RockWars GT Sept 2013

Just a heads up for everyone. There may be a slight delay in updates to the site as someone broke into my house yesterday and stole my laptop. Until I get a replacement I won’t be able to work on much.

Shouldn’t be more than a week or so.

Spending some time this morning working on scenarios, and adjusting them to fit the 20-nil/Swedish system we are using. Wanted to give you all a heads up that you will need to be aware of Fortitude in your army this year. Any Board Quarters or Objectives that need to be controlled will only be able to be controlled by a unit that generates/has fortitude. In addition there will be at least one Blood and Glory scenario where breaking your opponent’s fortitude will give you bonus VP’s (breaking your opponents fortitude will never instantly end the game).

I will have some more info out as the week progresses on other things involving the tournament and registration will officially open on March 1! We fully expect to sell out this year and I encourage you all to get tickets early, not to mention there will be a discount for Paying Early this year!

The rubric has been posted in it’s appropriate section. Hope you guys like it, if you don’t you can tell me AFTER the tournament! Already can’t wait to see all the armies set up this year.

You’ll also notice we are going to be Judging paint in a better way this year, check out the page for more details.

Been getting loads of questions about Swedish Comp and I have to say I love it. The lists are so different and its great to see them all. If you have any questions about how a list will stat up please just ask and I’ll be happy to help out.

The painting rubric is done just getting the formatting right then I’ll post it, hopefully tomorrow.

Edit: check out this link for a PDF of the UK masters lists all made in Swedish comp

http://baddice.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Masters-Lists.pdf

Well planning for Rock Wars III has officially begun (#RW3 for those of you on twitter). Currently the Dates are not 100% but it will be September 14-15 or 21-22, we are currently looking for a new venue, but will have it all nailed down in the next few weeks. Take a look at the rules section, the Composition we will be using this year has been posted and if you aren’t familiar with Swedish Comp you will need to take a minute to familiarize yourself and figure out how it will affect your current army setup.

I will be posting more in the next few weeks as we finalize everything and bring to you guys the best tournament we can.

Just wanted to let everyone know that we have started planning for next year.  Currently looking for a new venue, evaluating and changing scenarios, readdressing our scoring in areas we feel it needed, reading all of your great feedback forms, and figuring out how we can make RW3 the best RW yet.

I am currently directing most of my focus to looking at different Comp systems and figuring out what we are going to do.  If you have suggestions please let me know, the big one I’m considering is South Coast GT comp from last year, it is fairly heavy comp coming from the Texas/Arkansas GT scene, but fairly light for Europe.  Would be different and that is the one thing I will always strive to do, make people bring lists that are different from the ones they would take to other GT’s in our area.

Now off to the races.

Spoke with John Corbett of the WAR group up in North East Arkansas and they want to sponsor two new awards next year as well as sponsor some door prizes. Can’t thank them enough and it’s awesome that people are already looking forward to next year.

Results have been posted to RankingsHQ, and surveys for feed back have been emailed out.  Please fill out and return these, can’t make it better without your feedback.  Already it will take me several weeks to compile and digest all of the feedback we have gotten so far, but there are definite trends as to what direction people would like things to head.

I will say this, the jury is still out on open-vs-closed lists.  Some of you hate closed and love open, some of you are ok with open but love closed and some of you liked having both, so I simply don’t know.

Hoping to have something big to tell you guys about by the new year, just now starting to piece ideas together but I think it would be awesome.

Thanks for another great year,
Hayne

Sweet Lord that was a great weekend!  I can’t say it enough but thank you all for making it awesome.

Can’t believe it is over so soon but it’s got me pumped to play some games, paint some models and wreck shop at AlamoGT in November!

Everyone who attended was amazing and it was great to meet so many new people.  Looking forward to venturing north soon to play with some of those guys who came down, Rob Baker, Ryan Nicol, and the Outlander crew from Omaha.

Results are up on the website, email will be going out this week asking for feedback, and lastly if anyone found some fences we seems to have lost quite a few.

Thanks again,
hayne

In case it was missed somehow. Rock Wars has a beer sponsorship and it will be $10 all you want to drink all weekend.