Scoring in competitions and Warlord 40,000

Morning all,

Whilst my work PC updated this morning, I began reading through an article on Bell of Lost Souls discussing Competition scoring and trying to balance this in favour of closer, more enjoyable games, as opposed to being completely crushed while someone goes for that 32-Nil massacre result.

You can find the article here: http://www.belloflostsouls.net/2010/12/guest-editorial-why-battlepoints-are.html and I'd suggest having a read through the comments and see what people think. There's some good arguments for and against each method.

So what I want to think about here is what scoring system should we be using for the Warlord competition in the New Year...

The previous years, we've used the 32-Nil scoring system and had close games alongside crushing victories, getting tabled etc. etc. Is this something worth continuing, especially when we take into account the number of players at the club and how previous years have gone in regards to points.

What I would suggest in future would be the following, similar to Football League scoring:
Win = 3 points
Draw = 1 point
Loss = 0 points

In the event of a tie for any positions, these will be resolved with a Play Off game at that time between the 2 players tied for that spot. In the event that this is then a tie, we can either have a fight in the car park or continue playing into sudden death turns, where any Turn that the objectives are drawn, we continue until a clear winner has been decided upon.

This system cuts down on book keeping, gives clear wins to those who play to the mission and resolves ties in a better way than Kill Point / Victory Point difference. It should also mean that games are closer and more fun than removing your army piece by piece until Turn 4 when your last unit of Grots is pulled off the board and you face a tabling.

What do you guy think about it, and which scoring systems do you prefer when playing in events?

Peace,
SB

[Event] MAWS Combat Patrol Cup

Hi all,

Thought I'd take a moment to pass this around. We spoke last week about running a 1 night tournament, using 500pt Combat Patrol forces.

You can find the first draft rulespack here: MAWS Combat Patrol Cup

Let me know what you think of the rules and whether you can see any changes that will be needed.

Rough estimate for the cup to take place is Mid to End of November, which gives plenty of time to everyone getting their forces bought, built and painted up! (Also a good excuse to get a project blog running in the lead-up to the competiton!)

Peace,
SB.

Britcon 2010 the aftermath

Hi all Angryman here,

Its been 2 weeks since Britcon, I've been a bit busy with one thing or another so I'm only just getting round to publishing my results.  All the games are based on a 32 - 0 scoring system (with a sliding scale)

There were 16 players that entered.  Out of that there were 5 Tyranid armies, 2 Imperial Guard armies, 3 Space Wolf armies, 2 Slannesh Daemon armies, 1 Ork army, 1 Chaos Space Marine army, 1 Sisters of Battle army and a Dark Eldar army.

My first opponent was Iain (for some reason I kept calling him Neil, must have been the booze).  He used a Space Wolf army.  The game was a variation on kill points, I won the game 20 - 12

A lot of the force was in transports

His Thunderwolf cavalry looked so good I had to include a picture of them

My next opponent was another Tyranid Player, Ross.  He had a similar list to mine.  The game was capture and control.  I won the game 32 - 0

He set his force up around his objective

The scratch built Mysetic Spore was too good not to show

My next opponent was Josh, he brought a mechanised Imperial Guard army.  This mission was objectives (5 of them).  I lost 32 - 0.  My only consoling grace was that Josh went on to finish 1st at Britcon

Most of the units started in transports

My next opponent was Martin, he brought. a Tyranid army.  The mission was a variation on objectives )5 of them).  Unfortunately I didn't take any pictures of his army.  I blame it on the booze.  After a 7 turn game it ended up a draw 16 - 16

My next opponent was called Robert.  He brought a Dark Eldar army along, i was quite nervous because i had only ever played Dark Eldar twice before and the amount of dark lances scared the crap out of me.  The misson was called Slave Raid (from the battle missions book).  I won 24 - 8

His 2 light blue raiders contained his 2 large assault units

My last opponent was called Micheal, he brought Chaos Space Marines.  The mission was one I've never played before, I think it was out of the battle missions book, I cant remember it properly, it was to capture 3 objectives and you played length ways across the board.  I won the game 32 - 0

His army represented all 4 powers and started off in transports

I really liked his daemon prince so I had to show it.

After 2 days and a night, 6 games and a lot of alcohol I finished 4th - I missed out on 3rd by 4 points!!!!  Oh well there is always next year to bring home a trophy!

Britcon 2010 - Angryman's Tyranids

Hi all,

Angryman here, August 13th sees the start of Britcon 2010.  Its a 6 game, 3 day, 2000 point tournament held every year in Manchester.  MAWS players have entered the 40K competition for the past 4 years.  Each year our final positions have been higher and higher, hopefully this year we can bring home a trophy for the club.

This year I'm taking my Tyranids.  I've showcased my Tyranid army on previous posts but I wanted to show you what I'm taking.

Hive Tyrant and 2 Tyrant Guard

Tyranid Prime and 4 Tyranid Warriors

The Doom of Malan'tai and a Mysetic Spore

3 Hive Guard

3 Zonathropes

2 Tervigons

two units of 14 Termagants

Carnifex

  

Trygon Prime

5 objective markers

The colour scheme I chose  was a variant of Hive Fleet Behemoths colours.  To protect the models and give them a slimy look I 'ardcoated the entire army and objective markers.

Last year I finished 4th, hopefully (with a lot of luck) this year will see Hive Fleet Tattybojangles finish at least 3rd.  There is always good competition at the event and the rules pack makes sure there are no 'internet lists'  or 'power lists'.  There is a link to the Britcon home page under MAWS links where you can see the rules for the various different wargames played there.