Western PA bi-monthly - December 14 - Cancelled

[Nirek]

Hey guys! NHSD is over and it's once again time for the bi-monthly. I'm looking forward to another game day with all of you, so I hope you can make it out!

Date: Saturday, December 14, 2013

Time: 1:00 PM to 6ish PM

12:00- Setup
12:30 - Registration
1:00-6:00 - Tournament Time!

Location:
Bell's Comics and Cards
25 Pine Grove Square
Grove City, PA 16127

Google Map to Location

Bell's is about an hour north of Pittsburgh or an hour east of Akron.

Format: 5 Round Swiss "Blast from the Past" 45 minute game time limit. Only units up to Wave 4 may be used. This includes Rise of the Valkyrie, Orm's Return, Road to the Forgotten Forest, Volcarren Wasteland, and Waves 1-4. Flagbearers and any other units not mentioned here were not released yet, and so will not be permitted. Additional general tournament info in the bottom spoiler.

Due to the format, VC and Marvel are not permitted.

380 Point, 24-hex startzones

Entrance Fee*: $5

Prizes*:
1st - 50% of entry fees in credit to Bell's Comics and Cards
2nd - 30% of entry fees in credit to Bell's Comics and Cards
3rd - 20% of entry fees in credit to Bell's Comics and Cards

Maps**:

Spoiler Alert!

Coming soon!

*Note that Bell's lets us use their space for free. We want to honor them for their benevolence towards us by giving them some business, hence the entrance fee and prizes.
**Note that we'll need help bringing maps. We don't have enough terrain between the two of us to set up more than 5 or 6 BoV's. We are open to balanced custom maps. If you want to bring a custom map, please PM me with a link to the build instructions and I'll check it out.

Attendees ( 2 ):
Nirek
lettucemode


Maybes ( 0 ):

More format info:

Spoiler Alert!

We do partial card scoring for the tournaments. The first criteria for placing is win/loss ratio. The second criteria is points. We do things simply for partial card scoring. If you win before the time limit, you earn the full 450 points. If you lose before the time limit, you earn the points you killed. If the game goes to time, the player who has earned more points wins, and both players earn only the points they killed.

Since sometimes we have an odd number of players, we've got to have a plan! If we have an odd number, in round 1, someone will take a bye. This can be taken voluntarily or, if no one wants it, will be randomly chosen by D20 roll. A bye counts as a win on your scorecard, but no points.

[TrollBrute]

Sadly, Viegon, ZJ and I already have plans with family that weekend. We won't be able to make it out this time, but I hope you guys have a great time. This format looks like a lot of fun!

[hose]

Hosey has a bball game and we have family plans after that. So we will miss this one.

[rudyvalentine]

Finally a format the MacDirks can shine in and I can't make it. I'll be traveling the 14th, but will be looking forward to the next one.

[yamissflash]

Put me down as a maybe. I will probably be there but its not a garuntee.

[Kinseth]

How many people going to this event can actually field competitive armies in this format?

[Nirek]

Actually I don't think that'd be an issue - We're pretty comfortable with proxying, and both myself and my co-leader, lettucemode have multiples of everything. Plus, most of us just play for fun. You don't often see the most competitive units hitting the tables in Western PA.

However, due to unforeseen busyness, my co-leader's recently realized unavailability, and the general lack of participation due to prior plans, we are going to cancel this tournament. We'll be back with another one in either January or February, and we'll use this format because I think it's awesome and apparently so do rudyvalentine and TrollBrute. Sorry to those of you who were thinking of coming (which is really just yamissflash, I think). We'll see you next time!

[greenless]

WOW, where was this group when i lived in grove city. i used to live a mile from bells back before they moved to their current location! i have moved since then, but i would be able to make a 75 mile drive to play scape for a day. my son and i just dusted off the heroscape for the first time in over a year for our family christmas party. we used to drive to ohio once a year for a tournament so grove city would be a nice short road trip. set up another event for early february and we will be in.

we have enough terrain to build 3-4 maps if needed. 2 of both master sets, 2 roads, and a castle set, marvel and the first D&D "master set". as well as most of the waves through wave 8.

[Sheep]

Nirek, any news on an upcoming event for February?

This format sounds pretty cool. The only issue I have (and others might also have) is that I don't have a whole lot of those figures (though I'm sure you guys would bring the figures I need).

Also, would we want to limit maps to only what was released at that point? So only RotV, FotA, RttFF, and VW terrain would be allowed be used to build maps?

EDIT: Same question for glyphs? (with the exception of Range +4 maybe)