I am Alpharous! The Aftermath

Last weekend we took part in the I am Alpharius event at Warhammer World, and a good time was had by many.

Me and Ash did not have a massive success, winning only one game and being tabled twice, but Luke and Matty had a good run, ending up with the prize for having the most points after everyones victory points had been multiplied by their favourite games votes. Congratulations to them, I'll let them write about makes them both effective and likable later.

Me and Ash went up against Ravenwing / Skittari  and learnt how harsh Tesla weapons can be, although my berzerker champion made it across the board and slaughtered a Skittari squad. Ash's deamon prince wiped out a unit of Ravenwing bikers and was squaring up to Sammeal when he was gunned down. Sammy had vent on the cultists champion, which led to him running down the other 14 cultists.

Our second game was against an implausible alliance of Blood Angels and Dark Eldar. This was the deamon's best game, romping up one flank before turning around to help with a massive unit of Death Company. My Possessed had a brief moment of glory charging a unit arriving by drop pod, but this pulled them into a bad position for a charge from the death company. My Berzerkers charged in and obligingly took a few turns to die to allow us to handle the rest of the army. I summoned a deamon prince of my own with blood tithe points. Once all the Berzerkers were dead our Shooting could handle the remaining death company before Free Prince and a Helbrute charged in to finish off the Chaplain. Ash voted this his favourite game.

We faced Luke and Matty for our 3rd game, and were promptly obliterated by bolter fire. The deamon prince did not do well, the Berzerkers were shot up, the Possessed were killed by a Death Company  (again) and my chaos marine champion fought 4 combat squads of Tactical Marines in the centre of the board, as the only remaining model on our side, for at least 4 rounds of combat, killing a couple of sergeants and chasing off a couple of squads. This dragged the game out until turn 7 letting them grab many objectiveswith the rest of the army, no doubt helping them with the prize at the end. Not deliberate Tyrants tactics, although I did give them my favourite game vote.

After this we headed back to the city centre by tram, and returned by tram the next day. The trams are great and could be my new favourite form of transport, even if the driver wouldn't give us tramming speed when we asked, nor divert all power to the tram reactors.

Game 4 was our second tabling, as we went up against 5 riptide battle suits. This was the obligatory poor game, with only the one Helbrute making it across the board and not kill a riptide in combat. The deamon prince was killed in turn 2 without getting a charge,  the Possessed were poorly deployed (my fault) but are gunned down without achieving anything and even the defiler blazed away pointlessly. The opponents argued amongst themselves over who got to finish us of,  my ally went to the bar and the opponent apologised for their force. If you have to apologise for something like that, don't do it.

Game 5 put us against deathwing and mantis legion with a forgeworld knight. We had some unlucky rolls in this game, failing 3 out of 4 charges onto the knight when we could have ripped it to shreds been 2 Helbrutes, the defiler and Obliterators. As it was we got it down to 2 hull points slowly. This was the only game the deamon prince lived to the end of, after Ash made the sensible decision not to use the black mace anymore and just resort to his ccw. This was one of a few games this event which took a lot longer than I am used to, ending on about turn 4 after the full 2 hours 30 minutes. Maybe I'm just a hasty player.

Still to come: the event as a whole and the exhibition centre.
I'm sure others will have their own thoughts to post.

Teesside Tyrants: Shirts

As part of our upcoming trip to 'I am Alpharius' in April I'm working on Polo Shirts with a badge, to mark us out as the kings of kool.

Here's what I've got so far.

This logo fulfils Pad's desire to have a skull, but without the serious and hard to find in lineart crown, instead having a sombero like we had ourselves at the Council of War in September, which makes the whole thing about as jolly as a skull can be.

I'm aiming for a purple / burgundy shirt with the logo and text in orange or gold.

I also asked for some quotes from different companies. The table below assumes 12 shirts all being the same price and splits the cost of the embroidery set up and delivery where appropriate. All numbers in Pounds.

Seller	Price per shirt	One off costs	Extra for names	Total	Each
Dimensions	12	24	2	192	16
T Shirt Kings	7.8	26.4	1.5	138	11.5
Krowmark	9.66	22.74	1.5	156.66	13.055
TagTeamWear	10.8			129.6	10.8

Dimensions is the most expensive despite being in Middlesbrough, although this has the advantage I'll be able to go in and see them. T-Shirt Kings had a vague quote so I've made some assumptions and asked for clarifications, although their website claimed to have a Middlesbrough branch the reple email came from Middlesex which is slightly different.

Krowmark look the most professional, mainly branded company clothing from what I can tell. They also offered to put the name on the opposite side to the logo for an extra £1.

I've emailed TagTeamWear for more info as they did not specify and 1 off costs or delivery. I emailed a local company but they referred me to TagTeamWear so I don't actually know if they are local.

Anyway, pending a response from the companies I've asked for info from, what do people think? Anyone who wants a shirt post in the comments with your size. The price per person will go down a the fixed cost is split between more people.

I am Alpharius! Prologue

One of the highlights of our gaming calendar is our occasional trips to Warhammer World in Nottingham to enter the events they have there. Most recently we went to a Council of War 4-person team event last September, but in the past we've been to Doubles and a Campaign Weekend.

Our next event is to be the Doubles event 'I am Alpharius!' in April, and this looks to be the best attendance record yet for our little group, with either 8 or 10 players travelling down. Most of us will be taking armies we already have, with a few extra units added maybe, but Pad and Steve are taking it seriously by both starting a new Tau army with no time to spare! ( I do hope Pad can spare some time though, to write some blog articles about it)

Currently our contribution looks like this, subject to change:

Tau & Tau (Paddy and Steve)
Space Wolves & Space Wolves (Graham and Dan)
Iron Warriors and Space Sharks (Luke and Matty)
Deamonkin and Chaos Space Marines (Martin and Ash)
Space Marines and TBA (Carl and Lottie)

My Chaos has Alpha Legion Shoulder pads, which sort of makes them appropriate.


Is anyone else planning on going to this event? Is anyone else reading this blog? Let us know below!