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[morsla]

Liber Animus is finished... and so am I.

Painted 'til 6:00am Saturday morning; slept for an hour, and got up to head off to the tourmanent. I won the first round by a decent margin - lending further evidence to the theory that I make more mistakes when I'm awake. Unfortunately, this catapulted me right into the top half of the field, and it proved to be my only win for the weekend.

Five games total @ 2000 points. Win, Draw, Draw, Draw, Loss. Better than I'd expected, as I was getting delerious from lack of sleep :)

- 40 fantastic armies to play against. At least half could have won painting awards, so the competition was tough.
- Air conditioned venue... kept us alive in the hot weather.
- Licensed venue. We ran out of beer twice on Saturday night, and ended up getting through about six slabs. Seems to be a tradition when all the interstate/overseas players turn up for a tournament :)

Three games were against non-locals, which was great. Stu started the SA/VIC roadtrip when I was still running the ][con tournaments, and I finally got to play him three years (and countless road trips) later. Shippy (another SA player) faced me with the army I'd leant him, so I played against my own models. Weird feeling. The 14-14 draw seems to prove that the Guard and the plaguemarines are well matched... The final game was against Hagen, from New Zealand - a 5-20 loss despite half his units doing nothing to me. One unit of wolf scouts and a Predator tank took down almost 1800 points of guard...

I wasn't all that impressed with my painting score - it was above average, but I didn't agree with two categories I was marked down in. The next plan? Adapt the army for an 1850 point list, really go mad painting the extra details, and win the painting award at the Grand Tournament/whatever it's called this year.

Comments

[kitling.livejournal.com]

what are the catagories for painting scores?

hell - what are the catagories for a wh40k tournament :)

I'm working up the courage to play in one... and the paint job of course :)

[morsla.livejournal.com]

It depends on which tournament - they all tend to set their own scoring. Generally, there are three - Gameplay (obvious, and worth 40-60% of the total); Sportsmanship (at the end of each game, work out whether the other player was fun to play against or a complete prick), and painting/army selection.

The painting for Liber had points given out for things like cohesiveness (does it look like an army or a collection of odd models); unit markings, highlights, etc.

I think the Fanatik tournament (it replaces the old "grand tournament" and is run by the GW guys) will publish their scoring sheets in advance - so you can make sure you maximise those points, where possible. You can't guarantee the absolute maximum, though, as the final few points in each category are subjective ones for the judges - things like "is this in your top three armies," etc.

The tournaments are fun :) After sportsmanship scores entered the scene, most of the pain-in-the-ass people stopped playing, so there are some great people there. It's like any of the cons - I spend half my time catching up with people, and the other half actually playing the games...

[harkon.livejournal.com]

I would just like to take the time to tell you that you are a crazy man :) I can see you some time in the future hugging your knees to your chest while painting minies as the sun rises while chanting "3 days without sleep, I am invincible!"

Glad you had fun.