Fields of Blood 2012 - The New Zealand Grand Tournament

[pete dunn]

Hi,

After its hiatus for the Rugby World Cup, Fields of Blood – The New Zealand Warhammer 40k Grand Tournament is back in 2012.

This year the event will be held at a new venue and an earlier time in the year. The Players’ Pack is being prepared for distribution in February but tickets ARE NOW ON SALE.

Here are the details to whet your appetite:

When:      7/8 July 2012

Where:    Johnsonville, Wellington, New Zealand

Points:      1500

Rounds:   Six Rounds – 3 rounds on each day

Umpire:   Pete Dunn

Scoring:   60% Battle, 20% Painting, 20% Sports

Armies:   Armies must be painted to at least a tabletop standard. That means three plus colours, highlight or wash and fully based.

Painting:   Checklist scoresheet where all armies painted to at least a tabletop standard will score 15/20. The extra 5/20 will be awarded for presentation standard that exceeds tabletop standard.

Sports:      Checklist. Default score is full points.

Composition:   No restrictions. You may bring any legal army up to 1500 points. There are no restrictions on Special Characters. “Imperial Armour” units will be at Umpire’s discretion.

Trophies:   1st Overall
      2nd Overall
      3rd Overall
      Bloodthirster – Highest Gameplay
      Harlequin – Best Painted (Players’ Choice)
      Living Saint – Best Sport
      Best in Race Trophies for Highest Finisher in each race with four or more competitors

Prizes:      Spot prizes each round

Cost:      $50 (AUD 40) up to 29 February 2012
      $60 (AUD 50) from 1 March 2012

Tickets:   Limited to 70 participants

Registration:   Email to fieldsofblood@paradise.net.nz (I’ll provide you with payment details)

Happy to take registrations and answer any questions.

Look forward to seeing you there.

Pete

[pete dunn]

The tickets are starting to disappear out the door. Still a month of earlybird registration.

Players Pack will be released early February but the salient points are included in the above post.

[pete dunn]

Players Pack can be found at thefieldsofblo od.com

[Hukoseft]

Scoring:   60% Battle, 20% Painting, 20% Sports

I presume it's as in the players pack as opposed to those?

[pete dunn]

Yep....however in effect if we presume you are not a knob and your army scores the full painting points (checklist based - you need 36/45 for full marks)

then it is 100% Gameplay

[Hukoseft]

thats also presuming people have the time to fully paint their miniatures, I am yet to go to a tournament with a fully painted army, however in saying that I do plan on having my army finished in a month

edit:out of curiosity what is on the check list? 

[pete dunn]

Well at Fields your army must be painted to participate so unless you believe that you'll have a fully painted army by July then Fields is not the tournament for you.

Painting - 35 pts

10 points of this is for 3 colour minimum, 15 points for effort beyond this standard. Then specific 10 points broken out for shading, highlighting, blending, banners, detailing, uniformity, cohesiveness

Basing - 4 pts

Conversions - 5 points

Special - 2 pts (e.g. display base, something that makes the army stand out)

At last two Fields 75% of armies scored at least 30/36 and about 40% scored full marks.

I'll send the full checklist out to participants upon registration so that they know exactly how it is marked.

Regards

Peter

[Hukoseft]

I do, but my whole army does have at least 3 colours on it atm, in fact the ones which are at 3 are the top of my list as its my favorite unit in the army

thanks for the list, its close enough to the march to war one I'm going off

[pete dunn]

The actual checklist has been post as a download at thefieldsofblo od.com so people can use it to see what they need to do to maximise their painting score at the event.

Pete

[daemion]

i have a 28mm fig of me wearing a grey hoodie, blue jeans, black chucks and smoking a ciggie as an objective. would that get me points instead of having a display base? ^_^

[pete dunn]

Certainly would get "conversion" and "artistic" points

[daemion]

^_^ thanx pete. seriously tho. i really dig the painting points system u have. makes perfect sense.

[pete dunn]

Just a reminder that this event is just over three months away. It will be limited to 70 participants.

Cheers

Peter

[pete dunn]

Hi,

If you are looking to come to Fields there are just over 20 tickets left.

Flights Auckland-Wellington return are currently as low as $140 on Air NZ for that weekend.

Cheers

Peter

[Shadowmancer]

This is going to be awesome

[meaty nosebleeds]

it's on semester break.  i'm in!

[meaty nosebleeds]

Armies must be painted to at least a tabletop standard. That means three plus colours, highlight or wash and fully based.

well, i mix on average six to seven colours to create the base of my paints alone, not counting the shades and highlighs.  i guess that qualifies for me

[pete dunn]

Only a dozen tickets left. Going to be a great event. Variety of skill levels registered so the expectation is there is something for everyone.

Saturday evening will see an international between Australia and NZ