Flames Of War At Hobby Town Westminster

So Flames of War. Like most of you I have heard of it but never really got the models in my hands or looked at the rules before.  So the guys down at battle front miniatures gave me there Starter set to build and paint and see what it is all about. So I thought I would go through it with you all step by step.  

 So the Set comes with 5 tanks in a pretty durable thick plastic. There is a good amount of options on each tank for customization so you can make all five of them look pretty unique. You get two German Stug G's and three American M4A1 Sherman's 

 Both the Rule book and the Intro guide are Full color. The rule book is the full edition of the game that you would get if you bought the 3rd ed hard back. Un-like Games workshop and Warmachine this is the full book just smaller. So none of the fluff is cut from it. ( Although there really is not a hole lot of that in this book anyways.) 

I have noted a problem with the book in that the pages fall out of it fairly easy. So be careful with it. 

 All five tanks went together pretty good with out that much clean up needed. and maybe took 30 min in all. 

 So this was my first go at painting anything in the 15mm area. I have to be honest I did not spend that much time on them. Pretty much base coat and a wash with a little bit of detailing. Like adding the Stars on the Sherman's and the Iron Crosses on the Stug's but from start to finish I maybe spent 2 hours and 30 min from open to painted. And the results are pretty good. 

I have not gotten a Chance to play yet but I have flipped through the rules and it seems pretty cool. 

I will post up a quick report of a demo game once I get the chance to play it. 

All in all though I have to say I give this starter set top marks. Considering that its less then $40 for the starter set. 

Week 5 of the 40k Grow League

Start Things off with a Video Battle Report!! 

Good Show By both parties and It looks like the Nids won back there honor from last weeks Video!

So we had another Great turn out this week in the League

There were some Fairly epic battle's played by everyone and I have to say 

Its alot of fun to take a step back and play some games at lower points.

I hope to see you at the gaming table next week as it is our Final week at 1000pts!!

Week 4 Of the 40k Grow league here is a battle report and some pictures.

we also had a a great turn out for week 4 of our grow league with about 19 players. Here are some good snap shots as well.

And with the DND group here as well that puts us up to 25 gamers pretty awesome turn out. I know both groups are always looking for more people to come by and play!

See you guys next week for more battle reports and more pictures!!

Grow League 40k Hobby Town Westminster

We will be starting on March 24th at Noon in our new gaming space.

It is starting at 500 points and will grow by 500 points every 3 weeks. Ending on the 12th week. You must have the standard force org for every point jump. So at least one HQ and 2 Troop Choices. We will keep track of painting and building scores as well as battle points. There will be a leader report board. At the end of the league we will give out a number of prizes Including best general, most painted, best spot, best painted and a few other things. All the participation in the grow league is free just show up and play!

On the 13th week we will have a open tournament that will be four rounds long on Saturday starting at 10:30.

Round one will be played at 500pts
Round two 1000pts
Round three 1500pts
and round four will be at 2000pts.

There will be prizes for First Second and Third as well as Players choice best painted army and Judges choice best painted army.

Entry Fee will Be 15 dollars for the tournament and that will go towards Prizes for both Saturday and Sunday.

Sunday will have a Apocalypse game. Everyone brings a 2000point apoc force org list to play with and any Formations/ super heavy they want. We will set those aside and then do a count after all the players show up before the game starts and then balance out the super heavy's so that both teams are even. There will more then likely be a Door Prize for this game as well of some kind so you should Play both Saturday and Sunday.

Organizers Are Matt Eischen And Edward Morlan.


Sorry this post is a bit late as we are already in our third week. BUT I wanted to make sure this got on the main page for those that are still looking to come for the tournament or the league proper.  I look forward to seeing some of you there!

Genghis Pre Con At HobbyTown USA

This will be a warhammer Fantasy Battle event On the 28th of January 2012.

It will be 2200pts 

There will only be two rounds and the missions will be from The up coming Genghis Con.

It will be run by Elliot who will also be running the main event At Genghis Con.

Entry Fee will be 10 Dollar's and Prize support will go to First, Second and Third place. 

For any further questions please call the Westminster Store at 303-431-0482

and ask for Edward.

FOOD MACHINE

Food Machine is a local 35pt Warmachine /Hordes tournament where people donate cans of food to play and win prizes. 

Hobby Town will be holding this event on the 31st of December

It will start at 10am and run to 6pm 

The Entry fee will be 5 cans of food. 

All food will be donated to a Arvada food bank. 

There will be ways to "cheat" the normal rules by bringing in extra Cans of food.

Also If you want to just support a great cause and save yourself some money 

Hobby Town USA will be giving anyone that brings in two cans of Food 10% off there purchase of any games, models and paints! 

So save some money and donate to a good cause!!