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Wargaming Convention

Summer Valhalla is coming. Valhalla is a six day wargaming convention paradise (August 26-31) set in the scenic mountains of Utah, hosted by Blue Table Painting. You pick up your ticket and we take care of the rest.

On top of the regular day and night mini wargaming and food, this August we are featuring the following guests and activities:
• We will have boardgame give-aways from Coolmini as well as demos of their popular games, painted up by BTP.
• Corvus Belli, the makers of Infinity, will be out with swag models, demos, and specialty scenarios.
• Nathan McDyer, a producer from Bethesda, the makers of Skyrim, will be out with give-aways and a mini-seminar on how to break into the video game industry.
• Battlefoam will represent with swag and demos of their new game Wild West Exodus.
• We will be holding a painting clinic with BTP’s own Ben and Karen as well as a guest Golden Daemon winner (TBA).

We have a special running: a two room deluxe suite kitted out for a gaming group of six friends at a special rate.

Details here

Explanatory Vids
Fun Version

Looking forward to seeing you there,
Shawn
Blue Table Painting

Wargaming Convention

I have been re-working traditional phrases, turning them on their ear. “A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush” I don’t like that one “Two birds in the bush are worth more than one in the hand because otherwise you wouldn’t have invented your netgun and caught ten birds.” Clunky but you get the idea. Use your creativity to get what you want. If you are satisfied with what you have, new and better possibilities are sometimes shut down.

After seeing the resident expert go through two different ways of using Tau (which I love seeing, wouldn’t mind seeing more videos like that). I thought how would (one of my favourite armies, if not the favourite) would take them down.

HQ: Destroyer Lord with the already included wargear + The Storm Lord (one of the two best HQ’s in the codex).

Elites: x2 units of full Flayed Ones.
x1 unit of Guard with shields attached to the storm lord, for protection you see.

Fast Attack: x2 full units of Wraiths with whip coils (at this point it should be standard to do so)
x1 unit of full scarabs

Troops: whatever you’re happy with really, I like Immortals as they’re a little be tougher with a bit more push shooting wise.

Heavy Support: Spyder (that’s how it’s spelt in the codex)
Optional – x2 heavy destroyers or Doomsday Arks (depends on your personal preference)

The idea is to use the stormlords special rule for Flayed ones to get them [the flayed ones] as close as possible to the HQ’s of the Tau, key is here to destroy the buffering units first and then work towards the armour. Talking of which for the armour, this is why the scarabs and the spyder are making an appearance. Don’t worry about them being shot down to much as you’ll have the spyder spawning them for most of the game (hopefully).

Why the Destroyer lord and the Wraiths? Well for fear (not the special rule, just the affect) and to act as a bit of a magnet for the tau’s fire. Otherwise – unchecked – the wraiths will munch on the troops and soft HQ’s for breakfast before cutting down the elites.

Other than that your troops will be mopping up any and all survivors.

Enjoy,

Karl.

GW is backordered on quite a few items. We make the order, but get an email back saying they won’t be restocked for as long as a month. Soooo, we need you the fans to trade or sell us your models. Just contact us at store@bluetablepainting.com and let us know what kind of webstore credit or cash you want.

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