Introduction to 6th Edition 40k

[travis]

Place - Millennium Games

www.millenniumgames.com

Date - Saturday July 28th

Time - Noon to 5pm

Cost - Free

When 6th edition first came out I got together with some of the guys around the store and discussed wanting to do something that is more hobby related and away from tournaments in general. So Kevin G put this together and is going to be at the store from 12-5 trying to show the game to new player's this Saturday. He made a really nice flier that is too big to post here. It's on our Facebook page and will be hung up around the store as well.

Everyone is welcome to attend. Please remember a few things though. This is about new player's and player's that have gone away from the game and may come back. If your going to come please try to get new people involved with the discussion and the game. Talking about terms then wouldn't understand does not get them involved. Sitting them down at the table and going through the basics does.

If you have some painting you would like to get done please bring that in too. It would be nice if player's could see the process of taking a model from the sprue to the table. If you just wanna get out of the house and enjoy my AC please come by.

Let's try to stay positive as well. Spending time talking about the downside to this edition with new player's around doesn't help anything. If you don't like the rules that's fine. Just don't spend time telling people why they shouldn't play.

New player's that participate in the demo will get a discount on purchases that day. Yes, I am trying to generate additional 40k sales. I am also trying to bring in new player's for you guys to show the game, to add to your prize pools and maybe even make a friend or two.

So if you have some time stop by Saturday and play some small or a large game. I don't have anything in the hobby slot for the 4th Saturday of next month. If you would like to get involved, send me a PM with what you would like to do and a flier.

[Iron Warrior]

C4 and myself will try to be there to see whats up.

[Horst]

So... is this going to be a "how to paint" type thing, where you have like an organized class on how to build and paint a model? Or will it be more like an open forum, where people just gather and talk?

It sounds interesting, because everyone has such a wide variety of paint techniques. I'm sure my technique doesn't even resemble someone like Courtney... and I'd love to see how he does it.

I'd be happy to show how I paint models, but I'm not sure you'd like me airbrushing things in your store

[MajorSoB]

Sounds like great idea Travis.

I will be there with a few small armies and some paints to help out wherever you need me. Let me talk with a few people and see if I can get them out for the day.

[fishboy]

Horst I will be there and be happy to help with paint advice.

[grubnards]

I believe one of the things Travis mentioned in conversation is that he would like to have us try to use demo armies that are fully painted, based, and comprised of the contents of a army starter box. So most demos will generally run about 600 some odd points.

I will be bringing my full eldar army and elements of my Tau and Chaos Marines armies that make up the contents of a starter kit. This way people who are new to the hobby can see what comes in a starter kit and can learn a quick game using basic rules.

If there are some people who show up that have existing armies from previous editions then you can demo 6th ed rules at a higher point level.

I will also bring some terrain with me for a 4x4 area for demo purposes so that it doesn't cut into the stores collection.

Travis, feel free to add anything else. I look forward to seeing many of you on Saturday.

Kevin

[fishboy]

I have some older DE models I can bring as well as my Eldar. That is about all I have left right now ;D

[travis]

Along with what Kevin said, feel free to bring armies that can be allies. This way you can show people that they don't have to chose just one army they can actually play with pieces of them all to make up a force.

[fishboy]

I found my old templars. I will pack them up as well and bring them.

[grubnards]

Thanks to everyone that stopped out for the afternoon yesterday to get in some 6th ed demo games in. It looked like everyone enjoyed themselves and got in some games.

I know Joe and I were tossing around an idea about doing a paint/demo day in the last weekend in August (the 25th) as well so once we get that squared away with Travis we will post more information. Heck, maybe we can even do some conversion demos as well.

Kevin

[travis]

Really nice job with the demos to everyone that helped out. I appreciate you guys spending some time with my employees and getting them up to speed as well.

We managed to sell quite a few rulebooks and managed to get two armies sold though the demos as well. One new Space Wolf layer and another guy is coming in tomorrow to pick up Orks.

Next month painting demo sounds good I would also like to do some type of giant bring in battle. Where player's could show up and just put there stuff down on a board edge and get into the fray. Send me a PM with your thoughts. Don't forget about the lock-in and the 2nd Saturday tourney as well.

Thanks again. You guys make the community.

[MajorSoB]

Thank you for the event Travis. It was good to see so many players out and having fun. I did talk with a younger player about Dark Eldar around 6pm and he was looking at a battle force as well. Throughout our game we had a few players comment and ask questions.

I think a painting event on August 25th would be nice. Travis, if you preregister interested people in a painting seminar, I would be happy to donate some AoBR marines for a paint and take. Maybe you could charge $5.00, they could paint all day with my paints and supplies, and they would get a standard GW brush to take away with their mini? Just an idea see what you think.