Captain Semper Posted July 3, 2012 Author Share Posted July 3, 2012 E TENEBRAE LUX – 7th WEEK UPDATE http://fortressofunforgiven.homestead.com/DA_Challenge_vs_DA.jpg The 7th week was not as productive as the 6th. There are two main reasons for this: Firstly the 40k 6th Edition hit the shelves which meant that people focused on the new mechanics and topics like allies, power weapons, etc dominated the interest across all forums. Secondly, (and that affected Europeans mostly) we had the semi-finals and the final of the UEFA Euro-2012 – well done Spain! ;) So, despite all that, what did happen during this week in the ETL? Well, for one thing we had 8.5k worth of completions. That is to be compared to 15k last week. Total completed points reached the 42k level and the overall completion rate climbed to 22% from 18% last week. Even more interestingly another 8.3k pts were added as follow-up vows! So virtually all completions were replenished by new vows and the dynamic appears to be ascending still!However we are still in the difficult period (even without the distractions such as the 6th ed. or football) where first month’s enthusiasm waned and people still feel there is a lot of time to complete their vows and thus can afford to be complacent. But can they? I believe that the forum that keeps going during this period will benefit immensely and put some safe distance between them and the competition. So here’s how things look at the end of week 7: E TENEBRAE LUX – 7TH WEEK UPDATE Black Templars 80 33,909 424 8,808 26% Blood Angels 52 27,227 524 4,870 18% Dark Angels 75 39,337 524 5,175 13% Codex Space Marines 51 32,942 646 3,850 12% Space Wolves 44 30,234 687 7,948 26% Chaos 48 19,782 412 7,720 39% Ordos Inquisition 19 5,591 294 3,408 61% Total 369 189,022 512 41,779 22% Index Astartes 26 15,900 612 3,715 23% Liber Astartes 14 9,663 690 135 1% Ultramarines 11 7,379 671 0 0% Comments:The Dark Angels had a disappointing week. With only 265 points completed (vs. at least 1.1k by every other forum) they now are fourth but with considerable distance from the third... DAs do not seem to have their heart into it and the only thing that keeps them afloat is their numerical superiority, which also gradually erodes as we move further in the ETL. Their completion rate is a meager 13% vs. an average of the ETL of 22%. I don’t know what it’ll take for the DAs to get dynamically back into the game but if they carry on like that they don’t stand a chance! C’mon guys, you’ve made your commitments, now honor them -lest the Wolves and the Templars have a funny story to tell during the cold winter nights… The Wolves keep their position as a close second with almost 8k points and an above-average completion rate of 26%. They retain their high points/vow ratio and they appear to be able to keep the pace so far by completing almost 1.6k pts on the week. This for the wolves is a race against fatigue. If they manage to carry on vowing and completing at the current rates there is nothing to deny them victory in the end. However we are still almost in the middle of this so I hope you guys have the energy to see this through! The 1.6k worth of new vows this week is a very encouraging sign.Blood Angels recovered somewhat since last week, managing 1.3k pts worth of completions. Despite that, previous weeks’ weakness created a significant distance vs. the leading forums that requires a better-than-average performance to catch up. But their completion rate of 18% remains below average and (perhaps more importantly) the renewed vows of only 250 pts do not seem hopeful. So guys, a lot of work has to be done still for you to become a serious contender for the first place. It’s about time for your legacy to kick-in! Black Templars are comfortable leaders of the ETL. They have a completion rate higher than the average (but not crazily so), they have completed 1.3k pts this week and have re-vowed 1.7k! This is as solid as it gets! Especially if you combine it with the fact that they have the highest number of vows by now which translates to a very manageable average vow of 424 pts. With 8.8k pts completed so far they are a good 1k points ahead of the Wolves – a large but not as yet safe distance! Still the dynamics are in their favor and unless the competition greatly accelerates on a consistent basis the BTs currently seem like the favorites to win this.Codex Forums are going through an internal re-organization phase right now (compliments to The Yak for organizing things a bit). But the harsh reality is that there are no completions to speak of. Apart form Arizonajirt’s completions that currently stand for 90% of the entire three forums’ total little else has happened! Amazing as this is, Arizona cannot win this single-handedly… So let’s see some more completions guys – making it to the finish line with just one completed vow won’t cut it – you’ll need to vow again! You have the resources; put them in good use! Chaos is a very interesting case. With low number of participants and relatively low average vow they still manage a very respectable third place only 200pts behind the Wolves. They added a spectacular 3k pts during the week and re-vowed 2.8k. The dynamics seem to be right and the whole performance very promising if it wasn’t for one thing: Completion Rate! In order to achieve this great performance, the Chaos faction, used-up a much greater part of their resources. With a completion rate of 39% it means that future renewals must come at even higher point values and raise the average vow to exceed the average of the ETL. Otherwise they’ll run out of vows faster than the rest… So keep that in mind when you are making new vows, you are the only forum that actually must bring your completion rate down in order to become more competitive. But as things stand now: WELL DONE!!!Ordos Inquisition did nothing this week. This is only to be expected given their extremely high completion rate of 61%! In fact the Ordos are a more pronounced version of the Chaos forum situation. Few participants + (very) small average vow + high completion rates = out of alternatives earlier than the rest. But let’s face it; the Ordos are a special case! They should measure their success by their completion rate, and their dedication is what will carry them through. I’m willing to bet that by the end of the ETL the Ordos would have maintained the highest completion rate among all other forums! My challenge still stands: can you make 100% completion rate for your first vows? Until the next weekly update, farewell and good luck to all! Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/252368-e-tenebrae-lux/page/14/#findComment-3107067 Share on other sites More sharing options...
JaM_TW Posted July 3, 2012 Share Posted July 3, 2012 Allright... Finally finished my undead team just now, and schoolpapers and everything is taken care of. Basically, I am ready to start painting the Unforgiven again! :P Let's do this people, make it work! Yes we can and all that :) Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/252368-e-tenebrae-lux/page/14/#findComment-3107753 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brother-Captain Sharp Posted July 3, 2012 Share Posted July 3, 2012 This week is the week of the Terminator Command Squad. I will be done by the end of this week! *repeats to myself over and over* Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/252368-e-tenebrae-lux/page/14/#findComment-3107845 Share on other sites More sharing options...
FarFromSam Posted July 4, 2012 Share Posted July 4, 2012 Asmodai finished! Glory to the Lion! Suggestions for the next vow, a small ravenwing squad, a rhino, or Azrael. Maybe I'll try and pull a hat trick! Anyway here is a link http://www.bolterandchainsword.com/index.p...howtopic=252893 Brothers painting the Chief Interrogator Chaplain has struck me with fervor unlike any I have felt before! We must take to the brush, We will not be found wanting! We are the 1st Legion, we are the face of the Imperium this edition. We must come out of the shadows into the light, if only for a moment to demonstrate our superiority! For the rock, and he who slumbers within! Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/252368-e-tenebrae-lux/page/14/#findComment-3108137 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Semper Posted July 4, 2012 Author Share Posted July 4, 2012 Well done farfromsam! Another completion for the DAs! Regarding your next vow, play safe. Now you are worth 535pts already to the DAs faction - a failure will erase all your past effort. If you're confident, by all means go for it (by hat trick I assume you mean all three potential vows in one), but if you think it'll be too risky break it up an vow again. You are the DA resident ETL hero by now with four vows completed! Congratulations!!! ;) Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/252368-e-tenebrae-lux/page/14/#findComment-3108405 Share on other sites More sharing options...
FarFromSam Posted July 4, 2012 Share Posted July 4, 2012 Well done farfromsam! Another completion for the DAs! Regarding your next vow, play safe. Now you are worth 535pts already to the DAs faction - a failure will erase all your past effort. If you're confident, by all means go for it (by hat trick I assume you mean all three potential vows in one), but if you think it'll be too risky break it up an vow again. You are the DA resident ETL hero by now with four vows completed! Congratulations!!! :D Wise words, in that case I'll pick the larger one worth more points “I farfromsam answer the challenge of the Unforgiven and vow to complete Ravenwing Attack Squadron from Codex: Dark Angels of total value of 320 on or before August 15. Success will bring eternal glory to the Dark Angels and failure will doom me to bear the sign of damnation until the year-end” 6 bikes, 1 MMAB, 2 plasma guns, sgt with a Power weapon/MMgrenades. So it has been vowed, so shall it be. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/252368-e-tenebrae-lux/page/14/#findComment-3108846 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unforgiven2544 Posted July 4, 2012 Share Posted July 4, 2012 My Vow. Work in Progress http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v160/SolarinStudio/Warhammer%2040k/Space%20Marines/Dark%20Angels/10.jpg A bit of Random close combat goodness. (I plan on adding a magnetized Cyclone to the mix, probably...) Very Respectfully, --Unforgiven Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/252368-e-tenebrae-lux/page/14/#findComment-3109599 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unforgiven2544 Posted July 5, 2012 Share Posted July 5, 2012 A quick update (since I vowed to have the cyclone) http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v160/SolarinStudio/Warhammer%2040k/Space%20Marines/Dark%20Angels/11.jpg I didn't want people to think I had forgotten it. ^_^ Respectfully, --Unforgiven Edit: [Wonky Formatting] Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/252368-e-tenebrae-lux/page/14/#findComment-3110110 Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigGumbo Posted July 5, 2012 Share Posted July 5, 2012 Second vow completed! Contemptor-Mortis with TLLCs and CML. More pics on WIP thread very shortly... Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/252368-e-tenebrae-lux/page/14/#findComment-3110976 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Semper Posted July 6, 2012 Author Share Posted July 6, 2012 Excellent Big Gumbo - really like how you squeeze-in the purple to tie you force together! Well done! So now our completion rate has marginally increased to 14%. But the BAs have managed to reach our completions at 5.5k pts and with a more relevant completion rate of 20% (still below the ETL average - so it's not like they overextend themselves). We need a few large completions guys, we are 7 weeks in the ETL already! Surely some of you will be close to complete something big by now - can we surprise our rivals by the next weekly update? That's next Tuesday, so yes, we do get a weekend until then! :D Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/252368-e-tenebrae-lux/page/14/#findComment-3111277 Share on other sites More sharing options...
elmo Posted July 6, 2012 Share Posted July 6, 2012 Termies now done (for the ETL) See my 4th Company thread for photos soon (link in sig.)! ETL vow part 3 Command Squad (255 pts) Company Champion: Combat Shield; Bolt Pistol; Power Weapon; Melta Bomb. Apothecary: Narthecium/Reductor; Chainsword (x1); Bolt Pistol. 3 x Veterans: Melta Bomb (x3); Plasma Pistol (x2); Power Fist (x1); Power Weapon (x1); Plasma gun (x1) Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/252368-e-tenebrae-lux/page/14/#findComment-3111755 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Semper Posted July 6, 2012 Author Share Posted July 6, 2012 And out of the blue Elmo arrives to save the day! This is great Elmo - 510 pts that were badly needed. and a follow up vow too! That's fantastic! I also like the pyramidic approach: first vow 850pts, second vow 510 pts, third vow 255 pts! You progressively diminish your risk while contributing sizeable chunks. An example to follow! Now we have exceeded the 6k mark - still a good 4k points behind the Templars. But we are gaining momentum so lets see: This weekend, can we change the situation to our favor? Can we take the lead? Let's see... P.S. Elmo, something tells me you are not using the Dark Angels skin. That is heresy. Just so you know. :devil: Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/252368-e-tenebrae-lux/page/14/#findComment-3111901 Share on other sites More sharing options...
elmo Posted July 6, 2012 Share Posted July 6, 2012 Thanks Master of Recruits but you must have been too excited seeing my completed vow - You have added my vow P3 to the 4th vow table on the first page <_< I might be on Vow 4 by the end of next week though ;) Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/252368-e-tenebrae-lux/page/14/#findComment-3112148 Share on other sites More sharing options...
facmanpob Posted July 7, 2012 Share Posted July 7, 2012 Vow 2 complete.......Interrogator Chaplain completion photo at this link Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/252368-e-tenebrae-lux/page/14/#findComment-3113536 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pbenner Posted July 8, 2012 Share Posted July 8, 2012 Vow #1 complete! Picture at this link: Vow #1 Vow #2: I, pbenner, pledge to complete (1) Librarian in Terminator Armor with a Combi-Plasma, totaling 150pts in the DA Codex. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/252368-e-tenebrae-lux/page/14/#findComment-3113672 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Semper Posted July 8, 2012 Author Share Posted July 8, 2012 That is fantastic guys! Well done! @ Paul: Don't forget to declare completion of your second vow here! Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/252368-e-tenebrae-lux/page/14/#findComment-3113795 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pbenner Posted July 8, 2012 Share Posted July 8, 2012 Vow #2 - Completed! http://www.bolterandchainsword.com/index.p...t&p=3113784 For my next one, depending on time, will be another Deathwing Squad, equipped the same as the first. Not officially a vow yet, will make it official if I think it's feasible. Best, Paul Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/252368-e-tenebrae-lux/page/14/#findComment-3113808 Share on other sites More sharing options...
facmanpob Posted July 9, 2012 Share Posted July 9, 2012 Vow 3 I, Facmanpob, answer the challenge of the Unforgiven and vow to complete Ravenwing Attack Squadron from Codex: Dark Angels of total value 205 points on or before August 15. Success will bring eternal glory to the Guardians of the Covenant Chapter of the 1st Legion and failure will doom me to bear the sign of damnation until the year-end. The squadron will consist of Sergeant with power sword, 2 melta bikers, 1 multi-melta attack bike photo will be in wip thread tonight ;) Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/252368-e-tenebrae-lux/page/14/#findComment-3115109 Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Shadow Guard Posted July 9, 2012 Share Posted July 9, 2012 Vow 3 I, Facmanpob, answer the challenge of the Unforgiven and vow to complete Ravenwing Attack Squadron from Codex: Dark Angels of total value 205 points on or before August 15. Success will bring eternal glory to the Guardians of the Covenant Chapter of the 1st Legion and failure will doom me to bear the sign of damnation until the year-end. The squadron will consist of Sergeant with power sword, 2 melta bikers, 1 multi-melta attack bike photo will be in wip thread tonight :whistling: Well done facmanpob... just a suggestion... add a plasma pistol and meltabomb to the sgt... just stick them somewhere on the bike and add 20 additional points... B) I'm doing this for my RW Attack Squadrons.... every little bit helps.... :) SG Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/252368-e-tenebrae-lux/page/14/#findComment-3115479 Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigGumbo Posted July 9, 2012 Share Posted July 9, 2012 May have a third vow to pledge shortly. I'm waiting for a delivery, which is due later in the week. It's already been delayed so I'm not going to risk vowing before it arrives... Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/252368-e-tenebrae-lux/page/14/#findComment-3115861 Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeffJedi Posted July 9, 2012 Share Posted July 9, 2012 My Vow is now complete! http://www.bolterandchainsword.com/index.p...howtopic=253784 I'm considering a second vow soon. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/252368-e-tenebrae-lux/page/14/#findComment-3115903 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brother Tancred Posted July 9, 2012 Share Posted July 9, 2012 Vow complete: http://i363.photobucket.com/albums/oo73/CallumM27/DSCN0523.jpg Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/252368-e-tenebrae-lux/page/14/#findComment-3115915 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Semper Posted July 10, 2012 Author Share Posted July 10, 2012 Not only we had TWO completions, not only they're worth 1.4k pts between them they are also of excellent painting quality too! @ Jeff Jedi: This librarian man - you've done him justice and brings back memories for sure! @ Brother Tancred: Go 5th! Excellent work with the robes too not to mention the Termies!!! Beutiful! Now we are 20pts short from the 8k mark... Any chance for more completions today? The update will come much later - cause I'm gonna be in beach! Even the Master of Recruits goes on holidays! :lol: Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/252368-e-tenebrae-lux/page/14/#findComment-3116247 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Semper Posted July 10, 2012 Author Share Posted July 10, 2012 E TENEBRAE LUX – 8th WEEK UPDATE http://fortressofunforgiven.homestead.com/DA_Challenge_vs_DA.jpg Eight weeks into the challenge and the B&C community has painted in excess of 54k pts with the last week adding 12k pts a 50% rise compared to the previous. Interestingly new vows amounted to 7.5k continuing to add to the total points vowed that now approaches the 200k pts mark! The average completion rate kept climbing to 28% from 22% in the end of Week 7 while the value of the average vow was moderately trimmed to 500 pts from 512 pts the previous week. Next week we are going to be 2/3 into the competition. Things are getting serious, and frankly time is now an issue! So finish up your current projects and look around to see what else can you do for your faction! Just finishing your initial vow won’t be enough...So here’s how things look at the end of week 8: E TENEBRAE LUX – 8TH WEEK UPDATE Black Templars 86 36,246 421 10,109 28% Blood Angels 54 27,737 514 6,095 22% Dark Angels 79 40,267 510 7,980 20% Codex Space Marines 54 33,487 620 7,795 23% Space Wolves 47 32,017 681 9,788 31% Chaos 51 20,197 396 8,250 41% Ordos Inquisition 21 5,921 282 4,008 68% Total 392 195,872 500 54,025 28% Index Astartes 28 16,255 581 6,085 37% Liber Astartes 14 9,663 690 825 9% Ultramarines 12 7,569 631 885 12% Comments:The Dark Angels Recovered some momentum and raised their completion ratio to 20% - still lower than the average of 28%. However the 20% completion rate correspond to almost 8k pts which puts the leading forums within their sight! What they need now is a couple of really large vows (1k+) complemented with an array of smaller vows before we enter the last month of the E TENEBRAE LUX. Not that difficult in principle since we already have a good 2 months behind us. Frankly the more completions we get this week the more our hands will be freed to paint small but point-rich vows as we approach the finishing line. Guys, we really need some really big vow done this week...The Wolves. One might thought that fatigue would have crept in by now but one would be wrong! The Wolves delivered a strong 1.8k of new completions this week securing second position with only some 300 pts behind the BTs that still lead the ETL. Furhtermore they have pledged another 1.8k pts of new vows declaring their strong commitment to win this! Their Completion rate is unavoidably higher than average though at 31%. Not that much I hear you say... Well, given the small amount of participants, the average pts/ participant is by far the highest in the competition at 890 pts (!) Good luck – that’s all I have to say. You’ve made it thus far, can you keep up for the next month? As I said before, if not the Wolves then who? Blood Angels with 1.2k pts completed this week, their overall performance should be considered anemic at best. The BAs have a decent amount of participants and a decent mix of high/low value vows… So what is going on? Procrastination is going on. Taranis is a shining example among the Angels of Blood, pledging his 5th vow already but really guys this week should be very productive for you to get back into the game. Remember: Completing your first vow on time might not be enough! Your 22% completion rate may seem OK at face value but you’re kind of left behind in total points pledged. And the only way to increase that is to vow again – which is only possible if you get some completions underway! Right now you are last – the worst performing forum (excluding the Ordos that are somewhat special). Would you let that pass?Black Templars completed roughly the same amount of points as last week and retain first position. However, the strong performance by other forums narrowed the gap significantly, with the Wolves being only 300 pts behind! One might say that the Templars suffer from fatigue but the addition of 6 more vows worth 2.3k (their weekly completions were 1.3k) underlines that the commitment still burns in their souls! They are the first forum to cross the 10k level of completions and still seem the favorite to win. A word of caution: you need to get some high pts vows done from your First Vows stock because the Wolves have tons of points coming your way... The odd Marshall or Emperor’s Champion won’t save the day for you. Bring in the big guns!Codex Forums seem to getting mobilized. Some more completions from the IA, LA and UM forums this week which is good news. However 68% of the completed points come from one person: Arizonajirt who 1) can’t win this on his own, and 2) he’s done with super vows (after three consecutive ones!). So it’s time to assume responsibility and start delivering large, medium and small vows to fill the gaps before things are irreversible. Because on paper they are not. You still have the completions to keep you in the game (compliments of Arizona) and you can challenge the first position – all you have to do is keep painting! Chaos has an exceptional performance! Although only 530 pts added this week and a very high completion rate of 41% the Chaos faction is keeping 3rd position! However the gap with DAs that have 4th narrows and although Chaos makes new vows these are not large enough to create confidence that they’ll defend their position successfully. Their average vow dropped (!) this week to below 400 that compares unfavorably with the 500 pts average of the ETL. So as was the case in the previous week, you guys got to lower your completion rate while increasing completions – i.e. increase your denominator more rapidly than you increase your numerator... Good luck with that!Ordos Inquisition moved their completion rate from 61% to 68%! The completion rate of their first vows is 74%!! If those percentages were even remotely approached by any other forum… well you do the math! Keep going guys you’re doing an honorable and inspiring effort here! Until the next weekly update, farewell and good luck to all! Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/252368-e-tenebrae-lux/page/14/#findComment-3116676 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brother Tancred Posted July 11, 2012 Share Posted July 11, 2012 Vow 2: I, Brother Tancred, answer the challenge of the Unforgiven and vow to complete a Librarian from Codex: Dark Angels of total value 120 points on or before August 15. Success will bring eternal glory to the Dark Angels Chapter of the 1st Legion and failure will doom me to bear the sign of damnation until the year-end. I'll have photos up in my thread tomorrow :P Cheers, Brother Tancred Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/252368-e-tenebrae-lux/page/14/#findComment-3118083 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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