OK, so it's time for another tourny at Eureka Wargamers Association (EWA).

When: 11th Oct 08. Doors open 8:30 for registering, gaming starts at 9:30.
Where: St Andrews Church Hall, Dawson St Nth, Ballarat.
Entry: $20. If paid by the 3rd Oct, this will include a $10 Urban Mammoth voucher. Open to all comers.
Prizes: TBA, but at minimum- Best General, 1st, 2nd, 3rd, Best Sportman and Best Painted. Sports and Painted will be peer judged.
Teams need not be painted, but must be fully assembled, and clearly represent the unit. Conversions are fine, as long as they were originaly an UW/Void model
I'll be TO'ing, so those BADGA-ites who usually get this job, come along and compete

Program: 4 games, each with a 75min time limit, kicking off at 9:30. The games will be mission based (missions TBA).

Game 1: 9:30-10:45
Game 2: 11:00-12:15
Lunch till 1:30
Game 3: 1:30-2:45
Game 4: 3:00-4:15
Packup, presentations etc till we all get too buggered and go home.

Cheers,
Dent.

Will be there with my VASA in tow.

At this stage i'll be there with the Syntha again.

Still need to collect silver Medal to complete the collection.

And what's more...they are ALL painted this time!!! very different list to my usual though.

confirm Ryan Carter - dunno whether he'll be taking slugs or 'bots...

Well, the EWA 400 Urban War Tournament is done and dusted!
Pics are HERE
I ran things a little differently than usual, with all games running for 7 turns, or 75min which ever came first, or untill the victory conditions were met by one of the players.

Scoring:

Add up the VP for each player, based on win/draw/loss, plus any bonus VP earned by each player.

Win/Draw/Loss VP:
Win = 15VP (You achieved the mission victory condition)
Draw = 10VP (Neither player achieved the mission victory condition)
Loss = 5VP (Your opponent achieved the mission victory condition)

Bonus VP:
Opponents Leader Killed = +1VP. If your own leader does the killing, its +2VP instead.
4 or more enemy “compulsory” models killed =+1VP
Fewer than 50% of your own models killed = +1VP (seems a few players forgot this one)
More than 50% enemy models killed = +1VP

Peer Scores.
For each game, you will score your opponent on both Sportsmanship, and Painting/Appearance. Each of these scores is out of 10. These scores are confidential, and are used to resolve ties only.
Sportsmanship and Painting prizes will by awarded by player vote at the end of the tournament.


Missions:

All missions had a 7-turn, 75min limit.

GAME 1: Turf War. 9:30-10:45
The 24’ “no-mans land” between deployment zones represents the border between your turf and your rivals. Naturally, this area rightfully belongs to your forces, but you opponent thinks otherwise. Show them who runs this place!
Victory Condition: At the end of the game, total up how many points worth of models you have in outside of your deployment zone. Models in your opponents deployment zone are worth double points. The player with the most points wins.

Pretty straight forward, Turf War was a simple varient of "Most Survivors". There was some initial confusion as to the scoring, but this was easily resolved.

GAME 2: King of the Hill. 11:00-12:15
Just up ahead is the controller for the one of the bridges providing access in and out of this sector. You need to keep the bridge down for long enough for your scouts to return, and prevent rival scouts leaving this area. Maintain control!
Victory Condition: The first player to control the objective in the center of the table for 3 consecutive turns wins. To control the objective, you must have an un-engaged model in base contact at the end of the turn. You need not have the same model controlling the objective all three turns, but the turns must be consecutive.

This misson caused some general cursing in my direction, two games in particular come to mind. In one game, one side was wiped out entirely by turn 4, leaving Trask controlling the objective indefinatly. As the "end game" conditions hadn't been met, this left Track 3 more turns, with no opponent to contest the objective. An odd occurance, but logic said Trask won the day.
On another table, two VAF teams had both covered the objective with a plethora of heavy weapons and snipers, resulting in no-one being game to go near the thing!!

In future, I'll reduce the victory condition to two consecutive turns, and if no player has held the objective for two consecutive turns by the end of the game, victory will go to whoever has held it the most turns.

GAME 3: Pre-emptive Strike. 1:30-2:45
Your scouts report that your rival is mobilising for a major offensive on your position. If you can launch a pre-emptive strike and eliminate their commanders, this will severely hamper their ability to mount an organised attack. Cut off the head of the snake!
Victory Condition: Kill the three highest Calibre enemy models. If models are tied for Cal, use points cost. If there is still a tie for highest (ie, several identical models for instance), any of the tied models killed will count towards victory.

Again, pretty straight forward, based on Gus's "Execute" mission.

GAME 4: All Out War. 3:00-4:15
This is it. It’s crunch time. Battle lines have been drawn, and it’s down to the last man. Do or die. Time to pay the rent etc (insert more euphemisms here). Kill ‘em all!
Victory Condition. Which ever player has the most points worth of models left on the table at the end of the game wins.

Who doesn't like ending things with a s@#t-fest?

FINAL RESULTS:
Best General: Tied scores were resolved by who-ever had kept their opponents score the lowest.

1st- 71VP, Mark (Viridians)
2nd- 54VP, Drew (Syntha)
3rd- 51VP, Tim (Viridians)
4th- 44VP, Ryan (Syntha)
5th- 44VP, Gus (Gladiators)
6th- 41VP, David (Vasa)
7th- 38VP, Zack (Viridians)
8th- 38VP, Jarrad (Gladiators)
9th- 34VP, Jon (Syntha)
10th-26VP, Mick (Vasa)

Best Painted (Players Choice)
Mark

Best Sportsman (Players Choice)
Jarrad

TO's Choice: For a near perfect Sportsmanship score (38/40)
Tim

Thanks to everyone who played, this was a fun event to run!
Pics will follow, as soon as I recieve them, and a big thanks to Jon for the use of his camera :armata_PDT_37:

Dent.

Link to pics edited in

There was some 150+ pics taken, so I didn't post them, figured a link would suffice.

Dent.

Lordie I've just spent half my morning looking thru the pics....man there's a lot
Great lookign tabels and some excellently painted forces, well done fellas, you've done us proud

Thanks for all the work Dent

nice pictures for sure

... well I'll have to put my piccies up as well then....
that'll keep you guys busy....


Thanks Dent - was fantastic - I really enjoyed trying out the 7 Vulcan Gladioator list... it was pretty funny.... and even surprisingly effective...

Good stuff ,Gents...But what was the blank [flocked] base being used for??

depends on your oponent though Gus



The Combat Syntha did pretty well for a 1st outing getting to 2nd place. Got some cahnges in mind for the next one though

Viridians gun lines hurt!

Well done to Dent fo organizing the whole thing.

Which pic was that?

all the table had cloth bases anbd then scenery on top of that...other than Gus's close quarter nightmare table of course

actually there are several pics with the flocked base in it... didn't really think anything of it the first glance, but yeah it is there.. page 5 or 6 maybe

Its an objective marker.

Yeah, they were the objective markers for the 2nd game "King on the Hill". I made up 5 of them, as they work well as counters for many things. They each have a magnet in the middle too, for Koralon portals, or anything else I think of.

Glad everyone had a good day I think this is the format I'll use for my furure events too.

Dent.

link to my pix of the event on photobucket :
http://s172.photobucket.com/albums/w30/Sla...ro/ewa20081011/

Guys I think you should all get a medal for the "Most Photographed Tournament.......Ever"

ah... a marker... that makes sense.

Yea...makes perfect sense now...when I asked I think I was just having a "blonde moment"

And here was me thinking, that Viridian SF really has got really good camo.....

Captain Hesperus