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The MechaniCon
November 6-8, 2009
West Chester, Pennsylvania, USA

http://www.themechanicon.com/

A 3 day gaming convention brought to you by:

The Gaming Garage, L.L.C.
gaminggarage@gmail.com

What is The MechaniCon?

The MechaniCon is the start of a new annual gaming convention in the North East. We are working closely with Games Workshop to develop an event for the 2010 Independent Tournament Circuit in the North East US, as there is no other event anywhere close to the area. Our tables, terrain, prizes and special events will make this an event to remember. Join us at our inaugural event to enjoy a great weekend of gaming!

Registration Perks:

We are still accumulating loot for the registration packs. Registration packs have special rewards, samples, miniatures, discount coupons and more just for registering for an event.

Prizes:

Besides trophies, events will also have fantastic prizes. Many of our sponsors are donating to the prize pool. With a large number of events and categories there will lots of great prizes to hand out in many categories.

The Grand Tournament will feature prizes and trophies for 1st, 2nd and 3rd place in:

Best Overall
Best General
Best Painting
Best Sportsmanship

A special feature for The MechaniCon is the Army Domination Award! The best player representing each Codex will earn bragging rights as well as prizes.

There will be other fun categories for prizes. The current prize pool is worth over $3500

Scheduled Events:

Friday: Battlefleet Gothic Tournament

By The LXG gaming club. Info can be found on the website. Any question concerning the Battle Fleet Gothic Grand Tournament can be e-mailed to: jnick2365@yahoo.com

Friday: The Friday Night Fight

By The Gaming Garage. Info can be found on the website. Any question concerning the Friday Night Fight can be e-mailed to: gaminggarage@gmail.com


Saturday – Sunday : Warhammer 40,000 Grand Tournament

By The Gaming Garage. Info can be found on the website. Any question concerning the Warhammer 40,000 Grand Tournament can be e-mailed to: gaminggarage@gmail.com

Saturday: Chris Bledsoe Memorial Charity Auction

All proceeds will go to The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. Info can be found on the website. Be sure to check back soon for new listings of items! You may also email Jeremy Webb, the auction coordinator, at entropus@yahoo.com for more information.

Saturday: Philly Fall Brawl Blood Bowl Tournament

By The Adventurer’s Guild Blood Bowl League. Info can be found on the website http://www.bampf.com/phillyfallbrawl09/index.html Any question concerning the Philly Fall Brawl can be emailed to: jkarr@comcast.net


Sponsorship:

We are very grateful to have wonderful sponsors helping our event. Our list of sponsors is still growing, please visit the website to see the current list and links to their sites. If you are interested in sponsoring you can e-mail to: gaminggarage@gmail.com

Thanks go out to the following sponsors for their generous prize donations:

The Adventurer’s Guild
Battlefoam
Dremel
DragonflyMini
Fantasy Flight Games
Games Workshop
Impact! Miniatures
Jawaballs Productions
Kraftmark
Privateer Press
Secret Weapon Miniatures
Showcase Comics and Games
The Games Keep
The WarStore
Woodland Scenics


We have other events in the works and details are coming as they are finalized. If your club is interested in running an event, space is still available. We would love to get more clubs involved to help kick off the largest new event in the North East.

-3 days of gaming, featuring a Warhammer 40,000 Grand Tournament
-dealers, demos, events, and more
-venue is in West Chester, PA - about 30 minutes from the Philadelphia Airport, 30 minutes from Wilmington, DE
-discount room rates available at the venue and shuttle service is available from the airport
-easy access to major roads
-main convention hall has a concession stand and a wet bar in it, run by the hotel
-secondary hall is across the hall from the restaurant and bar
-great prizes for all the events, registration swag bags, and huge support from our sponsors

Our date is set for next year, mark your calendar!
The MechaniCon 2010
November 5-7, 2010
West Chester, Pennsylvania, USA

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Thanks,
Tony Spino
The Gaming Garage, L.L.C.
gaminggarage@gmail.com

edited 10.12.09 to update
edited 10.23.09 to update

Website is now live. It will be updated as we get more information.

Thanks

We have some new info that will be up on the website with next week's update (also this is when ticket sales will start).

We will have a Friday night (November 6) Battlefleet Gothic Tournament run by a local club. Ticket sales for this will go live with the others on July 1.

We will be hosting the Chris Bledsoe Memorial Charity Auction on Saturday night (November 7) after all scheduled gaming. All proceeds will go to a cancer research foundation. As Chris was very involved with the gaming industry, many of his past friends and co-workers have already volunteered donations. As details come from the folks running this, we will update the website.

Also there is still room for clubs to run events, space available in the dealer room, the need for staff volunteers, and the need for help building and painting scenery. If you would like to help kick off the largest new event in the North East, please drop me a line.

Thanks,
Tony Spino
gaminggarage@gmail.com
themechanicon.com

Our web site has been updated with all the newest info and I updated the main post here as well.

I heard that there are still some tickets left for this, you guys should check out the site- they have a TON of sponsors giving them some great prizes! I'm definitly gonna be there, who else is going?

I really want to go to this, but it is highly unlikely...

Just to chime in on The MechaniCon, our club's #1 goal for the event is to make sure all attendees feel like they got their money's worth. One thing that means is LOTS of prizes thanks to our many great sponsors. We really have a huge pile of loot waiting to be handed out.

It also means we're not taking shortcuts with the gaming tables. Attendees will be gaming on new, high-quality tables with new terrain. Below you can see an example of the style of table I'm talking about (note that the terrain may differ...we can't populate 35+ gaming tables with Forgeworld stuff!).



And here's pics of the impressive piles of tables-in-progress and raw materials. Like I said, we're really going all out for this event.





And just some of the terrain in progress:



It should be a great event...hope to see Dakkaites there!

Updated with info about discount hotel rate expiring October 16, 2009.

Tony, looking forward to attending the event!

Please reconsider using VPs for all missions as the way to determine winners.... its a bad idea

frgsinwntr,

I saw your post about scoring for the event. I would be happy to chat about it with you. The scoring system has been carefully built and it is not exactly what you may think based on your posts here and at HQtC.

By using victory points (which is not always based on what you kill, in some missions the points are awarded only by the objectives achieved) a wider range of scores will be produced and it gives better support to all armies not just the ones that can work the KP system - like a 500 point nob biker unit being worth the same as a 100 point unit from another codex.

The rules pack covers the info for all games and Mission 1. I do not have access on the other forum where you posted a comment so I will reply here.

You can see that in Mission 1 you cannot max your battle score by...

This means I could show up with a really nasty min troop (read 2 39pt units of nurglings) and take a super nasty fatecrusher list for the win by tabling everyone...

The best you could do with that list and tabling your opponent is a Minor Victory (14/20) because you did not claim any objectives.

Each mission will be very similar to the main 5th edition missions and deployments. You will have to bring a list that can be flexible and can accomplish goals. Below is a snippet from the rules pack.

Missions have different levels of objectives: Primary—such as Annihilation, Capture and Control, and Seize Ground. Secondary—such as wipe out opponent’s general, wipe out troops, etc. Tertiary—such as control table quarters, occupy opponent’s deployment zone, etc.

Mission Objectives and the VPs that they reward include all the "Bonus Points" found in most common missions.

Bump hey dakkites I am doing a who will be their of all dakkites. For those of you going PM me and we can all do a meet and greet over some dinner saturday.

Just one week left before our inaugural event!

I'm going to this, yermom is going to this, empchild... who else?!?!?