Inquisitor Grand Tournament 2012 - March 31st

[karandras_sh]

Quick update Sumaki cannot make it due to Illness poor boy. But it does mean more room in my car for something else

[Van Helser]

Good luck to all the competitors! I'm looking forward to reading reports and seeing photos over the coming weeks!

Ruaridh (and his sling!)

[Stormgrad]

So Update: IM AWAKE, cup of coffee in hand 15 mins before the taxi is due. Will be taking pictures of the whole day so stay tuned

Update: I am on the train to London

[Mordenkenain]

Dude, I never slept (mainly cos WW3 taking place on my chest would not have then got me up), see ya there...

<Maniacal Laugh>

[Stormgrad]

Now in Leicester only 45 mins to go

[krenshar]

Apologies all but I won't be there, as I've caught a dose of something foul.  I got as far as Leicester but had to turn back. 
So while it means no birthday inquisitor-ing for me, the upside is that I can do a mean plaguebearer impression right now.

Hope it's a great day for you all, I look forward to the pics.

[Kaled]

Evening all,

Just a short post with the results from today's tournament. I'll do a more complete write up in a few days when I get back from my parents.

In third place was 'Greenstuff' Gav Fry, in the main due to a great score as a GM. He was just beaten to the best GM crown by Nicholas Carpenter who also took second place overall. First place went to David 'MarcoSkoll' Fincher who won both the best player crown and the painting & modelling round.

- Dave

[greenstuff_gav]

woo! 
cheers all for great games and to Dave for organising! 

so, with a 350mile round drive, pictures & writeup will wait till tomorrow!

cheers all

[MarcoSkoll]

I find myself somewhat surprised by my success, as I feel I must have scored less than brilliantly in the GMing, as my attempts to encourage less violent play when went too right and resulted in a game without much in the way of action. (Something to bear in mind in our current discussions about "balance" - lack of aggression can be as bad as too much.)

Not the only surprise of the day of course, which included a visit from John Blanche and the amusing situation of people whose brains took a few seconds to register said fact.
Really great for me though, as he'd dug up the picture of a cosplay of the "Winter Dress Noble" he'd mentioned when I'd shown him the incomplete Martejja back at the OpenBash. A short conversation he had three weeks ago with a nobody he'd never met before, and he goes to that trouble (and I'm not even sure his arrival at the GT was coincidental...).

Also, I apparently have to send him photos now. I can't really ask for higher praise than that.

And yes, I am still up at two when the last time I slept was Friday morning. Pictures will thus wait. Bye bye.

[Kaled]

I feel I must have scored less than brilliantly in the GMing, as my attempts to encourage less violent play when went too right and resulted in a game without much in the way of action. (Something to bear in mind in our current discussions about "balance" - lack of aggression can be as bad as too much.)

Your GM score was mid table Marco*, but I have to say that none of the games I saw descended into a brawl in the middle of the table and were fairly non-violent. Either people have paid attention to the recent discussions on that subject and adjusted their play/GM styles accordingly, or it wasn't that big a problem in the first place. That said, because I played in three games I didn't get to see as many of the scenarios as I did last year so I can't say whether other tables ended up as brawls - I'd be interested to hear other people's opinions on that subject.

I'd also like to say thanks to everyone who let me play in their games - I enjoyed all three games immensely as my characters faced off against a Tyranid invasion, a murderous Dark Eldar and an insane Tech-Priest. I half wish I'd been scored because I thought I played pretty well and it'd have been nice to know how I compared. However I do think I need to get a better handle on the personalities of my characters - they still don't feel as 'alive' to me as some of my other PCs.

As Marco says, John Blanche turned up for a chat - he was coming in to do some work, but knew the IGT was on so came to have a look. He clearly pays some attention to the 'Clave because one thing we discussed was my criticism of the 'Emperor's Will' artbook. I still think it would have been better with captions, but after he told me how he'd put the book together in his spare time I certainly feel bad for using the word 'lazy' to describe their absence.

The Space Hulk board was especially popular - we should definitely book that one for future events.


* I'll post up a summary of the rankings later, but if people want a breakdown of their own scores then send me a PM - I'll probably send replies out during the week, I doubt I'll get time to type them up today.

[greenstuff_gav]

so, i've uploaded Pics Here including of the game i ran (but haven't done a post for that yet!)  and a Story Report of my games

Edit: looking at it, next time i GM i'm imposing penalties for anyone who leaves dice on the table :lol:

[Kaled]

Thanks Gav - great write up.

As always I'd like feedback on the event itself and what did and didn't work. Personally I thought pre-ordering lunch and eating after game 1 was a huge improvement over previous years. And having the P&M competition straight after lunch and scored by the participants worked well. But I'd like to hear other people's opinions - especially for things that can be improved.

The subject of future events was discussed, so hopefully the Summer Conclave will happen. Marco and I also discussed how we might run an event across both 54mm and 28mm and still get sufficient mixing of the two halves of the community. As well as people having the option of bringing warbands at one or both scales, I also wonder about having 28mm players GM the 54mm games (and vice versa) which would give people chance to see how the other half does things. But if there's sufficient interest in that idea it should probably go in another thread (there's already a thread for the Summer Conclave).

[Holiad]

I find myself somewhat surprised by my success, as I feel I must have scored less than brilliantly in the GMing, as my attempts to encourage less violent play when went too right and resulted in a game without much in the way of action. (Something to bear in mind in our current discussions about "balance" - lack of aggression can be as bad as too much.)

Well, you're not alone in being surprised at your GM'ing score, but I actually found that to be one of the more interesting games, even if the assassins did take so long making their move that I may well have had Terwyn take a shot at the target on their behalf if they hadn't finally done so themselves. Also, while I agree that a lack of aggression can be a problem, there was still plenty of interaction between the different warbands-it wasn't as if we were simply ignoring each other.

[Mordenkenain]

so I can't say whether other tables ended up as brawls - I'd be interested to hear other people's opinions on that subject.

erm, no giant brawls, just much threatening and 1 table with a guy with an electro-flail laying waste to my warband... thank you very much Ungen...most often it was more 'my organisation is more important than your organisation' than 'my enormous weapon is more damaging than your enormous weapon'

all in all a very fun day

[Adlan]

Early in the Day we had a few people looking on with interest, and so a while in, Kaled pointed out that we had some leaflets to give out that explained the game a little. Eager to share the hobby, a little later on when a scruffily distinguished gent seemed interested, I offered him a leaflet rather clumsily. After accepting ours, he produced his own "leaflet".

An ID Card: John Blanche

I was very impressed, and showed him the 54mm Ravener that my brother had Converted up. That was pretty cool.


Thanks for a Brilliant Day Kaled, and to anyone on the fence, or who hasn't come to a Clave event for a while, go for it, it's a blast.