Adepticon 2018, Traveling, Trust in Rust in the Friendly And Pickups!

Welcome my friends! This post covers the remaining battles of trust and rust, and my adepticon 2018 journey!

For my birthday this year, I got a half sized tablewar case. (to go with my mini tablewar case).  I had heard it can fit in the overhead bin on most aircraft, so went about fitting a list into it.  Boy those walkers are huge!

I then purchased a steel plate (and some tin snips) and glued that to the bottom section.  Then I went along with the whole process of magnetizing EVERYTHING.  The bigger dreads took 5 whopping large magnets to hold them in place.  Geez!  But when it was finished (as you can see in the first image), You can turn the entire case on its side, and nothing falls off.  I then was a crafty git, and shipped a cart for 20 bucks from amazon to my good friend Dan at the lonely havocs who graciously agreed to bring it along.  I gave it to him as a gift at the end!  I'm really glad I brought the cart, as the only problem with all that metal, magnets, and dreads in the tablewar case is it was quite heavy.  This wouldn't have been a problem if a winter storm wasn't hitting the DC area the day I went to leave.

First I woke up to find my flight from DCA had been canceled.  I got on the phone with a rep, and changed it to BWI (larger airport), and went there.  Flight from BWI was canceled while I sat there.  Rescheduled for 4pm (not gonna happen).  Changed airlines.  Got last flight out of BWI on southwest.  Sat on runway for 2 hours while runways were cleared, planes were deiced, and engines were restarted.  Ended up landing in Midway in chicago instead of Ohare, so had to take a 40 min lyft.  The end result of all this? I hurt my back bad hauling the robots around everywhere. 

Lesson 1: Def need to get a portable wheeled rig for the next time so I'm not swinging around 20 lbs of minis while running around in an airport.  Lesson 2: United will cancel a flight when it's only raining.  Southwest will fly in white out blizzard conditions.

Onto more fun stuff.  The Friendly!

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Friendly Round 1: Blood Angel Primaris vs Trust in Rust

My first opponent was Travis, a blood angels primaris player.  Was excited about this, as I had yet to play any primaris marines in any of my games.  He was worried, as he spec'd his army for horde killing (lots of dakka), but nearly no anti tank.  Oh oh!  Now this was the friendly, so we got all sorts of crazy CP stuff.  You could give your opponent free rerolls.  You could double your strength and attacks every round, or double any phase (double shoot with a unit, etc).  This is not a serious competition.  In fact, there isn't even a best general.  It's just best team, best painted, best sports.  That's it. So Travis still had a chance!

We used the open war cards for deployment.  Game type was setup in the packet (i think it was ammo dump, so one objective worth more then the rest).  When deploying, Travis turtled up with speed bumps, hoping to put down enough firepower to take out the dreads before they reached the end.  Turn one saw two of his tanks blown up.  (and almost a third).  Minor damage to the dreads.  Turn 2 he punched back and took out the morkanaut, but his hellblasters failed to do anything (10 hellblasters all overcharging only did about 4 damage!).  After that we pretty much called it, as the gorkanaut, zhardsnark, and meka dread were all rampaging through the remainder of his end zone.  With the hell blasters failing to punch hard enough, and no anti tank on any of his units, he couldn't do enough damage to stop the rusty tide!

1-0 Orks!

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Friendly Round 2: Blood Angels Terminators vs Trust in Rust

My second opponent was Sam, from Canada.  (Originally from UK).  Great guy and great opponent.  You all might remember I played an almost all terminator army in 7th, and it was blood angels too!  Here's a link to yee old game. (plus a look at the dreads before they got pretty!)

Actual objective for this game was table quarters...but Sam and I just decided to go at it.  He figured turn 1 would decide the game, as he needed to wipe out at least one of the walkers to stand a chance.  He boldly deep struck the terminators, rolled to charge, and failed.  I let him reroll the charge (friendly thing).  The terminators struck hard, but thunderhammers just aren't as terrifying as they once were, and the the morkanaut survived.  Striking back saw terminators die by the hand full...and then the power of this list, all the big dreads can leave combat, shoot, and charge right back in.  They are devastating!  We had a ton of fun, as we were constantly throwing rerolls back and forth and just trying to have epic moments. (like the warboss charging in to slay his, and then all the surrounding terminators slaying Zhardsnark...no invulns for you orks!).  Fantastic game, and fantastic opponent.  We finished so early we went to the pub for some beers :).

Orks 2-0! (Oh NO!)

Side Note: Sam, was also part of the Team that made this amazing display, that made to final judging, and scored rather high. 

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Friendly Round 3: Nid Death vs Trust in Rust

I forget my last opponents name.  This is probably because the game was very short.  See I haven't played the new nids yet....and the new nids have fexes with this "acid spray" gun...that they can fire twice if they don't move.  Let's just say 8d6 auto hitting shots at -1 AP that do D3 wounds a pop eats walkers alive.  He bought me a beer, he knew what was going to happen.  I didn't mind one bit, still had fun!  Very effective list on his part.  Protected the heavy hitters with trash termagaunts, and burrowed from the ground on the left with a horde of stealers, broodlord, and raveners.  I decided to just knock those out, so concentrated most of my force on them.  As most ork players do in a bad situation, I merely picked his broodlord as the thing to die, and threw everything I had it till it died.  By Turn 3, I just had a few killa kans left and a big mek.  We called it, as I was hungry and he still had gobs of command points left.  (could have just wiped the whole army on turn one basically, but we were having fun!).  Was good to play nids, and now I have a new respect for those tyranofexes!

Orks 2-1 (That's more like it!)

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Random Pickup Game. Ad Mec vs Trust in Rust (CJ vs Greggles)

Played a pickup game vs CJ from the lonely havocs.  He had admec as well (like scotts), but far more shooty.  Using the open war cards, we got the card where you can deploy only on the back edges pretty much.  Oh oh, gonna be hard for orks!  Sorry didn't get too many photos.  They might be on the camera, who knows!  Had a great game, dan and scott were playing next to us (geez was this fun!).  The walkers eventually made it down to CJ's line and started eating units.  Best moment of the game was when I brought my buggies in, he intercepted them with his plasma destroyers...overcharged, and proceeded to kill two of them by rolling 1's.  In the end the game was a draw (I think it was by PL damage or something). 

Final Orks Talley From Adepticon 2018: 3-1-1 (Gud un boss!)

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This was one of the best years at Adepticon yet.  I met an enormous amount of amazing people, many who I have only talked to online before.  Had some amazing nights where all we did was hang out at the bar and have endless cycling conversations for hours and hours (people would leave, more would show up, rinse and repeat).  Got to help with the Team judging again, got to see so many pieces of art on the tables.  Just grand fun.  Highly recommend it to all.  First year is always a bit nervous, (if you have never been). Later years are just non stop fun and friends.  It's crazy to think that everyone around you loves the exact same thing you do! 

If you missed the Galleries, here they are again!
Adepticon 40k GT + Mixed
https://imgur.com/a/rXOlC

Adepticon 40k Team + Mixed AOS/30k/Misc
https://imgur.com/a/eHgrF

Adepticon 2018 Cell photos of various events/closeups
https://imgur.com/a/cWFPK

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