Blog Wars 4 . Bat Reps...

So it was full of Gusto I breezed in to my second Blog Wars with my tourney untested new marine creation, I was hopeful as in play testing the "tool kit" army seemed to be working well and had yet to be trounced (which is not the same as "not lost" :P )

Anyway this was the list I took. The inclusion of Chronus was due to the mission pack making special characters score or give away extra vps but you HAD to take one. Either way a scoring predator that could then cheekily throw the character from the wreckage to go and hide in a squad seemed a good bet. The fact he then gave me immune to stunned and shaken and bs5 was just icing on the cake:

Libby - Gate and Null Zone
10 Sternguard in a pod
Iron Clad with 2 hunter killers in pod

10 tacs with the holy trinity of melta in pod
10 tac with missile, plasma and assault cannon razorback
10 sniper scouts with Telion
Aegis with Las

Storm talon with cyclone
Vindicator
Thunder Fire
Dakka Pred with Chronus

Let's see how I got on then..

SONS Blog War Results

I am going to assume something has happened to Venerable, he's either got lost or been abducted by 40K bloggers, or got some wedding shite to do.

Either which way I'll fill in the masses (ok, 1 person ...)

Blog Wars 3 has just come and gone, and once again SONS had a few representatives going. Venerable, two time defending champ, Atreides who always puts up good results, and the ever improving (now just beastly) Steve, AKA Bringer of Death. They used, respectively, Necrons, Imperial Guard and Grey Knights.

We'll start at the top - Venerable.

He won it. Again. Less said the better.

Steve, AKA Bringer of Death got 3rd place, who is starting to pick up some serious traction with results.

Atreides put up a nice and steady 8th place, who is probably one of the more consistent players in 40K around, no matter the tournament, he rarely finds himself out of Top 10.

All in all its another strong showing for SONS, taking 2 of the top 3 and putting all 3 inside the top 10 of the 26 man event.

Hopefully the next event will be under 6th edition, and sees a different winner, but from SONS, I mean we still have to keep the crown!

Well done to everyone involved, but a massive shout out and thanks to From the Fang and Alex for running the event again, it gets smoother every time (and the 1st was still fantastic) and in a game where support and events get yanked all the time, its great that more and more players take it upon themselves to run events.

Visit their From the Fang Blog, if you haven't already, here:

http://fromthefang.blogspot.co.uk/

Side; Running Events

Events in 40K, while time consuming and require some thought and set up, are not as tricky as you would think, many of the tournament organisers themselves even having enough time to take part themselves.

In the UK we do have various locations on offer, especially Warhammer World or Maelstrom (ironically enough both are very close to each other) to just hire for the day. While really it isn't something you should do for profit, you will find that entry fee should cover hiring and prize support.

As for running the event, the structure exists there, from missions to spreadsheets to help you calculate match ups in subsequent rounds. One thing about the game, unlike say a Magic The Gathering, is there is next to no need for actual judges, just a few on site people to help rule altercations.

If 6th Edition is good (fingers crossed) I might well look to run a SONS event (possibly with a league structure). I've run cups and even ELO based leagues before, and they are always fun and worth the squeeze.

Hopefully there are others out there like Alex that are willing to just put up events, even if its a the local game store for 10 or 12 people, to bigger 20 to 30 people events at venues. Not everything needs to be a Grand Tournament!