Templecon: Pic dump!

Ah, back home and able to use my little Stilt-Man head again… life is good. Anyway, I promised a pic dump, so here it is. I’m really quite tired, so bear with me if the captions aren’t as whimsically amusing as you’ve normally come to expect from my witty self.

Critical’s jackwall intimidated the snot out of me in the second round of Deadly Duos (Midnight Madness FTW!)

SPRIGGAN!!!!!!!!!

Ultimate Legion: Holy Crap!

Massive WHOO!!! for Ultimate Legion taking first place, even if he was playing filthy, filthy Legion

… I’ll work on a full post and pic dump when I get back to Canuckland. Thanks for following our Templecon coverage, much love to all the staff and volunteers at the con, here’s hoping we can make it back next year!

Paul “UltimateLegion” Nguyen Wins Templecon

Your puny America erupts in smoking ash before the fury of the Canadian Blight.

Details to follow.

Templecon: Jack sorta likes Circle!

Twas a very busy Templecon day yesterday, so I didn’t have time to write up a full post… but I did take so video… that took me an hour and a half to patch aned edit together last night… and then the wireless in our room kept crapping out so I couldn’t upload it last night for you, my dear fellow Lost. Hence the late post this morning… just give Youtube some time to get the vid all sorted out before you crash the server, mkay?

Templecon: Day One!

Okay, so most of you know I try to work on these posts a day or two in advance, so no hints for you re: Deadly Duos , but I’ll fill you in on events up to dinnertime!

The panel...

First up, the Privateer Press Panel followed the (pricey) breakfast, after I happily met Tamwulf and Derrick pinned the All You Can Eat badge to his crotch…

Templecon: Road Trip Pics!

Boba Ferret gets ready to go!

Templecon: Road Trip

Forgive the lack of pics at this stage, I’ll work at getting some up as I’m able (though truth be told, finding time to resize and edit everything might have to wait until I get back home…)

Regardless, for your enjoyment, some brief notes from the road…

Road trip

Started with us piling into the car, driving 50 metres down the road and then realising we left one of Spud’s car’s door open. After fixing that, we’re on the road! Spud is in the back working on his Kara Sloan, Derrick in the copilot seat gluing together Retribution models so he can field a tier list, Rich behind the wheel, Paul nursing a bottle of O.J. and I’m sitting here with Derrick’s netbook typing up notes for the blog.

The Road to Templecon: This is it!

Thursday morning, and we’re bundling into Rich’s van, a contingent of The Hobby Kingdom’s faithful Warmahorders. I’d say best and brightest, but we’re leaving Ken, Hank, Kyle, Brendan, the Scotts, Tom, one of the Derricks, the triumvirate of J’s, and a bunch of others behind. These guys can either outplay me, outpaint me, or both, so we’ll settle for referring to ourselves as The Faithful.

• Rich comes forward as a proud son of Khador, complete with imaginary twirly moustache and predilection for axes.
• Dave cocks his spellstorm pistols, static electricity outlining the Cygnus emblazoned across his metaphorical chest.
• Paul grips the Menofix in one hand, the other a twisted, blighted claw marking his as chosen of Everblight.
• Derrick’s bluish tint marks him as a member of the Kriels, while he shares Paul’s grip on the Protectorate’s holy symbol.
• And of course, I’m wearing the ridiculously oversized mittens of House Shyeel with matching pointy codpiece.

 All of this crammed into one van… anyone taking bets on which faction gets kicked out of the van for being disruptive? I’d say Khador, but Rich doing the bulk of the driving…

Legion: Locked and Loaded for State of the Art

So I finally got to painting my Legion once I determined that I needed to play State of the Art at TempleCon. Menoth was out because I simply didn’t have enough time to paint up that many units/solos and they just take too long for me to play. Hordes is an easier mechanic to play quickly just because you don’t need to plan your focus allocation right at the beginning and Legion plays faster than Menoth as well.

With all that said, I present to you my State of the Art army (plus some other models I finished just cause they were there)

My Whole Legion Force

Rediscovering Mittens at 50pts

So I played a 50pt game against Paul (UltimateLegion) on Monday night. We thought we’d try out State Of The Art lists, see how they fared. Okay, I lost in the end in part due to inexperience against eThagrosh (shoulda asked if he had a spray), but what an awesome game. Paul may have claimed victory, but after seeing the army come together, I feel like I won anyway.

I confess I was a little nervous; I have a decent win rate against Legion, but it’s been months since I’ve played against them, and never in their MkII incarnation. It certainly didn’t help that he put down eThagrosh, Typhon and a pair of Carniveans. Thassa lotta large base bashiness right there… but I had faith in my list.