Things that make you go.... "WTF?"

So, I'm doing some house-cleaning ("post move downsize" if you want to get technical), and I came across two sets of these.  As is want to most things in a games possession, I'm not exactly clear on where and when I got them.  I want to say it was from an LA Games Day, somewhere in the early 2000's... but they're not labeled anywhere.  No tag, nothing on the bottom of the resin... nothing.

So, I do a little online research (thank you for being there SOL).  Nothing.

I post it to some friends who have been playing GW's games since the dawn of time.  None of them recognize it.

The base is a white resin, pile of skulls.  Center indent would hold a 40mm base.  Banner pole is white metal.  It's covered in "Games Workshop-esque iconography" - laurels, the two-headed eagle, skulls, purity seals, etc.

Anyone out there recognize it?

Rigging tourney's for the win!

< rant >

So, evidently, Tye and I can rig a local tourney to guarantee a win.  :)  There's been some discussion on the back end for our beating face last weekend at the doubles tournament.  "Did you know that not only are we bad ass at 40k, but we also have the ability to rig tourneys so we win. Cause, that was the only way we were able to stomp face so well...That's why the prizes were so big."

I was talking about this with Corey - and he referenced the South Park episode with Gnomes attempting to steal underwear for profit.  See screen cap here modified to be the following:

• Step 1: set up tournament, "manipulate" players to play at $10 a head.
• Step 2: ???
• Step 3: take all the winnings

His final bit was "There's a crucial flaw in the plan unless a) you had rigged scenarios b) you have an 'uber-broken' army list or c) you have microwaved dice."    Now - rigged scenarios?  You betcha!  Rolled randomly from the big rulebook - definitely rigged... you check the fine print where it says "Trent and Tye always win"?  "'uber-broken' army list"?  Well - you know we did have 2 HQ, 2 Elite, 6 Troops, and 2 Heavy's in 2000 points... so I guess so.  Microwaved dice?  Nah... we play old school - each of my dice are hand-drilled to roll only 5's - great for orks shooting and armour saves - less helpful for the leadership checks. Now Tye's dice - his are hand crafted by specially trained Peruvian screech monkey's to have all seven sides of his D6's roll 3's.

Or, from Tye...

Now it's my understanding that there were feelings that the tourney was "rigged" and Trent and I were going to win all along.  That being the case, I figured I would enlighten you with our master plans.  Following these easy steps you too can rig any tourney you play in.

• Step 1: Make sure that you and your partner have a combined total of over 25 YEARS playing the game.
• Step 2: Plan, Prepare, and Design a solid list that compliments each other well.  Make sure that you have a strong list that is able to handle anything thrown at it.
• Step 3: Make sure that you and your partner have time to talk strategy and different possibilities.
• Step 4: Make sure your armies are painted and you are good sportsmen so that you don't loose points on dumb things.
• Step 5: Play 3 good games against tough lists and decent players.  And beat them soundly.

By following these simple steps, you too can win every tourney you play in.

< /rant >

Oye, where does the time go...

My good friend Manny posted this about his day: http://adventuresofacrosscountrygamer.blogspot.com/2010/05/day-in-life-of-slacker.html yesterday.  To which my friend Corey (all the "deleted responses" to Manny's posts...) spent a good hour or so this morning chiding me over IM.  It included the following nugget:

Trenty-poo, you can have whatever you want... ;)  I wouldn't want to hurt your delicate sensibilities and drive you to another whiny blog, so my fuzzy-wuzz-wookieman can whatever he likes...

Corey - consider this the whiny blog post.  :)

Right.  All my tanks are done excecpt for about the back half of the repaint for the demolisher.  What, it was already painted?  I know, it just didn't match the final paint job on the rest of the army, so it had to go in for a respray.

Corey's tanks are built, primed, base-coated and detail started (thank you to the wife).  And his Vendetta #1 is 95% built, and #2 is about 20% built.

Life is adjusting to two rugrats running around.  #2 sleeps (like, I think she slept more in the first two days than #1 slept in the first week)... #1's jealousy issues have just started to surface - for the first two weeks it was very much "I wanna hold baby sister."  We'll work through that.  I think I'm going to take a run to tri-cities tomorrow with #1 in the afternoon (assuming the boss okay's it).  Give mama a little quiet time and maybe, just maybe she'll decide she needs a nap again (going on two weeks now without naps).  Sorry, gaming blog.

I picked up a set of the pre-cut trays from battlefoam for the guard army.  I'm still not 100% sure they're... good (no, not the right word).  The first order from battlefoam was a custom piece I had them do sometime last year (before they started offering their own bags).  It was supposed to be for Sabol's Army Transport - it was about 1/4" too wide on the long side and 1/2" too wide on the short ends.  The foam was nice, don't get me wrong, it still fit in the bag fine - just had to compress it a little - I just think for a "precision laser cut foam insert" the tolerances could have been a little tighter.  And yes, I know, they would have done it again if it was wrong.  These new trays are the precut sabol trays for infantry, that hold 40.  For $10 that's a decent deal.  The holes are nice for guardsmen, not sure marines would have really fit in there (they do make one with larger pre-cuts that will hold 27 I think)... but the tray size was again, a little off.

I think the next trays I'm going to get for my sabol cases will be the precut sabol trays.  Same price as the pull and pluck, hold 36 infantry and 2" thick so I can stand the guys up.

OT: Incoming!

For those of you that read this blog and not the baby one.  I'm sitting in the hospital waiting for the wife to hurry up and deliver the #2 tax deduction.  I'll be quite for a while on this one.  If you wish to get baby updates - http://round-anew.blogspot.com

OT: "The world's oldest profession"

You know its a funny news story when you damn near spit soda out your nose because of a quote.  The quote goes like this:

"If the Louisiana Republican Party is uncomfortable with a Republican challenger who has a history of selling sex, I would suggest they reconsider standing by an incumbent with a history of paying for it,"

It's a response to a story about an adult film actress (look ma, no quotes!) contemplating running in a primary race against an incumbent Senator.  The full story is here at the Boston Herald.

We now return you to your regularly scheduled gaming blog.

My January (aka, this is my *boom* stick)

Right, so the gaming.modeling was less than stellar this month.  Egh, to everything thing there is a season.  Anywho - The wife finished up the Dark Elf BB team this week.  I've just now got to finish the bases.  Here's a shot of one of the Witch Elves:

So, that will be done this week - based and shiny.  I'll get a picture of the full team up after that.  Other exciting happenings game wise - played a 3 person Dungeon Bowl game.... with snotlings.  Three teams of snots in the dungeon with no re-rolls... it was fun.  :)

Now, as to the aka from the title...  I started going every once in a while to the gun club (shotgun).  This morning I was starting a round (of 25 shots) - three in and the gun of the guy next to me essssploded.  Kicked the bolt out to the right (away from everyone) and pealed the barrel like a grape.  It blew a hole in the guys hat brim, knocked a lens out of his safety glasses, shredded the gloved trigger finger, and threw a piece of shrapnel about 25 feet straight back (and put a small hole in a guys jacket).  I got a picture of the gun...

So, that was exciting.

CAPTCHA, part deux

Open that up to full screen to see the full glory that is Google CAPTCHA.... (and ads).

Total games played.

So, it looks like with the passing of the equinox, summer is officially over. Here was the game totals for the summer.

• 10- Bloodbowl
• 2 - Necromunda
• 1 - Warhammer Fantasy (Ogre Kingdoms)
• 3 - Warhammer 40k (Plague Marines)
• 2 - Warhammer 40k (Eldar)
• 13 - BattleGround
• 2 - Game X
• 3- Battlestar Galactica
• 1 - Apples to Apples

I was hoping to get more games of 40k or Warhammer in - I will get 3 games in this weekend though (doubles tournament). I didn't get *any* games of Space Hulk in (can't complain too much, came out what, 3 weeks ago?) Got more games of Bloodbowl and Battleground than expected, and had a blast playing Apples to Apples. I can't wait for the Pegasus expansion to come out so I can airlock a skin job (if that doesn't make sense, you need to rent/buy/borrow/steal the BSG series). There's talk of a local Bloodbowl league...

CAPTCHA - you've got to love it...

Ok, so this is reasonably random...

I've got an iPhone, I've had one for work since they first came out. To say that MMS functions on the phone suck is a bit like saying the Pacific is small ocean. It's this huge whole "go to this web page, use this user name with this password to view the picture." The user name is usually something like "I76rSB*m" - but the password, the password seems to usually have some relevance to the picture. I'll get passwords like "bugs4fun" or "cars4all" when I get pictures of VW's from my brother (obligatory link here). From my sister I usually get passwords like "hair8fun".

I was reading a friend of a friends blog about his Chaos army - specifically about his World Eater's squad. The CAPTCHA that google decided to give me was so appropriate I had to take a screenshot.




Funny/odd... ya?

Not a lot of gaming done in the last week - my daughter turned 2 today. More updates later this week.

Gamers lost in the hinterland...

So, my wife kidnapped me this last weekend. We went from South Eastern Washington to Central Western Oregon. It's about a six and a half / seven hours (depending on who's driving and who's sleeping...)

Here's the krux of the post though - if you wander off the beaten path is search of a gaming store... they ain't there. I searched for a while using my iPhone for a game store / comic book shop... something that might carry GW stuff. Nothing. Nada. GW's webpage has the nearest place in Corvallis - which is about an hour or so over a mountain pass...

When we got back into Portland while driving home, we could have stopped at quite a few stores... but here's the question - do you stop at other games stores while you're traveling?

Random collection of things...

First up a definition, thanks to a good friend of mine:Plan: (n) 1) a list of things that never happens. That will make sense here in a minute.


Right, so it looks like the bigger-ized marine is going to be a Blood Raven. I should have some things up this upcoming week. The plan for this weekend was to have the wife and child at the in-laws this weekend. I was going to do a little bit of "work" on Saturday morning, then spend the rest of the day working on the marine and the Orks.

What actually happened - stomach flu for child, stomach flu for me, and stomach flue for wife. :)

I did get the Orks based on the Gale Force 9 magnetic 40mmx75mm pill bases. Here's some pictures:

Off topic shout out...

Even though he didn't link this in his new blog, I'm giong to do the nice thing.

If you're into VW's - check out my brother's new blog: airkooledkustoms.blogspot.com