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For those who are not following the other threads, we are looking at running an event to raise funds for Paul Sawyer, who sadly is terminally ill.

The idea is to host a meet and play event at Firestorm games in Cardiff (Wales, UK), though dates are yet to be set and I am still waiting to hear from the proposed venue.

That said though it would be handy to have some data as expected attendance so I can relay this to the venue.

So for those who are interested in attending please respond to the poll, if you are not interested in playing but would like to turn up anyway then please feel free to!

The initial idea was for this to be LI only but I would like to expand this as much as possible. If all goes well then hopefully we can make this an annual event to raise funds for chosen charities.

Thanks all.

I’m definitely up for this. Got LI and Heresy stuff ready to go.

I’d be up for some LI for sure.

Sorry for the delay in replying, been overseas.
I have heard back from Firestorm about a range of dates that are feasible and they are happy yo give a 50% discount on table hire for the event, they also say they have loads of AoS and 40k terrain but limited LI, though given the paucity of sign ups shown here I cannot imagine that is an issue.

Groovy!

Good stuff

Excellent Ingtaer good to see the ball is rolling with this. Is the plan for a mega/feature game or for a tournament structure multi-game event?

Once we have a format and date confirmed I can help advertise, I know some of the guys from the Advancing Fire podcast and can help promote in some of the FB groups if we need to try and bump up numbers.

We have six people registered interest in LI so far so lets put it to the vote for format.

I am on favour of one 2000pt game followed by a mega battle.

I’ll follow everyone else’s lead.

 ingtaer wrote:
We have six people registered interest in LI so far so lets put it to the vote for format.

I am on favour of one 2000pt game followed by a mega battle.

I think you might struggle to fit that into one working day.

I played in an event a few weeks ago that was two games and 2.5k and we just about fit that into a 9-5 day. I didn't finish either of my games and had to play through lunch, and think that was the majority case.

So I would either do 2 standard games (at 2k) or the one big game. You would then have some time for chatting and anything else the day brings. I would also be tempted to label it as a narrative event rather than tournament as the game is inherently unsuitable for tournament/min-maxing.

You're making the effort here in any case to organise though Ingtaer and it is appreciated so ultimately your decision

I am used to tournaments doing 3 games in a day, one before lunch and 2 after finishing up around 1900hrs. I cant see a big game lasting that long with this few players. If we do a hard dice down for the first game for lunch.

Agreed on the not calling it a tournament, I would hope that for a casual charity event that no one is going to attend to take it seriously and bring 96 bases of missile marines (or equivalent), if anyone does then we can all point and laugh...

I would rather not be the arbiter of what is done and would like for everyone to be happy with the format. How long do we envision a 3v3 game taking?

Heard from the venue again as I asked for clarification on how terrain they had available for LI/AT, turns out they have one specific table and 2 more at 10mm.
So we might need to put out a call for more terrain (if you have some please post here or send me a PM) or cap the numbers for the game.
I am afraid I do not have the time available to make any more as my printers are tied up until January.

I can provide a tables-worth of terrain for the massive game (if that is 12 x 4) or a couple of tables-worth for smaller games, depending on the set table size we are going for.

What dates are we looking at at the moment?

Fingers crossed some more terrain will be offered, otherwise could ask some of the wider Epic community to help out if needed.

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This was the terrain setup we had for a mega presentation battle a year ago - this was a 12x4 table.

I would say max is 3k points per 6 feet of table, so perhaps 6k per side?
Depending on number of attendees or people wanting to take part, we then set the points value for each person - so 1k per person if we had 12 players for example. What do you think?

Should have prospective dates up tomorrow, are we still happy with early next year?

Excellent! Yes that's good for me

Dates have been provisionally set for the last Saturday in February or the First in March.

I hope that is workable for everyone.

Works for me


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Also gives me time to build and paint some Epic scale terrain.

Sounds good! As long as its at the casual/narrative end of the spectrum rather than a tournament I also don't really mind whether its small games vs mega game type thing.

I don't have any terrain finished at the moment, but I do have a whole load to do - always helps me to have a deadline, so very happy to contribute towards the terrain side of things too.

Piousservant wrote:

Sounds good! As long as its at the casual/narrative end of the spectrum rather than a tournament I also don't really mind whether its small games vs mega game type thing.

I don't have any terrain finished at the moment, but I do have a whole load to do - always helps me to have a deadline, so very happy to contribute towards the terrain side of things too.

It definitely will be casual, I have no interest in trying to do this as a competitive event as it is totally against the ethos of the event.

I am still in favour of having a 1v1 game before lunch and then everyone playing together in a mega game for after.

I have booked attendance for between 10-30 people and from 0900-1900hrs, though await confirmation from Firestorm on this.

Starting work painting my LI terrain.

Got loads to build, so I’ll use my 2nd Ed Space Marine buildings as inspiration for height and shape.

I have now contacted 37 companies to see if any want to help out with either prize support, raffle support or just to show their faces. Hopefully we can get some responses...

Oh nice!

Really happy to say that I got a response first thing to say a company is happy to help out.
Need to work out the practicalities of a raffle/auction now.


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Okay everyone the date is now locked in. 01/03/25, book it in your calenders!

Awesome news! 🤘🏻

Fantastic news. I’ll be sure to be free on that date.

That is such great news with the companies helping out Ingtaer, really great job!

Will this be going onto the Firestorm events page with tickets for 'sale' (even though they are free?)

I will send you a DM about a few other bits.

It is now listed on Firestorms event calendar but the tickets will not be sold by them (its not free sadly but they have given us a good discount).

Exciting!

Now to drum up interest and gamers.

Awesome! Will try and keep that date free

Would like some input from the LI players attending, I had planned on printing up a Primarch to scale for each player as a participation prize and have the first few done. Whilst working today though it occurred to me that that is all well and good for SM players but does nothing for SA or Mech ones. Any thoughts on what would be a nice gift for those factions?