Tris is pleased to announce Wargames at Retcon 2012, held in the UCD Student Centre (MAP) on the 31st of March and 1st of April

Entry to the Convention is 10 Euro for a Weekend Pass and 7 Euro for a Day Pass. Entry to all Wargames events is free.

Warhammer 40k

The rulespack is finished. Find it here: Rulespack

Important Information:
There will be painting requirement of minimum three coulours and based for entry to the tournament.

List submission deadline: 25th of March. 
Saturday Start time: 09.30
Sunday Start time: 10:00

The prizes will be as follows:
First, Second and Third on Battle Points
Best Painted Army (Judge’s Choice)
Best Battlefield (Players Choice)

Tris is accepting pre-registrations; send an e-mail to Retcon-40k(at)onthestep.net and you’ll be signed up

The Current number of spots available is 12 as of 23/2/12

An Infinity tournament will also take place. For more details, see here:
http://w-ired.org/blog/2012/02/03/infinity-tournament-retcon-april-1st/

Encore is hosting a Warhammer 40K tournament on the Saturday The 21st of April During the Event.
Entry For tournament will be £5 and will include:

Every Player will get a free bottle of water and a selections snacks
will be handed out to players throughout the day.

Please Remember it costs £5 to get into the Encore Event as well

If you buy a ticket Online below you will pay for the entry to the event
as well as the tournament therefore Online tickets cost £10
Buy Tickets: Click Here

There shall be 12 tables therefore maximum attendance is 24 people.
* maximum attendance will increase to 30 if we reach a total of 20+ tickets bought Online*

Held at: Magee University, MF Building (beside the bottom car park), University of Ulster – Magee, Derry (Londonderry)

Get to Uni, Get to MF Building

Alcohol is not permitted as it is held on University Grounds
Over 18s Only 

Rules Pack:
Click Here

Prizes:

* Prizes have not been finalized so prizes may change*

1st Prize £40 voucher and Certificate
2nd Prize £30 voucher and Certificate
3rd Prize £15 voucher and Certificate

Accommodation:

Hotels and B&BS are available on the link below
http://www.derryvisitor.com/

There is also this hostel which is £15 a night or if any of you guys are going as a group then you can all share a dorm (4 people) for £15 a night.

Hostel

please feel free to comment or criticize this as it is not fully finalized yet.

I would also like to Inform you that if we have 10+ People for this Tournament it will count as a Ranking Event, and therefore the results will be shown on The ETC N.Ireland forums and the players points will be added to their current ranking score on the Ranking list for Team N.Ireland or Republic of Ireland.

Arkham Gaming Centre is proud to host this Warhammer 40K tournament, run in conjunction with Jonny Fisher. This 2 day ranking 1850 point tournament will allow the best 40K players in Ireland North & South to make war across the tabletop.

Tickets cost £20, and include;

• Tournament entry
• Unlimited tea, coffee & bottled water
• Occasional snacks

The ticket does not include lunch. Orders for lunch will be taken each morning and brought to the centre. Players can bring their own lunch and/or snacks if preferred. Soft drinks and snacks are also available to purchase at the centre.

Alcohol is permitted, but we ask that players refrain from falling over during play.

The centre opens at 9am on Sat 19/5/12, with the first game starting at 10am.

The tournament will close with a prize-giving ceremony at 6pm on Sun 20/5/12.

There will be spot prizes given out, as well as the following fixed prizes;

1st place: Trophy, £80 gift voucher & 1 year club membership

2nd place: £50 gift voucher & 6 month club membership

3rd place: £25 gift voucher & 6 month club membership

Best painted army: £10 gift voucher

Player’s choice award for best sportsman: £10 gift voucher

http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/event/2993418395

http://w-ired.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=2575

WAC is proud to welcome you to MooFool . This ranking tournament is being held to celebrate one of our members becoming 18 . Yes Lil’ Dave is growing up so fast .

The tournament will be held in UCC from the 31 March to 1 April . It will be 5 games at 1850 points using ETC style missions and ETC clarifications . Standard force organisation chart and special characters will be in use . No Forge World(boo) . The entry fee is E10 . There will be 5 battle points for pre submission of army list up to the 23 March . Full rules pack to follow . If you have any questions don’t hesitate to contact me at Gearshead1@gmail.com .

Sign up here: http://w-ired.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=2561&sid=064805d3f7e2c988e8afa80cdc3cdbb4

My thought process took me through all the logical things that could be done, but then Caolan Gibbons and his crew were doing an awesome job on that front already. Gaming supplies, thats the kind of stuff that every good team needs. I was always jealous of guys like the German and US teams that got their own army cases because of some sponsorship deal or other, so with an eye to dreaming big I went out to get some gear that would hopefully do all the work that Mike, Caolan, Nigel and all of the other guys were doing behind the scenes to get the team off the ground

With that in mind I pretty much went straight to the top of the tree gear wise (at least in this humble authors opinion) and mailed the good people of portable warfare http://www.portablewarfare.com/ a few years back I’d been given a present of one of their Sergeant army transports and have been extremely happy toting my dark eldar army in it ever since. I guessed the worst thing that could happen was that they’d say no…which to my eternal gratitude they did not. So I’m extremely happy to publicly announce that team Ireland 40k has taken delivery of a set of Sergeant army transports that the team will be proudly using at both the Home Nations Tournament and at the ETC itself!!! Many thanks to all involved particularly Chris Strecker at Portable for all his help, looking forward to getting up many a picture of the team toting the gear but for now I’ll leave you with a taster

Get behind your team!!!

Paul Q

Itzacon 2012 (9th – 11th) of March
Location: NUI Galway will be held in the Aras na Maclaeinn building beside the collage bar
Main Website:http://www.itzacon.com/

Details on accommodation can be found here:http://www.itzacon.com/content/accommodation-information

The 40k event will be a 1850 point tournament
with 5 games over the Saturday and Sunday
Timetable below

Day one Saturday
Player Registration from 9am
First Dice rolls at 10am
10:00 -12:30 game 1
12:30-1:30 Lunch
1:30-4:00 game 2
4:00-4:30 break
4:30-7:00 game 3 (play till end of game)

Day two Sunday
11:00-1:30 game 4
1:30-2:30 Lunch
2:30-5:00 game 5

As promised …

Gamers World will be offering a 5 round 1000 point 40K tournament on Saturday February 11th. Capacity will be max 32 players.

There is no reservation of tickets for this event. Tickets are available on a first come first served basis for those who wish to purchase them.
Tickets are available after 10:00 Friday 13th January 2012 and can only be secured by following the instructions in the rulespack.

The rules-pack is available here …

The TO reserves the right to update rulespack based on questions received.

Any queries you can PM me or email me at warriorviii@gmail.com

Hey all!

My name is Daire and I am the chairman of a new wargamming club called WarSoc set up in Thurles, LIT Tipperary.
WarSoc are running “Conquer”, a one day Warhammer 40k event in Thurles, on the 18th of February. The tournament will be held in the college campus of LIT Tipperary Thurles. It will be a 1000 point tournament with standard force organisation rules. It will be €5 entry on the day and five games shall be played. There will be a maximum capacity of 32 players for the tournament.
Conquer will be our first event and we hope to share it with ye all, mostly we want to just have some fun! See ye all on the 18th!

http://w-ired.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=2459

- by James Carey

Time has passed since the early days of miniature gaming, when Games Workshop effectively stood alone in miniature gaming. Since the early days of Warhammer 40,000 Rogue Trader and the Warhammer Fantasy Role Play Mass Combat game, many things have changed. For one, Games Workshop are now a commercial juggernaught. Still a leader in their field and turning profits in a recession, there are so many mainstream commercial enterprises which are falling on hard times (HMV) or as we all know too well are gone altogether.

While GW has undoubtedly changed in the last fifteen or so years, so have many other things in gaming. Other companies have surfaced some have come and gone while others, like Privateer Press, Corvus Belli, Mantic games, Rackham, Warlord Games, and Mongoose Publishing to name a few have surfaced. Some have had a massive impact on the hobby on a world-wide scale, bringing something new and special to the hobby, for the benefit of all! Maybe doing GW the favour of providing some healthy competition. Unfortunately, some have faded into the mists of obscurity for all time*.

So with many other companies, new and old, producing models in a varied range including historical, fantasy, science fiction, and alternative history, the modern gamer has a wide amount of choice for alternative toy soldiers to really personalise their own armies.

Personally, I have always liked to use models from the same company, regardless of game, in my armies for conversions or even simply alternative models. Over time though, this has changed slightly, but my own reason for doing so was because I felt the consistent look with the same scale and sculptors across the ranges, primarily with my GW armies seemed somehow more fitting. While I have become more lax with this on account of more products being available to me I still retain this mentality with Privateer Press games, mainly because that particular line and gaming world is so unique. In contrast, you could easily use some generic sci-fi soldiers or even WW2 models as Imperial Guard regiments for Warhammer (if the scale is right, in my humble opinion…), it is very hard to find an alternative for Cryx Bonejacks or Cyngar Stormblades.

Now, we come full circle. The tournament scene in Ireland has exploded in the last few years. People are travelling to more events, the internet has become a very useful communications tool for advertising tournaments and interaction between gamers who normally would not get the chance to talk all that much. While I miss Games Workshop running tournaments in Ireland, I think it is a very good thing that there are independently run tournaments by gamers, for gamers. A major problem I always had with the Games Workshop tournament pack was models had to be GW. This used to be the model having to be at least 50% GW. I heard recently that this percentage has increased. ‘Terrible’ is the word I would use to describe this rule.

I remember a few years back a GW tournament in Limerick where a local (at the time) from the Gathering used a Feral Ork army, using large dinosaur models as his Squiggoths and converting them. He had two in the army if I recall correctly. Long story short, he was told he couldn’t use them as they were not 50% GW, and part of them were scratch built. So, this cool, unique army was not allowed to play! I don’t know if this guy stopped playing because of this, but within a few months he had stopped visiting into the shop, and I don’t think I’ve ever seen him at a con or a tournament since. I’d imagine that these two things are related. I could be wrong, in fact I hope I’m wrong but due to this silly rule, a unique army has been lost to the gaming scene, and now Ireland is down one gamer.

Anyway, let’s try and keep it positive, and less about anger at big businesses and their brain-dead policies. Mantic games have released their Space Dwarves**, and they are very, very nice. What the hell, they are awesome. Buy them, use them as Forge Fathers in Warpath, and get friends in your gaming group interested by getting the local Space Ork player to bring along his models to use as Warpath Orx***, so nobody else has to spend money if they don’t want to. Then, use your Space Dwarves as Space Marines, in independently run tournaments, where it will be allowed. So now, you have saved money with less expensive models, have an army for two games, and in one game, a very unique looking Space Marine army.

I hope you enjoyed reading this article, and hope it didn’t come across as a jumbled mess with no direction in its writing, or a shameless plug of my own political opinion/agenda. Vote Republican! Gingrich 2012

Remember: Violence is never the answer, unless the question is ‘What is not the answer?’

*Rest in peace, Starship Troopers. Your time with us, though short, is fondly remembered.

**Pronounced ‘Forge Fathers’

***Pronounced ‘Orcs’

This year Conspiracy will be the staging ground for the resurrection of the Irish Grand Tournament!

This tournament, to crown the best of the best in Ireland, will be using the missions being used at this year’s European Team Championship, a mixture of primary and secondary mission conditions using the Warhammer 40,000 rulebook. The higher standard of play required to master these missions will allow only one victor through to the top but prizes are available for runners up also.

Terrain is kindly being provided by different sources and we welcome all and any input people may have regarding this tournament.

Questions and comments should be sent to irishgrandtournament@gmail.com

The submission deadline for this event is: 9th September 2011

The Rules pack can be downloaded here.

Entry For tournament will be £6 and will include:

Unlimited Tea & coffee,Orange Juice
and Biscuits

Held at: Magee University, MF Building (beside the bottom car park), University of Ulster – Magee, Derry (Londonderry)

For more information see http://w-ired.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=1729

I am pleased to announce the first annual (hopefully) BannerCon!

Tournament Information

Cost: 20 Euros
Capacity: Places for 52 players
Points: 1,750 points
Rounds: 5 games over 2 days
Location: Auburn Lodge Hotel, Gort Rd., Ennis, Co. Clare
Date: Weekend of the 13th and 14th of August
Other: This will be a Ranked Event with Prize Spport

James

Q-Con features a wide selection of games and events over the convention weekend; with Role-Playing Games, Board Games, LARPs, War Games, Collectable Card Games, Console Games, Anime Screenings, Cosplay, Special Events, Exhibitors, and much more!

Big events to watch out for this year include: Rock Band Live, the Cosplay Masquerade, and Warhammer competition tournaments. Come along and make yourself known – from 24th to 26th of June…

REGISTRATION INFORMATION

Early registration for the full weekend ticket for Q-Con costs just £15/€17.
Accommodation is available for just £17/€20 per night – availability is limited, so register early to avoid disappointment.

For registration/accommodation details, information on all our games and events or if you would like to run games at Q-Con XVIII then please visithttp://www.q-con.org.uk for more details. You can also follow us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/QConBelfast

After a good start last year Brocon is back this summer with an aim to rise to a higher standard. After carefully taking into account all reviews of last year UL Gsoc and the LDC are proud to present Brocon 2011.

Location: EGO10, University of Limerick
Price: 10euro day pass, 15euro weekend pass
Date: 16th-17th of July

Warhammer Fantasy: 2400pt two day tournament, rulespack soon to come
Warhammer 40,000: 1750pt two day tournament, rulespack soon to come

This will be a ranking event (assuming it stands to the criteria set for 2011/2012)

Full details – http://w-ired.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=1251

This is the second year we have run this event and we are delighted to be hosting it yet again. The first thing we want you all to do is to have fun. The event is hopefully a place where like minded people can have a proper weekend away with toys and socialising being the only real concerns.

As such; this is an over 18’s event.

The event takes place in a Hostel just outside of Skibbereen, in lovely West Cork. We have the whole place to ourselves for the weekend. We will be in the dorm bedrooms with toilet, shower and kitchen facilities at our disposal.

More information – http://w-ired.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=1225

ItzaCon 2010 takes place in University College Galway from March 12th-13th and features a Warhammer 40k ranking tournament on both days.  Full details and rulespack is available here – http://w-ired.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=1272.

The rulespacks and so on are currently been worked on, and we expect to be able to release them pretty soon.  Darragh Cullen from the DGG will be running the 40k side of things, while I’ll be heading up the Fantasy organisers with Fergus and Jarvis.

Accommodation is available in the hotel itself, and we’re currently working on block-booking the Loch gCarman Arms Hotel in the town as well for a budget option.

From a 40k perspective, some of the biggest names will be attending.  We’re putting in Darragh Cullen as early favourite, with Paul Quigley in with a great chance.  We know that nominating two Dubs to win a Cork event will be contentious, and it will be up to Floody and Mervyn to prove us wrong!  We understand that another Black Templar Crusade has been called, so expect to see Shane, John and Karl rocking some of the more interesting Space Marines.

In Fantasy, it seems likely that only a couple from the top sixteen in the rankings will miss out.  Barry Lynch and his Skaven must be considered one of the strongest candidates, but it’d be folly to rule out Rob Gleasure (reigning Warpcon champion and number one in the rankings) on his home turf or Ken Chambers (ETC team captain 2011 and 2010 Warhammer Master). Lenny, Mal and Jay will also be in the running – as may Gary Griffin.

Friday night will see a Malifaux event kick off around 9pm, while the usual pints and chat will doubtless be enjoyed throughout the entire weekend.

We’re looking forward to this, and expect to improve our Twitter service for those interested in keeping up to date with events.

There will be a limit of 20 players.

Prizes
Winner: £75 voucher & etched glass ‘Assault on Arkham 2010 Winner’ trophy
Runner-up: £40 voucher & certificate
Third place: £20 voucher & certificate
Best painted army: £10 voucher & certificate
Best sportsman: £10 voucher & certificate.

Note the rulespack has no mention of BPA or Most Sporting but the gaming centre has donated the prizes, details will be pretty much standard and formalised on the day.

For those who are yet to be made aware of Arkham Gaming Centre you can find out more here.

1.Tournament outline:
7th November, 2010
1750 pts Armies, Standard Force Organization Chart.
Armies should be fully painted and be WYSIWYG.
Players will be matched by swiss system (first round is random).
Battles have max 2,5h and take place on 72″x 48″ tables
Location of the venue is Michelin Athletic Club, 30 Woodside Road, Ballymena, County Antrim BT42 4HX

2.General Rules:
We play with the 5th edition of the Warhammer 40000 rules without any add-on. Imperial Armour, Forgeworld or Apocalypse rules are not allowed.
English version of army books and rulebook takes priority over other versions.
Each player must have all codices and rules they’re using, army roster, dices, measure tape and templates.
All official FAQ and Euro Rules Clarifications are in use. The Rules clarifications can be found here: http://warhammer.org.uk/phpBB/viewtopic … 19&t=73405

3. Army lists limitations:
All special and named characters are banned.
Allies are not allowed, unless you are playing a Daemonhunters or Witch Hunters army in which case you may use the allies rules as described in your codex.
The following codices may be used:
- Codex: Chaos Space Marines
- Codex: Daemonhunters
- Codex: Dark Eldar (the old book, not the one due out in Nov 2010)
- DE: Wych Cult
- Codex: Eldar
- Codex: Imperial Guard
- Codex: Necrons
- Codex: Orks
- Codex: Space Marines
- Codex: Blood Angels
- Codex: Dark Angels
- Codex: Black Templars
- Codex: Space Wolves
- Codex: Tau Empire
- Codex: Tyranids
- Codex: Witch Hunters
- Codex Daemons

4. Tournament points:

Each player will receive a score from 0 – 100 Tournament Points as follows:

Gaming: 0 – 60 TPs
Painting: 0 or 30 TPs
List: 0 or 10 TPs

4.1 Gaming:

There will be 3 rounds of gaming. In the first round players will be randomly paired (though we will try to avoid pairing players from the same club where possible), while in the subsequent rounds the Swiss Chess System will be used. Each game will be played using the rulebook missions and deployments. Each type of mission and deployment will be used once, and will be randomly determined for each round (we’ll get someone to roll a big dice before each round and everyone will play that one).

Gaming points
First step – decide who is the winner based on rulebook rules. The result is always 15 (winner) : 5 (loser). If it’s tied on the objectives both players recieve 10.

Second step
Compute Victory Points (VP) difference. The player having the VP difference in his favour gets a bonus, the other one gets a malus.
Difference in vps / game points bonus / malus
1450-1750 / +5 / -5
1150-1449 / +4 / -4
850-1149 / +3 / -3
550-849 / +2 / -2
250-549 / +1 / -1
0-249 / no bonus & malus for vps

To sum up, the result consists of points awarded for objectives (win = 15, tie = 10, loss = 5, see step 1), plus or minus a bonus or malus due to Victory Points (see step 2).

4.2 Painting:

If EVERY MODEL in your army is painted, based and WYSIWYG then you will receive 30 points, otherwise you will receive 0 points. Each model should be painted in at least 3 colours (properly painted not just randomly splashed with 3 different colours).
Each model should have a textured and painted base of the correct size.
All models must be WYSIWYG. Non-GW, heavily converted and scratch built models are welcome, but they should be easily identifiable. Forgeworld and special character models can be used to represent other models.

4.3 List:
If you submit your Army list by 31st October, 2010, you will receive 10 points.
Please email your list to northernwasters@gmail.com in the following format:
PLAYER: Jonny Fisher
ARMY: Chaos Space Marines
CLUB: Northern Wasters

HQ1 : 1 Daemon Prince (110) wings (20) Mark of Slaanesh (5) Lash of Submission (20) – [155 pts]
HQ2 : 1 Daemon Prince (110) wings (20) Mark of Slaanesh (5) Lash of Submission (20) – [155 pts]
Elite1 : 3 Chaos Terminators (3*30) 3 Combi-meltas (3*5) – [105 pts]
Elite2 : 3 Chaos Terminators (3*30) 3 Combi-meltas (3*5) – [105 pts]
Troop 1 : 5 Plague Marines (5*23) Icon (5) 2 meltaguns (2*10) – [140 pts] in Transport 1
Troop 2 : 5 Plague Marines (5*23) Icon (5) 2 meltaguns (2*10) – [140 pts] in Transport 2
Troop 3 : 5 Plague Marines (5*23) Icon (5) 2 meltaguns (2*10) – [140 pts] in Transport 3
HS1: 3 Obliterators (3*75) [225 pts]
HS2: 3 Obliterators (3*75) [225 pts]
HS3: 3 Obliterators (3*75) [225 pts]
Transport1 : rhino (35) combi-melta (10) Carries Troop 1 – [45 pts]
Transport2 : rhino (35) combi-melta (10) Carries Troop 2 – [45 pts]
Transport3 : rhino (35) combi-melta (10) Carries Troop 3 – [45 pts]
TOTAL [1750 pts]

5. Prizes:
There will be trophies for the following:
1st – The player with the most TPs
2nd – The player with the 2nd highest TP total
3rd – The player with the 3rd highest TP total
Best Army – As voted by the players
Best Battlefield – As voted by the players

There will also be a variety of other spot prizes etc.

6. Best Battlefield:
Best Battlefield is a new award, which a player/club/team can choose to enter. Entrants will supply and place the scenery on one of the tables. The prize will be equivalent to the Best Army prize and players will vote in the same way, choosing their favourite battlefield based on how well it looks, and how much fun it would be to play on it. The award is intended to give the scenery makers a chance to show off their skills and also to make things a bit easier for the organisers.

The referee will check each board to make sure that it is playable. Any that aren’t will be adjusted by the player or ref. As a rough guide, terrain should cover around 25% of the board and about a third of it should block LoS.

7. Rankings:
DD3 will count towards the Irish Rankings, and TNI Rankings.

8. Tickets:
Tickets are £15 and are available in person from Jonny, Matt or Ivan (you can find us at the club, NWG tournament or Gaelcon), or by sending by Paypal to northernwasters@gmail.com The ticket price includes entry to the event and tea, coffee and snacks all day.

9. Registration:
There are 24 places available. You can reserve a place by emailing northernwasters@gmail.com, with the following information:
Name:
Army:
Club:
Mobile Number:
***Please let us know in the email if you will be entering the Best Battlefield competition and/or you’d like to be a player ref***

We may be able to increase the number of places if necessary, but that will depend upon getting enough players to enter the Best Battlefield competition.

10. Player Referees:
To give players more opportunities to qualify for the ETC team, NW/TNI 40K events will be organised by WFB players and vice-versa. To assist the organisers, we will require some experienced players to act as player-refs. We’d ideally like one or two from each club. The player-refs will not make rules calls in their own or their clubmates’ games.

11. Timetable (subject to change)
9am – Doors open (Best Battlefield entrants should set up their table)
9:30 to 10 Registration
10 to 12:30 – Game 1
12:30 to 1 – Break
1 to 3:30 – Game 2
3:30 to 4:30 – Break
4:30 to 7 – Game 3
7 to 7:30 – Counting up and Prizes

At Brocon I noticed Mike Tangley using a pretty handy set of counters.

I asked him aboutt hem and found out the originator is ]-[arlequin from the Warheads.
I’ve posted them here with his permission because they’re pretty handy for tournaments.
counters V3

I don’t think I’d use these much in a single game, but at a tournament they’re a life saver. After 3 games it can be tough to remember your name let alone which one of the 13 dark eldar skimmers is immobilised and which is weapon destroyed etc.

Inspired by the counters for the ETC I did up a set of markers for explosions on my Ork vehicles. It was very handy to be able to put down somethign that can act as a crater after teh trukk blows up and kills everyone

The Northern Wasters in association with Team Northern Ireland will be running Dominion Day III, a one-day 40K tournament on November 7th in Ballymena.  This is a ranking event with full details on the forum – http://w-ired.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=846

I’d just like to let people know about NUI Maynooth Games Societys annual convention, Dominicon. It’s on this year on the 12th – 14th of November in the Hume building, NUI Maynooth, Kildare.

Entry to the con is just €10, for the weekend and tournament entry is €2 each.

We’ll be hosting 3 main events, on Saturdy the 13th we’ll have our 1750 point 40k Tournament, while on the Sunday we’ll be running both a 2200 point Warhammer Fantasy and a 25 point Warmachine/Hordes tournament. Both 40k and Fantasy will run for 3 games while Warmachine/Hordes will run for 4 games.

Rules Packs can be Downloaded here:

40k Rulespack
Warhammer 40k Rulespack

Fantasy Rulespack
Warhammer Fantasy Rulespack

Warmachine/Hordes
Warmachines Rulespack is slightly delayed but it will be added as soon as possible.
However, format is:
Four 25 point games with the Kill Box Scenario

You can also check out our website at:
Dominicon of Steel Website

So I was wondering why we are not offering some other international tournaments as ranking events? I know it is done by our Northern Neighbours. We have the Giant Fanatic coming up in Denmark which I am itching to go to but I don’t know if I will have a useable army by that stage. There are a bucket load of tournaments in England that would be fun to attend. However rather than just suiting me I think this could only be a good thing. I know it is difficult to sell to our significant others as they believe we are just heading off for a weekend of debauchery rather than the gaming. However I think that this would be the amazing for our preformance as a team in the ETC. You know it is easy to be a big fish in a small pond. If we can get some serious gaming in against the top players in Europe on a more regular basis it can only be good. The weekends at home that are outside Dublin are pretty expensive and it wouldn’t be really that more more to jet off somewhere. This should hone the team and maybe enable us to once again improve our preformance. One other thing to consider is inviting a team from another country to come over. It would be nice to have four or five of the english guys over for one of our two day tournaments. We could easily subsidise their tickets. Better yet we should just let them in for free. The invites could be extended to a few of the other European Nations that our ETC team have befriended. I am not sure how this ranking HQ thing works. It may be that if the tournaments are in different countries they will automatically combine the results? If not it can’t be too hard to have that implemented.

It also has the benefit that we can concentrate on providing fewer better tournaments at home. One thing I noticed is a two tier tournament system developping. Well it has been there for a while but it seemed to become more stark last year. We have the better (in my opinion) tournaments that are organised by the dedicated gamers from a club with the clubs support behind them. The tournaments I particularly enjoyed were Resurgence and Battlecry. The organisers were dedicated to providing a good fun day out. They knew they would get numbers though and so that provides a safety zone. The second tier seems to be shoddily organised, thrown together at an after thought and then applying for ranking status to get a few more numbers in. As I saw when travelling home to play in one of these events… three people turned up. Well that was a bit of a let down. It would be cool if we could (I could!) really have four premium events organised well in advance, organised well in advance and then we can look further afield to supplement these.

Ok the deathrolla’s been around for a while.

The FAQ clarifying the ramming has been around for a while.

But I only started playing with them in my army recently.
Set in my ways? me? nah.

Since starting to use ‘em I’ve discovered that they do kinda strain some of the 40K base rules and more importantly it’s easy to mis-use them. The sections of rules that they are working from are generally sideline. Lots of players will play for months, never carry out a ram attack or a tankshock.

So I figure a quick 101 might be useful.

Before going any further grab your rules and read the tankshock and ramming section. Yes RTFM. It’s the best way to learn. Think yourself lucky you’ve got a rulebook, in my day you had a rulebook and 20 White Dwarf updates. <grumble>

So all ready?
STEP 1
Lets have a squint at the deathroller in basic mode.
Tank shock or ram a unit and in addition to the normal rules, there are D6 str 10 hits.

Things to remember

• The units hit still get armour saves
• Str 10 instakills lots of stuff
• Low Ld armies do not like having to take Ld tests

STEP 2
Slightly more complicated mode.
The unit decides to death or glory.
Things to remember

• Take your Ld test before declaring your death or glory
• Only models that were rolled can elect to death or glory
• The unit takes 2D6 Str 10 hits, even if it stops the battlewagon
• The Gloryhog has to stop the battlewagon moving or die. There is a reason tankers call infantry “squishies”

Only models being rolled getting the glory option is why Ork players tend to try and snipe a model that doesn’t have any nasty meltabombs or stuff like that.

There’s a bit of debate on how the instakill and the 2D6 work. As far as I’ve been able to figure it’s all simultaneous.
This means you have to use wound allocation.

1 SQUISH on the Gloryhog( if it fails)

2D6 str 10 on the unit

So depending on the unit size and number of hits the wounds can wrap around.
“Why do I care it’s all instakill ?” Well if you’ve an IC in the unit you’re probably going to want to try and keep them alive or limit the wounds they take.

STEP 3
Ram a vehicle
Things to remember

• Hits are against the facing of the target you’re ramming.
• You have to blow the rammed vehicle up or you stop moving.
• If you pop a transport you’ll get to roll over the contents as well.

“What cheese is this Murphy!?!” I hear you ask.
The reason you get to squish the contents as well as the can are as follows.
Exploded vehicles drop their transported unit where the vehicle was.
Unless you’re just clipping the vehicle or your opponent gets lucky they will not be able to put the squad in that footprint without getting tankshocked.
The tankshock rule states that all units get hit, you don’t have to target them.

STEP 4

Things to remember

Walkers are different ( of course)

• Treated as infantry with Ld except if you hit ‘em from behind it can’t death or glory
• If it fails a death or glory  it gets it in the rear armour

Imagine, 20 boys in a battle wagon trying to sneak around the back of a dreadnought going “Shush, I don’t think he’s seen us. Get ready…. ready….. floor it!!”

General tips

• I recommend pivoting the ramming vehicle, and then measuring but not actually moving anything until you work out all the effects.
• Remember to take your difficult terrain checks going over debris.
• Only the models that would be under the rammer/tankshocker at the END of the move must be moved out of the way. 1″ from enemy units, shortest distance and preserve coherency.
• Remember that technically you cannot even move other models in the affected squad as that can make a big difference to where the displaced models can go.

I have no idea what to do if you tankshock in such a way that you might break a squad coherency. It hasn’t happened so far for me so I’ll cross my  fingers.

That’s it folks the quick guide to Rolla’s

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So much to do, in fact. There’s never enough time to get everything done.

Now is actually a very interesting time to be involved. Recent years have provided us with plenty of new releases and there’s always something for everyone.

The classic Warhammer game has recently seen the release of it’s 8th edition rulebook. Warhammer : Islands of Blood is soon to follow in September. The new boxed game features some fantastic new miniatures, and the new rules should require players to rethink their army compositions to fit better with the new rules. The only question is whether to start of a new army or upgrade your current army to fit into the new rules and army compositions.

Of course, we also can’t ignore the futuristic cousin, Warhammer 40,000. While the current ruleset is not new, there’s always a new Codex just around the corner, and of course, new models to go with it.

For the historical buffs among you, a relatively recent release was the 2nd edition of the Warhammer Ancient Battles ruleset. I got my hands on the book recently, it’s very nicely put together. The game has diverged in rules from it’s Fantasy counterpart, but most long term Warhammer players will see rules from previous editions still present in the historical rules.

Privateer Press fans are certainly having a busy year. The release of Warmachine : Prime MKII has been well recieved and all of the Forces of Warmachine books are now available. Hot on the heels of all this is the upcoming release of HORDES : Primal MKII as well as the series of Forces of HORDES books due for each faction, as well as the first chance for HORDES players to use an all Minion force (along the lines of the all Mercenary armies from Warmachine.)

The new kid on the wargames block in the last year has been the skirmish game Malifaux. I don’t know a huge amount about Malifaux as I’ve resisted buying it so far, it seems to be proving rather popular among those who have collected factions, and the miniatures are really excellent. Time will tell.

But which one to choose. Should I add to my Dark Elves and Dwarfs, or start a High Elf army? Finish my Flesh Tearers or mech up my existing Crimson Fists army? Paint a Roman force for WAB? Continue with my Protectorate of Menoth force or break out the Skorne figures in the box for the HORDES release? Start playing Specialist Games again? Try Malifaux? The choices are endless.

So much to do, so little time.

The 2010 North Wexford Gamers tournament takes place on the weekend of October 9th/10th in the Ashdown Park Hotel in Gorey.  This is a combined Fantasy and 40k event and both events will rank.  There is also a free pub quiz on Saturday night and a non-competitive side event for newer players.  Add in buckets of fun, great prizes and a fantastic crowd and it will be one of the best events in 2010!

Full details are available on the forum including attendee list and details on how to enter.

Tournament basics:

Date – 9/10th October
Location – Ashdown Park Hotel, Gorey
Ranking – Yes
Cost – €30
Rounds – five; three on Saturday and two on Sunday
Friendly (non scoring) table quiz on Saturday night
Other – no grudge games, but if you submit a club name we will keep club players apart in the first round

40k basics:

Fantasy basics:

Points – 2500 points
Painting – 10 points available for painting
Scoring – 5 game rounds with 20 points available in each, 10 points for presubmission of list and 10 points for painting
Composition Restrictions – No named/special characters and lists will be subject to NigelComp. Note that you must declare magic lores on your list and lists must be submitted by September 30th via e-mail to my address above.
8 places available in a non-competitve side event

I’m taking entries now for both tournaments.

Retcon 2011 will take place in the UCD Student Centre on the 26th/27th of March.

The 40k event is a two day, 1750 point event and the Fantasy event is a one day event on the 26th.

The event will take place in Limerick at the Castletroy Park Hote on Saturday the 30th and Sunday the 31st of October.

Entry €20 http://www.castletroy-park.ie/

Warhammer 40K 5 rounds over 2 days 1750 points. (Ranked)

Warhammer Fantasy Battle 5 rounds over two days 2500 points. (Ranked)

Apocalypse & Storm of Chaos (non com)

Battletech Nationals the main 3 round tournament will take place on Saturday,
followed by the Solaris Design Your Own Mech Grand Melee on Sunday.

Rules packs to follow.
Contact The Gathering Gaming Store on 061-315133