Taken from: http://droghedagamers.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=949

General Info
Tournaments run as part of Warpcon
Jan 29th to 31st
30 euro gets you con access and wargaming access for the entire weekend

40K
1500 pts , 5 games over 2 days
Some mission tweaks but like Rabbo says in their ads, Nothing too crazy.
Best over all prize will get a nice GW trophy and goodies.
We plan on handing out as many prizes as we can “obtain”
48 players last year and we’re hoping to do that or better again.
ETC ranking has been applied for

FB
2000 pts , 5 games over 2 days
2 mission scenarios
No special characters
Best over all prize will get a nice GW trophy and goodies.
We plan on handing out as many prizes as we can “obtain”
24 players last year and we’re hoping to do that or better again.
ETC ranking has been applied for

Bloodbowl will be run on Sunday

Leprecon 12-14th March 2010, Trinity College Dublin

Taken from: http://leprecon.info/blog/

“As you may have seen on our flyers at Confess Leprecon will be offering the ability to pre-book your tickets for the con. We are hoping to have the web-shop open soon and will have a discount for those of you who pre-book your tickets before the 31^st of January 2010.

The pre-booked price will be €12 for a weekend pass and €8 for a day pass.

After the 31^st of January 2010 the price will be €15 for a weekend pass and €10 for a day pass.”

http://www.dominicon.blogspot.com/

New website for your Dominicon info. Dominicon is running in the John Hume Building in NUI Maynooth on the 13th-15th November 2009.

Orginally posted at: http://www.gaelcon.com/gaelcon/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&layout=blog&id=15&Itemid=19

Warhammer 40,000 ETC Tournament

Warhammer 40,000 returns this year bigger and better than ever.There will be battles for everyone to take part in! There is a large tournament, loads of participation games and there are whispers in the warp of the deployment of one of the Emperor’s largest god-machines on the battlefields. The Tournament is a 2-day event on Saturday and Sunday, with three games of two and a half hours per day. This year’s tournament is a whfb-ireland.org ranking event for the qualification to ETC 2010. If you are not interested in the ETC don’t worry, it won’t affect your games at all. If you don’t know what it is, check out the website and get involved if you want! The full verison of the Warhammer 40K Rules Pack can be found here or a printer friendly one here.

Warhammer Fantasy Battle

Warhammer fantasy battle, fresh from its 25th anniversary is coming to back to Gaelcon for more action and destruction than ever before, with tournaments to participation games and everything in between.  The tournament is a one-day event on Monday, with with three games of two and a half hours. The full verison of the Warhammer Fantasy Battle Rules Pack can be found here.

BattleTech

The armies of the Inner Sphere have fought their way through the Succession Wars, resisted the Clan Invasion, and fared through the chaos of the Federated Commonwealth Civil War. But now an even greater threat has arisen - The fanatical Word of Blake have struck out from their stronghold on Terra, using advanced technology and weapons of mass destruction to strike out at every nation and clan at once.

Warmachine and Hordes

Warmachine and Hordes are the award-winning miniatures games produced by Privateer Press, sharing a core rule set and setting, but with slightly different game mechanics leading to a rich and varied gaming experience. Choose your faction and prepare to face off in some of the most brutal fighting you can get in a wargame!  The tournament will be a one-day event on Monday, with three games of 2 hours.  The full verison of the Warmachine and Hordes Rules Pack can be found here or the printer friendly version can be found here.

Date: 7th and 8th November, 2009
Venue: Valhalla Games Battle Grounds, Athlone, Co. Westmeath, Ireland
Age Limit: 16+

Details: GT consists of six rounds played with 1750 points

Tickets: Tickets are available from participating stores and will cost €50 each and are available from selected Games Workshop Hobby Centres.

Contact: For more information, including the rulespack, email grandtournament@gmail.com

Info orginally posted at http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/content/article.jsp?aId=2900027a

Taken from: http://www.fantasyflightgames.com/edge_news.asp?eidn=729

The Old World has seen heroes rise and fall. This year, you will get to be one of those heroes. Fantasy Flight Games is proud to announce the newest addition to our Roleplaying games, Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay!

Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay is a new, exciting way to experience the popular Warhammer Fantasy setting. It is a grim world, constantly at war. As a hero, you will take up weapon, spell, or prayer and do your best to combat the might of enemies terrifying to behold. As the Game Master, you will make the lands of the Old World real as you craft the story, the people, creatures, and the mysteries the other players will encounter during their adventures.

Everything your group needs to begin its adventures in the Old World is included in the Core set. This Core set is an excellent way to bring new players into the fold, as well as to reward experienced roleplaying with new and exciting innovations.

• Custom Dice give you unprecedented options for story-telling
• Character Stances give players exciting choices during challenges
• Action cards keep you in the game, no need to look up skills or abilities
• Party sheets provide new skills and abilities to keep everyone engaged
• 30 different careers and 4 different races offer a multitude of character options

How do I start?
These innovations are brought to life in the Core set of Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay. Inside you will find four full-colour books. The main rulebook introduces all the mechanics and key information you need to get started. Also included are three tomes to provide you with more information on the world, and give you new opportunities for character creation. The Tome of Mysteries is your guide to wizards and the winds of magic. Follow along with grey wizard Gavius Klugge as he gives you insight into this powerful career path. The Tome of Blessings provides information on priests and the gods they follow. Information on the Cults of Sigmar, Shallya, Ulric, Taal, and others are contained within this volume. The Tome of Adventure is a book for the Game Master, and provides valuable information on running sessions, background and statistics on a variety of enemies, information on how to get the most out of your roleplaying experience, and a complete introductory adventure.

For more information on Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay, check out the Description page. Make sure to check back, as more info is on the way.

Taken from: http://northwexfordgamers.org/index.php?p=1_12_NWG-Tournament

Date: September 26th 2009

This is the rulepack and general information guide to the newest tournament on the Warhammer Fantasy Battle scene in Ireland.

The North Wexford Gamers are a young club based around Gorey in Wexford and we are delighted to be in a position to host our inaugural tournament this autumn.  Furthermore, we are pleased to announce that this event will be the first ranking event of the 2009/10 season for qualification for the ETC 2010.

General Guide

The tournament takes place in the Loch gCarman Arms Hotel on Gorey’s Main Street on Saturday, September 26th 2009 with registration open up to 9-45am.  There will be three rounds of games; the first will be randomly chosen and the second and final rounds will be based on the Swiss system to pair those will similar results together.  Each round will result in a number of battle points being awarded between zero and twenty and further points will be awarded for painting.

The Loch gCarman Arms Hotel is located on the centre of the Main Street near the pedestrian crossing.  There is ample parking on the Main Street at the Garda station (free parking) and further parking just off the Main Street at the Theatre Hall and at the Community School (pay parking).

Gorey is serviced by Bus Eireann (take the 7-30 am from Busáras) and Iarnród Eireann (take the 7-26 am from Dublin Connolly).  The bus will leave you within 50 metres of the venue and the train about 10 minutes walk.  Details of accommodation will be available upon request.

The cost of the tournament is €25 per person.  This will include entry to the tournament, refreshments between the second and third games and a goodie bag.

Rules

·    All armies must be chosen using the WHFB 7th edition rulebook and the relevant army book for that edition.  No army books published after August 12th and before the tournament may be used; please use the previous army book instead.  Contact us if you wish to use an army with no published army book such as Dogs of War or Chaos Dwarfs.  Official GW FAQs will be used.

·    Appropriate models must be used and at least half the models in the unit must be armed and armoured appropriately.  Proxies may not be used unless agreed with the organisers beforehand.

·    The tournament allows you to use a maximum of 2,000 points to choose your army.

·    Named characters/special characters are not allowed, nor are double rare choices nor triple special choices.  Rare choices may be repeated once for each choice for High Elf armies.

·    All games will be standard pitched battle scenarios.

Points are awarded for generalship and painting.  The generalship points are awarded for performance during games as follows:

0-150               10/10
151-300            11/9
301-450            12/8
451-600            13/7
601-750            14/6
751-900            15/5
901-1050          16/6
1051-1200        17/3
1201-1350        18/2
1351-1500        19/1
1500+               20/0

Points will be awarded for painting by the tournament organisers and the sponsor of our painting prize.  This will be based on a score of between one and ten points but based on proportion of unit strength painted.  If half your army is painted to a Golden Daemon standard, expect five points; if all your army is painted to a good gaming standard, expect seven to eight points.  You do not need to paint your army yourself, but if your army is not your own work you will not be eligible for the best-painted army prize.  You will, however, receive your painting points.
Prizes will be awarded to the following:

·    Overall winner – highest points total;
·    Best general – highest generalship score;
·    Best army – best painted army;
·    Best team.

The best team prize will be awarded to the club that takes part that performs best.  This will be decided by taking the average score of each team’s best performing four players.

Schedule

9.00am - 9.45am – Registration;
10.00am – 12.30pm – Round one;
12.30pm – 1.15pm – Lunch and best army judging;
1.15pm – 3.45 pm – Round two;
3.45pm – 4.00pm – Refreshments;
4.00pm – 6.30pm – Round three;
6-45pm – Prize giving.

How do I enter?

Entry is easy.  Just e-mail your details to the organisers at admin@northwexfordgamers.org specifying your name, club, the army you’re bringing, your e-mail address and a contact phone number.  Your place is guaranteed once payment is received.  You may pay via paypal (nigelkavanagh@gmail.com), cheque or cash.

Alternatively, give your details to Nigel Kavanagh or Derek Mitchell with payment.  They can usually be found loitering the tables in the Underground Gamers on a Tuesday night or in Wexford on weekends.

Other Information

Gaming is a social and fun hobby - not to be taken too seriously.  The NWG encourages the social element and its members will be out in Gorey on both Friday, the night before, and Saturday after the tournament for a few drinks to either prepare for the tournament or relax and debate it afterwards.  We would be delighted if you would join us for a few social drinks either night.

If you wish accommodation for either or both nights, just let us know and we’ll take care of you.

We will also allow first-round challenges.  If you and a friend wish to play each other in the first round, we will arrange that.  Please simply let us know with your entry.

Any kind of unsportsmanlike conduct will be dealt with with a yellow card.  A second yellow card will result in expulsion from the tournament.

We hope that all games will be conducted in the spirit of the hobby.

Queries?

If you have any queries or questions, please don’t hesitate to contact us on our forum at http://www.northwexfordgamers.org/forum or e-mail us directly on admin@northwexfordgamers.org.

Further details regarding the 2010 ETC rankings may be found on http://www.whfb-ireland.org.

We look forward to hosting you in North Wexford.

Taken from: http://midlans.net/summer2009.html

Overall duration: 48 Hours
Starting: 6PM Friday 21nd August 2009
Ending: 6PM Sunday 23th August 2009
Places available: 400

Event Entry Fee: €25

—-Bookings List—-

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Location of Venue and Features:

- Full gigabit backbone network
- 11 managed, dedicated game servers
- Dedicated file servers
- Dedicated projector for tournaments
- Full 3-Phase electricity
- Spot Prizes and Fun Competitions
- Hosted in the midlands top community centre (1 hours drive from Dublin)
- Arcade area - Wii gaming, console/arcade competitions
- Free shuttle service from local train/bus station
- Free Parking for all
- Free showers and seperate Sleeping area on site
- Lots of B&Bs in the area (please check our forum for a complete list)
- Shop and Dining facilities on site, breakfast, dinner and snacks served daily
- Security System

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Address:

Streete Community Centre,
Streete,
Co. Westmeath,
Ireland
For Directions Click Here

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Attendee Requirements:

-Transport to LAN venue
-Your PC or Laptop
-PC cables + 4 way Socket board
-Please do a virus scan before the event Click HERE for the latest AVG
-Money for food and drink
-Sleeping bag and cushion (If your staying in the venue)
-A signed waiver(available at the event reception, if your under 18 years of age please download it HERE AND GET A PARENT OR A LEGAL GUARIAN TO SIGN IT!)

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Games played

(practice and fun, the order of the games in this list does not indicate popularity)

Counter Strike - Source
Battlefield 2
Day of Defeat Source
Unreal Tournament 2004
Unreal Tournament 3
Call of Duty 2, 4 and 5
Team Fortress 2
Crysis
Enemy Territory : Quake Wars
Ghost Recon 2 : Advanced Warfighter
Commander & Conquer 3 : Tiberium Wars
Warhammer40k - Dawn of War + expansion packs
Company of Heroes : Opposing Fronts
Supreme Commander
Armed Assault
World in Conflict
Street Fighter 2 turbo and 4
Flatout2
Command & Conquer - Generals : Zero Hour + Mods
Day of Defeat Source
Quake 3 Arena and Mods
Quake World
and many more… any suggestions are welcome before and on the day of the event!

If you want to find out if people are wanting to play any specific games not listed here, just post it on our forum and see if others will be interested in playing. FORUM CLICK HERE

Location: Models Inc new address on Jervis St, Dublin.

CRAPHAMMER 40,000

Simply put the idea is thus, build the least competitive and down right silly army you can come up with Warhammer 40k and bring it along for three games of what should be hilarious 40k.

Game 1 you use your own idiotic creation to try and win in some possible manner
Game 2 you swap lists with your opponent and use whatever silly thing they have come up with.
Game 3 is the grand table swap, you and your opponent set up your armies and then draw a table number from a hat….You and your opponent will then play on that table with whatever reject creation you happen to find there.

Prizes will be given for the following

1. Best of the worst: tournament…I’m not sure winner is appropriate. Least loser seems best
2. Best painted
3. Crime against Warhammer and Nature: tournament members will vote on the stupidest creation of the day for a prize

Rules of Craphammer

1. All armies to be upto 1500 points and be no more than 15 points below that total.
2. All units must be deployable on the table (no Chaos Space Marine list with nothing but summoned daemons and no icon to summon them to)
3. All lists must be presented in a legible fashion (this is essential since others will be using your list)
4. HAVE FUN, this is not a tournament to be dominated by rules debate or argument. Its envisioned to be 3 fun games where the main point is fun and should be dominated by laughing at the silly things that your fellow players have put on the table.

Taken from: http://leprecon.info/blog/category/wargames/

Ah wargaming, truly the most noble of all man’s pursuits. There is no act finer than crushing your opponent underfoot, and no failure more humiliating than losing horribly to someone better than yourself. In aid of this great activity at Leprecon 31 we intend to bring victory to the few, and defeat to the masses. This year we plan on offering a bit of a diverse selection which is as follows:

We will have a two day Warhammer 40,000 tournament of an as yet undetermined point value. More information on this will be provided as we work out the details.

There will also be some variety of Hordes and/or Warmachine tournament. Once again, as we get details they will be reported to you.

In addition to these tournaments we will also be running various pick up and play games over the course of the weekend that will be more accessible to those of you who haven’t made the rather expensive investment (both in time and money) that a proper wargaming army so often necessitates.

If you happen to have an interesting wargame you would like to run at Leprecon (or maybe even an uninteresting one), or you have any specific questions, feel free to email me at Wargames@leprecon.info

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