What's On

As of April, I will be running a 40k league for anyone who is interested - 1800 points forces, normal restrictions apply.

Points for scoring are as follows - 5 points for massacre, 4 points for major victory, 3 points for minor victory, 1 point for draw and no points for losing. Victory points for and against are also used in the event of league tie.

You will have a home battle (defender) and an away battle (attacker) for each opponent. Army lists can be changed between battles and the league will run until all players have played each other twice. I may even add a knock-out tournament as well depending on the interest. Please post up ASAP on the form with your army please, so I can get the league table under way.

The league has now started and results are as follows: league.xls

A Warmaster Ancients Battle Day (Saturday 27th January 2007)

"And Caesar's spirit, ranging for revenge,
With Ate by his side come hot from hell,
Shall in these confines with a monarch's voice
Cry 'Havoc,' and let slip the dogs of war"

Format:

The battle day will be open to all published Warmaster Ancients army lists.Each participant should produce a 1000 point army list for use throughout the day. Bonuses including extra units can be earned by successful generals to bolster their forces across the days play.

1ST Prize - Painted 10mm Indian Army

Venue:

Ponders End Wargames club, located in the United Reform church in Ponders End. Travel options and directions can be found on the front page.

Entrance fee will be £10 for the day and includes light refreshments. Lunch will not be inclusive though there are plenty of options within walking distance.

All scenery will be provided and a limited number of armies are available for loaned use throughout the day.

Itinerary:

9:00	Registration
9:30	Round 1
11:45	Round 2
14:00	Lunch
15:00	Round 3
17:00	Prize giving

Contact:

Please feel free to contact us via the club’s website forums or by e-mailing the organiser, Clive McLeod.

WWII campaign 2007

On the Warmachine/Hordes weeks we will be also playing a Late War Europe campaign in 10 and 15mm using Metal Storm WWII and Flames of War. Players will command a Company and 'take it on' through the stages til the end of the war in Europe. Results will link into the following scenario and all logistics, like reinforcements and replacements will be done by the umpire. We will be using FOW army lists from Festung Europa and DDay minus 1. We also have armies to lend out.

The campaign will run fortnightly and the off week will see multi player skirmish level games played at squad to platoon level using NUTS. This will be run in 28-36mm - again we have squads to lend out.

Anyone intersted should mail Rich J or join the PEWC forum.

List of Club-Organised Events

January 

Tues 2^nd Jan  Open gaming

Tues 9^th Jan  The East Gate: Warhammer Fantasy campaign & Late WWII Europe historical campaign (28/36mm)

Tues 16^th Jan  The Maiming of a Few: Hordes / Warmachine campaign & Late WWII Europe historical campaign (10/15mm)

Tues 23^rd Jan  The East Gate: Warhammer Fantasy campaign & Late WWII Europe historical campaign (28/36mm)

Tues 30^th Jan  The Maiming of a Few: Hordes / Warmachine campaign & Late WWII Europe historical campaign (10/15mm)

February 

Tues 6^th Feb  The East Gate: Warhammer Fantasy campaign & Late WWII Europe historical campaign (28/36mm)

Tues 13^th Feb  The Maiming of a Few: Hordes / Warmachine campaign & Late WWII Europe historical campaign (10/15mm)

Tues 20^th Feb  The East Gate: Warhammer Fantasy campaign & Late WWII Europe historical campaign (28/36mm)

Tues 27^th Feb  The Maiming of a Few: Hordes / Warmachine campaign & Late WWII Europe historical campaign (10/15mm)

March 

Tues 6^th March The East Gate: Warhammer Fantasy campaign & Late WWII Europe historical campaign (28/36mm)

Tues 13^th March The Maiming of a Few: Hordes / Warmachine campaign & Late WWII Europe historical campaign (10/15mm)

Tues 20^th March The East Gate: Warhammer Fantasy campaign & Late WWII Europe historical campaign (28/36mm)

Tues 27^th March The Maiming of a Few: Hordes / Warmachine campaign< & Late WWII Europe historical campaign (10/15mm)

A Warhammer Fanatasy campaign

January - March 2007 

Once again a dire threat exists to the Warhammer World and all the races are brought into conflict across a multitude of battlefields.

Following Archaon’s defeat during the "Storms of Chaos" a sizeable portion of his surviving forces fled into the east. Chased by contingents from all races the pursuit has stalled upon a momentus discovery. The discovery of a third chaos gate.

Significantly smaller than it’s ancient cousins the gate is located several days march east of the World’s Edge mountains. Built by Archaon’s sorcerors for whatever reasons the pursuit forces have halted at it’s location.

Debate has been heated as to what action should be taken. Old rivalries have come to the fore and skirmishes have already taken place. Open warfare cannot be forestalled for long. To take control of the gate and is to decide its ultimate fate.

Only the limitation of small individual forces at the end of a long supply line has limited the conflict so far. As reinforcements race east, commanders manoeuvre for control of key locations as treaties of convenience are establish and broken on a daily basis.

Format:

The campaign will take place over the course of six fortnightly meetings.

For the first two meetings will feature 500 point border patrol forces with at least three rounds of games.

Meetings three and four will be one on one 2000 point games.

Meetings five and six will be multi-player at upto 2000 points per player.

Factions will be split by race, with victory points scored each game contributing towards a rolling total.

A faction’s victory points can be contributed towards either “Good”, destroy the gate, or “Evil”, maintain the gate.

At the end of each meeting each faction commander decides which way to allocate their faction’s victory points. Whoever scored the most victory points within their faction each meeting becomes the faction commander.

Faction scorings will decide the make-up of the multi-player scenarios for the final two meetings.

"Look to the forums!"

Weekly updates will be posted to the club forums so please check regularly.

Campaign Dates

The campaign will be run over the following six weeks: Tues 9^th January, Tues 23^rd January, Tues 6^th February, Tues 20^th February, Tues 6^th March & Tues 20^th March.

A Warmachine/Hordes Shakspeareanesque Tragedy!! 

January - March 2007

At the start of the new year instead of the regular close down of offensive actions , the mightiest of warriors in the iron kingdoms ramp up the hostilities in the hope of gaining a solid foothold in an as yet mainly unchartered wilderness. This recently discovered area has been found to be rich in valuable minerals and ores that would further the wealth of anyone that could control it.

The campaign will be map based with random starting areas for all factions, bonuses and hinderances will become apparent as the weeks progress, so sign up and make like you have a pair!

Format

All players are to select 2000 points of forces to start, they are to be broken down into 3 * 500 point battle groups led by a different warcaster and 500 points of reserves, there are no restrictions on the reserves ie faction limits or numbers , if you want to add 2 winter guard to reserves you can , you will only be able to use them to replace losses in a group of winter guard in a battle group they cannot be stand alone.

Each faction will be allocated resource  points each week after battles with which to replace losses points cost to replace will be double vps for warjacks and warcasters ie a warcaster will cost 10 resource points to replace , troopers cost 1 resource point per troop but 2 for a leader model. map based bonuses will also be available for controlling certain areas.

Damaged warjacks can be repaired by spending resource points on the repair table, each resource point gets a roll on the repair table to see how many points you can repair on your jack.

Each games victory points can also be exchanged for resource points at  a rate of 5 victory points to a single resource point, victory points not spent will be added to the final total at the end of the campaign to determine the overall winner, a reckless general may win the battle but not the war!

"Look to the forums!"

Weekly updates will be posted to the club forums so please check regularly.

Campaign Dates

The campaign will be run over the following six weeks: Tues 16^th January, Tues 30^th January, Tues 13^th February, Tues 27^th February, Tues 13^th March & Tues 27^th March.

A Warmachine / Hordes tournament event.

Ponders End Wargames Club proudly presents what will be the first of many privateer press gaming leagues. Based in north London, the club is looking forward to hosting regular events for the Warmachine and Hordes gaming community.  

Venue: Ponders End Wargames Club, London, UK.

Dates: Every Tuesday night in November 2006.

Entry fee: Standard club entry. First night is free, there-after £3 for members and £4 for non-members.

Format: 500 point steamroller 2.0 tournament for both Warmachine and Hordes.

• The league will run over all five evenings of the month with each participant playing a maximum of two games each evening.
• Participants will be set as many different opponents as possible to ensure a good spread of results.
• Scenarios will be issued each evening.
• Each participant may prepare two possible army lists for use throughout the league, which may not be changed. Participants may choose which list to use at the beginning of each game as per steamroller 2.0.
• Following the evening of the 23rd each participant’s six best results will be used to calculate their league position and the final evening’s play will operate on a Swiss format to decide final standings. 

Contact: For more information any queries and to register please contact Steve at oddleg@hotmail.co.uk or G-Man via the club forums at pewc.co.uk.
 
For location information and directions please see the club website at pewc.co.uk.

A Warmachine / Hordes tournament event.

Ponders End Wargames Club proudly presents what will be the first of many privateer press gaming tournaments. Based in north London, the club is looking forward to hosting regular events for the Warmachine and Hordes gaming community.  

Venue: Ponders End Wargames Club, London, UK.

Date: Saturday 25th November 2006.

Entry fee: £10 paid in advance.

Limited snacks and refreshments will be provided free of charge.

Lunch will not be provided though a mass order to the chip shop will be.

Format: 500 point steamroller 2.0 tournament for both Warmachine and Hordes. 

Schedule of play

9:30-10:00	Registration
10:00-11:00	Round 1
11:30-12:30	Round 2
12:30-1:30	Lunch
1:30-2:30	Round 3
3:00-4:00	Round 4
4:30-5:30	Round 5
5:45- 6:00	Prizegiving

Contact: For more information any queries and to register please contact Steve at oddleg@hotmail.co.uk or G-Man via the club forums at pewc.co.uk.

For location information and directions please see the club website at pewc.co.uk.

Just posted the intro scenario for Tuesdays game - have a read and get ready to party!!

You'll find it in the War room under 'events'.

Rich

A review of Privateer Press's excellent new expansion for Warmachine can now be found in the War Room. Go check it out!