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Carcharoth
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« on: May 24, 2011, 05:40:04 pm »

There have been a few comments about having a twilight meet-up, so I thought I'd start a thread to see how practical it might be!

I would love to run a little tournament (or similar) where we can gather a few people together and have a bunch of games. I wouldn't want an overly-competitive style of tournament and it would need to have some aspect of scenario type games, but it is nice to have at least some sense of competition  Smiley
There would probably have to be a small charge to cover costs, but I'd be running it as a fun event rather than trying to make money. If I ended up more than covering costs then that would fund a few random prizes for the day. I think £20 a head would be a reasonable guess, but I'll have to see how much a venue would be etc to see if that is too high or too low...

I'm going to have a look for locations around where I live (in Farnborough), but the Aldershot Games Shop looks to have good potential.

It would be useful to know who would be interested and what sort of thing you would like to do. I think I would aim to have at least 8 players, but I expect a few of my friends from around here would take some of those slots.

So, what do you all think?
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« Reply #1 on: May 24, 2011, 05:55:32 pm »

count me in deffo! And maybe a friend but not sure... Maybe the whole tournie can have a narrative theme :-D.
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« Reply #2 on: May 24, 2011, 06:15:55 pm »

I'd be a definite, but with limited models and I reckon I could get a few more from guildford interested if it were demos, but they dont have forces yet so give us a little time!  Grin
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« Reply #3 on: May 24, 2011, 09:23:35 pm »

I'm on that. I also like the idea of a narrative theme for the tourney. Perhaps each player could represent a faction in a region (ie. clan X, tribe Y, Delgon force Z), and at each table there are different scenarios, representing their interactions (escorting a trader caravan, leading punitive raids, etc). Winning the scenarios by a greater or smaller degree would give you more or less points, and and by the end of the day, your tally of points would represent your faction's dominance and success in the region. three or four tables for 8 or so players, with three or four games each. Cycle tables each round for variety. Pretty similar to simply getting VPs and tallying them at the end, but with added narrative.

Alternatively, we could do something similar, but each player contributes to a pool shared by players of the same army, ie. all delgon players contribute VPs to the same pool, all Devanu to the same pool, etc. At the end of the day the Delgon win, or the Empire win overall, more like a campaign day. It would still be possible to see who had the most wins etc. too. The (small) downside is that we might not have enough players for each faction, but it should be easy to confirm who's taking what before hand.

I guess I'm thinking of some kind of swiss-system, as is customarily done with miniature games tournaments.



And I hope I'm not being presumptious, but some people might have multiple factions which they might not mind loaning out to responsible individuals on the day Smiley
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« Reply #4 on: May 24, 2011, 09:36:01 pm »

Chester is a nice place for a venue ...

Might have to paint something though
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« Reply #5 on: May 24, 2011, 10:20:18 pm »

As long as you have a date arranged far in advance, count me in! I could easily bring my stuff should someone need to borrow a few things.
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« Reply #6 on: May 24, 2011, 10:46:18 pm »

in regards to my narrative tournie theme maybe we could email you our lists prior and a theme could be sorted out? Or post them up here et I do like the clan idea as mentioned above...ENIPEL woooo!
Also second on the notice. Though I can't imagine it being a problem
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« Reply #7 on: May 25, 2011, 08:49:03 am »

Sounds like there is enough interest there - if I can get a good date. Smiley
I'll probably give 2 or 3 months notice so that people are more likely to be free, and have time to paint forces.

I'm going to have to think very carefully what to do with the games! It would be great to have a narrative thread through the day, even if it is very loose. Once people register I'll certainly ask what culture they would like to play, which will allow me to plan around that.

It would be fun to play the three cultures as teams - letting each side choose which player will take which scenario during each round. That sort of set-up might even allow odd numbers of players etc, but we shall see.

Another option would be a simple swiss tournament, with a variety of different scenarios depending on what cultures face each other. One issue might be that in an empire vs empire game neither side should really field knights... I've got some ideas on that though.

Feel free to suggest ideas/express preferences, but I'm going to keep things flexible until I've got a venue and players sorted :-)

Oh, and there will certainly be a best painted army prize, and everybody who uses their own fully painted army will be entered into a prize draw as well...

I might try and do a smaller, more casual event a bit sooner to scope out the venue (assuming I go for aldershot) and give a few demo games.
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« Reply #8 on: May 25, 2011, 01:29:15 pm »

What size forces would you consider?

I'd play Devanu.

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« Reply #9 on: May 25, 2011, 04:05:54 pm »

I will play Empire. Though I would play Devanu if there are to many Empire players. ( I only have One kopa and three grishaks)
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« Reply #10 on: May 25, 2011, 10:21:02 pm »

My initial thought had been for forces of something like 300pts or 400pts. I think 400pts would open up a few options without being too excessive. Do you think that would be a manageable size?
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« Reply #11 on: May 25, 2011, 10:25:40 pm »

Sounds good. I was worried about needing more minis  Wink
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« Reply #12 on: May 25, 2011, 11:00:54 pm »

I personally vote for around 1,000 points. Easily doable I reckon.
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« Reply #13 on: May 25, 2011, 11:04:17 pm »

Just sorta checked what I would need for 1000 points...that would be to much for me :/
500pts would be more newbie friendly :3
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« Reply #14 on: May 26, 2011, 10:08:53 am »

Smaller forces also means we'll get more games in.
However, that doesn't stop us combining forces together for a large final game if we felt so inclined...
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