Ok everyone,

Here is the final product of over 10 months work, countless hours of testing and advice from the superb Hordes & Warmachine community.

The Official European Hordes and Warmachine Team Challenge, takes place on July 3rd & 4th 2010, at “The Eye of The Storm”, Maelstrom Games, Mansfield.

This event has been sanctioned by Privateer Press as their official team event for Europe and there will be far more coverage by Privateer Press on this matter very soon....

The event brings teams of 4 players working together to compete for the title of 2010 Hordes and Warmachine European Team Champions. Each member of your team plays 5 games over the weekend and at the end of each game the scores are added together to get a ‘team’ score. Teams then get drawn against each other using the Swiss system.

The rulespack will follow very shortly in its final form and has been handled by ourselves at Team Octopii with select input from some of the most experienced and established players within our community.

The tournament is open to teams from all over Europe and is expected to be hotly contested as teams battle it out to see exactly who does “have a pair!”

There are tons of fantastic prize support throughout this event and Privateer Press themselves are providing some really cool and unique for the winners.

More details will unfold as the weeks pass by, in the meantime follow the links on the Maelstrom site to get your team tickets. They are on sale from today, Friday March 5th - first batch is of 100 tickets which could increase as a large chunk of these have already been pre-sold!

Please NOTE: Tickets are purchased individually at £30 per person, so make sure you put in your Team Name upon purchase. Every member of your team must have a ticket (so 4 total tickets). If you need more players for your team, please check out the thread link below to find player(s) to attend the event with!


Event Forums (Inc. Accomodation info):
http://events.maelstromgames.co.uk/punbb/viewforum.php?id=9

Ticket Sales:
http://www.maelstromgames.co.uk

Find Player(s) for the Event:
http://events.maelstromgames.co.uk/punbb/viewtopic.php?id=79

Other Links:
http://www.privateerpress.com
http://www.octopii.co.uk

Sounds ace mate!

As you know I am pretty much there.

I've had a look on maelstrom though and can't see the tickets up there... Any idea of what the cost per person is going to be?

Also have you got any info on local hotels?

Hi matey

Tickets should go up anytime today along with a newspost on their main website.

Prices are £30 per player so standard Maelstrom weekend prices. I would personally recommend the pine lodge, very close, cheap and a great breakfast.

Tickets will go up later today, most likely tonight tbh.

Marvellous news, good job one and all Have started to organise teams to come up - woohoo.

Sounds like it should be awesome.

Just to let you all know Team Sexy, Hairy, Hat and Posh will definitely be in attendance.

Cheers

Phil

Oh getting in the team names early there for effect hey Phil?? Which one are you btw??

It is intended that team Doosted Bamage will be there.

yes we have and the welsh will be there

well dont on the work boys and i think it will make a date every year

I'm so happy at the response this has recieved so far its going to be awesome

Phil ,you basically summed me up in one go, what gives???

One of those is Henry, one must be you, who else? Rabbit???

Ohh, want to go to this one, just the question of getting some time off work and the slight detail of a team...

Expect a team Marauders as well - or maybe two hmm - yeah I'm going to go for two.

T

edit there is a team finder on Maelstrom forums,

Remember Gorbad if you cant find a team with anyone you know you can search on the Maelstrom Forum for teams and players.

I've seen at least 3 players from Pompey - Paul Richardson, James and you.

@ Jamie told you ....... (if you build it they will come ...)

Keep an eye on Guts N Gears tonight guys, Sam and Andre did an interview with us earlier this week and it should be live tonight!

Excellent

Just spoken to Sam he said they had a few computer troubles last night and the podcaste will be up asap, probably tonight.

Around midnight, which is cool

Tickets should be on sale Sun/Mon - Rob is working hard on sorting this

When's the ETA on a rules pack? My God I can't believe I just used ETA!!! What a nobber!!

Yeah... Nobber...., but i dont mind waiting on the rulespack to be fair, i just wanna know the point size!

Main points/rules so you can start constructing lists are:

4 Player Team event, each player brings 1 list at the 50 pt level.

Each team will be matched firstly vs other teams dependant on scores, then each member of a team will be matched with their 'equal' - i.e. the top player of team A will play the top player of team B. We have dubbed this 'mini swiss' system.

There is a 'team feat' a real life ability once per tournament to choose who in your team gets to play who in the opponents team (so you could put your best vs their worst). If both players feat (which is done in secret) then it cancels each other out

Army construction follows these basic rules:

50pt list
You can ONLY use 1 of each named character/unit etc. so for example only 1 person in your team can take advantage of using eEiryss.

You can ONLY use 1 version of a epic/non epic Character. For example if someone in your team has took eGaspy, someone else cannot take Gaspy.

These limits add a real new dynamic and a sense of team list building (and probably a lot of infighting on who gets eiryss ) which is unique to our tournament.

You can have any mix of hordes/wm in your faction - 4 cygnar players, 2 cryx and 2 circle, whatever you want as long as you follow the named character rules above.

Its actually quite difficult to build lists using this system and end up with 4 'powerful' lists - its definately a fun process and over the next few weeks we at Team Octopii will be going through a 'what we would of took' to give you an insight in how to build an effective build - or what we think could be one

Sam is working furiously on the podcast, expect it very soon - hes also edited in some of the original musings before it got to its final state so should be an excellent listen

Podcaste is up ladies

http://gutsngears.libsyn.com/

'What we would have took' Does that mean team Octosquid aren't entering?

As for list building, you'll not find a team with two Cygnar players in...........only 1 squire?????????????

Yeah as much as we would really really LOVE to play in this event we are not going to play to instead try and make sure this goes as well as it possibly can. So me, Rich Loxam and our local press ganger Adam Brown will be joining Gary to make up the events team on the day being referees. If we need him Tony Moore may also be refereeing on the day.

But yes we will be having another interview with GutsnGears in a few weeks time to show people what we could have taken had we played in the event as Team Octopii aka 'If Carlsberg made a wargaming team...'

Not this year, I don't know how much it will kill us on the day but we will be there with our lists on the Fri/Sat so please, come try

Next year, who knows...

Alex Smith from Octopii is playing tho, so keep an eye out for him

They do

Thanks for the quick run down on the list building requirements.

I'm really looking forward to it.

Fizzy and weak?

@Hoolster - Squire is not a character model so no problem with duplication across lists.

T

True, but the Black 13th are characters! ...and Strangeways!.. although I'm sure noone will be fighting over Laddermore:p

My newest list actually features Laddermore! Her + Temporal Acceleration should do nasty things to infantry.