Blogging from MidSouthCon
Well, I'm wrapping up a day of excitement! The Con got off to a great start. While the pre-registration line was long and slow, I managed to make a few friends in the line. One of them ended up in me being invited to demo/tournament Epic at another local con, ShadowCon. This one goes down in January.
At the appropriate time, Mike and I appeared on the main floor and began our demo of Epic:Armageddon. The scenario was Mike, being the Space Marine, was making an opposed landing on an Ork planet. I set up a city, then showed him where a Great Gargant was, since he could see things like that from orbit. After he made his calculations, I laid out my forces throughout the city. The demo then opened with Mike landing two drop pods, two Thunderhawks and a landing craft. He also had 8 formations of Terminators waiting up in orbit as well.
Who won? We don't know. The purpose of the demo was to get people passing by interested in checking out the game and maybe even helping us with throwing dice or offering advice. When you measure the demo that way, it was a resounding success. We hung up the game after the session (4-hour windows of time) ended and called it a draw. I was hurt, but still dangerous. I had most of his forces on the run, but he still had two formations of Terminators that he didn't get around to bringing down.