Greetings All!

We're excited to announce the 7th Annual Legio Birthday Bash / Golden Kris painting competition taking place at Hobby Forge on Saturday, June 6th. This is being done in conjunction with the 40K tournament being run on the same day, so it promises to be a fun, activity filled day.

Below is the link to entry rules for the Golden Kris. Remember, as always, entry is FREE so please be sure to stop by and enter your best models :)

Golden Kris 2015 Rules pack

Legio Malaysia's Star Wars X-Wing Wingman tournament

All you Star Wars X-wing miniatures game rejoice!! Legio will be holding our first ever X-wing doubles tournament on 13th September 2014.

Now that the highly competitive seriousness of the Regionals are over it's time to have fun playing this game that we all love so much. If you enjoy the X-Wing game and enjoy having fun playing the game then this event is for you!

Each team will consist of 2 players fielding a 100 point list each. That means 200 points per team. Played on a standard 3x3 size space mat. That means 400 points of ships will be battling it out. Much maneuvering and shooting mayhem will occur. It's going to be epic and fun!!!

For more details click on the link below.
Star Wars X-Wing Wingman Rulespack 

Selamat Hari Raya and happy holidays.

May the force be with you.

Congrats to Kadir For Winning Troops Throwdown!

Here's the winning entry from Friday Night's 'Troops' throwdown, an allied Raven Guard squad. In a relatively quiet night of competition, we had entries from Alvin's Dark Eldar army and Iqbal's Tyranids:

For all those who haven't entered (including myself!), it's time to pick up those brushes and get your entries for 'Heavy Support' done! Good luck to everyone, stay motivated, and get your armies done!

April 5th WFB Tournament Signups Needed!

Hey folks!

The 'Shadows Over Nuln' Warhammer tournament is just around the corner on April 5th, and we haven't had any signups yet! :O

Today is the last day you can sign up and get your free tshirt as an 'Early Bird Special'. We'll take signups after that, but there will be no tshirt included.

Warhammer tournaments seem to be tough to organize- last time we ran one years ago the vast majority of the players actually came from Singapore! If you are a serious Warhammer player, and enjoy tournament play, we really need your support to make this happen by signing up and playing! :)

Many thanks everyone. For full rules pack and event info, visit the following links:

Tournament Facebook Event Page

Tournament Rules Pack

Legio Army Throwdown II (Warhammer Fantasy) Results

When we started this painting event in November last year, we had 17 sign ups. Fast forward to last Friday night and we were only left with 4 brave souls who managed to complete their 2K fantasy army.

For this effort alone all four deserves a huge pat on the back for having the guts to grind it out when others faltered along the way. They are in no particular order...

Patrick's High Elves

Iqbal's Warriors of Chaos

Stephane's Dark Elves

Jeff's Beastmen

Well done again guys. Four nicely painted armies that anyone would be proud to have in their collection.

Of course in any competition there can be only one winner. And after voting was done, Jeff Brooks with his Beastmen came out on top to be the clear winner! And the proud owner of another Legio Malaysia Purity Seal. 
Mighty cheers for Patrick, Jeff, Iqbal and Stephane!!!

The hensem four who made it.

Jeff and Patrick were also the only two who managed to go 8 for 8 in all the individual throwdowns. Kudos to both of you.

Thank you to everyone who took part in the event. Special mention too to those who turned up to vote and cheered the participants on. We couldn't have done it without your support!

Our next Army Throwdown event will be announced soon so keep your ears out for news on that.

Hobby Night 14 February : RSVP here

Greetings everyone,

After a long break of fun and festivities, Hobby Night is back again this week!

And this week we have not one but 2 Throwdown categories that will be displayed for everyone's viewing and judging pleasure. Both are Wildcard entries so we will have a variety of nicely painted models. Currently,we have 6 guys who have qualified for the Final Throwdown with only Alvin, Jeff and Patrick having 100% throwdown participation record. That's 6/6 yo! Much respect!
We have another 6 painters who need to present their models tomorrow to qualify for the finals. Let's see who among them have the perseverance and dedication to make it through.

Yours truly will drop out unfortunately. Yeah....lame, I know.

Of course, games will also played so come join us for another night of might and mayhem!!!

RSVP here.

It's That Time Again- THROWDOWN Time!

Tomorrow Legio Malaysia will be holding it's last structured Throwdown with a RARE choice from your army. The final three individual Throwdowns will all be Wild Cards- any previously undisplayed, legal unit from your ever growing army!

The following four competitors MUST show up with a RARE choice  tomorrow night, or they will be officially disqualified from the competition:

Jo Tan
Hafizhu Rodzali
Rizal Abdullah
Carl Lum

You have to throwdown at least four times, and after tomorrow there are only three opportunities left! We'd love to see you guys make your first throwdown, so do please come on down to Hobby Forge tomorrow night! :)

We'd also like to congratulate the following competitors for having qualified last week. With four completed throwdowns under their belts, these guys are ready for the final army throwdown once their armies are done!

Alvin Khaw
Arzmi Bakar
Jeff Brooks
Patrick Ong

Who's coming tomorrow? Post up here- it's HOBBY TIME!

Hail Malekith! Alvin Wins Throwdown III!

Congratulations to Alvin Khaw for winning last night's Army General Throwdown with his excellent Dreadlord! Attendance was high and the competition close. Here are the remaining entries!

Chaos Ascendant! Tied for second place in the voting were Iqbal's Archaon and Carl's Lord of Tzeentch. Both were very well painted, and feature a seksi winter basing scheme.

Tied for third place were Ken's Dark Elf Sorceress and my own entry, a Beastmen Beastlord.

The remaining entries, in no particular order....

Khairul's Skaven Queek Headtaker

Darren's Lizardmen Chakrax

Arzmi's Empire Celestial Wizard. Is it me, or does he look a bit like Ian McKellen...?

Faizal's Vampire Counts Ghoul King

Patrick's High Elf Sorcerer

Stephane's Dark Elf Sorceress. Old School Cool!

Well done everyone! We'll see you all in two weeks for our second 'Core' throwdown. Until then, GET PAINTING!

It's Hobby Time Again!

It's that time of the week again when glorious, Legio Malaysia hobby is knocking at the door. In addition to standard gaming and hobby action, tomorrow night's Hobby Night will also feature the third painting challenge and vote of the Legio Army Throwdown II: Warhammer Army Painting Challenge.

For this throwdown participants are required to bring their fully painted Army General. Out of all 8 throwdown challenges, this one is by far the easiest as you only need one model! Attendance tomorrow night should be at 100%- if you have signed up and don't make this one, you're nuts!

In particular, we strongly urge the following people to show up tomorrow night. Everyone on this list has failed to make even one entry thus far, despite painting having started way back on October 8th! If you find your name on this list, you really need to get to Hobby Night tomorrow with your painted Army General!

Hafizhu Rodzali
Jo Tan
Stephane Porquier
Dann Toh
Faizal Azlan
Rizal Abdullah
Ken Khang

If you guys miss this one, you'll have to make 4 out of the final 5 challenges to qualify for the finals. We'd hate to see you guys miss out, so please come!

For the rest of our intrepid competitors, who's going to win tomorrow's vote? Last throwdown was won by Arzmi Bakar and his gorgeous Empire Pistoliers. Who's next....?

So come on down for some great hobby! For those not in the challenge, don't forget to come check it out and cast your vote for your favorite Army General entry.

See you there!

Hobby Night RSVP 22 November 2014

It's grilling time at Legio for tomorrow's Hobby Night! And delicious extreme burgers and hot dogs are on the menu folks.
For everyone who have signed up to join our feast, grilling will start at around 8.15 and we expect to finish around 9pm. So if you want your food fresh and hot you need to be there around this time.

Also up is the Special choice fantasy throwdown. All participants are reminded to bring their models by 9pm as judging will start then and finish at 10pm.

Itl's going to be a BLAST!!! Rsvp here if you're coming :)

Wrath of the Omnissiah 40K Tournament CANCELLED

SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT

Wrath of the Omnissiah 40K Tournament CANCELLED

Howdy Folks,

After careful consideration, circumstances have led us to decide to cancel our Warhammer 40,000 tournament scheduled for December 14th. Given the high amount of 40K tournament activity over the last month in the Klang Valley area, we feel that we might be better off giving our community a bit of a breather!

The good news is that this is going to open up an opportunity for us to run our second Warhammer tournament early next year. We have tentatively scheduled this tournament on Saturday, March 8th. This is one week after the completion of our Legio Army Throwdown at the end of February. We're thinking of putting the points for this somewhere in the 2000-2500 points range. We'll create a Facebook event page for this, and we encourage anyone interested in attending to give us your feedback on what points level we should do this at.

We hope no one is too terribly inconvenienced by this cancellation. Many thanks for the hobby community's continued support, and we look forward to bringing you all more of the very best in hobby events and activities in the future.

Cheers!

This Friday at the Forge.. Dice, Games, Minis, and.... Burgers??!!

FLASH ANNOUNCEMENT FOR THROWDOWN THIS FRIDAY!

In consideration of both the upcoming Ascension tourney as well as our second Throwdown coming up, we thought it might be fun to have a festive Friday Hobby Night and bring down our grills for some cookout burgers and dogs!

Anyone coming to Hobby Night this Friday has the next TWO DAYS AND TWO DAYS ONLY to put in and pay for your own freshly grilled beefburgers, cheeseburgers, or hot dogs done up by Jeff Brooks and Khairul Effendy. Burgers are RM10.00 each and hot dogs RM 5 each. Buns are being baked just for us by the French bakery L'EpiD'or downstairs, and they are going to be great!

Funds are payable directly to Hobby Forge staff, Jeff Brooks, or Khairul Effendy. Orders must be placed and paid for no later than the end of the day tomorrow if you're interested.

See you Friday at Hobby Forge! :)

It's Almost Time for Iron Painter!

Hola hobby amigos!

In anticipation of this week's Iron Painter competition, I thought I'd repost some advice I gave out years ago when we ran our first Iron Painter back in 2008. For those who've never done it before, it's tough! Have a read, and use what you can. It's going to be a blast!!

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First, let’s start with the army you’ll be painting. The most common problem with past competitors is that they didn’t bring a LEGAL army. A big part of the idea behind Iron Painter is to get something done that you can use on the tabletop by itself. So, if you decided to compete with a Warhammer army, you better make sure you’re painting an army general and sufficient Core choices from your chosen army. If you don’t have those things, your army isn’t legal! Remember that you need to have at least 30 models. Do up an army list for yourself and make it easy to prove that you meet the mark.

Now, let’s get on to the practical side of painting. Use the time you have before the Iron Painter wisely. Clean all the flash and mold lines off your models, and assemble them nicely. If you plan to glue sand on the bases, do so before you spray prime them. When you prime them, make sure you get every crack and crevice of EVERY model. Set yourself up to be as successful as possible- SAVE TIME AND ENERGY.

When the bell rings at 10:00 AM Saturday, be sure to get crackin’ and keep crackin’. Know beforehand how you’re going to paint your army- don’t wait until that day to figure out a color scheme. While you’re painting, be thinking of the next step so you waste as little time as possible. Get up every few hours and take a short break. Walk around a little bit. Check out the competition. Get some fresh air. Then, get back to work!

I strongly recommend that you paint your General, Command HQ, or HQ choice first if you want it to look good. Your mind will still be fresh. Your best painting is only going to last the first 6 to 10 hours or so unless you have inhuman mental endurance. Take advantage of that “good time” and paint the difficult stuff right off the bat. Save the block painting for when your mind turns to mush at 5:00 AM Sunday.

Finally, I have a list of things that experienced Iron Painters tended to bring with them in the past. Read through this and make sure you bring what you’re going to need (other than your army and standard hobby supplies!).

• music player with headphones
• Charger/batteries for your MP3/music source
• Portable lamp that clamps on to any table
• Your favorite snacks and energy drinks
• Seat cushion (if you have a hard time sitting for extended periods)
• Pillow to catch a cat nap on the floor

Finishing an Iron Painter is like finishing a marathon. Make no mistake- this is not an easy thing to do with any degree of skill. Fatigue will smite you without a doubt. The average Iron Painter contests I've run in the past had a whopping 75% dropout/failure to complete rate. Grind it out. Keep putting forward effort no matter what. The feeling you get by finishing something that hard is well worth the lack of sleep. Remember, you’ve got the rest of Sunday to fall into a painting induced coma!

RSVP for Hobby Night & Fantasy Army Throwdown

First up, we'd like to announce that Legio Malaysia have shifted from Battlefront Miniatures' office to the new Hobby Forge. Due to space constraints that we were and are still currently facing at the factory, we knew that we needed to shift Legio to a new location. This location had to be spacious enough for us to hold our regular Hobby Nights, events & tournaments and more importantly allow our tables to be laid out at all times thus protecting them from damages.

We're sure all of you will agree that the new Hobby Forge fits all these requirements and more. So please join us in thanking Alvin Khaw, the owner of Hobby Forge for kindly allowing us to shift Legio Malaysia's base there. Thank you dude.

Secondly, our Fantasy Army Throwdown : Core unit will be held tomorrow during Hobby Night. For everyone who have joined us in this painting madness, you will need to bring your completed Core unit. All entries must be displayed by 9pm. Those who bring their entries late at 9.01pm onward will not be eligible for voting so please come early. 
Voting will start from 9-10pm and is open to everyone who comes for Hobby Night. So even if you're not taking part, we'd appreciate if you can come to support and vote :)
Just in case you missed the first part of this post, the Throwdown will be held at Hobby Forge. Do not go to Battlefront Miniatures tomorrow night! Only zombies and ghouls will be there. 

Thirdly, our annual year end event will be held on Saturday, 14th of December. Wrath of the Ommissiah will a 1850 points Warhammer 40K tournament. The rulespack is already out. Just click on the banner above for details. We are having 20 participants for the event so please sign up quickly to confirm your entry. Be prepared for devastating steel rain from above!!! You cannot hide....

Fourthly, our Iron Painter event will be held next Saturday until Sunday. Again please click on the banner above for more details. No limit for participants so come join us :)

Lastly, since we're now based at Hobby Forge, you don't really need to RSVP here for your attendance but we'd like to keep the tradition alive. 

We've been based at Battlefront for 6 long years....Ave Legio!!!

Wow, that was a long post. RSVP here if you're coming.

Spartan Games 40K Tournament Announcement

Without any further ado, here's the full scoop from Harvinder, the TO himself!



Greeting Generals!




Spartan Games Arena is proud to announce our first ever upcoming 40k
Tourney "Ascension", so gear up boyz, its that time again to prime
your bolters, lucky dices and use that kunnin strategy. Its a 1,500
points warhammer 40k tournament. Participation is open for 20 players
(*one on one battle). For those who survive and ascend to the helm,
ranking will be for the 1, 2 & 3rd place winner, best sportsmanship,
best painted army and prizes/ certificates for consolation winners.

1st place winner shall be honoured with the Spartan Trophy Cup and
you'll get your name emboss in it...so here's a chance to leave a
legacy boyz.


The tournament will be held at Spartan Games Arena itself on 24th
November 2013-9.00am to 5.00pm. Registration is open now and closing
date for it will be on 10 November 2013, submission of all army list
must be done before 10 November 2013 guys. Registration fee is RM30
per entry for each player, all participants will received a goodie bag
(*freebies!!) and an official tourney t-shirt. We are finalizing the
main prizes and other freebies with the main distributer and sponsors
(*to give you boyz a better prize support). For those who have paid
and failed to show up or cancelled on last minute, sorry you wont get
any freebies and NO REFUNDS guys if you can't make it. More to come on
the updates for the tournament rules.


For submission of your tournament army list, please mail us at:
spartangamesarena@gmail.com, or contact us directly at:


Spartan Games Arena
Block 3C, No. 32-1,
Jalan Wangsa Delima 11,
Wangsa Link, Wangsa Maju,
53300, Kuala Lumpur,
Malaysia.

Tel: +603.4141.66.76

+016.668.55.23 (Khaled)
+010.208.53.85 (Nik)
+012.697.67.45 (Alvin)
+016.693.53.57 (Vinder)

RSVP Thread- Hobby Forge Grand Opening Legio Tournament

It is a fantastic time to be a hobbyist in Malaysia!

Earlier this year we got to see a new shop open up, Wira Games and Hobbies. Friendly staff, wargaming supplies, opening hours, AND wargaming tables are all of offer there. If you haven't visited, you really need to. Be sure to ask about their Warhammer League!

Last night, the familiar Hobby Forge shop announced their relocation to new digs. Sounds like great news as well, especially since a little birdie has told Legio Malaysia that they will have TEN wargaming tables set up full time. Nice!

So, to break these tables in properly Legio Malaysia is pleased to announce we are running a Grand Opening 'Force Recon' 40K Tournament. This will be a standard Legio format, FOUR round, 1000 point bash held at their grand opening on October 26th. Rules pack will be available within the next couple of days (we only learned about this recently ourselves!), but for you veterans out there you can expect a pretty familiar layout. Armies will need to be fully rep, fully painted. The cost to sign up will be RM 20, and this will include an awesome t-shirt to commemorate  your participation in the new Hobby Forge's first ever event. With the low points value this should be easy to cobble together a painted army, and games will be fast and furious! There are only 20 spots available, and signups start TODAY. You'll need to provide us:

1. Your name
2. Your army list
3. Your t-shirt size
4. RM 20

Once that's done you'll be all set. We expect spots to go quickly, so please don't delay if you're interested! You can pass your registration details and cash to the staff of Hobby Forge or to any Legio Malaysia officer.

As far as tonight goes, I'm guessing there will be several of us there painting Warhammer models, as our Legio Army Throwdown II: Warhammer is in full swing. Do join us- post up here and let us know you're coming. Tables will be available for both gaming and painting- we'd love to see you!

Edit: Rules pack all done- here's the link!

Second Edit: Please note that we will be closing early tonight- 10 PM. We will be packing up tables and terrain for transport and need to get it done early. Thanks for your understanding!

Gentlemen...you can start painting!!!

It's October the 8th so Legio's Army Throwdown II : Warhammer officially starts! You can start painting your respective armies beginning today. This time we have 16 brave souls joining us for this painting madness! They are in no particular order :

Jeff Brooks - Beastmen
Khairul Effendy - Skaven
Mohamad Faizal - Vampire Counts
Jo Tan - High Elves
Stephane Porquier - Dark Elves
Hafizhu Rodzali - Bretonnians
Arzmi - Empire
Yee Fong Chang - Empire
Dann Toh - Dark Elves
Alvin Khaw - Lizardmen
Kenneth - Lizardmen
Carl Lum - Warriors of Chaos
Iqbal Rahim - Warriors of Chaos
Patrick Ong - Warriors of Chaos
Paxter - Warriors of Chaos
Rizal - Orcs & Goblins
* if you've registered and I've left your name out please post on the comment box below. I'll update the list.

Below is the Throwdown schedule and we highly recommend that you follow it to qualify for each rounds.
November 8th - Core
November 22nd - Special
December 6th - Army General
December 20th - Core
January 3rd - Rare
January 17th Wild Card ( any previously undisplayed choice from your army)
January 31st Wild Card
February 14 - Wild Card

All the best to everyone! Looking forward to seeing your progress :)

RSVP for this week's Hobby Night

The clock continues ticking and the day is getting nearer. Only 5 days left before our Fantasy Army Throwdown starts. Participants can officially start painting next Tuesday, 8th October. So join us again this Friday night for some frantic cutting and sanding and gluing and priming madness.

If you've already registered but not submitted an army list, please do so before Tuesday.

Gaming table are always open. Anyone up for Saga or Ronin?

RSVP below if you're coming.     The Beastmen are coming....

Hobby Night 27th Sept RSVP

It's that time of the week again. When mighty battles are fought and even mightier boasts are made. As we mentioned last week, our Legio Army Throwdown (Warhammer) will be starting next month. I'm sure the hobby tables will be filled with guys preparing their army for the hectic painting that is to come.

Of course our gaming tables are always open for those who want to game. Plus we heard through the grapevine that the man himself, Mr. TJ, GW Asia rep will honor us with his presence tomorrow night (hope he doesn't cancels at the last second...).

So join us and RSVP below.     The Dark Elves are coming.....

RSVP in the Land of Warhammer

'Land of Warhammer?' you say? Yes, a resounding YES! We've got not one but TWO Warhammer activities starting soon in the Klang Valley area. First is a Warhammer Fantasy league being run by the brand new shop Wira Games and Hobbies.

As many of you already know, they are running a Warhammer league starting next month. It begins on October 8th, and finishes up on December 7th with the League Championships. For more information on how you can join this league and play some games of Warhammer, check out the league page.

On the Legio Malaysia side of things, we are running our second 'Legio Army Throwdown', and this time it's Warhammer! Registration starts NOW, and entrants are allowed to start painting their army on October 8th. The first throwdown (Core army choice) will be held on Friday, November 8th at Hobby Night. The rules for this throwdown are a bit different this time around, so be sure to check out the rules pack here. The biggest change is that armies this time around must begin unpainted- no models may be painted other than with white, grey, or black primer coats. This one is from scratch!

Late Addition

Looks like Spartan Games Arena is going to try their hand again at running some Warhammer goodness. They have posted up a league/campaign hybrid scheduled to run from September 27th to November 1st. Sounds like a hoot, so check out the event page listing and see if there's a spot for you!

So, post up here and let us know if you're coming Friday night. I'll be there painting my Avenging Sons Space Marines- feel free to pull up a chair and share your best painting tips!