@ Ruffian: sorry you couldnt make it, mate - your presence was certainly missed.
@ everyone who made it: thanks for a brilliant weekend.
after everybody left yesterday we rang the hotel and arranged to check out that night (no point staying on by ourselves). we got in shortly after midnight. i did manage to play a quick pickup game with a new player (a staffer knew we were both looking for a game so introduced us). it was 400pts
CP, my Tau vs his Marines (Bike squad with Attack Bike, Tac Squad in Rhino). he had only started playing with 5th ed (just before Xmas), but already had a good grasp of the rules - he had never heard of
CP before though (damn
GW for taking it out of the rulebook). he seemed to enjoy the game and i had a blast - i lost 2KP to nil (he managed to break my Sniper Team in the last turn, and wiped out my
FWs with his Rhino-delivered Tac squad). the Bikes and Stealths just couldnt kill eachother in combat, and the Drones could only manage to Immobilise the Rhino before the game ended (Turn 5). i told him about the site, and gave his dad the URL, so we might see him online at some point too.
cheers
~ Tim