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Tag Archives: Crossroad Games
The Standish Standoff: Tournament Wrap-up
After months of preparing for it it’s almost sad to see it go. My FLGS, Crossroad Games, hosted its first ever annual large 40K tournament on Saturday. It was a 30 person event with three rounds using soft scores, which is uncommon for us. Our monthly events are straight battle points but this new annual event we wanted to create a more friendly and hobby oriented event. Many of us spent the past four months getting ready for it. Tables had to be built, more terrain created, old tables and terrain repaired, etc. It’s been a long road but the payoff was well worth it.
Posted in Battle Reports, Gaming
Tagged Battle Report, Crossroad Games, Fate's Angels, Space Marines, The Standish Standoff, Tournament, Warhammer 40K
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Battle Report: FLGS October Tournament
This month my FLGS ran a 2K tournament. Normally in our tournaments we put all the entry fees into the prize pool but this month it was a benefit for a store regular who was diagnosed with cancer. Originally it was to be 75% to the benefit and 25% to the players but GW decided to do prize support for us allowing us to give 100% to this gentleman, which is awesome. The downside is that it would seem a fair amount of people didn’t want to bother thinking the prize pool was insubstantial and we had one of our worst showings ever. It’s sad really. I guess some people care more about the prize support than they do playing some games for fun and benefiting a man with a life threatening illness.
Posted in Battle Reports, Gaming
Tagged Battle Report, Crossroad Games, Fate's Angels, Legion of the Damned, Space Marines, Tournament, Ultramarines, Warhammer 40K
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Weekly Wrap-up: Fall Fun
I put up a new Rok Da Vote asking if you think the 40K blogosphere is becoming stagnant. I put up a short article explaining my thoughts on it. If you haven’t voted yet then here’s your chance.
Posted in Community News, Community Pimp'n
Tagged Blogging, Blogosphere, Crossroad Games, Hobby, The Standish Standoff, Tournament, Warhammer 40K
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Events: The Standish Standoff – Nov. 12th
After having mentioned it a handful of times we finally have things wrapped up. On Nov. 12th Crossroad Games will be hosting its first ever annual 40K event, The Standish Standoff. Crossroad Games is located in Standish, Maine. If you’re in the area and are interested in joining this 30 player event with lots of goodies then check out The Standish Standoff Packet.
Posted in Community News, Community Pimp'n
Tagged Crossroad Games, The Standish Standoff, Warhammer 40K
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Weekly Wrap-up: Behind the Scenes
Another series of mine I have not done for a while.
Attention Crossroad Games 40K Players
On account of the new site having no forums and aren’t to be implemented in the foreseeable future, I’ve installed forums for the 40K players to use located here: http://forums.creativetwilight.com.
Battle for the Burbs Report
Saturday, March 12th, was the Battle for the Burbs, an even put on by the Dorkamorka club in Watertown, MA. It was a 1,750 tournament for 30 players, though only 24 made it, that was heavy on the soft scores. Normally I’m all about keeping soft scores out of a tournament in determining the winner but really I thought it was a nice change of pace. Sometimes you have to mix it up to keep things fresh and fun. Six of us from the LGS Crossroad Games headed down together for a kick ass day of gaming.
Weekly Wrap-up: What a Whirlwind
The week has flown by; no complaints here.
The latest Rok Da Vote closed out and the results can be seen here. I’ve been slacking though and haven’t put up the next poll. Haven’t yet figured out what to put up.
Posted in Community News, Community Pimp'n
Tagged Beginner, Blogging, Blogosphere, Crossroad Games, Old Stuff Day, Orks, Quiz, Rok Da Vote, Sun'z Killaz, Warhammer 40K
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Weekly Wrap-up: Always Something to Work on
I’ve finally, I think, completed the tournament software I had been creating for use the Crossroad Games. It’s pretty simple really. You add your players and create matches. It has a random match pairing feature and a point based match pairing feature to easily set up matches with a single click. It tracks the points for each match and runs a total for each player so at the end of the day it’s all there, no messing around. It also tracks paint scores and sportsmanship if being used. The cool part, as a player, is it’s all publicly accessible so you can see how you did for any tournament that was entered into the system. This software should save us a lot of time at the tournaments and get us rolling and out of there sooner.
Campaign Report: 2,000 for Week #4
Last night was another game in our ongoing campaign. It was a standard 2,000 game with the exception of being able to shoot to other tables from your table. You had to have range to do this, which naturally limited who could even bother trying. We played capture and control with spearhead deployment. I was playing Ming and his Ultramarines and I played Fate’s Angels, my Marines.
Posted in Battle Reports, Gaming
Tagged Battle Report, Campaign, Crossroad Games, Fate's Angels, Space Marines, Warhammer 40K
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Campaign Report: 1,850 for Week #3
Last night was out third week in the campaign at the LGS. We ran an 1,850 game playing my mission King of the Hill. We had 10 players last night, five on each team, and we rolled for random opponents. As luck would have it I got to play the other team’s captain, a brutal Blood Angels player.
Posted in Battle Reports, Gaming
Tagged Battle Report, Blood Angels, Campaign, Crossroad Games, Fate's Angels, Kayvaan Shrike, Space Marines, Warhammer 40K
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Weekly Wrap-up: Games and Paint
This past week was a very busy week for me on the painting front. Since wrapping up Joe’s Marines I’ve just about finished painting my Assault Squad. I just have the Sarge left and he should be done this weekend.
Campaign Report: Mega-battle
At the LGS we began a campaign last night. The first battle was simple, bring 500pts and join the free-for-all mega-battle. We had 12 of us last night and so we set up an 8′x8′ table and commenced the chaos.
Posted in Battle Reports, Gaming
Tagged Battle Report, Campaign, Crossroad Games, Mega-battle, Orks, Sun'z Killaz, Warhammer 40K
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500pt Ork List for Upcoming Campaign
At the LGS we’re going to be doing a campaign starting next week. The first game is a mega-battle. An old fashioned free-for-all with however many players attend. It’s set for 500pts with a limited force org: 1 HQ, 1 Troop, and 0-1 everything else with the ability to double up any slot other than HQ. After pondering over a few different ideas I’ve settled for this:
Posted in Army Lists, Gaming
Tagged Campaign, Crossroad Games, Mega-battle, Orks, Sun'z Killaz
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January 1,250 Team Tournament: Necron List
Whenever we have a team tournament I can’t help but consider fielding my Necrons. I love these crazy robots and in a team environment I can hope to get paired with a partner that can cover the inherit weakness of the Necrons. Then again, I was once paired with Tau, definitely not covering my assault weakness, and we did well since we blasted everything before it reached us. Of course, it was a team of Orks and Space Wolves that finally did us in but we had a hell of a day regardless.
Weekly Wrap-up: My Nose is Tuffed Up
Small wrap-up today. Wednesday I got in a really fun team game. Next month we’ll be doing a team tournament so I’ll be working through some lists leading up to it. I’ll most likely be playing my Orks, though I may stray to the Necrons. The first time I ran my Necrons in a team tournament we did really well and it was a blast. I was partnered with a Tau player I know and we went 2-1 for the day, losing out to Kamui and a Space Wolf player in the final game. Too many angry things trying to chop us up did us in.
Posted in Community News, Community Pimp'n
Tagged Blogosphere, Campaign, Crossroad Games, Fate's Angels, Orks, Space Marines, Sun'z Killaz, Team Game, Tournament, Warhammer 40K
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