500 Points about 500 Points (Lists, Touraments & Rules, oh my!)

[keithb]

All armies should use their most recent legal Codex (that has been out for 15 days at least) for all events.

If you don't like GW's terrible job with your army...  That is what Warmachine/Hordes is for!

[Benjamin]

I did get the okay that this event *could be* the last hurrah for the Witch Hunters codex. After this, it's definitely and definitively all White Dwarf.

A 500 Witch Hunters army could win the tournament. A 500 Sisters of Battle army could win Best Painted... It's a steep drop off, like Thelma and Louise driving over the edge of a cliff in an Immolator.



Anyway...

1 vote for Witch Hunters, 1 vote for Sisters of Battle.

[Wes]

As far as which codex to use / exclude... I feel like that would be primarily upon the tournament organizers to decide.  Which is... all of us.  Personally, as long as we're not talking about SEVERELY outdated codexes (codicies? plural of codex anyone?), then I'd say play whatever you'd have fun using.

Does this mean I can play 2nd edition Necrons?

wait that would mean..... grey knights get 5+ armor saves from every weapon?

[Loranus]

I vote against necrons using 2nd edition since necrons should suck.

[Serring]

I vote against necrons using 2nd edition since necrons should suck.

Wait until the new codex when they have a 'something of doominess' like that does what the stormraven has done but with more 'doominess'.



In all seriousness they should use the current codex unless the new one comes out in the meantime. I do hope the new one makes them competitive and is done well.

EDIT: Heard its actually coming out in November.

[Benjamin]

Does this mean I can play 2nd edition Necrons?

I don't even see how. In this case, your want > logic.

[Benjamin]

Sam and I put our heads together today and came up with a fantastic answer to the registration issue, at least as I saw it.

When the tournament is announced, a future date will be included when registration starts, Xday at Y o'clock. This way, the internet fiends have no advantage over those who check but once every couple days. When the registration hour strikes, then it's first-come, first-serve. I'm thrilled with the idea, and hope it doesn't blow up in our faces.

[canadianone]

ka-boom




it just did




also... can i pre pre register? i can right? because im awesome? yeah, that seems fair and logical.

[Banosby]

While for any given tournament I don't have a problem with the Witch Hunters codex, it isn't our codex anymore. At least as of some ill-defined date a week or two or three from now when the grace period runs out. We can wail and gnash our teeth all we want, and I surely will, but it isn't our codex anymore.

[Chase]

can i pre pre register?

People will want to, and try to, and probably have to have it explained to them why they can not.  The only other way is to have people pay the fee upon registration (non-refundable) either at the store or via phone. This hasn't worked well for us in the past.

[canadianone]

But for some reason in different right? because im special?

[keithb]

The Grace period on the codex is already up.

This has been coming for a while.  Hell, Chase allowed DE players to use the new one like the week it came out.   Letting someone go back and use an out of date codex is poor form.

[Benjamin]

Hell, Chase allowed DE players to use the new one like the week it came out.

Of course. Dark Eldar became the top Xenos codex, and Grey Knights too was used soon after its release. But unlike Sisters, those codices are actually viable and competitive.

Regardless there's been more sentiment expressed against Witch Hunters than for, and that's pretty much it I think. There seem to be more people willing to acknowledge reality than not. :|

[KestrelM1]

Fair enough. I'll inform the missus that she should start concentrating on her painting, and practicing for Warmahordes

[Benjamin]

I handed all the material over to Chase, revised and finished to the best of my ability. It's all done but the waiting, I believe.