Irish Grand Tournament
Conspiracy (aka TOWNCON) hosted the 2011 Irish Grand Tournament for 40k. Attendance was quite good with nearly 40 players competing. No forgeworld shenanigans this week, but it did have one...
View ArticleDealing with Cron Air
Flyers in general, and necron flyers in particular, have really got many players worried and/or frustrated. Nevertheless, a crucial weakness of pure flyer lists is the requirement to have units on the...
View ArticleThe Road to 6N
In 1972, a crack commando unit was sent to prison by a military court for a crime they didn’t commit. These men promptly escaped from a maximum security stockade to the Los Angeles underground. Today,...
View ArticleETC 2013 Result
Well we had an amazing time at the European Team Championship in Serbia. We had 6 great rounds against excellent opponents: Day 1 Round 1: Latvia – WIN Round 2: Belgium – WIN Day 2 Round 3: Spain –...
View ArticleETC 2013 Armies and Stats
So the madness of ETC2013 is over, and the post mortem analysis can begin in earnest. I won’t start with my own team (Ireland), but rather I’d like to take a look at the overall meta. Thankfully my...
View ArticleETC2013 Popularity vs Performance
So last time I put up a table of how the various armies performed (on average) at the ETC in Serbia. There were some interesting results, and today’s post follows up that line of thinking by comparing...
View ArticleETC2013 the view from the top
So my last two posts have been about the overall meta at ETC2013, and today I want to take a quick look at the top 3 countries and how they compare to the overall meta. As a quick refresher the top...
View ArticleETC2013 getting to 5th place
So, as I may have mentioned (every 5 minutes or so), team Ireland got its highest result to date at the ETC this year. More than a few people were surprised (delighted?) that we reached 5th place so I...
View ArticleWarpcon
This weekend saw one of Ireland’s biggest 40k tournaments run in Cork. It was my first time attending Warpcon, and coincidentally my first time competing at the new 1850 limit. Strangely enough, I...
View ArticleIreland’s Team Six Nations
Ladies and Gentlemen, I present Ireland’s Six Nations team Each of them has been chosen for this team because they individually have a set of skills and experience that strengthens the whole, and that...
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