a conclusion on the way I really want to paint any and all marines that I paint into the future. There are many players that like to have their marines very clean and tidy when they display them. I don't like that style so much. I think that it takes just as much skill to make a marine look like he has been through some nastiness as it does to make him look pristine and neat. The style I have started painting with lately is what I really like to do and I will be putting some models up in that style relatively soon. Maybe even this weekend.
Well that's about all for this post. Look for more posts this weekend if you want. I am pretty sure you will see some pics this weekend to.
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Friday, June 5, 2009
Tuesday, April 7, 2009
Thoughts on organized tournaments
Today I decided to do a post on what I think the ideal tournament atmosphere would be like so that is what I am going to try to do. I don't know a lot about the gaming business or the tournament business so all of this is going to be shooting from the cuff but it comes from a customer willing to shell out 50+ dollars to play in a tournament environment that he enjoys.
As some of you know I have been to a TSHFT tournament, the 40K brand to be exact, and I had a great time. I met many new players and had some fun and exciting 40k games in the process even though I did not win any of them. While I was there I noticed one thing that I think a tournament needs to have, great players with great attitudes about the game they are playing regardless of what that game is. TSHFT certainly had a lot of cool players and the vast majority of the players that attended the show recieved perfect sportsmanship scores. A great group of players can do nothing but spread good news about the tournament and how much fun they had playing in it. Word of mouth is crucial in this type of environment and the only way you get that is to give the players what they want from the tourney.
There are things that go beyond having a great group of players however. You need to have a core group of players that are very loyal to the store in order to start the word of mouth process along. These players need to be welcoming to any prospective players within that stores community. This kind of warm reception and good cheer makes the store a tournament is based out of a better attraction for players that might not be a major part of the store's community. This is something I look for when I go to a store or attend any event of this type. I like to find out more about the people that really support the events that my dollars go to. The friendlier the core unit of players surrounding the tournament is the better chance the tournament has to grow and expand in the future.
Another thing that I think would make an ideal tournament for me would be atmosphere. When I go to a tournament I want it to be more than a gaming tournament eventually. Eventually I want the tournament to grow into something bigger. A real showcase of the hobby in it's own right. The tables that the players play on should be really special, there should be painting competitions, seminars on gaming and the hobby, showcases of upcoming product that makes the gamer excited to be around the hobby and even shows or skits depicting major events in the hobby mythos. Things like this can turn an event that someone might go to into something that becomes a must be there type of show.
These are just a couple of the things that I really think a tournament that plans on sticking around and growing should aspire to. There is a lot of competition out there for this kind of event and in the end the events that stick around are going to get bigger and more elaborate with emphasis on giving the gamer the most bang for his buck that he can possibly get. Thanks for reading. I'll post goblin pics tomorrow if I can. Thanks again.
As some of you know I have been to a TSHFT tournament, the 40K brand to be exact, and I had a great time. I met many new players and had some fun and exciting 40k games in the process even though I did not win any of them. While I was there I noticed one thing that I think a tournament needs to have, great players with great attitudes about the game they are playing regardless of what that game is. TSHFT certainly had a lot of cool players and the vast majority of the players that attended the show recieved perfect sportsmanship scores. A great group of players can do nothing but spread good news about the tournament and how much fun they had playing in it. Word of mouth is crucial in this type of environment and the only way you get that is to give the players what they want from the tourney.
There are things that go beyond having a great group of players however. You need to have a core group of players that are very loyal to the store in order to start the word of mouth process along. These players need to be welcoming to any prospective players within that stores community. This kind of warm reception and good cheer makes the store a tournament is based out of a better attraction for players that might not be a major part of the store's community. This is something I look for when I go to a store or attend any event of this type. I like to find out more about the people that really support the events that my dollars go to. The friendlier the core unit of players surrounding the tournament is the better chance the tournament has to grow and expand in the future.
Another thing that I think would make an ideal tournament for me would be atmosphere. When I go to a tournament I want it to be more than a gaming tournament eventually. Eventually I want the tournament to grow into something bigger. A real showcase of the hobby in it's own right. The tables that the players play on should be really special, there should be painting competitions, seminars on gaming and the hobby, showcases of upcoming product that makes the gamer excited to be around the hobby and even shows or skits depicting major events in the hobby mythos. Things like this can turn an event that someone might go to into something that becomes a must be there type of show.
These are just a couple of the things that I really think a tournament that plans on sticking around and growing should aspire to. There is a lot of competition out there for this kind of event and in the end the events that stick around are going to get bigger and more elaborate with emphasis on giving the gamer the most bang for his buck that he can possibly get. Thanks for reading. I'll post goblin pics tomorrow if I can. Thanks again.
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
One step closer to pay day
Friday I get paid. I celebrate this day usually by going to Fire and Sword and purchasing something while hanging out and sometimes even playing a game. I think Fire and Sword is a great store. They just recently moved and now they have much more gaming space than ever before. As I have stated before they also run the TSHFT tournament happening later this month for Warhammer 40K. I am not sure but I think they even have prize sponsorship this year from GW. All I know is that the community at Fire and Sword is a thriving one. Friday's always have a large number of people showing up and you can almost always find a game with someone if you bring your army. They are located in Lake City in Seattle proper.
One thing that the store offers is a discount on everything you buy for a monthly membership price. If you buy as much as I do the discount pays for itself with one purchase. Anyways I don't know everything about the store but Zen and Paul, the stores owners, do. You can hit them up at the website link located on my blog in the upper right hand corner. They are doing a big update on the site on the 20th according to what is posted there so you will have new information on the store coming out soon. I hope to be at the TSHFT tournament this year and I hope to see some of you there.
Ok back to me. As I stated in my Ordo post I fixed the black splotch on Marneus last night. It was midnight and I could not go to sleep knowing that it was there. You will see him again when I get the other guys in the box set painted up. I was thinking about doing something different with the battle damage. Perhaps turning it into guts. I was going to do that in the first place but then I thought that it might be to gross to do. What? To gross to do? It's 40 friggin K!
I pulled out my fantasy orcs and goblins last night. I have them all set up in a bag on my kitchen counter because after TSHFT is over I am going to start on painting them up for the next TSHFT Fantasy tournament or maybe even the OFCC if I can get there and get on a team. I am really looking forward to painting my Black Orcs led by Grimgor Ironhide. I have had the model out now for about a month just sitting on my painting table. I need to get him painted up and ready for bloodshed. I have a couple of wolf chariots that are going to be a part of my army and I am going to do something diffrent with the wolves as far as color goes. They are going to stand out in the croud.
My dwarves are on the painting shelf to. I have three of them done up and painted but I haven't had the time to do anymore than that. I want to have a cool looking good guy and bad guy force for fantasy. Two armies for each side. I want the same for 40K. I am just having difficulty spreading out my time. Right now I am just to focused on getting the Ultramarines ready. They are really my favorite army since they were the reason I originally got into the hobby in the first place. I am very seriously thinking however of getting the models for every special charcter the marines have and painting them up just to have them in a collection.
Well I've rambled on long enough. Before the week is out I am going to continue the fan fiction post that I started on the Ordo boards. It wasn't great prose but I really enjoy having a marine shred six orcs at once. I think that is the way it was meant to be. Have a great day, later.
One thing that the store offers is a discount on everything you buy for a monthly membership price. If you buy as much as I do the discount pays for itself with one purchase. Anyways I don't know everything about the store but Zen and Paul, the stores owners, do. You can hit them up at the website link located on my blog in the upper right hand corner. They are doing a big update on the site on the 20th according to what is posted there so you will have new information on the store coming out soon. I hope to be at the TSHFT tournament this year and I hope to see some of you there.
Ok back to me. As I stated in my Ordo post I fixed the black splotch on Marneus last night. It was midnight and I could not go to sleep knowing that it was there. You will see him again when I get the other guys in the box set painted up. I was thinking about doing something different with the battle damage. Perhaps turning it into guts. I was going to do that in the first place but then I thought that it might be to gross to do. What? To gross to do? It's 40 friggin K!
I pulled out my fantasy orcs and goblins last night. I have them all set up in a bag on my kitchen counter because after TSHFT is over I am going to start on painting them up for the next TSHFT Fantasy tournament or maybe even the OFCC if I can get there and get on a team. I am really looking forward to painting my Black Orcs led by Grimgor Ironhide. I have had the model out now for about a month just sitting on my painting table. I need to get him painted up and ready for bloodshed. I have a couple of wolf chariots that are going to be a part of my army and I am going to do something diffrent with the wolves as far as color goes. They are going to stand out in the croud.
My dwarves are on the painting shelf to. I have three of them done up and painted but I haven't had the time to do anymore than that. I want to have a cool looking good guy and bad guy force for fantasy. Two armies for each side. I want the same for 40K. I am just having difficulty spreading out my time. Right now I am just to focused on getting the Ultramarines ready. They are really my favorite army since they were the reason I originally got into the hobby in the first place. I am very seriously thinking however of getting the models for every special charcter the marines have and painting them up just to have them in a collection.
Well I've rambled on long enough. Before the week is out I am going to continue the fan fiction post that I started on the Ordo boards. It wasn't great prose but I really enjoy having a marine shred six orcs at once. I think that is the way it was meant to be. Have a great day, later.
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