You read that right, I got to visit GW Nerd-Mecca!

One of my Dad's associates in Iraq just happened to be a GW fanatic/former store manager, so he set me up with him to hang out all day at the Battle Bunker. I had only been there once before way back when, and at that point, it was just a tiny store (smaller than the local GW store at the mall), so I was curious to see how it had evolved over the course of the last couple years, and I was not disapointed!

As we pulled up, this giant statue greeted us (and yes, in my moment of Nerd-glory I did almost piss my pants):


Here is a shot of the inside:

They must have had like 20 or so tables setup, with GT/WD quality terrain... in fact in the back they had a whole room full of terrain! I really liked the lips around each table... they were designed so that dice and figs don't go bouncing off onto the floor. Some of their newer tables actually have little shelves so that you could place your rulebooks, pens, tape measures, etc. inside so they don't take up room on the tabletop.

Here are some more shots of the neat setups they had:




They also had some of the staff armies on display, as well as some really cool conversions. My favorite had to be this complete Forge World Elysian Drop Troop army by Dave Taylor (I think!):


Anyways, I did not just gawk all day, I got to play a game of WFB! Thanks to the friendly staff, they paired me up with a guy who had just finished assembling his new Warriors of Chaos army. He was running:

Lvl 4 Demon Prince of Nurgle
Exalted Champion of Khorne on Horse
Exalted Champion of Tzeentch on Horse

3 units of Khorne Marauder Horsemen with Flails

3 big units of pimped out Knights (2 Khorne, one Tzeentch).

I had my trusty Tomb Kings:

King on Chariot
Prince on Chariot
x2 Mounted Priests

2 units of Fast Cav
5 Chariots
3 Chariots
3 Chariots

3 Scorpions

x2 Catapults

Our setup here:

This game was pretty ugly... with no dogs to screen all of the frenzied units, I was able to use my trash units to dictate pretty much all of his movement. Highlights included:

-My main chariot block blew through a unit of Marauders and got into his rear on my turn 1!
-Demon Prince goes down to a massive 13 impact hits from a unit of Chariots.
-Scorpion killing blows his Khorne character x3!

By the end of turn 3, all he had left was his unit of Tzeentch Knights, which I had surrounded on all sides:



Unfortunately for me, this image stayed like this for the last 3 turns, except half of my models died! Those Knights were insanely good with a 2+ armor save and a 4+ ward!

After we tallied everything up, I had squeezed out the minor victory. I won't be charging a unit like that anytime in the near future!

Update:
You can view other pictures I took that day here.

Jays off to a great start by dropping New Mexico 82-75! P'allen was amazing.. he literally could not miss a single shot and had a career high 30 points. Booker also looked very good with 26 points. I'm glad we have some shooters this year, because we are an awfully small team!

Amazing terrain courtesy of Bit Kingdom... I would love to play on a table with stuff like this!

I have seen this place in the Old Market for months now, but never really had the opportunity to eat there, so when Amy and Alyssa asked if I wanted to go there for lunch, I jumped at the opportunity!

We started off with the fried pickles, which were actually very addicting, even more so than potato chips. They came with this black-pepper horseradish sauce that complimented them very well. Even though it was deep fried, the grease was minimal, making it that much more enjoyable.

For my main course, I had the Pitchfork Ranch Meatloaf (pictured above). I'm a sucker for meatloaf, and I got really excited when I saw it on the menu. It was glazed with this sugar-chipotle sauce, which was amazing. Throw in some mashed potatoes with gravy and you have the perfect comfort food. I got the lunch size portion, and it was very filling, so I can only imagine what the dinner sized portion will get you...

Everything was reasonably priced, which is also a plus in my book. I really think Laura would enjoy this place a lot since a lot of the stuff is what she considers "regular food!"