The Sad Muppet Society presents... Issue 24, Winter 2006 T HE NEWSLETTER THE SAD v a l MUPPET d e t r SOCIETY i s t es s u m u s T HE SABBAT CRUSADE|WARHAMMER 40000 GT REPORT T HE SONS OF GOLGOTHA|REGARDING RETRIBUTION Page 2 Issue 24, Winter 2006 EDITIORAL Contents (THE RAT’ S RAMBLINGS) The Rat’s Ramblings 2 Well chaps, this is my last the club logo (someone I’m back! More rubbish Newsletter for a while as I’m spotted the old one is based from Chief Muppet stepping down from the on a bit of standard committee after four years, Microsoft clipart) and Mark Events Diary 3 due to increasing work will be sorting out some new commitments. club shirts, and possibly Nailing One’s Colours to 4 Its been a fantastic time and even club dice. the Mast Suffice to say 2005 seems I’m really proud of the club And in the wider Gaming Dave OJ’s Starsmash to have flown by really fast we’ve built and really glad of Club Network, there are lots report and its now almost 2006!!! the new friends I’ve met of things happening. The Turn Up The Heat 6 through the club. Open Play League is set to However despite the The First Naval Cadre apparent speeding up of In particular I would like to get bigger and better with more clubs and systems get their first outing to time, the Sad Muppet extend my thanks to the the WH40K Grand Society seems to got all over other members of the involved. Events such as the Conflict events will have a Tournament the place in 2005. committee, Nick Jenkin, Mark Waple, Dave Offen- stronger than ever GCN The Battle for Solypsis 8 In the GCN Open Play presence in 2006, possibly James, and especially Paul My review of the GCN League we played the most with GCN clubs running the Russell, for all their hard Sabbat Campaign fixtures of any club. We’ve tournaments; and over the work (and at times hard Weekend and the final done a new big tournament, summer GCN clubs are set Regarding Retribution. And cash) which has built the outcome... club we have today. to have a strong role to play on top of that put on a huge as part of GW’s Warhammer The Sons of Golgotha 10 Anyway, assuming I’m in the Gamesday game. 40000 summer campaign. Dave Robotham’s step country, I’ll still be getting to All in all a successful year... by step marine painting as many meetings as I can Of course far more guide Richard (the Rat) Kerry and I’m still going to be the importantly from my point of Chief Muppet GCN Castalain Knight for the view is the nice shiny new Tau Empire Codex which will A Tale of One Game 14 Hampshire & West Berkshire Part two and Nick’s area. hit the shelves March or April. As a result more army building plans Next year (or probably this battlesuits and more come under the year by the time you read vehicles will probably be spotlight this) is already looking very joining the First Naval Cadre. exciting. At the club, we’ve Diary of a Zealot 15 had a welcome influx of new And then there’s going to be The Order of the Pious faces and even new game the seventh edition of a Cross return with more systems (including, shock certain Fantasy system... tales from Solypsis horror, historical wargaming), Anyway please be nice to The Art of War 16 and if rumours are to be whoever replaces me, and believed, Antony Walls will be remember its your club so My ‘How to win’ tactica running a Warhammer get involved!!! Regarding Retribution 17 Fantasy Battle campaign Richard Kerry early in the new year. Our first Fantasy (ex) Chief Muppet tournament in In addition to this, the Mark So long and thanks for all techicolour Waple and myself (but the cheese! mostly Mark) have revamped The League 2005 20 THE CLUB We’ve now got a club earns you the title ‘Member running, so what’s the deal? Muppet’ and entitles you to a Well, as the main aim is just printed copy of this to cover our running costs, Newsletter plus gets you into ‘The Meet’ on Tuesday nights ‘The Meet’ at member’s is going to cost you £2 if rates. In addition to this you you’re a member and £3 if can join Team: Muppet, for you’re not. the glory of, umm, Basingstoke... So how do I become a member? So that’s it? Front cover: Sorry, this is going to cost Yep, it is. At least until we ‘Ork’ drawn by Nathan you more money. £5 per year change our minds... The finest of Ordo Muppetus White Scary huh? The Newsletter Page 3 2006 SMS Meetings EVENTS DIARY “The Meet” O R MORE OPPORTUNITIES TO SPEND MONEY Glebe Hall, Church Street, Basingstoke 3 January (AGM) 11th February 2006 Winds of War 17 January Bracknell Forest Gamers Warhammer 40000 500 point doubles 31 January tournament. £10 per player, email [email protected] for more info. 14 February 4-5th March 2006 Warhammer 40000 Grand Tournament Finals 28 February 5th March 2006 Overlord 2006 14 March Abingdon Wargaming Club’s annual show at Fitzpatrick High School 28 March in Abingdon. 11 April 25 April 8-9th April 2006 SVA 6 Spiky Club’s annual campaign weekend at the Post Office Social Club 9 May in Reading. 23 May 6 June 22nd April 2006 Salute 2006 20 June South London Warlords’ annual show. Tickets £8, see www.salute.co.uk for more info. 4 July 18 July 6th May 2006 A Small Matter of Honour 06 Our premier Warhammer 40000 tournament returns! £12 per ticket, 1 August contact Nick Jenkin for more info. 15 August 29 August 13-14th May 2006 Blood Bowl Grand Tournament Warhammer World, Nottingham. 12 September 26 September 20-21st May 2006 Dark Stars Campaign Weekend The Warhammer 40000 summer campaign starts here! Warhammer 10 October World, Nottingham. 24 October 7 November 4th June 2006 Conflict North Including Warhammer Fantasy, Warhammer 40000, and Lord of the 21 November Rings doubles tournaments. Bolton. 5 December 17-18th June Pompey Pillage 19 December Battle Force Pompey’s annual Warhammer 4000, Fantasy and Anicents tournament in Portsmouth. 18th June 2006 Conflict South Including Warhammer Fantasy, Warhammer 40000, and Lord of the Rings doubles tournaments. London. 9-10th September 2006 Colours 2006 The Reading & Newbury Wargames annual show held at Newbury Race Course. 28th October 2006 Regarding Retribution 06 Our Warhammer Fantasy Battle tournament returns! Date: 6th May 2006 Venue: Church Cottage, Church Street, Basingstoke The Sad Muppet Society proudly presents its annual Warhammer 40000 tournament... In years past, the Space Marines of both the Salamanders, and Dark Angels, have guarded the prize. Now, St Michael will once again play host to war. Artefacts long hidden on the planet's surface have been rediscovered. Now is the time legends will be made! Tickets are £12 for the whole day, including one 400 point combat patrol game and three 1750 point games. Email [email protected] or phone 0118 9820489 (David) for more info. Page 4 Issue 24, Winter 2006 NAILINGS ONE’S COLOURS TO THE MAST! STARSMASH 2005 I last played at this event duo on the table next door Crusader whilst passing when it was held at Colours’ were starting to get nervous). through difficult ground. This original venue at Reading’s On to game two and I had a meant he had to walk, and I Hexagon Theatre. The strange feeling of vue as I had a chance to get some gathering of gamers at that stared out at Jason’s Space shots in. The highlight had to year’s festival was a joy to Marine army, which was be my Scarabs destroying his have been involved with. almost exactly like the one Vindicator on the final turn. A Every year Colours comes How things have changed. I’d just played except this six followed by a six followed calling. The annual Only two muppets could time in Ravenguard colours. by a six. You gotta love em’. Wargaming and miniatures make this year’s Starsmash. After all the dust had settled fare comes to town at The Lord High Castellan of Two assault squads replaced from what turned out to be Newbury racecourse once Muppitania and myself, but the tooled up HQ, other than an incredibly bloody (oily in more, and with it came there were still many other that they were identical! At my case) battle, Mark had Starsmash 6. This, as you all familiar faces to be seen. least a bit of terrain had just done enough to avoid know is Spiky Club’s premier After gathering (which was turned up during the break (I conceding a draw. So 40K tournament. easier said than done as the guess there must have been another loss for me, but only rules pack, which was only some complaints). just, and at least I didn’t available via e-mail, ignored So off we set, and this time phase out! unimportant information assault cannons did the real Else where Richard’s such as start time, venue damage as my slow advance charmed luck from the and directions), the first was halted early on, my previous day had run pairings were mustered. I’d Wraiths dying leaving my screaming from the building been really looking forward other troops woefully as a Big Bug Nid army made to this as I’d built my Necron exposed as they had moved a muddy paste of his Tau (ed Army to 1500 points with up ready to support the - 66 shots and one initial assault.