AdeptiCon 2009
 
::  The Westin Lombard Yorktown Center (Lombard, IL)  ::  March 26th - 28th, 2010  ::
 
 
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After seven years years of constant expansion, and outgrowing three separate venues, AdeptiCon returns in 2010 as the ultimate independent convention experience in the Games Workshop miniature wargaming hobby. With three days packed with events, from Warhammer Fantasy to Warhammer 40K, from Specialist Games to Warhammer Historical, AdeptiCon offers something for everyone, from the person just entering the hobby to the hardcore tournament gamer.

No matter how you're involved in the hobby, AdeptiCon has an event for you! We have tournaments to satisfy your competitive urges, seminars that develop and refine your skills, open gaming and demos to give you a chance to relax and explore new games, and many other events. No matter what events you participate in, you'll have the chance to strike up new friendships and renew existing relationships with others who care about the hobby as much as you do.

Mark your calendar, make your travel plans, and get your figures ready for transport - don't miss your chance to take part in the excitement of AdeptiCon 2010!



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Coming in March, 2010 – AdeptiCon 2010!
 
AdeptiCon News Mark your calendars and start making your travel plans, because on March 26th-28th, AdeptiCon will return to the Chicagoland area! All the events that you know and love will be back, including our renown tournaments, demos, open gaming, hobby seminars, and the Rogue Demon competition.

In addition, stay tuned for more exciting news over the next couple months as AdeptiCon makes more event announcements about AdeptiCon 2010.

Once again, the Westin Lombard Yorktown Center will host AdeptiCon, with great rates for all AdeptiCon attendees. Rooms will be available at the special AdeptiCon rate of $114 per night. This special group rate is only available to AdeptiCon attendees and can be reserved online now!
 
Dice Down! AdeptiCon 2009 is Over!
 
AdeptiCon News AdeptiCon 2009 is over! The convention saw continued growth and broke all records of attendance/participation to date!  We can`t say thank you enough to all the volunteers, sponsors, and attendees who helped make this AdeptiCon our best ever! 

Stay tuned in the next few weeks as we finish the wrap-up of AdeptiCon 2009, including this year`s Retrospective and announcements about AdeptiCon 2010. 

Tournament and competition results can be found here.
Scenarios from all events can be found here.
 
Bitz Trading is Back!
 
AdeptiCon News Join your fellow AdeptiCon attendees in a Bitz Trading extravaganza unlike any other. Got some extra bolters that you would like to trade in for power fists? Got an entire army that you would like to sell? Well, make sure you bring your bitz box and toy soldiers to AdeptiCon and see what kinds of deals you can make and how many treasured bitz for your next army you can walk away with.

2009 BITZ TRADING SCHEDULE

Friday 10PM - Midnight
Saturday 10PM - Midnight
 
Sail the Seas at AdeptiCon 2009!
 
AdeptiCon News AdeptiCon 2009 will be proud to host demo games of the new Warhammer Historical game, Trafalgar on the evenings of Friday April 3rd and Saturday April 4th. A game of ship-to-ship combat in the Age of Sail, Trafalgar gives every hobbyist a chance fight the naval battles of the era.

Our demos, run long time veteran hobbyists Merle Delinger and Tim Wright., and sponsored by The Last Square, Litko Aerosystems and Warhammer Historical, will give AdeptiCon attendees a chance to check out this new and exciting game. These demos are free to all AdeptiCon attendees. Demo fleets will be provided and consist of Last Square`s 1:2400 Figurehead line of ship miniatures.

As a bonus, the demo fleets supplied by the Last Square will be raffled off at the end of the weekend.
 
Stupor Bowl II Miniature: Slim McHamm!
 
AdeptiCon News Slim McHamm is one of the most well-known personalities of the legendary Blood Bowl team, Da 2485 Scares. Da Scares had some of the roughest and toughest players to ever hit the pitch. Slim McHamm, however, was not so rough and tough. He had the swagger, the attitude, sponsored headbands, and of course, the Bloodweiser addiction that earned him the nickname, the Drunky QB. His passes soared with unparalleled accuracy, while his body managed to get injured in just about every game. When Slim is on the field, Da Scares knew they were going to win. Unfortunately, he spent a lot of games in the Injured box.....or the Intoxicated box...

               

Slim McHamm is currently only available to the participants of Stupor Bowl II. He will be available from Impact Miniatures this summer.

 
AdeptiCon 2009 Guest of Honor Change!
 
Guest of Honor Due to circumstances outside of our control, Alessio Cavatore will be unable to attend AdeptiCon 2009. However, for those looking to catch a glimpse of the inside of the Games Development studio, never fear - because Gav Thorpe, former Games Developer and Black Library author, has just confirmed that he will be in attendance!

Prior to becoming a freelance writer, Gav Thorpe worked for Games Workshop as lead background designer, overseeing and contributing to the Warhammer and Warhammer 40,000 worlds. He has written numerous novels and short stories set in the fictional worlds of Games Workshop, including the Time of Legends `The Sundering` series, the seminal Dark Angels novel Angels of Darkness, and the Last Chancers omnibus. He lives in Nottingham, UK, with his mechanical hamster, Dennis.
 
Free Swag: Avatars of War model!
 
AdeptiCon News Free Swag! The first 800 AdeptiCon attendees will receive an Chaos Dwarf Lord from Avatars of War.

Avatars of War: Heroes for your armies is a range of 28mm white metal miniatures specially designed to represent heroes and villains of heroic fantasy fiction.

Each `Heroes for your armies` miniature is sculpted in a very heroic pose, to make sure it will clearly stand out from the troops on the gaming table!

 
More and Even More Free Swag!
 
AdeptiCon News More Free Swag! The first 750 AdeptiCon attendees will also receive a set of special AdeptiCon deployment zone markers, courtesy of AdeptiCon sponsor Gale Force 9.

Even More Free Swag! Additionally, players in many of our tournaments will receive objective markers and/or tokens that will be used during the event, and taken home afterwards! Check out some of our tournament marker/tokens below, created by Flying Tricycle!

 
From the High Seas, to Middle Earth, to the Red Orktober
 
AdeptiCon News

Due to the popularity of our non-competitive open gaming and demo events, we’ve worked to add more such events to our roster.  We’re adding demos of Warhammer Historical: Trafalgar, War of the Rings, and the Sabol Designs-sponsored `Hunt Within Red Orktober!`

Trafalgar – Age of Sail Naval Combat – Times TBD – Sign up onsite!  Sponsored by the Last Square, Warhammer Historical and Lithko Aerosystems.

War of the Rings Demos – Times TBD – Sign up onsite!  Sponsored by the Games Workshop Chicago Battle Bunker.

The Hunt Within Red Orktober - Sunday 10:30 AM – 3:00 PM - Sponsored by Sabol Designs


Red Orktober
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Sponsor Spotlights: Sabol Designs & Armorcast
 
AdeptiCon News We’ve created two more Sponsor Spotlights, highlighting longtime AdeptiCon Sponsors Armorcast and Sabol Designs.  Find out more about these two companies by clicking on the links below.

Sponsor Spotlight: Sabol Designs
Sponsor Spotlight: Amorcast
 
INAT FAQ 2.2 & AdeptiCon Conduct Policy - Minor Additions
 
AdeptiCon News Some people may be wondering why are we putting out another update for the Independent National Warhammer 40,000 Tournament FAQ (INAT FAQ) so close to AdeptiCon when we said that the 2.1 version would be last one before the event. There are a couple of reasons.

Most importantly, Games Workshop has recently released an updated Warhammer 40,000 rulebook FAQ which contained some new rulings that needed to be taken into consideration in the wording for a few of our FAQ rulings. Second, we received some last second questions from players attending AdeptiCon and given that we already had to put out a revised version of our FAQ because of GW`s update, it only made sense to throw in these extra questions as well.

However, we have gone out of our way to make sure that none of our existing rulings from the 2.1 version have been completely reversed. We consciously made this decision because with such short notice until AdeptiCon we know that many people will not notice or have time to read the 2.2 version and we want to make sure that everything in the 2.1 version is still applicable (and 99.9% of it is).

Click here to download the INAT FAQ ver 2.2 now!

The AdeptiCon Conduct Policy has also been updated.
 
AdeptiCon Historical Model Preview
 
AdeptiCon News AdeptiCon has a history of providing a limited edition models to each of our attendees. Besides all the swag that comes with the AdeptiCon 2009 badge this year all Warhammer Historical participates are going to get there very own limited edition Celt Chieftain model courtesy of Mark Sims of Crusader Miniatures (US / Rest of World) fame!

Model painted by Dave Pauwels.
Check out more of Dave`s fantastic work at Rabid Bat Studio
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2009 AdeptiCon Model Released
 
AdeptiCon News The first 800 AdeptiCon attendees will receive their own Grunt APE II model for the new Grindhouse Games miniature wargame/board game Incursion.

Incursion is set in the world of Grindhouse Games’ Secrets of the Third Reich, where American Armored Personal Exoskeletons (APEs) form the front line in Weird War II against the twisted creations of the Third Reich’s Special Weapons Development (SWD).

San Antonio Texas based Grindhouse Games has worked with West Wind Productions to develop Secrets of the Third Reich. They have just gone out on their own and launched a new and expanding miniatures range and website to support their new Weird War II boardgame: Incursion - while continuing to support Secrets of the Third Reich. Jim and John Bailey of Grindhouse Games also run the Alamo Warhammer Indie Grand Tournament in San Antonio every year. As fellow Grand Tournament organizers, Jim and John along with sculptor Seth Nash are thrilled to support the AdeptiCon.

Find out more about Incursion and Grindhouse Games at: http://www.incursiongame.com/
 
Sponsor Spotlight: Battle Foam
 
AdeptiCon News We recently had a chance to talk to Romeo of Battle Foam, one of our newest AdeptiCon sponsors. Find out more about Battle Foam and see pictures of their newest trays and army cases by downloading the Sponsor Spotlight.


 
New Seminar Added and Registration Update!
 
Event Update We’ve added a new hobby seminar to our schedule – Michael Harmon, of Reynolds Advanced Materials, will teach a special seminar on mold-making and casting. Tickets for this seminar are only $8, and will run on Saturday, April 4th, from 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM.

Over a dozen events have already filled up, and others are close to capacity as online registration continues at a brisk pace. Don’t miss out on your opportunity to attend the event of your choice – register online today at http://www.adepticon.org/cart/ and purchase your weekend badge and the event tickets you need.
 
Road to AdeptiCon: Warhammer and Lord of the Rings Development Reports
 
Road to AdeptiCon Frank Brown and Brent Sinclair continue documenting the process of creating their Lord of the Rings Team Tournament army, while James Hyde and Caius Jennison do the same with their Warhammer Fantasy Team Tournament army.

Download these articles from the links below:
Building a LotR Tournament Army - Part 2 (From Theme to List) - Frank Brown & Brent Sinclair
Building a Warhammer Team Tournament Army - Part 2 - James Hyde & Caius Jennison
 
AdeptiCon 2009 Hotel Information – Deadline Extended!
 
AdeptiCon News Our original block of hotel rooms are filled, but we’ve gotten additional rooms added and the deadline extended for one week. If you want to make sure you get our discounted room rate, make your reservations today! After Monday March 16th, we won’t be able to help you save money on your hotel stay.

The Westin Lombard Yorktown Center
70 Yorktown Center,
Lombard, Illinois 60148
Phone: (630) 719-8000 - Fax: (630) 719-8079
AdeptiCon Room Rate: $109.00/night - Parking: Free
Group rate available until March 16th, 2009 (Subject to availability)

Reservations can be made by calling the The Westin Lombard Yorktown Center directly (1-630-719-8000) or by visiting our Reservation Center.

Additional information regarding the hotel, reservations, local amenities and directions can be found here.
 
Road to AdeptiCon: Avatars of Paint
 
Road to AdeptiCon Hobby Seminar Instructors Chris Borer and Dave Pauwels have documented part of the process in creating Rogue Demon entries using the new Avatars of War models, sculpted by Felix Paniagua.

Road to AdeptiCon: Avatars of Paint

The AdeptiCon Hobby Seminar series; especially Joe Orteza’s Losing the Fear: Working with Green Stuff and James and Cathy Wappel’s Here We Stand: Advanced Basing Techniques, cover a lot of the techniques Chris and Dave mention in this article.

 
AdeptiCon 2009 Guest of Honor Announced!
 
Guest of Honor Chris Roberson is a respected SF author whose novels include The Dragon`s Nine Sons (Solaris, 2007) and Set the Seas on Fire (Solaris, 2007). Roberson has been a finalist for the World Fantasy Award for Short Fiction, twice for the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer, and three times for the Sideways Award for Best Alternate History Short Form (winning in 2004 with his story O One.) He runs the independent press MonkeyBrain books with his partner.
 
Medic!
 
AdeptiCon News Worried that your models may suffer some damage in transit?  This year AdeptiCon will again be hosting the MiniMedic station all day Friday!  Look for the Sign!

The MiniMedic station will offer a wide range of repair services, performed by an award winning professional modeler with 20 years of gaming experience, 15 of prop construction experience, and over 10 years of convention travel experience.  Services will include emergency super glue fixes, emergency pinning, complex repair, large model repair, epoxy work, structural rebuilds and even limited patch painting.

MiniMedic services are free to AdeptiCon attendees.  While the focus of the booth will be to act as a repair station for broken models, please come by to say hello and learn about techniques, tools and materials necessary to build models properly, or repair them quickly. 

MiniMedic service will be on a first come first serve basis, but every effort will be made to get downed minis back on the table quickly and keep unlucky travelers having fun at AdeptiCon this year!
 
2009 Terrain Updates!
 
AdeptiCon News One of the unsung projects of AdeptiCon 2009 is the massive effort currently underway to update, repair and rebuild a vast majority of our terrain. Our goal is to provide the best gaming experience possible...down to the tree!

2009 40K Terrain Gallery [WIP]
2009 LotR Terrain Gallery


Both of these galleries will be updated as new images are available. A huge thanks goes out to the crew down at Capital City Games in Springfield, IL, Marcin Ignasiak, Brent Sinclair, Tim Kulinski and everyone else who has lent a hand this year!
 
Building a Warhammer Team Tournament Army – Part 2
 
Road to AdeptiCon James Hyde & Caius Jennison continue documenting their planning, assembling, converting and painting of their 2009 AdeptiCon Warhammer Fantasy Team Tournament army in this new Road to AdeptiCon article.

Building a Warhammer Team Tournament Army – Part 2

 
AdeptiCon 2009 Hobby Seminars
 
Event Update With AdeptiCon 2009 rapidly approaching, we are proud to announce this year`s line-up of Hobby Seminar classes. This year sees our usual wide range of topics; from army painting to competition painting, sculpting with green stuff to creative basing, and much more. We are extremely happy to announce a truly noteworthy group of instructors; including 4-time Slayer Sword winner Chris Borer, the return of fan-favorite Joe Orteza and his green-stuff class, CoolMiniorNot sensations James and Cathy Wappel, and an array of other Golden Demon and Grand Tournament veterans lending their skills to the line-up.

In addition, this year sees an expansion of the AdeptiCon Rogue Demon miniature painting contest and the inclusion of the popular Avatars of War figure line. We are very excited to open the competition to Felix Paniagua`s excellent line of models. In true AdeptiCon style, we will also be awarding some major prize support for this year`s Rogue Demon.

For more information, click here. See you in April.


 
Warhammer 40K INAT FAQ version 2.1 (FINAL) Released!
 
Event Update This is the final version (v2.1) of the Independent National Warhammer 40,000 Tournament FAQ (INAT FAQ), produced primarily for Adepticon 2009.

As promised, we have taken all the feedback that we received from a variety of sources across the internet regarding the initial 2.0 release and we have done our best to incorporate as much of it as we could.

Barring any major spelling or formatting issues (which is always a possibility despite all the cross-checking) this will effectively be the FINAL version of the INAT FAQ for before Adepticon 2009 in April.

Please note that several rulings (some rather major) have been changed or reversed since the 2.0 version due to feedback. Rulings in the 2.1 document that have been significantly altered from the 2.0 version have been denoted as such with a plus sign ( + ) before the question # and have their answer text colored red (just like last year) to make it easy for you to spot what has been changed.

This document WILL be in effect for all 40K events at AdeptiCon, so its highly recommended that all attendees who plan to play in a 40K event look at the sections relating to general gameplay and your particular army. This FAQ will be used by the rules judges to resolve rules disputes.

Click here to download the INAT FAQ ver 2.1 now!
Note: A few minor additions were made to the INAT FAQ in response to an official GW FAQ recently released.
Click here to download the INAT FAQ ver 2.2 now!

Note: This document is, of course, entirely unofficial, but we believe that it provides a valuable tool for tournament organizers and 40K players in general to use to resolve some of the thorny issues that pop up during play. It isn`t meant to replace the GW FAQs in any way - in fact, the questions answered in the GW FAQs are not addressed in this document.
 
AdeptiCon 40K Invitational Returns!
 
Event Update Did you place in the top 10 in Battle Points at a 2008 GW Tournament Circuit Event? Then you have qualified for the Tournament Circuit Invitational at AdeptiCon 2009. Find out who is really the best at this event. For a full list of players who have qualified, or to find out more about this event, click here!
 
Warhammer 40K Team Tournament Primer Announced
 
Event Update It`s that time again. The AdeptiCon 40K Team Tournament Primer will be held at the Chicago Battle Bunker - Saturday, January 24th. Check-in time is 10AM with the first game starting at 10:30.

Due to space and time limitations there will only be room for 10 teams (4 people/team) and the tournament will only consist of 3 rounds.

To reserve a spot for your Team, email me your Team Name and Team Members to adepticon09@gmail.com.

Teams will be taken on a first-come basis, so don`t delay! There will be a small waiting list if we get more than 10 teams registered.

AdeptiCon 2009 40K Team Tournament Primer

Saturday, January 24th
10 Teams
3 Games

10:00 AM Check-in
10:30 AM - 1:00 PM Game #1
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM Break
2:00 PM - 4:30 PM Game #2
4:30 PM - 5:00 PM Break
5:00 PM - 7:30 PM Game #3

As always, the Primer missions will be made available for download on this site after the event.
 
Rogue Demon Painting Competition Rules and Masterclass Seminar Info Released!
 
Event Update AdeptiCon`s Rogue Demon painting competition has become one of the gold standards of the miniature wargaming hobby, and AdeptiCon`s hobby seminars have become famous for giving hobbyists a chance to learn from the masters of our hobby. Find out more about both from our flyer!

Adepticon 2009 Rogue Demon Painting Contest Categories
Best Regiment or Squad
Best Large Monster or Vehicle
Best Single Fantasy Model
Best Single Science Fiction Model
Youngbloods (14 and under)
Open

 
AdeptiCon 2009 40K Gladiator Prize Announced!
 
Event Update The 2009 40K Gladiator Champion will Walk!
Previous winners of AdeptiCon`s Warhammer 40K Gladiator tournament has walked away with ForgeWorld Death Korp of Krieg army, an Ork army including ForgeWorld battlewagons, and a full Elysian Drop Troops army. This year, the champion of the AdeptiCon 40K Gladiator will receive only a single model: the new ForgeWorld Reaver Titan! Standing almost 16” high, this model dominates the battlefield with its weaponry. Don’t miss out on your chance to win this phenomenal model - sign up today!
 
AdeptiCon 2009 Registration is NOW OPEN!
 
AdeptiCon News

That is right! AdeptiCon 2009 Registration is now officially open! Follow the link above to the official registration site and our new webcart. This year you will find a myriad of events to suit all your gaming tastes. A few things to keep in mind when registering for AdeptiCon 2009:

  1. Please make sure you purchase an AdeptiCon events badge. The AdeptiCon badge is REQUIRED in order to register for tournaments at AdeptiCon and your registration will not be processed unless you include this in your webcart.
  2. Each order MUST be processed as an individual cart. Individuals MUST login to the cart and checkout for their *OWN* unique weekend events. You can only add one (1) of each item per purchase.
  3. Detailed event descriptions and rules can be found here.
  4. The online registration system will not warn you of overlapping time slots, so plan your events that you will attend carefully.
  5. You can add additional events at a later date. If purchasing event tickets for another attendee, please note their name and the event in the Comments field of the shopping cart.
For your planning pleasure...you can now download the complete AdeptiCon 2009 Event Schedule in Adobe PDF format! Use it to plan your events for the weekend or post it your local game shop and help spread the word!
 
AdeptiCon 2009 Event Rules and Event Registration
 
AdeptiCon News We are in the process of compiling all the event details, working out a solid event schedule and formatting the rules for the various tournaments at this very moment. We hope to have the webcart up, the 2009 event rules posted and registration open within the next week. Keep checking back!
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