Inquisitor Grand Tournament 2012 - March 31st

[Heroka Vendile]

Sounds like a good time was had by all despite lower numbers. Good to hear John Blanche popped by unannounced. The earlier lunch sounds like a great alteration to the schedule as well.
Congrats David, Nicholas & Gav for your various category wins and final positions.

Hopefully by next year they may have a FW Zone Mortalis table or two setup we can use as well as that Space Hulk one (wish that'd been there last year, would've saved me 5+ mins setup when I GMed - nevermind). Also hopefully I'll actually make it again next year.

[MarcoSkoll]

@Kaled: I'm very short on artbooks, so covering some old ground is actually welcome in my case.

And I'm similarly inclined to be Inquisitor-ing, even though I was expecting that I was going to want a hefty break (probably Infinity) after all the work, but quite the opposite. My exhaustion however prohibits... well, anything really!

Also - yes, much mirth was had from Forenz's crate of minions. The thing that worries me is that I know it's not even past Forenz to do such a thing.

[greenstuff_gav]

Hopefully by next year they may have a FW Zone Mortalis table or two setup we can use as well as that Space Hulk one

i had a look at the Mortalis stuff they had in the shop (while a black-shirt tried to sell a set or two to karandras and myself "maybe all the guys from the clave could club together?") ... was ideally sized (the walls are just at the top of the head of a Guardsman) but the amount of air bubbles was horrific!

[Kaled]

Stand by for an announcement...

Last year's winner, Ruaridh 'Van Helser' Dall has kindly agreed to take over the running of the IGT. Much as I've enjoyed doing it, I am looking forwards to the chance to participate again. That said, I do plan to run an event during the coming year based on the idea of 'influence' and competing factions, so I'm not totally stepping back from organising duties.

All hail the new master of the IGT!

- Dave

[Van Helser]

Taking my cue from that introduction, I am indeed the new lord and master of the Grand Tournament (add evil laughter if you desire). Thanks are due to Kaled for organising the IGT for the last two years - he has done a sterling job in my opinion, and the feedback I've read of Saturday's bash seems to suggest the event was enjoyed muchly! I hope to continue things in much the same basis. There won't be many changes from the existing format, but if there's anything that anyone wants to say about the IGT experience, please add your comments to the new thread I will be launching in the near future.

Ruaridh

[Stormgrad]

Just wanted to say it worked better this year with the earlier lunch and i liked the fact that the painting and modelling was judged by us as opposed to the GW Employees most of whom try to sell you grey knights when you mention the Inquisition

[MarcoSkoll]

Add evil laughter if you desire.

Why does it always do that?

as opposed to the GW Employees most of whom try to sell you grey knights when you mention the Inquisition

That gives me a brilliant idea, but we'll need several people in Inquisition appropriate costume.

We send a normally dressed someone into the store with some way of signalling us. If the staff mention Grey Knights when that someone mentions Inquisitor, they signal us, at which we all storm in and "execute" that someone with NERF guns, then carry his "body" out again with the explanation that he didn't have the necessary clearance to know about the Grey Knights. We then watch the staff's brains explode.

Add a couple of video cameras, plant someone else to deliver the line "I didn't expect the Imperial Inquisition" and add the Devil's Gallop as a backing track, and you've got the makings of a youtube video.

[Stormgrad]

That's a lot effort can we not just make bitchy comments anonymously on a certain internet based forum about there total lack of knowledge

[Charax]

The two are not mutually exclusive...

[MarcoSkoll]

We could, but that wouldn't be half as funny.

[greenstuff_gav]

so, back on topic (GW trolling warnings aside...), if anyone has their scenario in a word doc*, could they email me please?
i'm looking at collecting all the scenarios into a single article for Dark Magenta

*any notes / thoughts you'd like to add re your scenario would be welcome