Aye, bring on the Summer Sizzler!

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I must take pains to correct you sir - My double Emperor Titan army only came 3rd to last! ^^

And @Mephiston: yes it really was just 4.

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Ah sorry. :1)

Had you tried the double emperor list previously?

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Great fun tournament.

Game 1: Russel's Double Emperor Nonsense List

Pretty much as you'd expect; I killed the warhound then fed chaff to the big fellas while the rest of the army hid, ready to pop out and grab the objectives on the third turn. I made a silly intermingling mistake on turn three (while saying "need to be careful not to intermingle"), which took it to a fourth turn, where I grabbed Blitz and T&H for a 2-0 win.

Game 2: Gavin's Cobratastic Eldar

All skimmy Eldar are a horrible match-up for 'nids, and by rights I should have lost horribly, but luckily for me, the "Luck Of Gavin" was in full flow, and he managed to roll an ungodly number of 1's to activate, including managing to fail 6 out of 10 2+ activations on the first turn. This allowed us to play out something of a stalemate, ending in a 0-0 draw, but a points win to Gavin.

Game 3: Tom M's Speedfreak Luftwaffe

If I thougth skimmy eldar were a bad match-up, facing vast numbers of fighta-bommas wasn't much better! Tyranid AA is poor at the best of times, and here did almost nothing. I got a little lucky on a couple of engagements that kept me in the game, but by the end the skorchas did their job and broke just about everything, leading to a 2-0 loss on turn three.


Alas my few unpainted models cost me 10 tournament points and at least 8 places, throwing me from mid-table obscurity to just above the relegation zone.


Day 2 - The Mega Battle

Not a huge amount to say here other than we hugely skewed the scenario in favour of the Imperium, with predicable results. 8000 points of nids trying to cross 8 feet of table while being shelled into non-existance by 10000 points of guard, titans and marines was silly fun, but alas pretty one-sided.

Oh, and the epicUK Tyranid Hierophant/Hydraphant stats are completely terrible.

Great fun though!

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I somehow(?) lost horribly. Maybe It's just me... 0.o

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Yes, that's right folks, it's been another year and another Wintery yet Warm success over at Bristol's third Epic: Armageddon chilled out gaming day tournament :-)

24 players out of 30 managed to make it down for the day and we've got yet another unpredictable result for you to figure out!

Cut and Thrust Wargames hosted us once again,

and our scenery had been made a little more pretty this year:




After registering the players and weighing them in to see if we could officially become the UK's HEAVIEST EPIC TOURNAMENT gaming began in earnest:
MOK in action

Angor Looks Displeased

Warrior of Ultramar hides his face

Whilst Cai looks on in disapproval at the sheer amount of FW Valkyries!

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As the day came to a close we came up with some random statistics...
we had the following armies at play:

IMPERIAL
Vanheim x 1
Codex Marines x 1
Knight World x 1
IG x 5
Minervans x 1
AMTL x 2

ORKS
Stompy Orks x 1
Speed Freaks x 1
OGBM x 2
Ghazkull Orks x 3

TRAITORS
T.sons x 1

ALIENS
Tau x 1
EuK Nids x1
NetEA Nids x1
Necrons x 1
Biel Tan x 1

AAAANNNNNDDD!!! We had 2100kg of Epic Players and their armies present! The Gauntlet has been thrown down!

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BWW has many kind supporters to thanks who have donated time, prizes and advertising and so we'd like to thank all of the people below VERY VERY much!
Ben, Ryan, Alex and Dan at CnT for all their time helping with Scenery
Cut and Thrust Games for hosting us
EpicUK for providing us with their rules set, tournament organisation experience and scoring sheets as well as advertising the event
The following people for prize donations:
-Todd Dillen
-Steve54
-Ben Skinner
-Alex from Cut and Thrust
-Exodus Wars
-Carlos

Our budget is usually quite tight as we provide the event at at as low a cost as possible so dontations and time are all GREATLY appreciated :-)


So...without further ado here's the money shots and results from the tourney:

Players await the results:


Last place 'Wooden Spoon' went to Chris Stubbs who wins the same pair of Monoliths we've given away 3 years in a row! If he can paint them he get's to paint them!

Rusell Burton wins 'Most Balls' for taking an utterly useless Dual Imperator list!

Cai Gratts wins 'Best Effort' for painting up a guard army in less than a week and attending his first ever Epic Tournament :-)
Most sporting was a "Whose Birthday First" tie between Chris Stubbs and Duncan Ridell

Chris is Victorious! Winning himself a free 1 day EpicUK tournament Ticket!


Whilst Necron Tom's Cubes and Matt Arnold's Guard Army took player and judges choice Army awards Otterware :-)



Player Game: 1 2 3 Paint Sports TOTAL

Chris Stubbs 6 9 6 20 24 65
Chris Buxey 23 0 9 10 24 66
Russel Burton 9 6 9 22 24 70
Chris Kirby 26 0 6 20 24 76
Barny Skinner 23 14 6 11 24 78
Cai Gratts 6 23 6 20 24 79
Sam Cox 9 9 13 24 24 79
Maz Murch 26 6 3 22 24 81
Stuart Kirbie 9 23 5 20 24 81
Jon Horsham 0 16 19 24 24 83
Ryan Downes 3 9 26 22 24 84
Dave Coombs 0 16 23 22 24 85
Ed Ralph 16 0 23 23 24 86
Gavin McKenzie 23 18 6 21 22 90
Horatio Coles 14 14 26 22 24 100
Carlos Ferrao 18 32 6 22 24 102
Duncan Riddell 16 16 26 22 24 104
Darren Reeks 6 26 29 22 24 107
Ben Skinner 29 6 26 24 24 109
Jon M 14 23 26 24 24 111
NecronTom 32 26 14 24 24 120
Al Wetherall 18 32 26 24 24 124
Matt Arnold 26 32 18 24 24 124
Ben Edgar 32 26 26 22 24 130

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Onto the big three (Hush Cut and Thrust!)

Angor comes in 3rd after his pesky cubes teleport everywhere!


A tied position for 2nd place! Matt Arnold and Al Wetherall both win themselves a pre-release exodus wars Behomoth!



And BEN EDGAR...the most robot like Epic Opponent Ever...wins Brsitol Winter Warmer for a third year in a row...winning yet more in store credit!

Don't worry folks...we've made him promise to test his mettle at an EpicUK Tournament soon: is he really the UK's ultimate 6mm sci fi gamer or can the likes of Dave Thomas, Joe Jephson or other top ranked players defeat this man?! Tune in next year!

So long and thanks...for all the fish!
Yrs,
R>

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We'll see you at the BristoL Summer Sizzler: First War for Armageddon Campaign Weekend!

If people would like to post their army lists and photo's that great :-)

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