New Winter Campaign

We have a new campaign starting on Monday.  If you wish to participate, please bring with you an idea for a colour that you can paint your flags.  You will be getting a couple of flags and will need to paint them.  The rules will be posted on here come the weekend.  Expect it to be similar, except much fewer tile improvements (ie. bastions etc.) at the beginning, but a way to get more, and a point system for victories which you can spend on said improvements, strategic assets, and even to adjust your die rolls to take over other people's territory.  Should be fun!

Kevin

Warhammer Fantasy Tournament

Greetings!

This past weekend saw a few brave souls in Quesnel battle it out for WFB supremecy!  Here are the results:

1st.  Nick M. - Chaos Dwarves
2nd. Jon H. - Vampire Counts
Best Sport:  Ryan S. - Skaven

Thanks to everyone who showed up!  Hopefully we'll have another one, perhaps with a smaller unit count soon!
Kevin

Eldar List

First, I have to tell you, I am not in the slightest a fluffy player.  The fluff that was so prevelent in the previous codex was all but abandoned in the lastest one, and 5th edition and its new array of codexes has forced the Eldar player to abandon anything fluffy to make a competetive list.  Kudos to those who stick with their pure Saim-Hann or Iyanden and try to make it work... a hybrid is where its at though.

Edmonton list last year:

1850 Points - with composition rules:  no more than two selections from fast, heavy, and elite. No special characters.

HQ:  Farseer.  Singing Spear, Runes of Warding, Spirit Stones, Jetbike, Doom, Fortune
Warlocks x 5, Jetbikes, 1 x Enhance, 1 x Embolden, 3 x Destructor

HQ: Farseer. Singing Spear, Runes of Warding, Spirit Stones, Jetbike, Doom, Fortune
Warlocks x 5, Jetbikes, 1 x Enhance, 1 x Embolden, 3 x Destructor

Elite:  Fire Dragons x 5 in Falcon
Elite:  Fire Dragons x 5 in Falcon

Heavy:  Falcon, Holo Fields, Scatter Laser, Spirit Stones
Heavy: Falcon, Holo Fields, Scatter Laser, Spirit Stones

Troops:
Dire Avengers x 7, Dire Avenger Exarch /w 2 Avenger SC in Wave Serpent
Wave Serpent /w TL Bright Lances, Spirit Stones, Star Engines

Eldar Guardian Jetbikes x 6 /w 2 Shuriken Cannons

1841 Points

Obviously this list is not something I would take to an open composition tournament.  Luckily, many people held to this contruction constraint, so the over-all competetive atmosphere of the tourney was toned down. 

My councils would go and tie up everything it could, eating vehicles for lunch.  In one game, one of my councils held up 30 space marines in close combat for the ENTIRE game and was still alive at the end. My Dragon squads would each follow a council up the board, and would take out anything big and scary while the council was tying up everything that could retaliate in close combat, so the dragons acted in relative saftey.  The biggest risk with this list was lack of troop choices.  I negated this by placing objectives properly.  I would place one objective on my side of the board which I would secure, if possible, with the guardians on bike, then "help" the other players by putting any of my remaining objectives on their side of the board.  This keeps the enemy on their side of the board becuase that's where the majority of the objectives are... but that's also where my entire army was, so contesting would be easy, and I would hold my one objective and contest all theirs.  In objetive games, you don't win more or better by holding more than one objective, all you need is one, and contest all the others.  In this tournament, I never lost a council.  They were always both alive at the end, and were able to contest or draw people off objectives. Eldar Tanks are the king of contesting as well.  Later in the week I will look at other lists I've brought and won with.

Kevin

New 'Nids on the Block

I recently played 2 games against the new 'nid codex over the weekend. I have to say that while there are new new set of 'Nids on the Block, Eldar don't really have to be worried. Just bring your "best of" list and it will still do well.

My observations about the Nids, having played them now:

1. Nid players will no longer line their forces up and start slogging it across the table. They will be in your face first or second turn guaranteed. If you see someone march their bugs across the table, laugh at them all the way to the win.
2. T6 with 6 wounds is the norm. Get used to it, and get ready to deal with it. The benefit of HAVING to deal with T6 is that whatever you bring to deal with it will also double up as anti-tank, which you can never have too much of.
3. Genestealers poping out of terrain and eating everything in or around it is scary... the trick is that if you can't fit ALL of the genestealers in the terrain, without being outside of 1 inch away from whoever else might be in there with you, the entire unit dies... so spread out! And don't stay right next to the terrain in hopes of avoiding them because they can move through cover, then fleet then pwn your butt first turn they come in from reserve! People say Genestealers got nerfed... HA HA HA HA HA... these elite ones are what Genestealers should have always been... NEVER LEAVE HOME WITHOUT THEM.... unless of course there are other elites you'd rather not leave at home either.

In about three months, every tourney will be flooded with these guys.  The models are AMAZING, the options are AMAZING, the fun factor of this army went from ho-hum to AMAZING.  The best part is:  Imperial Guard are going to be scared of these guys and will adapt to deal with them, which makes the rest of us VERY VERY happy, becaue the entire game just changed.  'ard Boyz is going to be very interesting this year.

I play Eldar

 

Most of you probably know that I play Eldar in Warhammer 40K.  I only started playing this game just over a year ago.  The group I played with at the beginning was very competetive and very unforgiving, playing only the power lists.  Since then, I have honed my skills, and now I consider myself a pretty descent player, but only through necessity :)  I have won Best General at the last three tournaments I've played at that had such a position. I am very passionate about my Eldar, but I have been left wondering lately if Eldar are still competetive.  I mean, if you take nothing but the hammer of any army, you can probably do well, and that is what I have done with the Eldar.  Its all Falcons and Seer Councils on bikes for the most part, which while very effective, leaves a lot of the flavour of the Eldar behind.  Where are the Banshees, where are the Scorpions?  When was the last time you saw Warp Spiders?  I have never seen them, and I don't own any.  Last July at a tournament in Edmonton (Out of the Basement), the second most prevelant army there was the Eldar (7 Armies), and I played two other Eldar players during my 6 games.  While no one had an army kitted for the win like mine, it was an odd scene.  The thing about the Eldar, which makes them so appealing, is that there is a "hope" for something unique and interesting in the army, but this last codex combined with the 5th edition rules, has left all of that behind, if you choose to be competetive.  Just my thoughts though.

Tyranid Codex

We should have a real-life, flesh and blood preview copy of the Tyranid Codex in our hot little hands on Friday.  You can either pay Mandy huge sums of money in unmarked bills to hold this most coveted item, or just show up and ask nicely. Everything buggy goes on sale on the 16th of January!!!  If you'd like us to put your name on some of the incoming stuff, please let us know asap or we will not be able to guarantee you any models on the 16th!

So excited to see this stuff!

While I'm not the biggest Ultramarine fan, (well, I am a fan of the tell-tale pop they make when hit by my advanced Eldar weaponry) I am looking forward to this project!  But at the same time, I'm wondering why they haven't gotten their big boy pants on and decided to make a real movie with real people and a real budget, instead of releasing this kind of "relegated to the discount bin a Walmart" kind of stuff.  This is 40K!  Imagine what you could do with the kind of effects and budget of Avatar!?! One could only dream!

North Peace Gamers

Just wanted to drop a line to anyone that might be watching!

Check out http://www.northpeacewargamers.com/ for information on upcoming events in the Peace region.  Also, they have some cool forums for discussion on anything Games Workshop. 

There is now a perma-link on the right!

Thanks Mike for the heads up!

Kevin

Fantasy Army Trouble

Its official... I'm stumped! I have no idea what to bring!  Actually, its a lot more complicated than that.  Not only do I now know what to bring, I hardly know how to play.  Figuring out what is good and what isn't, is next to impossible when you have no frame of reference.  I scoured the internet and I found a list (Skaven) that I could finally wrap my head around.  I modified it, then went to order the models, and low-and-behold but only three of the models were available!  Now WHAT?!?  Anyone who knows me knows that I am a very competetive player, so taking any of the armies that don't have a chance in the tournament scene is not an option.  So no Orcs, Chaos Beastmen, and unfortunately, not Wood Elves (sob).  And I can't play Vampire or Daemons, because they are just not kosher for me.  So that leaves not a lot.  If anyone has any ideas, please drop me a line!

Kevin