40K Tournament Guidelines

Purpose

The purpose of Fire and Sword Game Center's 40K tournaments is to satisfy the need for our more competitive players. Our vision is to offer a highly competitive environment where sportsmanship is valued above simple wins. Our ultimate goal is to assemble a team of qualified, good mannered players who would represent the shop FSGC in major tournaments and conventions under a sponsor program from us.

Tournaments Types

There are two types of W40K tournaments provided by FSGC on a regular basis.

(Prizes may change on event day depending on number of active participants)

Ladder Ranking System

As mentioned in the Ladder Ranking System (LR), all Warhammer 40k tournaments will be running under the FSGC Ladder system. This will help us to establish an effective system both in game match ups and tie breaks. The Ladder will be the main measurement used by us when selecting possible candidates to represent the shop in other non FSGC events.

Event Day Time Table

The following is a typical bi-weekly event schedule under normal store operation hours. The table is shown using 24 time, and any time slot may be advanced with all the participants consent.

Tournament Specifications

The followings are various tournament specifications (TS) available to the 40K game system:

Standard

The following codexes are allowed in FSGC W40K tournaments:

Any special characters, amendments, clarifications published in WDs (players are required to bring their own copies of WDs during the tournament)

Scenario pattern Gamma – Omega – Gamma will be the standard for all 3 round formats and Gamma – Omega – Gamma – Gamma will be the standard for all 4 round formats.

Players play their games according to the 40K rulebook (terrains, deployments, strategy rating, etc.) with all 5 standard missions available. Each game lasts 6 full turns unless time is called at the end of the match round. The TO will warn players when there are 30 and 15 minutes left in a round respectably. When the final time is called, the current player may finish his/her phase then count off the victory points (VP). If in battle phase, the player must finish the current combat with no further pursuit movement or further unfinished combats. The player then turn in an accurately TTS to the TO and wait for the next round’s match up.

Note on Forge World’s Models As a general rule in the tournament circuits, these models can be used to represent existing models that are supported by normal codices. Any players who wish to use these models as per Forge World’s published must bring printed copies of the rules prior to the event and get consensus from all players to use them.

Limited

L (HQ) / Limited – HQ No army may field more than 1 “HQ” choice under its force organization chart. This includes special characters that take up “HQ” choices to field.

L (EL) / Limited – Elites No army may field more than 2 “Elite” choices under its force organization chart. Units with different armaments but under the same name are still considered to be of the same troop choice (the same goes for Chaos Marks).

L (TR) / Limited – Troops No army may field more than 2 “Troop” choices under its force organization chart. Units with different armaments but under the same name are still considered to be of the same troop choice (the same goes for Chaos Marks).

L (FA) / Limited – Fast Attack No army may field more than 2 “Fast Attack” choices under its force organization chart. Units with different armaments but under the same name are still considered to be of the same troop choice (the same goes for Chaos Marks).

L (HS) / Limited – Heavy Support No army may field more than 2 “Heavy Support” choices under its force organization chart. Units with different armaments but under the same name are still considered to be of the same troop choice (the same goes for Chaos Marks).

L (VH) / Limited – Vehicles No army may field more than 3 vehicles in the game. Vehicles with different armaments but under the same name are still considered to be of the same choice (the same goes for Chaos Marks).

L (MC) / Limited – Monstrous Creature No army may field more than 1 Monstrous Creature in the game. Monstrous Creatures with different armaments but under the same name are still considered to be of the same choice.

L (PS) / Limited – Psyker No army may field more than 1 psyker choice in the army. The actual models under the psyker choice, however, are not limited in any other ways. Synapse creatures from the Tyranid’s Codex that do not have any other psychic abilities are not limited by this TS.

L (SC) / Limited – Special Character No army may field more than 1 special character under this TS.

Restricted

R (AP ?) / Restricted – Armor Piercing (?) No units equipped with an AP? or better weapon may be fielded in the game. Power fist and other close combat weapons that ignore AP and monstrous creatures are not restricted under this TS.

R (AS ?) / Restricted – Armor Save (?) No units with an AS? or better may be fielded in the game.

R (AR ??) / Restricted – Armor Rating (??) No vehicles with a total AR of ?? or more may be fielded in the game.

R (IS) / Restricted – Invulnerable Save No units with an invulnerable save may be fielded in the game.

R (PS) / Restricted – Psyker No psykers may be fielded in the game. Psyckers that are HQ choices maybe taken but no psychic power may be invoked during the game.

R (SC) / Restricted – Special Character No special characters may be fielded in the game. An army list that is only available when a special character is fielded thus becomes unplayable under this TS.

R (TR) / Restricted – Transport Vehicles No transport vehicles may be fielded in the game

R (VH) / Restricted – Vehicles No vehicles may be fielded in the game.

R (MC) / Restricted – Monstrous Creature No monstrous creatures may be fielded in the game.

R (OP) / Restricted – Options No further options (war gears, demonic gifts, mutations, doctrines etc.) that include a point costs may be purchased for any units fielded in the game. Psyckers and their available psychic powers are unaffected by this TS.