Blood Tithe, Age of Sigmar International Team Tournament

This last weekend, the first Blood Tithe was held – an international Age of Sigmar team tournament held in London, United Kingdom involving twenty teams of four people playing five games, 2000pts, General’s Handbook 2017 matched play. The event was run by Marc Wilson in a great debut event, in association with the South London Legion, Gamemat.eu, Dark Satanic Mills (terrain) and the London Grand Tournament.

In this post, you’ll find the Age of Sigmar team tournament pack, entrants, the Age of Sigmar lists from each team and the overall results. Check out Marc’s Twitter feed and #bloodtithe for great photos and coverage of the weekend.

Finally, I’ve been compiling an international Age of Sigmar tournament pack and list archive to be a resource for Age of Sigmar players and tournament organisers. If you are running an event, I’d love for you to get in touch, either through this site or Twitter, so I can share your event, pack and lists.

Blood Tithe, Age of Sigmar team tournament pack

Blood Tithe was a 5 game , 4-man team tournament, using a “Swiss Pairings” method for determining opponents from Round 2 onwards.

Age of Sigmar team pairings system

Like all team tournaments, a pairings system was used for the teams to determine individual match-ups within each round. The aim for each team is to engineer the most favourable match-ups for their team on average (which can often mean some poor team member has to take one for the team in a very hard game). This is how the pairings system worked at Blood Tithe:

Each team was given four cards marked on the reverse with one of with their four armies.
Team A – Chaos, Blades of Khorne, Stormcast, Destruction
Team B – Death, Order, Fyreslayers, Sylvaneth
Team A chooses to put forward Chaos (presented face down)
Team B chooses to put forward Order (presented face down)
Selections are revealed
Team A chooses to put down Blades of Khorne and Stormcast as options to play against the Order (presented face down)
Team B chooses to put down Death and Sylvaneth as options to play against Chaos (presented face down)
Choices revealed
Team A chooses between Death and Sylvaneth as to who Chaos will face, let͛’s say Death.
Team B chooses between Blades of Khorne and Stormcast as to who Order will face; let͛’s say Blades of Khorne.
Choices are revealed
The choice Team A refused faces the remaining card in Team B͛’s hand – Destruction
The choice Team B refused faces the remaining army in Team A͛’s hand – Fyreslayers
Resulting in:
- Chaos v Death
- Order v Blades of Khorne
- Sylvaneth v Destruction
- Fyreslayers v Stormcast

Age of Sigmar team list restrictions

There were also a couple of rules regarding list selection to encourage inventive team list design. The fun of team tournaments is crafting a balanced set of lists across the team which can be paired into favourable match-ups.

No two armies on the same team may have a duplicate warscroll, nor a duplicate allegiance.
Units added via reserve points are not subject to these restrictions.

Secret Missions

As well as the five General’s Handbook 2017 scenarios, the event also had secret missions in play. Each team was presented with a deck of four custom Secret Mission cards (identical for each team). Before each game, but after individual pairings, these cards had to be divided up within the team before each game with each player receiving a maximum of two and minimum of zero cards. As is clear from the name, players would keep these missions secret until they were achieved, at which point, they were revealed to their opponents.

Secret Mission 1: Incalculable numbers – Destroy any three enemy Battleline units.
Secret Mission 2: Precision Strike – Destroy the enemy General and / or two enemy Leader warscrolls by the end of battleround two.
Secret Mission 3: Bring down the beast – Destroy an enemy Behemoth with a Battleline unit in the Combat Phase.
Secret Mission 4: Sustained Attack – Destroy any two enemy units during your own turn – either by killing them or causing them to flee to battleshock. You must reveal this card in the turn in which yo u attempt it, at the beginning of the hero phase, before any other actions are taken.

Team scoring system

The following scoring system was in play.

Major Win: 30
Minor Win: 20
Draw: 15
Minor Loss: 10
Major Loss: 5
Secret Mission 5 (per mission)

Individual player points were capped at 30 points per round. Total team points per round were capped at 100/50.

Tie Breaker 1 – Uncapped TP total.
Tie Breaker 2 – Most Secret Missions TPs.
Tie Breaker 3 – Most Major Victories.

For more information, you can find a full copy of the pack here (Blood Tithe Pack) and full details and discussion over at TGA.

Blood Tithe: entrants list

Team USA	USA	Arthur Treitl	Justin Schenck	Phillip Ball	Anthony Sweat
Paris Peacocks	FRA	Pierre-Gilles Stehr	Romain “Eretz” Bdlt	François Tassaint	Rémi Heraud
Team Norn	NIR	Andy Kane	David Neagle	Colin Cochrane	John Dorrian
South London Leftovers	ENG	Craig Bowles	John Burgess	Declan Wynne	Alex Clark
Team Carry Jones – Aberdeen	SCO	Ryhs Inglis	Scott Gray	Mark Tootill	Ruairidh Jones
Cursed With Years	ENG	Paul Whitehead	Adrian McWalter	Simon Eccles	Max Halford
SLL B-team	ENG	Leo Rautonen	Rob Bradley	Ben Savva	Ben Murphy
Only the Filthful	ENG	Nicholas Ruesink-Brown	Ben Raven	James Grant	Tom Lambert
Ninja Badgers	ENG	Paul Buckler	Richard Buckler	Lauire Hugget Wilde	Richard Morley
Winners’ (?)	ENG	Jack Armstrong	Craig Navmar	Chris Myhill	Mark Wildman
Crown of Champions	GER	Alexander Zwißler	Dietmar Zwißler	Andreas Steckmeier	Charles Fryer
The Spoons / Sweden	ENG	William Crankshaw	Jonatan Edlund	Andy Hughes	Graham Dane
Team Norway	NOR	Alexander Nygård	Christiam Sundvor	TBC	TBC
Team Hydra	ENG	Greg Dann	Dan Comeau	Joe McGough	Mike Wills
Marauders	ENG	Tony Moore	Tom Mawdsley	Nigel Chorlton	Mark Busby
Team Rocksteady	ENG	John Southgate	Tomasz Namielski	Jamie Field	Johnny Armstrong
La Gauntinière	FRA	Guillaume Garnier	Christophe Salemi	Antoine Parrain	Simon Blais
Team Wales	WAL	Tom Loyn	TBC	TBC	TBC
Angel	ENG	Owyn Abrams	Donal Taylor	Matt Hinton	Adam Cunis
I am Brucicus	ENG	Kieron A	Will Barton	Dan Bradshaw	Darren Watson