The Twin Arches (Autumn Conclave 2012) - December 1st, WHW

[Koval]

Re. the gunfight, I still maintain that it's perfectly in-character for Tyra to have started it -- she saw an alien and shot it as soon as it didn't have an Inquisitor protecting it any more. Naturally, Tyra considered Kaled telling her "stop firing on the alien" to be heretical, and therefore his order wasn't worth following. Fabian will probably have a few things to say to Alice about that one.

It might've been a slightly different story had she been aware of Khisanith, but you try spotting an Eldar sniper wearing cameleoline -- she probably wasn't even aware of Khisanith despite being shot.

Needless to say, Alice would probably have clubbed Tyra upside the head if she'd started shooting while both of them were there -- Alice obviously didn't trust Haloe either, or Kais, but it could've waited until later. Tyra blatantly didn't care, though, and Alice had vanished, so to Tyra, it was just her and Kais.

Relander also fails at diplomacy (which makes sense as he also fails at target selection, or hitting things)

On the 28mm side of things, it turns out the bike rules aren't all that powerful when you're chasing a teleporting Navigator and wind up in the middle of all three possible destinations -- Tobin spent all his time doing three-point-turns and failing to use his bio-scanner (which forced MacKay to double-up as a psychic radar). Props to Lozano for pulling off a shot at extreme range with his pistol and actually wounding the Navigator, and props to Tobin for finally getting his act together and driving into the building to try and ram the Navigator. It didn't work, mind you, and I think Tobin actually came to a halt not that far away from Kaled's boot, but the Navigator was totally spooked by this and ran outside only to be shot by Crooked Ear, so at least Tobin did something useful.

My account of the day will probably appear at some point later today. Or at least, part of it will.

[greenstuff_gav]

everyone pickeson thetau :lol:
thanks to marko for running an the other 5 for showing... good times were had :-)

my writeup will be delayed due to no interweb at home for a week while the accounts change over :-(

[Cortez]

I'm glad the event went ok, despite the large number of drop outs.

[Keravin]

My photos from my games

http://s96.photobucket.com/albums/l167/keravin/Twin%20Arches/

The writeups will come, but I'm barely home for the next few weeks so it'll take some time, but I have enough notes of the games.

[greenstuff_gav]

while i cant post properly, heres my pics :-)
http://buildyourimagination.co.uk/minis/winterclave12.php

[MarcoSkoll]

With all of these photos, one album from me too.

... or hitting things

The full auto rules need a serious revisit.

I've been playing around with an alternative idea that involves auto-fire (of both the semi and full variety, although only the latter is likely to make it into the RIA's "house rules" section*) having some of its penalties in increased range modifiers.
After all, pulling the trigger and letting rip against a nearby target - it will get hit (particularly if Ogryn size. Not that the Ogryn will necessarily care). Shooting wildly at something further away is rather less likely to work.

*But both have a pretty high chance of making it into an Inquisitor Mk2 ruleset, if I choose to bother working on that idea.