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Welcome to the Mighty Ape Hobbies Tabletop Gaming Calendar!
There's heaps of awesome tabletop gaming events and tournaments around the country each month and we're happy to be able to give these great community events a shout-out!
So take a look at what's coming up in your region…
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Christmas is just around the corner so once again we're wanting to reward all our loyal Warhammer customers with something a little extra on top of our everyday Mate's Rates and the fastest delivery in New Zealand…
So we're giving away a Necromunda Prize Pack worth over $600!
Purchase any products from our Games Workshop Store and you'll be in the draw to win this massive Necromunda prize pack including:
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If you're a trading card fan then you have to make time this coming weekend to check out The Calling, organised by Legend Story Studios for their new Flesh and Blood TCG!
The Calling are premier open-entry tournaments that act as a perfect entry point to those wanting to take their Flesh and Blood skills to the next level. These events are designed for competitive play, awarding a $10,000 local currency cash prize pool and invitations to the World Championship for top finishers.
Each Calling event will have exclusive promo cards that can only be obtained by playing in a Calling event. In addition, each player will receive a special Flesh and Blood Classic playmat (while stocks last).
The format is Welcome to Rathe Sealed Deck.
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Welcome to our Magic The Gathering and TCG event schedule.
These events are hosted at our pick-ups showroom at 24–28 Highgate Parkway, Millwater.
Afternoon Free Standard
Registration from 4.30pm, Round 1 starts at 5pm.
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The cold winter months are arriving, which means the season is perfect take your adventures inside with some dungeon crawling, monster slaying and questing for epic loot with your favourite role playing games.
Speaking of epic loot…
Purchase any products from our Role Playing Games Store this June and you'll be in the draw to win this massive Dungeons & Dragons prize pack including:
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That's right folks, Christmas is just days away which means that it is time to find our lucky winner for our Adeptus Titanicus Christmas Giveaway.
We've had thousands of customers enter from all across New Zealand, which means that there will be piles of Warhammer goodies under Christmas trees and in stockings everywhere next Tuesday!
This year the Emperor has shown his favour to Citadel Macragge Blue as the lucky winning product (you just can't escape those Ultramarines) and our lucky winner is…
Simon from Tuakau, congratulations!
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In this episode of our Warhammer 40K Kill Team Diaries it's time to check in with Aidan, who is building up the Genestealer Cultists from the Kill Team Starter Set.
Kill teams are a great way to start a new army, In this article I am going to walk you through how I have gone about assembling my team of Neophyte Hybrids.
First off I must commend you on your enlightened choice of the Genestealer Cult. ‘Cult’ has such negative connotations these days so let’s just welcome you to the Genestealer ‘Family’.
It’s worth noting that the Neophyte kit is not the easy-to-build, push-fit models that you usually see in starter sets, but has many options, upgrades, alternative heads etc, that are perfect for being able to customise your Kill Team.
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Christmas is just around the corner so once again we're wanting to reward all our loyal Warhammer customers with something a little extra on top of our everyday Mate's Rates and the fastest delivery in New Zealand…
So we're giving away an Adeptus Titanicus Grand Master Edition worth over $500!
Purchase any products from our Games Workshop Store and you'll be in the draw to win this massive boxed set.
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This time in our Warhammer Kill Team Diaries it's time to check in with Jonas, who is painting up the Skitarii from the Kill Team Starter Set
It’s tempting to write about painting my Skitarii Kill Team as if I had planned it methodically and in all detail. I don’t think I really did. I started with little more than practical considerations and unjustified preference: make it a simple, economic paint job using a limited palette, and use orange. However, I did put a little thought into the project before even picking up a brush. In this entry I hope to outline that thought process, show that it’s simple and doesn’t require much expertise, and share first results.
I’ve never used much colour theory, but I enjoy trying to improve my painting and figured I’ll give it a shot. The colour complementary (or ‘opposite’) to orange is blue, so I’d use that. However, there’s little more than greatcoats and bare metal on the Skitarii, hence not too much choice what to use blue for. I decided for a most heavily oxidised bronze for the metal parts. Basically, I’d paint all the metal blue or blue-ish. (An alternative would’ve been to paint the coats blue and all metal parts a bright rusty orange, but I didn’t like the idea of blue Skitarii at all.)
At that time my wife and I were watching the second season of The Handmaid’s Tale. She suggested I’d paint their bases like a nuclear wasteland. She said, make it like the colonies in the Republic of Gilead. In the series they’re a steaming hellhole of dirty ochre and yellow tones. Picture for reference.
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Our judges had their work cut out for them scoring the amazing finalists in our 2018 Tabletop Gaming Painting Competition.
Now it's time to see who our well deserved winners are, as well as to check out the runner ups…
Firstly we have to apologise to Robert for almost missing this entry in the judging process, which would have been a huge shame as it took out the category! Robert's Ork Warboss is a fantastic example of the use of colour to catch the eye and draw interest to the different parts of the model.