=] Call to Arms 2024: The Final Summary [=

[Grotsmasha]

  

 

IMPERIUM  |  CHAOS  |  XENOS  |  HERESY

 

Call to Arms 2024 Final Summary

 

First of all, thankyou to the newcomers and returning members who participated in the 2024 Call to Arms, whether or not you completed your Vows, you have all made the event the success it has been. Between the four Strongholds, we completed 3,136pts, and painted 2,300+ MODELS, which is an OUTSTANDING result by any metric.

 

This year I have managed to secure four (4) prizes, and they will be awarded to the following four Categories:

Master Artificer,

Favourite Young Blood,

Master of the Forge,

Grand Marshal.

 

What are the prizes, I hear you ask?

Long ago, even before my time, the then Moderators commissioned a custom art playing deck by Aerion the Faithful, and I have secured four of these decks. Below you can check out the four Aces from the deck,

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AQUILA

 

SKULLS

 

STARS

 

SWORDS

 

 

 Stronghold Artificers

 

POLLS:  IMPERIUM  |  CHAOS  |  XENOS  |  HERESY

 

Across the four Strongholds, the Mods and Admins faced the difficult task of voting for their favourite 3 entries from within each Stronghold. These three entries then faced off against one another in a Frater Poll to claim the title, and badge of Stronghold Artificr.

 

Below you will find the four Stronghold Artificers, please join me in congratulating them on their oustanding entries,

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Imperium - Chaplain Raeven's Operative Umbral-6

 

 

 

Chaos - Kharn13's Daemon Primarch Angron

 

 

 

Xenos - Wormwoods' XV-95 Ghostkeel Battlesuit

 

 

 

Heresy - Lautrec the Embraced's Night Lords Predator

 

 

@Chaplain Raeven @Kharn13 @Wormwoods @Lautrec the Embraced

 

 

Master Artificer

 

POLL:  MASTER ARTIFICER POLL

 

Once the four Stronghold Artificers had been selected by the Frater, they faced a new poll against one another, this time to claim the title and badge of Master Artificer.

 

 

Surviving three rounds of voting, from a sea of outstanding entries, please join me in congatulating 2024's Call to Arms Master Artificer...

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Chaplain Raeven

 

 

Chaplain Raeven's AMAZING Operative Umbral-6 was as standout model from the beginning, and is a most deserving

recipient of the Master Artificer title.

 

 

Favourite Young Blood

 

POLL:  YOUNG BLOODS

 

There we just two entrants into the Young bloods category this year, who both completed their models to an excellent standard. They faced off in Frater Poll to claim the title of Young blood for 2024, the voting ran neck and neck the entire time, but there can be only one.....

So, congatulations to

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Norman Paperman

 

 

 

@Norman Paperman

 

Master of the Forge

 

POLL:  MASTER OF THE FORGE

 

This year's Master of the Forge featured 13 entries, each a masterpiece in their own right. There were several early standout entries in the polls right from the start, but slowly one began to stride beyond the competition.

Please join me in congratulating 2024's Master of the Forge...

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Dr_Ruminahui

 

An outstanding amalgum of Guard, Nids, Plasticard, and Greenstuff, Dr_Ruminahui's Defiler is an outstanding model, and well deserving of this years claim to the title.

 

 

@Dr_Ruminahui

 

 

Grand Marshal

 

We had a total of four Frater complete over 200 points worth of models, a truely monumental achievement. Competing in the Imperium Strongold, we had crimsondave complete 246pts worth of models, in the Chaos Stronghold, we had Cryptix complete 248pts worth of models, competing for the Heresy Stronghold, we had Dwango, 2023's Grand Marshal, complete 308pts worth of models. However, 308pts was not enough to claim Grand Marshal for a second year, this year's Grand Marshal is....

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...SgtSharp

who completed an immense 501pts worth of models spread between the Imperium and Heresy Strongholds. Congratulations, that's quite a few models, well done.

 

Imperium  -  Vow 1: 115pts  -  Completed  |

 

2 Inquisitors (10 pts)

Lord Inquisitor Coteaz (the good one) (5 pts)
Nork Deddog (5 pts)
Ordo Malleus Inquisitor in Terminator armour (5pts)
2 Commisars (10 pts)
28 Tempestus Scions (28pts)
2 Tempestor Prime (2pts)
12 Zone Mortalis Columns (12 pts)
10 Zone Mortalis Walls (20 pts)
4 Zone mortalis Doors (8 pts I think, same size as the walls)
1 Skyshield Landing Pad (10 pts)

 

Heresy  -  Vow 1: 214pts  -  Completed  |  Vow 2: 2pts  -  Completed  |  Vow 3: 170pts  -  Completed  |

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AoD: 148pts

1 Legate marshal (5 pts)

Tactical Command section (5 pts)

60 Lasrifles (60 pts)

30 Veletari (30 Pts)

3 Aetheon Heavy sentinels (9 pts)

3 Leman Russ Strike tanks (15 pts)

3 Dracosans (18 pts)

1 Malcador (6 Pts)

Legions Imperialis: 66pts

12 Russes  (12 pts)

6 Malcadors (12 Pts)

2 Malcador Infurni (4 pts)

2 Valdors (4pts)

12 Basalisks (12 Pts)

4 Madusae (4 pts)

2 Hellhammers (6 Pts)

2 Reavers (12 pts)

 

1Cyclops Support Tank (2)

 

2 Solar Auxilia legate Marshals (10 pts)
1 twisted flesh militia force comander (5)
1 twisted flesh militia mounted force commander (5)
1 twisted flesh militia rogue psycher (5)
1 dominion zephon (jump pack preator) (5)
1 survivors of the dark age militia force commander (the inquisitor) 5pts
1 militia force commander (ripper jackson) (65)
1 white scars preator (5)
1 nightlords preator (5)
1 custodian shield captain (5)
1 vindicare assassin (5)
4 craters (12)
1 large sector imperialis building (8)
1 medium sector imperialis building, (4)
1 imperial bunker , (6)
10 white scars tactical marines (10)
10 white scars cataphractii terminators (10)

 

 

 

 

@SgtSharp

 

 

 

Now we come to the answer we've all been waiting for;

Which Stronghold has claimed victory, and bragging rights over the others?

 

 

Masters of the Horde

 

This badge is awarded to the participants of the Stronghold that completed the highest overall points worth of models.

Please join me in congratulating the....

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Heresy Stronghold

 

 

Out of 1,199 points worth of models pledged, the 2 Heresy Factions manged to complete 1,025 points worth of models.

That equates to a 85.5% Completion Rate, which is a fantastic result.

If you completed your Vows in the Heresy Stronghold, you may add the Masters of the Horde badge to your signature.

 

Coming in 2nd, the Chaos Stronghold completed 845pts worth of models,

Coming in 3rd, the Imperium Stronghold completed 648pts worth of models,

Coming in 4th, the Xenos Stronghold compled 618pts worth of models.

 

 

Masters of the Call

 

This badge is awarded to  the Participants of the Stronghold that has the Highest Participation vs. Completion Percentage.

Please join me in congratulating the...

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Chaos Stronghold

 

 

A special thanks need to go out to @Dr_Ruminahui, he was instramental in Chaos' success at securing the highest completion rate within the Call to Arms.

Dr_Ruminahui was ever present within the Stronghold, offering advice and motivation and words of encouargement, almost daily.

This led to the Chaos Stronghold completing 845 points of models out of a potential 890 points, missing the 100% mark by just 45 points.

It was however, enough to secure a 94.9% Completion Rate.

If you completed your Vows in the Chaos Stronghold, you may add the Masters of the Call badge to your signature.

 

Coming in 2nd, the Xenos Stronghold achieved an 87% Completion rate,

Coming in 3rd, the Heresy Stronghold achieved an 85% Completion rate,

Coming in 4th, the Imperium Stronghold achieved 59% Completion rate.

 

 

and with that, we are at the end. Thank you all, once again. Without your participation and support, this event would not be the success it was,

so pat yourselves on theback, maybe even a high-five, you all deserve it.

 

Hoping to see you all at the next Forge Event.....

 

 

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Previously there have been some issues with sizing/formatting to add these Badges into you Signatures, the *best and most reliable* way we've found to reduce these issues is to;

- Right click on the badge

- Select "Copy Image Link"

- Paste the link into your signature, and the forum software will automatically turn it into the image.

 

 

Edited December 1 by Grotsmasha

[Kharn13]

Thanks everyone! This event really got me motivated, I’ve since painted some friends for Angron and started a party bus for Khârn - pics below. Very much looking forward to next year (I have some ideas for Master of the Forge). Still can’t get my signature to show, but hey ho!
 

 

 

 

Edited December 2 by Kharn13

[Grotsmasha]

5 minutes ago, Kharn13 said:

Still can’t get my signature to show, but hey ho!

Glad you enjoyed the event.

 

Signatures are hidden on mobile, and only display on desktop. There is also a toggle that switches sigs off,  which might be worth double checking

[Kharn13]

14 minutes ago, Grotsmasha said:

Glad you enjoyed the event.

 

Signatures are hidden on mobile, and only display on desktop. There is also a toggle that switches sigs off,  which might be worth double checking

Ah, I’m always on my mobile so that adds up! Thanks 

[Chaplain Raeven]

Thanks for hosting the event Grot, It's probably a nightmare to organise. I had a lot of fun! I had hoped to finish a lot more models (really A LOT more!), but I can't complain nonetheless. At least two sizeable ones are banished from the pile of shame, a pile they've been in for an embarrassing long time.

I've already got some models ready for next year. Well, actually the ones I intended to paint this year!

Thank you for the Artificer title everyone, I hadn't expected it at all! Especially with all the wonderfull entries this year! 

[Dr_Ruminahui]

Woohoo!  Go chaos!  Fantastic job on getting completioniest, and on beating out the ever fearsome imperials on total points!  I suspect the dastardly imperials pull ahead, though, if we calculate the 30K point totals in, due to the fantastic showing of the pro-Emperor side there (that said, pro-Heresy was no slouch either).

 

Thanks for the Master of the Forge award, everyone - I'm really happy my defiler was such a hit.   Lots of very excellent competition for it, so its a really honour that so many liked it.

 

On a related note, I've put my defiler as my profile art, which has interesting consequences if one mouses over my user name besides my posts - basically, one gets my defiler with my avatar head instead of its turret.  So, this:

 

 

Wow... that picture is way bigger than I had intended.  Anyway, it makes me laugh and I thought I would share. 

Edited December 2 by Dr_Ruminahui

[NovemberIX]

Honestly, I gotta give Grot muchos kudos for running this, I'd been jonesing for an ETL type event, and this more than fit the bill. It motivated me to finally build some big models that had been gathering dust, nothing to say about all the armigers that resulted from trying to get to a hundred points.

[Lord_Ikka]

Thanks again for running this Grot, always a pleasure to do something this fun. Super surprised I got votes in the Master of Forge given the level of talent shown, so thank you to any who voted for me. Another great event down!

[Dr_Ruminahui]

One nice thing about these kind of polls is that people can vote for which ever model is the most awesome for them, which won't necessarily be the same for everybody.  And @Lord_Ikka, your battle bus was definitely awesome in a 2nd/3rd ed kind of way, so for its no surprise that it scratched some members particular itch.  It really reminded me of something somebody might have built using the 3rd ed Chapter Approved Vehicle Design Rules - as someone who built some of his own vehicles using those rules, and painted several more done by a friend for his army, that's incredibly cool.

Edited December 3 by Dr_Ruminahui

[Dread]

Thanks for this event. I missed the ETL's. It was nice to get a color scheme i love for my sisters and show it off. Be looking forward to the next one.