Ropecon 2008

So we went to Ropecon last weekend.. Well, me and Tony atleast (what would you expect for Olli anyway). I must admit it sucked.. NOT! Both me and Tony enjoyed it a lot.

On friday I played Epic Armageddon intro game. I played it once and now I love it. I also played a few magic games and just randomly hanged out with friends.

On saturday I had work at 15-20 so I didn't have much time at Ropecon. In the morning I played a couple of fantastic Magic games and left my painting competition entry. I went to work and when I got back at 20.30 I ended up playing Dark Heresy roleplaying game for 5 or so hours.



On sunday played more Magic and got my minis back. I didn't won anything even though I had a sculpted Ad Mech mini. I also went to kaubamaja and bought tons of ravnica bouncelands and a bunch of other good commons for 10 snt apiece. (Haha, Olli still doesn't have Dimir Aqueduct) Oh, almost forgot. We played lasertag. Its like megazone but outdoors.




Thoughts

That was mainly what I did in three days of Ropecon and i must admit my 20€ spent on three-day-ticket was well spent. First of all I got into two new games. I enjoyed Epic so much I plan to build Epic Space Marine army (yeah I know, Space Marines). Another game me and Tony got into was Dark Heresy, 40k role-playing game. We plan to download the book, make our characters and play once and then on fridays.


More About Epic

Now that I've tried Warhammer Fantasy Battles, Warhammer 40000, Bloodbowl, Warmachine and Epic Armageddon i must say 40k is the worst game of them all. Compared to epic it not as strategic as epic. The objectives really make Epic interesting since the game ends immediately at the end of turn 3 or 4 when a player has two or more winning conditions (there are a total of 4 or 6 of winning conditions) and game can last even further than turn 4! Another thing 40k sucks and Epic doesn't is that in 40k players must roll tons of dice rolls during a game. I really hate to attack with 10 Ork boyz in 40k because rolling 40 dice is so silly. And what about a mob of 30 boyz then! In epic every stand of 5 models rolls only one attack. It sounds stupid but its cool. Another reason why I liked the game was that the turn isn't regular GW stylish move, shoot, strike. In epic players activate their detachments one at a time like Pyry, Olli, Pyry, Olli, Pyry. Players may use some sort of special rule to do Pyry, Olli, Pyry, Pyry, Olli.



Earlier in this post I said I will make a Space marine army. You all know I hate Marines so you must believe I've eaten too much mushrooms or I'm drunk. The reason I want to play Marines is simple.
1. Marines are cool in Epic. They really do like they are meant to do. They are a STRIKEFORCE! Its not just I got WS4, BS4, S4, T4 and 3+ save but in Epic all the tactical squads must be in rhinoes and the whole Epic Space Marine army is built around rhinoes. So they are like 1337 version of speeds freeks.
2. Marines are easy to do. I buy one plastic box of them that comes with 32 stands, scratch-build a rhino, make mould and cast some more rhinoes and I have a 2000+ pts army of Marines (Epic Tournaments have 3000 pts). The most beatiful thing about a rhino is that Vindicator, Whirlwind, Razorback and Predator all use the same chassis. So when I have one master model I can make them all!

Now that I am in love with two games: Warmachine and Epic I don't think I need to play that stupid old 40k anymore except for mega battles since 40k is so epic. Hey wait a minute! Epic? Yes! EPIC! Epic is epic too! And even more! VICTORYYYYYYY!!!

I was plannnig to write about Ropecon but I ended up writing about Epic. This is me... Fiilispohjalta FTW!!!!11