Last Updated 01.01.04

The first Rouge Trader Tournament (RTT) ever run in Vegas was a smashing success with over eighteen players! Dreamland Hobbies was nice enough to sponsor the event with prizes and other goodies. Everyone showed up bright and early to get registration done and their armies checked. 1000 points was a small force for most of the players and it really made every mistake punishing.

Round One was, of course, Dawn Assault mission. First pairing were randomly determined and the games were played quickly. We began to see with the first games who was going to be a hard army to beat. But as with all RTTs the tournament isn't won by just your generalship. How well your army is painted, the composition for which your force was selected, and the overall sportsmanship added to your scores to determine the victor.

Four games were played and the final battles swung back and forth as the top generals finally faced off against each other. When the dust had settled and the scores were added up the Overall Champion was Davis VanderVelde. His battle scores were not the highest, but his force cleaned house and still scored highly in all the other catagories. For the most fun to play and obviously an easy going guy, Scott Anderson won Best Sportsmanship (although it was VERY close in this catagory). For her wonderfully designed and painted Eldar army, Grace Meyer won the Best Army award. Lastly, and most definately deserved, Nick Tompkins won the Best Appearance award for his Baramian Liberation People's Republic Imperial Guard Force.

On to the pictures...

We saw some wonderfully painted Blood Angel armies at the tournament	Overall Winner, Davis VanderVelde's Marines
Blood for the Blood God...	Robert's Tau force in full splender
Winner of Best Army, Grace's Eldar	Another look at Robert's Tau
Winner for Best Appearance, you can see why Nick won this award.	Another example of the detail Nick put on each of his models
More of Nick's vehicles...	One of the many troop transports in Nick's army
Unidentified man wanted in many worlds for wrong-doings... Reward for his head is getting larger with every tournament!	Angel's blue Tau Firewarriors
One of the youngest players at the RTT, William Tompkins brought a wonderfully painted Marine force.	William's General with Storm Shield
Frank converted his dread to be mean...	More of Robert's Tau
A closer look at Grace's Eldar	Hand-painted army and unit marking helped raise her painting score to win Best Army.
Davis converted his army banner with the undead skeleton	More conversion work with the tubing on his Las Cannon
Another example of the Marine force Davis fielded

Score:

Overall Scores

Trophies

Overall Champion	Best Sportsmanship
Best Army	Best Appearance

Thanks to Nick Tompkins for putting together two of the trophies and for making all of them come out so wonderfully based! Also thanks goes out to Robert for making the Best Appearance trophy. Lastly, MAJOR thanks to Bill Harris for playing the Ringer army and helping out in general.

This was our best tournament to date and we're all looking forward to the next RTT in August!