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Excellent point about the difference between Rhino's and Razorbacks with a 5-man squad. You are spot on with that tactic.

I assume that you will be overrulling the Dark Eldar special rule for Scenario: Slave Raid?

Other questions...

How do Smoke Breaks work?

Dice restrictions?

Ruler/Tape/LoS Lazer/Template restrictions?

Terrain breakdown?

Codex: Catachans?

Codex: Chaos? (Not CSM or CD, the 2nd Edition Codex: Chaos)

Great questions!

1) Yes, overruling the DE special rule for Scenario: Slave Raid

2) There'll be solid time in between every round for you to take breaks. In regard to smoke breaks during games ... that's up to you and your opponent.

3) We pondered and to a degree still ponder the notion of assigning dice, but will probably not. We'll be utilizing a more standard dice policy - using your opponent's dice if desired, and calling a judge for more serious issues.

4) I don't know if we'll have many restrictions on these - would you like to suggest any that you've encountered as a major issue? People will naturally be required to bring their own.

5) The terrain is going to be mega clear, and standardized across tables to as straightforward a degree as we can pull off - and I think we will. You should anticipate "fair" terrain regardless of the table you're on, so that you cannot claim, gain, or bemoan advantages based purely upon what side you set up on, or what table you wound up at.

6) No Codex: Catachans, or Codex: Chaos

Keep 'em firing, and feel free to back and forth - up for and always inviting questions, feedback, etc. It wouldn't be a great tournament if we lived inside a box!

Tips for the Open mission format ...

http://whiskey40k.blogspot.com/2010/05/tips-and-tricks-for-scoring-well-nova.html

We're also proud to add The Warstore to our list of sponsors. Their contributions should be found in everybody's swag bags, and in a few extra prizes on top of that!

I think I've asked you this in private, but for more open discussion:

How are the Valkyrie/Vendetta models to be handled? What constitues the hull for the purposes of blast markers? What happens when they are wrecked/immoblized and a model is under the wing? Where are the access points for the models base? etc.etc.

Hopefully the Tyranid FAQ will clear up some of the other major questions I had.

darwinn69 wrote:I think I've asked you this in private, but for more open discussion:

How are the Valkyrie/Vendetta models to be handled? What constitues the hull for the purposes of blast markers? What happens when they are wrecked/immoblized and a model is under the wing? Where are the access points for the models base? etc.etc.

Hopefully the Tyranid FAQ will clear up some of the other major questions I had.

What Tyranid FAQ is that? o.O

I believe he's implying the Tyranid FAQ *when* it comes out, haha.

Still tweaking FAQ answers, but leaning toward last year's / some of the other regional rulings on the Vendetta/Valk, which is to use its base for contesting, disembarking, embarking, "center" of blast markers (so blast hits the ven/valk if it touches anywhere, but hole is over if over base), etc. Would use all pieces/parts of it for non-blast los/range shooting.

That's one of those ones not fully answered yet - workin' on the FAQ behind the scenes, as it's still got a ways to go.

Shameless bump, and reminder that many of the Dakka-trollers who are "thinking" of attending for 40k but wanted me to heads them up when things started to get much closer to full ... well, ding! This is my first response to your e-mails.

Lookin' for a strong, competitive event of an arguably higher evaluative caliber than ard boyz? Sign up.

Lookin' for a serious hobby event with vegas quals to great artists with hearts of gold? Sign up.

Yup, both.

How strict is your WYSIWYG

For example, I have a squad of thousand sons, one of the base guys is holding a black book with a Tzeentch bit on it (the signature 'S' like thingy) would this count as a Mark of Tzeentch for you guys or would you be like "thats modeling for the advantage.... Disqualified!"

That kind of marginal thing would probably be fine by us ... and as you're probably aware, it would be pretty intensely douchey for an opponent to disapprove.

Bump and update - 40k spots are getting perilously close to full (I know I've said this a few times, but each time a few people sign up it seems "closer" ... and pushing more on the door of "do we open more spots? errr....")

Passed along notes from questions around the interweb ...

1) There's an increasing probability that we'll have catering included at the event (basic food and bev) - This would be included in your $50 reg fee, you won't have to buy it
2) We the organizers make / save $0 on the event. Every penny goes to one of four things ...

- Venue fees
- Catering (if we go with it)
- Prize support (which is why we're almost $6k+ now)
- Charity (any residual cash that didn't get used for prizes or catering ... most probable support is breast cancer)

Back from a week of AFK, updating that Fantasy has started to fill up at a lil faster rate (still expect that to boom post-8th-previews and not pre-), and 40k is much closer to "Full" ... about 15 spots left, so please let me know if you're "Close" to committing but not quite there yet. I can to a limited degree maintain spot openings for people traveling and needing time to figure out travel plans.

Upcoming "FAQ" Day -

We'll be spending an entire weekend at some point in the next few weekends (probably the one after next, will nail it down soon) getting together with some solid minds and plowing through both the Fantasy rulebook and 40k in general putting together a detailed FAQ for the tournament.

In continued pursuit of openness and garnering global input, anyone from Dakka who would like to participate remotely or otherwise should let me know.

More importantly, for those who can carry on a discussion civilly, we will be permitting people to send us one-off arguments making their point on key rules debates, which we'll post up during the day.

So, the way it will work is, as we come to some "big" question, i.e. Doom of Malantai vs. guys in vehicles (don't start it here haha), we'll post it up on a live forum feed at a predetermined location, and lock the thread. People will be able to e-mail me their "point" in detail with rules quotes / etc., and we'll take that into consideration / discussion. We won't be doing it on a forum, to prevent "arguments." I'll probably end up posting everyone's detailed argument on the whiskey40k blog or elsewhere to ensure ethical management of everyone's response (anyone whose response doesn't get posted/given fair treatment can point out the error / unethical act).

We'll also obviously troll the numerous major forums and rules debates out there on the web for data on each "big" question as well, look at other well-known FAQs, yatta yatta.

As an aside, we're adding a "party" style Friday pre-tourney night, with some open and planned gaming, a couple door prizes, etc., at a more laid back location. Anyone traveling especially to the tourney should let me know in advance, as we'd like to make sure those expending a great deal of money getting to the event have as much opportunity to game as possible.

- Mike

I would love to help, But i cant till the 19th is that ok Mike?

It'll almost assuredly be ON the 19th, Scooter

So that'd be perfect.

Good It will be fun

Looking to meet new people? Fun fact of the day ...

We have people attending and paid from the following places:

Maryland
Virginia
Pennsylvania
New York
New Jersey
Wisconsin
California
South Carolina
North Carolina
Florida
Tennessee
Washington, DC
Rhode Island
Ontario, Canada

and we have people asking me to reserve spots so they can finish travel arrangements from Utah and Georgia.


so sign up ... it's quite the (inter)national affair!

I am so torn on going to this... I want to sign up, spaces running out, but I don't know if I'll have the models ready by then!

If there's anything I can do to expedite your decision making process, let me know - happy to make time for any potential attendee.

And I think we just recruited Deadshane to the cause!

See you there buddy!

Indeed, if I can squeeze in I'll prolly be there. Luckily, I've got the weekend off from work and this tournament is so close to me I've almost NO excuse NOT to be there.

Unfortunatly, I have to wait until the 15th to sign up....so if you fill up before then I'll be SOL. (any chance of adding spots at a later date?)

The format/matchings sounds like a great way to have the BEST players at the top of the heap. I'm very interested to see how this turns out.

You can have the spot he was saving for me Deadshane

I won't be able to attend after all unfortunately. Just couldn't get the money together to get across the country for this one sadly.

Yea, much easier for me.

Chantilly is just a hop, skip, and a d6 fleet roll from where I live.

Like I said, I hardly have any excuse NOT to go.

I really wish there was some official words on if/when DE are supposed to get their new dex (as of now, rumors I'm hearing are for Aug/Sept) if the date is gonna be early august... then I'd take my space pirates, if it will be sept I'd have to find someway to make my Chaos boys more competitive (see my sig... 7k points of thousand sons) which would probably mean buying a few good boxes to make some big pink meanies with whips and some green fatkids to run as troops... Or I could just play for fun and take my Thousand Ones (without the ambition of winning anytime soon)

Daemon-Archon Ren wrote:I really wish there was some official words on if/when DE are supposed to get their new dex (as of now, rumors I'm hearing are for Aug/Sept) if the date is gonna be early august... then I'd take my space pirates, if it will be sept I'd have to find someway to make my Chaos boys more competitive (see my sig... 7k points of thousand sons) which would probably mean buying a few good boxes to make some big pink meanies with whips and some green fatkids to run as troops... Or I could just play for fun and take my Thousand Ones (without the ambition of winning anytime soon)

It won't be September - the 3 month releases fall in August & October. Given the WHFB release, and the second wave of Daemons, the August 40k slot looks like it might be skipped. I'd plan on Chaos, were I you.

Always a tough question, regarding what army to take to a tournament.

I suppose it's at least worth noting that the Renaissance Man award does not require you to win all of your games, and awards one of the 2 vegas tickets.

Also, we'll be chucking out random prize draws throughout the day, and your chance to win one is inversely proportional to your current record. Players still competing for Top General prizes/awards are far less likely to win a random prize draw than those who have lost multiple games.

- Mike

MVBrandt wrote: Players still competing for Top General prizes/awards are far less likely to win a random prize draw than those who have lost multiple games.
- Mike

That doesn't sound to 'random' ;p More like 'predetermined probability'.

Daemon-Archon Ren wrote:

MVBrandt wrote: Players still competing for Top General prizes/awards are far less likely to win a random prize draw than those who have lost multiple games.
- Mike

That doesn't sound to 'random' ;p More like 'predetermined probability'.

No, you can have a weighted random drawing. At a guess, everyone starts with one entry in the raffle. For every game you LOSE, you get another entry in the raffle.

That one.

Just throwing this out there to everyone else - I'd be happy to sell my raffle ticket(singular) for Captain Morgan!