I Went to My FIRST Warhammer 40k Tournament

[@hedhogempire]

My smugness has become infinite

[@TibTub2]

The lamenters were lore accurate

[@bigbeef10]

😭

[@euansmith3699]

Lamenter, "If it wasn't for bad luck, we'd have no luck at all..." Mortifactor, "I've got some bad news for you, Jonah!"

[@sweetsilver8016]

To accurate :(

[@theholyemu3716]

The screaming ravens look great ESPECIALLY THAT TECHMARINE

[@kimarous]

"Do YOU have a well-painted Techmarine?" - Trazyn the Infinite, probably

[@Azzo114]

"12 centurions a Stormraven and a dream" Thats one b-e-a-utiful intro

[@kaleb2643]

Glad to see someone playing lore-accurate Lamanters

[@Deadjim17]

Lamenters being on the business end of nids three times... war, war never changes... and neither does the Lamenters luck

[@TheLegionOfTheDamned.]

My favourite part of the video was Steve's awesome Techmarine

[@Amdor]

I started laughing out loud. Honestly, this comment about Steve's Techmarine is the best one.

[@JankTank]

Holy shit, your Screaming Ravens look so fuckin badass, mate! Glad I clicked on this video and got to see them all! especially that techmari--

[@warp-smith]

Yay Paul is now canonically less bad at stuff!

[@elgescherwerauchimmer700]

1:28 good for him for being lore accurate

[@theholyemu3716]

For the deployment zone thing maybe just take some rocks or dice really anything small and put them in a line

[@PaulIsBadAtStuff]

Yeah we used dice to mark them. I do wonder if there's a way to implement them into the scenery if they are table specific

[@hayhay2640]

​@@PaulIsBadAtStuffsome people print 3d markers to mark put deployment zones on the table

[@Deadjim17]

@@PaulIsBadAtStuff before 9th edition changed all the objective placements some game mats had the deployment zones and objective locations for all the various missions built into the map they depicted

[@davequinn2902]

@@PaulIsBadAtStuff I use some extra 50mm bases (had to get a bunch to rebase my nid warriors) with blue and red lines painted on them, placed at both ends of each zone. super handy if you take behind enemy lines as a fixed mission.

[@Bumbaclart247]

Coffee stirrers. EZ

[@Lamentably]

1:28 As a Lamenter player, this is accurate haha

[@contextualnightmare]

Centurion Toddler squad, GO!

[@euansmith3699]

"Activate the Yoink Ray!" - Trazyn the Infinite, definitely.

[@sillyshark9000]

My first three Warhammer 40K games ever, was in the city that I was currently attending University, I was playing my recently bought 800 point Astra militarum army as a thousand point army and you could reasonably expect how poorly that went, I had a blast playing the tournament though, my three opponents for that they were as followed grey knights, space marines, chaos knights, and ever since that tournament I have not won any of my 40K games but I still enjoy playing from time to time

[@va5780]

Amazing how small the world is. I just got into Warhammer because the city in which I currently attend college has a tabletop gaming community. My go-to army is *probably* going to be 980 Chaos Daemons, maybe 990 points World Eaters. We'll see

[@DavisCentis]

Honest to god, I want to reference your video from here out to help people realize that most tournaments are filled with awesome people and are a blast to play at. There's so much negativity in the internet-world about tournaments and tournament players and it's almost ENTIRELY either not true, blown out of proportion, or perpetuated by people that maybe ARE the type of people that cause the issues they claim to suffer from. So glad you had such a great time! And man, that Tech-Marine really DOES look amazing! Wow. You should do an episode about Steve! (show him this comment and SUFFER, mwahahaha!)

[@PaulIsBadAtStuff]

I imagine it's like a lot of things in life where one negative will heavily outweigh all the positives. If you go to a restaurant many times but then have one bad meal you may be less likely to return despite all the good. I reckon one bad game could turn someone off entirely to avoid that negativity again, which is a real shame.

[@hedhogempire]

​@@PaulIsBadAtStuff very good points here. I do deserve a video. Smug+1

[@richardmartin6069]

My favorite part of this video was Steve’s tech marine. Thanks Steve for carrying this video, you’re a real one.

[@elicollins3221]

One day I hope to draw as much ire and attention for a model as... Steve 😂

[@WolfyNotCool]

Laser line markers for showing the deployment zones. Expensive but definitely worth it for tourneys

[@Enzo_honey]

Can we get a painting tutorial for that tech-marine? They looked really well done

[@RintinTintinz]

Great video, made me laugh. Glad you enjoyed your first tournament. Your experience gives me confidence to dive into my first tournament

[@amadmadmadhatter276]

I *need* that second video. I love mini-batrep stuff!

[@lucanastral735]

I mean the deployment zone issue sounds extremely easy to fix. Just use a laser line projector over the top of the boards, it won't be a lost investment either as they could use it in their videos.

[@CTimmerman]

I'd mark the sides with battle damage or terrain, and add temporary hazard-painted popsicle sticks for the deployment phase.

[@deeperestmeme479]

Something cool they could do next time for deployment zones would be to do like, lasers from above. The rig may be hard to set up but having a bunch of lights point a focused line onto the board to designate zones would be cool

[@anno-fw7xn]

Congrats you done with you model and to see you view on this! and i am happy to see yaou battel report!

[@niclyx7970]

"I can't believe its just me and you, and you and me, just us, and your friend Steve. Do-do-do-do-do-do Steve"

[@Pokemaple]

This is all well and good but it's gotta be said.................. That Techmarine is something special

[@TheCommunistColin]

Glad you had fun at your first tournament! I've found that the competitive community for 40k is a lot friendlier and more wholesome than people give it credit for, I've enjoyed all five tournaments I've gone to. Two of them were two-day five-game events and those ones definitely were more competitively minded than the one-day ones, but honestly the cheat code there is to intentionally lose your first game, because then you get matched against people who also lost their first game, which instantly sorts the most competitive and skilled people away from you, lol. When you get sorted into the loser's bracket you encounter the "dads who are excited to play more games in 2 days than they have in 2 months" crowd who are some of the most chill 40k fans out there.

[@TheCommunistColin]

Other tips for a 2-day event if you go: Snacks, water, and pain medicine. Seriously, bring a bottle of tylenol or something and pop those like candy. You will be SORE on day 2. Bring simple quick food like dried fruit and granola bars to avoid making a sticky mess for handling minis and for keeping your brain energized and fueled. And water, water, water!

[@Selvanus]

Wow that techmarine was amazing!

[@AverageJAKE_]

That techmarine does look amazing tho. Not gonna lie.

[@zer0s139]

Steve model was a blast! Thanks for the video paul.

[@Jessforprez]

I really like the Techmarine! Who made it?

[@HobbyJackal]

Haha! Brilliant video. Love the editing & swift narration too :). 🙌

[@nightlordAL]

Great honest review. Love those armies, that level of gaming is well beyond me

[@chrissearle6411]

Hey Paul, thanks for having my Necrons on the channel 👍 Excellent game for the finale mate! Thanks for being an excellent sport, what a close one too!

[@PaulIsBadAtStuff]

Thank you as well for the excellent game and showing me the absolute horror that are C'tans!

[@squeethemog213]

Glad things went well for ya man. It's great to hear 😃

[@matthewtucker1578]

I say come to apocalypticon 2025 next year. Perhaps not necessarily tournament focused, but OMG so many models!!

[@Thomcat-dk]

Steve for the WIN !!!!🖌🖌🖌🖌🖌🖌

[@leonardrouaud]

The Slaanesh/Harlequins terrain is simply BEAUTIFUL. I wanna play on that

[@Avatar833]

Italy at 4:11 in the video (Wait italy is in Warhammer always has been) cool video btw🔥🐐

[@The_Betrayer.]

That tech marine is cool but fr man those screaming ravens are sick! I especially love the warsuits

[@rockoverlord2353]

my first and currently only tournament under my belt was a 2v2 tournament where i played with my friend. necrons and imperial guard. our first round we were tabled by orks and ultra marines that were some of the best painted models in the tournament. the players were awesome to play with. our second round had us win by 30 points and just barely. we faced orks and imperial guard. the dice was not kind to our opponents but we had an equal match and plenty of fun..... then the last team was orks and necrons..... the necron player was *that* guy. if it favored us, he had to argue with rules, basic rules, he had alomst an entire army bought from ebay and was running the meta lists, it was, rough. had dice that made it really hard to see the number on the die and was really fast at collecting dice. then he threw a hissy fit when him and his friend only got 6th place. me and my friend got 9th out of 18. overall it was still alot of fun and i would go to a tournament again only wished we never faced the e-bay necron

[@balazare4927]

I’ve only been to 4 tournaments in a few different states, two Texas one Tennessee and one in Vegas, and I have found that everywhere I’ve been people have been super friendly and nice. I haven’t had any negative game experiences at tournaments

[@clawhammr666]

I laughed way more then I should've at the techmarine comment. Great to hear you had fun at your first tournament

[@lordfarnswaller]

Beachhead brawl in Bournemouth is great. Six games over two days and the option to play the first one on a Friday. Also you can drop out of rounds if you want. Its really well run.

[@kris220b]

this whole steve buissness with the techmarine just reminds me i painted a dantioc mini for my friend's iron hands army, it still to this day remains his first and only finished iron hands mini

[@pyrofrog368]

He did it! He did the thing!

[@theladydoombot]

I too am old and my bones do not do well standing for that long. Bless them for providing chairs.

[@fearfulgrot]

cant wait for the game review

[@Malod1997]

I was on Tournament last week. I lost all 3 games, but i Atmosphere, posibility to talk about hobby, watch all those amazing models and use Psyhophage as Tryumph of Saint Catchrine is just amazing feel. :)

[@Lothrean]

Wow that techmarine is awesome!

[@DannyIO]

i love those tyranids at 7:42, i tried to make some bright before but they didnt come out looking as striking as these wow

[@SockimusPrime]

My FLGS did a kickoff day for their season of crusade, and I definitely felt it after a full day of standing around the tables. They had chairs, and I certainly used them, but it's easy to get caught up in the game, and keep moving to measure distances or determine line of sight.

[@PaulIsBadAtStuff]

Yeah I was walking around the tables a lot, and not having to sit down and stand up repeatedly was probably better

[@lordcommissarspartan]

My first tourney was at a 2v2 beginners match last year. We played 3 games, I was running my Guard and my buddy was playing his Necrons. Game one was us vs Ultramarines+Orks. We got *trounced.* I made a massive tactical mistake, not realizing we were using "True Line of Sight" and that my brick of a crassus would block my buddy's Anti-Tank destroyers. They were still very understanding and fun to play against. Also the Ultramarine player has some *gorgeously* painted models. Lost that game *Hard.* Game 2 was us vs Guard+Orks (there were a lot of Orks at this tourney) Game 2 was very fun back and forth. I made up for my mistake with the crassus and held a mid field objective for the entire game, and pushed the opponent's Orks off the center objective *twice.* All in all, was a very fun game. Actually won it, partially because I got my Bullgryn's into the Guard Player's backline and was causing havoc with my dumb muscle. Very fun. Game 3... fucking game 3 Orks+Necrons Not too bad, Ork player was fun to bounce off of. One of his squiggoth rider squads could not manage to kill a single Scout Sentinel, so that was funny. But the Necron Player. His entire list was "What us meta today?". Nightbringer, wraiths and destroyers, and 2 doomstalkers. All with different paintjobs. Fucker brought an Ebay Meta List to a friendly, beginner tournament. Simple to say that we lost that game, unfortunately. Lost the tournament, 1 to 2. It would have been a *great* time, if the fucking last game hadn't been "Let's just bring all the meta stuff that got nerfed 3 days later".

[@PaulIsBadAtStuff]

Shame about that guy, and shame it ruined an otherwise good time. I was lucky enough that all 3 of my opponents were really nice. I imagine if I had a similar story it might have soured me a little as well

[@StephanieBerry-kl2sh]

this was a lovely watch while I assembled some Heavy Intercessors (funnily enough, for a 40k event next year where I'm dipping my toe back into the game), thank you for sharing! You asked for advice, and I couldn't help but pick up on your issue with the volume at events. I've been attending tournaments for over a decade, and no venue has ever fully solved this I'm afraid. Hey, if you think it's rough there, all I'm saying is try doing it on a world champs table against someone with ropey English. But, something you can do to help with it is sign language. No, really. While your opponent may not hear you saying 'I wound on threes!', holding up three fingers will give them a good clue as to what you're doing. With more complex rules, it's more difficult, but remember that you likely have a shared understanding of the game, so if you sign something reasonable for 'twin-linked' while pointing at the rule, they'll get it the next time you do it. I have Auditory Processing Disorder (in-one-ear-out-the-other-syndrome as I like to call it) and this method makes it way easier for both parties to be understood whatever the environment :) All the best in your future events, and hope I've helped!

[@PaulIsBadAtStuff]

The sign language is a great idea! I hand gesture a lot but not in a very useful way so even just holding up 3 fingers would be useful. Fortunately it wasn't that loud compared to what I assume a massive tournament would be!

[@KamenRiderGreed]

Great video! Can't wait for part 2. I've had some great tournament experiences in the past. Both through the two-day GTs and the one-day events at LGS. My favorite memory will always be somehow fumbling my way into 10th place at a 30+ person event, subsequently winning an award at my *first ever* 2 day GT in the summer of 2022. But I'd like to make a suggestion for your next tournament. Take a look at what your local community is doing. From my personal experience, I made a lot of good friends through my LGS, and I wouldn't be nearly as deep into the hobby as I currently am without them. So I'd like to see you check out what your local area has going on before you go all the way to a 2-day event. Even if you don't make content about it.

[@p3z32]

Great to hear some positive tournament feedback!

[@Blueshell1111111]

That techmarine is really cool

[@YatzeeWillWearAGreenHat]

First Tournament I attended was right after 10th edition came out. I gave my all to get all my Orks painted (100 models) just to find out that because a new edition came out, all got painted points regardless of how much they actually painted. 1st round Custodes. I learned the hard way that pre-nerf, a Custodes on an objective is basicly unkillable without shooting. So either miss all shots with Orks and get shot off the board nexz turn or charge and die before you could even attack. Lost 20-80. 2nd round. Custodes again. Lost 20-80 again. 3rd round. FINALLY some marines. Lost 50-100. After a hard long day of loosing to dudes in unpainted armor I got last plaace and won a black rattle can and a 3d printed pug. Only last and top 3 won prices, so yeah. I also met my old english teacher there which was kind of surreal.

[@electrohalo8798]

Your tech marine shenanigans remind me of my first tournament as one of my models, a warhound, (out of 3… I was running knights) got the entire tournaments attention and became a object of dread for my opponents in the 1st and 3rd game Until the warhound got 2 turned by the damn pre nerf eldar spamming enough 6s with fate dice to murder the emperor of mankind in addition to killing a knight castigator at the same time!

[@jonathonrowland4233]

Would love a follow up about the tornement. Maybe also a painting guide for the army!(especiallythattechmarine)

[@PaulIsBadAtStuff]

Techmarine painting guide: win a bet with your friend and have them paint it for you! Works best if your friend is a talented painter lmao

[@jonathonrowland4233]

@@PaulIsBadAtStuff ahaha I can't belive you replied. Vids great man! Can't wait for the next one

[@robtibbetts890]

This is the most relatable 40K channel.

[@hughmahn484]

4:55 we usually just use dice like makeshift traffic cones as I remember it

[@TomL-jd4tz]

Burst out laughing at the tech Marine. Now I have to figure out how to explain to my wife what was so funny.

[@thecasualwargamer5195]

I went to my first proper tournament at the start of September. It was a two day, 5 game event. I had two issues which are similar to what you say. Firstly, we had to adjust terrain each mission which took time and I would have preferred each table to be fixed for the duration of the event. Secondly, I agree, these events are far too loud and I seriously struggled to hear my opponent across the table in each round.

[@jamescharles2376]

That tech marine is Clean AF tbf

[@domnomminis]

So funny you said about the time limit. I went to my first tournament last month and found the same thing, that the limit was actually plenty and I just play slowly with my friends 😅

[@PaulIsBadAtStuff]

Yeah I was surprised how fast the game goes when that is the sole focus. Still it's fun to play with friends even if it takes a lot longer!

[@domnomminis]

@@PaulIsBadAtStuff absolutely! Glad you had a good day out anyway! Another great video 👌

[@maplemayhem1988]

The Screaming Ravens are my 3rd favorite homebrew chapter and I've created 4.

[@backinnam9696]

“Everyone complimented the one model I didn’t paint.” One of us! One of us!

[@echorome6260]

This happens to me all of the time, when I was first getting into DnD I bought some minis from marketplace including a Stormcast to use as my paladin. In the years since I have painted about a thousand minis, but whenever I show anyone my collection for the first time WITHOUT FAIL the first mini they pick up and guffaw over is that Stormcast 😢

[@Hairy_Phils_Lament]

There’s a Steve in every group.

[@MisioQaczek]

I'm just painting army for over 2 years now, never played tho. But I expanded my army few times (dark angels) and bought new one (tyranids) :D

[@PlayMadness]

Wow, that is such a cool tech marine.

[@zman12431]

Use projectors above the table to have deployment zones displayed before the match maybe

[@Demortixx]

I wish the local tournament was more like this. Fun and less competitive

[@calebolds9609]

1:35 ironically that is in fact how the Lamenters lore has gone recently

[@LordNerfherder]

"Official" tournaments often include the latest untested broken releases to make them sell better and often dont allow amazing resinprinted/ conversions models which further helps gw sales department) doubling as balance department and r&d) narrative. The smaller inofficial ones are much more fun.

[@Jb-kg3jf]

That’s exactly why I paint my own models 8:22

[@MurhpyTheGoldenFox]

Can you make a video about the figures in your army. It would be interesting

[@PaulIsBadAtStuff]

It's on the list! Probably November time

[@euansmith3699]

7:39 I presume that is a Lord Solar proxy. If so, it kicks posterior very hard. The Rainbow Sparkle brain bugs are excellent too.

[@PaulIsBadAtStuff]

Yes it was Lord Solar. Really cool idea. I've never actually seen the unmodified horse Solar

[@Vinterloft]

New channel name Paul is great at techmarines

[@TheBigJConYouTube]

I love that little laser pointer; i call mine the “autism beam”

[@euansmith3699]

"I forgot how dice work!!!" 😂😂😂

[@zwergentyp3]

I loved my first tournament. My first opponent was a gsc player who taught me a lot about my sisters and also tabled me in round 3. But I was so burnt out by game 3 that my opponent probably thinks i was a grumpy asshole but i was so tired... And got tabled by custodes in turn 3

[@PaulIsBadAtStuff]

I honestly don't know how I managed to stay energetic in round 3. My opponent was also quite high energy so I could bounce off of him and had a good rapport which helped. I think most people understand that fatigue sets in so if you seemed grumpy they probably knew that it was tiredness not general grump lmao

[@MrSteelface96]

Well it is a nicely done Techmarine. :^)

[@LordNerfherder]

The tech marine sticks out a little as it is the brightest part of your army. Eyes just land there. Steve is so damn good. Nah but focal points of the army are usually rhe brightest ones. Make your commander or similar have something that draws the ye. And spray steves miniature matte black.

[@olszu3350]

Steve, the Stealer of Fun

[@LearnTrainPlay]

Tournies are fun, win or lose I have a good time.

[@therunners8545]

techmarine looks nice

[@ryanmaloney8161]

My first tournament was in July it was three days 8 rounds. I had a lot of fun and met new people but I didn’t know that 8 rounds was not the norm lol

[@bad-people6510]

"Who brought a wonderfully painted Lamenters army... that managed to be on the wrong end of a Tryannid swarm three times in a row." It's nice to see some people still respect lore accuracy.

[@the_coalheart]

FLGS has small marks on the tables and then proceeds to use an army painter line laser like the one that appears on the video, works perfectly well

[@PaulIsBadAtStuff]

That makes sense. The only ones that would be a bit fiddly on now is the two jagged deployments in Pariah Nexus but it's not that difficult to work around, just gotta point the laser at both halves of the map separately

[@the_coalheart]

@@PaulIsBadAtStuff use the laser... place dice along the line... boom, done :)

[@redamerican5830]

9:05 my pc vibrated from my sound system

[@alchemistmodels]

I know that goddamn smug grin too well...

[@frakillwe123]

thank you steve

[@evanbarba7948]

This guy made me buy a stormraven

[@coopers1716]

Tt seems really cool

[@jamesharvy6552]

Laser levels mounted to the ceiling you can turn on and off

[@NewWarhammerNerd8881]

Man I hope I get to play a tournament one day