Pretty tired right now and I have a large box of Infinity stuff to work through for my 40k sabbatical, which will be after I clean up assemble and probably paint my shiny new Tantalus, which will be nice for a bit of a chill.
I’ll try and cover my games as best I can possibly tomorrow, of 5 games only one was non-marine derived, even my casual game the night before was vs a Paladin Star .
I’m a bit pissed I did not even get a nomination to be judged for best army, there were actually some very nice armies chosen but the Judges did not even stop to look at mine, I have realized it is far to subtle to be noticed on the tabletop, I could have put a quarter of the effort into this army and no-one would notice. people just walking past completely ignored it, was a little heartbreaking If I’m honest.
My Club Did well, Ryan picked up best GK with a minimal spam non net list Ben, Adam and Sam did really well I think we were all in the top quarter, the scoring tables are slightly confusing but other than Best DE I think I was 3/4th overall and If not for one dumb mistake I would have been 2 points short of the tourney maximum for a possible overall win, even then I possibly could not win as there were quite a few DE players and some of them were putting in a good showing.
Still I’ll go away content & undefeated and I’m really pleased a list I considered underpowered saw me proud.
Once again Empy boys, thanks guys had a great time largely thanks to the good company, hopefully we can get the rest of the club interested for next time and give tha haggis stuffers a run for their money 🙂
Not a single best army nod? Fuckers. Just proves that people have no taste.
Yeah, was not happy tbh, some armies were nice but there were a couple of abortions too, just wanted people to see em in a lit cabinet rather than dingy tables, If they had actually gone around and judged the models properly like they were supposed to I think I would have been ok, they just went for the obvious ones, shit heads
That blows, sorry. The army is awesome for sure. I’ve been in a crap to of tourneys myself, a lot of times with well painted armies, and similar things have happened. One year I had this great ork speed freaks army with a ton of conversions and really great dirty gritty look and feel. The guy who one had a single-highlights dark angel army. What I learned is it’s all about you doing what you can (you did), and then hoping for the best. Don’t beat yourself up over it, and don’t spend time being mad because that’s just not healthy 🙂
On another note, I’m looking at the Infinity stuff myself, it’s just so awesome, and I’ve heard really great stuff about the game.
Again congrats, really looking forward to the Tantalus getting done as its just sheer amazingness to look at.
Hope the sebbatical wont last too long as ill miss your 40k updates and need to work on getting you ready for the 40k GT, ill also promise to ensure your army gets a proper look at by the judges (helps when you know the).
lol, I dont want a free ride just a fair chance, no one had a chance to see my army in decent lighting at all this weekend. it’s not really a total sabbatical, just I’ll be doing more Infinity, essentially Ill take a week or two off 40k after my ToS write-up. Infinity requires so few models I’ll be back on the DE in no time, Really Wan’t to do a court , having seen the models in the flesh I love em, the beast are epic too, I just can’t justify the cost.
Yeah, I know the GT will be tougher, so Improving things where possible is defo in order, the list may need some changes, but I’m half reluctant to, archon has not really impressed me at all in this last tourney or the incubi, admittedly i have had terrible luck with him/ them as usual, missing handfulls of 3’s to hit then failing to wound with whats left, one particlar charge I remember from this weekend saw a full charging squad of incubi manage a single wound, which was saved on a 5++ …. my archon was flubbtastic too , more on that tomorrow
you should see your picture on the warhammer world website.. you look like a little special and not too dissimilar to a sex offender..
pretty fitting what with the deldar n all. 😉
glad to hear that the empy rocked peoples socks, i had a quick look at some of the “best painted” armies on the net.. i think i need to clean my eyes out with asbestos and herpes after seeing some of them.. wtf is with the dark eldar playdoh avatar with tits?
Lol, that was my smug/evil face , though I seem to have channeled downs far more effectively ….
Shudda taken my cat, shades and wing-backed chair for the mug shot.
yeah and you wonder why Im a bit pissed, care to share that asbestos and herpes around ? brutha in need ?
I wouldnt tell them to put you forward just to actually check them out up close as thats where the real art is and apparantly easily missed, i think when you do your sails and maybe some sort of design down the hull they will def pop a lot more from a distance drawing them closer for inspection.
Looking forward to the write up aswell, i am very intrested in what you do with your list though some times keeping the bad stuff is a blessing as it keeps an internal list balance which makes the whole work even if the smaller elements dont.
Your army looks so good in pictures, that news is too bad.
Maybe this anecdote can inspire or otherwise help you. I brought my converted and mostly well-painted traitor guard to an event with high hopes. The appearance winner (chosen by player votes) had an army with tons of pop. Although the overall look was rushed and the blending sloppy their army was colorful and high contrast. They also had a Joker model in the army right when Dark Knight came out… meanwhile my army languished in obscurity despite the long hours I had put into it. I used blacks, browns and metallics with a dull red for an accent. My conversions were subtle in many cases. I went home frustrated but with resolve.
I started a new army, colorful Thosand Sons with obvious mutations. I spent a year on the army and brought it back to the event to take second place on best appearance. There was no display board, which hurt. I did more work on my Sons, including more mutated conversions. I touched up details all over. I brought a huge display board. So, I took home player’s choice (B.A.) a year later.
Now I am not suggesting that your army needs more work. However, something to grab attention may be necessary. This could be a colorful sign set up, an over-the top display board (check out nyhil’s DE skaven board for example), real lighting, or even a funny pop culture reference. Something that gets people talking. For your guys an eerie green glow would draw notice, although you may need to use terrain to create shadows from the hotel lighting.
For the models, maybe bump up the highlights just a touch more here and there, wehicles are a good place to start since they are more easily visible from a distance. You are working with black which is a very difficult army-wide base color. Most DE paint gets around this with extreme neon highlights which won’t work with your subtle blending. However, learn from what they do. Even if someone’s work is inferior in another aspect you can still take something away from what they accomplish.
Whatever you do, persistence is key.
That sucks about the army painting competition, your army is really stunning, but as mentioned a lot of the time unless it jumps off the table and smacks you in the face people just don’t pay much attention.
Because your army is really subtle you need a great display board.
Point me at those judges and I will fucking disintegrate them.
Are there any pictures from the event up anywhere yet?
I’ve took the figures that they gave out at the tournament and tried to work out who would have won if their system wasn’t utterly pants.
http://gmortschaotica.blogspot.com/2011/10/throne-of-skulls-observers-overview-and.html
I believe a sensible overall scoring system would have put you at about 4th. Also the fact that you didn’t get at least into the cabinet for best painted was a fucking travesty of justice by anybodies standards.
some on warhammer world fecesbook page and Gmort from gmorts chaotica has some , he says one of my games he has photos of
Once I’ve compiled all the pics I have I can e-mail them to you. The Grey Knights player you were against at one point is a friend of mine who used to be the manager of my local GW shop so I took quite a few pics of that game in particular.
yeah, i had worked that out too, around 3rd 4th ish , if I had not bumbled the drawn game i got, i had like 4-5 spare skimmers and just neede to remember to park on one objective to give me the win, will be kicking myself over that for ages, with a fifth win and no shabby scoring system I could have won it , and they are fuckers for doing me out of the best painted category, one of their team had definitely seen some of my stuff and there were pictures and stuff in the army list/catalog/book thing I did for them, not putting me at least in the cases for people to look at was at best petty.
Yup, you look like a paedo in the WHW FB pic.
Still gutted for you about the lack of best painted nod, the stuff that went in the cabinets looked mediocre at best.
yeah,next time Ill no pull a face, really look like it would have been impossible to win even the most basic strategy game
Judging always has an element of the juidges personal preference, it’s annoying a machine can’t judge hahaha. I think your army is the best DE Army I have seen
Hah! I had to look up that pic on the WHWFB after everyone talked about it. I was thinking ‘can’t be that bad’ then I saw it hahahaha. Oh well what can one expect from a DE player driven crazy in the void. Congrats tho 🙂
Thanks, and thanks, I like my army, wont change it to some ugly garish shite just to suit GW’s judges, Ill finish the army exactly how I intended, it has got alot of love from people all over so I am content, I don’t need a bit of card from GeeDUb to tell me it’s good.
I’m far better looking than that picture might suggest (so passable) ….
I think GW look for something GWish about what they pick to win things too. So yeah don’t change, yours are great.
Haha you just need to invoke the power of your cat to get a passable picture?
You may have had the best painted army, but the competition was probably about best presentation.
Congratulations, I’m really proud that I’m reading the Best DE player’s blog here and learning something useful\funny (both, actually) about our lovely dark elves from the deep space!
Anxious to read some of the most interesting battle reports, if that would be possible :3
Sucks when you put all this work into an army, a piece of art or a drawing and nobody notices. I haven’t seen your army in person so take what I am about to say with a grain of salt; I think your army suffers from the Chaos Black syndrome (CBS).
CBS is very common. CBS is surprising at first, but after a couple times of really looking at your army from a distance, or from the eyes of a outsider, you begin to realize it exists. What is it? Well, CBS occurs when you’ve chosen black as your main army color. Because the army is mostly black and/or dark colors, it’s difficult to see the work you’ve put into it, because of a lack of light, or brightness. Unfortunately, all your hard work goes unnoticed…wait, actually they didn’t go unnoticed! Good thing you dumped them into the GW flicker pool though. Check out their main site!
Anyway, I started my Dark Eldar Army this weekend. I put together 3 of my 18 reavers…I’m not going with black as my main color though. I learned about CBS the hard way a couple years back with my Black Legion Chaos Marines. Never again. Like I said, I could be wrong about CBS. I’m not an expert by any means. I hope that pointing this out can help you…not intended to be mean or anything, just thought it could help. It’s never too late to add more color…