Warhammer 25th

[The Hive Mind]

I can't believe theres not a topic on this yet!!! Right!
As we are sure your all aware Warhammer is 25 years old this month on 26th April. Along side a host of on the day only products, your local stores will be hosting a variety of awesome events. We here at The Tyranid Hive set you a challange, to find which store has the coolest game on the day. Take photos and tell us about the awesome games you play in. I warn you now, the game I'm, (The Hive Mind) reporting on is going to be bloody awesome! I've laid down the gauntlet, who will answer my challange?

Also tell us any cool stuff your store or that you yourselves are planning!

[niddy]

we are having a compotion with a raffle with 15 prizes, from a massive gaming table right down to a pot of paint! we are gonna have other special games and other prizes, and chocolate cake with jelly!!!!!!
but our shop is like the size of your living room so not much space to do much...

[eetdestroyer]

our shops having a big raffel in which the winner gets a collectors edition of the Fantasy rule book wich costs $300, which i think is about 120-150 of your 'pounds'

[genestealer1414]

we are startng a campaign in the summer. i was just told about this like, a week ago so im not quite informed. is anyone here ever go to battlegrounds in abington(MA)

[Hyper Kinetic]

Hmm... i probably should check out my local store. But considering that the day before is ANZAC day (a day of uber importance/national holiday in memory of all the fallen soldiers of Australia & New Zealand) and it is a long weekend, i don't think that too much will be on... hangovers all round i suspect.
Also, i think my bedroom is almost as big as my local GW store

[theevillemon]

yeah it is the day before ANZAC day forgot about that now thats why people were selling popeys. best thing were doing is haveing auctions on warhammer so yay cheap warhammer

[theevillemon]

i went to one of the auctions gw was having and i got 4 blisters of fleshhounds of khorne(so thats 8 hounds) and the hordes of chaos book for $25 bucks. man what a bargin i mean thes hounds are alone $28 a blister so yay for me

[flyingspoon]

The manchester shop is giving away about £500 of stuff (roughly 1k us) and holding a special fantasy v 40k game meaning space marines v skaven (this is only an example)

[genestealer1414]

thats nasty(in a good way) . pleeeeez tell me who wins so i can be like shoop de woop.

[niddy]

wow, that day sucked!
they said it would be for all the games, but it was just warhammer... then the raffle didnt get finished, so we have to hope they will ring us up and hope we won somthing half decent...
what a waste of time, there wasn't even cake!

[theevillemon]

well it is the 25th for fantasy we have like 4 more years till its 40ks 25th

[Virtual Falcon]

Only 4 more years?I though 40k was, sort of 14 years old. So 11 I thought.

[theevillemon]

i dunno a gw guy said that but i don't know

[Koyori]

Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader, was published in 1987, so yeah 2012 will be the 25th for 40k.

[The Hive Mind]

Right, just got the photos sorted so here we go:

Before the madness:


Front of house



Back of house


The members of staff, left to right, myself, (dressed as a Vampire) Nagash, (dressed as himself, its a manikin) Sim, (Da Boss, dressed as an Ogre) Joe, (Dressed as a Wraith) Chris, (Dressed as a Necromancer) and Ed, (Dressed as a Flagellate). The more observant of you might recognize a similar photo on the UK GW site.

It begins!:


The assault on the Castle de Leicester, complete with catapult!


The castle made out of cake, where attackers destroyed the castle and ate what they destroyed.


The powers of the Warp sent forth a real Empire Swordsman!


Teclis saw fit to bless the store with his presence.


What castle is complete without it's own Bugman's? Complete with dwarven staff.

Highlights of activities:

Assault on Castle de Leicester, with catapult!!!!
Play your Kroaks right, (like play your cards right but Warhammer style)
Castle Cake Game
Da Orcshun, (Way over £500 worth of stuff given out, including signed copy of Limited Ed 25th Rulebook, by ALL THE DESIGN TEAM!!! 2 High Elf armies, 2 Empire armies, 2 Orc Armies, 100 Skeletons, Vampire Count army, Both Ogre Special Characters, Archaons on foot, Valtens on foot, White Dwarves, Marco Culumbos, Elitions, etc...)
Art competition
25 power dice challenge
25,000pts game

All in all it was an amazing day, best day working at Games Workshop EVER!