Painting

Armies that are completely painted will be awarded 20 bonus points at the start of the tournament. If the army has any unpainted models in it, it will receive 0 points. This is effectively a Yes or No question - there are no partial rewards. Models must be painted to a basic standard, displaying at least 3 different colours, and the bases must be painted.

After the first game of day two, players should set up their armies on the table they're on for judging in the Players' Choice painting competition. After the lunch break on day two, each player votes for their first, second and third favourite armies. Unlike the bonus points mentioned above, this vote has no bearing on the overall result of the tournament, but will be used to select the winner of the Best Army prize at the end of the tournament.

Models to be used in the tournament must visibly represent what they're meant to be (ie no proxies or stand-ins allowed). This doesn't mean you have to use the exact existing Citadel miniatures for a given character/unit, but opponents should not be confused as to what is what (i.e. having one unit of Silver Helm models being Silver Helms and another unit of the same Silver Helm models being Dragon Princes) and the models used for a unit must make sense (ie no units of Trollslayers represented by Ghoul models). If you have any queries about whether something would be acceptable, feel free to contact us.

Sportsmanship

At the end of each game, you will be required to complete a questionnaire about your opponent. The 5 questions are listed below, and each will be worth one point (so 5 Sportsmanship points are available per round and 30 total for the tournament). Questions will be answered with a simple YES or NO.

1) My opponent remained friendly throughout the game.
2) My opponent had a clear army list and made sure I understood what everything did.
3) My opponent and I sorted out rules questions amicably.
4) My opponent played fast enough, but did not rush me.
5) My opponent's movement, line of sight decisions and dice rolls were all clear and were not rushed, obscured or otherwise dodgy.

After the last game of the tournament, players will be asked to nominate 3 opponents for the Best Sportsman award (ranked in descending order). These marks will have no bearing on the overall winner; they are only used to select the winner of the Best Sportsman award.

Composition

Due to the recent release of 8^th edition it will be quite difficult for tournament organizers as well as players to judge the full extent of an army’s strengths and weaknesses. Therefore we won’t be using any hard caps, nor will there be a "tiered" system. All armies will be allocated a score out of 20 with the score for an average tournament list that is judged to be tuned, but not abusive or fluffy and weak, being a 10. We aren’t planning on being particularly heavy handed with comp because of how early into 8th ed we are, but anything deemed excessively powerful or abusive will either be comped very heavily or rejected.

Composition scoring can always be a bit of a touchy issue, but our advice is to take the list you want to take and not worry too much about the comp score it will get. Lists that get low comp scores should be able to make up the difference by having advantages in-game, and ones getting high scores will need to work harder for battle points.

Army lists must be submitted by midnight on the 4th of September to the email address at the end of this page. Please send army lists in either text or spreadsheet format; if you're using Army Builder, export your list to text or HTML rather than sending in a .ab file. Lists submitted after this date will be penalized 1 point per game, or 6 battle points.

Scenarios

The 6 basic scenarios in the warhammer rulebook will be used at Axemaster in 2010. The exact order has yet to be determined as the logistics of the "Battle for the Pass" and "Watchtower" scenarios still need to be thought about, but I'll let you know what order the scenarios will be played in before the event.

The modifications are as follows:

Battleline:
As per rulebook

Dawn Attack:
As per rulebook

Battle for the Pass:
As per rulebook

Blood and Glory:
Deployment as per the scenario. Work out the victory points as normal, however all units in the “broken” army count as slain, basically just use the full cost of the broken army, as well as any bonus points that were acquired from it before the army broke. Points are not gained for any standards or the general if they are alive at the point of breaking.

Meeting Engagement:
As per rulebook

The Watchtower:
Rules as per the scenario in the rulebook, however victory points are used at the end of the game, with a 500 point bonus given to the player controlling the watchtower at the end of the battle.

Terrain

All hills will be standard hills and considered open ground for the sake of movement. All forests, water features and marshlands will follow the rules for Mysterious Terrain given on pages 119-121 in the rulebook.

1st Place Overall
2nd Place Overall
3rd Place Overall
Best Army (players' choice)
Best Sportsman (players' choice)

Registration

Entry is $30. Online registration is available via PayPal - use the 'Pay Now' link below. When filling out the form, please include the race/army you're entering with (Empire, High Elves, Daemons, etc) and the name of the person entering (if different to the name on the credit card) in the comments section. For alternative payment arrangements, contact Nick. The merchant email address on the Paypal payment pages will show up as  - this is correct, so don't worry.

Army lists and payment are due by 4th September. Please send army lists to the email address below.

Contact Organiser

Send us army lists or tournament-related questions at

or contact Nick on 0401 031 406.