VICCs this Weekend

So after some rather unexciting trash talk by the HGC boys, (Seriously I think there's been more talk about the shorts will be worn... ) the VICCs are almost here and with that the start of what should be a rather interesting Warhammer tournament if all the stories I've heard are anything to go by... and its my first Fantasy Tournament in Australia too! I'm heading off as part of Team Shirts Off Warhammer, with my old Welly mate, Ben Wadsworth and his local gaming mates.

Sadly, Aussies like this will not be at the VICCs...

I'll be honest I really haven't paid that much attention to the specifics as it all sounds like a bit of a mess tbh so I'm just going for a laugh, and as an excuse to wear stubbies (see I can discuss fashion too!). I really just wanna roll some dice for a weekend so can't wait! However I shall try to give an overview of the tournie for everyone else.

Basic format is thus:

All the local Melbourne wargaming clubs send in a team for each major gaming system, and the overall team score decides the winning club. We only have Fantasy for our team, as actually there's only 4 of us...

Fantasy works as follows (I think other systems are the same but I really don't care...)

Each team has 4-5 players, and 4 games each round, so you can have a spare army if you want to sub in/out certain armies.

Armies are 2k with judge comp score (1-5) added in at the end of each game to adjust the 20-0 score as far as I understand it.

Day 1 - 3 1v1 Games
Day 2 - 2 Doubles Games

The match up process is something along the lines of:

You get given a mission and 4 tables and your team selects an army for each table, and then you find out who the other team has chosen for that table. So a bit of control but not much.

The real factor will be the missions the TO has written, we have no idea what they are, noone has been consulted, and based on chats with Nick Hoen and Dave Durie-Smith about previous years will probably be an absolute debacle, but hey, its all about the hobby right? Highlights of previous scenarios include, all magic miscasts on any doubles; and Watchtower in Battle for the Pass, except the Tower is in one guy's deployment zone.... so yeah... could be fun...

Fantasy scores also include a chunk of points for Painting, Comp (per army as discussed above, and I look forward to the scores. yay, Judge comp...) and providing fluff to justify your teams army choices. (I fucking hate fluff as its always complete BS... I wrote ours and its basically "a Daemon did it").

I'm not sure we'll win the Fantasy section, but I think Team Shirts Off can defo compete with the top clubs. To be honest I think we have some guys kinda worried :-D

No, our team looks nothing like this

Our team consists of:

Me with my High Elves of doom
Ben with his Orcs and Goblin warmachines
Greg with Tombking Chariot horde, and an alternate Dwarf army if we need to bore our opponents to death
Nick with Billy and his Bloodletter friends in a last send off for the old book.

I think we have a strong group there, though I did find out this week you could use the same army book multiple times (I play too much ETC so just figured it'd work the same way) thus there are apparently 5 Hell Cannons in the HGC teams Chaos Siege force... woot!


I'll endeavour to tweet out results and news over the weekend and some bat reps should follow, along with tales of glory and failure. Hopefully I'll remember to take some photos too...

Catch ya laters guys!