Crack's Call Fantasy tournament

Neil ran the the Crack's Call Fantasy tournament at Rathkeale College at the weekend. There are lots of pics and stories (some of them true!) on the club Facebook.

Well done Neil :-)

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September 27 meeting

25mm was the flavour of the day today, with all games being the heavy metal scale - size counts! The games were Ancient, Marlburian and Napoleonic.

Also, Peter and James brought 40K Science Fiction but did not get to play. David brought along his 15mm Hanoverians.

Team photo taken by one of the croquet players. Jono, Ceilidh, Harley, Rex, James, David, Peter, Andrew, Carl, Vince, Craig and Jim.

Andrew brought along Early Achaemenid Persians and played Vince's Maurikian Byzantines. They used WRG's DBMM rules for Ancient and Medieval periods.

Vince's Byzantine CnC. The Strategos, accompanied by an icon.

David and Andrew deep in thought. What cunning plot had Vince hatched? An off-table flank march? Indeed it was.

David's 15mm Hanoverians.

Carl and Rex (French) played, Harley, Ceilidh and Rex (British and Portuguese). The rules were Blackpowder.  

Portuguese; I think Rex painted these.

British; Harley's I believe.

Craig (the Duke of Marlborough) and Rex (Peter the Great) using WRG's Horse Foot and Guns rules. In this case the game was early 18th Century.

A closer view of the Craig's and Jim's game.

Peter and James with Space Marines. 

Cracks Call Fantasy tournament

Neil has been running "Cracks Call" Fantasy tournament at Rathkeale College this weekend. Photos and results to come. This is Neil's preview:

Well its all happening in Sylvania. The Vampire Counts are stirring and vying for power whilst the rest of the world is sleeping. There are some young upstart Counts against an very experienced army led by formidable twin brothers.

The Empire are in the middle of elections, Bretonnia have organised a national joust, and the  Lizardmen are building a spaceship. Khemri is quiet and not interested events to the north.

The elf apocalypse has run its course and there is just one elf army seeking revenge on the world led by one pretty mean woman that you wouldn’t want to bump into on a dark night.

The Chaos Gods are stirring things up from the North. Khorne has his own champion in Valkia, another woman you don't want to mess with. Even her own troops fear her. Meanwhile Tzeentch and Nurgle have joined forces and raised the daemons to march south displacing some Ogre tribes before them. Where is Slaanesh? Maybe he has covertly persuaded the Chaos Dwarfs to act as spoilers to the other Gods. The army does look formidable.

The usually strong contingent of Manawatu Dwarfs have decided to stay home and mine gold and drink beer. Only one clan has descended into Sylvania to reopen trade routes closed by the Sylvanian civil war. They have brought wagon trains of beer with them. Much to their surprise they met up with a completely unheard of clan from the valley across the mountain ranges. This clan is led by a young upstart, can't be more than 400 years old, far too young to be drinking Bugmans.

The dirty rats are still scuttling around trying to take advantage of any weaknesses they find and a tribe of inexperienced orcs and goblins are raiding out of the Border Princes spoiling for a fight to earn their reputation.

And so I introduce you to the armies of the battles of Cracks Call. If you want a peaceful life do not travel to Sylvania near the equinox.

The stage is set 

Cracks Call is being staged this weekend at Rathkeale College.

A Warhammer Fantasy event with 5 battles raging over the weekend

We had 14 players (now 12 due to sickness) with a variety of 2000 point armies.

The tournament is being played under 8.1 (NZ) edition rule set which can be found on the Fields of Blood blog. Four new tournament Fantasy players are trying their hand, which is great to see. 

Twitter updates will be provided during the tournament. 

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Have you seen our Facebook page? There are a couple more pics from the September 13 meeting and lots more posts.
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Sunday September 13

Thank you to James for the notes and Craig for the photos.

- Neil and myself played a couple of learner games of Kings of War (armies supplied by Neil) - Fantasy
- Craig and Jim played Horse, Foot and Guns - Napoleonic
- Ross and James played Magic: The Gathering - Fantasy cards
- Peter (Andrew and Tracys other boy) was doing some modelling with his Space Marines
- The big thing of the day was a huge,  multiplayer game of Warhammer 40000 between some local boys and some guys from Levin.
   *The Masterton crew:
       - Zack playing Orks
       - Alex Hall (Scottish, organised it all) playing Orks
       -  Eddie playing an Astra Militarum  (Imperial Guard) armoured force
  *The Levin crew
      -  Stu with Necrons 
      -  Glen playing Dark Eldar
      -  Cody with Blood Angel Space Marines
      -  Alex Neil playing Khorne Demonkin  (Chaos)
In the finest GW tradition,  it took them all afternoon to play 3 turns.   Finished with a solid win for Levin,  and threats of a rematch.
- I also saw Callum,  Dave Mclachlan, Rex,  Harley, Ceilidh, and Mel.

Craig's and Jim's Napoleonic game involved a forced river crossing

Jim with Rex watching, awestruck!

Peter, James and Ross playing Magic.

James and Neil - Kings of War

James and Neil - Kings of War also

The big 40K game

Sunday August 30

Many thanks to Craig for the photos and the notes from yesterday's meeting.

Ross taught Peter and another young lad [Aidan] whose name escapes me for the moment Dystopian Wars, as they fought a French Civil War.  I'm not sure if a decision was reached, but there seem to have been some dramatic events prior to packing up.

Rex, Neil and Andrew played a naval card game from the days of sail - Enemy in Sight - again I'm not sure who won, but I think Andrew had the upper hand.

Young James played Ed at DBA using Ed's armies - James was using middle Saxon but exactly what Ed was using I'm not sure.  James cam away with the win, giving him bragging rights at Chanel for most of the next week or so.

I fought Jim at HFG Napoleonic and managed to get to the win, holding off his cavalry on my left while turning his line on my right.

Peter with one of Ross' Dystopian Wars French fleets.

Aidan with another Dystopian wars French fleet

Neil, Rex and Andrew playing the age of sail game, Enemy in Sight

Ed and James playing DBA.

Craig and Jim's Napoleonic game using the Horse Foot and Guns rules.

Marauders win at Call to Arms!

Two Wairarapa wargamers, Neil Williamson and Vince Cholewa, won their competitions at the Wellington Warlords annual Call to Arms at the weekend. Neil won the GW Fantasy competition and Vince won the DBMM Ancient and Medieval competition. Here are some pics of Neil and Vince. More shots from Call to Arms are on the club's Facebook group https://www.facebook.com/groups/110862205607872/

Neil and his army, Orcs and Goblins. smile emoticon

From left to right and front to back: Da Ugg Uggs (Savage Orcs), TweedleDee and TweedleDum (wold riders), StikU riding Nanarama (gigantic spider), SuzyQ (purple arachnorok spider), Pointy sticks (goblins and 3nasty skulkers), To yah (Orange arachnorock spider), Gorbad (general and battle standard), Turkey tail (savage Orc great shaman), and Da Slimeez (trolls).

Grinnie Vinnie! Vince used Maurikian Byzantine ("Maurikian"after the Emperor Maurikios).

From left: me, first; Brent Senior-Partridge (Wellington) half of team Brent/Alastair, third and Alastair had the best presented army, Western Sudanese; Richard Foster (Thames) third; John van den Hoeven (Upper Hutt) photo bomb LOL; Jim Morton (Lincoln) best opponent.