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Armies are on the march and Generals seek to match wits with old foes!
Do you have what it takes to muster your army and be victorious over all contenders to claim your castle?!
Border Raids is a two day Warhammer Fantasy Grand Tournament. The event will take place in Media, PA. and is hosted by Showcase Comics and the BigGunz-NE gaming club. We'll be holding the tournament in the Gaming Bunker at Granite Run Mall. It's a large, private room, with ample air conditioning, filled with gaming tables and scenery. And it's close to food and snacks, (or a cold beer at the bar.)
Keeping with the theme of War across the Old Worlde, and the new scenery rules for 8th edition, we will be putting together themed scenery for each table. Will you play against Brettonians in the Chaos Wastes of Khorne? Or battle against Vampire Counts near the ruins of a Dwarf Hold?Each table will have a set of scenery using some of the pieces from 8th edition. There will be a sheet on each table explaining each piece of terrain, with the rules from the 8th edition rulebook.
As always, we'll be putting out an ample spread of food for lunch on Saturday, and playing silly drinking games until way too late down at Rubies, on Saturday night.
The specifics:
-Warhammer 8th Edition Fantasy Rules
-2500 pts.
-5 Games, with 3 on Saturday and 2 on Sunday.
-2 hours and 30 minutes per game.
-Scenarios will be fairly basic, and drawn from the 8th Edition book. Scenarios will be posted ahead of time, two weeks or more before the tournament. Of note, please look at the scenario on page 148, Blood and Glory. There will be a scenario that uses some of these rules, where the first person to break the opponents army will recieve a sizeable VP bonus. There will also probably be one scenario where magic is a bit more variable than normal.
-All current GW FAQ's will be used.
-Scoring will have 24 pts for each game, giving a total of 120 points possible. Painting and modeling will be worth 40 pts.
-There is no composition score of any type.
-Special Characters may be used with the following exceptions:
Demons: Fateweaver
High Elves: Teclis
Dwarks: Thorek
After talks with many players and feedback from other TO's, these characters were the characters that players felt could most upset a game.
-The following magic items may not be taken:
Power Scroll, Book of Hoeth.
-The following change is made to the magic phase:
Regardless of how those dice are generated, players may not use more than 12 dispell or power dice in any magic phase. Excess dice are lost, except in the case of a special rule allowing the player to somehow store them for a future phase.
-The following change will be made to the set up phase:
Players may not set up units within 1" of a friendly unit. Treat the restrictions for moving within 1" of friendly or enemy units or impassable terrain that are laid out in the movement phase as affecting setup as well.
-There is no sportsmanship score. However, slow playing, beligerent attitudes, and other bad behavior may result in a warning by the TO, forfeiting of the current game, or being asked to leave the tournament. No score for sportsmanship does not excuse bad behavior.
-Armies are allowed from the currently in print Army books. No Storm of Chaos, Lustria, Back of the Book lists, or Dogs of War.
-All models must be fully painted to a 3 color minimum. This means you have used at least 3 colors to paint the entire model, in addition to a primer coat.
-All models must be based. This means at the minimum a painted base.
-All models must be WYSIWYG, with some leniency for cool conversions.
-Proxy models are not allowed. 'Counts as' armies are somewhat frowned upon and you should probably get the OK of the TO. If you have a question, please call or email the TO ahead of time.
Prizes: Players may win prizes for Painting, Best General (Battle Points), and Overall (Battle Points and Painting.) Best General and Best Overall will each recieve an invitation to the Nationals in Las Vegas in 2011.
Best Overall gets a Castle! In addtion to other prizes, We'll be giving away a custom made display board in the shape of a Fortified Keep to the player placing Best Overall.
Other prizes include a heap of stuff from Games workshop, along with cool stuff from GF9, Battlefoam, and other nice folks.
-TO for the event is Mike Clark, owner of Showcase Comics. You can contact him by phone at 610-891-9229 and by email at MikenJudyc@aol.com
-Cost for the event is 50.00 if paid by November 1st, and 60.00 after that.
-There are 50 slots for the event. If we fill up fast, there is a possibility of expanding the tournament to 100 slots, if there is demand. The only reservation is a fully paid one.
- Players can register and pay in person at Showcase Comics in Granite Run Mall, or by Paypal at BigGunz-NE.com. If you don't have paypal, and want to pay by credit card, contact Mike Clark.
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