[Battleground] Megabattle 2012 - August 18th

[Chase]

Should be all set, Ron.

[cryptoron]

Thanks!

[Typhus]

What are the current player counts per side?

[Chase]

Something like:

14 Order
8 Disorder

Very small turnout this year so far, but there's a lot of Abington people that have yet to register.

The smaller turnout allows for some more fun I think.  We'll probably get to 30-40 people.  I'd love for there to be more Plainville interest.  I'll see what I can do about that.

[PhoenixFire]

I'd love for there to be more Plainville interest.  I'll see what I can do about that.

Wish i could do it this year, i've got more than enough points with GK and IG but my GK wont be painted in time (i'm such a procrastinator with painting) and i'm still assembling my IG

Guess theres always next year

[Chase]

There is indeed!

[Typhus]

Something like:

14 Order
8 Disorder

Very small turnout this year so far, but there's a lot of Abington people that have yet to register.

The smaller turnout allows for some more fun I think.  We'll probably get to 30-40 people.  I'd love for there to be more Plainville interest.  I'll see what I can do about that.

If I can get my GK done for both FOB and Nova...soonish, I may be able to dish out some 4000 points of Chaos.  No promises, I'll let you know.

[andalucien]

What would the count be if we went imperial / non-imperial?   14 to 8 ratio is a pretty huge gulf, if the plan is still for everyone to bring the same amount of points.

[Lykosan]

Flyers are not capped at 36in, they can Turboboost if you want to move futher.

Considering that Forgeworld has said that their flyers will use the rules for Flyers in V6. The Flyers from all IA books use those rules. Impossible maneauvers does nothing now, oh well. What you should be worried about is every flyer can now get Penetrating hits on it, all flyers automatically have AA mounts(SkyFire) and no range reduction for shooting at them.

Eldar Holo Fields only give a 4+ if you moved and ONLY if they are Improved Eldar Titan Holo Fields, 5+ if you haven't or if you Deepstriked that turn. Also the Nightwings no longer have that, they just have the shrouded special rule.

In V6, flyers have an Evade maneuver, giving them a 5+ jink save at the cost of reducing them to snapshot fire for the rest of the turn.  The Nightwing also has Eldar Holo Fields, which gives them a 4+ chance of ignoring incoming fire.  It would seem that the Nightwing could use both?  (At 285 points, it had better.)

I visited Forge World's errata, but they don't speak to these.

Someone needs to read the Erratas.

http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/News/Downloads.html
And yes they were up when you posted this.

[Chase]

Some changes / comments:

Location is still up in the air.  Right now the contenders are the Plainville store and the new spot in Weymouth where we will be moving the Abington location later in the year.

The table layout will be 1 large 10v10 table and 1 or more 5v5 tables.  The small tables are out.  We have ideas in mind for balancing out the sides.  This will be more clear once the slackers (you know who you are and you probably aren't reading this) actually sign up! 

The 10v10 table will be a giant city fight board.

The theme(s) / terrain for the 5v5 table(s) is still being discussed.

T-shirt design is being sent out sometime soon.  I have not seen what it will look like yet.  I try to have little to do with "how things look" in the "design" stage.

It's hard to say for sure based on the number of Megabattle veterans that have NOT signed up yet, but the numbers are likely to fall into the 30-35ish range.

[Achillius]

Some changes / comments:

Location is still up in the air.  Right now the contenders are the Plainville store and the new spot in Weymouth where we will be moving the Abington location later in the year.

Not sure how I feel about the potential of this being in plainville, when will that decision be made?

[King of the Elves]

Good news, I am now free that day and depending on how many points I can scrounge up and where the location is I may be able to go 

[SyRael]

I am not sure that Chris C. and I will be able to get the Plainville store. That would suck, I have yet to miss a year. When do you think you guys will know?

Brandon

[Chase]

As soon as we know for sure if we can use the Weymouth spot or not.

[Librarian]

so I just realized that the mega battle is a few weeks out and last year at this time we had like a 30 page thread on custom built models, data sheets, and other odd stuff that has not made an appearance this year. I know last year there where a few custom data sheets proposed as well as alot of pictures of models getting approved to avoid situations that may involve plastic rodent amusement devices. any reason this thread is missing this year?