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For more Detailed info Please go to http://connecticon40k.blogspot.com/p/connecticon-40k-gt-info.html

On Friday the 11th there will be a 2000 point Doubles tournament.

Saturday (12th) and Sunday (13th) will be a 5 game 2000 point 40k GT.

In addition there will be a megabattle running during the weekend.

GT info

2000 points with a single force organization chart.

All Armies must be WYSIWYG.

All armies must be fully painted to a 3 color minimum

Character Dataslates are allowed

All armies will be limited to a 2 Detachment Maximum (i.e. Combined arms, Allied Detachment, Formations, Inquisition, Knights etc count as a second detachment, so you may choose to field any one of these.)

We will not use Escalation. (after consideration, I orignally said no Escalation and don't want to change it this late in the game, I will consider it going forward same as FW)

We will use Stronghold Assault but only fortificaitons that have GW official models (as it gives me a size comparison for any conversions). Another note, terrain is fixed and will not be moved to fit fortifications. This may limit the placement of some larger fortifications.

No FW will be allowed in the GT.

Rounds will be 3 hours

This was a BLAST last year, and I'm hoping to make it out again. Anyone who can should check it out. The Cosplay is awesome and the area is pretty cool.

This sounds interesting.

You should check it out. Brendan runs a smooth event and the convention as a whole is pretty awesome.

Coming from the Springfield area so not a big drive....
Not much out this way...
Seeing if some of my fellow gamers might like to give it a go.

My favorite part last year was the cosplay zombies attacking my table

 Rhich wrote:
Coming from the Springfield area so not a big drive....
Not much out this way...
Seeing if some of my fellow gamers might like to give it a go.

I live it Marblehead and I may be going. My birthday is just a week after so I have a valid excuse

Me and My buddy are signed up! Trying to get more of my group to join!

For the team tournament, do you mean to say an extra elite, fast, and heavy are floating, or is the force org just a lot smaller?

The FOC is just smaller. Each player has essentially an allied detachment to work with.

Noooooooooooo!

Why is this the same day as the ATC...

Because that is when the convention is scheduled much easier to move the ATC (connecticon is 10,000+ people). I really have no control over the dates though.

Any decision on Imperial Knights yet?

Yeah they will be allowed. Having played with or against them they are good and kind of stupid, but not horribly OP. With 2 detachments using them is kind of tough

Will this be ran as a 7th ed tournament?

Yes, this will now be a 7th Edition Tournament. We have nearly 2 months before the convention so I cannot see leaving it as a 6th ed event.

As for what that will entail as far as missions, FOC, etc. Remains to be seen once I have the new book in hand I will need to make those decisions.

Based on what I have heard so far my thoughts would be

No Unbound armies-but I'm not sold on this as a necessity yet
Escalation /Stronghold Assault stuff will largely be dependent on the new rules in 7th. From the sound of it D weapons have gotten nerfed quite a bit so they might be a go.
As might FW stuff dependent on FW updating for 7th ed rules.

Given that I will likely be one of the first 7th ed GTs I have also just thought of letting everything in and see what happens, as most people will not have time to fully abuse the system.

So 2 detachment is by rulebook right? So 2 Combined arms attachments are allowed? Your parentheses confused
Will be psyked if FW allowed, my deathstorm pod needs to see some play.

Never mind, read that you were waiting on rulebook for FOC stuff Disregard

I have the book now and am playing a number of games this weekend, hope to have some finalized decisions next week. If you have specific questions feel free to post. I'll likely try to allow as much as seems reasonable unless there is giant pushback on any issues in particular.


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As for the 2 detachment question yes, 2 combined arms would be allowed if that is the final decision I go with.

Ok so some final decisions for 7th.

1.) 2 Detachments will be a go, so any combination of 2 detachments will be allowed. I feel this provides a pretty balanced environment as far as the game is concerned.

2.) There will be No Caps on the psycich phase, it is just not reliable enough to cap at this time.

3.) I'm sticking with No FW, at this time I don't feel like I know the rules well enough to make rulings on them.



As for other things, I am planning to pur over Escalation and Stronghold and see if I will allow them, at the moment I am leaning yes, but need to take a close look at all the entries.

I hope to have a tournament FAQ out by June 14th so about 1 month ahead of the event. If any potential attendees have questions please let me know.

As for the team event it will remain unchanged, each team member gets an allied detachment, FW will be allowed, as this is a more laid back event.

Ah well at least my FW will get some use in the team tourney Sounds awesome, can't wait! Maybe next time you could have anyone who wants to use FW submit lists by an earlier date so TOs have a chance to familiarize themselves with just the units that will be used It's so much information otherwise

That is a good idea, I also want to spend some time reading through things, and annouce it at the initial tournament release. Hope to definitely have it there in 2015.

Updated the first post with relavant tourney info.

Anyone who has questions feel free to ask.

Breng77 wrote:
For more Detailed info Please go to http://connecticon40k.blogspot.com/p/connecticon-40k-gt-info.html

On Friday the 11th there will be a 2000 point Doubles tournament.

Saturday (12th) and Sunday (13th) will be a 5 game 2000 point 40k GT.

In addition there will be a megabattle running during the weekend.

GT info

2000 points with a single force organization chart.

All Armies must be WYSIWYG.

All armies must be fully painted to a 3 color minimum

Character Dataslates are allowed

All armies will be limited to a 2 Detachment Maximum (i.e. Combined arms, Allied Detachment, Formations, Inquisition, Knights etc count as a second detachment, so you may choose to field any one of these.)

We will not use Escalation. (after consideration, I orignally said no Escalation and don't want to change it this late in the game, I will consider it going forward same as FW)

We will use Stronghold Assault but only fortificaitons that have GW official models (as it gives me a size comparison for any conversions). Another note, terrain is fixed and will not be moved to fit fortifications. This may limit the placement of some larger fortifications.

No FW will be allowed in the GT.

Rounds will be 3 hours

Any chance you would consider keeping the 2 detachment maximum, but not using 2 CAD's? I'm not looking forward to driving five hours to see a bunch of armies with six riptides, six annihilation barges, six wraithknights, etc. Or possibly just open the tournament up to unbound armies? It may be more balanced that way.

That would kind of suck for people who already made a list and started practicing >_> I always play the same combo, 7th was exciting in that you could do two full. You do have to do two troops still so somewhat limited. Just seems silly for people to knee jerk and turn 7th into 6th again.

Hitting this on my way out to massachusetts. Super excited

I wouldnt worry about the two combined arms, with progressive and alternate scoring you can out manuever them pretty easily.

Any chance you would consider keeping the 2 detachment maximum, but not using 2 CAD's? I'm not looking forward to driving five hours to see a bunch of armies with six riptides, six annihilation barges, six wraithknights, etc. Or possibly just open the tournament up to unbound armies? It may be more balanced that way.

I guess my thought concerning that was how many people are going to have time to build and paint those armies in the next month (and want to invest the money in them). I'm also not sure that any of those armies (except maybe the 6 anni-barges) is any good 6 Wraithknights is 1440 points (and like $600) So I certainly don't think you will see a bunch of armies with those builds (honestly I'd be surprised to see one.)

Now I could be wrong, maybe people will invest that kind of time and money to win Connecticon (I mean if I were LVO or NOVA or Adepticon maybe it would be different) but unless I change rules disallowing 2 CAD makes some 6th ed armies (like Farsight + Tau, or CSM + Black Legion) illegal.

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 Leth wrote:
Hitting this on my way out to massachusetts. Super excited

Cool always nice to have a new face. Registration has really been picking up since 7th dropped

Ah, well then never mind, you can take me off the reg. list

looking to run 2 different CAD, actually not sure I have an issue with that either thinking more about it its not much different than allies. Redacted the change as with more thought I don't see much more issue with it especially in the time given than CAD+ Ally, Being early on might as well see what the edition is like without barring things too much.

Thanks!! heading out to mass for the summer and saw your GT about the time I was planning on going, so just going to hit it on the way, complete the GT, then drive the remaining 3 hours after.

Any idea how many people you are looking to have? website didnt update numbers since I couldnt register on the site. Also how do we get the event fee to you?