Summer Conclave 2012 - 15th September - Kaede Mack Conspiracy

[Van Helser]

It is looking more likely that I can make it, so as usual I will be staying overnight - a pick up game in the evening is always an attractive proposition.

I will bring a half-dozen or so models for the collective goon pile, and could provide models for anyone short on a warband member or two.  Anything to up the number of attendees!

Ruaridh

EDIT: wrong thread - I should be able to attend the 1st December event.  Though I will be attending this one too with a bunch of goons and a desire for an evening game unless it clashes with anything unforeseen.

[Heroka Vendile]

As far as I can see there's still no date confirmed for this??

[MarcoSkoll]

I know 15th September has been mentioned, although whether that was a "It's the date they offered, do we want it?" or "I've booked it", I'm not sure.

[RobSkib]

Who likes good news? Everyone?

After several months battling with Final Projects, graduation and Funemployment, I finally return, brandishing good news.

I will update this thread to reflect how quickly I'll update it with news, the briefing and so on, but for now, this will suffice.

8 'Realm of Battle' Tables have been booked for Saturday, September 15th at Warhammer World, Nottingham!

Apologies for the delay/absence, but I'm back and will be updating this thread as often as I can with new information as and when it arrives. Thanks all for your continued patience

[greenstuff_gav]

8 'Realm of Battle' Tables have been booked

that those rubbish hilly ones?

regardless, i'll be there

[Bloodpact]

Unfortunately Gav, all the tables at WHW are now the Realm of battle tables, however, they do have the Zone Mortalis board, which is probably bookable, as well as their 'tunnel boards' which are probably available upon request. I guess it depends on what the setting is for the scenarios/overall plot.

The missus is away that day, so i dont have an excuse not to be there really! Gives me an excuse to do a new warband (Although 40k doubles the week before might curtail that by sucking up allllll my painting time).

I presume this event is still just 54mm?

[MarcoSkoll]

RoB tables is prettttty much the way of it, unfortunately. When I needed a flat table for the 28mm battle report, I had to just pick the one that was put together so the hills were most out of the way up the ends/corners and then we played the game in the middle of the table, ignoring them.

Of course, this hopefully won't be obvious when the final product finally makes it to the Dark Magenta inbox, seeing as I'm going somewhat out of my way to edit such things out of the photos.

But, in any case, I should be there. Marco himself has too much history with Kaede Mack to let this one slide.

[RobSkib]

Unfortunately Gav, all the tables at WHW are now the Realm of battle tables, however, they do have the Zone Mortalis board, which is probably bookable, as well as their 'tunnel boards' which are probably available upon request.

I'll give them a ring tomorrow and see what they have available. It wouldn't hurt to have a tunnel board or a Zone Mortalis (off topic: any idea how that ranks up at 54mm scale?) board, I can think of a dozen scenarios for this events day that would work on such terrain.

I presume this event is still just 54mm?

As this is the first Events day I've run for the Conclave, yes. I wasn't sufficiently impressed at any of the ideas to combine the two scales effectively without having them tested, and I wouldn't want the added stress on the day of being the lab rat for my first time hosting!

[MarcoSkoll]

I'd add that the Space Hulk board we had at this year's IGT turned out to be quite popular.
Stormgrad used it as an excuse to have his mad heretek kill off an awful lot of characters. Forenz (or however it's spelt) is NOT to be trusted - he's now busy trying to kill all of the characters from our Rogue Trader game as well.

Zone Mortalis (off topic: any idea how that ranks up at 54mm scale?) board

It's bad photography that didn't make it into my proper collection from the day, but this INQvitational game was played out on a customised Zone Mortalis board.

It's 28mm, of course, but you can largely infer the size of a 54mm model. A 40mm base should fit through the gaps, and while the rather tall Inquisitor Skoll might struggle a bit for headroom below the tops of the walls, it would remain usable. (Worst case, just assume there's no LoS over a wall)

I presume this event is still just 54mm?

As this is the first Events day I've run for the Conclave, yes.

You co-GMed at Spring 2010, did you not? But I'll accept that's a different affair to single-handing one - and knowing just what the latter is like, I don't blame you for playing things on the safe side!

In any case, on the note of scale - if there are any of our 28mm regulars who would like to attend, while I've already offered the loan of one of my warbands to Koval if he wants to turn up, I may be able to get another warband up to a complement of 4 to lend out to someone.

A surprising number of my warbands since starting to attend 'Clave events are only three strong. Not a problem for the GT, but not so great for events where you might want a substitute if another characters has miss games due to injury.
I normally fix this with mercenary characters, or Commissar Leith* (whose background is now even written specifically for it! Her superiors want her "out of the way", so she's been "promoted" to a Munitorum liaison, which in this case often involves getting seconded to high ranking individuals) - but I only have so many of those!

*For a model I sculpted in seven days "just to see if I could", she's actually been brilliantly useful.

[Keravin]

I won't be making it due to having to go to my brother's wedding.

[Van Helser]

Excellent.

You can add me to the list of confirmed attendees.

Ruaridh

[Mordenkenain]

I hope to come to the event, but I'm not yet promising anything, I may drag a newbie along with me, if that's alright

[MarcoSkoll]

Newbies are always welcome - well, provided they're polite, play to the spirit of the game and don't stink.

We're a small community, so we don't normally turn down new recruits!

[Mordenkenain]

Also, is the name Kaede Mack supposed to mean something to me, if so, could someone please explain

[MarcoSkoll]

Kaede Mack is an in-joke of sorts that RobSkib started at the Spring 2010 event, where three of the contact cards were marked "Kaede Mack", but were all entirely different people, all claiming to be Kaede Mack. (There was also Witch Hunter Jeroen Ayo, who dedicates "his life to hunting down all individuals claiming to be Kaede Mack and stopping his/her heresy once and for all".)

By the 2011 IGT, people had jumped on this, and I fought against a Kaede Mack in Necris' game. Then in RobSkib's game, there were three of them, all promising to identify the real Kaede Mack... naming three of the player characters in the game in the process.

I sort of got my own back at the 2011 Autumn Conclave - there were 9 Kaede Macks in the contact cards, and 8 of them made up the entirety of RobSkib's "starting hand".

In any case, this is why I'm going to have to bring Inquisitor Skoll again, as  he was the character I took to the 2011 IGT - so he's my character with the best reason to take an interest in Kaede Mack.