Well guys its all over and I have to thank you all for a truly monumental day. 14 people turned out for 4 rounds of fast and furious BFG action.

On the whole I think the day went well, there are of course things as the organiser that I'd do differently next time (and there will be a next time - it was just too much fun), but I got round to seeing most of you play on the day, and all of you seemed to be having fun.

Stand out moments for me included:

- Watching an Admirals flagship fail a critical brace roll, from a long range torpedo salvo, that was the only thing that stopped Richard from getting his admiral off the board in the blockade run mission.
- Joel's Chaos fleet bearing down on blackstone 6, making their boarding role and then launching a nasty volley just as JD's Imperials came into range of the station. Chaos hulked the station but it could have been so much more deadly if the blackstone had suffered a plasma overload.
- Gary's Orks going up against Rob's chaos in the heart of the Bellos star, that one looked like a blood bath!
- Richard picket line disintegrating whilst desperately trying to stop a chaos fleet from launching an exterminatus on his home planet
- And of course Justins chorus of 'Who let the squigs out' in round 4 and the Orky 'Hold on Ladz' everytime his ships took a pummeling (fairly regular)
- By far the hardest though was judging the painting competition. There were three standout fleets and I eventually had to involve Justin and Sue (Da Misses) to help me make the final decision.


The finals scores are as follows:

Congratulations to
Richard Henderson (Best Painted)
Justin Blankley (Best Sportsman)
Travis Kirke (Best Captain)
Tom White (Legendary Admiral & the Arnie Award)
Black Squadron for team score

Hi,
cool!!

Please report on:
fleets participating, if possible ship selection.
Which race won etc

As much detail info on these things. It's important!

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we played 1000pt each, I donot have copies of fleet lists but here is the final listing

Thanks, so Chaos won? Noyce. Try to get hold of some fleet lists if you can. Would be appreciated IMMENSL.

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here is a link to the players pack

http://cid-1e41861a0c46f243.office.live ... k%20v1.pdf

The red and black are the teams we where devided into at the start.we all took a playing card that where either a black or red with a number from 2-9, and that also was our first round match. red 2 played black 2. You do not play any one on your red or black team and the results work together for overall winning team.

we have more info and photos on the club blog

http://kragenerals.blogspot.com/

thanks

Justin

I can help out with any specific questions you might have about the tournament as I ran it on the day. Basically the premises was simple, I knew there were pockets of players here in Western Australia and I wanted to get them together. The club that Justin (Magic Number) and I help to run has been building up interest in BFG for about 4 months. We got 7-8 people up to speed in our club then went visiting the other local clubs to weasel out the other players. In all we had 14 turn up on the day and we have firm hopes of getting more next year. The trick has been to build up the interest, get everyone to try the game and to keep wetting the appetites of players with a little bit more information about the tournament each week.

I only have a handful of the lists played on the day, from the guys who mailed me in advance. There are as follows:

List 1 - Chaos
Chaos Warmaster (Ld 8, 1 Reroll)
Repulsive - Grand Cruiser with Extended Lance Upgrade
Hades - Heavy Cruiser
Devestation - Cruiser
Murder - Cruiser
3 Idolators - Escorts

List 2 - Eldar
Void Stalker Battleship
Hellebore Frigates x2
Aconite Frigates x2
Nightshade Destroyers x6
Pirate Prince

List 3 - Tau
Tau Kor'el (Ld 8, 1 re-roll)
Custodian Class Carrier
Protector Class Warship - x2 @ 190
Castellan Class Heavy Escorts - x4
Warden class carrier escort - x2

List 4 - Necrons
Scythe
Shroud
6 Jackals
3 or 4 dirges


Tournament format was 4 x 1.5 hour games with two standard misssions and two battlefield missions. The latter gave everyone the chance to use the celestial phononena rules, with nebulas, plasma clouds, warp rifts and all manner of other things making space an even more horrific place to fight a battle.

To simplify scoring a maximum of 20 points was available for destroying or crippling your opponents fleet. To keep it really simple a 1000 point fleet gave up a maximum of 20 battle points (1000/50 - 20pts). There were then 5 extra points available for achieving a secondary objective in the mission, such as boarding hulks, capturing the opponents admiral, etc. Finally there were points for painting and sportsmanship. The latter I wouldn't do again because the guys were so nice to each other they all did a little too well in this category!

There were some absolutely epic battles and in our small hall the cries of "BFI!" came thick and fast. Monumental day and one I hope to write up in a bit more detail for Warprift over XMAS (if they'l have the submission).

Some other pics taken on the day:

That's Trasvi's list. He posted it at the SG forum. Cool pics.

Ofcourse Warp Rift will accept it.

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It certainly is and that's his fleet at the bottom. It placed 3rd overall in the painting with only a point in the painting scores between 3rd and 1st.

'Shield of Truth' is one of mine - a loaner fleet on the day.