Hammering out my army for Cent

I haven't mentioned it here, but I am loaning my army to a guy for Cent and I had to make a few alterations and speed paint some things.

Brolo of 3++ fame is shipping me 3 kans that were supposed to be here yesterday.

Sigh.

Oh well, digging through a trade I found a new plastic Kan!

Winnah!

So to start on the last 3 models, I have whipped up this.

I dub thee, ThunderKan (I will always try to convince my opponent it has a 3++ save too :) )

CENTURION PRIZES

So I arrived home Friday, and there was a ticket saying I had a package to collect at the post office, collect by 5pm. I get the ticket at 5.10pm. Bugger. As this week is holidays for Centurion prep (and family time) I run down to the post Office and grab the prizes from Alpha Hobbies (will hyperlink this later, I'm email-posting from my iPhone :) ).

Excellent.
Now, to put in the big box with the other prizes...
Crap, they don't fit!
The box above is the prize pool in all its overflowing glory. (The rulebook is for scale, I'm not giving that away!) I hope to lay it all out either this week or at Cent to show off :) There is sooo much stuff. More door prizes than players at the moment!

Prizes have come from :
Forgeworld (major and door prizes)
Alpha Hobbies (major prizes and discount cards inc donated major prize)
A Gentleman's Ones (thanks b. He donated 5 door prizes from what I got from his banner comp)
My personal collection of stuff (about 10 door prizes, mainly resin bases etc)
Lurking Horror (local gamer who donated 4 2nd ed blisters)
The Capricorn Model House (hobby door prizes & airbrush)
Millennium Comics (standard dice)

There is about 1 spot left to make it even numbers (30 ppl)! Come on lads!

CENTURION - full disclosure

In order to try and get a level of full disclosure (and some feedback), the following are the score sheets for Cent

The overall paint score is TO Paint + Peer Paint Total (total 40).
The overall sports score is Peer Score Total (total 40).
The overall Battle Score is:
Total KP % x 10 + Total Obj% x 10 + Total Quarters% x 10 + VP% x 10 (total 40)

Peer Paint (Choose 1) Out of 5 per round
>50% unpainted models (0)
Some unpainted models (1)
Models painted (3 colour), but not based (2)
Models painted (3 colour) and based (3)
Models painted very well and based (4)
Models painted so well I may have to steal them at the end of the tournament next available opportunity (5)


TO Paint Sheet (tickbox) Out of 15
1. Less than half of the models painted - 0
2. More than half models painted – +3
3. All models painted & based– +3
4. Drybrushed, Highlighted, Inked, Shaded – +3
5. Squad Markings – +3
6. Bonus TO “awesome marks” - +3


Peer Sports (tickbox) Out of 8 per round
1. Did your opponent have an army list to show you and the appropriate codex for their army?
2. Measurements and dice rolls are all made clearly and accurately (no rubber rulers or intentionally hidden rolls). Your opponent also used only provided dice.
3. Game was played in a polite and respectful manner (game/army questions were answered, not every move or army rule made by an opponent was questioned etc).
4. Game was played in a brisk and orderly fashion. The game was kept moving with good time for the armies in question.
5. Your opponent remained positive if they were losing, and/or were not belittling if they were winning. Your opponent either won or lost in good grace.
6. Any discussion or disagreements were sorted out in a respectful, considerate manner. Please note, asking a referee’s opinion is perfectly acceptable.
7. You had a great game and thoroughly enjoyed yourself.
8. You would actively search out and want to play this person again if you bumped into them at your local FLGS.

Thoughts from those competing / not competing?

CENTURION: The challenges, thats right, 's'.

As many of you are away, there is a Friday Night Str10 Challenge / free play where Kirby and I are playing each other, among other matchups and grudges.

What you dont know is that there will be the "standard" Rockhampton 40k Tourney Saturday night challenge as well ... (we aren't the Beef Capital of Australia for nothing ya know).



It's even called "The Challenge"


Keep $36.00 out for dinner girls.
This is the menu from the Criterion Hotel where we are doing dinner, and I just booked for the Saturday night as was always the plan. This is also a motel, so you can stay onsite and roll off to bed afterwards.
Anything less than the Popular Rump will be laughed off the stage.

As for me, suffice to say I'm a "serious beef eater"...

If you were thinking of making a last minute dash to Centurion, we still have a few spots, email me to retsef@gmail.com.

Been busy... painting.

See, when I see a "I've been busy" post usually it can be summed up buy the attached photo...

HOWEVER!
Loyal viewers, this is not the case. For the epic Centurion battle with Pink Bits himself I have to put together a list, and make it good, and probably paint it... So the list was designed, and finalised (todayish).

*note: This is also going to be used in a local comp tourney. They decided to do some Math-based comp, which sums up to: no 3x same squad outside troops, max 2 AV14 vehicles, max 25% points in each FOC, min 40% in troops - to get 10/10 Comp.

Resiny goodness

Well as part of Centurion I got to spend a whole lot of other people's money on things I usually wouldnt...

First of all, RESIN OBJECTIVE MARKERS for Centurion. These will all get painted prior to the event.

See below the jumpy thingy for the FW goodies too :)

Centurion: Another day another PDF

This should hopefully be it!

http://fester82.customer.netspace.net.au/CENTURION%202011%20v1.2.pdf

If you haven't registered and are going to be in Australia in the start of March, you have no excuse!

I have gone around all the forums I have posted on, so this should be it!

CENTURION PDF UPDATE

Eltnot emailed me and pointed out a few failures on my part.

RESOLVED

LINKY LINKY

Centurion Player Pack PDF created

The player pack PDF v 1.0 is up. It needs a look over, read, review, etc.

If anyone can be bothered, let me know!

DOWNLOAD HERE

This should contain all the info you will ever need for Centurion.
If it DOESN'T, let me know!

Centurion - bowing to the pressure

So I have been getting pressure to make some serious changes to Centurion by the WargamerAU community. Now we usually laugh at WGAU as the request you expect is "put comp back in".

To sum up the feeling though, we got to "I want the tourney to be both days, not that shitty Combat Patrol".

I then spoke to some locals, SneakyDan (another 3++ Author) and a few plebs, and it seems that there has been some backlash over the idea of Combat Patrol...
What this means, is that for me to get a decent turnout @ Centurion its time to trim the fat, and lose the Combat Patrol.

The match of a lifetime...

Mirror Match!

This Sunday, presuming my now fevered wife (as in, she has a 38.7 degree C temp) gets better, I will be playing a match against my dead friend, and whipping-boy co-worker Wonna. You can see the results of our last bout... here.

Basically, with this one-of-chance to get to the LFGC (club) I suggest to Wonna that instead of me trouncing his Guard again, we might swap armies and see if we can each teach the other some tactics, and generally try something different.

Now before I go any further... I hate Guard. So boring to play against. Worse than Green Tide. At least as a Green Tide player you get to make algae jokes.

This post is both a helper post for me for later, when I do my Battle Report, and a warning to Kirbs that its gunna go up on 3++ as well.

Quiet on the old ranch

Well, my frantic pace of late has slowed down here, but lets recap the week that was:

Posting madly on 3++

Centurion just waiting until the times approach closer

Centurion getting up to 24 registered players!

Ordering parts for my Crazy Ideas army.

And thats about it.

Lots of work @ work, and some at home, babies, life, and happiness.

Tonight, all going well, I should really get gluing some jetbike riders together and start whacking paint on them... that is unless my dragon arrives today :)

Centurion Missions updates

It is official.
The missions have been finalised for Centurion and playtesting can begin.

After a personal playtest, I have decided to use the following KP methodology:

This is a slightly modified version of Stelek's 5x5 Missions.

Before deployment, choose 5 valid Kill Points from your opponent's army. Mark this on an army sheet or piece of paper.

Once your opponent has chosen their kill points, you may reveal your choices to them and vice versa.
If your opponent has chosen kill points which are not Kill Points due to specific rules (Tyranid Spore Mines, Lone Wolves) it is your responsibility to let your opponent know and rectify this issue. Failing to do this will grant your opponent these Kill Points should a TO become involved.
These are the only Kill Points that are available from your opponent's army.
The player who gains the most Kill Points wins the goal. If the players both get the same number of Kill Points, this goal is tied.

The line about Lone Wolves being free KP is simply to keep people honest, not to be abused. If it appears to have been abused then the TO will get to make the final decision on whether or not the KP's are awarded. It will be the owning player's responsibility to ensure this is resolved correctly prior to deployment.

Personal Invites of e-peen goodness to Centurion

As many of you know, Centurion is leveraging the power of the intarwebs to bring people together so that they may throw dice at each other.

As such, if you are an Australian Warhammer 40k blogging type person, I WANT YOU.

This is your official 'e-peen invite'.

If I have missed you, don't fret, email me and I will get you added.

Kirby from 3++ is the new black
Taak from YTTH and 3++
Messanger of Death from Imperial Life (I am led to beleive)


If you know, or are, one of the above, please let me know so that I can take your money ensure you get your places!

Updated CENTURION details.

You can now find updated details here http://fester40k.blogspot.com/p/centurion-i.html with payment info (yes, that means you!)

I know its a far way out, but Forgeworld will have to go and raid a few Eldar craftworlds to get that Void Dragon for me.

Oh, and the people I am getting the dice from will have to put a WHOLE new plantation to keep up with the demand of a 2,304 dice order =D

Tell your friends, tell your mother, tell your WAAC douchebag FLGS bastard, we want them all!

With 1 week and a bit's work, we are at 20/64 people interested, thats 30%+ spots taken.

A Gentleman's Ones ... Banner Competition

b.smoove, the ownerer and runnerer of A Gentleman's Ones has recently run a competition to try and get him a new banner, and I thought I would throw my hat in the ring. He was giving away a cupboard of stuff spread around everyone who entered, and I thought "I can get some free loot!".
Heh. Actually I thought something different, but that will come soon.

So my entry is above.
I got an email back from him that went along the following lines:
"Cheers Matt. This is absolutely beautiful, and you've absolutely nailed the concept of the title. "
Now I don't like to spruke (well, OK, I do) but that made me a happy fester.

Anyway, turns out I ranked in the top 5 somewhere (I am claiming 3rd as I'm 3rd on the list)!

To see who beat me, go here -> http://agentlemansones.blogspot.com/2010/09/banner-contest-and-winner-is.html

Now, for the good news, and coming back to my "greed" above.
Whatever loot I get from b.smoove will go straight towards the Centurion Prize pool, and at this point, be given to the best converted miniature in honour of the work b's done here (which is FREAKING AWESOME).

http://agentlemansones.blogspot.com/2010/08/daemon-prince-iii-finished.html

I hope he takes the opportunity to spruke(in-joke) about supporting a Tourney on the wrong side of the planet.
On that note, if you want to sponsor a prize @ Centurion, drop me a line =D

Centurion - The week that is/was.

Oh my, what a week!

It has gone from the CQ 40k Open, to Centurion, and now, looking down the barrel of an actual event!

Kirby has come out and said that he will be spamming Centurion all over the place and that now I have to try and keep up! Gah!

How do I configure that auto-emailer thing that tells you when your name has been mentioned somewhere in the interblogs? Nevermind. too hard.

Lets just go over things here as an idea of what craziness is coming down the pipeline for attendees so people in my life can understand why my brain is leaking out my ears.

24th August: Name Decided. FAIL.
25th August: Name Decided, again.
Kirby posts up about my KP conundrum http://kirbysblog-ic.blogspot.com/2010/08/australian-nova-tournament-by-fester.html
26th August: All images done for websites/blogs/etc
27th August: Player Information Pack Created
28th August: Missions outlined.
Posts go up on RSGA (local Rocky forum) http://rsga.forumup.com.au/viewtopic.php?t=416
... and Wargamer AU http://www.wargamerau.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=101539
Alpha Hobbies come on board as sponsor
29th August: nothing much was posted by me ... but more Alpha Hobbies stuff happened behind the scenes
30th August: Kirby started advertising for me. http://kirbysblog-ic.blogspot.com/2010/08/centurion-australia-nova-tournament.html
Stelek posted about Centurion a little too. http://www.yesthetruthhurts.com/2010/08/tournament-thoughts.html
Some yet to be named new blog-roll people asked if they could help out somehow
31st August: First head count of interested parties - http://www.wargamerau.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=101749
[b]17[/b]
I nearly died.
Also, should hopefully win the competition @ http://agentlemansones.blogspot.com/ for his banner (dreaming, I know) which will be the first prize for the event! Yay! If any other winners want to donate to the cause let me know =D


I seriously had my doubts about this event getting off the ground... now it looks like it might just do that and be a success!

Thanks to those that tirelessly blogged away to get me interest. Thanks to Wonna and Tom for listening to me ramble on at work. Its bloody hard not to when you get 15 emails a day about related topics.

I hope to have some more info this week and some finalised missions stuff.

Once I finally work out what I need to do next, you will see some more action. If silence prevails, I have had one of the following happen:
1. Hit by bus, truck, or wife.
2. Head explodes
3. Finally managed to not wake up at 2am, change a nappy, and check the blogs before I go back to sleep.

Anyway, rambling over.
If all goes well, bank details should be up for pre-pre-pre payments shortly which will mean I can get started on the grab bags.

Centurion - Basic Player Information

The time has come to lay out the event and what is currently planned.

This is liable to change based on unforeseen circumstances.

Overview:

CENTURION is Central Queensland's, and probably both Queensland and Australia's first dedicated no-comp tournament. This event will rank players on games won and lost, not battle points achieved. Winners play winners, until only one undefeated player remains. This person is the CENTURION. The CENTURION is the undisputed winner of the tournament, and takes the honour of being the undefeated player of the event. Defeated players are not relegated to obscurity however, as explained below.

Event:
The event is split into 2 days, and 3 separate tournaments.

Day 0
Provided that we are able to get interest, Friday Night will be the Str10 Challenge, whereby challenges can be levelled at the (hopefully) attending e-celebrities so that you are able to have a crack at their game play.

Day 1 is the Proving Grounds. In order to compete in the CENTURION itself, players must remain undefeated on Day 1. Only the undefeated players go through to the CENTURION. The first day will have 3 or 4 games, depending on player numbers.

Day 2 splits into 2 separate events. The CENTURION, the main event, pits the undefeated players from Day 1 against each other until, battered, bruised and bloodied, only one competitor stands victorious.
For those unlucky enough not to proceed into the CENTURION, there will, be a Combat Patrol Tournament running on the second day, which follows the same rules of Day 1, but with a 400 point limit. If this event does not interest you, tables will be available for pick up games, Apocalypse, or anything else that tickles your fancy. You can also watch the CENTURION unfold with the remaining contestants.

The tournament will have 64 spots available for players. Your place can be secured by contacting retsef@gmail.com and submitting payment by the 30th January 2011. You will also need to submit a 1750 pt list (and no more!) by this date to the same address. This will give the TO's time to check your lists. and perform the other menial tasks that the administratum must perform.

Overview in short hand:

Game Size: 1750 points

Date: 5th and 6th March, 2011

Where: YWCA Hall, Rockhampton, QLD (off Robinson Street)

Entry Fee: $50 per person, includes lunch on both days, and standard dice provided for the event and for players to keep (36 x 12mm dice each)

Places available: 64.

Prizes Available:

• CENTURION (Trophy, Prize) = undefeated across both days
• 2nd Place (Trophy, Prize) = lost to the Tournament Winner in the final
• 3rd Place (Trophy, Prize) = winner of the 3rd/4th placed game
• All Rounder (Trophy, Prize) = 33% Battle Points, 33% Sports, 33% Painting
• Standard Bearer (Trophy, Prize) = Best Painted Mini as voted by the TO’s
• Trojan Horse (Trophy, Prize) = Best Converted Miniature as voted by the TO’s
• Spit and Polish (Trophy, Prize) = Best Overall Army as voted by Players
• All players that are unbeaten on Day 1 will receive a trophy.
• Steward of the Horses (Prize) = Combat Patrol Tournament winner
• A large number of lucky draw prizes will be available to losing players across the weekend. The more you lose, the more likely you are to win something! (No player will win more than one prize).

Requirements for players: All armies must be painted to a 3 colour minimum. Any armies that are not cannot proceed to Day 2's CENTURION event, regardless of victory. Unpainted armies will be allowed at the tournament, as not player should be excluded from playing based on this requirement.

"A warrior must go to battle with clean armor and weapons. To not do so is inviting disaster."

Sponsorship: We currently are not sponsored by any companies. If you would like to sponsor us, or provide subsidized prize support, or just remark on my roguish good looks, please don't hesitate to contact me at retsef@gmail.com

We are however, sponsored by 3++ is the new black who is doing some friendly advertising for us!
If you have a blog or site and are advertising for us, please let me know and I will add you to the Sponsorship lists!

CENTURION - propaganda begins...

With the name decision finalised, we are able to begin moving onto other important facets of the tournament.

Firstly: Logos and banners.

Anyone who would like to help promote this tournament is requested to do one of the following:
1. Select your prefered image from the pile below and link back to fester40k.blogspot.com
2. Pop me an email with the specific wording you would like on your banner/image ... I will build it, and link back to fester40k.blogspot.com

Right, the important things out of the road ... the banners themselves!

What does everyone think of the images / theme / layout ?

Now to start on the paperwork :)