Adepticon 2012 (April 20-22) BFG Tournament

[lordgoober]

Ok. Just giving the initial ad post for Adepticon's BFG tournament for the 2012
convention. The webcart isn't active yet (hopefully by the end of the month) so
be patient.

The convention is April 20-22, 2012 (with some potential extra free events on
the 19th)this time around, a little later in the year.

The BFG event is on Sunday April 22, starting at 8am. We have 20 slots
available at the start.

The 2010 FAQ and BFG compendium will be in effect for this one.

Fleet design rules

1500 points. You must have at least one ship with Cruiser or Battleship as it's
class. No all escort fleets here. IA 10 ships except for the Vanguard will be
legal.

For scenario 2: You will have a transport flotilla with a "transport point" size
of 6. IE the equivalent of 6 normal transports. You will have an extra 120
points to spend on transport "Upgrades".

These transports should be modeled appropriate to your fleet. Conversions are
probably your best way to go since the GW transports are long OOP IIRC.

[lastspartacus]

This wont be using FAQ 2010, right?  So sad!

[Lex]

Suggestion:  make an Event as well and link it to the thread(s).  I for one might want to come, but have NO idea of where to go....

[horizon]

Uhm LS,

This wont be using FAQ 2010, right?  So sad!

The 2010 FAQ and BFG compendium will be in effect for this one.

Read.


Lex, it is too far away for us.

[Lex]

Heck no ....  there is a job-related congress in Miami a week earlier. I might take a road trip like last time when I visited Memphis and Vancouver !!

[horizon]

Ah so, then it is quite a cool thing to do actually.

[captPiett]

Lex, if you're going to be in our hemisphere, you're going to have to do a WM tour that swings through the northeast/New England. I'm pretty sure it's required to keep your mod status 

I believe Adepticon is in Chicago Illinois, by the way.

[lordgoober]

More precisely the Westin Lombard, Illinois.  About 45 minutes drive from O'Hare and about 2 blocks from the Chicago Battle Bunker.

Other Specialist Games Events.

Friday starting at 8am:  2000 point Warmaster
Saturday starting at 8am:  3000 point Epic
2 day Friday and Saturday:  Blood Bowl.

Registration goes live on October 31.

[Seahawk]

Hokay, so here are my questions (all on transports):

FAQ 2010 says:

- For every heavy transport in the fleet there must already be at least four escort-sized full transports, eight half-transports such as armed freighters or Rogue Trader cargo vessels, or any combination thereof.

If I wanted to take a heavy transport...I couldn't, right? Since I only have 120 points to spend on upgraded transports and I'm not allowed more than 6 (and special transports are swapped on a 1-1 basis), is there any way to take a heavy transport and other special transports under your allowances, or is it only one or the other?

[lordgoober]

Ok.  I guess it wasn't completely clear.  You will have a flotilla of transports of X number that including half and double transports will be the equivalent of 6 regular transports. 

[Seahawk]

I'm still confused (as evidenced here and in my thread in the discussion section). I thought half transports were still swapped on a 1-1 basis with standard transports.

[lordgoober]

Basically it's like this.

Each fleet has 6 "points" of transports.  here is an example of what I"m talking about.

Heavy Transport (2)
Regular Transport (1)
Regular Transport (1)
Escort Carrier (1/2) (60 points)
Armed Freighter (1/2) (20 points)
Armed Freighter (1/2) (20 points)
Armed Freighter (1/2) (20 points)

This transport flotilla has maximum of 120 points of transport upgrades and has the transport capacity equivalent of 6 regular transports.

That's what I mean about 6 "points" of transports

For the scenario.  There's going to be a planet in the center of the board.  Each fleet is going to be racing their transports to the planet.  Each transport must enter orbit on one turn,  survive to their fleet's next movement phase then they land giving X bonus VPs.  X I haven't decided yet but it will be for 1 full transport's worth of capacity.

[horizon]

I forsee problems as this scenario will benefit certain races.

[Seahawk]

Agreed.

Plus, I'd go for all fast clippers then. Get there faster.

[lordgoober]

That's why it's probably going to be 100 vp bonus for a full transport.  Note.  the transport must survive an enemy shooting phase and 2 ordinance phases. 

In the past there have been scenarios where normal ships were doing this duty instead of transports.  I just figured I'd give it a shot.  I will be testing this at some point in the near future.