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Masters Warhammer 40k Grand Tournament League


TableWar Designs and Game Empire Presents the Warhammer 40K Masters League Tournament.

League start is November 29th. There will be a Draft Party held at Players restaurant to draw divisions. The Drawing will start at 6:00pm. It is not mandatory to be present at draft. Draft results will be placed in the Masters League Folder at Game Empire as well as on the Warhammer 40k league forums @ GameEmpire.com/forums.

Sign ups will begin at Game Empire on November 16th and will end the night of the draft at 6:00pm.

This Tournament will run 6 months long or 25 weeks.

This Tournament is designed for 24 Players and any additional Players may be added in groups of 4.

Players will be split into 4 divisions
Players will play 8 games to qualify for the playoffs, each player will play every player in their division and the rest randomly from other divisions.
Playoffs will be a best of 3 series elimination matches

Playoff players will be the Top player from each division and the 4 best remaining overall records as wild cards for a total of 8 Playoff spots.

Event Fees:

Entry will be a $20 deposit and a $20 entry fee.. The Deposit will be refunded when playoffs are announced. If you failed to complete your scheduled games your deposit is forfeit and goes into the prize pool. Exceptions will be made for players that actively made attempts to get their games scheduled and were not responsible for the failed matches. Players must contact Tournament Organizers after first attempt to get their match in fails. The rescheduling of matches will be monitored by the TOs and/or Staff of Game Empire.

Lists must be signed by both players and turned into the Masters League Folder held at Game Empire for record storage after each game as well as the final scores.

Playing Matches:

Your first 8 game schedule will be presented in full after Draft. This will be posted on Game Empire forum as well as placed inside the Masters Folder. You may play your games in any order. You will have 2 weeks to play each game for a total of 16 weeks. One of the things the TOs will look at for your forfeit determination will be your progress.

The playoffs will be 9 weeks long. You will have 3 weeks to complete each series of games. We hope this will go faster but we are making sure there is plenty of time.

Prizes:
Each Division winner will receive $30 Store Credit at Game Empire
2nd Place will receive a F.a.T. Mat
1st Place will receive $350 Cash or $450 Store Credit at Game Empire

*Forfeit deposit will go $10 to first place and $5 to second and $5 for better trophies




Master Tournament Format:

What: Warhammer 40k Masters Tournament League (ITC Event - Track your points at http://www.frontlinegaming.org/)

Army: Players must declare their Primary Faction at sign up and stay with that throughout the Tournament but can change their lists every game otherwise, even between Playoff series games.
Points: 2,000
Rounds: 8 Division Games & Playoff Series Games
Missions: Players can either agree to play 1 of the LVO mission, or if they can not agree on a mission randomly roll one of the 6 LVO missions located at link below. Follow scoring on each mission sheet and add scores to league sheet in Masters Folder at the end of the game.

http://www.frontlinegaming.org/las-vegas-open-hotel-booking/las-vegas-open-2015-warhammer-40k-championships/


Army Restrictions:

-"Unbound" Armies = Not allowed
-“Come the Apocalypse” Allies = Not allowed

0-1 CAD
-- Detachments may be produced from a maximum of one Codex / Codex Supplement
-- Example – You may not selectively include units within one Combined Arms Detachment from both Codex: Tau and Codex Supplement: Farsight Enclaves, despite them being within the same Faction per the Detachment creation rules in the 40k Rulebook.
-- Exception – Units that are added to various Factions by means other than the primary or supplemental Codex are exceptions (i.e., Dataslate Characters, Forgeworld 40K approved units where they are permitted, etc.).
-- Codex Supplements will be considered their own Faction, ie. Farsight Enclave, Black Legion, Crimson Slaughter, Militarum Tempestus and Legion of the Damned, etc.
-- In the case of a Forge World unit having a profile in a Forge World book and Codex or Codex Supplement, the rules in the Codex or Codex Supplement are always used.

Any number of Allied Detachments
-- No Allied Detachment may be duplicated or the same as your CAD, (exception Space Marines as long as each Allied detachment is a different Chapter).

Any number of unique Codex Detachments
-- Each specific Codex Detachment and Data Slate Formation is considered unique (0-1) and may not be duplicated.

Any number of unique Formations presented in a Data Slate
-- Each specific Codex Detachment and Data Slate Formation is considered unique (0-1) and may not be duplicated.

0-1 Fortification
-- All of the rules may be found in Stronghold Assault supplement. No Fortification Networks will be allowed. All upgrades on pg. 180 of the Stronghold Assault book will be allowed.






Lords of War

A LoW may be chosen from the following list.

*Please note, the Battle of Keylek legacy of glory upgrade is not allowed for the LVO 2015.
All of the Baneblade chassis vehicles except for the Hellhammer (and Traitor’s Bane variant) and Stormsword, which are not allowed for the BAO 2014.
All of the Imperial Knight LoW variants.
Crassus Armored Assault Transport
Gorgon Heavy Transporter
Minotaur Artillery Tank
All Macharius chassis vehicles.
All Malcador chassis vehicles except the Malcador Infernus which is not allowed for the BAO 2014
Valdor Tank Hunter
Marauder Bomber (may not take Hellstorm bombs)
Maurader Destroyer
Fellblade
Cereberus Heavy Tank Destroyer
Thunderhawk Transporter
Greater Brass Scorpion of Khorne
Khorne Lord of Skulls
Nurgle Plague Reaper
Obelisk
Gauss Pylon
Stompa
Gargantuan Squiggoth
Kustom Battle Fortress
Kill Krusha Tank
Kill Blasta
Cobra
Scorpion
Lynx with Pulsar (but not with Sonic Lance)
Tiger Shark (Escalation version)
Orca Dropship
Scythed Hierodule
Barbed Hierodule

The most recent version of each Codex or Supplement that has been released will be allowed in this event. EXCEPTIONS: Apocalypse War Zone supplements, Apocalypse Formations, Forge World army lists and material from the Horus Heresy books WILL NOT be allowed in this event

Imperial Armour units (40k Approved Forge World) are allowed in this event and are considered to be part of the relevant Codex or faction. In ALL cases, only the most currently published rules for any particular unit will be allowed.

This Event will use the Frontline FAQ at:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4VC3WZFH6Hnek1leHN4anRncDg/preview

When you say SoCal you mean San Diego?
When you say Game Empire you mean Game Empire San Diego?

Yes, sorry, it is the San Diego Game Empire.

 Blackmoor wrote:
When you say SoCal you mean San Diego?
When you say Game Empire you mean Game Empire San Diego?

We tried something like this at Game Empire Pasadena not too long ago! Good luck!

As a side note, you may want to differentiate between the Game Empires when you post on here. GE Pasadena usually makes sure to do so in their titles, it helps those of us who play at one but not the other.

Yeah, this is the second time we've done this down here. Last one was a blast and filled up fast.

The majority comes from our regular league players, we average 20-28 league players on our regular leagues, but we do get some outside player on this one. It's nice that a player can schedule a couple games on a weekend to get all their games done on time, if need be.

I am sure the 24 slots will fill up fast and after that we will sign up as a waiting lists in 4 player blocks, to keep the divisions even.