Equinox Placings Part II

Results for the WH40K tournament and the Flames of War tournament. Little bit of a delay as real life stole some of my time recently, so straight back to the hobby.

The Juggernaut of the NZ 40K scene Running his Cron's. Charlie has won every Equinox so far and if he did a Threepeat then the Cup was all his to keep in his trophy stash cabinet. We were secretly cheering him on. We have planned an awesome Trophy as a replacement for next year.

Rank	Player	Army	Total	Battle Total	Sports Total	Comp Total	Pres Total	Sports	Pres
1	Charlie St Clair		195	115	40	0	40	30	20
2	Daniel Hayden		171	93	40	0	38	30	19
3	Haydn Korach		168	88	40	0	40	30	20
4	Dave Wilson		159	81	40	0	38	30	19
5	Scott Birrell		158	80	40	0	38	30	19
6	Mark Buttle		157	79	40	0	38	30	19
7	Chas Roberts		156	76	40	0	40	30	20
8	Damien Avery		155	77	40	0	38	30	19
9	James Davison		152	72	40	0	40	30	20
10	David Foster		151	75	40	0	36	30	18
11	Adam Thornton		151	71	40	0	40	30	20
12	Stuart Burton		150	70	40	0	40	30	20
13	Simon Farell		148	70	40	0	38	30	19
14	Anthony Davy		146	66	40	0	40	30	20
15	Christian Pride		146	66	40	0	40	30	20
16	Michael Sheahan		144	66	40	0	38	30	19
17	Robert Power		143	67	40	0	36	30	18
18	Chris Ward		143	63	40	0	40	30	20
19	David HIllier		142	62	40	0	40	30	20
20	Steve Davis		141	61	40	0	40	30	20
21	Mark Redmond		138	60	40	0	38	30	19
22	Daniel Lister		138	58	40	0	40	30	20
23	Ivan Soo		137	61	40	0	36	30	18
24	Andrew Bartosh		136	60	40	0	36	30	18
25	Tanis Heath		135	59	40	0	36	30	18
26	Henari Akari		132	56	40	0	36	30	18
27	Gavin Elmiger		131	53	40	0	38	30	19
28	Dave Dawn		130	52	40	0	38	30	19
29	Patrick Crockett		129	49	40	0	40	30	20
30	Doug Beisly		128	50	40	0	38	30	19
31	Frank Redmond		127	49	40	0	38	30	19
32	Mitchell Kyne		124	58	40	0	26	30	13
33	David Greig		124	44	40	0	40	30	20
34	Cory Buchanan		123	55	40	0	28	30	14
35	David Mulder		123	45	40	0	38	30	19
36	Matthew Bowmar		121	45	40	0	36	30	18
37	Tristian Sample		120	42	40	0	38	30	19
38	Issac Nannestad		119	45	40	0	34	30	17
39	Ben Foster		119	43	40	0	36	30	18
40	Lee Heath		119	41	40	0	38	30	19
41	Simon Dennerly		116	38	40	0	38	30	19
42	Pascal Roggen		115.67	49	26.67	0	40	20	20
43	James Allen		109	31	40	0	38	30	19
44	Harry Bright		108	32	40	0	36	30	18
45	Paul Bennet		107	39	40	0	28	30	14
46	Rhys Sopphit		107	33	40	0	34	30	17
47	Dan Withers		105	25	40	0	40	30	20
48	Matthew Lenton		104	38	40	0	26	30	13
49	Stan Van Der Ham		93	15	40	0	38	30	19
50	David Bailey		20	0	20	0	0	15	0

Best Paint:  Anthony Davy
Best Sport: David Greig.

Congratulations to the podiums.

Equinox Flame of War:

Big ups for the Auckland City Guard's own taking out the trophy. The club is just starting back up and for the few games that have been the preparation to the sweet nectar of success it must of been nice to behold. Congratulations!

Here's some more photo's from the Convention.

 Multi coloured Storm Ravens.

 Why take 2 when you can take 3.

 Two Giant list, funtastic!

 Blender chicks and great mini's.

 The Camel train.

CanOpener Charity gets a revamp.

 Coming in June.

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Battle Brothers 40K

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1000pt One day tournament.

$15 to Enter

22nd of June, Saturday at Freemans Bay Community Centre.

More details to come.

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Battle Brothers WHFB

@CanOpener

1000pt One day tournament.

$15 to Enter

22nd of June, Saturday at Freemans Bay Community Centre.

More details to come.

Equinox Pics Part 2

We tried to get as many prizes back into the community as possible at Equinox. 

Future tournaments we will try and dedicate spending on building up the terrain the Tournament has access to. Currently we have 4 tables of terrain and a big thanks needs to go to everyone who helped in sponsoring terrain tables so the tournament could have some scenery. Auckland City guard and East Auckland Elites let us use their terrain so thanks goes out to the two main wargaming clubs in Auckland.

Some of the Competitors who took home the swag at the tournament.

Thanks to :

Vagabond Games

Pukeko Games

Steamworks

& Battlefront Miniatures.

Table with some of the shinies.

Whangarei represents at Equinox.

 Photo Bomb! Best Sponsored terrain Prize.

 Behind the scenes of the Flames of War event.

More plasticrack, here we go.

Equinox 2013 Placings

We had epic clashes all tournament amongst the contenders at the top of the table. Even with 40+ competitors the top dogs of the tournament had no where to hide and there was no dodging each other. I think everyone in the top five played each other. Ogres fought Bretonnians and Chaos Dwarfs battled Warriors. After all the dust had settled the soft scores and a tiebreak decided the tournament.

Army Adj Batt Sports Paint Tie Break Total Tim Joss Chaos Dwarves 43 20 20 0.1 83.1 Ross H Warriors 43 20 20 83 Dan Butler Warriors 47 20 12 79 John w Bretonnains 38 20 20 78 Simon Kwok Daemons 36.5 20 20 0.1 76.6 Richard B Chaos Dwarves 36.5 20 20 76.5 Ryan Warriors 34.5 20 20 0.1 74.6 James Brown Ogres 34.5 20 20 74.5 Paul Clark Tomb Kings 34 20 20 0.1 74.1 Glen Warriors 34 20 20 74 Rob Sadler Warriors 33.5 20 20 73.5 Henry O&G 33 20 20 73 James C Wood Elves 32.5 20 20 0.1 72.6 Rory Skaven 32.5 20 20 72.5 Mike Youngs Dark Elves 32 20 20 0.2 72.2 Nick munn Skaven 32 20 20 0.1 72.1 Tom Ogres 32 20 20 0 72 Sean Robertson Dark Elves 31 20 20 71 Aaron P Daemons 30.5 20 20 0.2 70.7 Brian Dark Elves 30.5 20 20 0.1 70.6 Blair Empire 30.5 20 20 70.5 Sam O&G 30 20 20 70 Paul Dalton Ogres 28.5 20 20 68.5 Russ Vampires 28 20 20 68 Damon Lizardmen 27.5 20 20 67.5 Stephen Skaven 27 20 20 0.2 67.2 Dave Hart O&G 27 20 20 0.1 67.1 Graeme Warriors 27 20 20 67 Michael C Lizardmen 26.5 20 20 66.5 Mike S Empire 26 20 20 66 Ross Clark Warriors 25.5 20 20 0.1 65.6 Mike Vercoe Ogres 25.5 20 20 65.5 Noel  High Elves 26 20 19 65 George High Elves 23.5 20 20 63.5 Aaron C Vampires 25 20 18 63 Nick I Wood Elves 22.5 20 20 62.5 Dan Blomfield O&G 21 20 19 0.1 60.1 Bobby Beastmen 20 20 20 60 Dean W O&G 13 20 20 53 Ron golds Beastmen 9.5 20 20 49.5 Chris E Wood Elves 5 20 10 35 Geoff High Elves 5 20 10 35 Phil Ormond Daemons 5 20 10 35

Best Painted: Dave Hart

There was one vote in it and two clear leaders in the painting field. The standard in painting overall was exceptionally high. It was a pleasure to have such well painted armies at the tournament, keep it up tournament goers.

Best Sport: Sam whitt

Another perfect tournament for sports and the level of good generalship and behaviour made me proud to host you guys . It reflects how the game should be played in a friendly but competitive manner. Just remember that if your opponent makes a mistake or his ruler is a little on the stretchy side, it's curtesy for you to mention it to him politely. He may not even know that he's doing it. Good friendly conversation goes a long way to making it both an enjoyable experience and game for you both. The last thing is if your opponent is beating you, that's not enough to mark your opponent down in sports points, you just have to play better next time.

Just a Quick note that I still have a Island of Blood set or a Dark Vengeance set to give to one luck person who has purchased or will purchase something with their 20% off GW RRP discount from VAGABONDS TAKAPUNA. Please contact Doug on : dosainsbury@gmail.com. This offer goes on until the end of the week (March 23rd) and I will draw the winning big or little spender for the win.

A tournament is all about its players. Equinox this year had plenty of people getting their game on. Having maximum fun playing and puching around the hobby that we all love.

In the thick of battle..

 Club mates face off...

 First tournament is the best...

Win the tournament 3 times you keep the trophy...

A little bit later this happened. Necrons feast on some Eldar.

More photo's to come and the 40K results.

Equinox 2013 The Weekend

Few teaser pics from the Weekend. 

Huge amounts of pictures to come later. Battle reports, tid bits and the all important results.

Sit back and enjoy.

Onlookers, " This is what Wargaming is all about. Strutting your stuff when it counts."

I am so happy to be at Equinox!

We even had Warhammer celebrities at the venue.

Results and more pictures to come, until then.

Equinox 2013 approaches

Equinox is this weekend and here we have the first round draw

Bobby Vs Dave Hart
Sam Vs Michael Coxon Baines
Blair Vs Michael Vercoe
Damon Vs Stephen
Mike Stewart Vs Dan Blomfield
James Brown Vs Tim Joss
Aaron Peters Vs Richard Barby
Rob Sadler Vs Simon Kwok
Graeme Vs Henry
Paul Dalton Vs Ross Hillier-Jones
Noel Vs Ron golds
Chris Ellis Vs Nick Munn
John W Vs Dan Butler
Paul Clark Vs George
Rory Vs Glen
James C Vs Mike Youngs
Ross C Vs Tom
Dean W Vs Sean Robertson
Russ Vs Brian
Ryan Vs Nick
Aaron C Vs Phil
Alex Vs Phil O
Reid Vs Geoff
Jason Vs Dave S

All the lists will be released to tournament goers tonight. Don't forget to check your email inbox. Just to entertain you with the myriad of formatting you still get these days, they have been included as is. It was time consuming as it was correcting the 48 lists so they could be easily transported to a word doc. I think I would have gone slightly mad if I had to format them into the templates that were sent out. Granted the templates probably corrupted depending on the computer systems everyone uses.

Equinox 2013 WHFB Lists so far.

With two very cool new Army books released in succession Fantasy players are hoarding up to get on the table top up here in Auckland. We're only letting the new Warriors book to play at Equinox and the Daemon players will be saying a last hoorah in a couple of weeks. Lists were due last night and I haven't looked at them much. It will be a job for later tonight after work and tomorrow night. Once they are done they will be posted on google docs for all contestants before the tournament. I do have a summary of the lists coming so far as we still have a few late lists but here is the Break down.

Warriors of Chaos   7
Ogres   5
O & G  5
Lizardmen 3
Dark Elves 3
Empire 3
Daemons 3
Skaven 3
BRetonnians 2
Beastmen 2
Wood Elves 2
High Elves 2
Chaos Dwarves 2
Tomb King 1
Vampire Counts 1

As to be expected Warriors a popular with their new book. Nothing like the numbers people were thinking were invading from the chaos wastes but thats to be expected with NZ wargaming. Most of our hobbyists like to be loyal and stick to the army they are familiar and have played most of their hobby lives.

Looking forward to the Tournament yet fellow Wargamers, I sure am!

Equinox is sponsored by:

Takapuna,

Shop 5, 529 Lake Road Takapuna, Auckland. 

Ph: 09-4892750

Auckland City, 

Chancery Shopping Centre, 40 Courthouse Lane, Auckland 1010, CBD.

Phone: (09) 303-2750