By Ben Leong
System: Warmachine/Hordes
Players: 8-32
Adult Content: PG
Characterisation: N/A
Genre Knowledge: N/A
Rules Knowledge: 4
Seriousness: 3
Sessions: H-J
The Conquest Steamroller tournament will use the Steamroller 2013 rules pack, which can be downloaded from the bottom of this page: http://privateerpress.com/steamroller-2013-documents-now-available
We'll be using the following variants:
1. Army Lists
- 35 point army lists + 10 points of Reinforcements (see Scenario Variants below)
- Specialists (10 point sideboard - these models may replace others in the main list)
- One list required (only one army list per player)
2. Painting
- Baseline (painting not required, though encouraged)
3. Number of rounds
- Baseline (we have a player cap of 32 places, so will run a maximum of 5 rounds)
4. Game timing
- Baseline for Reinforcements games (see SR2013, p.8)
- Base round length: 84 minutes
- Turn length: 7 minutes
- Extension: two 3-minute extensions per player
5. Scenario variants
- Artifice: Reinforcements (flank deployment, a sub-list containing an additional 10 points of reinforcements will be used in each game)
6. Victory conditions
- Following the Steamroller 2013 rules, victory will be determined using the following conditions: Assassination Victory > Scenario Victory > Control Points Tiebreaker > Army Points Remaining Tiebreaker > Army Points Destroyed Tiebreaker
7. Final standings
- Baseline (swiss pairing rounds until a clear winner is determined)
- Other places will be ranked by Strength of Schedule, then Control Points, then Army Points Destroyed.
Prizes
- Steamroller trophies for 1st, 2nd and 3rd place
- Best Painted army
- Raffle prize draw for all players bringing a fully painted army
- Other prizes to be announced when budget is confirmed
Rankings points: Player details from this tournament will be submitted to RHQ, although any player may request that their details be left out of the scores that are sent in.
For more information, see the WargamerAU discussion thread here: http://www.wargamerau.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=149309