Tournament November 21st

[gobby]

Just a reminder about the upcoming tournament. This will be three rounds, 2000 points, on November 21. Check in starts at noon. Special characters are allowed for this event. As always, your sportsmanship and the presentation of your army will have an impact on the outcome. I hope to see you there.

[Visago]

I was reading on a warhammer fan website the other day and it mentioned a large tourney out in the mid west that had an interesting custom rule to it. Armies were required to have 900 points of core troops, and I believe the lists were the average 2000-2250 point lists. So roughly half of the army was rank and file core units. Even if named characters were allowed, I think they'd be over shadowed by the bulk of these core units.

While I wouldn't suggest this at such short notice for the tourney on the 21st, would there be any interest in having a tourney with that as it's guide line?
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[gobby]

I like the idea a lot, but, then again, my core guys cost around 50 points each, so it's pretty easy for me. Are there armies for which it would be an unwieldy format? Is there a table large enough for 900 points worth of zombies? Or 900 points worth of clanrats?

[Visago]

That is an important consideration. Though undead have other things in their core besides zombies, I think skeletons are twice the cost of zombies at 8 points. I haven't seen the new skaven army book, so I'm not sure what they have for core besides clan rats now.

I think 900 points of zombies equals 225 models, assuming I have the current codex which puts them at 4 points each.

Horde armies would definitely be a challenge under this format due to the volume of models people have to bring to the table. My swordsmen are 6pts each, though I have the option of fielding knights at 23 points each too. Undead have the option of bat swarms which are 35 points per base, and corpse carts which are much higher then that point wise. So they wouldn't just be limited to skeles and zombies in their core selection.

Orks and Goblins might have a tough time with the model volume too.
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[hellion]

it's an interesting idea i could easily do that with either my beasts or my tomb kings, any fantasy army should have at least 1/3 of it's points in core.
i won't be making this one november is a busy month but the next one i'll try hard to make it epecially if we use this format

[Larabic]

Sounds fun, i think every army can do this too:

Undead have zombies, skeletons, wolves and bat swarms.

Skaven have clanrats, slaves, weapon teams, stormvermin, rat swarms.

Plenty of choices, i would like to see this kind of format in a 1500 pt army or so. I would basically be 1-2 heroes with mostly core and 1 unit of special to represent his retinue.
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