Hey fellas,
well after much dicking around here is the info for Castle Assault as promised at ConVic earlier this year. We have a new venue, awesome prizes and much fun to be had (Tits on Toast anyone?!!) With only 26 (to be confirmed) spots this year, places will be filling up fast!
Any questions please ask here or email me.
Cheers,
Matty 
CASTLE ASSAULT
– 2nd ANNUAL WARHAMMER FANTASY TOURNAMENT IN NEWCASTLE!!!!
That’s right the Newie Boyz are putting on another Warhammer Fantasy tournament in Newcastle.
Details:
Tournament Organiser: Matty Cole
Where: The Outpost Games Bunker (Wallsend Army Disposal, 79 Cowper St
Wallsend, NSW 2320)
When: Saturday 19th and Sunday 20th of September 2009
Start time: Registration/setup 8:30am, Game starts at 9am
Army lists: To be submitted by September 12th 2009. Please send army lists in .pdf, .xls, .doc, .txt, .htm format.
Send all army lists to stromnifirebeard@hotmail.com.
Cost: $35.00 or $40 (Includes Breakfast ‘Tits On Toast’ Saturday morning. Sorry over 18s only)
How to enter: Email stromnifirebeard@hotmail.com to confirm attendance and payment.
Army size: 2250 points
Payment options: You can direct deposit the money into the
following bank account. (If this is an issue contact me)
Bank:Newcastle Permanent Building Society
Account: 960423422
BSB: 650‐000
Account name: Matthew Cole
Please put your name and the acronym ‘CA’ in the payee detail
General Tournament Rules:
• The tournament will have 5 rounds played over 2 days.
• There will be 2.5 hours allocated to each battle.
• No back‐of‐the‐book lists.
• No Special Characters or “Named” Characters are allowed. Special or “Named”
Character models may be used to represent ‘normal’ characters.
• All armies must use an Army book that has been published and released in
Australia by or on the 31 August 2009. If no such Army book exists, you must use the most recent work‐in
progress list, published either in White Dwarf or in a Warhammer
Annual/Chronicles, released. If no work‐in‐progress list is available, then armies must use the appropriate list from the Ravening Hordes booklet (that means you Chaos Dwarf players!)
• Beastmen armies will be restricted to the requirements from the 2008 Q&A thus
can only use the items/options exclusively from the Beastmen book
• Storm of Chaos lists will not be used
• Any items/options from the Albion campaign will not be used
• Dogs of War armies may be used as published in the Chronicles 2004, including all Regiments of Renown published in the Chronicles 2004 and in White Dwarf, and released in Australia by 1 May 2006.
• Non Dogs of War armies may include Dogs of War or Regiments of Renown as Rare choices as indicated in the appropriate DoW unit description. Note that the Ogre Rhinox cavalry are allowed and will use up the stated 2 rare slots in non DoW, non Ogre Kingdom armies.
• Dogs of War units of Pikemen, Heavy Cavalry and Paymaster’s Bodyguard can
carry a magic banner up to a value of 50 pts.
• All models used must be painted miniatures of the appropriate type for the
troops they represent. Minimum painting standards are three colours on each
model in an appropriate scheme. Models should also be appropriately based.
Suffice to say that an under‐coat is not enough! Weapons, armour options and
upgrades chosen from the army list must be shown on the majority of the models in a unit.
• Deathfang, Asarnil’s Dragon, has a 3+ armour save and is worth 330 Victory
points. Asarnil himself is worth 130 points
• Even though they have names Deathfang, Cachtorr and Bologs do not count as characters.
• All games will be played using the pitched battle scenario, there will be no
scenarios
Scoring:
Battle (100 Points)
Five games will be played by each player with a maximum of 20 battle points being gained per game
(massacre). The first round will be random. Opponents for the 2nd & subsequent rounds will be
determined by the rankings of the players (Swiss chess format).
The following VP table will be used to determine the points received by each player per battle.
Victory Points Margin Battle Points
(Win/Loss)
0-150 10/10
151-300 11/9
301-500 12/8
501-700 13/7
701-900 14/6
901-1100 15/5
1101-1300 16/4
1301-1500 17/3
1501-1700 18/2
1701-1900 19/1
1901+ 20/0
Round 1 Grudge matches will be allowed both players must contact stromnifirebeard@hotmail.com before September 12th 2009.
Sportsmanship (25 Points)
The intent behind the sports criteria is to encourage people to play in an acceptable manner.
This doesn’t mean being fun and lively – it simply means playing by the rules and not cheating, throwing dummy spits or sulking. As such the system will ensure that people who play nicely get about the same points – but people who are poor sports will be hit big time in terms of sports At the conclusion of each round you will be required to complete a simple 1-4 sports sheet according the following criteria.
4pts Everything you expect in a tourney game, I look forward to a rematch
3pts This player was a reasonable sport but could have improved in some area
2pts Some aspect of this game left me wishing I’d drawn a different opponent
1pt Frankly this person was one of the worst opponents I’ve ever faced. I hopeI don’t come across them again for a while!
For most of your opponents you will give a maximum score of 4. However at the end of both
days you will be able to give one of your opponents a bonus point. You do not have to give out
this point but if you do it must be for only one opponent. Please write down the name of the
player you wish to give the bonus point to in the space provided.
Composition (25 points)
Castle Assault 2009 will be a pier judged tier based composition system.
The player will apply a modifier to his opponents list before the game starts. They determin whether it should be moved up or down in the tier scale (or remain the same with a 0 modifier). Modifiers can be as low as a -2, and as much as a +1. Modifiers are applied in 0.5 increments. Your final composition score will be applied to each game round. This system is to discourage list design that will impede on the enjoyment of the game.
NOTE: Abusive lists will be returned to the player with feedback for change..
Army Tiers are as follows –
Tier 1 – 2/5 (Vampires, Daemons, Dark Elves)
Tier 2 – 2.5/5 (Wood Elves, Bretonians)
Tier 3 – 3/5 (Tomb Kings, High Elves, Empire, Lizardmen, Warriors of Chaos, Skaven)
Tier 4 – 3.5/5 (Orcs & Goblins, Chaos Dwarves, Dwarves, Dogs of War)
Tier 5 – 4/5 (Beastmen, Ogres)
Painting (10 points)
The painting score is designed to make players paint their armies to a minimum standard and encourage the better painters amongst us to strive to do their best. You don’t have to be a golden deamon winner to score full points. Most armies if they have had some effort put into them will score well.
1pt All models painted with a minimum of 3 colours
1pt All models based and flocked
1pt Bases have been based with 2 different materials or above average effort has been made
1pt All models inked/highlighted
1pt Army has a consistent feel.
1pt Some models have had minor conversions
1pt The army has a major conversion or a large number of minor conversions.
1pt The characters are unique and umm….full of character!
1pt The army has painted/flocked movement trays
1pt All models represent their troop type (conversions/non GW minis are ok, it just needs to be obvious what they are being used as)
PRIZES
Best Sport: The person with the best sportsmanship score. Tie breaker will be position overall
Best army: Person with the highest combination of painting and composition. Tie breaker will be position overall.
Player’s choice: Before the 1st game on day 2 begins players will be asked to setup their armies in a pleasing manner and players will be asked to vote for their favourite army. The person who receives the most votes will be awarded the players choice award
1st, 2nd 3rd overall: Self explanatory. Tie breaker will be battle score followed by composition
Conclusion:
Castle Assault marks the return of Warhammer fantasy tournaments to
Newcastle. We hope you have a great time and come back for 2010.
Be sure to check the Podhammer site (podhammer.net) or listen to the world’s first Warhammer fantasy podcast, Podhammer for more information.
Hope to see you there!!
Cheers,
Matty
