Adepticon 2012 (April 20-22) BFG Tournament

[Mycen]

Wouldn't that be a pretty easy fix though? Simply make the transports selected as part of your flotilla be the only ones whose transport value is relevant to the scenarios. So you can take as many more transports as you're allowed in a Rogue Trader fleet, but only six transport points' worth of transports will count, and these can't be changed from game to game. (Their transports are the same as the ones anyone else would be using anyway, right?)


Also, I would like to say I don't find it a problem that the games don't end up being centered around the transport flotilla. I personally don't get to play BFG a whole lot, so I like that the games are more of a regular battle with a bit of a twist or bonus than an all-out break from regular gameplay. Having the transports be the main/only important part of the game makes it feel more 'gimmicky' to me. Also, if you increase the focus on the transports, what are you going to do about the IN NC advantage that AndrewChristlieb mentioned? I don't want to play a game where I lose hopelessly in the first two turns because my transports get obliterated by NCs from across the table.

[lordgoober]

The transport part is all bonus VPs.  blowing up the enemy fleet is still going to be the vast majority of the VP for the games. 

Basically the transports are replacing a mechanic that was used a couple years ago in one of the scenarios where if you parked a ship/squadron in orbit for a full game turn you got their point value as bonus VP for "landing troops" on the planet.

I will be changing the VP breakdown to something like that "X more than opponent" table that was suggested earlier in the thread.

[Mycen]

Ohhh... So when he said "no VP awarded for destroyed ships," the transports were the ships in reference, not the whole fleet. I feel slow now. Alright, thanks for clearing that up.

[lordgoober]

Correct.  I guess tghings weren't perfectly clear there.  They will be when the official stuff is on there.

All scenarios will be primarily scored on standard VP with a sliding scale for battle points.

[Seahawk]

Just wanted to double check - so, all the rules that will be used have been posted up on the A-con page under the rules now, right? There aren't any changes that might happen?

[lordgoober]

lemme take a quick look to confirm.  sorry I haven't looked at this board in a week or so.  We're fine.  That is the correct rules set up there.

[Seahawk]

So, just to make sure I'm doing it right, if I took the following as my transport fleet:

6 Fast Clippers - 120 points (6x20)
2 Escort Carriers - 120 points (2x60)
Heavy Transport - 40 points

= 280 points

Those are the right points, correct? No "free" transport upgrades anymore?

Also, for the paint scoring where it says the fleet "has a story or background," does this mean like a printed story I'd whip out during paint scoring time?

[lordgoober]

For the story/background yes.  Just a short little printed piece of fluff,  say about a paragraph or two.

You are correct there on your points.  So for your fleet,  your 120 point allotment would be spent on the fast clippers and then you spent 160 points from your main fleet allotment so your normal fleet would have 1340 to spend on it.

[Brutalrage]

guys please do post results of the tournament, im curious to see how each faction did

[lordgoober]

Will do.  There will also be the official results posted to the Adepticon website a couple weeks after the event.

[Seahawk]

Yea, I'll definitely want to see faction/point break down. It sucked the last time I went because I won all three games and didn't win any prizes other than Best Painted, but they never put the scores up so I never knew how poorly I actually did .