When I first conceived of this project it felt like it was going to be very ambitious. As it turned out it wasn’t a great deal of work. The amount of work was equivalent to modeling bases for a 1850 point 40k army or a 2000 point Fantasy army.

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Here’s a fun experiment for everyone to try. Tell your wife or girlfriend that you’re going to run a wargaming campaign out of your home. You’ll need to put a big map of an alien planet on the wall for a few months. Every week or so all of your friends will come over and roll handfuls of dice for 6 hours to determine who gets to move their little flags around on said map.

If the aforementioned wife or girlfriend reacts well to this news; consider yourself a lucky man! If not, this project may be right up your alley!

The goal of this project is to build a hex-based campaign map with detailed terrain that can be folded up and put away (or transported to someone else’s house) easily and without having to disassemble the map itself.

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I realized that I just don’t get enough Tau. When you play a Toughness 3 army like mine you just need more Strength 5 weaponry pointed at you. Luckily for me, the Tau can provide that. This time it was Steve who volunteers to blow my army away. We roll for loot goodies and since we get Alpha it actually makes it worthwhile to try for the 5 counters. NOTE: the first 3 diagrams do NOT display the loot counters because I was pretty drunk when I started working on this. Sure, I could go back and fix the pictures…but it ain’t gonna happen.

As most people know the Imperial Guard is the army of kings. This is why Phil and I decided to get in some guard on guard action because surely if one guard force is kingly then two guard forces is ….uh very good too. We talked about it the week before and decided to play a 2000 point game with the forces tailored for the opponent. Nothing will be considered cheese baby! Forget about plasma. Grenade launchers are good enough! Heavy Bolters? Oh yeah! We’ll need plenty of them.

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… an alter to gods long forgotten falls to ruin.

The Ruin Stone uses etched plaster stones on an MDF base topped with a variety of static grass/flocking.

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Last year our gaming group The Untouchables attended our first 40k Team Tournament event at Adepticon 2006. In preparation for the event we built a basic display board for our army using a Hirst Arts block kit. The following is an overview of the building and painting process.

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Adeptus Windy City is looking for hobby article writers. 

One of the new features on AWC 3.0 is a blog style article interface that will allow any registered user to submit news and hobby pieces - complete with pics and attachments. We are looking for volunteers to submit:

• painting & modeling tutorials
• army/unit spotlights
• battle reports
• terrain highlights
• army tactics
• tournament after-action reports
• or any other topic your interesting in covering 

If you, or anyone you know are interested, please PM Matthias for a posting ID/PW; or PM RichN for additional information or to submit articles without an ID.

For a brief walk through of the posting process:  How to write for AWC

All the scenarios used at AdeptiCon 2007 (Warhammer 40K Gladiator, Warhammer 40K Championships, Warhammer 40K Team Tournament, Warhammer Fantasy Escalation, Warhammer Fantasy Championships, Warhammer Fantasy Team Tournament, Battlefleet Gothic and Lord of the Rings Team Tournament) are now available for download from the AdeptiCon Website.

Games Day 2007 is coming up soon than you think. AWC is looking for a new group (or groups) to represent the club at Games Day 2007. No experience needed, all you need is the ability to have fun & bring a great game.

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Results for the following AdeptiCon 2007 tournaments have been post in the Past Coverage section:

AdeptiCon 2007 Warhammer 40K National Team Tournament
AdeptiCon 2007 Warhammer 40K Championships
AdeptiCon 2007 Warhammer 40K Gladiator
AdeptiCon 2007 Warhammer Fantasy Championships
AdeptiCon 2007 Warhammer Fantasy Escalation Tournament
AdeptiCon 2007 Warhammer Fantasy Team Tournament
AdeptiCon 2007 Lord of the Rings Team Tournament
AdeptiCon 2007 Battlefleet Gothic Tournament

Results of the Rogue Demon Painting Competition and the 40K Codicier/Loremaster Contest can be found in the AdeptiCon Hall of Champions.

We have returned! Adeptus Windy City has recently undergone a major redesign. In essence we are starting over - attempting to make the site more functional to all users. Over the next few weeks we will be ironing out all the finer details of the site, adding content, reclaiming past content and figuring out the direction the site will take in the months to come. We ask that you have patience with us during this process - we are just as excited to get this rolling as you.

The new site does not require you to create an account, login or anything of that nature - save for posting on the forums. Certain articles and news items will allow the posting of comments if you provide a a name and e-mail address. Please do not abuse this feature, it is a great way to keep the site interactive and organic.

Welcome to Adeptus Windy City v3.0!