Rise of Heroes Coverage Page

Another day and another Chicago Tourney come and gone. Once again I find that I have little left to say in its passing, save the following.

First things first, a big round of thanks are in order for our sponsors :
To all the folks at ACD. I’d like to give you all thanks, for your generous support for this Tourney

To the staff at Games Plus, for once again providing support for the game with prizes and a venue so we could all get together.

And now thanks to all the locals that helped out :

Dan O., who put together one of the Breaking Point boards on his own to help us out.

Ken W. RichR., PaulG, and Todd who came out before 10am to help set up.

Also a special thanks to RichK. aka Splat, who let us in at 9 a.m. so we could set-up, helped out, and brought the round of coffee and donuts to start us out. Sorry that you got called away, the converted Formor hero looked awesome and I hope to face him in play soon.

To RichK. and PaulG. for providing the terrain to do the village scene and all the cairns and standing stones on the tall board

To Paul G again for sticking around to be this Tourney’s scoremaster.

Now a big round of applause for our winners :

1st Place 9- Total Round score, Painted Army, and Story
-Mike Posgay, Cynwall Elves/Alahan Allies, a fairly dangerous combo.

2nd Place 8- total Round Scores and Painted
-lord_chaos Griffon.

Incarnation (Highest Points on one character)
-John Faust, Incarnated Predator of Blood leader of the Opal Path = scary

Bast Painted
-BileSuck, Gavedigger Ed and his smelly Gets, get the prize by a point
You can also look at Ken's story (I am Ed) here.

Best Fiction
-Mort's story - you can find it (Nathaniel) here.

And a final thanks again to all the rest who came out to game and really made this a great event.
- Zach

You can read Mort's recounting of his tourney experience here. And Vitae Drinker's story of his day here.

And here are some shots of the action to see what you may have missed.
(Click on the thumbnail to see the big picture)

MikeP. (Cynwall) lines up vs Adam (Undead) background Bob (Steam Dwarves) vs. Chuck (Wolfen)	The Dwarves and Wolfen begin to maneuver in the Breaking Point scenario	The Khor's smash into the Wolfen Fangs	Buddha provides excellent cover from the Steam Cannon for one Great Fang
Ed's Undead (Ken W) versus The Great White Wolfen (led by John F)	Adam's Mantis lead force reaches the trenches.	Zach attempts to position his brave Orque band to take the relic surrounded be Sean's MidNor whilst dodging the vengeance of the Firespitters	JonG's Dirz skirmish with James' Griffon trying to take control of the boundary stones
More Wolfen (Alex) versus undead (RickC.) action in some Breaking Point ruins	Lazarian Ed (in the orange and with some undead dwarf back-up) takes on a mighty Predator of Blood	AlanK (Wolfen) finally faces off against TimS (Giffon) in a bloody dispute over a set of boundary stones	Another look at the battle of the boundary stones between Alan and Tim.
A Black Paladin attached to House Mantis reaches the closest war machine,(in the scenario of the same name) while the Cynwall press their combat advantage into the first trench line	Nathan Burn (Griffon) lines up against JT (MidNor) in a Land Grab	Allies clash as JohnL.'s Dirz face JT's MidNor at the start of round 2	Lunch time ! (Epicurean Rig demonstrates his awesome sandwich defeating skills)
Round2 lines up on the big table	Bob and his Steam Dwarves versus former score monkey Todd and his Dirz protecting the relic	ChuckO surveys the scene as his Warbrat Wolfen pack prepare to move out and smite their foe	TimS and RickC at face off at mid table while JohnF prepares his plan further down
Alex versus Jon G tring to take the relic	hrowing the bones, Bob's steam cannon purees a rather surprised clone	Dwarves and Dirz fight it out around the barrows and stones looking for relics	Centaurus meets Khor and takes a wound for his troubles while in the foreground the Nemesis Clone steals the Relic for its masters
Zach's Orques go into maneuver versus the Adam's Undead -on the left Alan K and Mike P square off	Things move toward tight quarters quickly in the grey ruins	The room in a sort of overview at the beginning of the Second Round.	Matt and Rick in round 2 matchups
Rich R's Goblins try to break James' Griffon	The Dirz Flying Wedge (r) takes on the patented MidNor mob	Round 3 : Chuck O versus Rich R or...	Wolfen clean house in a Goblin village
The big table in Round 3	John F takes some Tourney shots as well...	Zombies stalk the Ruins...	Adam's Undead House Mantis force against Jon G's Dirz in the ruins
Chuck O's Wolfen wade into John L's Dirz	Rick Cs House Lazarian undead face-down the power of Bob's Steam Dwarves	KenW. takes Best Painted for his Undead force	TimS. and his prize for Best Fiction while an admirer puts the whammy on him...
The Incarnated Character prize goes to JohnF.'s Wolfen who stabbed his clawed his way to an impressive 26 experience points!	A solid second place to previous winner John L. and his Dirz.	MikeP. sits smugly in first place, don't worry though I'll smash him with kelts this week and knock him off his high horse. ;)	The Post Tourney Confrence as everyone kicks back and talks about the days experiences