roon Posted October 21, 2008 Share Posted October 21, 2008 Hello everyone, Last weekend my regular opponent and me organized a couple of demonstration games of 40K at a gamesday (not like GW does) for a local gamestore. We both made up some fun 1250 points lists, and I fixed 2 new gameboards and FINALLY finished my City of Death box, so we had a nicely filled city. It drawed a lot of attention from the local people, and we had 3 fantastic battles. The first 2 ended in a hard fought draw, but the last game in a victory for Russ! We played a game of Annihilation, and in the last possible turn, my Venerable Dreadnought, who was stunned and immobilized managed to finish of one of the 2 enemy Dreadnought he was in cc with before being put to rest. Being inspired by such heroism, the Blood Claws charged the Dreadnought and smashed it to shreds with their 2 powerfists. Victory was ours! Killpoints 3-2 in our favor! Before we were playing, we expected worried parents about the violent look the game might give to some people. So we made some flyers that show the other side of the hobby like the creative side like painting and the social aspect. But it turned out that our ‘’worries’’ were not an issue. The reaction we did receive aside from the ‘’WOW’s ‘’ and WAUW’s ‘’ was ‘’Hmmm that many dice for 1 game? Seems too complicated for me…”. Another funny moment was when a man who was observing us for a while stepped up and talked to us. He said; ‘’I bet you two are the only people in the Netherlands who play this game. Where did you get it, from a foreign country I bet?’’ Well, when we said it is sold by the local gamestore, and that there are more people who play this, he left us with a confused look on his face, and us with a smile. Here some pictures of that day. Some posed for the show, some of actual battles: http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d126/Wolfman_roon/Hoornse%20Spellendag%202008/Bikeandcannon.jpg You take the right flank, while I take out that Vindicator! http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d126/Wolfman_roon/Hoornse%20Spellendag%202008/deathstreet2.jpg In the grim darkness of the far future, there are only COTTON WOOL FIRES!!! http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d126/Wolfman_roon/Hoornse%20Spellendag%202008/zerg.jpg Hold at all costs! http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d126/Wolfman_roon/Hoornse%20Spellendag%202008/melee.jpg Hold your ground! Reinforcements are on route!! http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d126/Wolfman_roon/Hoornse%20Spellendag%202008/deathstreet3.jpg Total chaos... http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d126/Wolfman_roon/Hoornse%20Spellendag%202008/omg.jpg Awaiting the fangs of the Wolf... http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d126/Wolfman_roon/Hoornse%20Spellendag%202008/stand.jpg Moments away from carnage Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/149877-how-to-entertain-the-people/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Max_Dammit Posted October 21, 2008 Share Posted October 21, 2008 Nice And yeah more people in Holland play this, just not a lot in Limburg ;) Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/149877-how-to-entertain-the-people/#findComment-1740942 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spacefrisian Posted October 21, 2008 Share Posted October 21, 2008 I wish i had a board looking like that. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/149877-how-to-entertain-the-people/#findComment-1741073 Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaveriK Posted October 21, 2008 Share Posted October 21, 2008 sweet! and great quality on the pictures! Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/149877-how-to-entertain-the-people/#findComment-1741240 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grey Mage Posted October 21, 2008 Share Posted October 21, 2008 Out of curiosity, howd you make that smoke? I can see the cotton, and the black coloring being really watered down... looks nice. But I cant get that bonfire on the bottom without royally screwing it up and making it look gobby. Howd you do it? Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/149877-how-to-entertain-the-people/#findComment-1741629 Share on other sites More sharing options...
barek Posted October 21, 2008 Share Posted October 21, 2008 It's a dutch secret... :P Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/149877-how-to-entertain-the-people/#findComment-1741642 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wolf89 Posted October 21, 2008 Share Posted October 21, 2008 For the smoke and stuff I usually use washers, coins, or some other heavy cylindrical metal that will hold its place. Then just glue the cotton to it and spray paint black... Nice job there Roon, great pics too. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/149877-how-to-entertain-the-people/#findComment-1741656 Share on other sites More sharing options...
roon Posted October 22, 2008 Author Share Posted October 22, 2008 Out of curiosity, howd you make that smoke? I can see the cotton, and the black coloring being really watered down... looks nice. But I cant get that bonfire on the bottom without royally screwing it up and making it look gobby. Howd you do it? Well, to be honest, I didn't make the cotton wool fires. They were made by the store owner, who used all of his girlfriends cottonwool make-up patches for our first Apocalypse game earlier this year. He made them fairly quickly, trying to keep up with the exploding vehicles. :P I believe he sprayed them black, and then adding red and yellow paint on them. Fairly easy, but damn convincing! :wub: Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/149877-how-to-entertain-the-people/#findComment-1742416 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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