Tasmanian State Championships 2010

[A52-Mark]

Thanks to all the participants, volunteers and guests who made this year’s tournament the great event it was. We’re already arranging ourselves for next year, so here’s a little heads up for so all of you can do so as well.

Saturday July 10, Sunday July 11, at the Mercure Hotel.

$80.00 Entry

Warhammer 40,000 1850 points

Warhammer Fantast Battle will use a tiered system

Lord of the Rings will be War of the Ring, somewhere in the region of 1000 points.

[misplaced_squid]

Sounds perfect to me!

Squiddy

[Commissar Munt]

Lord of the Rings will be War of the Ring? Awesome! Well finally I can feel that I am playing fantasy... but not :P

[Quoth]

what the hell is a tiered system (as far as points go) for fantasy?

And din't uni change the dates of exams or something this year? I get the feeling that this might be bang in the middle of exams, or some other momentus event for the prospective participants...?

[A52-Mark]

Tiered points systems rank army books against each other, and set them into one of three tiers as a kind of handicap.

As an example, for a nominally 2,250 point tournament the breakdown might be as follows: Tier 1 (really hard armies like Vampire Counts and Chaos Warriors) are allowed 2,000 points for a tournament army, while Tier 2 (comparatively less powerful armies such as Lizardmen or Empire) get 2,250. Tier 3 armies (the really weak ones) are afforded 2500 points.

The system I have seen mentioned most often is called ETC, and it includes additional restrictions on army composition above and beyond the tiers. For example, Empire armies are restricted to a single Steam Tank, or particularly effective magic items occupy a hero slot.

The examples I have offered are based entirely on my vague recollections of things I have heard discussed. They may not be entirely accurate.

[Truscott Trotter]

Hey Mark,
Any chance of piggbacking the FOW comp onto the State Championships?
Are there many 40K players who want to play FOW and vica versa?
Cheers
TT

[Heath]

To try and keep you all informed... the venue has told us that they have double booked the weekend of the 10th - 11th of July the new date is the one we wanted originally 17th - 18th July.

cheers
Heath

[Helliquin]

Thanks Heath. :)