++ AUGUSTUS b'RAASS ++ pre-heresy BRASS SCORPION p.247

[KrautScientist]

The second Armiger's looking fantastic as well (although I stand by my assessment that the heads would work better swapped around. Still, your models, your call). The three models work really well together -- now if you could only take a picture from a bit farther away, so all the models are in focus... ;)

 

Keep up the amazing work, buddy! :)

[DuskRaider]

Really really like the knights, the paint scheme is spot on. Especially the leering red skull. Can’t wait to see the household grow!!

 

If you’re planning on expanding the household, you might wanna take a look at some parts made by Shane Bloomberg and James Taro. They’re both designers with a selection of parts made to be compatible with Imperial Knights, mostly weapons and decorations, as well as a few extenders I believe to make the Dominus taller. Might be worth taking a look at!:

 

https://www.etsy.com/shop/taromodelmaker

https://www.shapeways.com/shops/gadgetsplus

 

 

This is my plan when I eventually get a Dominus. A bit pricey with the Gadgets Plus bits (as was discussed earlier with the Miniguns) but really great quality parts.

[Greenz]

How do you do it??? You knocked off those Armigers in ridiculous time!

 

It’s not very often I disagree with Krauts critiques, but I have to say I really enjoy your choices of heads. Especially the Cyclops, I absolutely love that head. And your reasoning behind the head choices makes complete sense.

 

My only criticism was going to be about how un-chaotic the cannons are. But after reading your explanation about the rest of the chaosy bits, it makes a lot more sense

[Augustus b'Raass]

Tournament Report!
 

I am back from the Alliance Open 40K  2018 tournament, which was held in a Hotel near Amsterdam Airport this weekend. And wow what an event it was! Five intense ITC games, meeting tons of people from all over the world and from the interwebs, including this hallowed forum (Hi Teku!) and the guys from Tabletop Tactics, coffee, gross lunches, a hilarious dinner, and tons of beer! 

 

This was my first ITC tournament, and I thought I'd use the occasion to finally build a proper carry bag for my army. So I set about magnetizing all the based for my army, and then use a Record Flight-case as a base for a proper kit. It's based on the A-case design, but it's a LOT sturdier:. Here's a video!

 

I guess I'll just do a bit of a report of the entire event. The rulespack can be found here, but the general rules were: 

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My army list was as follows:

 

Detachment 1 battalion (Nurgle Daemons) 598 points

HQ: Spoilpox Scrivener (75) Plaguesword (0) Distended Maw (0) Disgusting Sneezes (0) 75

HQ: Daemonprince of Chaos with Wings (170) Nurgle (0) Malefic Talons (10) 180 WARLORD

TROOPS: 29 Plague Bearers (140) 1 Plagueridden (7) Plagueswords (0) Instrument of Chaos (10) Daemonic Icon (15) 235

TROOPS: 3 Nurglings (54) Teeth and Claws (0) 54

TROOPS: 3 Nurglings (54) Teeth and Claws (0) 54

 

Detachment 2 battalion (Nurgle Daemons) 523 points

HQ: Poxbringer (70) Balesword (0)  70

HQ: Daemonprince of Chaos with Wings (170) Nurgle (0) Malefic Talons (10) 180

TROOPS: 19 Plague Bearers (140) 1 Plagueridden (7) Plagueswords (0) Instrument of Chaos (10) Daemonic Icon (15) 165

TROOPS: 3 Nurglings (54) Teeth and Claws (0) 54

TROOPS: 3 Nurglings (54) Teeth and Claws (0) 54

 

Detachment 3 Super Heavy Detachment (Questor Traitoris) 866 points

Renegade Knight (285) 2x Avenger Gatling Cannon (150) 2x Heavy Flamer (34) Heavy Stubber (4) Stormspear Rocket Pod (45) 518

Renegade Armiger Helverin (160) 2x Armiger autocannons (10) Heavy Stubber (4) 174

Renegade Armiger Helverin (160) 2x Armiger autocannons (10) Heavy Stubber (4) 174

 

The Rulespack also allowed to remove up to 9 maelstrom objectives cards from your deck. So I discarded: 41 Advance 42 behind enemy lines  44 mission critical objective 46 domination  55 psychological warfare 61 kingslayer 62 Witch Hunter 64 Assassinate 66 priority orders received

 

A summary of my games:

 

Game #1

The first game was against a very amiable Dutch guy with a nasty Drukhari list. Although I finished deploying first, he got first turn. I was fortunate in that his Dark Lances didn't do much against my Knights and that he largely ignored my big Plaguebearer blob in the middle. I scored a ton of points with my objective-camping Nurglings, while my Plaguebearers got into combat with his heaviest hitting guys and my Knights shot the biggest threats to them. Sadly we had to quit playing after three turns because of time restrictions, but I did manage to get a pretty decent victory out of this one, and an ITC score of 16-4  

 

GAME #2

Played against Tabletop Tactics own Benjamin Bonar AKA B-Bone AKA The Bone AKA #69 - who is an even nicer guy than I had expected from TTTs amazing batrep videos (and so was rightly given the event's 'Most Favourite Opponent' award. He played a rock-hard Tau list with three riptides, six blocks of seven Fire warriors, two Commanders in Battlesuits, markerlights and a couple drones (not to mention the famous moustachioed ethereal in a purple toga). He got turn one (again, despite me finishing deploying first), and deleted my Questoris and one Armiger Helverin in turn one. I thought it was over but managed to get back into the fight after killing his two Commanders - who had stormed forward to kill my Helverin - with both my Daemon Princes. I also was lucky terrain-wise, as I could hide my blob of 30 plaguebearers from all shooting in a building in the middle. I didn't kill much, but as I held the centre of the board, I as able to rack in points. I didn't move the plaguebearers in the middle, while I did drop the second squad as a distraction. In the end, we were able to finish the full five turns - and to my shocked surprise I had actually won! With an ITC score of 15-5, this brought me up to 31 ITC points.

 

GAME #3

Game three saw me pitted against a huge Chaos + Thousand Sons alliance consisting of two blobs of 40 Slaanesh autogun cultist, a blob of 40 Khornate CC cultists, two units of 20 Tzaangors, three Fiends, a Seeker Herald, Ahriman, Abbadon and some other shenanigans. The British guy was an absolute pleasure to play with - very gentlemanly. We bought each other beers during the game, had some laughs, but the game was also very tactical. He deleted my unit of 30 plague bearers with a of -1 to hit, 4++, 5+++ in a single round of shooting with his first cultist blob, aided by a plethora of Psychic buffs and stratagems, and in turn I managed to remove all his cultists in four rounds of Knight shooting. We both struggled over our right flanks. Early game he lost his to my Nurglings and I lost mine to his CC cultist squad, but we both managed to regain them. I narrowly lost this game with an ITC score of 8-12, which brought me up to 39 points. Not the best score, but I was now unexpectedly leading my team, the Amsterdam Battle Brothers. 

Game #4

 
Game four was in the early morning of Sunday. Having slept badly, I was very tired, and it showed. My opponent was a guy I played against before. He fielded an Eldaeri-Ynari soup list with tons of Psykers, Wave Serpents, Shining Spears, Warp Spiders, Dark Reapers, Scouts, and Yvraine. I was unlucky in that the terrain heavily favoured my opponent. I managed to get and hold onto the relic, but my making grave errors (who forgets entire, crucial Psychic Phases - especially with a Master the Warp maelstrom card???) and being consistently unlucky in the dice (my Questoris Knight and Helverins managed to kill a total of five Warp Spiders and three Scouts over three entire rounds of shooting. Seriously.... ). I lost badly, but managed to cushion the ITC score to 'just' 4-16, bringin my total up to 43 ITC points.

 

GAME #5

My first game against Imperial Knights and some imperial soup, which I dreaded! Absolutely dreaded. His army consisted of a Knight Castellan kitted like on the box, two close combat Gallants, a couple squads of Guardsmen, and some cheap characters to camp on objectives. Everything that went wrong in the last game was compensated by this game - I shot up and smote (the past tense of smite?) his first Gallant down to three wounds in my first round, with his flanks also being decimated and nurglings getting onto the objectives, scoring me a whopping seven points. In his first turn, he couldn't kill my Questoris Knight with shooting from both the Castellan and the Helverins, while my nurglings survived a charge by the Castellan, denying him points. My Plaguebearer blob in the middle got charged by both Gallants, and only lost 14 of their number, after which my Daemon princes heroically intervened and proceeded to kill the wounded Gallant. The other Gallant was killed in my second turn, and then was pretty much game for me. A ITC win of 16-4 brought my VP total up to 59 

 

Those points were complemented by a full 20 for list submission and another full 20 for painting, bringing my total ITC score up to 99, which gave me a final ranking of #25 out of 120! Not too bad for a first ITC tournament, if I may say so myself!

 

The absolutely cool thing is that my army, along with seven others, also got a nomination for Best Painted Army! I didn't win, but I was humbled and honoured by this very much! This cool token will now be sat in my Miniatures cabinet for all eternity.

 

What also was cool was that frater Teku came over to my last table to have a chat. He as a super friendly guy ad he even gave me his last remaining Duvel Beer Objective Markers (he had given the other five to his opponents. I was so honoured by this! Thanks Teku! 

 

 

All in all, a wonderful event indeed. Fantastically organized and hosted by the Alliance Open team, who deserve a lot of credit. Thanks guys!

 

I hope you liked the report, and if you're going to the Element Games ITC GT in Manchester this weekend, see you there!

 

Replies:

 

@ Atia: Cheers, girl! They're not just lookers either, they performed well, too!

 

@ FearPeteySodes: Probably a two more Questoris Knights, followed my three Armiger Warglaives and most likely a Castellan! I'm doing a Renegade Knight Household with Imperial Rules.

 

@ Pandoras Bitz Box: Haha well, as my Plague Bearers are mainly there to survive, that would result in a very boring game. Gives tons of times to drink beers though, which I suspect would be cool to do with you

 

@ Doghouse: They do? Good.... goooood!

 

@ k0nahrik: *sarcasm*Thanks, dude!*/sarcasm* You just cost me like 100 euros, because I had to buy all those components. And I also probably have to go and buy a Castellan now. Jeez... Seriously though: those bits are inspiring!

 

@ DuskRaider: I'll beat you to it!

 

@ Greenz: Thanks, dude! It's nice to have someone defend me against Krauty's relentless critique. I'm totally kidding about that, btw. I love and appreciate his feedback! But I'm also serious about my appreciation of your dissenting  voice - it makes for a good balanced feedback on my projects, which can only get better because of them. Cheers!

Here's a bit of a report. The rulespack can be found here, so I'll just summarize within hidden brackets and tell you about the games. 

Edited November 20, 2018 by Augustus b'Raass

[Pandoras Bitz Box]

That sounds awesome man! I'm weary of organised events for fear of the opponent taking the game to seriously and spoiling it for me. I want to win... But I want to have fun more. Sounds like all your opponents were great and you had a good time! That's fantastic. I'm really pleased your army played well and congratulations on your nomination! Did you get any pictures of any other cool minis you appreciated?

[Hungry Nostraman Lizard]

That event sounds badass. Glad you had fun, your little knight family looks great. 

[DuskRaider]

How the hell did you not win Best Painted?! Ridiculous...

 

So you got yourself a Dominus, eh?

[k0nahrik]

Haha, 100 euros well spent if you ask me! Really looking forward to seeing what you do with them!

[Pearson73]

Sounds like a really good event, the quality of painting must have been immense for your guys not to take the prize!

 

I hadn't realised Element Games ran events up in Manchester; it's's only an hour from my university, so I'll have to check it out next year.

[Pandoras Bitz Box]

It's about 3 hours from me, but considering te distance between most of the fraters... It's ONLY 3 hours from me!

[teku]

Hey man, glad you like the marker!

Was aweomse to see the army in real life and meeting you!

Wish i had more to chat with you. Keep up the good work!

Maybe you and the rest of the Amsterdam Battle Brother can come to the Belgian Team Championship in February (23-24/2019)

Best of luck in Stockport!

[Augustus b'Raass]

Cheers, team. t'Was a great event indeed.

 

One thing I did found lacking, though, was that my own objective markers weren't 'to theme' as one might say. As you might now, I like to create objective markers for every army I build, and my Nurgle force is no different (I can't call it Death Guard, as about half of the stuff I have is (also) a Nurgle Daemon. So I set to work on six markers, but alas, I hadn't finished them by the beginning of last week. And due to the construction of the miniatures case for the event being underway, I hadn't time to finish the markers before the event. So I took my World Eater/Khorne objective markers with me. 

 

 

I got away with using the Khornate objectives in the largely Nurgle army because the reds of the markers correspond with the reds in my Renegade Knights. I did make a custom Relic marker from the magnetized muzzle of my Lord of Skull's Skull Cannon, though - the transfer on it was is a plain undivided chaos star instead of a Khornate rune for that reason.... 

 

BUT THAT'S BLASPHEMY! I need Nurgle Objectives.

 

Coming weekend will see me visiting the Element Games ITC Grand Tournament, and so I just finished painting the Objective Markers I made earlier - including a brand new Relic marker (with a proper Nurgle rune this time)!

 

Here's some individual shots:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I hope you like them! I admit that the Relic and the Reaper objective aren't the most original, as I have featured both in my Imperial Fists objective set. But why fix something if it ain't broke?

 

Let me know what you think.

 

Cheers

 

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@ Pandoras Bitz Box: I can totally get behind it - but that's about half of the top ten players. 90% of tournament players are in it primarily to play cool games on cool tables against cool armies, to get better at gaming (there is nothing better for your gaming skills than playing in tournaments - as everybody wants to up their game), but most of all to have a good time. I went to the tournament hoping to win one game and with the conscious goal to have a good time - how you experience the game is more important than if you win it. And I haven't played a single game against someone I disliked. Just spend some time talking to your opponent, looking at their army, chatting, and you'll establish a mutual relationship with your opponent. If you're not too strict with things, then generally, your opponent won't be so either.

 

@ Hungry Nostraman Lizard: Thanks, buddy!

 

@ DuskRaider: Because there where others who had better painted armies! It's as simple as that. I see it as a motivator to improve my detailing and conversions. The Dominus will be bought in the coming weekend, during the tournament. UK prices combined with a 20% discount and stuff...

 

@ K0nahrik: Indeed! I'm looking forward to the build. Thanks again for tipping me off with the links!

 

@ Pearson73: It was! There was a Blood Angel army I really liked, as well as a Salvaged Imperial Guard army on an army plate à la Armies on Parade but bigger. I will take shots in the next event. Hope to see you next year!

 

@ Pandora'S bitz box: Come and have a beer then!

 

@ teku: Hey buddy! I loved chatting with you. I apologize for not having more time - there were all kinds of after event duties and appointments I had to keep, and was a bit stressed. I hope to see you in another event soon, though! I'm definitely considering going to the BTC, for sure. 

 

 

Edited December 14, 2018 by Augustus b'Raass

[DuskRaider]

Well the others had to be insane because your army is a work of art, friendo. I look forward to seeing what you do with the Dominus!

[Pandoras Bitz Box]

I genuinely wish I could come by for the day and hang our, watch a few games but my wife is away for the day on Saturday leaving me we the kids and I wouldn't leave her with the kids all day Sunday. Maybe next year when they are a bit easier to manage

[Pearson73]

Liking the new objectives, the fallen warrior especially is looking great.

 

Tournament pictures are always good to see.

 

 

Seriously though, I love the idea of meeting up with some of the fraters or other Hobbyists that I've got to know since being a lot more active. Even better if we could get a game in. I was thinking about asking around when the children are a bit older for games at Warhammer world. I think I'd have to pick up the pace of my gameplay if I was to try a tournament. The running joke between Bymis and Krakendoomcool is how long I take to play. Have a great time at the weekend though! Looking forward to another Bat Rep!

 

Certainly in agreement here, B&C meet ups would be great.

[Bjorn Firewalker]

Impressive work on the Objective Markers.

[rednekkboss]

Lovely Objective markers. Its always great to have good objective markers, adds a nice element to games. I have a mysterious underground hatchway that has been everything from a entryway to an underground storage area for acheotech, to a bakery for chocolate chip cookies (Orks LOVE chocolate chip cookies.)  You need a goose though. ;)

[KrautScientist]

Fantastic work on the objective markers, buddy! That little Nurgling jacuzi has to be just about the best objective I have ever seen! :)

[Pandoras Bitz Box]

They are really nice. Inspiring effort. I haven't made any of my own but I think I will in the new year. It always a bit of a shame to have all these characterful models charging through thematic scenery to fight for control over giant copper coins.

 

Great effort, do you have custom objectives for all your armies? (I didn't realise how many you had until I started to comb the thread)

[Subtle Discord]

Damn, I poke my nose into your thread to see what you're up to and I find that it's just all the Chaos. Really nice work at a blistering pace; what's not to like? *Urge to start building for my Chaos... Rising*

[Sgt. Blank]

Thanks for sharing the tournament - glad to see your army isn't just pretty but pretty fearsome. I hope the next one - with the new objectives in hand - goes as well if not better.

[Augustus b'Raass]

Hi gang!

 

I'm back from the Element Games Grad Slam in Stockport, near Manchester. I went with my three buddies from our local wargaming club, the Amsterdam6shooters, into which our 40k wargaming club Amsterdam Battle Btothers merged in july.  There were five games, with each game ending in a points division of 20 points between the two players, depending on how they did. 

 

I brought the same list as last tournament:

Detachment 1 battalion (Nurgle Daemons) 598 points

HQ: Spoilpox Scrivener (75) Plaguesword (0) Distended Maw (0) Disgusting Sneezes (0) 75

HQ: Daemonprince of Chaos with Wings (170) Nurgle (0) Malefic Talons (10) 180 WARLORD

TROOPS: 29 Plague Bearers (140) 1 Plagueridden (7) Plagueswords (0) Instrument of Chaos (10) Daemonic Icon (15) 235

TROOPS: 3 Nurglings (54) Teeth and Claws (0) 54

TROOPS: 3 Nurglings (54) Teeth and Claws (0) 54

 

Detachment 2 battalion (Nurgle Daemons) 523 points

HQ: Poxbringer (70) Balesword (0)  70

HQ: Daemonprince of Chaos with Wings (170) Nurgle (0) Malefic Talons (10) 180

TROOPS: 19 Plague Bearers (140) 1 Plagueridden (7) Plagueswords (0) Instrument of Chaos (10) Daemonic Icon (15) 165

TROOPS: 3 Nurglings (54) Teeth and Claws (0) 54

TROOPS: 3 Nurglings (54) Teeth and Claws (0) 54

 

Detachment 3 Super Heavy Detachment (Questor Traitoris) 866 points

Renegade Knight (285) 2x Avenger Gatling Cannon (150) 2x Heavy Flamer (34) Heavy Stubber (4) Stormspear Rocket Pod (45) 518

Renegade Armiger Helverin (160) 2x Armiger autocannons (10) Heavy Stubber (4) 174

Renegade Armiger Helverin (160) 2x Armiger autocannons (10) Heavy Stubber (4) 174

 

 

I personally didn't do too well this time, with a 2-3 win-loss ratio:

 

Th first game was against a chaos list with Abaddon and a sorcerer plus 120 cultists, and a Thousand Sons detachment with Ahriman, a couple some Daemon Princes, and 30 Tzaangors. Due to the amount of bodies, we ended up playing a rushed game, which saw me win a narrow 16-4 margin, I believe.

 

I then played against a soup list of Mechanicum, Guard and Knights - a Castellan and two Questoris - I killed his Castellan in turn two, but due to a mistake in charges I couldn't then swarm into his other Knights, which cost me the game - 6-12 loss.

 

The third and last game of the day was against a really nice young chap with a beautiful Ork army. He was new to it and I ended up with a 20-0 win. No wipe-out at all, though, we both had very little left! Great game and I ended up giving him my favourite opponent vote. 

 

Sunday saw me against a Dark Eldar - Harlequin soup list which basically consisted of three squads of Harlequin Haywire bikes and three squads  of 7 Grotesques. He surprisingly didnt manage to kill any of my three Knights in the first turn, but with 4 wounds left on each of them, they weren't set up for much action anyway. I then failed to kill a single jetbike with all of their shooting, and charged one jetbike squad with the Questoris Knight, an Armiger, three Nurgling bases, and two Daemon Princes. Guess how many I killed? All of them you say? Granted his rolling wasn't perfect, but with a 3++ save, 5++ FNP and 3 wounds each, he didn't have to! I killed two bikes with all those charges. Insane. He ended up tabling me in turn three. 0-20 for him!

 

And just when I thought my fourth opponent had a list with the perfect counter against mine, I came across another Eldaeri soup list that was even better. Again three squads of  Harlequin Haywire jetbikes killing my knights. And all the firepower in the world to deal with my two Plaguebearer squads and the nurgling bases. I managed to hide my Warlord Daemon Prince in a ruin so he couldn't table me. We actually played 7 turns and he didn't table me. My warlord ended up smiting a War walker squad of three for three Psyckic hases, after which he came out of hiding in my last turn, charged them, and killed them off. His 'heroics' didn't matter, and I ended up losig again by 0-20.

 

I ended up placing number 59 out of 85 players. Not great at all, but not bad either, considering I've played only about 25 games of 8th now. The good part was saved for last though, as again I got a Best Army Nomination! There were seven others nominated, so 8 in total. And two of my club mates (Dean and Ruben) were also nominated! 

 

I remembered to take pictures of the armies. Not the best quality, unfortunately, as there was a large que and I had to hurry.

 

A Dark Eldar flyer army wit beautiful cockpits.

 

A beautiful Slaaneshi Chaos army. All the spikes are sculpted- they're not cocktail sticks!

 

Some details of the above army

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I hope this detail is Forum friendly....

 

A Knight and Imperial Soup army

 

A fantastical pirate-themed Ork army with tons of conversions

 

Sme details of above Ork army:

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Orks trying to be sneaky... :'D

 

My buddy Dean's Nurgle/Death Guard army

 

My buddy Ruben's Ultramarine army:

 

A beautiful Knight list

 

And finally, my army (with the new Objective Markers:

 

Everyone was given a slip on which he could nominate a 1st and 2nd favourite army. All votes were then totalled and lo: I ended up in third place! Cool detail: I ended up with the most 2nd place army votes  I even got a cool cup and a discount slip for GBP15 - here's a pic of tournament organizer Tim shaking my hand before giving me the prizes! 

 

That wasn't all, as my clubmates Dean and Ruben (who didn't end up with a Best Army placement) ended up as Best of Faction generals for Death Guard and Adeptus Astartes, respectively!

Not a bad yield for the Amsterdam Battle Brothers, if you ask me!

 

Lastly, I just want to say how well this event was organized. Element Games North West Gaming Centre is just a fricking amazing place - with a bar no less. Very friendly staff and their collection of terrain and tables is simply amazing. If a place existed like that in Amsterdam, I would go there every Friday! Thanks to all the staff and volunteers at the event, and especially to Tim, who organized and ran the whole event on his own. Amazing work!

 

 

That's it, that's all I have for now. I hope it wasn't too dissapointing. I will see you on the Battle Brothers' next tour. Untill the, take it ea...

 

Enough with the TON references. I think my list could improve. Considering how well the Helverins did and how little use I got from the Questoris Knight, I might exchange the big Knight for three more Helverins... Something to think about. I also bought a Castellan Dominus class Knight... 

 

In any case, thanks for reading and your comments.

 

Cheers! 

 

Replies:

 

@ DuskRaider: The others also had pieces of art! 

 

@ Pandoras Bitz Box: Warhammer World hosts a tournament as well, and I'm thinking about applying for the heat in July. See you there?

 

@ Pearson73: Thanks! Te fallen guy is just a slightly altered Space Marine casualty, mind you...

 

@ Bjorn Firewalker: Thank you!

 

@ rednekkboss: I'm thinking of addin a Goose to the next Spoilpox Scriviner, so that I have an alternative source for his writing feather...

 

@ KrautScientist: Hahaha thanks! The jacuzzi is my fave as well!

 

@ Pandoras Bitz Box: My point exactly! I have indeed made custom objective markers for all my armies - and they're all in this thread!

 

@ Subtle Discord: Do iiiiit!

 

@ Sgt. Blank: Pretty fearsome - except against Eldar soup. But that's completely broken. The top five of the tourny was all Eldaeri players. 59 out of 85 players is not something to write home about, but at least I got a cup!

Edited November 27, 2018 by Augustus b'Raass

[teku]

Saw you being nominated on facebook! Congratz with the third place! Tims a great tournament organizer!

[Forté]

Dammit Augustus. I blink for a moment and your thread explodes ;)

[Augustus b'Raass]

@ teku: Cheers! Yeah Tim's a great guy. 

 

@ Forté: Where were you???

Edited November 27, 2018 by Augustus b'Raass