Courting the Improbable, Part 2

A little while ago I started musing aloud (aprint?) about the nature of improbability in our game, and digressed into a comparison of models who are expected to be good vs models that are expected to be bad, and how the improbable events differ inversely in their value.

Now, I want to look at more systemic improbabilities, which in 6th ed 40k have multiplied to a level not seen since 2nd ed.

The genesis of this line of thinking goes back to my days playing BloodBowl, still my favourite GW game, though unfortunately I lost my board and many of my models. Back in the day, I played it as much as I could, ventured to a tourney a year for a few years running, read BloodBowl stuff on the tubez, etc. And the constant theme was 'minimise your risk'.

Arcanacon, Game 1

Arcanacon hosted a 1200pt 40K tourney on the Australia Day weekend, and I was fortunate enough to be taking part! Although the tournament scores included comp, it didn't have a large bearing on my army selection, as I basically brought along all of the 5th ed Dark Eldar that I have painted (yes, I have been going since the 5th ed codex came out; yes, I am a very slow painter!)

Arc40k

I made it to the Arcanacon 40k tourney last week, for my first 40k tournament in almost ten years! I had a blast, thanks to everyone involved!

I'm working on putting up some batreps with pics, but since I didn't take enough photos for a blow by blow (out of practice, pushed for time... etc), I'm going to try and make some maps.

The bad news is it might be a little while! Check back in a couple of weeks, with any luck there'll be some action.

In the mean time, here are some other pics from the event.

These are my Dark Eldar, on one of the splendid tables available!

 Here are a couple of the beautiful armies that were on show: