*****THE BRISTOL WARMER: A BRAND NEW TOURNAMENT EXPERIENCE FOR A BRAND NEW YEAR!*****

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MoK, In association with The Bristol Vanguard and The South West Slaughterers Present:

THE BRISTOL WINTER WARMER: Saturday the 23rd of January, 2010 10am-6/7pm.  The Bristol Winter Warmer is a 1 day, 3,000 point tournament with a twist! Held at Bristol Harbours Benjamin Perry Boathouse (Charming Views and just a short walk from the station) for the princely sum of £12 you get 3 games of Epic Armageddon, as much tea and coffee as you can drink and the chance to win hard to find Epic Goodies...but wait! There's more!

For the first time in UK Epic Tournament history not only will you JUST be playing Epic Armageddon firstly, you can bring ALMOST ANY ARMY YOU WANT and secondly the tournament will be played using SCENARIOS written, developed and playtested by Taccomm's very own Chroma as opposed to the standard Grand Tournament Scenario found in the Epic Rulesbook.  For more information on these aspects of the tournament please read 'How Will it Work?' below.


Booking and Payment*
The Bristol Winter Warmer is an independent event run by Ryan Downes ('Man of Kent'); a regular Epic UK tournament attendee and long time Taccoms member. Prebooked payments only can be made to Ryan either in person by cash or by cheque and logged into the tournaments record keeping book or sent via Paypal to Last_action_hobbit@yahoo.co.uk after which your payment will be be withdrawn and put into the tournament pot. There are a total of 16 PLACES for the tournament.
Army lists are to be submitted by MONDAY NOVEMBER THE 23rd 2009 after which the three scenarios that will be played during the tournament will be announced to allow players two months to familiarise themselves with style of play and individual scenario rules in order to allow smooth running of the event.
PLEASE SEND PAYPAL PAYMENTS AS 'PERSONAL MONEY OWED' SO AS THE EVENT DOESN'T LOSE OUT ON FEES (£1 buys quite a few tea bags!)

Confirmed Entrants Below:
1: E&C
2: Zombocom
3: GLyn G's Mate
4: Glyn G
5: Reedar
6: Joe Jephson
7: Ginger
8: EdgarSan
9: (SPARE TICKET)
10: Alansa
11: Steve54
12: Zog
13: Zog's Mate Rob
14: Pulsar
15: Al Cameron/Hymirl
16: Zog's Belgium Mate


EVENT FACILITIES
The Scout Hut has full toilet and kitchen facilities as well as gas fired heaters. Tea, coffee and snacks will be on hand as well as a microwave and oven (pizza lunch anyone?); attendees are more than free to bring thier own food and drink to the event. The town centre is a 2-3 minute walk for those that wish to buy food etc. Although we don't have a bar you are more than welcome to Bring Your Own for pre/during/post game tipples :-)

Looking forward to seeing you there!
Yrs,
R>


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HOW WILL IT WORK?

The Bristol Winter Warmer is intented to give a unique tournament feel in a relaxed and open enviroment with the aims of allowing playtesting at a competitive level, the use of armies and miniatures that people can't usually field and, most importantly, providing epic scaled fun :-)

Over the course of the day we will be playing 3 different 'Total War' Scenarios at 3000pts: which ones will be announced and detailed after army list submittal as mentioned above. The result of this being that players will have to find new and exciting ways of fielding an army that is capable of handling any given situation. An army that specialises in drop podding or air assualting may not do so well if it finds itself on the ground being ambushed between engagements! Not to mention it would be missing out on much valued support!

SCEANRIO RULES
Once the three scenarios have been officially announced then each will be given an official document for this tournament based on Chroma's original work with clarifications and Tournament Errata applied if neccasary, details, links etc will appear here nearer the time.

SCORING POINTS
The tournament will be run using the now traditoinal Swiss System used by Epic UK. Where neccasary an identical points scoring system per game will created based on standard Epic UK GT Scenario point scoring system.
Bonus points will be, as ever, awarded for Sportsmanship and Painting.  Sportsmanship scores also give players an oppurtunity to rate the suitability of an opponents force.

PRIZES AND POSITIONS
Several Trophies and Prizes will be up for grabs for 1st, 2nd, 3rd, Best Army (Players and Judges Choice), Most Sporting and 'Wooden Spoon' positions.
In addition we can now reveal that we are having several special pieces sent to us! For 1st Prize the winner will walk away with a detachment of Krieg Gorgons, 2nd Prize will gain ownership of an Epic Scale Necron Pylon whilst 3rd prize will be gifted with a battery of Thudd Guns and thier accompanying Transports!
Additionally we are hoping to procure a prize for Players best painted and there will also be a super secret, rather rare, titbit as a consolidation prize; even the loser wins!
All of the above prizes have been donated/sourced from within the Taccomms community :-)  

************Additional Details concerning how the event will run to appear here*********************
                         Notices of Updates will Appear in Thread

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APPROVED ARMY LISTS:


Below you will find a list of all Army lists that will be allowed at the tournament; I've lent on the side of liberalism is attempting to get as big a spread as possible but avoided lists I have doubts about or that are obviously not fully tested. Please pay heed to any numbered notes and feel free to contact me for further information/explanations.

This list will be updated over time and version number LOCKED at the end of November 2009

Army list submission is due on Friday the 27th of November, please use the LATEST VERSION of any taccom's lists.

-Epic UK Approved Lists
 -Codex Space Marines
 -Waagh Ghazgulls Orks
 -Armageddon Steel Legion**
 -Ork Speed Freeks
 -Swordwind Biel Tan Eldar
 -Swordwind Feral Orks
 -Swordwind Siege Masters (1)
 -Chaos Black Legion
 -Chaos The Lost and The Damned
-Space Marines
 -Scions of Iron
 -Salamanders
 -Black Templars
-Eldar
 -Ulthwe
 -Epic 'Raiders' Dark Eldar
-Imperial Guard
 -Epic 'Raiders' Minervan Tank Legion
-Imperial Guard Siege Troops (Both found in E&C's 'Siege' Supplement)
 -Mossinian Rebels
 -Death Korps of Krieg
-Titan Legions etc.
 -War Gryphonnes
 -Orkimedes Gargant Big Mob
-Other Chaos
 -Red Corsairs (2)
-Aliens and Others
 -Tau (Taccomms)
 -Tyranids (Taccomms)
 -Epic 'Raiders' Necrons
 -French Squats


**(we regret that due to timescales we will not be able to accept Epic UK Imperial Guard Armies in the Epic UK codex due in December)
(1): We strongly encourage players to use either of the alternative lists provided under 'Siege Troops'
(2): we currently view this list as being very much in the experimental stages, players wishing to field a chaos force are strongly enouraged to use the Black Legion list instead.

In any cases apart from Epic UK approved army lists please CONTACT US for a confirmation of rules and version used.

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/signup

You can consider Zombocom /signed too, although he's on holiday for the next week or more without net access.

Not War Gryphonnes 3.14?

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If only i had a finished army and knew how to play epic  

How long do you expect to have tickets/places left for?

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What Apocolocyntosis said.
I'm living with some keen painters from sept so should be able to get an army together (with luck), but I'm still a teeny bit short on actual playing experience.

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oooo I might have to take Orkimedes for this one

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Just like Rug I have two or three spare armies that I can lend out to those who don't have their own forces ready yet.

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Excellent :-)

The Wiki told me 3.13; if 3.14 is the most current then that's the one we'll use.

See my next reply for a note on booking.

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Wow! Such interest so quickly; thanks to those offering to lend miniatures thus far; if anyone get's in trouble it's a much appreciated gesture! But hey! You can easily use tourney attendance as an excuse to get your armies painted in time  

APOC and MADDOCTOR: you'd both be very welcome to this event judging by what i've seen online thus far! Get cracking gents!

A NOTE ON PAYMENT/BOOKING

I'd just like to note that life will be easier the quicker people can get payment/cash confirmation of attendance to me; until then I can't currently pay for the hall and other such things so booking far ahead of time is very much appreciated (thankyou Rug!).
For those concerned we WILL be offering Refunds for the event using the same system as Epic UK (three weeks to cancel)

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A NOTE ON PAYMENT

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It's turned up, thanks very much Ben  

That's 3/16 places gone after just 5 minutes of the event 'opening' officially guys! Keep em coming!

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MoK, a word of caution:-  the "Epic-uk scoring system" is geared towards the E:A 'tournament' game with objectives etc. IIRC few if any of the scenarios use this approach, so I don't think it would work.

Also, given the principles stated in earlier posts, it may be better to hold this as a kind of pseudo campaign using a 'ladder' approach to organising games between two arbitrary groups of people rather than a formal competition as such.

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I guess I agree with Gavin, if it's not using the tournament scenario, is it in actual fact a tournament?

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