KublaCon Weekend

KublaCon was this weekend and it was a long weekend. Two Warhammer 40k Tourneys were held, and one Warhammer Fantasy Battle Tourney. There were also all kinds of games being played; miniatures, paper, and Legos based. I went around to the 40k Tourney on Sat and was lucky enough to be there when everyone left for lunch, so I took pictures of every army set up for the painting competition (which I'll post later). On Sunday, I did the same thing with the Fantasy games, but missed getting all the armies because they started a little earlier after lunch. On Sunday, they also had a 4ok campaign/tourney at the 2k level. A couple of different players came to that one and I took a couple of pics of those armies.

Besides the Warhammer things, there were the LARPs, tabletop RPGs, tabletop games, historical minis, Warmachine, and hobby games/activities. I sat in on a couple of modeling seminars and a game building seminar. Some of it was what I was looking for, some of it was not what I looking for. The Dealer's room wasn't too bad, really aimed at the gamer crowd. The exotic items included scale-fleet battles like Harpoon 4 and a custom 6 foot by 4 foot dining room table/hidden game table by Geek Chic (www.geekchichq.com). There's also the more mundane, GW boxes and FoW sets.

Some of the things I picked up included 3 battlemechs for Classic Battletech, 2+ bricks of new dice (hopefully not cursed), some big foam dice for the daughter, a dice tower at the dealer's room. From the Flea Market, I broke down and picked up a Sisters of Battle Army (about 30 minis, 2 Rhinos, and 1 Immolator and more Tau; 2 Devilfish, a Hammerhead, Fire Warriors, Kroot, Stealth Squad, and a Crisis Suit Commander. Didn't really need more Tau, but I couldn't really help myself when it was all for $60.

More to come later.

'Ard Boyz Tourney

I was able to wander by Game Kastle this past Saturday to check out the 'Ard Boyz Tourney they were hosting and the various armies that people brought. I wasn't up to trying it out, especially since it's been 3 months since I've played any 40k. However, I did want to check out the players and the armies that people had brought to get an idea how others build their armies, paint jobs, and conversions. Sure, 'Ard Boyz is really about 25oopts of killing, and not really about painting and converting, but sometimes you can get some inspiration.

Here's a set of pictures from some of the armies that played that I took with my camera phone. Sorry for the resolution and size, best I can do without bringing the Rebel. Even with all the mech, the winning army was Tyranids, followed by Orks and Chaos (Marines, I'm assuming; I didn't see any daemons).


Check out the Storm Raven conversion behind the cottage in this Blood Angels army. Yes, there is 3 Land Raiders in this army. Land Raiders are dedicated transports in a Blood Angels army, and the 750+ points in LR are supported by a 200+ point Storm Raven.


Ork Horde to take on the Blood Angels. They were into their 1st round of movement in the 1st game when this picture was taken.

Tyranid army, but not the 1st place finisher.

Mech Imperial Guard. Not quite leafblower, but definitely Chimera heavy. This army was probably going to have a hard time in the 3rd game when anything that travels non-modified over 6 inches (bikers, jump troops, tanks, etc) becomes 3 Kill Points. If I count this right, there's 11 vehicles for 33 Kill Points before you start counting troops, special characters, HQs, etc.

World Eaters army. Cool conversion and paint job.

Tau list. Player admitted that he hadn't picked this army in over a year.