Lord Hanaur Posted January 20, 2014 Report Share Posted January 20, 2014 WHERE: Olympic Cards and Comics 360-459-7721 Using I-5 South OR North, take exit 108 ONTO Sleater Kinney Take a Left onto Pacific Avenue Huge Blue metal building on the left. Voila! WHEN: See the schedule Below WHAT: 1850 point Warhammer 40,000 WHY: Because you worked so hard on your campaign forces and you need a place to try them out for realsies WHO: You and every friend you can muster or tell about this event. Find a friend and bring them. It's silly not to travel in packs. And so maybe two or three friends then. What does this mean for you and your life as a gamer? Well so glad you asked! It means that those of you who have been putting off painting now have no excuse. It's an excuse to get some work done and win some stuff. Should be good times. There are a few things that are bound to need attention so let me start right off: A. $15 per person. 1. We are not using Stronghold, nor Escalation rules for this particular event. 2. You can use any official Codex, and any non-Escalation or Stronghold related Dataslate that you can provide rules for to your opponent before during and after the game. 3. Forge World RULES will not be used. Forge World Models can be used as appropriate proxies so long as they require no extensive explanation to your opponent and are more or less the correct dimensions. 4. When "time" is called, if the current round is not complete, you will return to the previous rounds victory condition total to see who won. You must complete the entire rounds events for the round to count. Rounds are over when the judge tells you they are over. If your clock contradicts that of the judge, the judges clock will be the one we use. 5. SLOW PLAYING WILL NEVER BE OKAY. For those unfamiliar with that term, it means that you intentionally slow down the game in order to avoid losing. Certain armies are like thundering hammer blows in the early going, but they take it in the shorts later on. Tau are a good example of an army that can be up by 6 KP's before they start losing things...but they lose them pretty rapidly later. So if a Tau player was himming and hawing and generally going slow to avoid the loss, I would have no compunction about issuing a warning or even a Victory Point Penalty. If that warning does not have the desired effect, I will simply exclude you from prize consideration. So, your best bet if time is running down and there may or may not be enough time to finish another round, don't sit around discussing it. Just mark what the current Victory condition totals are and play on. Then if the next round truly cannot be completed in GOOD FAITH, then you return to that previous completed rounds score as your final one. Prizes in General: You can win multiple prizes. If you win Best Sportsman, you win it. If you win Best General, you get that too. Makes no sense to give a title like Best Sportsman to someone who was third best for example. Just doesn't. Prizes will be determined by the number of players present. Best General and Best Sportsman are guaranteed to be prizes. It's simple math: we want the prize to be worth the effort. So if you tell EVERYONE, FACEBOOK EVERYONE and generally don't procrastinate nor let up in your recruiting of players for the event; and don't let any bias get in the way of having a good time, then we should have no problem giving more prizes. =). If we reach 12 players, Best Painted will have a Prize. If we reach 16, here will be a prize for Best Overall prize. Painting Requirement: We will not judge paint with a rubric, but we will REQUIRE painting. Any unpainted models can and will be be permanently removed from play for the tournament by a judge. Don't act offended when it happens. You have now been told ahead of time that all models must meet the three color standard (Base color, contrasting color and probably weapons or something). If there is a prize for paint, it will be player voted, not judged by me (because the Good Lord knows I have no business judging it). Each player will inspect the armies during our lunch break and name their favorite. Most votes wins. Tie goes to the person with the least number of wins. Makes it worth painting no matter whether you win or lose, don't you think? Other Stuff: Make your life easy: bring a display board. So much easier to move armies about and display them and people like them. A plank or even a McDonald Tray is better than loading and unloading from a bag. Just a suggestion, not a requirement. QUESTIONS: We ALL forget rules! There are a LOT of codex's with many rules interactions and then there are FAQ's that create another layer of possible discussion. In addition, the parallax effect can make us see things differently from one another on blasts and so on. Talk about it for a minute, look it up (The index works great) and if you cannot agree (and it happens), dice it off so you don't get into a slow play situation. But if you feel like it is imperative to the outcome of the game, or maybe neither one of you feels sure ENOUGH to make a call on it either way, then call for a judge. Rulings are final until the tourney is over and will be the best attempt at correctitude we can make at the time. Sadly, we're wrong sometimes. But if a decision HAS to be made by a third party, we'll make it. Better that you ask before the tourney (see the schedule?) or you and your opponent settle it to continue having fun. Schedule: 10:30 Registration. Pay up folks. 10:45 Announcements and repeating one self for those who didn't bother to read this. Go over oddball FAQ questions, preferably with a focus on being cool to one another. Occam s Razor is the rule. 11:00 Tables assigned and moving of armies begins. 11:15 to 1:30 Round 1 1:30 Set your army up for inspection and voting 1:45 Voting on Paint. 2:00 to 2:30 Lunch 2:30 Matchups announced, shuffling of armies 2:45 to 5:00: Round 2! 5:15 Matchups announced, shuffling of Armies begins 5:30 to 7:30 SPEED ROUND 3, Cause Champions go fast. 8:00 Prizes announced and Forum fills with joyous "what a great time I had" accolades, because we all know no one ever complains after a tournament afterwards (tongue in cheek here) 8:15 After tourney Gaming to include...well any game you want. Cause it's your time. Flames of War, War Machine, Warhammer...you name it. Gabi has it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Hanaur Posted January 28, 2014 Author Report Share Posted January 28, 2014 A question was raised about scratch built Aegis Defense lines and the like being allowed. The answer is yes, if the dimensions are essentially the same and the intent is obvious and explained to the opponent. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Hanaur Posted February 10, 2014 Author Report Share Posted February 10, 2014 Just a NOT so subtle reminder to get on your facebook account and Twitter accounts. Post the link to this tourney for your friends and on the various gaming facebooke sites I know a bunch of you are on so that even if you can't go, perhaps your friends can! Send a blast to them letting them know that if they wanna' come, time to make plans! We have an enormous store and room will be no problem. Really. Looking forward to seeing you all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gorgosaurusrex Posted February 10, 2014 Report Share Posted February 10, 2014 I'm coming for sure. I'm trying to get some of my friends who haven't played in a while to attend as well - we shall see. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Hanaur Posted February 12, 2014 Author Report Share Posted February 12, 2014 bring em all. Should be a good time. Gabi's usually puts on a good tournament. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Hanaur Posted February 15, 2014 Author Report Share Posted February 15, 2014 ALL Missions are from the main rule book, exactly as written. All Missions include Mysterious Objectives. Don't forget! Round 1: Deployment: Dawn of War Mission: The Emperors Will, page 130 Round 2: Deployment: Hammer and Anvil Mission: Crusade, Page 126 Round 2: Deployment: Dawn of War Mission: Purge The Alien, Page 127 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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