GuardCon 2017

GuardCon 2017

ACG Club's annual convention of gaming.

Featuring the largest Warhammer 40K doubles tournament in NZ, The 9th Age: Fantasy Battle, Age of Sigmar, X-Wing, Board gaming and more!!

Hosted by Equinox Tournaments in association with the ACG Club.

Email for Information & Registration now at

guardcon@outlook.co.nz

Thank you to our sponsors.

Please support them. There generosity goes a long way to making your events happen.

Blood bowl team of the week

Ever since the new release of Blood Bowl by GW, my interest in the game has soared. No longer will it be relegated to the almost never played and will take pride of place in the regular section. (I play far too many genres of games :) ) Checking out the amazing work the community of Gamers put out constantly inspires me to get more into my collection. Here's another team one of the guys has finished and it looks amazing.

IMP: This is not mine and all rights remain with their relevant owners.

Blood Bowl - Auckland Casual Carnage League

Blood Bowl is available to be played in our casual league.

1. Your Team(s) tracked via OBBLM.

2. Play as many games as you wish over each month (max 2 games per team)

3. NAF Official merchandise included with your $15 entry fee

4. Final round tournament with the entire league (Date to be confirmed)

5. If you have just started or want to pic this game up, we can make this happen too.

Contact: Wouster7@hotmail.com

Equinox Blood Bowl Cup 2017

The new Blood Bowl stuff is amongst us. Let's run a tournament and get the peeps together. That was the idea and we made it happen with this little tourney in Central Auckland NZ. We're sure to get a few coaches and encourage the guys on the fringes to pick up the game. By the way BB is bloody insanely awesome, you should pick it up if you haven't already ;)

With the help of a few great people up here in Auckland we managed to get the very first Equinox Blood Bowl tournament underway at the 'Rose Park Hotel'. Beautiful onsite accommodation for the event, along with Refreshments and Restaurant. We managed NAF fully endorsing our event, so I'm sure the event will be run every year from now on. Thanks to 'Auckland Rose Park Hotel', 'Vagabond Games', 'Livewire Games', & NAF for making it happen.

The weekend  got a good mix of new players and veterans to Equinox BB, the perfect mix. With a lot of potential new players on the fringes looking in, it can only get bigger and better. I can tell you we had a pretty damn good Gametastic weekend. Thank you to the Auckland Commissioners for hosting a boys drinks night out on Saturday too.

Here are the results: -

		NAF #		Overall
1	Steve Arthurs	19850	Painted, Most TD	18
2	Geoff Edmonds	20745		14
3	Paul Deacon	443		14
4	Thomas Thirling	TBC	Softest Team	13
5	Jonathan Wright	20741	Sportsman	11
6	Murray Lee	20015		11
7	George Williams	12877	Hardest Team	7
8	Chris standing	TBC		6
9	Wayne Budd	TBC		5
10	Corey Buchanan	TBC	Rookie	3
11	Phil Wu	TBC		0
12	Brian Wigsell	TBC		0
13	Damien Morley	TBC		0
14	Warren Rattenbury	TBC		0

Wouldn't be a Tournament without some beautiful bling. 

Along with the official bling we had a lot of loot to give away to the players. 

This included 3 of the New release teams.

 Steve takes home the Trophy with a Eldril inspired list.

George gains the 'Hardest Team award with a massive 20 casualties.

The Hardest team tables the Dark Elves completely. Yes, I mean all the Dark Elf team was either injured or knocked out in this drive!!

 Jono on his way to winning Best Sportsman. This is with a Skaven team even!

Geoff's Norse Team with a whole bunch of unique and collector miniatures.

 Paul had attended the last Bloodbowl world cup. 

There was a impressive 912 Coaches there!!

If you go to the BB World Cup, you also get Personalise boards and other merchandise, wow!!

This was the Saturday evening game to finish off the last round.

It was awesome!! 

Thank you to our Sponsors. Go and support then as they support us the community.

Equinox Blood Bowl Cup

Come and compete in the very first 2 day Blood Bowl tournament of the year Coaches. We aim to have a trophy minted for the event and many spot prizes (Teams of miniatures), Painting award and Best sport to be given away at the event. There is limited room so register your interest as soon as you are able to avoid dissapointment.

Structure:
1. 5 games played over 2 days, using Swiss chess.
2. The official GW Blood Bowl Competition Rules Pack
3. You have1,100,000gp to spend on your team (6 normal skills to assign, 1 each to 6 players.)
4. All official teams can be used. This includes Slann, Chaos Pact and Underworld.

Venue: Auckland Rose Park Hotel.
Early bird entry: $35 if paid before Dec 31st.
Normal Rego: $40 if paid before Feb 1st.
Late Rego: At the discretion of the T.O. $45.

Register & Players Packs, email to
wouster7@hotmail.com

*Thank you to GSC as we're using most of their rules in our pack.
** If there is suffucient early interest before the end of the year. We will be able to add additional cool prizes to the tournament too.
***This event is run by Equinox Tournaments with help from ACG Inc.

Events around NZ will be compiled onto one site now and you'll find this event there. 

A group of NZ Tournament Organisers met and agreed to join forces middle of this year to start a 'NZ Wargaming Events' page. If you are a Tournament Organiser please join the page and have your events included. As always the page will be for non-profits and there won't be any exceptions.

You can find the page Here.

Thank you to our sponsors for the tournament.

Please visit them and support them as they have supported you and the community.

Blood Bowl is back!!

We held our Club intro for Blood bowl release over the weekend. Great interest and even though it was late notice we got some good numbers. Don't worry for those that missed out, we'll be holding events very early next year.

Thanks again to Vagabond Games for helping us provide some sweet giveaways for the day. It was great icing on the cake for all those gamers getting in and finding out what a awesome game 'Blood Bowl' is.

You can use all your old teams. The new teams are superb and will only get more new releases. If you have any questions, don't hesitate to ask. With all the vets around at our club, you'll be well looked after if you want to start or restart your hobby.

Thomas was Champ with a staggering 7 TD's,

 over 3 games, to win the 3 way tie at the top.

The old or new, the Teams & Boards can still be used.

 Brian playing his first game, found it easy and a superb game.

We had 3 teams that we gave away and a whole heap of prizes.

Here are the prize getters, thks for coming!

Thank you to our sponsors for making this happen.

Ogre Blood Bowl team WIP

Have been caught up in the hype of imminent release of the new release of Blood bowl (due around Dec). I have spare Ogres and went about converting them for another team for the hobby.

The starting team of 4 Ogres and a mass of Snotlings (using Gnoblars)

A few Arm repositions and also a fair bit of sculpting with milliput.

 I am quite partial to this as the 5th Ogre. 

 Thats a complete resculpt and it's begun.

Not too bad for a nights work.

Club Open Day 2015

Probably the first Open day that I've ever attended. Great vibe and many people through the doors to checkout what the terms Gamers and Gaming means sans electronics. What I saw was a big bunch of ordinary people having a fantastic time over the two days of the Open weekend. It was reflected with total attendance hitting the 110+ mark over the two days. Good mix of people and a huge number of games played over the weekend. Check out the pictures of everyone getting their game on.

If you want to come join us for a game, then the Club is open every Sunday from ~midday till 5.30pm. Please visit the Club's facebook page Here.

Great Saturday morning start as keen gamers kicked off early. 

We had about 12 tables of Board gaming before lunch.

With all the Club's events, you are welcome to bring your games to share.

A quick count of the gathered collection on the first day we got upto 120+ games.

We also had a lot of Tabletop games on offer.

the club's knowledgeable members are friendly and happy to help you get involved.

'Castle Dice' with the 'More Castles', expansion.

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/129320/castle-dice

 'Catacombs' is a recent released game suitable for all ages.

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/57390/catacombs

 The biggest game of Catan I've ever seen.

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/13/catan

 'DC Comics - Deck Building'.

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/125678/dc-comics-deck-building-game

 'Eclipse' the Galactic competition of vast interstellar civilisations. 

I've had my first game and it's definitely a recommend from me.

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/72125/eclipse

 'Firefly', Great series and translates to a even better Board Game, with all the expansions.

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/138161/firefly-game

 Kingdom death has finally shipped.

What a stunningly sculpted game and with very cool unusual dynamics.

 Maulifaux is becoming very popular.

As always the tables are beautifully made.

 The Auckland Blood Bowl Federations Grand final was played at Open Day.

Lizardmen faced the colossus that is the Undead team. 

 SAGA a skimish game.

 'Warcraft the Board Game'.

 Warmachine and hordes is picking up momentum at Club.

 Warhammer Fantasy Battle 8th ed.

9000pts of Multiplayer massive battle. The only way to play.

 The Ogre tribe marches to war.

 Warriors of Chaos - Warhammer Fantasy Battle 8th edition.

'Five Tribes'.

The Next Club event is in a couple of weeks.

Hope you can join us.