TheBeninator

Alright I am going to do something that you should never do

CHANGE THE SCHEDULE AT THE LAST MINUTE!!!!

I will PM everyone on this list attendee list. Great job dkieft, I vote you for HoG next year :D

Hmmm, these are very good points.

Honestly I just stole the schedule from last year and never thought about it again.

We may have a last minute redirection, I will look into it. Thanks for bringing this up!

Are you half human half machine?

1 hour ago, Andrewgeddon said:

Dan Carlin is sooooo good. "Prophets of Doom" was probably my favorite to date!

If you have not yet, check out Destroyer of Worlds (came out this year). It is pretty sobering.

If only he would do a podcast on the Old World + Lustria. I don't much care about the rest.

Your dedication is impressive. Funny how painting figurines is the only way to convince yourself to pull an "all nighter". Reminds me of me and my roommate's 24 hour painting marathon OFCC 2015. Burned thru a 12oz bag of stumptown and nearly the entire Blueprints of Armageddon from Dan Carlin (which on an aside, if you have never heard of Dan Carlin, you are missing out!)

8 minutes ago, smashthedean said:

Notepad 4 life!

After seeing your use of MS Paint for battle reports, I am actually pretty confident you are serious.

That is pretty solid. The King has a strong killing potential, much like the kings guard he is with. Since he keeps the unit stubborn, you could consider trading in some of the killing potential for a ward save.

I would take the rune of storms for the anvil as well, but it costs 50 points extra.

You could get some point savings by dropping the GW from the miners. The pistols give them pair weapons, and they are base str 4, str 5 on the charge. Although not worthy of monster killing, miners in the rear of most units will do wonders without the GW. 

Don't forget to give your runesmith a shield! He should be in the greybeard unit as he provides AP 1 and MR 1 automatically (which is an amazing value).

Yep I will provide scoring sheets. They will be part of the feedback for the scenarios.

Another thing to note, the judging for best painted will be done by consensus, done on Sunday. Again this will be part of the scoring sheets /  scenario feedback, which I shall henceforth refer to as "paperwork".

I realized I did not explain all that much about what to and what not to bring to OFCC.

Please do bring 6 copies of your army list w/ point values and magic items. Lists are all open, meaning your opponent knows exactly what you have and what magic items you are equipped with. The list does not need any specific format. 5 Copies are for your opponents, 1 is for yourself.

Please bring your army rules, I have a printed version of the T9A slim rulebook, but none of the armies.

I will be printing off 1 tournament packet per table, which should stay with the table as a reference. If you would like your own, then you will need to print that out.

I will also be printing/bringing all the materials necessary for the scenarios.

Keep in mind these scenarios are mostly experimental, and this is a chance for us to contribute to the T9A project with some feedback to the community who developed these scenarios. To that end, I will have a place for comments on the scenarios, along with the standard end match questions, for each of the 5 matches. I hope to not bury you in paperwork so I will try to make them concise.

The materials for the 2nd scenario "A Wise Commander" will be free for the taking after the event if you so choose, I wont need 8 copies to myself.

Oh yeah, and bring your armies, tapes, dice, beautiful faces, and beer money.

If you dont want to dink around with battlescribe (it is not terribly intuitive the first time), then excel seems to work just fine.

You can submit as excel or word or whatever. Make sure to produce some lists for your opponents!

I only have lists for about half. Get yo' lists in!..... ladies and gents!

Very strong list for SA. Honestly the raptors are hit or miss, typically get more mileage out of a couple chaff units of hunters.

Skinks + Camians only make sense as steadfast breakers, which will compliment your dino mash very well. Camian is pretty useful for the LD boost, and makes up nearly an entire rank of skinks by himself.

I would put my skink characters on Taurasaurs for the protection. Taurasaurs are tough nuts to crack and your Firstboard/Alpha is going to attract WAY more attention than the wizard. I assume you are going druidism, at which point you definitely want him mounted on the Taura.

On 7/22/2017 at 11:57 PM, dkieft said:

Wait? WTF? Next weekend? Oh [big bad swear word]! Um... not ready for this...

So yeah, me with Dwarfs... hope no one minds that I am totally unprepared rules wise!

Unpreparedness is all part of the fun :D

Yep,

They are pretty versatile alone. A unit of cav is a good call, just in case there are cannons around. Otherwise just throw them into combat, they are tough to break/kill.

Spearbacks are pretty good, they eat chaff for breakfast and are long range for SA (18"). Str 4, AP1, BS4, 2d6 with quick to fire, light troops, M6. Even a flipping 4+ armor save.

They are basically like ogre bombardiers, but better in every way. They were meh with the meta was big death stars. Now that things are more MSU, they wreck face.

I guess their only downside is they cannot flee if charged from the front, though people typically avoid doing that.

1 hour ago, splinx said:

Bring your army old chap! The third game on Saturdays is always my downfall and I normally end up going drinking with my opponent so if he declines you can take my spot! ;) 

Deal!

I am willing to make an exception for AoS players, so long as they also play board games.

Currently I will not be playing (odd number of registered players) so you can scratch one SA. I currently know of 2 other SA lists (one being Diap2012)

SA is the coolest army, so I would not blame you for bringing them. O&G is a close second.

For SA lists, cowboys are still the lay of the land, they just cost a lot more now.

Spearbacks are arguably broken as they seem to eat bricks of infantry better than salamanders

Ill be there probably 9-10. I am taking the day off and making this 3 days of nerdiness. I am going to play a match with Sherbert whenever he ends up arriving, but before that I would be down for 9th or board games. Any board game is cool with me. I know elder sign requires at least 4 people to be good? I would imagine power grid is similar. I don't really have any 2 player games myself, besides axis and allies :D.

I do have some super simple board games that we could probably get people into (Avalon and Coup)

Hey deadwing, I would be interested in playing something. I have a match to play sometime Friday afternoon (T9A), but it is contingent on my opponent's arrival. So I am a maybe. Earlier is better for me.

Oh, I see, you already posted it above, yeah that is fine.

A PM or email would be best. 

Unless you meant US postage. If which case NO! 

Hey guys,

Don't worry about submitting your lists 30 days before. I was over optimistic back then, the night before will be fine with me :D

To that end, if anyone who has already submitted wants to submit again, that is fine.

That is a very valid point, I had not considered the crossover before. I would be fine with switching the scenario out if it is a contentious idea. It was picked solely because the rules for it are so simple. But I cringe at the thought of someone getting a bit excited and yelling out something they might have not fully thought through during the heat of the match, which could certainly generate some problems. 

Oh yeah....

I have a lot of rules reading to do 

You only have 2 scoring units sir!

This is legal, but one of the scenarios becomes impossible for you to score a 20-0 due to the lack of a 3rd standard.

*Scenario 3