Equinox 2013 The Weekend

Few teaser pics from the Weekend. 

Huge amounts of pictures to come later. Battle reports, tid bits and the all important results.

Sit back and enjoy.

Onlookers, " This is what Wargaming is all about. Strutting your stuff when it counts."

I am so happy to be at Equinox!

We even had Warhammer celebrities at the venue.

Results and more pictures to come, until then.

Equinox 2013 approaches

Equinox is this weekend and here we have the first round draw

Bobby Vs Dave Hart
Sam Vs Michael Coxon Baines
Blair Vs Michael Vercoe
Damon Vs Stephen
Mike Stewart Vs Dan Blomfield
James Brown Vs Tim Joss
Aaron Peters Vs Richard Barby
Rob Sadler Vs Simon Kwok
Graeme Vs Henry
Paul Dalton Vs Ross Hillier-Jones
Noel Vs Ron golds
Chris Ellis Vs Nick Munn
John W Vs Dan Butler
Paul Clark Vs George
Rory Vs Glen
James C Vs Mike Youngs
Ross C Vs Tom
Dean W Vs Sean Robertson
Russ Vs Brian
Ryan Vs Nick
Aaron C Vs Phil
Alex Vs Phil O
Reid Vs Geoff
Jason Vs Dave S

All the lists will be released to tournament goers tonight. Don't forget to check your email inbox. Just to entertain you with the myriad of formatting you still get these days, they have been included as is. It was time consuming as it was correcting the 48 lists so they could be easily transported to a word doc. I think I would have gone slightly mad if I had to format them into the templates that were sent out. Granted the templates probably corrupted depending on the computer systems everyone uses.

Equinox 2013 WHFB Lists so far.

With two very cool new Army books released in succession Fantasy players are hoarding up to get on the table top up here in Auckland. We're only letting the new Warriors book to play at Equinox and the Daemon players will be saying a last hoorah in a couple of weeks. Lists were due last night and I haven't looked at them much. It will be a job for later tonight after work and tomorrow night. Once they are done they will be posted on google docs for all contestants before the tournament. I do have a summary of the lists coming so far as we still have a few late lists but here is the Break down.

Warriors of Chaos   7
Ogres   5
O & G  5
Lizardmen 3
Dark Elves 3
Empire 3
Daemons 3
Skaven 3
BRetonnians 2
Beastmen 2
Wood Elves 2
High Elves 2
Chaos Dwarves 2
Tomb King 1
Vampire Counts 1

As to be expected Warriors a popular with their new book. Nothing like the numbers people were thinking were invading from the chaos wastes but thats to be expected with NZ wargaming. Most of our hobbyists like to be loyal and stick to the army they are familiar and have played most of their hobby lives.

Looking forward to the Tournament yet fellow Wargamers, I sure am!

Equinox is sponsored by:

Takapuna,

Shop 5, 529 Lake Road Takapuna, Auckland. 

Ph: 09-4892750

Auckland City, 

Chancery Shopping Centre, 40 Courthouse Lane, Auckland 1010, CBD.

Phone: (09) 303-2750

Equinox 2013 WHFB Templates

The WHFB templates are available for download to submit your lists.

Excel version and included example Here.

Word version and included example Here.

Official Tournament thread is  Here.

All WHFB lists will need to be submitted by Sunday the 3rd of March to avoid late penalties. Email has been sent to all registered players tonight please reply to the email to submit your list.


Hobby for the week.

Not much time so still a few things done, which is good progress. More Terminators based and ready.

I'm playing a 2400pt list with Reavers. I know, who takes them so instead of proxies I thought I'd get these boys ready. Bases and movement trays flocked. Models magnetised with magnetic strips and base painted with steel paint.

Ultramarines WIP - Terminators

Got a chance to base and then eventually get close to the finish a unit of Terminators. Really like the icons so decided that these guys all should get one. Still going with the theme of old weapons on urban desolation for the bases. I'll be building my entire force and part painting them first so that I will have a table top army. The finishing touches and the detail painting will be done in the late stages (so a long time off yet).

First Terminator squad.

One of the things I am really liking about 40K is the fact that you can personalise everyone of your guys. Having a much smaller number of troops compared to WHFB is a bonus that you can individualise and not create a insurmountable amount of painting. So I was able to bitz bash out my sargent. He's got a old terminator Power fist thats been glued on and ever so slightly green stuff repaired.

Couple of Sargents and Heavy weaps.

NZTC 2013 - Results

First of all a tribute to the NZ Warhammer scene and its camaraderie. Great bunch of guys and good atmosphere to get your hobby on. There's definitely no shady dealings here in our community unlike some malcontent systems. Big thanks to Pete Dunn for organising this and re-inspiring me back into the hobby after my energy levels with the hobby after a busy past year of organising was fading. It was one of the reasons why I didn't make the trip down for this awesome event, but after seeing all the photo's and hearing all the cool stories and moments I think I'll be rocking out an army at a tournament near you real soon. If you're as envious as I am of all the fun that was being had at your local warhammer tournament then you'll get out of the garage and goto your local club get a few games in and support your local and national tournaments, enough said. What are you waiting for...

Tribute to Warhammer, everyone is playing it and it's the most popular system by a long stretch so go to your local club and get a game in. You know you want to!

(Photo's courtesy of various good guys.)

Team NZhammered (Auckland City Guard) - proud of ya guys.

Team O.M.E.N - Wellington's warhammer stallions.

This years finish in true closely contested fashion is...

1st The Von Trapp Family - Pete and the team great work and dominating the scene once again.

2nd The Extraordinary Nerdymen - Proud of the boys on a brilliant result.

3rd. NZhammered / Auckland City Guard - Sweet finish guys and can I book a net list some time :P

NZTC - Day 2

Spent the day organising the next big kahuna tournament so haven't had the time to get the definitive's. Have some of the meat and news for the remaining two rounds that will decide the first ever NZ team championships coming in though. So as the boys played to the wee hours of Saturday to get their 4th round in we have at the end of Day 1 the standings below.

1st NZ Hammered  (Auck)

2nd Von Trapp Family (Welly)

3rd Nerdymen. (Auck).

As I'm decidedly a biased Nerdymen supporter I'll include their results of huge interest, Round 5 up against the Netlists of fellow Auckland Team NZ Hammered.

Nerdyman Rory  Downs 'Skull crusher' Glen    14 - 6

Nerdyman Paul  Downs  'What Lizard' John      14 -6

Nerdyman Tom  Downs  'Net Lister' James       14 - 6

Nerdyman Graeme Ties 'The Gouda' Antony     10 - 10

Spectacular top of the table clash there gents.

Intrepid Julie Andrews plans until the early hours of the morning

So as we approach the final round of the competition. The positions remain relatively close still at the top of the table, who will win it? Results will be up here as soon as they are confirmed by the organisers.

The Big question is will Julie Andrews win another trophy......

Stay tuned avid wargamers and keep a handle on the many NZ blogs soon to be released that will have huge snippets of the individual ups and downs during the tournament.

NZ Team championships - Day 1

Found a much more reliable source of coverage for all you avid wargamers. It's radio Nerdymen and the team travelling to conquer down in the capital this weekend. So instead of much hated twitter the boys on the Nerdymen team is rolling in the results as they come.

Venue just before the action of the day. (Pic courtesy of the Nerdymen)

Team Van Trapp Family comprising of The dominant Dunn's currently in the NZ WHFB scene will be favoured to take the tournament by storm. With their team members current NZ Masters winners and regular tournament champions they are hard to not bracket at the top. Teams competition is a whole different kettle of fish though and ETC experience will be a leveller to even the odds. I'll have to pick the Auckland teams to do well with that hidden advantage amongst their midst. Team Nerdymen will have a decided advantage with their team captain fresh from a expedition to the ETC. The second Auckland team NZhammered will bring hours and hours of netlist and podcast humdrum, so kids does nerding the net and podcasting pay fruitfully, we will see. Without much ado we go into the hard stuff and straight into the results with round 2 just finished.

1st Round Results

NZhammered 60      - Capital crusaders 20
Von Trapp 57          - Over the hill 23
Nerdymen 45           - Omen 35
Shaken N Stirred 43 - Cut the Mustard 37
Grumpy old men 41  - Capital Crushers 39

Round 2

Nerdymen  45     - Shaken not Stirred 35
NZhammered 50 - Von Trapp Family 30 BIG RESULT

more to come soon.

Silver on display.