Oct 12th 25pt Tournament

  Hello Everyone this week we hit our stride seeing our League players to their first 25 pt lists! Troops are on the board! And some in numbers! We've seen the middle league slump last week with only a few players showing up and a nice surge this week leading up to our second tournament this weekend! October 12th at the Complex!  Not in the league no problem all are invited, bring your 25pt list and face off against our Journeymen League players.  League players who join in the tournament will get league games and like ourlast tournament the First and Second place League players will receive additional JL points.  

This week we had a very good showing with six journeymen league players along with two others who are interested in the game.  With the tournament coming I'm in over my head as usual trying to build more terrain and objectives so that we can run our first scenarios.  This will be our introduction of scenarios.  League players who choose to use a scenario can and will receive 3 pts for assassination and 4 pts for scenario victory! So try to get those scenario victories! I'll have the list of Steamroller 2013 scenarios that we will be using.

All this is leading up to our First ever Steamroller tournament November 16th So get ready out there it's our ultimate league event. A chance to get in a large amount of JL points for our last event of the league. 

Didn't make it into this League or having fun with our first league? Plans are in motion for a second league, starting shortly after the end of our current with a hybrid journeymen where we will start at 15 pts instead of battlebox and work our way to 50 pts. And we will expand the casters to other casters from your faction.  I have some of it worked out but any suggestions are welcome.  Also we will continue our monthly tournaments.

Lastly December 14th is set for our Foodmachine 2013! I will bring a Tote this week and will begin our collecting!  Every week you can bring in canned food goods a minimum donation of 20 cans is required in order to play.  I am giving you almost 2 full months to start collecting can goods.  Don't want them taking up space at home bring them in and mark down your total I will be taking can goods every week! Use your can goods to "break" the rules! In the upper right of my page is a link to those "breaks"

Also before I forget the guys from Game On Cafe got in touch with us, they are from up in Augusta and have a very good Warmachine/Hordes group.  They will be representing PP at the Maine Game Con which is November 2nd.

Look Forward to seeing you October 12th @ The Complex for our 25 pt Tournament!

Baulder taking on Doomy

The battle for the monolith

Oh No! Crit Slam Baluder out of assassination range...

Shifting to the forest... Doomy's exposed!

One of our new players Legion! That's right Josh you're not unique anymore!

Baulder and his Stones face off against Lilith and her Striders

Our league Legion player facing his arch nemesis trolls!

The fight over pink rock has taken it's toll on the Troll player DICE Betrayal!

Striker faces Denegra this time with his commandos!

Oh No Carny's after Baulder!

Doomy faces Striker gets snipe'd in the face

Wearing the trolls down.

My near complete first magnetized plastic heavy.  I think it's coming out nicely.

Journeymen Week 3

  Well well, week 3 saw a drop in numbers on League day only seeing one of our fellow league players with several who couldn't make it so I hope to see you all next week! Week 4 is our first week at 25pts!   Also remember October 12th is our 25 pt tournament! Don't forget this is the week you can switch out for another caster! Bring your league list and games count toward your league stats.

  But even though there weren't many league players I did have 2 people show up for demos one who I think is seemed very interested.  I heard from the guys at Game On Cafe,  they will be running a State Championship at the Civic Center in Augusta Nov 2nd!  With Iron Arena games being running Nov 1st - 3rd.

  Also I want to let everyone know that November 16th will see the end of our Journeymen League and our 35pt Steamroller tournament.  I hope to see you there.  I've heard from quite a few of our non-league players who are looking forward to this larger event.

And lastly I am working on getting all the info I need for our Foodmachine Tournament tentatively set for December 14th! For those of you who don't know about Foodmachine in stead of money for entry fee you bring in Cans of food for donation and use them to "Cheat"  A link is on the right for more info as to just how you can break the rules.  So start collecting cans and we'll make someones Christmas! Plus have a great time. Legally "breaking" the rules.

Ironclad taking out an Angry Baulder with some help from the charger

Demo Skorne Alt Box against Trollblood Battlebox

Xersis and his pet Basilisks

A little more organized...

  My first attempt at magnetizing a Heavy kit.  Wanted to get an Avenger and a Hammersmith more WIP pictures to come.

                           
                               

Press Gang Member

  So it's now official I've joined the Ranks of the Press Gang.  I've been having a blast these past few weeks and I can't wait to keep running more leagues and more tournaments.  Hopefully I'll get to try out my map based campaign I've been working on for so long.  

  Here we are already about to start week 3 of our Journeymen league the last week at the 15 pt level. Soon we'll be at 25! With a little bit of prep for week 6's 25 pt tournament! Remember starting at week 5 you can switch your caster for another faction caster! Not in the league come on by October 12th at 1:00!  

  Looking forward to another amazing Saturday at The Complex! 

  I have a wonderful wife who hasn't murdered me for taking over the living room this past month although I think I need to get it under control.  Also a few models I've been working on... Just because.

My 4x4 miniature gaming table folds up nicely...

My desk.... I know I need to organize again.

My needs to be worked on shelf

Defender coming along nicely

Strangewayes

Forsaken for friends army

Journeymen League Week 2

  Hello and let me begin by saying thank you to everyone who has signed up and who came into The Complex for week 2. Our league players added up to 15 pts for this week and next. We had a good showing with six of our journeymen league players showing up, and one late comer.  

  I've been working on more terrain but still haven't got the hang of buildings.  I have several trenches under construction and gun emplacements. I also am working on objective markers as soon they will be needed.   Lineal obstacles are another thing we are short on.  We still have a long way to go hope to see some great new pieces of terrain.

  Our next tournament is currently going to be 25 pts and held on October 12th starting at 1 and running until 6ish I'm guessing.  Not in the league, come on down for our monthly tournaments.  League players will need to run their league list to get points, but anyone else just needs a 25 pt list.  This is going to definitely be a trial for certain lists depending on who shows up. Our last tournament had 8 participants we have room for more I hope to see more of you there for the next one.

  As our group grows we are going to need more so if anyone wants hobby points for the journeymen terrain gets you a lot of points if you donate it to The Complex.  I am looking forward to the future of our group I am currently planning on running a Food Machine tournament toward the end of this year.  For those of you who aren't familiar with Food Machine you bring in can goods to be donated to the local food kitchen. Instead of $$ for entry fee there is a mandatory 10 cans of food.  With tickets handed out for every can you donate.  Can tickets can be then used to influence all kinds of different parts of the game.

  Yann (Devilsquid) just ran a BCB (Breast Caner Brawl) where proceeds go toward breast cancer research.  I am hoping that we can do one of these in the future.  

Look forward to seeing you Week 3!

Taking on Trollbloods

Maneuvering into position

Fighting over the valley

Pirates

Cygnar taking on Pirates

Ironclad over the freebooter wreckage,

Doomshaper holding off Legion

Barnabas and the spitter taking care of business.

Buccaneer keeping the Carny on his bum

Legion closing in on the pirates booty

Fighting Legion over the pavilion tent

Failed assassination of Lilith

My finished Striker

Our Pirate Player added Reinholt and Dougal.

Journeymen League 2013 Kickoff

  Well this Saturday we kicked off our inaugural league at The Complex with a battlebox tournament.  We ended up with eight people, seven of which have signed up for our league! This was my first tournament that I ran and I must admit I was a little nervous. We had Legion, Circle, Gators, Protecterate, Cryx, Cygnar, Pirates, and Convergence.  The final round went to Legion vs. Cryx, Lilith vs. Deneghra, with the win to Josh Clockedile and his Legion.  All the league members got points toward their journeymen league and extra for playing on our league day. 

  There were some amazing paint jobs of which I forgot to take pictures of... oops I was so busy trying to make sure everything was running smoothly that the idea of taking pictures left my mind.  So after the tournament was over I ran around trying to catch some pictures of those who participated.  Eric Baker our Pirate participant in the journeymen, had one of the best positioning and basing that I'd seen.  He posed his Freebooter on a dock with it's foot going through the decking into water and his clamp breaking off the pier.

  We had a good amount of fully painted boxes and a few in the process.  This was my first experience seeing Convergence being used by someone who had been using them for some time so his grasp was much better than my play-test I ran back when PP released the cards over the War Room App. It was very interesting definitely makes you think about how they work together and from an opponent side gave me a few ideas on how to disrupt that but Steve ran his Convergence very well and I really liked the paint job.

  After a long day gaming I think everyone had a good time and despite a few bad match-ups everything went smoothly.  So now we progress in our journeymen on toward the next week and our full 15 point lists. Now I'm going to start working on trying to get at least 10 people for our 25 point tournament next month.  Don't have a definite weekend yet but I'm shooting for a October 12th. Our journeymen will be running their starter boxes plus filled up to 25 points up against opponents who aren't in the league who will be running standard 25 point lists.  Should be exciting and a way to get a good amount of points for a single weekend.  I look forward to seeing you there!  

  Not in the league come by for a pickup game against someone in the league who's looking for getting a game on League day.  Haven't played at all? I will be at The Complex Saturdays ready to run a Warmachine or Hordes demo.

Lilith's Victorious Legion taking on my Cygnar

Kreoss' PoM taking on Kaya's Circle

Eric's Pirate Freebooter

From the side

Clockwork Angels

Steve's Steelsoul Keg Protector

From the side

Steve's Convergence

My Cygnar Starter Box