NorthEast Ohio (Cleveland) SLUGFEST Tournament - May 26

[lefton4ya]

Time for another Cleveland / Northeast Ohio Tournament, and I am making it a

SLUGFEST!!!

I.E. melee and hero friendly high point tourney

Date & Location: Saturday, May 26, Noon - 4 pm at my folks house (see link for address) in Newbury, OH (nearby Diversions Game Store). My house can hold about 20+ if people don't mind sitting in different rooms, and it will be stress on setting up maps if I could do it at home. I will provide snacks and drinks, but feel free to bring your own food/drinks, but this will be a family/kid friendly environment.

Format: 4 round swiss style tournament. Players bring a pre-drafted 565 point 24-hex Heroscape army, C3V, SoV, & Marvel allowed. Bring the army you are going to play and a set of dice and order markers. If you don't have figures for the army you want to play, just ask on this thread and I or someone else can provide it.
NEW SLUGFEST RULE: All figures except Raelin (v1 & 2) and Deathreavers get this additional power: "Evasive 1: When a figure rolls defense dice against an attacking figure who is not adjacent, add 1 defense die to the defending figure." This defensive bonus works against normal and special attacks and is on top of other powers and in-game bonuses such as height or jungle. You can still bring Raelin and Deathreavers in an army, they just don't get the defensive bonus (it would be broken if they did). This will encourage more melee armies, but ranged units are still viable, just knocked down a grade or so. Marvel is being allowed, as they are not overpowered and also more FUN in this format. I changed to make Competitive Unit Congress cards NOT allowed this tournament.

Entry fee/Prizes: No fees or prized required, but "Bring a prize and you'll take home a prize." Also, I will have stuff for trade/sale, some of it will be on the prize table.

Glyphs & Trap:

Spoiler Alert!

Glyphs, Traps, etc
All maps will have 1-2 power glyphs and 1-2 treasure glyphs, total of 2-3 glyph per map.
Power Glyph Pool Same as last year's gencon pool, unless someone objects.

• Glyph of Dagmar (Initiative +8 ) - When you roll for initiative, add 8 to your die roll.
• Glyph of Valda (Move +2) - For each figure you control, add 2 to their Move number.
• Glyph of Lodin (+1 to D20) - When you roll the D20, you may add 1 to your die roll.
• Glyph of Kelda (Healer) - Only figures with one or more Wound Markers may stop on this Glyph. When one of your figures stops here, remove all Wound Markers from its Army Card. Temporary/Single Use.
• Glyph of Wannok (Wound) - At the end of every round, roll the 20-sided die. If you roll a 1, the figure on the Glyph receives one wound. If you roll a 2 or higher, you may choose an opponent who must give one wound to any figure he or she controls on the battlefield.

Treasure Glyphs
All released treasure glyphs (besides Brandar) will be in the pool, with master set glyphs (Attack +1, Defense +1, Healing) having double the chance of being on a map.

Treasure Glyph Trap: On a roll of 1-5, do not reveal the Treasure Glyph. Instead, roll a battle die. If a skull is rolled the figure receives a wound and rolls again. If a skull is rolled a second time in a row the figure receives a second wound but does not roll again. On a roll of 6 or higher, reveal the Treasure Glyph and place it on that Hero’s Army Card.

Maps

Spoiler Alert!

I have 6 RotV, 2 SotM, 2 BftU, 2 Marvel, 3 RttFF, 2 Jungle, 1 Lava, 1 Tundra, 2.5 FotA, and a bunch of lexan mats. I can make about 9 maps, but I wouldn't mind more Tundra and Lava maps if people can provide them. But with less than 10 people who RSVPd, 6 maps should be good.

I can bring:
Party In The Park - 2 Road Lexan, 1 Rotv, 1 RttFF


Mountain Over the Shadow - 1 Shadow Lexan & 1 BftU


Guardian - 1 Rotv & 1 FotA


Warden - 1RotV, 1 BftU, 1 RttFF


Arctic Divide - 1 RotV & 1 TT


If You Can't Take the Heat - I SotM & 1 Vw & 1 TJ

Attendees - 8
Lefton4ya
Lefton4ya's friend
Scaper Nerd
Scaper Nerd's Dad
Fedex worker
Fedex worker's friend
Flameslayer93
Geoboy

Results & Armies:
Fedex Worker (Captain America, PK*3, Theracus, Raelin, Isamu) 4-0 2260 points, 9 SOS
Fedex's friend David (Thanos, Warriors of Ashra * , MW) 3-1 1980 points, 9 SOS
Flameslayer93 (Blade Gruts * 4, Grimnak, Ornak, Marcu, Brunak) 2-2 1910 points, 9 SOS
Scaper Nerd (Captain America, Roman Legos * 3, Marcus, NGS) 2-2 1500 points, 7 SOS
LeftOn4ya (Greenscales * 3, Nogross Hardscale, WoA * 5) 2-2 1270 points, 5 SOS
Geoboy (TSA * 3, Tagawa Samurai, Kaemon Awa, Raelin) 2-2 1205 points, 11 SOS
Phaethon (Minions * 3, Taelord, 2x Drow Chainfighers) 1-3 1285 points, 7 SOS
LeftOn's friend Lee (Zombies * 4, Zombie Hulk * 2, Cypren, Sonya, Isamu) 0-4 1230 points, 7 SOS

For those not in the area or able to come, I would still like your thoughts on this format (army suggestions would be nice).

P.S. - As some of you may know, I will be moving out of state for awhile, so this will be the last time I can play for awhile.

[flameslayer93]

Any hints as to what Slugfest means? I don't pay attention to these formats.

You can put me down as a possible, I'll have to check with my ride (or someone else who happens to live in Cleveland would work just as well ). Geoboy might come, depending on what his father says.

Personally, I'm fine with CUC (I might be one of the few of course).

Either location would work for me. If we get enough players, I can try to bring a board. (Not sure what I'll bring though...or more importantly how to move it...)

[killercactus]

I'd like to come - haven't scaped in a while. Memorial Day weekend is probably tough for me, though, so I'd rather go into June. Not sure if I can make any of them, but it's a better shot then.

[lefton4ya]

Crap, didn't even realize that was memorial day weekend. I looked at my calendar of events and it worked out because it was after spring semester before summer semester started, and DUH that is because memorial day splits them. I could push it back into june, but hopefully others will chime in.

And SLUGFEST is a usually high point tourney that has some extra rule to help melee armies, and traditionally it gives extra attack when attacking an adjacent figure or straight up reduces everyone's range to 1, but I figure I would try the opposite and give extra defense against range. Hopefully it will have the same effect of a lot more melee armies and high point heroes, but it does help to have some range in an army to counter raelin and rats or just counterbalance knowing most people will be bringing melee. At least with this version we won't see Taelord + RATS*4 that won Gencon's slugfest.

[clembo2021]

What would the availability of extra troops be? I generally only have 1 of every common at this point in time. Would I be able to get more to round out a decent army?

[flameslayer93]

Originally Posted by clembo2021

What would the availability of extra troops be? I generally only have 1 of every common at this point in time. Would I be able to get more to round out a decent army?

I'm sure various people wouldn't mind loaning out units. If its heavies you need, I've got an extra 2x. In fact, I've got 2x (at least) for all of Wave 6. That being said, the date is too far away to begin planning armies. We don't even know the exact date.

[killercactus]

Never too early to think about armies. For instance, I've wanted to play Elf Wizards in a tourney my whole life, and this is a chance to do it, since the points are over 550. The only problem is the format is TERRIBLE for them. In fact, if GenCon's Main Event happens to be 550+, I'd work extra hard to go just to play Elf Wizards in it.

Might plan Einar Imperium too though - CUC or not.

[lefton4ya]

IF CUC was allowed, this army would be Sweet:

Einar Imperium (110) * 3 = 330
Marcus (100) = 430
Atlaga (90) = 520
Theracus (40) = 560

3 squads of 7 Move EI plus a MarcusBomb to boost EIs double attack = carnage! Without CUC, just take out Atlaga.

I think I am nixing CUC for a couple reasons. One is that they were designed and playtested in current tournament metagame against range and melee, so might be overpowered here (as in the example above). And if CUC did good this tournament, then people will backlash against CUC and that is the opposite of what I would like to accomplish, so for now I am banning them in this tournament.

However, I think Marvel will be good in this tournament, as most of the melee armies will have higher attack/defense than the normal ranged fare, so Marvel heroes will be actually less overpowering in this format. Plus, its SLUGFEST, so c'mon!

Bottom line: CUC out, Marvel in!

[Scaper Nerd]

If it is moved to the second week in June, I could possibly make it. Origins is either Memorial day weekend or the weekend after. I would like to be able to make it to both, assuming Ignatius summer school doesn't kick me in the butt. I'll check my calander and see if I'm open. If it is moved to June, it will be on a weekend, correct?

Lefton4ya, you might finally get your wish of meeting and playing me.

[Raudulfr Shieldcrusher]

I can do the 26th. Sounds like fun!

[flameslayer93]

Originally Posted by killercactus

Never too early to think about armies. For instance, I've wanted to play Elf Wizards in a tourney my whole life, and this is a chance to do it, since the points are over 550. The only problem is the format is TERRIBLE for them. In fact, if GenCon's Main Event happens to be 550+, I'd work extra hard to go just to play Elf Wizards in it.

Might plan Einar Imperium too though - CUC or not.

The date is too far away for me because I've gotta provide units for another person if they go.

Once I know if they are going or not, I can begin planning.

[Scaper Nerd]

OK, after checking my calender, the 26th actually works out best for me. It would have to be that Saturday because that Sunday I have an ox roast a my beach club.