The Gaming Kingdom

Hi All,

I thought I should right up a bit of a review of our weekends gaming and give you all my thoughts on how things went.

Well first up we had the Blood bowl event, the first ever Kingdom Cup.

Considering the 'in house' nature of the event I was happy with the turn out and feel that with a little more advertising we could have ourselves a gem of a competition.

We managed to put on a respectable prize pool with prizes for first, second and an extra prize for the MVP of the comp.

In what proved to be a close fought day with almost everyone having fun (sorry Nic, I am telling you, you would love Blood Bowl if you used Orcs) the eventual winner was Paul with his Dwarfs, I managed a respectable Second place with my human Team despite not actually losing a game. In a not to shocking turn of events Hux managed to win the MVP award with a Gutter runner on 13 Star player points from 3 games!

On the Sunday we moved on to our new idea for a 40K event, Man Up 40K. Basically the rules were after you had your HQ and two Troops it was fair game. FW was allowed including super heavies! So with (almost) everyone cheesing up their armies and (almost) everyone remembering to bring their entire list with them (sorry Jono) we got underway.

We had Paul playing Nids who had taken full advantage of the rules and was fielding a Bio Titan!

Sam and Jono fielding Imperial Guard, Sam's list revolving around two tanks kicking out 10 plasma templates a turn and Jono's list was somewhat softer being the army he did for the Tale of Gamers as he just wanted to give them some table time.

Matt, Liam and Aaron all fielded Space Marine Lists whilst James took to the table with a Hoard of Necrons, lead by the Deceiver.

I was in the mix with my Craftworld Eldar army featuring 3 squads of Fire Dragons in Falcons and not a lot else.

Again it was a well fought affair with everyone having fun, Pauls Titan survived the entire tournament (despite my best efforts) while Jono did better after remembering to actually field his Sentinels.

I actually came away with First place in this one after a hard fought game against James's necrons. James clung on to Second place despite his beating and Sam picked up the Most Bloodthirsty award for amassing the most Kill Points. (10 Plasma Templates a turn, what do you expect!)

So we hope to run something again later on in the year and hopefully we will be in a position to make the events even bigger!

Kris