Apologies for not writing for so long, but I honestly just had nothing to say. They say the key to creating a lasting blog with hundreds of followers is to post consistently and often. That's probably right. Anyways, here are some things that happened this week in wargaming that I cared about.
Comikaze Cancelled
After two strong years, the love child of cosplay and 40k has come to an end. I've gone to both of the previous Comikaze tournaments and had been planning on attending this year as well so I was pretty bummed when the news dropped that the event was being cancelled. I believe the cap was going to be 64 players, and since not even half of the spots had been filled by last week, the convention organizers decided it was not worth the hassle and cancelled the tournament outright. It seems strange that they wouldn't even give Reece and the guys at Frontline Gaming the last few weeks (3 weeks) to get sales up. You can read about it on Dakka here. It seems to me that they already had another act lined up for the floor space and gave Frontline an impossible target, knowing that they wouldn't be able to sell the tickets in time. A bum deal all around. It really was a fun event and drew a TREMENDOUS amount of curious convention goers to the gaming area to see what all these fat guys were doing with their little army men. Games Workshop could learn a thing or two about marketing from Reece and the guys at Frontline Gaming.
Beasts of War Waylaid
Yesterday, the premier tabletop wargaming news and preview site announced that due to legal pressure from Games Workshop they would be ceasing their partnership with Wayland Games. You can watch the youtube announcement here. The quick and dirty is that Games Workshop was not happy with Beasts of War for previewing their model kits and talking about upcoming model releases. Games Workshop, through roundabout means, continuously sent Beasts of War cease and desist letters which were for the most part largely ignored. Games Workshop craftily went after Beast of War's partner and financier Wayland Games, and threatened to block their distribution account. Wayland games wisely took the high road and cut Beasts of War loose. The worst part about watching that video is Warren's complete disbelief that Games Workshop would do this to him. While they will be leaving to continue to produce (and fund) the show on their own, it most likely will be a slow and painful death for Beasts of War. That's business, bitch!
Non-Taudar Dominance? BULLSHIT
So we had two large-ish tournaments go down in the last week or two and SURPRISE two non-Taudar armies came out on top. The Golden Throne tournament (Southwest) saw a strong Space Marine showing with a White Scars army come out on top. I'm not too surprised about White Scars being the front runners of the Space Marines codex, as they are extremely fast and hard hitting. I still think that more people should take three Hell-Drakes but that's just me. At Battle Foam's Duel Con in Mesa, Arizona we saw Daemon dominance on the top tables. From what I hear the amount of line of site blocking terrain and the crazy amount of Screamer Stars spelled the doom for point and click shooting armies. Personally I think the people who take the Screamer Stars are just as bad as those people taking the Riptides with characters, etc.
So that's it! Next week I'll try and get a couple posts in. I've just finished the heresy novella Mark of Calth that I want to talk about and I'll go over my list for the upcoming Brawl in the Fall. Peace!
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