Now that’s what I call fun!
I just finished a full weekend of gaming, 5 games in one tournament in two days. And let me tell you, it was a blast!
First of all, this was a team tournament, which meant that two people had to play on each side, each only brining 1,000 points worth to the table. Since I couldn’t find a partner I was paired with Todd who’s partner had to withdraw. We met each other about an hour before the tournament started, so we didn’t have much time to coordinate our strategy. We had my Ultramarines and his Grey Knights, lists not tuned for each other.
The bad news is I didn’t bring my Day Planner in with me to record all of the information, so Saturday’s games are all off my faulty memory.
Our first game consisted of getting three messingers into three of the four quarters of the battlefield. It was against Dave and Jeremy, who was playing Dark Angels Space Marines and Eldar. Their lists were deemed “cheesy” (i.e. not built as they woud be in “real life,” but overbuilt to maximize their strong points) and we managed to hold them to a minor victory, thus we were a minor loss. Not bad against a list that had a dozen missile launchers against us.
The second battle went against a couple of kids, they also played Grey Knights and Space Marines. The scenario was to rescue a spy. We couldn’t just kill the spy, because he had information vital to both sides. We ended up killing them to a man. Victorious Slaughter for us!
The third battle was against a couple, Achmed and Kitten, who played Orks and “Do-it-Yourself” Space Marines. This scenario was “The Hunted” where you nominated an enemy unit and you received double victory points for killing it. We pretty much did them in, but we were mauled pretty bad as well, so we ended up with a Minor Victory for us.
Now, up to this point we had been in the running. We were in Third Place at this point, which was pretty good for a team that had never worked together before.
Sunday brought two more games, the first of which was “Suicide Squad.” This is where you had to get one of your own units killed off, or you lost points. This was against Jared and Devlin, who eventually won the tournament with Dark Eldar and Imperial Guard. We managed to get our unit killed, and not kill their unit, which provided a 300 victory point swing that took us from a minor loss to a draw. We were still in thr running for first place.
Our last battle was “Clense 2,” where you were trying to capture table quarters. We faced two guys from Sabertooth Games, a subsidiary of Games Workshop. Dave and Tom played Space Marines and Tyranids, with a well thought out strategy and eventually captured more quarters then us, but we mauled them pretty bad, so we ended up with a minor loss. That took us from 3rd to 6th.
All-in-all, I think we did pretty well. Two guys who had never met and still ended up with a 2-1-2 record, and 6th out of 13 teams. We are already talking about getting together and planning for the next team tournament in July. Even though we didn’t win, everybody ended up with a paperback novel and a new tape measure. Best Sportsman went to a brother-syster combo, Best Painted went to John and Boomer, who are a part of my Thursday night gaming group, and like I said, Jared and Devlin received Overall Champion, and they are also part of my Thursday group. Best General went to Dave and Jeremy, who we played in the first game.
Throughout my gaming career so far, I have now one Best Army, three Best Sportsman, and one Overall Champion. I’m happy. I could always use more, of course, but I’m proud of what I earned.

Found this on the web. Since I’m trying to back into IT, this is a very funny thing and it shows that ANY upgrade of technology always confuses a lot of people. Enjoy.
UPDATE: Sorry, but the poster of this video pulled it off YouTube. What the subject of the video was this guy was upgrading from scrolls to a bound book, and was having trouble getting his mind around the idea of flippable pages. The conversation was a direct correlation between then and now, just swap “book” for your favorite software. My favorite part was when the guy closed the book after the last page. Then he tried opening it by the spine, and of course he got nowhere.