Noah preached for 120 years that the flood was coming. Nobody repented.
Jonah walked into a Ninevah, says "You'll be destroyed in 40 days," and the whole city repents.
It goes to show you that many things are just out of our hands. That holds true for this weekend. A couple weeks back I sent out an email to some people I knew who lived in the area who might be interested in driving to
The Portal in Bethlehem PA for some Epic play. It's close to me and an easy enough thing to accommodate. No tournament, no grand plan, no required start time. People could come and go as they wished and play what they wanted. I was hoping for four or five guys to show.
Thirteen people showed up.
For those of you in the UK, that is a big turn out for any event here - distance being a major factor for most players. Had one more person shown up the entire store would have been packed with solid Epic.
Compare that with the Games Day Baltimore event where we struggled to get eleven people to come.
Keep in mind we had prize support, trophies, we had to schedule time off, shelled out a lot of cash for the hotel, food, drove over 3 hours to get there, etc..
The games were fun and the players were all well behaved. Big Battles was the way of the day. ePilgrim, Dwarf Surpreme, RonSandt, and myself played 8000 per side (four armies of 4000 each) and that took the better part of 8 hours. The Skitarii and Minveran Legion combined to fight the forces of Biel Tan and Demiurg. The game was sliding toward defeat for the Xenos team when we squeaked out a victory with BTS and Take & Hold. Ron abandoned an objective marker in a strange move and the second objective marker we managed to clear out with some luck. One more turn and we would have folded.
As for players we had everyone from newbies to veterans. Guys in their forties all the way down to a twelve year old (I would whisper to the other players in my sinister Yoda voice, "
Do not underestimate the child.")As for armies we had Eldar, Demiurg, Minervan, Skitarii, Orks, Lost & Damned, Space Marines, some other Chaos armies, Tyranids, AMTL, Imperial Guard, and maybe something else I am missing. Keep in mind some guys showed with more than one army.
It would be great if the other participants who were there could comment on their games. It was a good time had by all.
Pictures are limited and will have to wait on the other guys. I had to borrow Suvarov454's camera to snap off some shots since I forgot mine (AGAIN!
) at home.
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), and others had family obligations or work conflicts.
