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It's been a while, again.
Now that's out of the way, first thing is to plug for the Ordo Fanaticus Club Challenge. The Ordo itself is actually a club that meets in Portland, OR, but their members and forum (www.ordofanaticus.com) and Facebook page gather gamers from all over the Pacific Northwest. Every year, they put on the Ordo Fanaticus Club Challenge (OFCC). Most years I've been, it's in Vancouver, WA, just across the Columbia from Portland. The event actually has several different tournaments within it, including individual Warhammer Fantasy and 40k tournaments, and now an X-Wing tournament, I think. The main event for me is the Warhammer 40k team tournament. It is a tournament where painting and sportsmanship truly are valued just as much (if not more) than actually winning games. It's an event where one could bring a Chaos Space Marine army based on all daemon-possessed models and still have fun, not-one-sided games. It's an event where having no flyers and no way to deal with them won't be a critical failing of your list. It's all about bringing a fun army (super-tough, competitive armies are actually not admitted) and having a beer with your opponent while you find out what crazy situations your armies get into. Competitive tournaments and armies of course have their time and place, but it is not at OFCC. My record this past year was 2 wins, 3 losses, and a couple of those losses were some of the most fun games I had, despite being wiped off the board! If you get the chance to go, even if it's a long ways because you're not in the PNW, I highly recommend it.
This past OFCC, I ran a hodgepodge of Unbound units collectively called "Inquisitor and Friends", including an inquisitor, some Skitarii, some Militarum Tempestus, some Blood Angels, and a couple Astra Militarum Vendettas. The Skitarii I used included a squad of rangers with three transuranic arquebuses. Our team captain asked me why I didn't use Skitarii Vanguard, both because our team name is "Glows in the Dark" referencing the radiological cleanup site near Richland, WA from whence the team hails and because I have multiple degrees in radiological-related studies. I did not have a good answer, and it has inspired me to build a radiation-themed army for OFCC 2017. Units that will be included specifically for the radiation theme are:
Skitarii Vanguard - rad carbines and Rad-Saturation rule
Skitarii Rangers - transuranic arquebuses
Onager Dunecrawlers - neutron laser
Kastelan Robots - Cybernetica Datasmiths armed with gamma pistols
Ordo Xenos Inquisitor - rad grenades
My plan for this blog is to post once a month at least until OFCC next year showing my progress as the army comes together, as well as making other preparatory materials like objective markers, display board, etc. I'll finish up the year by making sure to record my army's battles at the next OFCC.
