Aussie here - we have 1-2 tournaments a month happening around the country (including team tournaments in Perth). My local tournament in Sydney in November has a waitlist of 6 players as local TO's can't build quality tables fast enough. One day events for the dads are the best indicator around here. I see some 3 day events and just shudder to think who is going to their wives and negotiating that deal!
I'm in Sydney myself. My club out at west Ryde - Western Front Gamers - has a small group of Old World players doing a map campaign currently, I'd be playing too but well, our Mordheim campaign is awesome - but where do we look for information on TOW tournaments/groups in Sydney and Australia as a whole?
Haha, yeah. I'm going to CANCON in the new year. Thats the only greater than 1 day event I'll be going to in a while with a second baby due in April. One day events are realistically the only thing I'll be able to manage.
Loved SBOT Toronto! It was my first GT and I had a blast. Everyone was super nice and helpful to me for only having 10 games of Old World under my belt. Can't wait for the next one. Glad to see Rob is doing better!
Thanks for the event and great round 1, you and shane made it work super smoothly despite the marathon! I, uh, actually play a ton of mortuary cult and have brought that list to about 4 RTTs and a GT previously lol. I'm just particularly bad at picking the correct sequence of all the options I have so I made the sheet.
Great recap and most excellent event! I had a total blast, and thanks for the KISS army shout-out! Wolves of the Sea is able to do some unconventional things for a Chaos Army, and I think the amount of fast and skirmishing units caught players off guard. Skin Wolves are a very good threat, as are violent ambushing Marauders with Skirmish. I'll be running this list in SBOT2, so we'll see if it holds up. Thanks for everything, guys!
By the sound of it, my SBOT2 list is highlander-ish :). Just need to replace a reaper bolt thrower and I am good to go. BTW, I had an amazing first ever game on Warhall in the first round of SBOT2. A big thank you to the entire team behind the event!
I live in the California Bay area but we use to have a huge Fantasy tournament weekend called QCR Quake City Rumble that till the end 2015 when 8th died. At its peak, it was 150 people playing near the Fort Mason area close to the fisherman's wharf in SF. Would be great to have something similar for Old World.
@@FoldingChairJonson Last year at the Bay Area Open we hosted our inaugural Warhammer Old World tournament. I'll be helping to TO it this coming year at the Marriott. We had around 22 players last year, and I'm hoping for more space so we could double that. We are also playing Old World at Gamescape North on Weds and Gamescape SF on Mondays.
@@AnthonyPaoliMasakiSays Sweet! Just to let everyone in the California Bay Area know... I co-run the Warhammer World North Bay discord that has become primarily Old World centric. There is a Gamescape North, Gamescape SF, Dog Patch Garmes, and Games of Berkeley discord that have healthy Old World groups. There is an East Bay Old World discord. Hayward Old Hammer Old World discord, Silicon Valley Warhammer discord. And a Sons of Bugman group that plays out of Concord. We have a seriously strong Bay Area Old World community growing.
I was toying with the idea of doing a SB tournament at SB HQ next year and a 3,000 point tournament would be a nice sweetener to get me on the ferry from Dublin and make my way to Nottingham.
Excalibur Suggestion: Both players have their expensive magic weapon...but they don't start equipped with the weapon, instead one of the weapons is embedded in a stone in the middle of the board that they can pull out on capturing/contesting the point and only the General of the armies can extract the weapon...but, here's the twist, whilst both weapons might be in the stone, you randomise the weapon between the two so you might end up with your opponents weapon and vice versa. Could be highly amusing.
One thing I think the game could use more of is reinforcements. Like playing flank attack but the flanking force has to start off the board. Essentially a better version of meeting engagement My idea was you could have your 3k points events where each person splits their army into thirds, and for each game they roll to determine which 2 thirds get to start on the table (the other third is reinforcements)
We had 5 drops at the SoCal Open and ended up with 14 players. We had over $500 in prize support and only 14 players. Most were from the Bay Area.... Southern California needs to start taking Old World a little more seriously.
Awsome! Next to a few "cut throat" skill groups, how about a carebear group for new, unskilled players with armys that is not optimized? Might be fun for a beginner to have a chance when playing, instead of getting steamrolled repeatadly and possibly never showing up again.
If we have pre-tournament seeding, then yeah... by default this happens. Or! At the very least you take your lumps early and then cruise the rest of the way : )
@@SquareBasedOldWorld If you wanted to do it, I think it could be done quite easily. Put the people who won (or possible reached top 3) in earlier tournaments in the cut throat group. Then take people who only got losses in the earlier tournaments together with new players who obviously do not have an optimised army roster (like someone using an entire start box together with a little extra models to reach 2000p) and put them in the carebear group. That way the best players would get a real challange, and the beginners/not so talented players might also score a win or two.
How does the excalibur format work for dwarfs? Is the point cost for all other armies 50-75 points? So just say they always have to take MRoSkalf or MRo Smiting?
I’d be interested in your thoughts on Mighty Empires 2nd edition as a way to keep clubs active. It feels like the rules would need little to no changes and they’re about online.
