The Book of Grudges is a Warhammer Fantasy Battle
tournament consisting of 6 games played over 2 days. September 8th and 9th 2012. Games will
be played with 2400 point armies.
Book of Grudges is designed to encourage a fun and
fair weekend of wardolly madness. We expect that players will use their sense
of fair play, courage in battle, and skill in painting wargaming miniatures.
This player pack is designed to explain how players will
be awarded points in sports, painting, composition,
and generally to explain what I expect at BOG 2012.
Book of Grudges will be held at The Hampton
Community Centre.
Hampton Community Centre
14 Willis Street,
Hampton VIC 3188
Registration Information:
Please email
Please email your army lists to
whatisabattle(at)gmail.com
(use the @ not (at) please)
We will once again be sponsored and supported by The Hampton Club and Realm Of Legends.
Schedule
September 8th and 9th 2012.
Saturday
9:20 am – Registration
10:00 – Game One Begins
12:30 – Game One Ends. Lunch Time.
1:00 – Game Two Begins
3:30 – Game Two Ends
4:00 – Game Three Begins
6:30 – Game Three Ends
Sunday
10:00 – Game Four Begins
12:30 – Game Four Ends. Lunch. Player's Choice
voting.
1:00 – Game Five Begins
3:30 – Game Five Ends
4:00 – Game Six Begins
6:30 – Game Six Ends.
7:00 – Presentation and Wrap Up.
Army
Guidelines:
Armies can be not larger than 2400 points.
Back of the book lists (if you can find one these
days) are NOT allowed.
The Chaos Dwarf list out of TAMURKHAN THE THRONE OF CHAOS will be
allowed (no other things will be allowed from that book).
All Games Workshop army books are allowed. If new
books come out they maybe used but books released after the due date for lists
may not be used.
Lists are due no later than 11:59 August 24th.
Players who turn in lists after this time will be penalized for lateness. If
your list is deemed to be too “hard” you may be asked to resubmit your list. If
you are asked to resubmit your list you will have 48 hours to do so. If you are
asked to resubmit a 2nd time or you take longer than 48 hours you will be hit
with a 5 point comp penalty. If you are new to this sort of thing please ask
and we can help you.
Special Characters are allowed.
General
Note:
For the purposes of Line of Sight, all models count
as being the correct size and shape as a standard Citadel figure. In addition, True
Line of Sight will be used as per the rulebook.
Models should resemble the units ad characters that
they represent. Please contact the T.O. if you have any questions regarding
this.
Scoring:
Players in the Book of Grudges will be scored out
of 200 possible tournament points. These points will be distributed as follows.
Composition/Battle: 120 points (6 games of 20)
Sports: 30 points
Painting: 20 points
These points are further broken down as follows…
Sportsmanship:
At the conclusion of every round, players will be
asked to judge the conduct and behavior of their opponents out of following
options.
(SKULL)Why the %^*k is this guy here other than to
annoy me? Worst Game EVER!!! (This Result will bring a judge for a chat.)
• (Meh) The game has been tense and not in a good
way. There were frequent arguments and my opponent did not take winning or
losing those arguments well. This was not a fun game!
• (Good) It was a good game of Warhammer. My
opponent and I disagreed a few times but we worked it out. It was alright but
not life changing by any stretch of the imagination.
• (Coolness) This is the kind of game I came to BOG
to play. My opponent and I may not have always agreed but this did not stop us
from having a good time and working things out. We laughed, rolled some dice
and played some fun Warhammers. This guy is a pretty good dude.
• (AWESOME!!!) This is maybe the best game of
Warhammer I have ever played (hands down). I have found my new best friend and
I am so excited that I will be telling my poor bored wife/girlfriend/ pet rock
about this game for years! (This result will result in a judge coming to
discuss your opponent/game [WE WANT TO BE BORED TOO!!!].)
In addition to this game-by-game system, at the end
of each tournament day you will have the opportunity to vote on your favourite
player of THAT day. Players who receive the most of these votes will gain bonus
points.
As you can see this system is weighted quite
heavily towards the middle and that is what we expect most players to get after
any given game. We built as system that’s aim it is to really reward those
players that are energetic, sociable, and (most importantly) FUN to play
against.
Painting:
All armies must be WYSIWYG (What you see is what
you get), and models must appropriately represent their unit. Unpainted models
will be allowed.
Is the army fully painted (with a at least three
colours)? 10 points
Has some effort been made to highlight/shade/detail
models? 3 points.
Has there been considerable effort put into highlights/
shading/ detail painting of models? 2 points
Is there free hand detail painting in the army? 2
points
Does this army show a significant number of/ high
quality conversions? 2 point.
Are the models in this army based (and movement
“tray”ed) appropriately? 2 points
Has considerable effort been put into the basing of
this army? 1 point
Does the army have a based and painted display
board? 1 point
Painting scores max out at 20.
Composition:
We expect all BOG players to be of the maturity and
calibre of gamer that they know what is acceptable and what is not. We, the
judges, like armies that have a good solid troops core, as well
as a great theme that is within the WFB Ethos.
(This has
been stolen from Chris Cousin’s Empire in
Flames Player Pack). A panel of judges will give your army list a score out
of 10, to reflect how powerful it is. The more powerful, the lower the score.
This is to ensure that no matter how hard or soft your army is, you will have a
chance of winning the event.
After each
game, compare your score with your opponent’s. Halve the difference between the
two, adding that final result to the person with the highest composition score,
and subtracting that score from the lowest.
E.G. Ted
and Barney have just played a game, and Barney has won by 550 Victory Points,
giving him a battle score of 14, and Ted of 6. However, Barney’s composition
score is 4, whereas Ted’s is 6 (i.e. Ted has a softer army than Barney). Thus,
the difference between the composition scores (2) is halved, then that result
is added to Ted’s score and subtracted from Barney’s, so that the final result
would be 13-7 in Barney’s favour. This reflects the relative difficulty in
defeating a much stronger foe. Battle scores can never go above 20, nor go
below 0. If composition would alter the result beyond these boundaries, simply
submit a score of 20-0 instead.
I am also borrowing the following paragraphs from
Chris Cousin’s 2011 Empire in Flames players pack because it says exactly what
I was trying to write:
“There will be no guidelines given for what
constitutes a ‘standard’ tournament army, and this is deliberately left up to
the judgement of the panel. This is because players often use guidelines as a
basis for disagreeing with the score they receive. Regardless of how biased you
think the judges are, they are guaranteed to be less biased than the owner of
the list, and hence their decision will NOT be argued. The panel consists of
some of the most experienced 8th Edition players in Australia and New Zealand,
and have the best idea as to what a standard tournament list should look like.
You should be bringing an army list that YOU
would be pleased to see across the table. It should not rely on any single
phase to win games, and should contain a mix of units and unit types where
possible. Balance and variety are what we would like to see in armies. However,
the final decisions for composition relate purely to the efficacy of the
armies, and while you can request a reason for the score you have been given,
scores will NOT be altered once they have been awarded.”
Thank you Chris!
Theme:
I will be giving two bonus points to players that
go out of their way to stay to a specific theme in their army (at the possible
detriment of the strength of their army). I.E. Pure savage orcs and forest
goblins or all mounted Warrior of Chaos or pure Khaine-ate Dark Elves. These
will be added to the painting score (which once again maxes out at 20 point).
Battle:
Scenarios:
Round One – Meeting Engagement
Round Two – Dawn Attack
Round Three - Watchtower
Round Four – Battle for the Pass
Round Five – Blood and Glory
Round Six – Battleline
In Watchtower if you control the Watchtower at the end of the game you get a bonus 1000 victory points. It does not mean that you automatically win.
Blood and Glory: When you break your opponent's army the game ends. Period. You calculate victory points at that time. The breaker gets all the points (2400) of the breaky's army. They also get whatever bonus points they earned for killing a general or capturing standards during the game. The breaky gets whatever points they earn including similar bonus points.
After each game, calculate the Victory Points
difference between the two armies. Compare it to this table.
VP Difference – Winner’s Battle Points/Loser’s Battle
Points
0-49 – 10/10
50-149 – 11/9
150-299 – 12/8
300-499 – 13/7
500-699 – 14/6
700-999 – 15/5
1000-1299 – 16/4
1300-1599 – 17/3
1600-1999 – 18/2
2000-2399 – 19/1
2400+ - 20/0
Grudges:
With a name like Book of Grudges you would expect
there to be grudge matches. And there are. Lots of them.
Round 1 and 2 at BOG are random drawn and any
player can grudge any other player (providing that they are not already playing
someone else).
In rounds 3 and 5 every fifth player can issue a
grudge. Starting at player 5, then 10th, then 15th, then 20th... etc... This
will change in round 4 when these same places grudge but in reverse order. (so
if there are 50 players... number 50 issues the first grudge).
There are no grudges in round 6.
If you accept someone's grudge in rounds 3-5 you
get 2 bonus battle points for courage and a general willingness for fun tourney
rules. (You can never get more that 20 battle points per round).
If you challenge someone ten places higher than you
in the rankings you get a bonus 2 battle points for courage (troll slayer). If
you grudge someone 20 places higher than you in the rankings you get a 3 point
bonus for real courage (giant slayer). Once again you can never earn more than
20 points in a round.
Conversely if you challenge someone 10 places or
below you in the rankings you suffer 1 battle point penalty for being weak and
cowardly (Gobbo slayer). If you grudge someone 15 players or more from you, you
will suffer a 2 point penalty for extreme noob punching (pumpkin slayer). You
cannot grudge someone 20 places or more below you. Period. The lowest score you
can ever get in a round is zero.
You cannot play the same person twice in the same
weekend.
Winners of the following tournaments will be
entitled to a Golden Grudge:
Convic
Rumble in the Bronx
Book Of Grudges 2011
If you earn a Golden Grudge, you can use it any
round against any available player (except in round 6. There are no grudges in
round 6). One use only.
Prizes:
There will be a variety of trophies and prizes to
be won at Book of Grudges. These include:
The Podium (1st, 2nd, 3rd places)
Best General (Highest Battle Points while not on
the Podium)
Best Sports (Highest Sportsmanship scores. Ties
will be determined by a count back using the highest composition score.)
Best Painted (Judges favourite army to BOG)
Players Choice (Players favourite army at BOG)
Best Noob Player (3 events or less of any game
system under their belts including this one).
“I CAST THEE OUT!!!”
It is important to point out that THE
JUDGES RULINGS ARE FINAL. Please feel free to ask questions on the day or
before via email or on wargamerau.com (within reason boys and girls) but once
the judges have ruled (and we do RULE!) no further correspondence will be
entered into. Period. We do not suffer fools to live! Bring your best
Wardollies and have some fun!
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