Friday, March 1, 2013

It's not about winning or losing. It's about having fun

And I had the most fun, therefore I win!
See, this trophy says I'm the most fun!

This past weekend held the 13th annual ASTRONOMI-CON at the Winnipeg Convention Center.
25 players showed up to battle it out on 15 awesome tables with missions completely revamped for 6th edition.

Before I go any further with this post, I just want to thank Christian Augst, Keith Grant and Mike Major for putting on another great event!

Keith, Mike & Christian
  And these guys do it 4 FUCKING TIMES A YEAR! Yes that's right, Astronomi-con is not limited only to us in Winnipeg! Dallas, Toronto and Vancouver have the honour of hosting this greatest of nerdaments once a year. check out their website for more info on upcoming events.

So, all in all it was a great weekend of nerding. I won a trophy for best sportsman which was awesome. I believe my little nerd speech went something like this: "Best sportsman means a lot to me, because I'm really about just having fun. I'm really glad I won this trophy because I can barely paint and I never fucking win."

Another 40kegger member (Vice president actually) JP won the award for best single model for his Chaos Sorcerer
JP took to long to send me a picture of his trophy. This proxy will have to do.
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Here is his awesome model!

 
This pic is stolen from the Astronomi-con facebook page, as the picture I took didnt turn out very well

Mario Rocha won best overall with his super fucking awesome Space Wolves. Check out his display board, it's the launch bay of a Space Wolf ship!

The Storm Eagle in it's launch cradle. Mario scratch built this out of half a Stormtalon and a shit ton of plasticard... and some Babylon 5 toy bits.

Drop pods ready to launch.

5 years of major conversions and scratch building finally paid off for Alex Bedard as he and his Sky Boyz won best Army.




Here is a list of all the events winners. Congrats to all of us who won something, and thanks to those who didn't. I'm pretty sure everyone had a great time... Even the guy(s) who lost every game.

  • Best Overall – Mario Rocha
  • Best Army – Alex Bedard
  • Best General – Mike Knudsen
  • Best Single Miniature – J.P. Perrault
  • Best Sportsman – Greg Ritchie
  • Best Appearance – Brock Jansen
  • Best Terrain – Kevin Nelson
  • Best Army List – Neil Spears
The winners: Alex, Neil, Mike JP, Greg, Mario
 I was lucky enough to draw JP for the first game. Even though we run the 40Kegger together, we hardly ever get to play, so it was nice to be able to have an epic battle on an awesome table against the dude. This was the only game I really took any pictures. (Fuck off, this is not a batrep. Read Robs posts for those :P )


Night Lords attempting to charge over the defense lines of the Salamanders

Night Lords succeeding in charging over the defense lines of the Salamanders

There's nerds here!!!! I'll fight em! Where are they?!?!?
Well, I thought I took more than 3 pictures... Well, in the end, JP scored more victory points than I did. Now some more highlights of the weekend.

Mario's Space Wolves taking on Jim's Vietnamese Restaurant menu army list Dark Eldar

Very bright Wyches

Ryan's Glitter Marines (or Emily of New Marines) taking on Da Sky Boyz (Sorry Ryan hahaha)

Orbital Bombardment from Darrell's arm pit?

Brock's Nids

Hive Fleet Kaga

My Salamanders - Exploratory Force Argos (I had a story and everything!)
Most tedious thing I ever painted, this stupid defense line

Odd how my best painted models is also my worst...

Oh Contempty, how I love thee!

Damien's Dark Eldar
Lance's White Stars

Space Tigers Icarus Lascannon

Even robot space dragons loves them some croissants (necron and chaos allies)

Mike's Dark Eldar with princess terrain?

JP's Night Lords!

Chris's Necrons
Chris's Lord


Alex's Sky Boyz
Never did figure out what this was.... Leave a comment below

Dave's Eldar

...and his sucky Autarch who gave everyone move through cover! (awesome model tho!)
More Hive Fleet Kaga

Hive Tryrant

Sean's Necrons with Imotek... Who's lightning power "almost never works"... Fuck off, works all the time! hahaha

Sean's Triarch Stalker, who enjoys trading melta shots with a tactical squad through the woods all game


Neils Blood Angels
And their Chappy
*Mumble Mumble's* Chaos

Ryan's Space Marines

Rod's Tau

Charles's Crimson Fists with Blood Angel best friends

Ryan K's Chaos with Demon allies. Notice the Spawn and Demon Prince in case he rolls good or bad on the boon table

I think this is a Tervagon
Jordan's Ork... guy?

Jim's Dark Eldar

More Chaos to whom I cannot remember who it belongs to

and So-and-So's cool Blight Drone

Someone must have stolen my camera and snuck down to the parkade for some LCA 112(a) after a hard weekend of gaming.

Fucking eh guys! Can't wait till next year!

Monday, February 25, 2013

C

Pedro! and assorted friends VS Dynamite Deff Koptas!


VS




Turn 1:

  Charles says, I need to roll a 6 to steal the first turn.  Ok, so I roll a 6.  Orks go first.  Thanks bud!


  On turn one I dont do a whole lot, but move my masses forward.  Not very exciting the REAL fun started on Charles turn.   We got mysterious objectives, I like mysterious objectives because they always tend to blow the other team up.  Charles deploys right by an objective.  Charles rolls for objective, sabotage! I have to tell you Crimson Fists sure like 1's because guess what he rolled to see if it blew up?

  


Now remember this picture as it will come in handy for reference later.  The rest of Turn 1 the Crimson Fists entire army shoot at my Trukk including a sternguard squad you just landed in a drop pod.  So after all that I promptly put the small dice in the back of the trukk noting that 1 ENTIRE hull point has been removed.

  Summary of Turn 1:



  So after all that nothing.  Charles rolls again for sabtoage, for everyones info this NOT the same picture.

At this point im strongly considering staying put and letting this exploding objective simply kill all the Space Marines on the table. 

Turn 2:

  I run my trukk up the left side which finally gets killed by of all things bolter fire.  I think the first 6 Charles managed to roll turns into my favor as he rolls a 6 on the ramshackle table and the trukk doesnt explode it just simply breaks down and Ghaz and his buddies hop out as if nothing is wrong, thanks bud!

  They then beat the tar out of the sternguard squad, and then lose 1 mega nob to and orbital bombardment.  That kinda seemed like over kill and cheatin.  Seriously how can I shoot back at this space ship in space! IN SPACE!  

Apparently due to Crimson Fists budget cuts they kinda had to recruit less then on par crew.




Also my Deffkoptas are making pudding out of that fancy ass dread naught.  Now it cant move and can only wave at the orks on the table.  

I flubb my reserve roll so the Dakka Jet doesnt come in, but the storm talon comes on, shoots everything he has at the deffkopta's and after all that, ALL THAT, I put a 1 for 1 wound on one Deff Kopta.  I thought Orks were supposed to bad shots!

Turn 3

 My Lootas shoot, and shoot and shoot and well I guess thats my fault I should have told them to shoot at the Storm Talon, because once again the Ork with the kustom megablasta rolls a 1 and gets hot and blows himself up.  

  My Dakka jet comes in and blows up the Talon with its 18 STR 7 shots AHAHAH!

Go DAKKA JET GO DAKKA JET!  

Turn 4

The dread naught gets wiped out by Ghaz and meganobz.  Enter my Pedro problem......

Pedro declines the first challenge, I kill lots of space marines.  Bottom of turn 4 Pedro excepts and kills Ghaz, wait what?????


Apparently when you accept a challenge your buddies can help out.......with a reroll.  That ended up killing ghaz.

Actual pic of the game:  because by now i stopped taking pics and concentrated on drinking and Pedro.

  So Pedro kills my HQ, and then meets up with a wack of boyz who just killed a scout squad.  Well Pedro wins that melee some how too and kills a boy squad.  WHO IS THIS MEXICAN???  



Ok so, these mexican space marines fight dirty!  So to hell with that I say and so I shoot him to death with my Deff Koptas, apparently rockets are the only thing that kill Mexican Space Marines.



Now all Charles has left is a drop pod.  Game over!  

JP this is for you:



  Great game!  Lots of fun and lot closer then it looked.  Charles next time you can use my dice!


Tuesday, February 12, 2013

Winnipeg is Nerdy

Damn rights it is...


Winnipeg journalist and media developer Jamie Isfeld has created a website dedicated to all things nerdy in our crazy city. Be it video games, comics, wargames, whatever. If it's nerdy, it is under her radar.

40kegger is featured in her most recent production that she created about Legiocon XII. Check out the video, it's amazing:


We have added her site to our Links because we absolutely love the concept. Hope to see more coverage about all the great nerdy things happening around Winnipeg.

Monday, February 11, 2013

Legiocon XII and the Next Big Thing

This past Friday, the 40kegger was given the opportunity to run some games at Legiocon XII. It was my first time in the venue, and I gotta say, it was pretty neat in there. Lots of room, and the cheapest beers I've ever seen in the city. And while a bunch of us nerds were rolling dice upstairs, the 60+ community of St. James enjoyed some live tunes, dancing, and meat draws downstairs. Definitely how I plan to spend my retirement...

I was really happy to see a great turnout of 40kegger people. A few Beer League matchups, a few casual games, and a few new faces. There must have been about a dozen of us all busting out some 1000 point games on Friday night.

We brought 3 of our 40kegger Scenarios as a little treat, because once a year just isn't enough to play them. We brought Beer Run, Keys to the VIP, and my personal favorite, Barrels of the Warp. Since all of our scenarios are always evolving, we hope to get some feedback from those who had a chance to play them. So send us your comments/email if you have some ideas on how to make them better.

We also want to take a quick opportunity to welcome Wes Szmaglik who recently moved here from the UK. Wes came out to meet everyone and get in a few games on Friday night. And it was a kind of picture perfect welcoming, because he won the free entry to 40KEGGER 5.


Congrats, Wes.

Here are a few more pictures from our evening at Legiocon XII. Every time we get a group out for an event, I'm always reminded how many great hobbyists we got in this city.






 




 
 







Wes's stunning Dark Angels. I can see a lot of "Best Army" arwards going to the new face in Winnipeg over the next few years..


Now, onto the Next Big Thing... Astronomi-con.

At the end of the evening on Friday, a bunch of us stood around and chatted with Wes about Astronomi-con. Everyone reminisced about past experiences with Astronomi-con scenarios, and about the level of craftsmanship that goes into running the event. I mean, this is an event that has received the official "pretty fucking awesome" from names like Jervis Johnson and Phil Kelly. So needless to say, I got in my car after the little chat and drove home with a very high level of excitement and anticipation. And holy shit, we are now less than two weeks away...


Astronomi-con 2012

Astronomi-con is truly a world class Warhammer 40,000 experience. We are pretty damn spoiled to have one right here in Winnipeg. So ask yourself, do you spend a lot of your time painting and playing 40k? Do you read a lot of Black Library books and consider yourself rather knowledgeable in the 40k universe? If you in any way can say that you have a passion for 40k, you really don't want to miss this event.

Sign up for Astronomi-con. It's two full days of some of the best 40k you will ever get the chance to play.


Monday, February 4, 2013

40kegger tshirts for Dark Star

 PAY NOW BUTTON ADDED TO BOTTOM OF THIS POST - Feb 6th, 2013

There's about 10 of us heading down to Minneapolis in March to participate in the Dark Star nerd tournament. We need to represent 40kegger! JP has designed a new shirt to wear during the event.


The shirts will be about $20 send me an email by February 17th. I will place the order on Monday the 18th, and we will have the shirts for Dark Star. Of course these shirts are available for anyone to order!
Email me what size you want and I will send you the paypal link. Greg@40kegger.com
Payment must be received before the order is placed. No extras will be ordered to be sold later.

OFFER EXPIRED. SHIRTS HAVE BEEN ORDERED

Friday, February 1, 2013

Winnipeg Warhammer 40,000 Beer League

Or, the 'Fuck it's cold in Winnipeg, just wanna play some nerds games inside a warm building League'...

Or, the 'Dammit woman, I'm going out to play nerd games at least once a month League'...

Maybe, the 'I wish I could still play hockey, but I can barely see my junk past my beer belly, so maybe I'll just play some nerd games League'...

Whatever, it's Beer League 40k. Take some 40k and model it after Beer League Hockey. Boom, you got yourself a fun time.

Here we are on February 1, 2013. The season is more than half over now, with only 3 games left until the playoff season starts in May. There are 18 players and only 8 playoff spots, so it should make for an interesting push to the finish line. Anyways, here are the Standings as of today:


There are still a few outstanding games left to be played. Hopefully those will be concluded next Friday at Legiocon XII where the 40kegger gets the night to run some 1000 point games. Perfect for Beer League players, so we expect a good turnout.