The Black Parade

OK, so last weekend we had our 3rd annual "Cincinnati Arsenal 2010 Bash" it was held at the Sharonville Convention Center. As always it was bigger and better than last years more prizes and more space. Thanks to the Organizers and also the Sponsors. We had 50 pre-registered (which was our cap for the space rented) this year with of course a few people who dropped the week of or just decided to sleep in (you all know who you are). The end result was 42 participants with, in my opinion, a pretty varied list of armies. Here is a link of the participants and the scoring for the event, also at the bottom of that page is a break down of the armies that were represented with the overall "Battle Points" for the day.

Again, I want to thank our Sponsors (especially Up, Up, and Away) for the prize support. All the prizes listed below are product values donated by our various Sponsors.

1st - $250 + Trophy
2nd- $150
3rd - $75

Best Painted Army - $75 + Trophy

Door Prizes:
20+ Online Certificates and a bag of bases from Dragonforge
15x $10 Gift Certificates

Just a couple of pictures of our winners:
(click here to see the rest of the photos)

Finally found me a 3 column blog template that I like. I like it because it looks just like my old one and was VERY easy to edit and install all my old stuff. With this added column I am adding a new Section for "Book Reviews". I will give a short excerpt, or even a stolen one, about the books topic and then a short review of what I thought afterward. I encourage people post their thoughts on the book if they have read it, and of course please no spoilers about the books commented on. I don't want to ruin it for others. Most Black Library books can be ho-hum, but as you know if you read enough there can be some exciting fluff that is revealed that wasn't previously known.

Over the next few weeks I will go through my library of books, mostly all 40K novels and post reviews. Hope you check them out and leave comments good or bad about your thoughts.

This is my first post of 2010 and though it looks like I haven't been doing much in reality I have been busier than ever on the 40K front.

Over the last few years I have aquired a bunch of random Space Marine sprues for cheap or virtually nothing. While inventorying my stocks and cleaning a bit I decided I had enough to build a whole army. This in turn lead to no postings on the old project of my "Word Bearers" chapter and the last blog format. Since the beginning of the year I have played in a couple local tournaments and one national one so building has been limited to weekends here and there.

Now with my Marines being close to completed I figured to keep motivated and updated I would change the format of my "CSM: Word Bearers and Beyond 2009" to "The Black Parade". This new name goes along with my other forum names on my local board (Cincinnati Arsenal Gaming) and more prominent forums (Dakka, Warseer, Cool Mini or Not, etc.). The "Black Parade" will eventually be my Word Beares and in turn Renegade IG (IA-7) armies I am in the process of collecting but until then what this allows me to do is have a blog that is less focused and fill it with more content than just my upcoming armies.

With the new format in place I will try to get more posts up and keep myself up to date. I hopefully will have new ideas and revised ones soon flowing in to keep not only me interested but you also.

My upcoming army for our 2010 Bash (May 22) ...

Crimson Fists: Fire from the Sky (1850)

HQ:
Pedro Kantor - 175
SM Librarian - 140
(Terminator Armor, S. Shield, The Avenger, Might of the Ancients)

Elite:
Sternguard x9 (Pedro) - 295
(Combi-Flamer x2, Combi-Melta x2, P. Weapon, Drop Pod)
Sternguard x9 (Librarian) - 305
(Combi-Flamer x2, Meltagun x2, P. Fist, Drop Pod)

Troops:
Tactical Squad x10 - 240
(Lascannon, Meltagun, P. Weapon, Melta-Bomb, Drop Pod)
Tactical Squad x10 - 240
(Lascannon, Meltagun, P. Weapon, Melta-Bomb, Drop Pod)
Scout Squad x5 - 100
(Sniper Rifles x4, Missile Launcher, Camo Cloaks)
Scout Squad x5 - 100
(Sniper Rifles x4, Missile Launcher, Camo Cloaks)

Fast Attack:
Scout Bike Squad x4 - 120
(Cluster Mines, Astartes Grenade Launchers x2)

Heavy Support:
Thunderfire Cannon - 135
(Drop Pod)

Total: 1850 (60 Models)
Scoring Units: 6, Kill Points: 15

Not sure the proper Drop Pod tactic for 5th. Been playing some games and feeling it out, should get in 3 or 4 more games in by Tournament time, will let you know how it goes.

For now thanks for reading this long and boring post. There are plenty more where this came from.

Later, Chad