ok right guys here is the plan. we intend to do a 40k tournament this summer. looks like it will be held in august at this rate. At the moment we are getting working on the planning process.

So what i would like to know from you lot is how many of you first of all would be keen on a 40k tourny and also if you would want it singles or doubles

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oh yeah

So, idly musing over this topic while insomnia keeps me up. One of the biggest changes to WFB in 8th is random charges. For anyone who hates math-hammer please ignore this thread, for the rest here's some info that will make charging decisions easier

The way charging will work

Charge distance= movement + 2D6

For cavalry it will be 3D6 picking the highest 2 dice, I haven't seen anywhere that states people with over move 7 get extra dice, so assume just cavalry for now

So, after number crunching, the average charge distance is M+7" for infantry and M+8.46" (to 2 significant figures) for cavalry

However, you can apparently premeasure at any time so you will know what you need to roll, here are the percentage chances of charge distances being rolled (again to 2 sig. figuers)

The first number is the dice roll and then in brackets are the chances for infantry and cavalry respectively

2(100 / 100)
3(97.22 / 99.54)
4(91.67 / 98.15)
5(83.33 / 95.37)
6(72.22 / 89.35)
7(58.33 / 80.56)
8(41.67 / 68.06)
9(27.78 / 52.31)
10(16.67 / 35.65)
11(8.33 / 19.91)
12(2.78 / 7.41)

As you can see, infantry have got a lot faster, however, cavalry are way more reliable.

Dwarves now have 58.33% chance of charging the 10 inches that an elf currently does!

Empire cavalry will charge further than present 68.06% of the time, whereas for brets it's only 52.31% of the time

Hope some of these charge distance stats help to make it easier to decide to charge and feel free to curse my name when the triple one comes up on a cavalry charge, remember the chance is only 0.46% but is still there

Next thing I'll analyse in this topic will be failed charge distances, take it easy

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ok who advanced ordered? i just have. did the book and the skeleton dice things. now cant wait til the 10th july

Ok guys we would love our next one to be 40k to get the interest from the 40kers. anyone got any ideas or anything for what they would like to happen or when

So anyone fancy starting up any of the skirmish style games?

Got a poll of which people would prefer to do, you can select multiple but please try to put less than 2 options down

Necromunda is human gangs fighting in the underbelly of a sprawling hive city

Gorkamorka is orks fighting on a desert world with loads of vehicles, ramming speed!!

Mordheim started as a fight for warpstone in a ruined empire city but the expansions ended up with it covering near the whole warhammer world

Alternatively, we could try to make a 40K skirmish game that covers all races, base it off 2nd ed as it is better for that scale of warfare. This way we could get anyone who wants to join just use their own armies so not have to buy new models or anything (on that note loads of models can be converted for these and you don't need the official GW models)

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http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/conten...tion-en_GB

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I have the Man-O-War and Seas of Blood rules. With Dwarf, Dark Elf and High Elf fleets if anyone would fancy a game some time?

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