3rd Annual Open Day at KWC

The 3rd Annual Kapiti Wargames Club Open Day

Saturday 10 May 2014

Paraparaumu Community Centre

Ngahina Street, Paraparaumu

10.00 to 16.00

Our open day features display and demo games of Warhammer Fantasy Battles, Warhammer 40 000, Warmachine, Flames of War and other genres played at our club. 

Open to the public and other gamers. 

Entrance Free

Operation Overlord: This year we are marking the 70th Anniversary with a large scale 20mm D-Day Landing game, depicting the British and Commonwealth Sword Beach in Normandy.

The purpose of the open day is to promote wargaming as a pastime and hobby as a whole, and introduce the public and officianados to different game styles and genres

2014 Golden Griffon Rules

On the 2014 Open day we will have our 2nd annual painting competition. I've attached the rules below which are the same as last year.

KWC(Kapiti Wargames Club) Golden Griffon Competition Rules and Regulations:

1.Entries must be the work of the painter. Any entry painted by anyone other than the entrant will be disqualified.

2. No more than 1 entry per painter per category.

3. You cannot enter winning models from other contests, conventions, or online competitions.

4. Disqualified winning entries forfeit all prizes, titles, awards, and the painter is barred from entry in future Golden Griffon painting competitions. If an entry is disqualified, awards are given to the next winning entry.

5. All entries must be finished, including bases, within size restrictions as noted separately.

6. Each category must have at least four entries or we will combine it with another category, per judges decision. Management determines final category placement of all entries and can change at any time before or during judging.

7. Entries will be photographed and entry registration indicates permission for Kapiti Wargames Club to show them in all public media, including online and print media.

8. KWC Judges cannot be held responsible for damaged or lost miniatures. We treat all miniatures with respect and will do our best to keep them safe.

9. KWC Judges are not eligible for entry.

10. All decisions of the judges and management are final.

11. Entries must be received by 2 pm on Sunday, May 10th, 2014.

12. Entries and Prizes must be picked up 3pm Sunday, May 10th, 2014.

13. Junior Is categorised as anyone 15 or under before May 11th, 2014.

Judging Criteria:
Judging Criteria are given in order of precedence for each category. When determining the
difference between close entries, they are considered in the given order of precedence.

Technical Quality
–
defined as the technical proficiency used in the painting and modeling of the entry. Obvious technical faults are mold lines, sloppy joins, rough primer, or sloppy paint.

Artistic Quality
–
defined as the artistic effects of the piece, including color choices, detail work, and the overall effectiveness of the artistic choices made


Category Details
Single Figure(Junior and Senior): Smaller figure or mounted figure that falls within the size restriction. This includes base, mount, and appendages. A competition judge will rule on any bits , such as a pole, extending beyond the size restriction, at time of entry.

Size restriction: 2" wide x 2" deep x 2" high


Large Figure (Junior and Senior):
Single figures that are larger than the Single Figure restrictions. Large monsters, dragons, warbeasts, warjacks, vehicles or any single miniature that does not fall into the Single figure category.

Size Restriction: 10" wide x 10" deep x 10" high

Open Day 10 May 2014 D-Day and then some !

KWC to have its 3rd Open Day on 10 May 2014

Paramaraumu Community Centre, Ngahina Street.

Time 10am to 4pm

As usual food and drinks will be available from the canteen to bolster the clubs war chest

Photo: Painting by Bill Perrings

This year marks the 70th Anniversary of the D-Day Landings. KWC will use the Open Day to mark this historic event. Players plan to re-fight the Sword Beach Landings in 20mm with the Battles for Ouistreham, Pegasus Bridge and Melville Battery.

photo toursfrance.com

Needless to say, Warhammer 40K and Fantasy will be well represented, and hopefully also Warmachine and Flames of War in 15mm. 

Come and have a look at what Kapiti has to offer with regards Wargaming!

Thursday Game Night

Game night again last night!

I was only able to come up at 8, but able to get in a great fantasy game with my Daemons. Have not run them since the new book came out last year, in stead concentrating on the Druchii. After NZTC I think we're all a bit tired of our usual armies! Sam ran his Mantic Ogres for the first time. Lovely Figures.

Generic Mantic Ogre Pics

Being a bit green on the Daemons he was the obvious opponent to play, given his huge experience with Daemons at tourament level.

 Luc isn't sick of his Ogres yet, so ran them against Nicks Nautical themed Greenskins. Saw 40K going down in at least 3 games, and I think there was a Warmachine game as well. Not sure what happened in the junior session. Not a huge turnout, but I had a ball anyhow.

The Ogres-Daemons game was a real grindfest, with Sam eventually getting a 13-7 victory.
Sam ran an Ironblaster,  Leadbelcher bus, Ogre Irongut Deathstar and 3 Firebellies, 3 dogs to distract!
 I ran Slaaneshi daemonettes, 2 Beasts of Nurgle, Soulgrinder, Bloodletters and 10 Horrors, 2 x 5 Dogs, Can o' Khorne; Daemonprince w Exhalted Gifts. My one Beast spent the whole game chasing one of the sabretusks in circles before finally gobbling it up. Highlight for me was my Soulgrinder snipe-grabbing his general from his gutstar and squashing him in his Deathclaw! Woohoo!

Posted by Herman

Harry the Claw

KWC at the Warhammer Fantasy NZTC 2014

KWC at the Warhammer Fantasy NZTC 2014

The winners: "The Team with the Guy"

So we had the 2014 NZTC in Khandallah, Wellington at the weekend. 2 days of luvverly WHF battles in team format. The KWC didn't do as well as we had hoped (or had been buffed up to do)

We fielded 2 teams - Beauty and the Beasts, and 1/250th of the League of Doom.

The experienced Tournament and Masters Level players with killer lists went into B&B (Fern, Hamish, Sam, Nick) and the Newbies with less hard-hitting lists in The LoD. 

1/250th LoD's Team Shirts

Not unexpectedly,  the LoD took out the Wooden Hammer,  or was that Wooden Spoon?  (Rex, Dave, Luc and Herman)

Wood elves vs a Dwarf Gun-line. Any bets on the outcome? 

B&B came 7th Overall in a field packed with International and National Masters level players. Not bad going guys, but not as good as they had hoped to do. An ubiquitous note was the shaming of the person who let the team down by the wearing of a blonde wig and tiara. Nick was the first to sport this dubious honour!

Fern sporting the Tiara

While the Beasts confer

A great time was had by all, new friendships (and enemies? ) made. Kudos to Pete Dunn and his team for arranging this great team event!

The spoils

 

The topline

and the bottom line! At least not a TOTAL white-wash !

Warhammer New Zealand Team Championship 2014

Warhammer New Zealand Team Championship 2014

This weekend sees the NZTC 2014 taking place on 2 and 3 March.

KWC has 2 teams representing us at this years Championship:

• Beauty and the Beasts: Fern, Hamish, Sam and Nick - Hot favourites to take out the title according to some. Possibly the meanest lists out there (?) According to Pete Dunn, at Fields of Blood anyhow.

• 1/250th of the Legion of Doom: Rex, Herman, Dave and Luc

Anyone is welcome to come and watch. Details below

photo credit Tim Joss at Plastic Krak

Anybody is welcome to drop in and watch or just to say hi.

This will be NZ's largest ever WHFB event and hotly contested.

The Tournament 

Tournament Officials: Peter Williamson (Umpire) 

Pete Dunn (TO & Registrar)

When: 1st & 2nd March 2014 

Where: Khandallah Town Hall, Ganges Road, Khandallah, Wellington 

Rounds: Six (Three Saturday, Three Sunday) 

Points: 2400 

Teams: Four people per team; No repeat armies 

Limit: Limited to 16 teams (Sold out)

Scenarios: All “BATTLELINE” scenario

NZTC Timetable

Saturday March 1

8:00-8:30 am - Registration

8:30-8:45am - Round One Matchups

8:45-11:15am - Round One

11:15-11:45am - Lunch

11:45am-12:00pm - Round Two Matchups

12.00-2:30pm - Round Two

2:30-3:00pm - Tiffin

3:00-3:15pm - Round Three Matchups

3:15-5:45pm - Round Three

Sunday March 2 

8:00 -8.30  Round Four Matchups

8:45-11:15am - Round Four

11:15-11:45am - Lunch

11:45am-12:00pm - Round Five Matchups

12.00-2:30pm - Round Five

2:30-3:00pm - Tiffin

3:00-3:15pm - Round Six Matchups

3:15-5:45pm - Round Six

6.00-6:15pm - Prizegiving

Come support your teams!

Terrain Working Bee

We're having a bit of a working bee this Saturday for the club in my gaming cave/workshop. Stuff we will be working on will include;

New Hills
Even more Forest bases
Consolidating Terrain Collection
Fixing Broken Terrain

Details are:
Terrain Working Bee
15th Feb 1pm (BBQ at 5pm) BYO meat.
Sam & Fern's Place
(ask at club for address or post interest in Comments Section)