Well, it’s October (wow, that came fast). So that means that one thing… No not Halloween. No, not cool weather and beautiful fall colors. It’s Feast of Blades!
This year the purity seals achievement system is back with a vengeance and our raffle is even better! Also, we have made a change to the swag system. Instead of having little sandwich baggies with barley anything in them we will have swag masters that will patrol the gaming floor handing out thousands in FREE swag.
Things like template sets, squad boxes and fine cast models as well as large bits bags will be given out. If swag is vital to you we have created our “Premier Swag Bag,” it has $200 in value with actual gaming items, for $75, hurry though cause they are almost all sold out.
- – Wounded Warrior Charity doubles tournament: Raise money for an amazing charity by buying re-rools, and assets to use in game.
- -Warmachine 50 point soft core tournament: 1 list, death clock, close quarters, kill box, assassination
- – Warmachine: Western Immoren continental tour: narrative event
- – Armies on Parade: Four categories and four $300 Grex Airbrushes up for grabs for each winner, not to mention the medals for winners.
- – Demo, demo, demo!: Our staff will man 14+ Demo tables all night long. For each time you play a demo game we will give you a ticket in our super awesome raffle!
- – 10 best video arcade games of all time: We will have the top 10 video arcade games of all time on free play all weekend long, want to do an impromptu Mortal Kombat tournament? SURE!
- – Costume Contest: We are on the weekend before Halloween, so let’s do something cool. Several categories and prizes for winners! Don’t be bashful, nerd out!
- – Vendors: Our 10 separate vendors will be on hand to take care of all your gaming needs.
- – Qual by Fire: last chance (free w/ badge) qualifier for the Invitational beginning the next day
- – Banner Competition: Show your store/ group pride, prizes for best banner
- – Blogger Live panel: Ask all your favorite bloggers from BOLS, Jawaballs, 3++, Stricktly average, Spikey Bits and many others all the questions that have been racking your mind. Get to know the people behind the computers.
- – Behind the curtain: The truth about war-games design philosophy (Seminar): (Free w/ badge) Mack martin, Games Designer will be going over all the dirty secrets to how a game gets designed. “Why is there in-balance?” “What about tournament rules?” “What is more important, sales or balance?” all of it will be answered in this attendee only seminar. There will be Q and A.
- – Open gaming till ??:??am: Want to play beer hammer with your buddies till 3am, great! Just wake us up when you’re done so we can lock up 😉 Who knows, maybe we will start an ALL TANK FLOOR-BATTLE!
- 40k Invitational: Honour your chapter! Take names, and be the best of the best of the over 2000 players who attended qualifiers nationwide. (4 rounds)
- 40k open: Casual “hobbyist” event with almost 50% soft scores and theme scoring. Allows forgeworld “40,000 approved units” (3 rounds).
- 40k Narrative: Pit yourself against the house army of Necrons and raise the Tomb world!
- Warmachine: 50 pt steamroller
- Warmachine: Western Immoren Continental tour
- Flames of War: Late war
- Team Bar Trivia: Think you know the fluff? Prove it! Meet in the hotel bar for a traditional ‘bar trivia night.’
- Vendors: More good stuff from great companies!
- PAINT AND TAKE: Check this event out! FREE! Sponsored by Blue Table Painting. Tons of bits will be made available. Paint a squad from start to finish to have it judged in a painting competition. You will be given 2 hours to finish and enter… KEEP YOUR MODELS!!! We will run 2 heats of 40 people 7-9 pm and 9-11pm.
- Open gaming: We may not stay up until the crack of dawn, but we’re more than happy to let you play a bit.
- 40k Invitational (3 rounds)
- 40k Open (3 rounds)
- 40k Narrative
- Warmachine: 50 pt masters
- Warmachine: Flanks for the memories 35 pt
- Flames of war: Large game
Awards at 5pm so everyone can catch flights
About the Author: Rob Baer
Rob Baer
Job Title: Managing Editor
Founded Spikey Bits in 2009
Socials: Rob Baer on Facebook and @catdaddymbg on X
About Rob Baer: Founder, Publisher, & Managing Editor of Spikey Bits, the leading tabletop gaming news website focused on the hobby side of wargaming and miniatures.
Rob also co-founded and currently hosts the Long War Podcast, which has over 350 episodes and focuses on tabletop miniatures gaming, specializing in Warhammer 40k. and spent six years writing for Bell of Lost Souls.
Every year, along with his co-hosts, he helps host the Long War 40k Doubles Tournament at Adepticon and the Long War 40k Doubles at Las Vegas Open, which attracts over 350 players from around the world.
Rob has won many Warhammer 40k Tournaments over the years, including multiple first-place finishes in Warhammer 40k Grand Tournaments over the years and even winning 1st place at the Adepticon 40k Team Tournament.
With over 30 years of experience in retail and distribution, Rob knows all the products and exactly which ones are the best. As a member of GAMA (Game Manufacturers Association), he advocates for gaming stores and manufacturers in these difficult times, always looking for the next big thing to feature for the miniatures hobby, helping everyone to provide the value consumers want.
While he’s played every edition of Warhammer 40k and Warhammer Fantasy (since 5th Edition) and has been hobbying on miniatures since the 1980s, Titans of all sizes will always be his favorite! It’s even rumored that his hobby vault rivals the Solemnance Galleries, containing rulebooks filled with lore from editions long past, ancient packs of black-bordered Magic Cards, and models made of both pewter and resin.
