The biggest and best convention in Wargaming is BACK for another year, and the Long War will be part of the 40k festivities! Get ready to snag your tickets TONIGHT!
The Adepticon ticket cart goes live TONIGHT at 8pm CST for most events including the 40k Championships, 4-man team event, and the inaugural 40k Long War Social Doubles tournament!
Come play in our Bringing Hobby back doubles tournament at Adepticon on April 1st (no joke) 2016!
Our draft rules are below, however Missions, rubrics, and score cards will be published before the event (most likely after the holidays). Listen to “The Long War” podcast on iTunes for more information.
The Long War Doubles Tournament
RULES
Team Organization:
Each team is considered one army on the table top.
Army Composition:
Each Team is comprised of 2 separate 1000 point “Battle Forged” Armies.
These armies must follow all rules and guidelines for legal army construction.
All 40k army lists, detachments, formations, and supplements are legal. Furthermore this is a “No Preservatives Added” event, so if you have any questions on what book, unit, formation, etc. are allowed the answer is “YES” as long as it is a “7th Edition 40k” rules set and is the most recent/current and legal rules available (see Adepticon’s appendices for the definite up to date versions of units)
That means you can play with Forge World units as long as they are “40k Approved”, and current Forge World Army lists, as long as they are made for 7th Edition “Battle Forged” play.
Horus Heresy rules can not be used, but feel free to use the miniatures as appropriate ”bringing hobby back” counts as models!
SCORING
This event is a #bringinghobbyback event. Which means we are bringing hobby scores back to Warhammer 40k.
Your battles points are only worth 50% of your overall score.
The rest of your points will come from sportsmanship, composition/theme, and painting.
For Your Sportsmanship you will be judged by your opponents on how well you upheld the social contract of table-top gaming with them on a favorite, average, and below average scale.
The Composition/theme and painting scoring rubrics will be posted soon for your perusal, and will be judged impartially by event staff Kenny Boucher, and Rob Baer.
Rest assured there will be no chipmunking of scores here playas, every team with get as much of a score as they put into the event, and their armies!
Missions, rubrics, and score cards will be published before the event (most likely after the holidays). Listen to “The Long War” podcast on iTunes for more information.
Buy Tickets After 8PM CST November 23rd
So bring your A-Game be ready to interact socially in a fun fast paced social event!
About the Author: Rob Baer
Rob Baer
Job Title: Managing Editor
Founded Spikey Bits in 2009
Socials: Rob Baer on Facebook and @catdaddymbg on X
About Rob Baer: Founder, Publisher, & Managing Editor of Spikey Bits, the leading tabletop gaming news website focused on the hobby side of wargaming and miniatures.
Rob also co-founded and currently hosts the Long War Podcast, which has over 350 episodes and focuses on tabletop miniatures gaming, specializing in Warhammer 40k. and spent six years writing for Bell of Lost Souls.
Every year, along with his co-hosts, he helps host the Long War 40k Doubles Tournament at Adepticon and the Long War 40k Doubles at Las Vegas Open, which attracts over 350 players from around the world.
Rob has won many Warhammer 40k Tournaments over the years, including multiple first-place finishes in Warhammer 40k Grand Tournaments over the years and even winning 1st place at the Adepticon 40k Team Tournament.
With over 30 years of experience in retail and distribution, Rob knows all the products and exactly which ones are the best. As a member of GAMA (Game Manufacturers Association), he advocates for gaming stores and manufacturers in these difficult times, always looking for the next big thing to feature for the miniatures hobby, helping everyone to provide the value consumers want.
While he’s played every edition of Warhammer 40k and Warhammer Fantasy (since 5th Edition) and has been hobbying on miniatures since the 1980s, Titans of all sizes will always be his favorite! It’s even rumored that his hobby vault rivals the Solemnance Galleries, containing rulebooks filled with lore from editions long past, ancient packs of black-bordered Magic Cards, and models made of both pewter and resin.
