The Sad Muppet Society presents... Issue 21, Winter 2005 T HE NEWSL ETTER THE MARATHON OF GLEBE THE SAD MUPPET SOCIETY G AMESDAY VI|NEWBURY NECRONS|CHEF’ S COOKER|THE LEAGUE 2004 O PEN TOURNAMENT II|GLEBE WARS|SQUIGGOTH 101 Page 2 Issue 21, Winter 2005 EDITIORAL Contents (THE RAT’ S RAMBLINGS) The Rat’s Ramblings 2 Happy New Year and Freeth for winning best I’m back! More rubbish welcome to the first sportsman in the 2004 from Chief Muppet Newsletter of 2005! league, and Matthew Pinto In order to work around a for finally claiming the Pixie Events Diary 3 few other things in my life Jam Trophy! Incoming 4 (Christmas, work, college, Well done guys! Regarding Retribution etc, etc), the publishing Richard Kerry and ASMOH 05 Despite everything, I’ve dates for the Newsletter Chief Muppet managed to survive have ended up being pushed As always I’m on the look out Christmas with my sanity back about a month. So the Muppet Army 6 for more articles so if you’ve intact, and Halo 2 finished! spring edition should be Got a painted army? got any new rules to test out, However, ten days away from rolling out in April, the Earn the kudos you want to review something, the office and I’ve managed Summer edition in July, and deserve! write a story, or have any to paint approximately one the Autumn edition in other interesting article in Gamesday 6 7 model. October. Sorry about that buts that’s the way the mop mind, email me and you Nick examines the Hum, that next army may might see it in here next flops. fallout from GD6 take some time… time. Newsletter Twenty Two Richard (the Rat) Kerry 2004 was a fantastic year is due out on the 12th April Gem Hunting 8 for the club where we Chief Muppet so I need any articles in the Exploits of my Tau in the managed, somehow, to week beforehand at the combat patrol madness organise three separate latest. tournaments (including that Newbury Necrons 10 big one), a huge demo game, Nick at Starsmash and even managed to bring home Gamesday 2004 11 some silverware from a couple of Peppering Predators 12 tournaments. Pompey Pillage report Not wanting to rest Eisenhorn 13 on our laurels, we’ve already In the Hall of Heroes 14 started to plan a lot Open Tournament II more fun stuff for report, with added 2005 including two, Tauiness yes, two full size big grown up The Green Menace 15 tournaments of our Daemon Hunting in 16 own (see Incoming Nottingham for more details). Nick’s version of events However before we at the 1st Company dive into the 2005 Veterans tournament Muppet Show, I’d Building an Army From just like to Mr Pinto holding aloof the infamous Pixie Jam 17 Trophy, mostly in front of Birthday Boy’s Scratch contragulate Mark Front cover: head (Little Nick) Mark Waple returns to A really bad guy the land of pointy sticks As drawn by Mr White. Squiggoth 101 18 Muppet THE CLUB Guess what Nathan now has... Merchandise We’ve now got a club earns you the title ‘Member Statistics IIII 20 If anyone wants one, we can running, so what’s the deal? Muppet’ and entitles you to a get ‘Team: Muppet’ t-shirts Well, as the main aim is just printed copy of this Never Doubt He Is 21 and polo shirts, with the to cover our running costs, Newsletter four times a year Watching Us... SMS logo on the front and ‘The Meet’ on Tuesday nights plus gets you into ‘The Meet’ The fallout from our at member’s rates. In the Team: Muppet logo is going to cost you £2 if 2004 40K campaign across the back, as you’re a member and £3 if addition to this you can join The Chef Cooker modelled by various folk at you’re not. Team: Muppet, for the glory 22 the club. of, umm, Basingstoke... He’s back, and this time So how do I become a its Sportsmanship... These are £15 each and member? So that’s it? available in various sizes. Sorry, this is going to cost Yep, it is. At least until we The League 2004 23 Speak to Other Muppet you more money. £5 per year change our minds... (Dave James) for more info. The League 2005 24 The NewsLetter Page 3 EVENTS DIARY Coming to a Muppet tournament near you... O R MORE OPPORTUNITIES TO SPEND MONEY FORLORN 23rd January 2005 Siege of Glebe’s Deep Paul Russell (aka Money Muppet) and Mr Freeth are organising an HOPE Orc versus Empire Siege on a grand scale at Glebe Hall. “To win is to lose, 12th February 2005 Call to Arms To lose is to Win” The Newbury and Reading Wargames Society annual show, this year Combat Patrol with a Twist at Theale Green Community School rather than Newbury College 19-20th February 2005 Cardiff Carnage 2005 40K tournament, see www.cardiff-wargames.org for more info. 21st February 2005 Open League Meeting The first GCN Open League night with Oxford Wargaming Club. Speak to Richard Kerry for more info and to join Team: Muppet. 13th March 2005 Overlord 2005 Date: TBA The Abingdon Club’s annual show at Fitzharrys School, Northcourt Road, Abingdon, and possibly including the Final Trials. 9th April 2005 1st Company Veterans Open War 3 WH40K, WFB, and EPIC tournament at Warhammer World, Lenton. 9-10th April 2005 St Valentine's Day Aftermath 5 Spiky Club’s annual campaign weekend at the Post Office Club in Reading. 7th May 2005 A Small Matter of Honour 05 Church Cottage, Basingstoke. See page 5 for more information. 11-12th June 2005 Pompey Pillage 40K and WFB tournament in Portsmouth. Contact <<Ranger One: requesting [email protected] for more information. immediate extraction>> 9-10th July 2005 Attack 2005! The bulkhead of the The Corn Exchange, Devizes. transport was still cracked open. Aun'o Tsua'm looked back at the wreck of the Colours 2005 3-4th September 2005 Devilfish, its blue form half The normal big show in the south of England, including Spiky Club’s submerged in the river. A Starsmash tournament. wreck rapidly disappearing 12th November 2005 Regarding Retribution in the night, as this Devilfish Our first ever Warhammer Fantasy Battle tournament... skimmed over the landscape. He could just about make out a set of pulse rifle flashes and then, 2005 SMS Meetings “The Meet” nothing. The Pathfinder Glebe Hall, Church Street, Basingstoke Shas'ui just shook his head. 18 January, 1 February, 15 February, 1 March, 15 March, 29 March, 12 April*, 26 April The camera feed of those 10 May, 24 May, 7 June, 21 June, 5 July*, 19 July, 2 August, 16 August, 30 August remaining Fire Warriors had 13 September, 27 September, 11 October*, 25 October, 8 November, 22 November been cut short, they had to 6 December, 20 December be dead. *indicates dates the Newsletter is available They had been pursued by the Eldar for almost six months, and although this battle was lost, the alien's war god had been put down. Perhaps now Tsua'm would take the remains of the First Naval Cadre back to Dal'yth Prime without the Iyandrithel following close behind. The final artefact had evaded him. <<request confirmed Ranger One, Shelf prepared and ready>> Dave (Other Muppet) Offen-James’ Sabretooth Combat Patrol army (in its own box), and yes kids, that is two Land Raider kits stuck together... Page 4 Issue 21, Winter 2005 I 4 TH JANUARY 2005 THE AGM NCOMING The club Annual General around about a Meeting was held on the 4th Comic Relief January 2005. Apart from 40K Combat the important stuff like giving Patrol event, out trophies and Muppet and then of Army certificates we also course we have covered more mundane club the two biggies. business. On the 7th May Apparently, the club is doing there is our premier 40K The strongest player in last year’s league, Ross quite well on the money side propping up the rest of us from last place (ask Paul if you want to know tournament, A exactly how well) and has Small Matter of besides, we’re having fun). started to invest in a bit Honour, and then more scenery for you chaps provisionally on the 12th The last business is to thank (including a rather nice November, there is our first everybody who has fortress Paul and Ross were ever big Warhammer Fantasy supported the club over the painting just before Battle tournament, past year and all the Christmas). In addition to Regarding Retribution. volunteers such as John this, Antony Walls proposed As well as this lot, we’re also Barter, who have helped that the club make a planning to do a Fantasy grease the wheels and keep donation to Tsunami disaster game for this year’s us going in 2004. which was passed Gamesday at the NIA. Details Richard Kerry unanimously. are sketchy at the moment Chief Muppet but see Dave ‘Other Muppet’ Events wise, there’s quite a Paul Russell Offen-James if you want to bit going on. In January we Money Muppet have a Fantasy Border Patrol be involved in that project. themed evening on the 18th Finally, the committee tried Dave Offen-James January and then a big, their damnedest to stand Other Muppet mega, Orks versus Empire down so they didn’t have to Nick Jenkin siege on the 23rd. Later on do any work this year.