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TheChirurgeon’s Road Through 2021, Part 17: The GW Austin Open, Part 3

Robert "TheChirurgeon" Jones - November 27, 2021

Welcome, Dear Reader, to the final part of my three-part writeup on my triumphs and travails at the Games Workshop Tournament in Austin. Last time I talked about following up a 3-0 day 1 with a much more draining...

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TheChirurgeon’s Road Through 2021, Part 16: The GW Austin Open, Part 2

Robert "TheChirurgeon" Jones - November 26, 2021

Welcome back, Dear Reader! If you've been following along, in my last article you read about my master triumph of going 3-0 to start the Austin GW Open Tournament, putting me in rarified air with the likes of Siegler,...

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TheChirurgeon’s Road Through 2021, Part 15: The GW Austin Open, Part 1

Robert "TheChirurgeon" Jones - November 24, 2021

Welcome back, Dear Reader, to my ongoing quest to achieve some level of competitive respectability in Warhammer 40,000. Last week I talked about padding out my ITC resume by playing a practice event at the Empire Central RTT down in...

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TheChirurgeon’s Road Through 2021, Part 14: The Empire Central RTT

Robert "TheChirurgeon" Jones - November 18, 2021

Welcome back, Dear Reader, to my ongoing quest to achieve some level of competitive respectability in Warhammer 40,000. Last week I played two practice games against Dan (or "Swiftblade" as he's known on the Goonhammer Patron Discord), splitting the series....

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TheChirurgeon’s Road Through 2021, Part 12: Practice, Practice, Practice

Robert "TheChirurgeon" Jones - October 29, 2021

Welcome back, Dear Reader, to my ongoing quest to achieve some level of competitive respectability in Warhammer 40,000. Last week I talked about hastily scrambling to build a table mimicking the terrain at the GW US Open events, then...

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TheChirurgeon’s Road Through 2021, Part 11: Building a Practice Table, then Losing on it

Robert "TheChirurgeon" Jones - October 22, 2021

Welcome back, Dear Reader, to my ongoing (mis)adventures in the journey toward competitive respectability. It's been a long road so far, with three GTs on the books and one more scheduled event to go - though now I'm starting...

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TheChirurgeon’s Road Through 2021, Part 10: The GW New Orleans Open, Part 2 (of 2)

Robert "TheChirurgeon" Jones - October 7, 2021

Welcome back, Dear Reader! Yesterday I covered the first four games of my experiences at the Games Workshop Open Grand Tournament in New Orleans. When we last left off, a rough game with some terrain misplays had left me...

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TheChirurgeon’s Road Through 2021, Part 9: The GW New Orleans Open, Part 1 (of 2)

Robert "TheChirurgeon" Jones - October 6, 2021

This is it, Dear Reader! After several more weeks of meandering posts talking about my practice games and hemming and hawing about daemon princes and bloat-drones and chaos lords, it was finally time to Put up or Shut up...

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TheChirurgeon’s Road Through 2021, Part 8: Practicing Against Grey Knights and Trying out Crisis Protocol

Robert "TheChirurgeon" Jones - September 30, 2021

Welcome back, Dear Reader, to my meandering progress blog detailing my competitive play progress through the 2021 ITC season. It's been a good year so far, with reasonably OK 4-2 and 3-3 finishes at the Lone Star Open and...

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Competitive Innovations in 9th: London Goes Big

James "One_Wing" Grover - September 29, 2021

A new record has been set for the largest 9th Edition singles event so far, with around 570 players gathering at the London GT to throw down and crown a grand champion. I was there throwing down in the...