KT Event: MINI-CORE

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MINI-CORE
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--A KIWITHRALLS EVENT--
NOVEMBER 22ND 2009 AUCKLAND CITYGUARD

Mini-core is a Kiwithralls event, focusing on being a miniature version of the popular top level hardcore Privateer Press class of events. In this event, players compete against one another over a series of quick and ferocious games in an attempt to kill as many opponents as possible.

Details:
This event will be run using the MkII Warmachine rules and stat cards, currently downloadable from the Privateer Press website. As Hordes won’t have their field-test rules available until after the event, they are unfortunately excluded.

Each player will be allowed to play with one 15pt army of their choosing, there will be no restrictions on force selection aside from those specified by the main rules. That is, these games are not restricted to Mangled Metal and Retribution of Scyrah Tier lists are allowed.

Players will be pit against each other using a standard strength of schedule system and will play a series of four games. Event winners will be determined purely by the number of games they have won; and strength of schedule will be used in the event of a tie.

Strength of Schedule will be based on the total number of wins your opponents have had (combined), if this fails to break a tie, we will only look at your opponents you have won against, and if that fails to break a tie… well, we may have to roll a dice or something.

Each game will be played using the modified Assassins scenario Army Breaker.

Additionally, each game will be planned to have 5 minute turns, or 30minutes of play per person. This time limit will not be strictly enforced by the tournament organizer; however, games will not be allowed to play for longer than one hour each, and stalling for time will be severely punished.

Cost:
To play in this event will cost $10 - this price is inclusive of the normal club table fees, etc.

Prizes:
Prizes are still being finalised, but they will be based on rankings and hopefully of a swag nature (SR coins perhaps).

Scenario: Army Breaker
Special rules – this scenario has no special rules
Victory conditions –

• When only one player has a Warcaster remaining, that player immediately wins the game.
• Alternatively, if at the end of any player turn only one player has non-Warcaster models in play, the player with non-Warcaster models wins the game.

If at the end of six rounds (or one hour of play) there is no winner, then the player with the most points worth of models left on the table wins for strength of schedule purposes only. In all other respects a tie counts as a loss.

Event Requirements:

• Models for one 15pt Warmachine army;
• Relevant Stat Cards, Markers, Effect Tokens, Templates, Dice and Measuring Tapes;
• As MkII is still relatively new you would be advised to bring a copy of the rules too; and
• Two written army lists detailing your army of choice
  (one for the tournament organizer, one for you opponents to view prior to each game)

Event Timetable:

• 1:00pm. Event begins – people arrive, etc
• 1:30pm. First game begins
• 2:40pm Second game begins
• 3:40pm break begins
• 4:15pm Third game begins
• 5:25pm. Fourth game begins
• 6:30pm. Prize Giving – people leave, etc

Actual times may vary from those shown here, but games will not begin before 1:30pm.

CityGuard will be open from 1-7pm on this particular Sunday; a “bring and buy” table and a sausage sizzle will also be on site.

What to do with old Cards?

Here’s an idea.


I haven’t seen anyone else do this, so I’m claiming it as my idea! (copywrite)

For Warmachine, MkI is dead... the old cards are somewhat useless, and everything is now in PDFs. Some people play with huge sheets of printed of cards, other cut up the printed cards and put them in sleeves... and other have got in trouble for distributing custom cards.

Personally, I cannot be bothered going to the effort of (making or) printing custom colour cards, and find the PDFs horrible looking and hard to read.

Luckily I’ve got a ton of old MkI cards, which are useless to me now.


So, grab some cards, some twink/white out/whatever, and a pen.


You can then correct all the stats and ability changes on the card, which looks a little less pretty, but still a lot prettier than the standard PDFs... And everything is arranged in a simple, familiar and easily recognisable format.

You can even glue the info from the new stat cards (printed at 6 to an A4 page), on the back of the cards – for full reference, and so your opponent can be confident you haven’t written MAT 8 instead of MAT 6 ;)


Simple, effective and pretty...
...now you can buy the new stat cards (coming out in Jan?) at your leisure.

Honestly, I prefer the structure of these cards to the new ones I’ve seen.


(I know I've used simple cards with minimal changes in the above pictures, they're just the ones that were on my desk when I decided to take some pictures. I've done it with more detailed cards, just remember you only need keywords on the front - details can be glued to the back.)

KIWITHRALLS, what are the Kiwithralls about?

The Kiwithralls are a group of NZ gamers, nominally centered around the Cityguard gaming club in Auckland New Zealand.

However this site/blog does not exist to service this club, this site is about Warmachine and Hordes in New Zealand. Here we advertise NZ events, clubs/playgroups supporters and anything else worthwhile to the gaming scene.

The thralls themselves also make additional posts about their armies and fully pictured battle reports, with a hope to help inspire the national scene.

We have a contents page of sorts set up here

The thralls:

• Chris – the original ‘K/thrall’, a painting buff and absolute PP fan.
  Expect some awesome paint jobs (and a different army each month) from this one.
  Forum name – Dizzy
• Haydn – theme buff, cautious PP fan and general community buff.
  Expect theme nonsense here (FTW).
  Forum name(s) – thecsharian and hausdorff space.
• James – a game buff, PP fan and medium level powergamer.
  Expect winning lists and lots of strong ‘top tier/bottom tier’ opinions and views.
  Forum name – dicegod

In addition to the thralls, we try to maintain a network of national contacts, who keep us informed of upcoming events and their results.

North Island Thrall contacts:

• Hamilton – JJ
  Forum name – DonJean
• Wellington – Sean
  Forum name - Ana Su

South Island Thrall contacts:

• Timaru - Owen
  Forum name - Izza

Lets us know:

• If you think you’re in a position to be a contact.
• If you have an event you want us to advertise.
• If I’ve made a mistake with any of the details here - I’ll fix them.

KIWITHRALLS, show your support

Live in NZ? Play Warmachine or Hordes? Know of the Kiwithralls?

Yes?

Well, in that case, do you have a Kiwithrall banner in your forum signature?...

...you better.

If these aren’t your sort of thing, feel free to steal any of the K/thrall pictures/logos you find sitting around the blog.
- Though you should probably host the images yourself.

And ask your FLGS to put up one of these up near their Warmachine stock.

Want to see something else on a banner? Then let us know.

KIWITHRALLS, the second coming

Well, slowly things are coming together...

...and seeing as nobody else has posted recently, I guess I should.

Kiwithralls MkII is coming; MkII, does that sound familiar?

We’ve pretty much finished fiddling around with the blog ‘picture-wise’, along with some background issues; now we’re just tidying up some of the extra blog structure, etc.

Now, with the finalization of all these changes, K/thralls will be pushing to change its position on the ‘local’ gaming scene. We want to move away from being a site revolving around a single gaming group, and redirect ourselves towards what we had (collectively) always planned this site to be.

We will be specifically moving toward being a site about events, clubs and inspiration for gaming around the New Zealand warmachine and hordes gaming scene.

So, we will be setting up a group of K/thrall correspondents, at least one for each area, who we will use as a source for upcoming events, and give us after reports to post. If you have anything you would like to see posted about or advertised on this site; or if you would like to be such a contact, let us know.

Additionally we plan to be advertised in every relevant gaming store throughout the country...so if you see a store without a little advert of ours, let us know.

Just to make this clear, we aren’t doing this to lord over the NZ scene, but to offer a place linking us all together – a portal to Warmachine and Hordes in NZ.

And, alongside the release of MkII Warmachine, Hordes and Kiwithralls, we are hoping to run a national escalation league. If you think your club or gaming group would be interested in joining in, let us know.

Join us in the kiwification of the iron kingdoms, support the Kiwithralls today.
(please host this yourself and use as signature image link to this site.)
(EDIT: You may want to resize it first)

Degrees of Inner Turbulence

SPECIAL SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT:

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"KIWITHRALLS"

IS UNDERGOING SOME CHANGES
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Yes indeedy. As you can probably tell just by looking at the page, changes are afoot. Really this should have been noted sooner, but someone forgot to pass on the memo.

In either case, the blog seems to be getting a new look, and I guess one can expect it to be in a state of flux for the foreseeable future.

This shouldn't stop updates though, so hopefully some other thrall will be along with an update some time in the future.


On relate news, Owen (a.k.a Izza) has decided to step away from the K/thralls to focus on more important things - like children and the fight against 3 of them. We wish him good luck with that, and hope he'll still stop by on the odd ocassion.
- We will endeavour to still carry full information with regards to South Island Events.

James - I'd like to thank Izza as well and wish him all the best with his kids and other endeavors.

Talking about events, if people are running events and would like to advertise one, send us an email at kiwithralls@gmail.com or leave comment!

Post a comment of what you think of the new and "improved" blog layout. All comments are appreciated.

I've been a wee bit busy with Uni at the moment - but after this weekend I'll be doing a post or two when tests/labs ease up a bit. I'm still gaming and love Mk2. Guardcon was a great success and a farewell to Mk1.

You’re a superstar

Army of Two (Guardcon) – Report

This past weekend was the Guardcon wargaming event. Guardcon was originally a GW centric gaming weekend, but over the last few years Warmachine has been promoting an events alongside it.

This year James and I organized “Army of Two” - a 1000pt SR4 event where 16 players bought two 500pt lists each (and were allowed one epic) and paired up, using their lists to make two 1000pt lists. We managed to fill all 16 spots (with James and I competing, but ineligible to win any prizes), with quite a strong out of town (Hamilton) contingent.

All in all James and I were really happy with the turn out, and feel it was a great success (we cannot remember the last time an event had a full turn out); and are sure the participants will agree.

Teams and final rankings were:
1. Ian and Piers – Trollbloods
2. Haydn and James (event organizers) – Khador
3. Damon and Tian – Cygnar (tied with the team below)
4. Andrew and Chris – Circle (tied with the team above)
5. Scott and Paul – Mercs and Khador
6. Jon and Chaun - Khador
7. Jean-Jac and Glenn – Cryx and Mercs
8. Alan and J_S - Skorne

And we had prizes for “First place”, “Woodenspoon” (last place team), and the “Mage Hunter” award (which went to Damon for killing 4 casters), and his “Back Up” (which went to Tian).

We really ought to thank GF9 for coming to the party and giving us some great prize support – First place got a set of Warcogs (and some vagabonds vouchers) each and GF9 helped us out in giving the Woodenspoons a GF9 Toolkit each (to help them build a winning army for next time :p); Mage Hunter got vouchers and a PP patch, with a patch to his back up.

Thank you GF9 you guys are awesome – people go buy their goods.


So with all that... some pictures of the day:
















And last but not least, J_S despairing as eMorghoul, Molik Kharn, Rhadeim, and other skorne Brokenness fails to improve his winning streak.




Thanks everyone who attended, it was awesome