Mike’s Warcon V (40K) Report
Hi there and welcome to my web report on Warcon V. This isn’t an official site in any way, so any beefs or bouquets go to me and not the organizers. The opinions expressed here are my own and no one else’s. So there bleah. For those who want a decent intro, I suppose that I should start with a history of Warcon.
Warcon was originally begun by Mike Marko. Mike’s a good guy, I first met him years ago through a mutual friend when he was setting up a WFB campaign. The Campaign never really went anywhere, but I did get the opportunity to meet Mike and a few other decent folks. I can’t really call Mike a close friend, but he’s a friend. Mike is a roleplayer, an even tempered fellow, and an AMAZING painter. I hope he does a website with some of his stuff some time. If you get a chance, e-mail him with congrats on his upcoming wedding to the lovely (if quiet) Leanne. Special thanks to everyone who helped with the page (Christer for the Rules and Jon Westmoreland for the Avalon Quest font.)

That’s Mike Marko there on the left. To his right is Christer McLauchlan, our 40K Warcon fiend and co-organizer. He’s also known as the Farseer of Minaith (yup Eldar through and through).

Warcon 1 was purely WFB. I played in it and came in IIRC dead last. Of course, with a mostly unpainted army, no tourney rules and almost no experience with my Undead, I guess I shouldn’t really have expected too much. I had a good time, though.

Warcon II was the first time I had the chance to play 40K in a large tourney type setting. My gaurd did okay, but I didn’t place or anything. Once again, I had one hell of a good time. Each half year (they are held

every six months) attendance grew and the Tourney was beter and better.

Warcon III, my guard crested as I took first place (JUST BARELY!). By now the format was set for the next Warcons and so, on to Warcon V.

The day started early as Christian, Byron and I gathered for breakfast, we made it to the Westwin Community Center just before the doors opened at 9:00 AM. We went in and started to set up our armies for painting judging. Pretty much all of the pics of armies were taken at this time.

My first opponent was a fellow named Ian (Stewart?). That’s him to the right. Ian was a terribly enjoyable opponent and played with a very standard BA army. He was the only person who beat me in overall painting and army presentation. It was a joy to play on the same table with such a pretty army. This entire game could only be described as hilarious, which seems to be the result any time the Desolation Angels take on the Blood Angels. Most of our ammo seemed to be training ammunition EXCEPT anything fired at a hull down or smoked vehicle. EVERY ONE of those was destroyed in a single shot. My regular

tactical plasma gunner was the star of this game destroying both the Dreadnought and the Whirlwind in Ian’s army. The Death Company wound up being too big to fit in his rhino and had to walk the end result being that they never got into combat with anything other than the Callidus who I threw at them literally just to keep them tied up and off my troops. The poor Assassin died, but accomplished his mission, a s the DC never engaged anyone but him. I won this fight by about three vp.

My second opponent was Geoff. I didn’t catch his last name. Geoff was playing a Chaos army heavy on the daemons and terminators and with a Nurgle theme. If the guy’s luck hadn’t been bad he would have had no luck at all. The battle was a serious skunk and I could only feel bad for him. His terminators deviated off the table, blue horrors dropped right in front of the Devastators and bikes, Dreadnoughts raged forward into killing fields and the Callidus beat up a bunch of his retinue, including killing his standard bearer with one of those fancy I’ll make you dead Nurgle standards. It was short and bloody with the tacticals never actually deploying from the

rhinos at all, and me only losing one man (to an overheating plasma cannon) and the assassin, who is pretty much fire and forget anyway. Geoff was an excellent sport about it and I don’t know if I would have been as placid in a similar situation. His attitude can only be commended. I hope to meet him for a more even game in the future. Needless to say, I won by quite a bit.

Next I was to experience my first taste of v3 orkydom at the hands of Liam McLauchlan (Christer’s brother) and his “Hail of Doom“ army. Aptly named as the Warboss’ mob had 13 Big Shootas in it! Death did indeed rain down on my poor marines. What a nightmare as I struggled to cope with this totally unexpected insanity! My Dev Unit was blown to bits, both rhinos immobilized, the razorback shot up. It wasn’t pretty. I took advantage of Drusus (the Callidus) to distract the nobz just long enough to get my bikes into melee with one of the gretchen units and used that as a screen to first get some tacs moving and then the Chaplain and

his unit. The game quickly turned incredibly bloody with the Chaplain going toe to toe with a Warbike unit trying to wipe out the last Phantom Dragon, as the nobs wiped out the bikes and larger tactical squad. The Ravager killed two of the Warbikers and drove them off taking the quarter. I lost by about a vp, a tie, I believe, for tourney purposes. It was a very exciting battle and I suprised myself by keeping my head and not getting totally wrecked. Man, the orks is tough!

The last battle of the day I squared off against Mike Marko’s brother Steve. Steve is really new to 40K. He was playing a Codex Marine army that only had a tiny leader, a single rhino, a dreadnought and a huge heard of small tactical squads much like my Phantom Dragons without the razorback. My game started badly as the devs discovered that they were just out of range, the bikes couldn’t hit anything, the plasma gunner missed and it just went down hill from there. It left me in a bad position and worried as the dreadnought bore down on

one squad, smashed them up and just kept on going shrugging off multiple heavy weapons and melta shots like a light rain. It was a long time before I finally dropped that thing and it nearly made it to assault range with the devs before it died! This was the battle where the Callidus truly shone brightly wiping out several squads all by his lonesome and actually surviving the battle! This was an enjoyable “flip flop” style battle that could have gone anyway at all. Unfortunately, Steve’s army is one of the ones I didn’t get a pic of.

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