Rookie

[Eric]

Hi all,

My name is Eric and am looking forward to being part of such a well renown club. Everyone I have met so far through casual games and discussions have been great!

My experience with 40K:

I played 40k a hand full of times in my attic when I was in my junior high days... what attracted me to the game then and now is the ability to transform a dull colorless model into art. The fact that you can play such a phenomenal strategy game with the models was a sheer bonus! I have been busy building a career and raising a family when I happened to stumble upon Great Escape Games 6 months ago... what a find!!! I bought the assault on black reach set with intentions to paint the armies for my kids to play with which has brought me back into the hobby for good.

I have been back in the hobby for 6 months now and have a fully painted 2000+ point ork army with display board and a 1000+ ultra marine army. I have played in 2 COC's at GEG and plan on attending the upcoming 1750 COC. I am very competitive in nature in the sense I just want to be the best at whatever I do and am very detail oriented. I value sportsmanship at the highest level... being able to shake your opponents hand and congratulate them after they have gotten the better of you takes character no matter what the circumstances.

About me:

Married with three boys. I absolutely adore my family. We are known as the "karate" family as we have chosen the sport to do together. My eldest competes in tournaments and is ranked nationally! He also loves orks like me! I really have tons of hobbies and 40K is my biggest non-sports hobby at this time. I am currently training for tough mudder!

Club:

I hope I can add some value to the club. Everyone seems seasoned and extremely experienced so I feel bad not being able to add too much "knowledge" to the table. One thing I hope to bring is to represent the club well in the way I hobby, paint, model, play and interact with people.

The only hope I have of the club is for it to help enhance a hobby that I love.

Nice to meet you and "may the dice be with you"!

[yeeman]

I look forward to seeing you more around the shop and I am hoping to get a game in with you some time soon.

[Big Tex]

Eric, welcome to the group.

Sportmanship, you hit it on the head. We as a group, value that more than anything. The main reason myself and the founders started this group, was to bring people into the fold of the game, but most importantly, have a group where the "honour" of the game was upheld. Too often, youll see gaming groups that want nothing to do but win. Dont get me wrong, we're about winning, but we will win with integrity and respect.

All of us here have been playing for several years. Some, like Mark, helped make the game!
We have a plethora of knowledge to spread to all and eachother. We want all our members to be successful in all aspects of the game, and we share everything we know. Its been exciting to see how our members, and group as a whole, has improved in their playing abilities since starting the game.

Dont be afraid to ask and questions about the game, or the hobby, here on our forums.

Well, as I said, welcome to the group. I look forward to seeing you in the shop and in the tournaments. Good luck in your gaming endevors, and if ever need anything, The Punishers are here to help

[fnpftw]

We arent all experts brother, this is Dev. I was just lije u a year ago brother when i joined up here. Welcome to the fray. These guys will mold u to a great player, specially yeeman, hes my favorite cause hes good at making lists and really good with

[Big Tex]

Yeeman is ok...

[yeeman]

I'm ok? WOOOOOOOW....

[fnpftw]

Oh damn lol, yeeman also talks allot, I'm prolly the only dude who talks more lol

[madfjohn]

aye Yeeman is a great list builder and great friend like the rest of this group Eric. So welcome aboard and i love your army for only 6th months in play you are doing great as a player and a hobbyist. For what you can contribute to the group is what you already do my friend.

As you can see all this group is about is the Good part of what this game supposed to be. We have Yeeman who is a great list builder. We have Big Tex who one of the honest players around who loves this game and not to bad of a painter ( i will catch up to you soon lol ) Then Omegaprime ( Mark ) one of the beast painters i know and who help me get better at my painting . Fnprtw ( Dev ) a young blood like yourself who ask so many questions on everything which we love for he really wants to play this game honourable way . Demonet ( Liz) who i watch from the beginning of her gaming to where she is now a GT tournament winner. Then there's me like Omega i been playing this game for a while and only thing i can think i bring to the group is a fun time lol. ( the other ork player GO GO Godzilla lol )

ok i also said i was going to get you links to other forums

here is the FB Sac City forum
www.facebook.com/groups/269944286450022/
and

www.the-waaagh.com/forums/ if you are a orc player you will love this site its all about the orc there.

40knation.com/
we are a member of a larger gaming group and this is the link it is world wide.

www.dakkadakka.com/
here is a site with rull discussions and tournament posting and the like, pics and more.

www.40kforums.com/vb/forumdisplay.php/38-Orks
one more orc forums to have fun reading and talk to the europ players about the orcs

www.coolminiornot.com/
a great site to look at what peeps have painted they also run the crystal brush.

www.heresy-online.net/
one more rule discussion forums.

www.tangtwo.com/11thcompany/
here a pod cast group not the best but he tries

theindependentcharacters.com/blog/
a little beater pod cast group with a decent forums and such.

www.belloflostsouls.net/
and here some more fun sites

and this list can go on and on and on like the orcs lol

[Eric]

Wow thanks for the warm reception!

Anyone have a list on who is who? Just trying to match a forum name to a face. I know the forum names for John, Devon, Mark and now Liz.

I have played Devon in a lot of casual games and a couple with Mark... I have learned tons from my games with them... Devon you need to paint your darn army!!

@ Bigtex and Yeeman (is that a spin off from Weeman?) would be great to get a game in with you!

@ John thanks for your energy and inspirational build! Love your theme... VERY creative! Also thanks for those other sites you posted I will check them out.

Question: Anyone know what my issue may be with signing in with my log in?

[madfjohn]

WEll we both are orc players so that might be why we have trouble logging in lol.

Yeeman = Cody Jiru
Big Tex = Jason Jiru

[fnpftw]

Also Logan- matt bess aka foodzilla, lol I'll get my army painted when i decide what it will b lol

[madfjohn]

lol um Fnpftw you know you are just trying to have evry army first so you can play them all. so its going to take time .

[fnpftw]

hehehe yea i know, its hard for me when i get into a game like this. I want to be able to look back some years from now and be like yea...I totally chose the right army lol.

[Big Tex]

John beat me to it. I'm the older of the Jiru brothers, Jason, with the Aquila tattoo.
I play Space Marines and am also working on an Ork army.

[madfjohn]

lol you know we need to have a WAAAAAAGGGGGHHHH day for us some time lol with the three of us versus the group . i will run down the middle and you two swing in from the sides. lol