Adepticon 40K Team Tournament Army Showcase - Part II

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Adepticon 40K Team Tournament Army Showcase

 

Eleven armies made the 40K Team Tournament Army Showcase on Saturday evening.  Here they are! (in three parts)

Adepticon Saturday Photos

 

Been here at Adepticon since Friday night.  As always, it is the best gaming event of the year.  Here are the first batch of photos. 

Adepticon announces limited edition 10th anniversary model

Adepticon has announced the release of  a limited edition figure to commemorate the 10th anniversary of Adepticon. You can get the details on their site here.  The model is a very reasonable $ 10.

From Adepticon:

Limited Edition 10th Anniversary AdeptiCon Angel

In conjunction with the Soda Pop Miniatures design team, and in celebration of ten years of AdeptiCon, we bring you the AdeptiCon Angel limited release. This unique model will only see a production run of 500 units. The model is provided with two weapon and head options for further customization. The model is 25/28mm in scale and will fit in nicely with you favorite tabletop wargame.

The model was sculpted by Jason Hendricks.

Note: This item is pre-order only and will not be available until the weekend of the convention. You will be able to pick up your model at the AdeptiCon registration table starting Thursday, April 19th at 5:00 pm or any of the following days beginning at 7:00 am.

Ultramarines vs. Smurfs!

One of the best displays at Adepticon's 40K Team Tournament was an Ultramarine army that had just raided the Smurf village!  It was hysterical, and here are some photos.

Passion of the Smurf!

The agony!!!!!!

Smurfette gets the ax!

Pappa Smurf has his house burned!

Next target....My Little Pony!

I hope you enjoy!

Alec

Adepticon 40K Team Tournament Results

Since neither Adepticon, nor Bell of Lost Souls (or anyone else for that matter) saw fit to post the 40K Team results, here they are.  I really am shocked at the lack of coverage by BOLS and others, and the total lack of posting by Adepticon of the tournament results. Come on guys!  This is the biggest event of the year!

My team was "Prospero Burns", which actually was another team's name, whose spot we took!  We were playing Dark Eldar, so that confused a few!

We went there to take the Headhunter award for most enemy HQ's killed (A total of 16 possible) while losing the fewest.  Thus a maximum score of 32 was possible.  We got a score of 31 and the next highest (who actually got the award) was 26!  But, since we got the Best Appearance Award, we couldn't get two awards.  So Adepticon gives you the better award.   We are happy with that!

Alec

Adepticon Day 2

Saturday is Day 2 of Adepticon and my first ever 40K Team Tournament.  This is a great event where 4 players each bring a 1,000 point list and play 4 games.  Each player plays with the 3 other players on his team once and then the team chooses the pairing for the last game.

My three good buddies from Atlanta, John Ross, Thomas Byrd and Chip Bowen were my teammates.  We played Dark Eldar, which was my first Xenos army ever!  Yes, my friends gave me a lot of crap about that.  And since I was in Los Angeles, and they live in Atlanta, I couldn't play test with them.  So I got an all shooty army, which didn't require great knowledge of the particular codex and was really grim. 

Well, we had a blast, had AWESOME opponents and won Best Appearence.  That was incredibly cool.  

And here are a few pics...

Mary Ann and her husband Mike were our final opponent.  Their team won Best Spirit and they deserved it.  They had a great Orc army and were fun to play against. And she is pregnant with her THIRD kid!  GO MOM!

A great Marine display.  The Team tournament brings out some amazing displays.

And an Imperial Guard display that was pretty cool!

This Imperial Fist team had an awesome display and really deserved the Spirit award.  Frankly, they were robbed!

I mean, they even tried to bribe the judges with yellow and black Imperial Fist M&Ms!

I have had a blast at this event.  So much fun to play with buddies and against fun opponents. 

Alec

Adepticon Day 1

Today was the 40K tournament, but my team and I were preparing our armies, play testing and just having fun.  The 40K Team Tournment starts Saturday at 9:00am.

The highlight of the day was talking to Dan Abnett.  TOTALLY cool guy who is amazingly passionate about 40K.  The guy is clearly one of us!

And here were a few of the cool models and armies I saw today.  More photos tomorrow!

At least this guy knows about his heritage!

A beautiful Lamenters army

A nice little conversion

A Sevrin Loth as a Blood Angels Librarian

Well, more tomorrow, along with our team's results!  And all these photos were taken with my iPhone 4.  The camera on this phone has an awesome lens.

Alec

Apocalypse40K at Adepticon!

I am flying in to Chicago today (Thursday) and will be at Adepticon playing in the 40K Team Tournament with my good buddies from Atlanta John Ross, Thomas Byrd and Chip Bowen under the team name Prospero Burns.   If any of you are going to be there, please give me a buzz on my cell at 404-918-1701 and we will have a beer and talk Apocalypse!

In the team tournament, teams of four players each build a 1,000 point list such that each list can play with any other list on your team and form a legal 2,000 point list.  You then play 4 games, playing with each team member once and then the fourth game you choose who you play with.

I am playing a Xenos army for the first time in my 12 years in the hobby!   As all my buddies know, I am an extreme Imperial Loyalist!  But sometimes one must broaden one's horizons.

My army was built and painted by multiple Golden Daemon winner Aaron Lovejoy, who is a great guy was well as an awesome painter.

 My 1,000 points fields 4 Venoms, all custom made by Aaron Lovejoy

My list is the one with an extra heavy slot, so two Ravagers fill up those slots

A Haemonculus is my HQ

So if you are at Adepticon, come and say hi!

Alec

Forgeworld at Adepticon!

Oh damn.  What little money I have left after paying off my two painters is about to evaporate at Adepticon.  Forgeworld will be there and they will have the limited edition Space Marine shown above.

From Forgeworld:

AdeptiCon 2011
Forge World’s Stephen Green and Kenton Mills will shortly be winging their way to the Westin Lombard Yorktown Centre in Chicago, IL, for AdeptiCon 2011 held on the 1st - 3rd April.

AdeptiCon attendees can pre-order the immense Eldar Phantom Titan, which will be on display in the Vendor Hall, and also purchase our Event Only MkIII Armoured Boarding Marine and Chaos Dwarf Hellsmith miniatures.

We’ll also have limited stock available of the Shadow Spectres Exarch, Eldar Lynx with Pulsar and Lynx with Sonic Lance, plus a few unreleased models for you to see and pre-order well in advance of their scheduled release.

As well as getting a chance to be the first to get a look at these new models, you can also meet Kenton Mills, one of the talented graphic artists responsible for Forge World’s range of Decal sheets and Etched Brass symbols. This man of many talents also produces many of the colour profiles that adorn the Imperial Armour range and his work can be found in Imperial Armour Volume 8 as well as our best-selling Badab War series. Kenton will be happy to autograph copies of these lavish books at the event.