Annual Spring 40K Tournament 4/25/10

[Andrew]

Theme: April showers bring...torrential rain and thunderstorms!

Tournament Information
Date: Sunday, April 25th
Location: New Game In Town (811 W. Lincoln Highway, Dekalb, IL, 60115)
Length: 3 rounds, 2 hours per round
Time Start: 10:30am registration, 11:00 game 1
Entry Fee: $15 general entry, $12 for club members
Size: 1500 points

Prizes
1st - Indomitable Fortress
2nd - Baal Predator
3rd -
Plunderer -

Tournament Rules
1. Tournament will use standard FOC's
2. 'What You See Is What You Get' (WYSIWYG) is in effect. That means all units must be easily identifiable as the particular codex choice they represent and that any and all weapons/options taken for a unit must be clearly represented on the model(s).
3. Forge World/Imperial Armor units are allowed in this tournament; however players may not use any flyers or units with mass/structure points. Players must also use the updates currently on FW's website for their Imperial Armor books.
4. Special/Unique/Named Characters may be fielded, provided their individual rules allow them to be used in armies of 1500pts or less.
5. Bring everything you need to play: your codex, rulebook, dice, templates, ruler, and any other rules (such as FAQs) you’ll need.
6. You must bring two printed army lists, one for the judges and one for your reference. If you must handwrite it, make sure it’s clearly legible for anyone.
7. Armies do not need to be fully painted; however, we do appreciate beautiful armies .

Scenario Information/Special Rules to prepare for

Mission 1: Thunder and Lightning!
Deployment: Modified Dawn of War (corner to corner style)
Primary Objective: Modified Victory Points (only score points for completely destroyed units)
Secondary Objective: Terrain Control (control pieces of terrain by having 50% or more models from a scoring unit on/in it)
Tertiary Objective: Pillage and Loot!

Environmental Effects: High winds and severe thunderstorms make navigating and fighting difficult. All Reserve rolls have a -1 modifier. Additionally, roll a D6 at the start of each game turn; on a 4+ the rain is so heavy (that game turn) the night fight rules are in effect, as well as all movement as being in Difficult Terrain. Lastly, all Deep Striking units scatter an additional D6".


Mission 2: Rising Waters!
Deployment: Pitched Battle
Primary Objective: Control more Pillage and Loot counters than your opponent at the end of the game
Secondary Objective: Diverse Killings (most different FOC slots killed)
Tertiary Objective: Pillage and Loot!

Environmental Effects: Flash Flood Warning! At the beginning of every game turn, the first player rolls a D6. On a 4+ there has been a Flash Flood! Water spills the river's banks, covering the battlefield in a brief but roaring tide. All units move 2D6" (rolled once for the whole table) toward a short table edge*, determined randomly. On the next game turn after a flash flood has occured, the waters recede and play resumes as normal. Do not roll for flooding again. Skimmers and amphibious vehicles are unaffected.

* if a unit is moved far enough by the flooding to move it off a short table edge (part or whole), remove the whole unit from the table. They've drowned/floundered!


Mission 3: Walkin' on Sunshine!
Deployment: Spearhead
Primary Objective: Center of table
Secondary Objective: Having more units in your enemy's deployment zone
Tertiary Objective: Pillage and Loot!

Environmental Effects: None! It's happy and sunny out now!


Pillage and Loot, explained! There will be four objectives on each table every game, placed by the players. These cannot be within 12" of a table edge or each other. You accrue Loot points by having a model from any non-vehicle unit in base contact with it at the end of your opponent's turn.


Participants
1. Ryan Adams
2. Brian
3. Les Westmoreland
4. John Frizzel
5. Mike Rios
6. Chad L.
7. Lucas Bivens
8. Nate Roberts
9. Eric Chou
10. Mike Kuo
11. Alex Yang
12. Cole H.
13. Tom Curzi
14. Tim W.
15. Jim Slagstad
16.
17.
18.
19.
20.
21.
22.

[razorlead]

Hey its Ryan,

Its great to see the tournament up and running. I would like to offer a few things.

First, I have a free standing 4x7 table that I could make available for this event. I would need some time to cover the tabletop and make some repairs so I would need to know soon.

Second, I'll attach my random table assigning spreadsheet. You can reap the benefit of my high school stats assignment. its pretty simple to use, simply sort the participants by their score and then select the area in red and start mashing F9. When all the words read good, then everyone is playing on a table that they have never played on before. I have it set up for 11 tables, but its easy to add or subtract tables.

Third, I would be happy to work up some missions and a scoring system for the event so the certain E-board members can participate without previous knowledge of the missions. I would like to go over any missions I create with the TO/judge. I can bring a sample on Thursday or I can e-mail it to whoever.

Finally, Are the Apoc units really necessary in such a small point game? It just seem like additional rules and potential conflicts that aren't really necessary.

Later,

Ryan

PS Sign me up

Attachments:

[Andrew]

yo!

1. That 4x7 could be useful, as then we wouldn't take up another of the store's tables; we could move it upstairs so they have more for cards. It really depends on how many people we get.

2. I like the theory, and you say it works simply? If possible, could you format it so that the player/score cells are aligned to the upper left? The other cells could go anywhere because they're simply formula cells, but having the players/scores easy to find would be fantastic.

3. I won't be participating anyway because I'm going to be a floor judge, but I'd happily take ideas you may have and work them into what I already have. More points of view are always appreciated.

4. No Apocalypse units/formations are available that aren't already in codexes or Forgeworld books. As you can see, no flyers or mass/structure point units are available; that pretty much cuts it down to fun codex additions. Forgeworld units are allowed because I want to see some different things, that and our tournaments aren't about bringing the most cutthroat lists; if you do bring them, you likely won't do well. In the end, nobody brings FW units anyway so it's nothing to worry about.

[liberatedobject]

I'm in. We'll see what the Dark Angels can do.

[siriq]

i will make an honest effort to be there.

[stolorg]

See the hobby section!

[Andrew]

Updated!

[Rios]

I should be able to play if im not needed to run it.

[Andrew]

Updated! Check out the mission special rules for important information.

[liberatedobject]

What counts as amphibious? Is it actually laid out, or is it fluffwise, like Land Raiders?

[razorlead]

Hey Andrew,

I really like the missions. I can see a few ideas in there that I recognize and I thank you for letting me help with design. I have a few tweaks that may help avoid problems

Scenario One
With regards to the turns with the rain, perhaps you should swap the movement counts as being in difficult terrain with giving each unit the Slow and purposeful USR. This still evokes the image of trudging through the mud in a torrential downpour without unfairly penalizing jump infantry and deep striking units. I mean just for Frizzel’s sake. He lost 4 out of 7 guys on a sunny day in the desert. On a rainy night, there would be no one left. Also, you may want to add the caveat that all units still come in on turn 5 regardless of rolls. That’s a crappy way to lose a unit and would prevent slow play to keep a unit off the board.

Scenario Two
You may want to clarify what happens if a unit is washed into terrain. Especially if that unit couldn’t normally exit this terrain (infantry onto impassible terrain) or would normally be forced to take a dangerous terrain test. My idea would be to avoid all that and say that units scatter according to the Drop Pod Assault rules. Alternatively, you could force a toughness test and damage units according to that as they are crushed against something by a wall of water. Also consider if the flood water would provide any additional dangers to deep striking units.

Finally, It would help if you could clarify the scoring system. Will it be w/l/t with bonus points or are you going on straight points. If its straight points then points need to be assigned for completing the primary and secondary objectives.

Thanks for the awesome missions

[dragonbait]

Slow and Purposeful is sooo not a good idea. Don't forget slow and purposeful gives them relentless...which means for no reason you're giving dev squads, lootas, etc etc the ability to move and shoot. I'd be using orks anyways if I play, and I don't want rules to be changed based on what I'd play anyways.

[razorlead]

Yeah you're right that wouldn't be good. Scratch that idea

Just thought of one
Does getting swept by the flood count as moving for the purposes of firing heavy or rapid fire weapons?

[Andrew]

Scenario one doesn't penalize jump infantry any more or less than it should. If they jump, it's dangerous. After all, high winds and rain make flying quite risky, hence why all units are affected. There's a reason why helicopters and the like don't fly in storms if they don't need to.

Slow and Purposeful makes any unit with heavy weapons infinitely better, such as when a Devastator squad suddenly gets to move and fire all of its heavy weapons, or sniper drone teams moving and firing. They most definitely does not evoke the feeling of heavy weather causing targeting problems and difficult movement, so I'll keep it as is.

As for reserves, there's no need for the caveat. All reserves come in automatically on Turn 5 so there's no roll to be made or modified.

For scenario two, yes I'll clarify. Many things will be clarified in the actual tournament packet, so don't worry about things like the points for missions and the like, though yes they will be P/S/T formatted for the "straight points" idea. They'll be detailed, I promise . Back to units.

The flood happens on only a single turn so there isn't too much to worry about. Your ideas sound good, but are actually more complicated than necessary. The flood comes from one short board edge and goes to the other. All models except skimmers and amphibious are affected. If a model goes into dangerous terrain, it takes the necessary checks. A tank getting pushed into a building or stand of trees will likely damage it...just look at what happens to people's cars in a flood. Again, drowning crew, flooded engines, etc.

For deep strikers landing on those turns...either dangerous or scatter an extra D6. Other than that...

[dragonbait]

Hey Brian, the only unit that I'm aware of that's amphibious is the Chimera, so those guard/daemonhunters/witchhunters will be safe! There's a few variants in some othe IA books as well, but codex-wise, Chimeras are it.

[Andrew]

No it won't count as movement. Basically, everything on the table except terrain will simply start the game turn a bit off from where it was previously, that's all. Also, I'll add in that if you're on the second floor of a building then you're unaffected.

[Depayen]

What do I have to do to sign up?

[dragonbait]

Say you want to come, and we'll add you to the list! Pay day of when you show up, and everything's good to go. On that note, sign me up please guys.

[Andrew]

Lame. Ah well...I'll add the other two though.

[Depayen]

Andrew, the only questions I have on mission 1 is if the high winds and thunderstorms affect the deepstriking on a 4+ why doesn't it affect skimmer with the wind shear? Like maybe a D6 drift at the end of there movement and if they go over 12" no firing weapons as per the normal rules. Just a thought.