On the March!

[march10k]

Hello, All!

March10k is short for "the march of the ten thousand" (anabasis), with which I trust some of you are familiar.

I'm relatively new to CSCO, but I've been to the store a couple of times, even played 2-3 games of 40k. The wierd table reservation board hanging in the hall confuses me a little, I'm not sure how it fits into getting a game. I've been told that this forum is another (the preferred?) method of finding an opponent. Although Friday night seems to be the "show up and play" night, the average age on Friday night appears to be 17, with maybe two people over age 25 present. Unlike some, I don't mind gaming with the younger crowd, it beats letting them drift away from the hobby, but conversation a bit more stimulating than "girls have cooties" is nice sometimes. Do the older players have a different day? I would assume so, since Friday night is...difficult for working stiffs like me.

Anyway, I play mainly Dark Angels at the moment, but I have four armies in total. I'm in the midst of repainting my 200 metal cadians, but I could be convinced to field them as is (they were my first army, they're fully, but badly, painted). I drifted away from Tau when it became apparent that 4-5 hours per fire warrior was too much painting, and 20 hours per skimmer is ridiculous, but I could field at least a thousand points of them (with 2k more still on sprue...maybe someday). I'm just starting sisters, it'll be some time before they're playable.

[Pilgrim]

Welcome.

I tried to organize a march of 10k once but only 400 people showed up. Really pissed me off, I mean, March of 400 sounds lame... but it would make a pretty good name for a sale at Foley's. To bad Macy's bought them all out.

The next week only 200 people showed for my march of 10,000 so I was in an even worse place... we ended up sacking Pueblo for the fun of it (You have NO idea how drunk we were!) but with only 200 people it wasn't much of a sacking... more like one of those brown Paper bag lunch bag things.

All in all the entire situation really kinda depressed me, so as I'm prone to do I gave up on the entire concept. Now that I hear someone else is putting together a march of 10,000 that makes me pretty happy. Sure it'll be kinda hard to go from being the near Cult like leader of the march to just one of the faceless minions within it... but I think I can adjust. I know my own limitations and frankly if someone else can get the march going then more power to him (I say him in the most sexist of terms because we all know that no march organized by a girl would ever really work because they all have cooties... Except maybe a march organized by Boudica... at least until they run into some Romans. I really wonder if the etymology of the word Booty comes from Boudica, that would be some good irony right there!) but I'm getting off topic.


Welcome!

PAX

[march10k]

Boudica or maybe Jean D'Arc....she was pretty bad for a peasant wench...:D

[Blackraine]

You really need to get somewhere between the 400 and 200. I mean, March of 300 worked out pretty well for the Spartans. Sure they all died in the end, but they got to piss off a gay persian, and who doesn't want to do that?!

[march10k]

Nah...the little G.A. Custer impression that the spartans did at thermopylae is nothing compared to the march of the ten thousand. See, it seems that one side in a persian civil war contracted for ten thousand greek mercenaries to support his cause, but by the time they got there, he and his rival had reconciled their differences...and he refused to pay the greeks...in fact, he not only repudiated his agreement with them, he went so far as to demand that these "tresspassers" lay down their arms in exchange for being allowed to go home unmolested...you have to understand that weapons weren't exactly mass-produced on an assembly line in those days. A sword was worth more than a man's life! So the greeks gave the Persians the finger, formed ranks, and marched home, taking on all comers along the way, and sacking every Persian city along the route. I think they probably got a little richer than the contract provided for, but you could just call that a late payment penalty:D Oh, and nobody cheated a greek mercenary after that!

[Rorschach]

Welcome, and cool name!

As to 40K nights, try Thursday nights. They're usually Warmachine heavy, but there's a 40K league starting up soon, IIRC. Check the 40K section for threads too.

-D

[ColGreeley]

Welcome to the insanity! :D