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Okay, sufficient interest was shown over in the other thread for me to organise another tournament towards the end of the year.

Platinum Devil 2 is scheduled for the 18th and 19th of December, at the University of Kent in Canterbury.

Schedule

Saturday

9:30-10:00 - Registration/ Introductions

10:00 -11:00 - Game 1 -500 points Combat Patrol

Mission: Victory Points

Add the points value of whatever you have left on the table to the points value of what your opponents has lost. Add the two together. Then compare the score to your opponents:-

If you have a total of more than 150 more than your opponent: Victory to you
If you have a total of less than 150 below your opponent, you lose.
If you and your opponents scores are within 150 points of each other, the game is a tie.

15 minute break

11:15 -12:45 - Game 2 - 1000 points

Mission: Assassination, Table Quarters

Counts as a standard Annihilation mission, except that HQ choices are worth 3 Kill points, and Elites and Heavy Support Choices 2 Kill Points

45 minute lunch break

1:30- 3:00 - Game 3 - 1000 points

Mission: Seize Ground, Pitched Battle

15 min break

3:15 -5:00 - Game 4 - 1250 points

Mission: Attrition, Table Quarters

This is a kill points based mission. Only troops choices and their dedicated transports are worth kill points. HQ, Elites, Fast Attack, and Heavy Support are not. If a troops choice is killed, it re-enters play at the start of the owning players next turn. The player may choose to bring the unit on at any point along either of the table sides they initially used for deployment. (to clarify this now, in table quarters, you may only use half of each side of the table when deploying. However, when units are re-entering play, they may use the full length of that side of the table). All dedicated transports belonging to a troops choice automatically explode when they receive a 'wrecked' result on the vehicle damage chart.

If you have a Webway portal or Trygon tunnel on the table, your troops may enter play through that instead.
If the squad has a drop pod/mycetic spore, they may only re-enter play with it if the Pod/Spore is destroyed in the same turn. However, Drop Pods and Mycetic Spores do not re-enter play unless the squad that took them is also destroyed, and the squad opts to re-enter play using them.
If a squad has the Deep Strike special rule, they may use that instead.

If a Hades Drill emerges via deep strike, the hole it leaves behind counts as a table edge from that point onwards for the purpose of Engineer Squads or other Hades Breaching Drills. If a Hades Breaching Drill is destroyed, it must re-enter play in an identical way to a troops choice (so it may deep strike again, emerge from a hole already made, or come on from a table side). However, for the second time, it does not need an Engineer squad to be following it.


20 min break

5:20-5:40 - Warhammer 40K bonus quiz!

[b]Sunday

9:30-10:30 - 500 points Combat Patrol

Mission: Victory Points

Add the points value of whatever you have left on the table to the points value of what your opponents has lost. Add the two together. Then compare the score to your opponents:-

If you have a total of more than 150 more than your opponent: Victory to you
If you have a total of less than 150 below your opponent, you lose.
If you and your opponents scores are within 150 points of each other, the game is a tie.

15 min break

10:45-12:30 - 1250 points

Mission: Portal, Table Halves

There are 4 beacons placed on the table by the judges(one in each quarter). Each counts as a holdable objective, and to win a player must control more beacons than his opponent(if they hold the same number, the game is a draw). As a holdable objective, a beacon is contested if there is an enemy unit within 3” of it. Only Troops options may claim objectives. Each beacon has the number 2,3,4, or 5 on the underside.If a model from a non-vehicle unit(except for walkers) moves into base contact with a Beacon, they may choose to activate it. Roll a D6 and apply the following effect:

1:-The unit is lost in the warp and removed from the game
2-5:-Place the unit in base contact with the beacon of the correct corresponding number. If you roll the number of the beacon you just activated, you may choose which beacon to emerge from.
6:-Deep strike the unit to anywhere on the table.

A unit may assault the turn it exits a portal, providing there is a target within range, but does not receive any assault bonuses (so no +1 attack, Furious charge is negated, etc). If a Portal is completely surrounded by models, so that there is no space for a newly teleported unit to be placed, then the surrounding squad must be moved the minimum necessary amount to accommodate the newly teleported squad having a minimum of 1 model placed in base contact with the portal, with the rest of the squad maintaining squad coherency.

Hour lunch break

1:30-3:15 - 1250 points

Mission: Bombardment, Table Halves

There are three objectives placed on each table by the Judge. The winner must hold more objectives than his opponent, to tie on the number held is a draw, to have less is a loss. At the start of each players turn, they receive a single Artillery Bombardment for each objective held by their opponent, to be used at the start of their movement phase. Each Artillery Bombardment has the following profile:-

Range:- Unlimited Strength: 8 AP: 3 Type: Ordnance 1/Barrage


3:15 onwards - Whatever you guys want to do!


[b]Scoring

Nice and simple. 3 points for a Victory, 2 for a draw, 1 for a Loss.

Escalation-Here's how it works!

So when writing out your army list, write out a 500 point list. Standard force chart is modified slightly here, you only need a minmum of 1 Troops choice. However, you cannot take more than 1 each of the HQ, Elites, Fast Attack and Heavy Support slot, or more than 3 troops choices overall.

Then you need to write out your 1000 point list. But here's the catch:- The first 500 points is the 500 points you took for combat patrol. None of those units can be taken out or modified in any way. You cannot upgrade any of the units that were in the original 500 points in any way(so adding weapons, sergeants, etc). The one exception to this is allowing units to purchase dedicated transports. The remaining 500 points must be selected in accordance with the standard force organization chart. In other words, if you only had 1 troops and no HQ choice in your original 500 points, you would now need to purchase them as a minimum.

Then, when writing out your 1250 points list, you add another 250 points worth of units, in accordance with the same restrictions placed when upgrading from 500 to 1000.


You don't need to send me an army list, this is a casual tournament, however, you will be expected to have one on hand to show to your opponent.

Scenario's will published along with the Sunday schedule. Expect to see some of the old favourites making a comeback, and a few new ones!

At the moment, we're looking at a maximum capacity of 24 people. Only Dakkaites may technically take part, however, if you have some friends that want to come, if they're prepared to spend 5 minutes setting up a Dakka account, they're in!

There will be a fee of £6 per entry, as of last time. This allows terrain to be bought and painted, and possibly some prizes this time as well. This needs to be paid in advance by Paypal to Necrofood@hotmail.com
When you make the payment, include your actual name and Dakka username as a note. I'd appreciate it as well if it could be sent as a 'household expense', otherwise Paypal likes to take a cut of about 60-70 pence.
I'd also appreciate PMing me through your Dakka account as well to let me know you've made the payment.

The last winner of Platinum Devil was Panic, who hopefully, will be in attendance this time as well! Let's see if he can defend his title as Dakka's Platinum Devil...



Fandexes, chapter approved, and Imperial Armour lists are permissable, providing I've examined them beforehand. So contact me if there's one you want to use not listed here:-
Currently usable:-All Forgeworld publications, the 5th Edition Kroot List(PM for a link to download).
However!-No flyers may be used. The flyer rules simply complicate games, and I'd prefer to keep this nice and smooth running.

People entered:-

-Ketara/Ben
-Reds8n/Mike
-Snarky/Ian W
-Killkrazy/Richard
-ArbitorIan/Ian G
-SilverMK2/Nathan
-notprop/Nick
-ChrisWWII/Chris
-Tek/ Matt
-the_mcleod/Chris M
-RinkyDink/Mark
-Simon (Ben's friend, along to even out the numbers and the fact ChrisWWII is leaving after a day)

In exchange for his generosity in allowing me to use his name to help book a room(I'd be looking at a £100 deposit), and helping out on the catering aspect of things, Reds8n does, of course, get free entry.

The last Platinum Devil summary can be seen here:- http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/289376.page

Any questions, feel free to ask.

Any discussion on what points or scenarios you'd like to see used, or anything else, discuss here!

The location is the Missing Link Building at the University of Kent, between Darwin Block, CT2 7NY.

So to get entered we just need to send you the money via paypal?

Also, i'll be bringing elysians as per IA8;
Is it ok to bring flying units (i.e thunderbolt) as listed in the IA8 list? Since I know that some people may have problems dealing with flyers (due to their rules).

Essentially yes.

I did specify however, nothing that use the IA flyers rule, it just complicates things infinitely, as it's an addition to the main rules-set. Since not everyone owns imperial armour, it would be unfair to suddenly make them have to play with main rules they've never seen before.

Ah, I missed that part. Looks like no air support for me!

I know this one hasn't happened yet...but when is your next one?
I'm at Canterbury Christ Church (1st year...), and really want to go to some 40k Tournaments, and have only been too one, at my local club in Norwich, and i didn't even use my own army.....But i won't be in Canterbury for this one, because i will be back home :(

Snarky wrote:Ah, I missed that part. Looks like no air support for me!

Well, there's the standard Valkyrie's/Vendettas.

Rodgers, I haven't got another scheduled right now, although I'm roughly planning on holding another one sometime in May next year.

Umm.. what do I do about the paypal fee of 0.40p?

I checked the "Gift" box and it still wants the fee, any ideas how to get around this?

Does it? In that case, don't worry about it, I thought the gift option avoided the fee. If it doesn't, there's not a whole lot we can do.

Well, it is only 0.40p, so i'll pay that. Anyway money has been sent.

One more question, are there any restrictions regarding unbased models? I've left my valk flying bases unbased for ease of transport/ placing troops on it to represent it carrying troops.

To be honest, I don't even care if your army is fully painted or not, let alone based. This is a casual tournament, between fellow Dakkaites, and whilst it would be nice if everything was done perfectly, I'm not going to start issuing guidelines on how much modelling should be done. I recognise some of the older chaps pin down full time jobs, and might not get as much time to paint and base as they might otherwise like.

Having said that, just about every army was painted and based last time, so it seems that most people's modeller's pride will dictate them.

I deliberately use the threat of the impending tournament to force myself to build and paint some models.

I am a definite.

1) I hope to bring a Tyrant's Legion list from IA9. Gonna get started on converting my Astral Claws Retaliators tonight, and I've already made a start on some other things. Also just made a few EBay purchases that will make awesome Auxilia, Armsmen and Marauders.

2) If I can't do that, I might make a low model-count Lamenters jump-pack deep-striker list, but although there would be fewer models, the painting would be harder, so maybe not...

3) Failing that, I already have well over 1500 points of painted Eldar.

I will probably be attending. Unless there is a strong reason for me to do otherwise I will probably be bringing my CSM.

I will wait until the wife decides when she is on holiday (which hopefully will not be too long now) before sending over the cash

If Tek is coming and we are doing doubles or something on the Sunday, I could be persuaded to bring my Eldar instead and partner with him (assuming he wants to partner with me anyway ) - though that would mean painting pretty much my entire Eldar army and learning all the rules

I hope to see everyone there.

^Silver I'm down with that dude! I'll be bringing a flimsy fast list with Vypers, Warp Spiders and other such silliness. I don't play competetively so I'm going to be fielding the models no-one else dares

Learning the rules for Eldar is easy. Move quick, stab people in the back

In that case I'd better get painting

I will be taking Banshees and Harlies, some shining spears and... well... I have no idea

I will have a look at the models I have and see what list I can come up with in the 1,000-1,500 point range.

Ketara wrote:


In exchange for his generosity in allowing me to use his name to help book a room(I'd be looking at a £100 deposit), and helping out on the catering aspect of things, Reds8n does, of course, get free entry.

That's very good of you, but don't worry about it, I'll pony up with the rest of them.

Ok i think i am up for this,

1 question tho, is there anywhere to stay in the area???

whats everyone else doing about hotels??

jim..

I'm in - I'll send over the money ASAP. Depending on what's finished I'll either go with...

- Squats (IG) with some IA drilling equipment
- Harlequins from the 3ed PDF
- Tau with some fancy XV9 Hazard Suits


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Oh, to clarify, are we allowed to bring super-heavies? I'd imagine these come under the same deal as flyers - too complicated...?

If you want to use a super-heavy, tell me which one, and where the rules are. I may make one or two minor adjustments, in regards of points costs, or slots occupied, but I don't see why not.

jimmy72nd wrote:Ok i think i am up for this,

1 question tho, is there anywhere to stay in the area???

whats everyone else doing about hotels??

jim..

Lots of places to stay, possibly even including Campus if Kent lets out halls during holidays like Loughborough does? As for hotels in town, there are lots, as it is a popular tourist destination, but I don't know what that will do to prices as Canterbury Town Centre gets very busy during Christmas. Not sure if that is mainly day-trippers or lots of people holidaying in the area.

Personally, I'll either stay with my Parents or Aunt and Uncle, but sadly I can't extend that invitation to others.

There are various hotels.

http://www.booking.com/searchresults.html?aid=303948;label=canterbury-aFHqx_i0cnApkC6GKRqargS4013670801;sid=408f65b3b79bee80fc8dc46d9b58ffff;city=-2591722

Last time I stayed in the Falstaff which is 600 years old or something. Not too bad though they didn't have their restaurant open in the evenings. It is on the edge of town and has car parking, but is within five minutes walk of the Cathedral.

http://www.thefalstaffincanterbury.com/?S=GADS

It depends how much money you want to spend.

I am going to book at the Falstaff again because the town seems to be filling up a bit already, and I was satisfied with them last time.

Ketara wrote:If you want to use a super-heavy, tell me which one, and where the rules are. I may make one or two minor adjustments, in regards of points costs, or slots occupied, but I don't see why not.

Oh man, I sure do hope he isn't thinking of bring a reaver titan

I just had a thought. In the midst of making myself an objective marker out of an unneeded Space Wolves Lightning Claw, I thought to myself "Hey, I could give this to someone at the Platinum Devil!"

May I suggest that we consider making objective markers to give each other. Not compulsory, but for those who have the time and inclination to do it?

Maybe instead of giving them away, we could bring them along, use them, and then play swapsies afterwards?

I am going to try and make a handful, themed vaguely along the lines of "broken marine equipment".

Fun idea. I'm up for it. It can be voluntary, though, because everyone won't have time.

ArbitorIan wrote:I'm in - I'll send over the money ASAP. Depending on what's finished I'll either go with...
- Squats (IG) with some IA drilling equipment
- Harlequins from the 3ed PDF
- Tau with some fancy XV9 Hazard Suits

Please bring the Yellow Tau. The Orange Eldar need someone to hang out with. ;-)

Paid.

I think it's perfectly justifiable to list Geek Tournaments as a Household Expense for the purposes of paypal - so they don't charge anything....

That gives us 5 people entered for definite so far. If Fifty, Tek, and SilverMK2 all decide to come, we'll have hit our minimum number before we start looking further afield.

I'd like to hold doubles games, but to be frank, there's guarantee the number we end up with will be a multiple of 4. If we end up with say, 10 or 11 players, it won't quite work.

Ketara wrote: we'll have hit our minimum number before we start looking further afield.

So that means you won't kidnap random nerd-like tourists from the U.S. at the air port terminal in order to fill in the remainder of the slots?

Please. Give me some credit....








...we're close to Dover, so it would be at the ferry landing points, not the airport.

I'm pretty sure that I'll be coming. Will ultra confirm it with the wife when I get home and see if I can then navigate PayPal