Ebay, Now With 100% More Gargantuan Squiggoth

My main man Carl the killer has been in a tight spot as of late thanks to the economy and jobs and all of that stuff. He has been selling off his orks for a while now but the time has finally come to part with the pride and joy of his force.  This was the first large model any of us worked with. I fondly remember the look of horror on Carl's face when I pulled out my power drill and started making holes for the nails we used to pin Squiggy together.

How can you say no to that face?

You can see more pics of squiggy on ebay.


In other news the Mass Effect Marathon was a huge success! We topped the donation goal by 33% and had a blast doing it. If any of you stopped by we want to give you a big thanks for checking us out and look forward to doing it again next year!

*Update*
The high bidder for the Normandy model backed out after being unable to pay the amount he bid. We now have the model sitting around with no owner and still want to auction it off for charity. You can see the model in the images below or go strait to the marathon page to learn more by clicking here.

The Normandy Goes Today!

So I totally posted the wrong info for the Normandy model. All the practice for breaking boards on my head for the feats of strength section of the marathon must have scattered my brain.

Tonight at 8PM EST this awesome scratch build model made by Revenant Autumn  will be auctioned off to help raise money for Childs Play. You can get in on the action by visiting http://masseffect.g33kwatch.com/
You can also watch and join the chat at http://www.ustream.tv/channel/g33kwatch-tv

Note to participate in the auction you must be in chat at 8PM EST! I apologize for having the wrong info originally but remember every donation is helping children in hospitals across America and every $5 donated gets you an entry for tons of prize raffles!

Your Missing Mass Effect Marathon

The marathon is live and running! Stop by and check us out! I'm planning on breaking my face on space age boards at 2pm today and the model of THE NORMANDY is being raffled off around 8pm! Be sure to donate for a chance to win some cool swag!

Mass Effect Marathon!

It's finally here! The reason our groups collective hobby time has stopped is about to arrive and we all hope you come and check it out.

For the next couple of days our crew will be together at Joey V.'s place broadcasting live on UStream! The feeds live and running! The embarrassing activities are happening! Heck, with full support form Bioware ,even the voice of the big  man him self, Mark Meer, is helping us out!



Now I Know what your all thinking... "We like war games here." Here's the juicy part for you guys! Tau Dan has been working furiously to create a  model of The Normandy.

This bad boy will be raffled off today at 8pm! You can enter to win by  Donating, Liking g33kWatch on Facebook, or ReTweeting us on Twitter.  There are lots of other prizes to win also so check us out! you don't really want to go shopping on black Friday any way...

The Warstore Weekend. 100% Untapped Awesome!

So I found my self attending my first gaming convention this weekend. After playing Jawaballs at gamesday I felt the urge to wade into the pool of 40K competitive play and see how it felt. I have to say when all was said and done I had a lot of fun. The twenty guys who showed up at the WarStore Weekend 40k Tournament were all good players and great opponents. While my tournament score left me at the bottom of the pack I can honestly say that I put forth my best effort. The best plans can fall apart when the dice just are not with you. Even my opponents were amazed at my dice rolls, they were that bad. All dice moaning aside, I still feel I put up a good fight and had most of the games ended a turn earlier this would be a post about how I rocked my first tournament!
Not wanting to take a super list of doom I settled for something like I usually field in the basement with the guys. Seeing the difference in army composition between our group and the people of the tournament was rather interesting.  The Tyranid and IG players had armies that I was used to and could play accordingly. The Logan wing, and Black Templars forced me to take the initiative and come up with some tactical tricks. Lastly the Dark Eldar took me completely by surprise.  Seeing the sheer amount of firepower across the table and knowing they would be up in my kitchen fast I opted to reserve much of my armor and attempt to bring a wall of vindicators in on his flank once his vehicles spread across the table. When spotty reserves finally got most of my army into play my scatter dice went bonkers and I actually hurt more of my army than his on some turns.

I found my self wishing I hadn't left my TH/SS terminators and their ride at home as the tournament progressed but made good use of my drop pods and vehicles to restrict enemy movement and secure objectives. The overall strategy worked well. Marines and dreadnoughts can be a real hassle to get off objectives quickly  without committing a substantial amount of your force to their destruction.

Anyway enough of the tournament, and more about the rest of the weekend. When we arrived on Friday not many people were in attendance which was understandable with people still being at work. After registering we got our massive loot bags and set off to check things out.

Now when I say massive loot bags I mean massive. There was enough weight in the plastic bag that it wanted to cut into your hand if you held it for to long. My brothers bag actually ripped form the weight. We both had the roughly same things in our loot bags as can be seen below.Dan on the other hand got a ton of metal minis and bases, but no rulebooks. Seriously he must have gotten about twenty metal minis and a good dozen bases or more.

Besides the tournament room, there was also a painting room where they did classes, a room for various clubs to run games besides 40k and WARMACHINE, and a vendor room that was loaded to the brim with everything you could want, except for one thing. I walked in and asked for a WARMACHINE rulebook. Over the last few months whenever I have been to a store it would be out of stock. Once the guy running the shop section realized there were no rulebooks he apologized and gave me his card, telling me to contact him afterward for a discount since they let me down. While in the end I still got a book this was an excellent gesture on the part of the Warstore and really cemented them as one of my top online shops. GF9 was present and their rep was very personable. We talked for a while and he let us know that he would be giving bulk discounts if we wanted to buy a lot. (Which we did.) Armorcast was also there with their awesome doodads and a big box of miscasts that they were selling for $10 a pound. I was tempted to go crazy but remembered that the wife would be watching via online banking!

After perusing the different sections we got a WARMACHINE demo from the guys running the tournament that weekend. You could really tell these guys had an infectious love of the game as they showed us how to play with their personal collections. I kept heading over to check out things throughout the weekend and making small talk about the game. Knowing about my inability to find a rulebook  at the end of the day on Sunday, one of the guys came up to me, gave me his rulebook, and said, " I want you to have this because I want you to play!" This floored me. I never would have expected someone who was a complete stranger two days before would actually give me their rule book because they wanted me to play. If more of us did things like this I feel that the hobby would expand in leaps and bounds! Most of us have extra copies of books laying around and such a simple act could be what pushes someone into an enjoyable lifelong hobby!

In all the WarStore Weekend was a great gaming convention to call my first! If you can make it next year I would strongly advise it. The only disappointing thing I could think of all weekend was that there was plenty of room and not enough playing!

Warstore Weekend Tournament Prep

So its two days before I head off to my first real 40k tournament and I'm doing just what I did not want to be doing, painting new models. In my last post I talked about feeling like I was going in cold and so, with the aid or my brother Jonathan, we got some games in this week. I felt that my play was sloppy but I ended with three wins under my belt. While my list is not an uber list of doom, I am comfortable with it and have been using a list like this for quite some time. While working on my display board this afternoon the thought occurred to me, "I have parts to make a typhoon somewhere!" So after some scrounging I found the dark angel upgrade sprue that was missing last time I looked for it and this beauty Joey V. got in a barter bucket trade for his old wood elves.

Lucky for me the previous owner used superglue like a pro and the bodies snapped right off so I can get to the insides! The model is drying from its new coat of $1 Walmart flat black as I type this and will hopefully be ready to rock on friday!

I also started working on a display board to carry my force around on. I don't plan on making it too fancy. Just a 18x24 bulletin board form staples with dirt glued in the middle and a couple drybrushes of gray on top. If i have a little extra time I may put a bit of static grass here and there but with a day and a half before its time to go I don't want to be waiting for too much glue to dry.

Its nice to finally see my first army nearing completion and I hope getting my stuff finished motivates every one else to get their brushes blazing! Having an army near completion is a beautiful thing!

It's quiet...too quiet...

So things have been quiet around here lately on the gaming front. Too quiet. Many things are to blame, but it must just be that time of year again. Between getting my brothers enrolled in a new school, going to the beach for a week with the family, going to New Hampshire for a Scott's wedding, and everything in my house deciding to break, there hasn't been much hobby action to speak of. So, let me start by saying this post will involve a lot of catching up.

Gamesday Baltimore was a blast! Our table was pretty popular, and it was a lot of fun to run it! I got to meet a lot of the big names I follow from the blogosphere, and as an added bonus I got to play a game against Jawaballs! From his post that involved our game, I made him get into his serious mode, so even though I lost, it felt like I achieved a moral victory with him being my first tournament caliber opponent.

Speaking of tournaments, I'm signed up to attend The Warstore Weekend at the end of the month! While I'm totally pumped for my first 40k tournament, I also feel completely out of the game since Jawaballs was also the last guy I played. That was almost three months ago. Besides knowing that I will be running my marines, since they are painted and based, I have no idea what I want in my 2000 point list. This being my first tournament I feel like I'm going in blind. I want to bring a list that has a good mix of units and represents my style, but I wonder if it will be enough.

To that end I purchased an attack bike and painted it up. I always enjoyed running my biker squad, and it always seemed to warrant more attention than I thought it deserved on the tabletop. My plan so far is to run my normal 5 man biker squad with a fist, flamer, and melta along with the attack bike and my biker captain with a relic blade. The biker captain will allow me to make the squad a troops choice, and they should be able to fill a variety of roles depending on who I come up against.

While I'm on the attack bike, why doesn't GW make a base for these yet? Every guy who makes resin bases has attack bike bases. You would think GW would have made one of these when they released the standard bike bases. Instead I had to chop up a 60mm and a cavalry base and plasticard up the hole in the middle. It's not that it was a hard thing to do, but I did find it slightly bothersome.

Tonight I plan on painting my last drop pod. Ever since I built my first pod I knew these would be the bane of my hobby existence. If I didn't love dropping dreads up my opponents rear so much I wouldn't have bothered making more, but needing three pods to drop two on the first turn made it a necessary evil.

The last thing I would like to say before I end my catch up post is a big congrats to Scott! When I went to say goodbye before leaving his wedding reception he responded with a hearty, "See you on paint night!"
Needless to say he didn't make paint night that week, but hey, we all knew it was coming when he missed the previous three for dance lessons...
Dancing is serious business!

Dan's first Games day (and post)

So, it's my first post at the PBL, and I decided to present my video of my escapades and interviews at Games Day 2010 in Baltimore

Yes. It's 24 days late.

But it's good. I swear.


Dan's games day overview from CapnFrosty on Vimeo.

My Brother's Youngbloods Entry

This is my 14 year old brother Jon's Brother Claudio. He worked on it for about a week leading up to games day. I never made it through the golden demon lines but I heard he made first cut with it and am extremely proud. Since moving in with me he has been working on his painting skills and his new blood angel army is most likely going to be the best looking army in the house pretty soon. Not bad for the kid who build his models with gorilla glue not loo long ago! The base is even magnetized so he can still play with it in his space hulk set. He is planning on painting the rest of his space hulk up to this standard and honestly I cant wait to see the rest!

DEATHWATCH Collectors edition - Coolest Packaging Ever!

Around lunch time today Scott sent me THIS LINK.
Sadly I didn't walk upstairs and read it until 10PM. That has to be the best collectors edition packaging I have ever seen in my 27.93 years on this planet. When a box for a book is so cool it makes you wanna go build models for your tabletop armies, it has to be good. I already picked up my copy of DEATHWATCH from games day but I'm sorely tempted to order this and pass the standard on. After I build a 10 man squad real quick that is...

With only 2k views on you tube I'm guessing many people don't know about this yet.  Spread the word. This is definitely a collectors edition worth replacing the wife's antique clock on the mantle with!

*Update* Apparently the pre-orders went up this morning. With only 2000 copies being made and 500 of them going to retailers these are going to go fast. The coolest thing of all though, is that if you do get one, the Apocryphon Oath on the inside is personalized to any name and chapter you wish. 

Games Day Club Table Wrap-up

Games Day 2010 has come and gone. All the preparation paid off. The PBL Players and our independent characters descended on Balitmore early yesterday morning. Without further adieu I'd like to thank everyone that stopped by and threw down in a game or ten and share some of our pictures.

We were tracking winning streaks and got a chance to meet a lot of great people. Some of the most prolific winners were a Dark Eldar Archon, Commisar Yarrick and Lysander while Eternal Warrior and Jetpacks seemed to be the most valuable attributes. Here are some more killshots:

The table was bustling all day and we tried to get as many shots as we could. Obviously we couldn't include every picture here, but we hope these have been a good sampling.

In the end, Yarrick carried the day and Patrick took the first selection of prizes. With his Demon Prince in hand we also gave out some other prizes, but only have pictures of a few.

In closing, we would like to thank you all once again for stopping by, showing your support and getting some games in. We hope you all enjoyed it as much as we did. Although we won't be attending Games Day 2011 in Chicago, we hope its not the last time we can bring an event to other GW fans.

Here are a few extra pictures to enjoy on the way out. Be sure to check back in a few days for Paul's battle verses Jawaballs!