Before I begin with the photos, let me first say thanks to Games Workshop and my local Battle Bunker staff. The Black Friday 3-day weekend celebration was tremendous fun. Events were well-run, raffles and prizes were plentiful, and the atmosphere was pure fun all three days. Thanks again for the awesome fun and outstanding customer service.
Now, onto the first series of photos from Tanksgiving, which began at 2:00 PM on Saturday, Nov. 27. A couple of us began placing our models out early, which generated some fun and excitement from other customers as they observed the massive length of tables filling up with equally massive numbers of models all morning and early afternoon. I personally brought ten models to the game, all of which were super-heavy except for my Land Raider Terminus. My Chaos Baneblade, Chaos Stormlord and Chaos Stormblade conversions are yet to be painted, but I couldn't resist fielding that many large models in one game so they assembled next to my already painted large model Imperial forces and Chaos Brass Scorpions. The person with the most models in the game had eighteen. Our forces are pictured below.
The friend who brought the eighteen models included his Land Raider Ares variant and his work-in-progress Marneus Calgar Land Raider. The latter is based on an article that appeared in White Dwarf a while back, but he's added his own flourishes like the eagle doors on the front.
After we put out our twenty-eight models, other forces began to arrive and assemble for battle.
With the mighty forces of nearly every army in the Warhammer 40,000 universe arrayed for battle, we knew the conflict would be long and exciting. Since GW stores were running the game as simultaneously as possible, stores could launch strikes at the game tables of other stores via telephone. There were also some surprise entrants into the battle supplied by the evil genius of our Battle Bunker staff. Look to these pages here at BoLS soon for my follow-up report on highlights of the battle and some photos of a few staff-built store models the likes of which you may never have seen before.
