Legion - March 12th in Vermont

[Jack Shrapnel]

Note: Four who qualify from the Qualifier on March 6th get to go to this....

10:00 am, March 12, 2011 — 7:00 pm, March 12, 2011 at Quarterstaff Games, 152 Church Street, Burlington, Vermont, 05401.

Legion is a new league for miniature gamers based around Eastern Lake Ontario. The purpose is to get out and play against some new competition. There will be a tournament every three months, rotating both the host of the event and the type of game played. Over the course of the year, each of our four partners will host an event, and the games will be Warhammer 40K, Warhammer Fantasy, Hordes/Warmachine, and Other (including Firestorm Armada, Flames of War, etc).

Stores participating:

Quarterstaff Games (152 Church Street, Burlington, Vermont)
Nexus (270 Bagot Street, Kingston, Ontario)
Le Portail du Jeu (20 boulevard Georges-Gagné, Delson, Quebec)
La Forge des Jeux (2040 rue Lapierre, Lasalle, Quebec)
Maximum Number of Participants:
Four players from each store. From the Nexus we will be sending our Best General, Best Overall, Best Sportsman, and a Wild Card.

Prizes:

The store who hosts is in charge of the prizes.

Details:
1500 points. Army Lists including are due for verification [to be handed in to the Tournament Organizer] by 3:00pm Friday March 5th. 5th edition Codex Lists, 4th edition acceptable if no 5th edition Codex exists for your army. In addition to your legal army list, the following are the “must-have” items that each player must bring in order to participate:

Your Army’s Codex
Tape Measure
Dice
Scatter Die
Flame Template
Small and Large Blast Markers
The last three on the list are required if you are using any weapons that have scatter / template / blast rules.
All miniatures must be WYSIWYG in terms of models and weapons, all models need to be correct and their weapons need to be correctly represented. All vehicle upgrades need to be correctly modeled. Extra items with which units are automatically equipped and cannot be unequipped do not need to be modeled (generally holstered pistols and grenades are in this category). If you have questions about any particular model, models that GW hasn’t yet released, or other gray areas then you need to ask the Tournament Organizer prior to the tournament.

Missions:
Seize Ground w/ 3 Objectives – Pitched Battle
Capture and Control – Spearhead
Annihilation – Dawn of War
Assassination – Nominate one HQ Independent Character model as the General (Imperial Guard may nominate either an IC or a Company Command squad), game ends upon complete turn end following first General’s death (if a General dies in the top of turn 3 then play continues until bottom of turn 3, possible tie for death of both Generals [or neither]) – Pitched Battle, HQ cannot be in Reserve except for Chaos Daemons which have no choice due to their specific deployment rules
Legal Generals:
Blood Angels: ALL HQ Choices
Chaos Daemons: Named and Non Named Greater Daemons unless none are taken, then Named and Non Named Heralds
Chaos Space Marines: ALL HQ Choices
Dark Eldar: ALL HQ Choices EXCEPT The Decapitator, The Court of the Archon
Eldar: ALL HQ Choices EXCEPT Warlocks
Imperial Guard: ALL HQ Choices EXCEPT Kell, Nork Deddog, Ministorum Priest, Techpriest Enginseer
Orks: ALL HQ Choices
Space Marines: ALL HQ Choices
Space Wolves: ALL HQ Choices EXCEPT Bjorn; Wolf Guard Battle Leader is only acceptable as General if no other HQ’s are taken
Tau Empire: ALL HQ Choices EXCEPT Bodyguard Team
Tyranids: Hive Tyrant, The Swarmlord, Tyranid Prime
Necrons: ALL HQ Choices

[thesanityassassin]

That seems cool, though it's kind of annoying that 3 of the 4 stores are Canadian but the final is being held in the states. Not sure I'll be able to get a passport in time if I qualify...or that I'd care to drive to Vermont for a 40k game.

[Jack Shrapnel]

....how about FOUR 40k games? does that change things?

when Tommy and I went to Whitby to get our passports we had them in two weeks....

[thesanityassassin]

I suppose if I'm going to Cuba in August I'll need one anyways....might as well have it early.

[fritzthedwarf]

It is curious that the final is in Vermont, also since it is easier to get in Canada than for us to go to the States.

[Jack Shrapnel]

Well this is just ONE of the big tournaments hosted.... there will be four per year and three out of four are going to be in Canada... just the first one is being hosted by the Vermont store.... and will be 40k... there will be three other tournies and game systems.... so there may be a big tourney in Quebec for warmachine, nexus may host the WHFB tourney, etc...

basically it's a chance for a local Eastern circuit of wargaming... and you'll always get to play in a local qualifier too... so it's a chance for 8 tournies per year in addition to any locally hosted ones!

....all in all... we win?

[thesanityassassin]

Makes much more sense to me then. If Firestorm is going to be in that league I might just have to get a force....haven't bothered at all yet. The rare times I play a space game I like Gothic.