Invasion Kenosha IV Update

Based on feedback from this year's event, I am exploring whether or not to return Invasion Kenosha back into a Warhammer Fantasy only convention. If that were to be the case, the schedule of events would look like such.  

Friday 1600 point Storm of Magic Tournament (3 rounds, 8 player flights)
Saturday 2000 point Singles Tournament (4 rounds)  
Sunday 2400 point Team Tournament (3 rounds, 2 players per team, 1200 points per player, no lords)  

Entry Costs
The price of everything is rising and as much as I hate to raise the cost of entry, I believe I will need to do such for next year. As of right now, I am estimating this would be the cost for entry into each tournament.

1600 Point Storm of Magic Tournament - $10.00 per player
2000 Point Standard Tournament - $20.00 per player
2400 Point Team Tournament - $30.00 per team
All Weekend Pass - $40.00 per player (includes entry into all three tournaments)

As always, I am open to ideas and feedback. I am looking to announce the official schedule and registration dates in late December, so there is still plenty of time to become involved and have a voice in making Invasion Kenosha IV the best convention in Southeast Wisconsin.

WFB Results on RankingsHQ

The WFB results for Invasion Kenosha III have been loaded to RankingsHQ.

Invasion Kenosha III Fantasy Scores

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Results by Overall Score

 Results by Name

Waaagh Cast - Episode 63

Episode 63 : The Storm Hits

Show notes:

1. Sponsorship : Gryfalia's Aerie, Capital City Games and Chris Mullins
2. News/Rumors/Feature : Storm of Magic Pre-order, Black Library, Warhammer Forge, Avatars of War and Far Future
3. Feature : Storm of Magic Rules Overview

We as always throw out our wonderful Sponsors first, Gryfalia's and CCG as well as our singular sponsor Paul. We just want to let you know how much we appreciate all our listeners and sponsors. We cover a pretty quick hit of our weeks in Warhammer which weren't completely eventful. We do cover my first game of Storm of Magic with the Dwarf's Vs. Brettonians. Decidedly SoM is a very interesting expansion to Warhammer. We push through the News/Rumors covering a couple of Black Library Novels, the new Dread Quake Mortar from Forge World, strange scuttlebutt about Blood Bowl a quick note about the latest F.A.Q.'s and finally a lengthy interview with Alex Gonzalez the tournament organizer of Core Competency.

For our feature segment we delve into the Storm of Magic expansion for Warhammer. We cover most of the ground rules for what is involved with the game and the basic SoM scenario. We go through the new special miscast table for SoM. We also take a touch on a number of the magic items and discuss a bit of our thoughts on the Bestiary section and why exactly it excites us to play this game.

Black Library Novels:
Nagash Immortal
Hour of Shadow

Warhammer Forge: Dread Quake Mortar
Dread Quake Mortar

Warhammer F.A.Q.: Tomb Kings and Lizardmen
Link to GW's F.A.Q. Page

Core Competency GT Information:
Core Comp. is a 2400 Point's, Special Characters are allowed. You must bring an 'Ambassador' model on no larger than a 40mm base. The theme for this year is 'Real Gamers Wear Pink' in support of Breast Cancer Awareness. Your Ambassador should be wearing a Pink Ribbon or some kind of Pink should be on the model. You should bring 7 copies of your list, 1 for each opponent, yourself and the T.O. Registration is $35 before Sept. 1st and $40 afterwards. You can pre-register by using PayPal at e-mail:
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1524 Butterfield Rd. Suite A
Downers Grove, IL. 60515

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Killzone Tournament - Cancelled

Due to very low registration, the 40K Special Operations: Killzone event that was scheduled for Saturday night has been cancelled.  Anyone who was registered for the event will receive a full refund within a few days.

News: Avatars of War Wood Elf

Avatars of War, Invasion Kenosha's biggest supporter and sponsor, has released a new model today.  Check out the amazing Wood Elf Hero.

From the deep forests of the Emerald Mountains comes a new hero, a Wood Elf.
The miniature has been sculpted by Edgar Ramos, based on conceptual art by Daniel Díaz Heredia and Wayne England. Wayne is also the author of the color illustration for the blister card.

The blister comes with two different heads, to assemble the miniature with or without hood.

Don't forget, everyone playing in this year's Warhammer Fantasy Tournament will receive a random model from Avatars of War.

Warhammer Fantasy Online Check-in

We are trying something new for this year with the implementation of an online check-in for the Warhammer Fantasy Tournament.  Once full registered players have decided upon their army for the tournament and who they will be traveling with for the day, they can check-in for the tournament via the link below.  The check-in process takes about 2 minutes and allows us to collect a couple pieces of information that will help with setting up the pods and determining first round table assignments.  It will also help to prevent players from being paired up with a traveling companion for the first two rounds of the tournament.  Players are not required to check-in early, but it will help if everyone playing in the tournament does it.

Since this is something new, folks that check-in by July 15th, 2011, will be entered into a special drawing as a special thanks for helping this year's tournament run smoothly.

Begin Check-in

Friday Night Storm of Magic Event

On Friday, July 22nd, Invasion Kenosha will host a Storm of Magic event during open gaming.  Details about the event will be posted on July 10th.

As part of the event, there will be two contests:
Best Fulcrum
Best Monster

WFB Primer Scenario #2

The second primer scenario is now available for practice games. 

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Preparing to Invade - Terrain Week

Garagehammer - Episode 25

Episode 25 – Summer Preview
Sponsored by Unique Gifts & Games, Unseen Lerker, The Game Preserve, and Ursa’s Den

The Garage ManaGeR segment is sponsored by Chaos Orc’s Superstore

Shout out Sponsors: Too many to list. Thank you all from the bottom of our pure-beef hearts.

Local Tournament Info segment brought to you by Circle City Circuit.

Thanks to Chris Yu for letting us use his basement for recording this episode during a game night!

So here’s Episode 25, about a week late. Sorry, but the end of the school year makes for some crazy schedules.  Speaking of which, Episode 26/27 are due out June 10/24, but we will be recording them on those days, so they will be a few days behind, but July should see us getting back on schedule.
So what are we doing this Episode? We tried to have a game night with constant battle reports and games in the background, but it didn’t quite happen that way. What wound up happening was, most of our gaming group was there and we all started talking about what we are doing lately. Seeing as before we were all rather focused on our Mighty Empires Campaign, that was pretty much the stock answer. Now that the final games of the campaign have been played and our next Campaign won’t start up again until the end of July, everyone wanted to talk about whatever they were pulling off the back burner. Summer is coming and most of NW2 have summer hobby plans.

So what does this mean for the show? Well, there is the typical “news and rumors,” and there are some “immediately after the game” battle reports, but then it kind of becomes a bunch of hobby talk. It’s kind of like a Pointhammered paint night, but without all the painting. Anyway, The last hour and a half or so was recorded later at the Crypt and that’s the closest thing to an actual topic that you are going to find. Anyway, I left most of this Episode intact because as I listened, there wasn’t any dead or useless air. The topic just meanders all around the hobby and, in my humble opinion, made for an interesting slice of the overall hobby in our group.

And stay tuned after the episode for more silliness.
0:00:00-0:02:50 – Intro, welcome and shout-out
0:02:50-0:33:23 – News & Rumors: Garagehammer news, Forge World, Citadel Finecast, Prices and Proxies
0:33:23-0:34:23 – Commercial Break One
0:34:23-1:13:05 – Garage ManaGeR section (joined by Grant Fetter and Chris Yu)
1:13:05-1:14:23 – Commercial Break Two
1:14:24-2:03:33 – Gaming Talk
2:03:33-2:04:48 – Commercial Break 3
2:04:48-2:33:05 – Last Campaign Battle for Tom and Taz (Empire v Dark Elves)
2:33:05-2:33:25 – Bumper Break
2:33:25-3:08:11 -  The Phoenix Prince – Master Engineer, Trip to England and Warhammer World! Also, a Battle Report on the Ogres v TK game between Luke and Harrison.
3:08:11-3:09:31 – Commercial Break 4
3:09:31-3:21:20 – Local Tournament Scene Info (Invasion Kenosha III)
3:21:20-3:26:10 – A few new podcasts! Ohiohammer, The Black Sun and piercing your beanbag
3:26:10-3:40:07 – Contests! We discuss the last contest and where your votes put the armies in the final ranking. We also discuss the current contest, “Hero Harrison.”
3:40:07-3:40:47 – Commercial Break 5
3:40:47-4:19:57 – Building your list based off your choice of Magic Lore, which leads into discussing armies that only have one lore option.
4:19:57-4:20:07 – Bumper Break
4:20:07-4:31:22 – Comp questions and other stuff off our forums and show close.
4:31:22-4:36:03 – Final shout out and singing and stuff. (Christopher would rather that you skipped this, but I don’t think you should!)

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Preparing to Invade - Terrain Week

Another piece of terrain that I completed for this year's Invasion Kenosha.

Preparing to Invade - Terrain Week

Since this is a holiday week, I thought I would just show off some of terrain that has been built for the WFB tournament.

Warmachines Steamroller Tournament

It is official! Invasion Kenosha III will be hosting a Warmachines/Hordes Steamroller Tournament on Friday, July 22nd, 2011 from 7 pm - 10:30 pm. To accompany this exciting announcement, this week's theme is dedicated to Warmachines and Hordes. Check back each day as we make another announcement related to this exciting addition to this year's event.



Registration for the tournament is now open and can be completed using the 'Add to Cart' button on the right side of your screen. We are going to start with a single 8 men tournament. Once it fills, we will open another 8 men tournament for the same time.

Wanted: Volunteer

Invasion Kenosha III is needing an additional volunteer for this year's event. We are needing a person who has solid knowledge and experience playing either Warhammer 40K or Warmachines/Hordes (multiple systems would be preferred). This person must be able to attend on Saturday, July 23rd, from 8 am - 5 pm. The volunteer will help with open gaming, set-up/breakdown, and other general convention needs.

In exchange for volunteering, the person selected will receive at the end of Invasion a volunteer swag bag and a gift certificate from one of our sponsors. It is very important that the volunteer is dedicated to the success of Invasion and can make a solid commitment to attending during the time listed. If interested in volunteering, please contact John at equinox999equinox@yahoo.com.

Official 2011 Sponsor: Privateer Press

As Invasion Kenosha continues its quest to be the single greatest day of gaming in the state of Wisconsin, another sponsor joins our ranks and helps to make our quest a reality. Privateer Press has become an official sponsor!

Now that we are sponsored by Privateer Press, Invasion Kenosha would like to find out if the community would like to see a Warmachines/Hordes tournament on Friday night. Currently, we can host an event from 5 pm - 11 pm on Friday, July 22nd. The other option may be to host a day long event on Sunday, July 24th, though we need to check if the hall is available. Keeping with the theme of Invasion, either day would be a one day event and games would consist of small to medium size armies (~35 pts) that are fully painted.

Regardless of which day is selected, we will be adding a Privateer Press category to the Golden Stein and will be adding demo games to the Saturday schedule soon.

We need your feedback! If you are interested, please post in the comments section of this thread or email me at equinox999equinox@yahoo.com. We are hoping to make a decision by May 20th and have an official announcement by May 23rd.

40K Primer Mission #1

Below is the 40K Primer Mission that was released last week at the Invasion Social Gathering. Please feel free to comment or provide feedback regarding the mission.

WFB Primer Scenario #1

Below is the primer scenario that was released at the Invasion Social last Thursday. Feel free to comment or make suggestions regarding it. Another primer scenario will be released at the end of May.

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Center Stage Miniatures - New Forums and Website

TELL US WHAT YOU WANT TO SEE - VISIT OUR NEW WEBSITE AND FORUMS AT WWW.CENTERSTAGEMINIS.COM

As we prepare for summer and a large number of new releases, we're asking our customers to stop by and tell us what kind of miniatures you'd like to see produced throughout the rest of the year.

It's important for us to be making the kinds of figures you need to have on your gaming table, and our forums will be a critical part of making this happen. Two of our future releases - the Molydeus and Glacial Wyrm - were commissioned as a direct result of customer feedback and are available at a reduced price for pre-order now.

The plan is to double our product offerings by the end of 2011 - and with your help, the majority of those releases will be customer requests. We are working to come up with some kind of discount program for (regular) forum contributors as well.

Look forward to seeing you on the boards, and thanks in advance for your help and continued support of old-school miniature gaming.

Best,

Matt S.
Center Stage Miniatures

Garagehammer - Episode 22

Episode 22 – Adepticon Recap

Sponsored by Unique Gifts & Games, Unseen Lerker, The Game Preserve, and Ursa’s Den

The Garage ManaGeR segment is sponsored by Chaos Orc’s Superstore

Shout out Sponsors: Robert Ruffner and Big Mike

Local Tournament Info segment brought to you by Circle City Circuit.

So here’s Episode 22. Sorry we are a few days late with it. This episode, we talk a bit about the Tomb Kings preorder, and then it’s on to our discussion of almost 2 dozen games we played at Adepticon and in our Mighty Empires Campaign! We also talk about the many things we saw and did other than gaming there.

Finally, we would like to thank everyone we met and talked to and played with/against at Adepticon. It was one of the best times we ever had gaming and we can’t wait for next year.

Thanks for listening and see you in just a few weeks for Episode 23!

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