GRUMPY DAEMON 2-Doubles of dooooooooom!

[grumpy old smurf]

hey guys.

i want to run grumpy daemon again. this time, I'm thinking if there is enough interest I'd quite like to open it up to everyone and see how many would like to play-otherwise I'm quite happy to make it an invitational again... i had fun with last years one...... i plan to have even more with this one. i was gutted i couldn't run equinox 40k as the winds of chaos blew fickle and prevented me from doing it.

so, i need a venue and a date. well, oh mighty commitee.... do i have a window any time near the end of the year to use the freemans bay hall and terrain? perhaps piggyback another event? then i can go hit James up at gw to get lots of prize support that everyone seems to like... (and give Lee free entry too so i can score sum of those awesome green army bags of his?   )

*****initial thoughts on grumpy d2.******

doubles format-1500? 1750? pts per each player
                     -2 games on Saturday/2 games on Sunday.
                     -use allies matrix from apocalypse book to find compatible armies.
                     -%40 general points, %40 sports, %20 painting.
                     -standard force organization chart. (no comp restrictions- your peers will judge u in sports
                      combining  your  playing style, army selection.- u and your partner take an arse army and play like a
                      b@#$%d  with your 'cool' army that no one likes u will get burnt.)  
                     -NO NUDE MODELS- painted only u slack buggers.
                     -Missions are taken from new battles book
                     #1 Black Crusade
                     #2 Slave Raid
                     #3 Reconnaissance In Force
                     #4 Clash Of Heroes.
               *Random attacker/Defender dice roll off for each one*
                     (And maybe an arena of death again this year boys?)
               I promise not to screw with the missions too much.... maybe.

                     Main prizes and trophies(golden nurglings!) for 1st overall, 2nd overall, 3rd overall, best sporty, best
                     painted.

What say u all? i appreciate any (constructive!) comments bout this.  I'm keen to try to get the Welly crew up for this if i am able to along with u hamdog westies and everyone else north of the bridge ans south of the bombays if the committee gives me a go ahead. Otherwise it might just be an invitational again. be nice to get more 40k in aucks  again.

Damian.
                    
COME TO CHAOSSSSSSSS! (no, go on, u know u want to. really...)

[Lazarus]

I am keen as nids wants to eat some more chaos.

[Psyker]

Free entry, yummy!!!

When is this going to happen?
If it is after July, I may have something more interesting to offer.   

[NeckFace]

keen as beans on your screen so clean.  i'd love the chance to rock a doubles game

[Lazarus]

dave we should team up 3k worth of nids fun fun

[grumpy old smurf]

thats just scary having u 2 together..... yeh, lee, this wont be happening till after july.

[NeckFace]

dave we should team up 3k worth of nids fun fun

yeah man -  who else would tyranids team up with? chaos?  pfft, screw those pussies

[grumpy old smurf]

nice Dave. Nice. i look forward to scraping your bugs from the soles of my marine's boots....

[Lazarus]

I am there get a date booked and i will sort it out with work.

[Menolly]

How about at GuardCon in September, like you did last year? If you did want to run it then, it would need to be just an invitational.. .

[nik_]

How about at GuardCon in September, like you did last year? If you did want to run it then, it would need to be just an invitational.. .

Indeed, we can't run any events that compete with 40k fields of blood Wellington.

[grumpy old smurf]

never is or was my intention to.... thats a good option karen. guardcon it is! whats the date? pencil it in. i will get rolling on org bitz now.

[Menolly]

- GuardCon - 17th and 18th - Auckland (Freeman's Bay Community Hall)

[kittenslayer]

1750 per playah!!!!!!

[Hunter_Flood]

1750 per playah!!!!!!

Is that too much or are we just bordering on a tournament of Apocalypse battles?

[grumpy old smurf]

im jigging the format at the moment.... likely to be 1250pts per player so we can have 6 games over the weekend.... thats 2500pts per side and more than enough using standard org chart... and wont be using the allies matrix from apocalypse so u can hook up with a mate.... imagine a nid and ork horde screaming across the battlefield vs a guard gunline backed up by implacable necrons.... etc....

im gonna mix up two of my home grown missions along with the 4 from the battles book....

sorting out invites at the moment.... 20 players=10 teams of two=5 tables.... nice and small and shud be very competitive..

looking at getting some gale force 9 stuff to give out as part of entry fee too..... maybe their multi template or turn counters or something like that. they have cool counters for most things as well.

[grumpy old smurf]

i gotta plot for the next week or so to firm up my thoughts...... it will be a good one, of that have no doubt....

[grumpy old smurf]

UPDATE! Grumpy Daemon is almost a sell out! at guardcon, September 2010!

doubles format-1250 pts per each player
                     -3 games on Saturday/3 games on Sunday.
                     -%60 general points, %30 sports, %10 painting.
                     -standard force organization chart. (no comp restrictions- your peers will judge u in sports
                      combining  your  playing style, army selection.- u and your partner take an arse army and play like a
                      b@#$%d  with your 'cool' army that no one likes u will get burnt.)  
                     -NO NUDE MODELS- painted only u slack buggers.
                     -4 Missions will be used from new battles book
                     #1 Black Crusade
                     #2 Slave Raid
                     #3 Reconnaissance In Force
                     #4 Clash Of Heroes.
                      -and 2 missions areto be  my own concoctions... . heh heh heh.
               *Random attacker/Defender dice roll off for each one from battles book. no, i dont care if u have the right race for it. u roll off. ha! *
               I promise not to screw with the missions too much.... maybe.

Paul Monk has volunteered to be T.O for this event which means i can fully concentrate on crushing all before me under my chaos jackboot while he does all the little bee-atch work. thanks monkey!.

PLAYERS/TEAMS-(it is compulsory to select a team name or u will be called sometthing like 'jar jar binks fan club or strawberry arsecake or the hairy cairy fairy bears.)

10 teams in total for the invitational=20 players=5 tables of fun and carnage!

Damian(me!) -khorne csm- and Ant Nobbs -nurgle csm- 'The bloody stools'
Andy and Robbie Duncan- 'Dad squared'
Bruce-kriegies- and sillymander james -guard- 'The Emperor's Tax Departmento.
Lee -Chaos daemons- and Matt -Sisters of battle- 'Whine and cheese'
Tristran and (tall)james- 'Westies 4life!'
Mr Steve Davis and Mr Damien Avery
Craig Dewes and GW James
Wayde and Bloodreaper
DAve Neckface(bugs) and Matt Lazarus(bugs)
**** and *****

I think Wayde is on the hunt for a partner and im working on the last team partnership now....

I cant believe how fast these places filled up. bam! im organised! i got the terrain, im getting sponsorship, prizes and trophies sorted right now.... damn, im good.
 

                     Main prizes and trophies(golden nurglings!) for 1st overall, 2nd overall, 3rd overall, best sporty, best
                     painted.

[Hunter_Flood]

I'll actually be playing with ma guard. Not ma sillymanders.

[grumpy old smurf]

u will always be sillymander james to me..... make sure u have your dice, codex and ruler and liast at the torny bro.... !!!

Shud make a nice gunline with u and brucies krieg!

[Menolly]

Wow, awesome work. Next time you are at club come have a chat to me about trophies please?

UPDATE! Grumpy Daemon is almost a sell out! at guardcon, September 2010!

I cant believe how fast these places filled up. bam! im organised! i got the terrain, im getting sponsorship, prizes and trophies sorted right now.... damn, im good.
 
  Main prizes and trophies(golden nurglings!) for 1st overall, 2nd overall, 3rd overall, best sporty, best painted.

[nik_]

20 players is almost double last year guys, it's starting to look less like a fun side event and more like a reason not to travel to Wellington. Not sure I'm totally happy with that, given the agreement we have with Pete Dunn.

[Lazarus]

Ok so now i have to make a 1250 bug lists. I think me and dave need to have a chat.

[Eisenhorn]

I cant speak for everyone else but there is no way i'd go to wellington to play 40k even if this event wasn't run, i'm sure it's the same for some of the other guys too.
i missed out last year cause i was too slow and ended up going along to watch for a while anyway.

[NeckFace]

same

i know i don't find myself travelling to hamilton, let alone welli for events. 

yeah Laz, chats as.  though i guess we've got till september to work on our chops.

and a name. this is just off the top of my head so far i have Lazaface.  or Neckarus.

the Doom of Malan-Pies? 



Ol' Brown Eye!

[kittenslayer]

We are 'The Emperors Tax Department' now!!!

[Carl]

If it's later in the year and I can get a partner for my marines I'd be pretty keen.

Ah, September. Great!

Could we have it later in September (gotta love those holidays)?

[grumpy old smurf]

guess what nik.....so what?

and i have invited two welly boys to fill up the last two spots. one of which i have known for years and id really like the other to play if he is able to... if they dont/cant/want to attend i can get two more cityguard players to play. easy done. this aint encroaching or stepping on petes toes at all. not a gt, not even qualifying for rankings hq. whats your problem? afraid we will have more fun(AGAIN) than the fantasy side of things?  this is MY contribution to the cityguard 40k players. no one elses. im simply making use of the cityguards hirage of OUR hall for the whole weekend to get a few mates to play 40k with me.... hell, we will set our 5 measley tables up in a row on the stage away from any fantasy players we may offend while we are having FUN and beating each others brains out in a safe, comp free, friendly environment with the blessing of the majority of the cityguard members.

[grumpy old smurf]

Wayde got himself a partner....

[Lazarus]

The bugs will rule the chaos scum