][con-The Best Victorian doubles event

   ][con-The Best Victorian doubles event 

A few weeks ago myself and another one of our VMGs admins attended the 1 day doubles event         ][con, run by the man himself Michael Blair. 

This event was a 1 day tournament comprised of three games. The missions were festively themed with Santa’s sleigh crashing down mid game and the evil German Christmas daemon Krampas trying to attack your units. Even with the festive theme, the missions didn’t break the immersion of the 40k setting and didn’t decide the outcome of the game.

The overall results were as followed-

1. Daddy Caca-Necrons+Blood angels
2. Cheeky Nandos-Necrons+Eldar
3. Red Shirts-Eldar+Space Marines

Players Choice: Team Maximus Auriellis Decimus- Deathwatch+Space wolves (That's my team!)

TO Choice: Matthew Campi-Space Wolves & Nicholas Heading- Necrons

A decent spread of armies to see in the podiums.

Rory (my teammate) and I, played 3 fantastic games against 6 awesome opponents (it helps when 2 out of 3 of our opponents were friends but nonetheless good games). After having been to many doubles tournaments including 3 past ][cons I’ve noticed that people generally take the opportunity to find  the most synergistic armies and lists over that of armies of thematic compatibility. This is mostly due to people having friends that don’t have armies of similar faction. But at doubles event it’s always great too see 2 people that really put in the hard yards for theme like making joint display boards, basing their armies the same or even modelling things onto armies to make them more cohesive.

In the past few years the hobby side of the Victorian tournament community has really surged, and at ][con I was able to see the fruits of the hard laboured efforts from heaps different tournament goers. The paint scores were high and well deserved for many armies. If anyone reading this wants to be inspired to start up a new army, one of the best things I can suggest would be to attend or even just visit a well renowned Victorian event (like ][con) and I can guarantee you’ll find something there that tickles your hobby gonads.

Overall ][con was a great success and by far the best one I’ve been too, my only criticism is that there isn’t enough doubles events in happening around Victoria.

Thanks For Reading

-Riz