Gem City Massacre 2019

So this past weekend we held the 5th annual Gem City Massacre down at Epic Loot in Centerville Ohio.  We had 16 total players and all had a great time.

One of the special parts of this tournament is each player get a free Kringle/Krampus (depending on if your army is Good or Evil (neutral gets their choice).  Stat wise these are all the same - a support character.  There is a special prize however for the best model, as voted on by the players.

This year, one of our West Virginia players (Joe Cottrell) had a special surprise, and for his Kringle he made a model of Pizza Jesus - Jesse Cornwall himself.  Yes, it won the award with 75% of the votes, even though it wasn't really Christmas themed.

There was simply a lot of fun, cool details on this model

a banner with the invokation

of course the table was covered with best sportsman awards

and what else was he preaching but nerfing Joe's all Elohi army.

What is pizza Jesus without pies?

I love the slice around his neck

The man, the legend, the model.  (And the namesake for Sir Jesse's Boots of Striding)

Ok, there were some other cool special character models as well

Paul Cravo's Kringle

Buck Chrzanoski's Kringle

Daniel Dorney's Kringle

Tom Ziegler's Krampus

Jesse Cornwall used the Mantic Christmas Hellboy for Kringle

Jon Carter's Kringle for his undead army

Felix Castro's Dwarven Kringle

 Ok, on to the tournament itself!

Round one was Dominate - an easy scenario carried over from the previous edition.

Paul Cravo v Joe Cottrell

Jesse Cornwell v Steve Malone

Tim Bowie v Felix Castro

Andrew Summers v Grace Patterson

Erich Trowbridge v James Kimgrey

Jon Carter v Buck Chrzanowski

Tom Ziegler v Isaac Cornwell

Dan Payne v Daniel Dorney

After the first round we did army judging and voting for favorite Kringle/Krampus

Erich Trowbridge's Orcs

Tom Ziegler's Forces of Nature

Isaac Cornwell's Undead

James Kingley's Elves

Buck Chrzanowski's Abyssal Dwarfs

Jon Carter's Undead

Grace Patterson's Undead

Joe Cottrell's Undead

Felix Castro's Dwarfs

Steve Malone's Goblins

Jesse Cornwell's Ogres

Tim Bowie's Empire of Dust

Paul Cravo's Elves

Dan Payne's Nightstalkers

Andrew Summer's Basileans

Then after pizza provided by Kara Brown and Amy Stamper (the TO's for the event), Round 2 got started with Plunder!

Erich Trowbridge v Dan Payne

Jesse Cornwall v Jon Carter

Paul Cravo v Felix Castro

Steve Malone v Joe Cottrell

Dan Dorney v Grace Patterson

James Kingrey v Buck Chrzanowski

Tom Ziegler v Andrew Summers

Isaac Cornwell v Tim Bowie

We had a great selection of prizes.  For the top scores, we had acryllic trophies

Kara and Amy made a fantastic trophy for last place - which made me almost wish I was playing so I could throw every game just to get it

Yes, it is baby Yoda (ok, officially "the child")

In addition to the trophies, we had a LOT of prize support from both Mantic and the Ohio War Kings - so everyone was going to walk away with either a store gift certificate (for the trophy winners) or some great prizes (ranging from a Goblin army to Vanguard equipment cards).

After a quick bio-break, round three got off to a rousing start for Salt the Earth.

Buck Chrzanowski v Jesse Cornwell

Isaac Cornwell v Daniel Dorney

Dan Payne v Jon Carter

Erich Trowbridge v Tim Bowie

James Kimgrew v Steve Malone

Andrew Summers v Paul Cravo

Grace Patterson v Felix Castro

Joe Cottrell v Tom Ziegler

And with that it was all said and done!

(Back Row Paul Cravo, Dan Payne, Erich Trowbridge, Jesse Cornwell, Andrew Summers, Tom Ziegler, Daniel Dorney, Buck Chrzanowski, Tim Bowie, James Kimgrew, Jon Carter, Isaac Cornwell) (Front Row Joe Cottrell, Grace Patterson, Felix Castro, Steve Malone )

Isaac Cornwell - Dice Hate Me

Grace Patterson - Countercharger

Joe Cottrell - Favorite Kringle / Krampus

Erich Trowbridge - Best Sportsman

Joe Cottrell - Best Appearance

Dan Payne - Best General

Jesse Cornwell - Overall Champion

Kara in a Cornwell Sandwich!

For full standings, check out the warscore!

Overall it was a great tournament, the first 3rd edition event here in Ohio.  As always it was a fun laid back event, and we had several brand new players as well.  We look forward to next year!

Because it is all fun and games . . .