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Event Title: Blood Tithe – AoS International Team Tournament Event Author: Marc Wilson Calendar: Events UK Event Date: 03/03/2018 12:00 AM to 03/04/2018 12:00 AM Update Pack 2.0 https://www.dropbox.com/s/qvl7t1wilv68464/Blood_Tithe2.0.docx?dl=0 ##NEW : Shadespire @ Blood Tithe - Friday March 2nd### Open Gaming 15:00 onwards Registration: 17:45-18:30Games 1 & 2: 18:45-19:45Dinner: 19:45-20:15Games 3 & 4: 20:15-21:15Break 21:15-21:25Game 5: 21:25-21:55Awards: 21:55-22:15 You will play 5 games in total. 2 against each of two opponents and a final sudden death game. Total Glory will be the sole scoring factor in placings. Least Glory conceded will be the tie-breaker. Entry is a stellar £15 inclusive of food and drinks - paypal.me/marcjwilson ################################# Blood Tithe – AoS International Team Tournament London Gatwick March 2-4th 2018 In association with The South London Legion I am delighted to announce the inaugural AoS International Team Tournament – Blood Tithe. The event will be staged at the Arora Hotel, London Gatwick – March 2-4th 2018. The event will be a 5 game, 2000 points, 4 man team, GHB2 matched play tournament with additional gaming opportunities on the Friday night, and arranged activities on the Saturday night TBC. We have space for 20 teams/80 players. The cost Team of 4, inc all gaming and lunch both days is £180 (£45.00 PP). How to Enter and key dates: A deposit of £60 per team, payable via paypal friends and family to: marcjwilson@gmail.com - with the balance due by Oct 31st. Limited places are available for domestic teams. 50% of the places are reserved for International teams. These places will be held until 30th September where after they will be incrementally opened up to the general community. Please list your team name and captain and on the Paypal payment. Refunds can be given up until 1st Jan where after they can only be given should other teams fill the space. Entrants Team USA USA Arthur Treitl Justin Schenck Phillip Ball Anthony Sweat Paris Peacocks FRA Pierre-Gilles Stehr Romain "Eretz" Bdlt François Tassaint Rémi Heraud Team Norn NIR Andy Kane David Neagle Colin Cochrane John Dorrian South London Leftovers ENG Craig Bowles John Burgess Declan Wynne Alex Clark Team Carry Jones - Aberdeen SCO Ryhs Inglis Scott Gray Mark Tootill Ruairidh Jones Cursed With Years ENG Paul Whitehead Adrian McWalter Simon Eccles Max Halford SLL B-team ENG Leo Rautonen Rob Bradley Ben Savva Ben Murphy Only the Filthful ENG Nicholas Ruesink-Brown Ben Raven James Grant Tom Lambert Ninja Badgers ENG Paul Buckler Richard Buckler Lauire Hugget Wilde Richard Morley Winners' (?) ENG Jack Armstrong Craig Navmar Chris Myhill Mark Wildman Crown of Champions GER Alexander Zwißler Dietmar Zwißler Andreas Steckmeier Charles Fryer The Spoons / Sweden ENG William Crankshaw Jonatan Edlund Andy Hughes Graham Dane Team Norway NOR Alexander Nygård Christiam Sundvor TBC TBC Team Hydra ENG Greg Dann Dan Comeau Joe McGough Mike Wills Marauders ENG Tony Moore Tom Mawdsley Nigel Chorlton Mark Busby Team Rocksteady ENG John Southgate Tomasz Namielski Jamie Field Johnny Armstrong La Gauntinière FRA Guillaume Garnier Christophe Salemi Antoine Parrain Simon Blais Team Wales WAL Tom Loyn TBC TBC TBC Angel ENG Owyn Abrams Donal Taylor Matt Hinton Adam Cunis I am Brucus ENG Rob Symes Ric Myhill Dan Bradshaw Darren Watson Location: Gatwick is 15 minutes from the M25, easily accessible by public transport from London and not least the cheap short haul hub of Europe and beyond. This surely presents our European (and other!) cousins with a viable opportunity to compete against other domestic and International teams. Once arrived there will be very little extra travel to factor in, unless you combine it with a trip to Central London, which is 30 minutes away by regular train (London Victoria). Venue: The Arora hotel is part of the Sofitel chain and has a dedicated conference space which we will use for gaming (complete with it’s own bar). It is adjacent to the railway system – an 8 minute hop to Gatwick. Crawley town centre, with myriad eating and drinking spots a 2 minute walk away. Lunch will be provided by the hotel both days. The hotel has twin rooms from @£65 per night at time of writing. We have separated out accommodation from the ticket cost to leave it up to individual teams to decide where they stay (lunch, to repeat, is included). The hotel website has comprehensive details about airport transfers: http://Gatwick.arorahotels.com Please note hotel parking is £10 for 24 hours, there is however an alternative open air car park 100m away which is £2.50 for 24 hours. The Tournament: This will be a 5 game , 4-man team tournament, using a “Swiss Pairings” method for determining opponents from Round 2 onwards. Pairings will be used (details in pack). Lists will be publicised two weeks before the event. Where possible in the first round International Teams will be drawn against Domestic Teams, thereafter the draw will be open. List Submission and Draw Lists must be submitted by 23.59 Sat Feb 17th. Once verified they will be published w/c 19th Feb. The 1st round Draw will take place Monday 26th Feb. Living House Rules Now in pack.

Would love to see France finally represented in an international event. I'll spread the word and try to form at least a team.

So why would you want to grudge them, if indeed your plan is to teach them a lesson? Unless the lesson is how to most efficiently take your models off the battlefield?

Hi all. Last couple of months I have been collecting and building a smallish wood elf army. These guys have been really fun to paint and play with so far. I just wanted to share what i have done so far and track my progress.

Hopefully we can get a team or two across from Northen Ireland. 6 Nations was a lot of fun so this sounds great.

I'm pretty sure i can raise a 4 player team from members of the Dorset Doggers (i live in Crawley). We just posted on their chat to see if any of them are interested.

I'll be sure to get a team (join a team) for this. Looks great.

Checking to see if I can get a team from Norway on this.

I'll speak to the team, but we should be down for this

One of the things that I have wanted to make ever since the South Coast Grand Tournament was my very own Silver Tower as the centrepiece terrain feature or my Tzeentch table. I wasn't sure what to use as the start of the model though, until I came across this cheap (£6.99) lighthouse from The Range. I thought with a bit of tweaking it would work as the base for the model. The first thing that I did was remove all of the shells and nautical decoration. It had al been attached with a glue gun so a quick go at it with the hobby knife allowed me to remove a lot of the detail and then I could sand down some bits that were a little rough. However the lighthouse now needed to be AoS'd a little bit. To start with I designed a Tzeentch pattern that I got from the floor tiles from the silver tower game. I scaled them so they were larger at the bottom than the top and then I cut them out carefully. I needed three patterns to go round the tower as well as a couple of extra bits to hide the window and door openings. Once they were cut out I used spray glue to attach them to the lighthouse. I had to go round some of the designs with superglue to get them to stick securely. The next step was to cut away the central pillar at the top. I drilled two holes in the top section and the main piece that could be joined by some wooden dowel. I then drilled a hole through a table tennis ball which was going to act as the eye of Tzeentch. I then used the laser cutter to cut out the nine Tzeentch spikes that would go round the top section. For final decoration I glued on some of the bits and pieces left over from the Lord of Change kits to add some more flavour to the design. I I then made a new Tzeentch disc style base which I attached to the original wooden base. I drilled a 20mm hole into the bottom using a Forstner bit and glued a piece of clear acrylic tube into it. To make it look magically powered I used expending phone around the bottom and stuck a load of the spare Lord of Change heads into it. At this point I also made a base from MDF and lots of filler to give it some weight. I covered the pole with masking tape so that could paint the base. With all the building now finished I was able to get on with painting the model. I painted it in four sections - the base, the tower, the base of the tower, and the eye. The base was painted brown and grey, then dry brushed and flocked. I used a lot of blue and white spray paint to paint the magical cloud at the bottom, then sprayed the top silver. Some of the silver went onto the blue but I really wasn't concerned by this as it added to the mystical appearance. I then gloss varnished the cloud. I also edge highlighted all the silver parts as well. The eye was sprayed with shades of blue and then I quickly picked out a nebula pattern with white on the eye. Again this was given a glossy finish. I sprayed the tower with leadbelcher and then hit it with a silver spray to pick out details. I used the light blue to do the lighting effects on the tower. I used a little bit of gold on the top just for some contrast. Everything was then glued together using mitre adhesive. All I need to do now is to create some exciting game rules to go along with the piece....

Thanks mate! The blood reavers are done, just had not taken pics of them yet... but here you go Thinking of revisiting some of them eventually (some are a bit shiny thanks to the satin varnish), but I consider them done anyway.\ Let the meat grinder grind on..

I've been working on my Stormcast host on and off now for nearly a year, with the majority of what I'd call "bulk" units completed or in the final stages of painting (5 more vanguard hunters are finished but not pictured, I have 15 protectors and 5 decimators along with two Concussor conversions to paint) which frees me up to do the most enjoyable part of the army. Characterful Conversions! I've just about finished the modelling on my Lord Commander for the host (Unique model, first of the host, general) who is in dire need of a name so suggestions are more than welcome. But most of all I'd love suggestions of characters, artillery pieces or monsters that people would like to see converted up that fit the theme of stormcast so that I can add them to the host! C&C Welcome as always!

This looks great!

Sounds awesome!

Looks interesting! Following this one now...

I find it always helps to get ahead in these projects!

Oh and I forgot to mention.. work on the mighty lord of Khorne has also started: I'm doing him the same way as the Blood Warriors. First a coat of Brassy Brass, then an all over wash of Agrax. After that, a dry brush of Auric armor gold. Here I am filling in the red with Khorne red, right after the gold dry brush. Painting in the remaining base colours: Screamer Pink (claw), PP's Battlefield Brown (Cape), Zandri Dust (Bone) and Celestra grey (belly). And finally some washes: nun oil for the red armor and the claw, some reikland flesh on the gold, and agrax on the bone parts. I started work on the dog some time ago: a quick airbrush of Tamiya's Desert Sand on its belly. Let the meat grinder grind on..

For the Realm of life table I wanted to add in a piece that called back to the Old World, so I thought that an Elven Waystone dedicated to Allarielle would be a nice way of doing this. It could be kept standing through the powers of the wanderers and have some magical effect that bolstered the Sylvaneths power. One of the challenges with making this from blue foam is keeping all the angles consistant. To solve this I b cut a rectangular block and then cut a wedge from a a second piece to make sure the angle would be consistent. Each time I made an angled cut along he long sides I kept the off cut and taped it back on so that I was always cutting from a rectangle. This meant that the shape would be consistent throughout. I cut the waystone and the square base together and joined these with cocktail sticks and silicon glue. I drew on a lot of the detail with a pencil to make the indented pattern and then glued on some half beads and the elven letters that I cut from a stencil. The top of the waystone was decorated with a small circular gourd that came from the lake town house kit from The Hobbit range. The Plinth was made from thin slices of blue foam that I laser cut. I was able to engrave on the stone shapes and runes which saved a lot of time. I had to play around with the power setting n the machine to get a good effect though. When this had finished I glued them all together onto a hardboard base. The edges were sanded and I cut the edges with a craft knife to roughen the stones appearance. I also cut some steps from cardboard that I could glue down. Painting was a quick job. First I gave the whole thing a coat of blue tester pot paint from B&Q before spraying it all with greys and browns. I did the waystone and the plinth separately. Then I drybrushed the whole thing with Wrack white and Terminatus Stone before spraying the half beads and the top gourd with a bright blue to create the OSL effect. Its a bit non specific, but it does the job. I then edge highlighted a lot of the stone work and drew on the cracks in the steps with a sharpie and white paint. The final step was to glue the whole piece together and add some flock, tufts and bushes.

Sure I can get a team together team event was awesome last time I tried it

7 spots left! Payments can be sent to mikcallaghan@yahoo.co.uk Since no one wants to be playing GHB1 when GHB2017 is out I'm pretty much decided that even if the it only drops on the 14th of September then we will go ahead and use the updated version. There will be no list deadline in this case, you will be able to submit on the day or in advance to give you maximum time to get your head around new points etc. It might be a bit wild west on the day but it'll likely be more fun than using the old version.

Well after taking a further look most of these PGs are conversions. Lots of plaguebearer bits on the models so makes sense to add the Glottkin too. I am afraid this bring nothing new of a GUO or any Nurgle rumors. Nurgly has turned out to be such a dissapointment.

I'd wager it's a conversion.

Whoah! Nice Job! That is truly impressive. A beacon of dark magic that towers over all of Tzeentch's domain! I still haven't decided what Chaos God to sacrifice myself too. Maybe poppa Nurgle or the mighty lord of Blood. Only time will tell...

Here you go, threw this togther for my own refernce a while ago, been updating as we go We still know what only a few of these actually are. 1. Kharadron Frigate 2. Tzaangor Shaman 3. Belisarius Cawl 4. Skyfires/ Enlightened 5. Yvraine 6.Yvraine 7.Kharadron Skywardens 8.Stormcasr Paladors 9.Cypher 10. Voldus 11.Shadow War Scenary- Ferratonic Furnace 12.? 13? 14.? 15. Kharadron Artwork 16-22. ? 23. 40k Xenos Index 24. Blood Bowl gobblin Chainsaw 25-35. ?

I'd say thats part of a terrain piece, relatively few details, large flat ieces with little definition. To my eye that isnt part of a figure but a larger terrain feature.

They seem to have done well enough out of it so far this century. Its never going to change while they are a traded (shares) company. Unknown long term gain at certain short term loss (or less profit than possible) is a gamble no-one is ever going to take. Its not even worth discussing unless you can afford enough shares in GW to influence it, but then you wont as it will be your money at risk LOL!

IMO the key problem with this logic is that it's classic short-term focused business thinking. It sacrifices long term growth for short term profit. At any given point in time, it will always be the most profitable choice to put out something new for the most popular faction. The problem is that this tends to build ill-will in the community and inhibit growth. If a new player is investigating the hobby, they may be turned off when players tell them that one or two factions get far more content than the others. They may not like the favored factions, or they ma be turned off by the idea of favoritism to begin with. In the end, the new players that are most likely to be fine with the situation will be those that like the favored faction, and the existing players that are most likely to quit are those who see release after release for the same faction while theirs sits untouched. This causes a vicious cycle where over time more and more of the playerbase skews toward the favored factions, which in turn makes it harder for GW to justify releases for other factions. Thus stagnation sets in, and the more extreme the imbalance gets the more growth gets inhibited by the loss of existing players and the losses in opportunities to recruit new players. Unfortunately it's hard to quantify these later factors while it's easy to quote sales numbers.

The received a new battletome a few months ago. They being the protagonist is not an excuse (at least for me) to give them a third of all the releases every year.

Hi guys, Since Photobucket royally screwed everybody over including my little plog, I'm transferring all my pics to Imgur. That's the plan in any case. But somehow Photobucket won't let me download my own pics. So I'm going to have to dig them out of my external hard disk which is lying somewhere around the house. Anyway, in the mean time here are some new pics of my recently finished Khorgorath, courtesy of Imgur! The monster's view from the perspective of it's latest victim. Let the meat grinder grind on..

My Nurgle table for Warhammer Achievements is coming along nicely. So far I have done some large slimy line of sight blocking terrain, a polluted Shimmerfalls, some Fetid Swamps, and a floating Island. All that is left is a diseased river which is currently under construction. The Bloated Growths I used expanding foam to make these, which makes for very quick terrain. I laid out a large sheet of grease proof paper and then squirted an entire can into piles of various sizes. I then left these to fully expand and cure, which takes about 24 hours. Once they were fully cured I ran them through the bandsaw to get a flat bottom and then glued them onto hardboard bases. I used PVA glue for this and then left the to dry with elastic bands around them to hold them firmly onto the bases. Once these had set I sanded the edges before base coating the slime with some random paint from a tester pot. Once this was dry they were spray painted Caliban green and then highlighted with a really bright green and some white followed by a coat of gloss varnish. The edges were painted brown and then dry brushed with Terminatus Stone. Finishing touches were done with Aquarium plants and some tufts just to add some interest. The Pollution of the Shimmerfalls. This was one of the cool images that are on the maps in one of the first Realm Gate Wars books. To make the Shimmerfalls I got a piece of 12mm MDF (could have been less thick in hindsight) and this was detailed with playback and air drying clay and then sanded. To make the falls themselves I took a sheet of perspex and cut it to the length I wanted, then I line bent the two ends. One end was screwed into the MDF base and the other was where I planned to put the pox cloud that was polluting the water. Once this was all attached I poured clear casting resin mixed with some Athonian Camo shade in to the pool. The waterfall itself was created using clear shower sealant that i piped on with a gun, and then textured with cocktail sticks to drag all the sealant down. I started putting the expanding foam on. This time i did it in layers, adding cocktail sticks to the foam so that the new layers had something to adhere to. Once this was dry I painted the whole thing with blue tester pot paint before spray painting it all the same a s the Bloated Growths above. To finish the piece off I painted a Plague Drone and stuck it on the top to show how the waterfall had gotten polluted.

Squeezed out a few waywatchers this week. Quick and fun to paint.

Cheers guys. I haven't seen a lot of wood elves in aos which is why I decided to build some. Pretty happy with the colours too. Wardancers are coming up next. here are some close ups of the dragon. Just the highelf dragon with converted rider and green paint job!

... And the rest of the funky bunch! .. And the family photo. Hard to fit these guys all on my photo setup Let the meat grinder grind on..

Alright fellow dark passengers, as promised some pictures Snagged the old Canon camera from my girlfriend and took some better pics of the finished Stormcast. Eternals. Must say the set was a blast to paint, with the Lord Celestant and the Relictor as my favorites. The only tiresome part were the wings on the prosecutors.. after a failed attempt doing it Duncan Rhodes style, I just got the airbrush and finished them the easy way.

@AustinTheMan, @Durty B, @Plantagenet Sigmar has cleansed your souls. Enjoy Age of Sigmar and crush the non-believers

I rage quit. Kept my models though. Dust settled, came back to try AoS with a point system. Now I'm all in. My favorite edition yet. Rebasing, buying up Stormbro's, and building realm terrain. All in suckas.