40k Doubles Tournament @ The HGC

27th July 2019

850pts each 1700 per team

Introduction

The Holmfirth Gaming Centre is proud to announce a 40k Doubles tournament.

Each team will consist of two members who will remain partnered throughout the event.

Although fighting on the same side the two players armies will have no direct or indirect effects on each other for all intents and purposes they are two different armies just fighting in the same direction. Potentially board effects will impact both teams such as the nurgle trees, or other fortifcations that can be taken.

On the other hand all victories and losses will be shared for the purposes of determining leader board positions. After all you are on the same team.

One player will choose a Warlord for the game & the players can choose which set of Maelstrom cards can be used to complete the Maelstrom missions shown below.

Date

Saturday 27th July  2019

Entry Fee?

£15 per team member – £30 per team – If you wish to enter a Doubles team to the tournament you must reserve your spot by emailing Holmfirthgamingcentre@gmail.com or alysandre12@gmail.com & you can contact us in store.

Please register places – team names & player names when paying in store or by PayPal (via TheHGCEvents@gmail.com PayPal address please send payments via friends & family), please also send details of player names/ team names to Mark at alysandre12@gmail.com.

This reserves your team place (please be aware a team name is required when entering, please keep it clean). It also means you get food on the day & goes towards the prizes – the more players we have the better the prize. plus you might get a chance to face Jay during the day.

Payments can be made through PayPal via TheHGCEvents@gmail.com (Please pay by friends and family) or by paying at the HGC, please indicate team name & players name when paying. It’s £15 per player, £30 per team.

Event Schedule

• 09:30 – 10:00 Registration (leave referees a copy of each army list)
• 10:00 – 10:30 Event Brief and table assigning
• 10:30 – 13:00 Round One –leave out army for painting voting–
• 13:00 – 14:00 Lunch
• 14:00 – 16:30 Round Two
• 16:30 – 17:00 Break –Painting award presented–
• 17:00 – 19:30 Round Three
• 19:30 – 20:00 Award ceremony

Players need to bring?

1. 850 pt Army with TWO paper copies of your army list.
2. Any Cards, Tokens, Tapes and dice you need.
3. A copy of your codex(s), Rule-book and any other Rules you may need.

Event Rules

There are Two members in each team.

Team members have an 850 point allowance with allies allowed.

All Rules for Force organisation must be followed with the exception that your team members force does not need to share any key words with your own.

1. Any Codex can only be used, including the Sisters Bata codex. Rule of 3 does apply but this is per player.
2. All armies must be Battle Forged following all the rules stated on page 240 of the main rule book.
3. The most recent codex should be used. If an entry is omitted from the codex the index data sheet can be used. If unsure, please check with the TO before entering the event.
4. Special and named Characters are allowed but only one can be taken per side (No team can take two Gulliman’s for example).
5. Forge World units are allowed but are considered 0-1 units/player. E.g. you can have 1 vulture for IG only. This means players can take a single model/unit each.
6. No units with experimental or beta rules are allowed with the exception of the sisters codex.
7. Fortification are allowed (apart from the fortress of redemption).
8. White Dwarf units are allowed.
9. Models must be WYSIWYG un-built models are not allowed. Offending models will be removed by the TO.
10. All models must be painted to a three-color minimum (it’s no fun playing against a grey army).
11. Forge world models and conversions should try to match the official model’s width, height and general size. The TO may remove any models considered modelled for advantage.
12. Lists must be handed in on Saturday morning during registration to be checked for legality. Lists also required 1 week before to be sent electronically to be checked by event organisers.
13. After first round (which will be done randomly) we will use the swiss system to work out the next draw.
14. Each team starts with 3CP’s and gain points by the normal means for having a battalion etc as stated in the 40 rulebook only one CP my be claimed back per Team (as it’s a team event where command points are shared). As stated in the Tactical restraints FAQ.

How to play a game

• Discuss terrain and decide types
• Show your army lists

• Each team rolls a D6. Starting with the player who rolled highest place objectives using the rules specified in the mission brief for each game.

• Each team then rolls a D6 again, the player with the highest roll chooses their table half as per there mission brief for each game

• Starting with the team who rolled highest place any Fortifications using the following rules.

Aegis Defense Line: Must be placed wholly within your table half, without moving terrain.

Bastion / Sky shield Landing Pad or other similar terrain piece must replace a similar size piece of terrain in your table half. Please replace the terrain after.

• Nominate Warlord and determine warlord trait and relics.

• Choose your Psychic powers.

• Calculate command points and spend pre-game command points where instructed.

• The team who rolled the highest can choose to deploy first or second. Whoever deploys first will take first turn.

• Deploy forces and then infiltrators and scout moves, the team going second can attempt to seize the initiative.

• Random turn length as described in the rule-book or once the time runs out – please finish game turn you are on.

• Tactical objective cards are shared in the team. For instance, if the mission states that you get 2 cards that’s all the team gets not 2 cards each.

Missions

Round 1 Gold Digger

Deployment – Dawn of war

Primary missions: Vital intelligence/ Disruptive Signals

Secondary missions: Slay the warlords (one point for both), first strike and line breaker

There are TWO primary missions, for each primary mission you win you earn 6pts, also for each draw you earn 3pts. 0pts if you lose this mission. Please do NOT account for secondary missions in your calculations to see who has won each primary mission.

Secondary missions are worth 1pt each

EXAMPLE

So, if you win one primary mission and drew the second you would get 9pts, while earning 2 of the secondary missions your overall score will be 11pts (6+3+2). There is a maximum of 15pts per mission.

Round 2

Deployment – Dawn of War

Primary missions: Cut off the Head/ Decapitation Stike

Secondary missions: Slay the warlord, first strike and line breaker

There are TWO primary missions, for each primary mission you win you earn 6pts, also for each draw you earn 3pts. 0pts if you lose this mission. Please do NOT account for secondary missions in your calculations to see who has won each primary mission.

Secondary missions are worth 1pt each

EXAMPLE

So if you win one primary mission and drew the second , while earning 2 of the secondary missions your overall score will be 11pts (6+3+2). There are a maximum of 15pts per mission.

Round 3

Deployment – Hammer and Anvil

Primary missions: Supplies from Above/ Tactical Cascade

Secondary missions: Slay the warlord, first strike and line breaker

There are TWO primary missions, for each primary mission you win you earn 6pts, also for each draw you earn 3pts. 0pts if you lose this mission. Please do NOT account for secondary missions in your calculations to see who has won each primary mission.

Secondary missions are worth 1pt each

EXAMPLE

So if you win one primary mission and drew the second, while earning 2 of the secondary missions your overall score will be 11pts (6+3+2). There are a maximum of 15pts per mission.

Scoring

After each team match-up is complete each captain will enter the results into their score sheet and hand them into the referees.

Each score sheet will contain the result of each match-up and the grand team total.

Any armies not fully painted will receive a 3pt deduction at referee’s discretion and also negative points can be award for bad sportsmanship and cheating, again at the referee’s discretion.

Finally at the end of the day each team will add up all of their scores for the whole day, the team with the highest total will win.

If two teams are tied for a position the tie breaker will first be on the result between the two teams, if they haven’t played each then points conceded in their matches.

If 3 or more teams tied it goes straight to points conceded.

Prizes will go to the winners and runners up (8 prizes)

Another prize will go to the best painted army (voting at lunch time) and a trophy for the best sporting team (voted at the end of the day).

Rule queries

If players disagree on a rule follow this procedure.

Check rule book and latest FAQs

Ask your captains to try to come to a ruling

Finally ask a referee.