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Welcome to the 2017 OFCC 40K Team Event Players Guide! This post will outline everything you need to know to play in this year's 40K Team event. This is a 2 day, 5 round event on July 29th and July 30th. Although this is a team event, we will allow players who are not affiliated with a team to play as Mercenaries. As you read through this guide, you will notice that this event is not referred to as a tournament. OFCC is about focusing on the experience and not the outcome. There is nothing wrong with wanting to perform well and to celebrate victory, but if that is your sole motivator for playing at OFCC then you may be disappointed. List Building Restrictions: OFCC is about celebrating our hobby, demonstrating good sportsmanship, and playing fun games. Players are encouraged to bring armies that reinforce those values. This event is designed to encourage and reward players who embrace the experience. The army size must be no more than 2,000 points It can include any 40K units from any number of 40K approved Games Workshop or Forgeworld sources Age of Darkness (30K) rules and armies will not be allowed If there is a 30K unit with 40K rules, it can be used with the corresponding 40K rules Team Requirements: A team must contain 4 players One team member must be designated as the Captain Any player not affiliated with a team will be a Mercenary Event Specific Rules: This event will use the Games Workshop 7th Edition 40K rules and the Games Workshop official FAQ documents The 7th edition rules will be used as written with one exception: Untrusted Alliances - Battle Brothers will not be used, so the best interaction between factions in your army will be Allies of Convenience Different Space Marine Chapters are different factions Skitarii and Cult Mechanicus are one faction Inquisitors are exempt from this restriction and follow the normal Battle Brother rules What to Bring: Your painted and based army (see Painting and Basing Requirements) Dice, tape measure, templates A printed copy of your army list A deck of Tactical Objective Cards A good attitude and desire to have fun Painting and Basing Requirements: All models within OFCC armies must be fully painted and based Painting must include 3+ colors Effort must be made to transform or replace the bare plastic base Models that fail to meet the event minimum cannot be used during the event Models, Counts As and WYSIWYG: Games Workshop models are not required for this event Alternate models should reflect the same scale as the Games Workshop equivalent Weapon upgrades and certain model specific wargear should be represented on the equipped model It is impossible to outline all the examples, so here is a good rule to follow If a unit would be impacted by the removal of something equipped to a specific model (banner, special weapon, etc.) then it must be represented Proxies are not allowed in the 40K Team Event A proxy is a placeholder when you don't have an appropriate model to use Counts As armies are allowed during the 40K event with the following guidelines: Effort must be made to represent the model/unit in question Representation must be consistent across the army It is the responsibility of the player who bring a Counts As army to inform their opponent early and often about what is being represented Any specific questions or additional guidance should be directed to the 40K Head of Gaming (evil_bryan) List Rating and Matches: Every list will be rated against each other to determine which lists are more powerful than others List power levels will determine the games you will play Similar power levels will be matched against each other Winning will increase your power level, losing will decrease it Matches will be organized on a player versus player basis, not team versus team Awards: The Team Based Awards available this year will be: Best Painted Best Spirit Marshall Johnson Award (Best Sportsman) Best Overall There will also be Individual Awards available exclusively for Mercenaries: Best Painted Best Sportsman A note about Battle Scores and performance: Although we will not be awarding a Best General, we will be tracking battle scores and using performance to match players during the weekend Battle scores will be used to break ties in all award catagories Mission Types: Each mission will be a variant of the Maelstrom of War missions and require a deck of Tactical Objective Cards. We will be using a similar deck building and scoring mechanic as the Ordo Annihilation events. Each player must assemble a deck of 28 tactical objective cards Choose 28 of the 36 available cards for your deck Do not choose cards that are impossible for your army to score During the game, you can only automatically discard and redraw cards that are impossible to score based on your opponents army (i.e. no Fast Attack units) and NOT your army You can only use a single source for your deck (either the standard deck or ANY army specific deck, it does not need to match the army you are playing) If you do not have a Games Workshop printed deck (or one does not exist), you can custom build one for the event Scoring will occur every game turn and you will compare earned points. If you earned more points that turn: +2 If you earned equal points that turn: +1 If you earned less point that turn: +0 The game end when one (or both) players reach 7 points or when the last turn is completed. Event Scoring by Category: Each team will have the ability to earn points in each scoring category (Paint, Spirit, Sports) before the event AND during the event. The total points scored will determine team's position in each category and contribute to calculating the scores for Best Overall. Pre-Event Scoring: Each player/army that achieves one of the below items will score 1 point per completion. If all players on a team achieve the same item they will receive a bonus point. Painting: Photo Spread - Team post on the Ordo Forums with pictures of each army Early Screening - Display your army Friday evening for paint judging Spirit: Advanced Planning - List submitted for review before 6/1/2017 All In - Ticket purchased before 6/1/2017 Sportsmanship: Going Old School - Single Combined Arms Detachment from a single source with no flyers, super heavies, or gargantuan creatures No surprises - Team post on the Ordo Forums with information about your players and their army lists List Submissions: All army lists should be emailed to OFCC2017@gmail.com Army lists should include all units, wargear, corresponding points cost, and source(s) Make sure to identify yourself and your team within the email Captain's Responsibilities: Team Captains are the true heroes of OFCC, and greatly contribute to what makes this event a success. Team Captains will be asked to: Review the team's army lists and have them submitted on time Remind their team to purchase their event tickets Ensure the team meets OFCC painting and basing minimums Educate new players about the spirit of OFCC Questions: For any questions, please feel free to reach out to me in the following ways: Send a PM through the forums Reach out via Facebook Send an email to OFCC2017@gmail.com Stop by in person at WOW on a Tuesday night We look forward to seeing you in July!

My assumption was that you could show up and hang out and display your Army on Friday night even without a ticket for a Friday event, as long as you have a ticket for one of the weekend events. It's always been more or less like that in the past.

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As this question was raised earlier today, I had a chance to revisit this decision. It is my opinion that Inquisitors were always meant to join various units (not just henchmen), and including them in the restriction would make them very difficult to play. I have revised the FAQ to provide Inquisitors a singular exception to the rule. This will apply to Inquisitors only, and no other independent characters.

Correct, but if a Merc does accomplish any of the pre-event criteria and decides to join or form a team, then they would get credit for their accomplishments.

Ok... Maybe a new list. Though I think it may be more tournament oriented. Let me know your thoughts. lictor assassin brood flyrant, Mucolid, Mucolid, Mawloc, Mawloc First Curse Sub Up Primus 10 metamorphs 10 acolytes 10 acolytes 10 acolytes 7 Aberrants

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Excellent! I'm not actually taking any Inquisitors, but I always feel like they should be an exception whenever I see people talking about getting rid of Battle Bros.

I am really excited by the possibility of warscrolls for my Space Marines. I think it would be awesome.

$34.95 for you

GW has every reason to go with unit warscrolls in every box and get rid of army books. That way they can release across armies however they want, and people get the rules they need when they buy the model. They can toss out formations from time to time to grant extra bonuses to encourage you to buy more models. 40K is dead, long live 40K!

Really minor quibble - but if Friday night army displaying nets a point and attending Friday night costs money, is this kinda pay-to-win in a roundabout way? (again, very minor quibble). Thanks for for putting this together, looking forward to finally playing!

Pretty sure I saw something on War of Sigmar about that being fake.

Last night's hobby time was spent arming and (re)equipping Morgan Le Fay and the dreaded Sea Wolves. I think Morgan looks much better with a shield. The Sea Wolves are Footsore Miniatures' Early Saxon Infantry and their leader (the guy with the axe) is this year's Adepticon SAGA mini, which is made by Gorgon Studios. The FS Saxons came with small shields (I put one on Morgan), but since I picture these guys a proto-Viking mercenaries from Juteland or Frisia, I want their shields to look cruder and a tad bit larger, so I replaced their original shields with shields that came with my FS Irish.

I love that we are using Bronson's annihilation scoring!

As the title says. I'm having a hard time finding these guys outside of ebay extortion. Does anyone have any? I have cash/paypal and various 40k stuff (Daemons, Tyranids, Genestealer Cults, Khorne Side of the Age of Sigmar Starter Set, etc.) Thanks a lot, guys!

In case you're interested, I have a bunch of the other pikemen you didn't list, Pirazzo's Lost Legion. Pretty much a whole unit as well as some of the other conquistador models of that era, all bare metal.

No special weapons? Might have a tough time dealing with armor or cracking transports

These guys:

OFCC Tickets are up for sale. Get yours today. @Twinmasks was the first to buy one! There also OFCC 2017 Shirts. The Shirts are Pre-Order Only, so buy one on-line to have one waiting for you at the event!

Ghost in the Shell was good. They cannibalized a lot from Stand Alone Complex. The bad guy was similar to Laughing Man but not as good. The acting was pretty good. I mean watch Scarlet in Avengers and she plays Black Widow gracefully, like women typically are. In Ghost in the Shell she walks with power and no grace, like I believe the Major would (Major is all power imo). The sets were amazing, the scenes were well done, the costumes of background character were awesome. Casting was good. Chief and Batu were great. Togasa was good. Sure Seito is black now and theres a new female thats fine. The bads are Hollywood demands a back story and it was poorly done. Majors character development is mostly crap. All in all a good flick that is better at the theater. However, the movie only made 19mil in America and 40mil worldwide with a 110 mil budget so its not going to stay in theaters long. 7.5/10

This month I am looking to paint these three sentinels and build (and hopefully paint) the scions as well. I only have 5 of the scions pictured here as the others have yet to arrive in the mail (got them in a trade)

My Morgan Le Fay and wire spears have arrived. Morgan is a Bad Squiddo Games mini and the wire spears are Gripping Beasts' SC57 Wire Spears. Morgan's sword was way too long, so I cut it down some. The sword and breastplate balanced against the long dress and cloak gives her just the right balance of martial prowess/war leader and the femininity typically ascribed to a non-combatant seductress and sorceress. Yes. I know. I think about this kind of stuff way too much. If your minis are armed with spears, I highly recommend 'wire spears' (which is a misnomer because they are made from thin metal rod, not flexible wire). Spears made from white metal (the metal metal minis are cast from), are too bendy and typically so thick that they look kind of ridiculous in the mini's hand. Plastic spears are better than white metal spears, both aesthetically and in the bendy-department, but they can break if the model takes a tumble or you snag the spear on something. Wire spears do not break and they fit nicely in the hands of 28mm models. If you purchase wire spears, be mindful of the thickness. I ordered some wire spears from Arcane Scenery & Models, but I failed to read the description of what I purchased. The diameter (thickness or gauge) of the spear shafts is tiny (about 1mm). If cut down to the right length they'd made good arrows for 28mm minis or perhaps good spears for 15mm minis, but they don't work as spears for 28mm minis. Doh!

I hate both of you. I need to figure out how to give you both a loss.

Ooh, sexy.

The army as a whole. Needs about half of it painted. Plus I can't find my fourth Lictor, but he will be added when I do. Anyone want to help paint these?

I wrote up a blog on it but my essential impressions are positive. I have not really ever disliked any version of 40K to be honest, but I said that about Fantasy and then the dark times came... So I will remain positive and see what happens because my track record of having fun playing it has been too good to this point. I've played 12 years and am always glad i started. Here's a quick prayer for the power of discernment among the designers!