Equinox 2018

Plan for the weekend now Guys! 
Equinox is back on the 3rd & 4th of March 2018.

Wargaming Convention with multiple systems. 

--- Auckland Central ---

Warhammer 40k

Fantasy Battle T9A

Age of Sigmar

X-Wing

and more, with details to come....

Contact: wouster7@hotmail.com

Read about previous Equinox tournaments:-

The most recent tournament in 2017.

Another Equinox held for Gamers.

Here.

GuardCon 2017 - Report

Wargaming was at the fore this past weekend in Auckland. GuardCon hosted a massive gathering of Hobbyists at the Auckland Bridge Club. It was fantastic to see the resurgence in Warhammer in record numbers and I for one look forward to seeing more players joining the community. Thanks to our local friendly club AGC, backed by supportive sponsors, the tournaments saw everyone getting a prize.

The Atmosphere was electric, friendly and fun. If you ever want to come to a convention, GuardCon is definitely about meeting people who are like minded, playing the games that you enjoy. I've always gone to tournaments to share my hobby and to get inspiration for my future projects. What better way is there to grow your hobby by helping the community and showing off the games you play. Gone are the days of exclusivity and Conventions are all welcoming and look forward to boosting you into the games you enjoy. If you have any questions, bring them along.

GuardCon hosted, Warhammer 40k doubles, The 9th Age: Fantasy Battle, Age of Sigmar, X-Wing and Board Gaming. Thank you to all the Attendees, Sponsors, Fellow Organisers and the community for making another massive convention a success.

Here follows the results and also some photos of the event. I'll try to get a photo dump in on a following post. If you have any photo's that you want to share, please get in touch.

GuardCon W40K Doubles: T.O's: Stan & Corey.

Rank	Team Name		Tournament Total
1	Team Chris		128.53
2	Thousand Guns		114.75
3	New Meta		110.18
4	Fungi & Cheese		104.41
5	Team Min Max Spam		102.07
6	Kyle & Stan		100.89
7	Ramrod		99.73
8	Hen & Ben		96.31
9	Never Give Up		94.32
10	Bobby Timlers		91.9
11	Kamikazi		91.63
12	Aeldari United		91.02
13	Ultra Guard		89.99
14	Reagan & Jessie		89.93
15	Reclamation Legion		88.83
16	Jed & Connor		87.13
17	Martin & Ben		85.98
18	M & M		84.55
19	Paul & Greg		83.88
20	Ryoma & Cam		82.84
21	Edmund & Owen		81.73
22	Max Push-ups		80.83
23	Team DG		79.54
24	Ben C & Ben L		78.14
25	Heretic Query		76.8
26	Jessie & Nathan		75.09
27	Chris & Gordon		73.2
28	George & Chris		72.54
29	Biggie Smalls		70.05
30	Waaagh!		69.16
31	Dan & Damian		67.88
32	Westside Marines		63.3
33	Can we go home		53.24
34	The Rock		28.12
35	Waaagh 2		27.34
36	Q& M		26.83
37	Tim & Geoff		20.1
38	Ghost		20.05

Best Sports: Waaagh!
Best Paint: Julien Lestat

The 9th Age: Fantasy Battle. T.O's: Rich, Mccrae & Erdem.

			BP		Army
1	Jack B		73		ID
2	Thomas B		71		WoDG
3	Tom C		69		Sylvan
4	E.J		65		ID
5	Mccrae		63		HE
6	Damian T		59		Ogre
7	Erdem O		58		HE
8	Glenn P		53		Vamp
9	Michael P		52.1		Empire
10	Basil M		52		Vamp
11	Nick L		47.1		Sylvan
12	Jade C		47		O&G
13	Ken H		44		Beast
14	Bill G		42.1		Dwarves
15	Brian W		42		HE
16	Jacob C		38		Beast
17	Josh W		35		Saurian
18	John W		34		Vamp
19	Curtis T		30		HE
20	Bobby G		26.1		O&G
21	Chris E		26		Vamp
22	Richard H		25		Vamp

Best Sport: Brian

Best Paint: Josh

Age of Sigmar. T.O's: Dan, Andy and John.

Tournament total

1) Finn (100 TP)
2) Andy (76 TP)
3) Ron (66 TP)

X-Wing Miniatures. T.O: Chris

1. Abby

2. Damien

3. Alan

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NZ Wargaming Invitationals 2016

So the waters have settled and we have worked hard to get the Wargaming tournament season ending event stamped and ready to go here in Aoteroa. The Inaugural 'NZ Wargaming Invitationals' will be the pinnacle event for those wargamers looking to finish off on a high after competing in tournaments around the country over the course of each tournament year. Headlining the very first NZ Invitationals will be 'The 9th Age: Fantasy Battle' & 'Warhammer 40K' this November. Wargamers invited will compete to secure their own piece of history with Plaques of distinction and their name engraved on the Perpetual Trophy to celebrate the success as the Champion of that system.

The NZ Invitationals will be hosted annually mid-November to avoid the busy Xmas season. Rankings pages for each individual system will be used to determine the field of competitors.You earn points according to your placing in each tournament you attend in the country. With the top 3 results counting towards your total.

With a grand reception from the community, we are full for this edition of the event. X-Wing will be a demo system this time around and there are future systems already expressing interest to join Invitationals from next year onward.

NZ Wargaming Invitationals. November - Auckland.

The 9th Age: Fantasy Battle

9th Age has proven itself at the major European Tournament (ETC) to be the dominant Fantasy Battle system in the world at the moment. With the current edition already gaining 125,000+ downloads it can only build from strength to strength. With those kind of numbers following the game globally, it was inevitable that NZ moved to adopt the popular games system. I can personally attest to the games fantastic balanced clarity and replay-ability.
This year in New Zealand, there have been very notable tournaments around the country hosting 9th Age events. The tournament results have been collated and the Top 12 competitors along with 2 Wildcards have been invited to compete at Invitationals. With eager anticipation, everyone has accepted their invites with relish. The strong field to compete for the spoils are all in the top 20 in the country..

Warhammer 40K

With proven years and years of popularity in wargaming, WH40K has again attracted a large tournament following in the North Island. This year for Invitationals it was the trial year for WH40K. We approached our local tournament community to gather interest for the event and we received overwhelming response. With rankings not in play this year we have a big 20 field to contest the very first Invitationals. It is planned that the following Invitationals will use official tournament rankings and be offered country wide. The competition will be supreme with the so many City centres with large numbers of Warhammer 40K players. This year's 20 players are from our regular Auckland tournament going community.

If you are unable to make it to Invitationals this year, we have a Twitch TV channel (Karanadon) dedicated to the event. Support your wargaming community and have a look in. More equipment is along the way for future tournaments and we are planning multiple channels in future events.

Thank you to our Sponsors.

GuardCon 2016 Tourney report

GuardCon weekend was a superb gathering of gamers this year. Really great to see such numbers again and huge encouragement for future events up here in Auckland. Thank you to all of you who came and made it such a ball of a convention. Also great job and a pat on the back to the various T.O's who gave their time up to help our Local Club run the 7 systems that were on show. Notably Warhammer 40K & The 9th Age Fantasy Battle shone at GuardCon. The new venue was well suited for the games Convention.

With great numbers and fantastic support from our sponsors. We were able to make it all that more memorable for the contestants with some big prizes given out. Also some of the the bigger systems even had all or most of their field get prizes in their events. We stuck to our club policy of 'Everyone has the same chance of winning the Loot'. This meant that it didn't matter where you placed in the field there were still plenty of spot prizes to be won.

Support our tournament sponsors as they are supporting you by providing tournament support. Without them we wouldnt be able to put on such a extravagant show. Here's the Results for the various systems and a few of the pictures from the weekend. There's already heaps of photo's on facebook of the event but I'll also post a photo dump in a few days or so.

Warhammer 40K Doubles - T.O: Stan V

Rank	Team Name		Bonus	Battle	Sports	Paint	Total
1	Team Chris		13	132	30	20	195
2	Team Cheddar		2	119	30	24	175
3	Mind Games		3	106	29	18	156
4	Darth Taudar		14	92	29	20	155
5	P.G. Bagriders		2	108	27	16	154
6	Rotting Reptiles		14	83	30	26	153
7	Cronid		13	91	30	16	150
8	Enthusiastic Envelopes		4	81	29	20	134
9	Space Corgis with Spikes		13	72	29	18	132
10	The Bloody Tau		14	66	30	19	129
11	Angry Birds		2	75	28	21	125
12	Dark Wolves		2	67	30	23	122
13	South Park		15	52	30	21	118
14	Jammy Dodger		13	53	30	14	110
15	Pew Pew		2	62	27	12	103
16	Death		3	39	26	16	84
17	Team Dusted		0	0	0	0	0
18	Team Late		0	0	0	0	0

Well done to Team Chris dominating again up here in Auckland W40K.

*Two Teams had real life catch up pretournament. Hope everything worked out fells.

The 9th Age Fantasy Battle ; T.O: Josh Workman.

1.     McCrae L     - Dwarves
2.     Evert L         - Infernal Dwarves
3.     Tom C          - Sylvan Elves
4.     Erdem O      - High Born Elves
5.     Ethan P        - Beast Herd
6.     Tom D          - Ogres
7.     Phil W          - High Born Elves
8.     Chris E         - Sylvan Elves
9.     Phil C           - Daemons
10.   Curtis T        - High Born Elves
11.   Michael P     - Orc & Goblin
12.   Dave E         - Warriors
13.   Richard H     - Warriors
14.   Josh W         - Saurians
15.   Damian T     - Orc & Goblin
16.   Brian W       - High Born Elves
17.   Jade C          - Ratkin
18.   Jakob C        - Dwarves

Best Paint: Phil C
Best Sports:Jade C

Lord of the Rings : T.O: Corey Buchanan

Rank	Name	BP	VP	Sports	Painting	Total
1	Dory	108	41	30	26	205
2	Josiah	104	43	30	26	203
3	Elliot	88	27	29	26	170
4	Julia	88	25	30	26	169
5	Mikey	64	26	30	20	140
6	Connor	60	13	30	20	123
7	Lev	48	18	30	20	116
8	Shane	32	9	30	26	97
Sports	Shane
Army	Shane

Age of Sigmar : T.O: Timothy Lind

GuardCon Battlehost (2,000 points)

1st - Ron Golds
2nd - James McPherson
3rd - James Cox

Best Painted Army - James McPherson

GuardCon Vanguard (1,000 points)

1st - Daniel Maguire
2nd - Daniel Street
3rd - James Orton

Best Painted Army - Daniel Street

X-Wing & Imperial Assualt : T.O's: Chris Palmer & Abby Pitout

GuardCon Xwing Champion: Chris Franklin

GuardCon Imperial Assault Champion:  Alex Grant.

Once again thank you for all your participation Gaming community. If you are in Auckland then dont forget to visit A.C.G. Club, the biggest friendly gathering of gamers and systems in Auckland. You can visit our Club page Here. Our respective Sponsors are also on facebook and on their individual websites. Visit and go have a look for your Hobby needs ;)