Adepticon 2018 – Age of Sigmar!!!!

If you are looking for the awards, results and lists from the Adepticon Age of Sigmar events go to my Adepticon results page.

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Hey everyone, today is a quick preview post on all the great Age of Sigmar events at Adepticon 2018.  Held over March 22nd – 25th, at the Renaissance Schaumburg (Chicago, USA),  Adepticon is nirvana for tabletop wargamers.  Into its 16th year, it hosts over 4,000 attendees playing, hanging out, exploring all the stores and stalls as well as learning from the world’s masters at numerous hobby seminars.   Adepticon also hosts the Crystal Brush, the world’s pre-eminent miniature painting competition.  This really is the world’s greatest tabletop wargaming convention:

• over 340 tournament and event games (board games, miniature games, role-playing games and more)
• over 140 hobby seminars
• over 100 exhibitors

Expect lots of updates all over social media as there is a strong travelling UK contingent for Age of Sigmar this year.  Follow @AdeptiCon_AOS for photos, results and coverage.

Adepticon 2018 Age of Sigmar tournaments

There are four Age of Sigmar events at Adepticon this year:

• the Championships;
• the Team Tournament;
• the Vanguard Tournament; and
• the Youngbloods Tournament.

Alex is the Age of Sigmar tournament organiser and does a stellar job, ably assisted by Domus and others.

You can find all the details of the Warhammer Live coverage here.

The Adepticon Age of Sigmar Championship

The premier Age of Sigmar event of the weekend – the Championships.  As you’d expect, it is being covered live all weekend on Warhammer TV.

You can find a full copy of the pack here but the key points are:

• 2,000 points, General’s Handbook 2017.
• Custom scenarios with secondary objectives (see gallery below)
• Firestorm allegiance abilities not in play.
• If at any time you or your opponent has no models left on the table with no additional units to set up after the game begins, the game is over immediately.
• Balewind Vortex: A Balewind Vortex cannot be placed anywhere within 7” of an Objective. If an objective lands within that distance (such as from Starstrike or Gifts of the Heavens), then you will move the Vortex and accompanying Hero by shortest route away from the Objective until it is no longer within 7”.
• Legions of Nagash Gravesites: With regards to sizes of the Gravesites, all distances involving Gravesites will be measured from the center of the marker. We certainly encourage creativity, however, please bring flat markers on the same base sizes if you choose to create your own. Remember these are not terrain features, and as such can be moved upon, do not block line of sight, or targeted by abilities that affect terrain.
• Nurgle: Feculent Gnarlmaws:- No more than 1 Feculent Gnarlmaw can be set up within 6″ of an objective marker, and no Feculent Gnarlmaw can be set up within 3″ of an objective marker. This is done to prevent players from zoning off objective markers.
• Scoring:
  • 60% for Battle and Objectives
  • 20% for Sportsmanship
  • 20% for Appearance

The Adepticon Age of Sigmar Team Tournament

The doubles tournament at Adepticon always seems lots of fun and is again being run on the Friday.

You can find a full copy of the pack here but the key points are:

• 2 x 1,000 point armies, GHB2017
• Scenarios announced on the day.
• One general per side is selected to be the team’s Warlord.
• Rules for Coalition of Death will be used (pages 14-16 of GHB 2017), with the following that will NOT be in effect: Their Finest Hour, Fog of War, & Divine Intervention.
• If at any time your team or your opponents’ team has no models left on the table with no additional units to set up after the game begins, the game is over immediately.
• The additional Allegiance Abilities from the Firestorm supplement will not be in use.
• Balewind Vortex: A Balewind Vortex cannot be placed anywhere within 7” of an Objective. If an objective lands within that distance (such as from Starstrike or Gifts of the Heavens), then you will move the Vortex and accompanying Hero by shortest route away from the Objective until it is no longer within 7”.
• The Garden of Nurgle: If both players on a team are using the Nurgle Allegiance Ability, then each team places one Feculant Gnarlmaw at the start of the game, not each player.
• Khorne Blood Tithe: If both players on a team are using the Khorne Allegiance Ability, then the team keeps track of units destroyed to use as Blood Tithe instead of each player keeps individual track of Blood Tithe.
• Legions of Nagash Gravesites: With regards to sizes of the Gravesites, all distances involving Gravesites will be measured from the center of the marker. We certainly encourage creativity, however, please bring flat markers on the same base sizes if you choose to create your own. Remember these are not terrain features, and as such can be moved upon, do not block line of sight, or targeted by abilities that affect terrain.
• Legions of Nagash Gravesites: If both players on a team are using allegiance abilities with The Unquiet Dead battle trait, then a total of 4 Gravesites will be set up for both players on that team to use.
• Nurgle Cycle of Corruption: If there are multiple players in a game using the Nurgle Allegiance Ability, then all players use one Cycle of Corruption as per normal rules.
• Nurgle: Feculent Gnarlmaws:– No more than 1 Feculent Gnarlmaw can be set up within 6″ of an objective marker, and no Feculent Gnarlmaw can be set up within 3″ of an objective marker. This is done to prevent players from zoning off objective markers.
• Tzeentch Destiny Dice: If both players on a team are using the Tzeentch Allegiance Ability, then each team only generates one (1) pool of 9 Destiny Dice that can be used by either player, instead of each player generating their own pool of 9 Destiny Dice.
• Summon Daemons of Nurgle: If both players on a team are using the Nurgle Allegiance Ability, then the team will share a single pool of Contagion Points, not two separate pools.
• Sylvaneth Wyldwoods: If both players on a team are using the Sylvaneth Allegiance Ability, then each team only deploys one (1) Sylvaneth Wyldwood as described in the Allegiance Ability, instead of each player deploying a Wyldwood each.
• Ur-gold Runes: If both players on a team are using the Fyreslayer Allegiance Ability, then each team will only use one Rune at a time and it will affect both armies when used. Your team can only use each Rune once as per normal rules.
• Scoring:
  • 60% for Battle and Objectives
  • 20% for Sportsmanship
  • 20% for Appearance

The Adepticon Age of Sigmar Vanguard Tournament

On Thursday, there are two Vanguard Tournaments (one in the morning, one in the evening) 1,000 point, 3 round event.  A great loosener for the events ahead.

You can find a full copy of the pack here but the key points are the same as those covered above for the other events.

So the awards results are out now:

AM Vanguard Awards

• Best Overall
  • 1st – Chris Slye
  • 2nd – Kaleb Walters
  • 3rd – Thomas Lyons
• Best General
  • Chaos: Kaleb Walters
  • Death: Brendan Melnick
  • Destruction: Scooter Walters
  • Order: Patrick Brynildson
• Best Sports
  • 1st – Ben Boyd
  • 2nd – Dan Heelan
  • 3rd – Thomas Lyons
• Appearance: Steve Herner

PM Vanguard Awards

• Best Overall
  • 1st – Bryan Carmichael
  • 2nd – Kaleb Walters
  • 3rd – Donnie Goerlitz
• Best General
  • Chaos: Kaleb Walters
  • Death: Shaun Clarke
  • Destruction: Scooter Walters
  • Order: Marvin Sims
• Best Sports
  • 1st – Andrea Schwandt
  • 2nd – Stuart Gateley
  • 3rd – Eric Rehm
• Appearance: Kit Reisch

The Adepticon Age of Sigmar Youngbloods

A Saturday, 1,500 point, GHB2017 event for young players.  A copy of the pack is here.

Adepticon 2018 Age of Sigmar lists

Lists are due on the day but the kind tournament organisers at Adepticon have agreed to send me copies of the top lists as soon as the weekend is over.  So I’ll have them up here as soon as possible.

Games Workshop Adepticon Studio Reveals

As well as all the great Age of Sigmar events, Games Workshop will also be in attendance this year hosting studio reveals, Black Library events and hobby tutorials.   Check out the long list here.

The Studio reveals will be highly anticipated – last year Kharadron Overlords were announced and shown, and this year we all expect to see more about Idoneth Deepkin.  I’ll update this section with the details as we get them.

Idoneth Deepkin

For all the details check out the Idoneth Deepkin page. and the Warhammer Community. There are potted highlights below.

 

 

 

Storm of Magic: Malign Portents

So, I’ve been thinking about this since the reveal, and watching the Facebook Live video.  I think we will be getting a return to the Storm of Magic as a consequence of Malign Portents.  Magic is previewed to have a concrete and more substantive influence on the games, including what I can only guess is a Purple Sun (an old Warhammer Fantasy spell) in this video.

Black Coach and Nighthaunt Battletome?

 

So for me this looks like a new Black Coach model, and presumably an accompanying Nighthaunt battletome.  Let’s hope we saw more Death fleshed out around the Legions 🙂

Warhammer Legends: A Home for Heroes

Rules for old Warhammer units in Age of Sigmar

Warhammer Legends will be the new home of rules for classic and fan-favourite miniatures. While not intended for matched play, they’ll still be great for anyone looking to forge epic narratives or who wants to see how the heroes of yesteryear fare against the newer champions from the Age of Sigmar.

As part of Warhammer Legends, we’ll be running Made to Order waves designed to let you finish classic collections or pick up some seminal kits from days gone by. The first of these will be focusing on the Dark Elves.

An Age of Sigmar collectable card game? Yup, that’s totally happening.

Warhammer Age of Sigmar Champions is being developed by PlayFusion.  The game is intended to have physical and virtual elements with AR (think activation animation etc).

Shadespire

• two new factions (looks like Nighthaunt is one)
• cards through to 557 this year
• new boards coming, but not yet.

 

Crystal Brush – the world’s pre-eminent miniature painting competition

The Crystal Brush at Adepticon is always mindblowing.  Just check out last year’s top three!

Further reading

As all of the hobby world is descending on Adepticon, there is lots of great coverage out there.  I’ll think as much as I can here:

• Official Adepticon site
• The Crystal Brush painting competition site
• Warhammer TV on Twitch
• Facehammer preview episode with Russ and Byron.
• Chuck Moore’s Road to Adepticon with Daughters of Khaine
• Warhammer Weekly wrap-up of studio preview