other blogs to watch...

A team of us are working on a project for AdeptiCon (Chicago) 2009. I'll be starting to blog that project in the next month or so.

Eric is building a Grey Knight army for it; you'll be able to follow his progress here.
Trent has a blog for his daemons too!

Now if only Rob would blog...

5e, GT and Army "nerfing"!

After playing at the Las Vegas GT a couple of weeks ago, I’ve been participating in a number of on-line discussion about how the “new” GT system works, how 5e works in competitive play and which (if any) armies suffer under 5e in competitive play.

Using the results from the Vegas GT (published by GW) I’ve done some VERY basic trends analysis

These results are in no way definitive, but they give some answers to some of the questions. I’m not going to overstate my opinions on the data, I’ll leave that up to the rest of you!

Q: Do soft scores skew the overall result and take away from the “competitive" nature of GTs and the Battle points system?

A: It does not appear to be that way.

Q: Are some armies “hurt” by the advent of Kill Points into the scenario package? How are “other” scorings affecting specific armies?

		total points	battle points	sports'	appearance
		130	56	49	25	Overall
Space Marines	36	126	54	49	24
Chaos Marines	21	128	54	48	26
Daemons	6	142	67	49	26
Eldar	15	134	59	48	26
Orks	7	140	63	50	28
Tyranids	12	128	53	49	25
Tau	5	125	54	49	23
Necrons	4	128	52	49	28
Witch Hunters	6	136	66	48	22
Daemon hunters	2	133	62	50	21
IG	10	128	55	48	25
Dark Eldar	3	117	43	49	25
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As you can see from the averages, most armies are comparable when you have a mix of the 3 scenarios at an event. the obvious exception is Dark Eldar, but we already know they need a major overhaul!

Viva Las Vegas!

Ok... so I'm 10 days late...

Vegas was most excellent! had 5 good games, had fun catching up with old friends and had a hoot playing on the blackjack tables with some crazy b'stards (yes Corey you!)
I'll start the batreps soon...

Gearing up for Vegas

So only 2 more sleeps until I fly to Las Vegas for the GT!
Pretty excited about the trip.
Sure I'm still trying to get the OFCC Batrep finished (I'll work on it some more tonight), but Vegas is going to be SO cool!
Bought a new camera - Sanyo 7.3MPx, so my pictures should be a bit better quality.
Packing the army tonight.
Playing Space Wolves - pretty solid list with 40 Blood Claws, and I'm playing my Leman Russ Exterminator for S&Gs.