Area 57 July Tournament - Information and Rules

Tournament Details
EVENT OVERVIEW

The event will be a 3 round, 1 day competitive tournament.
Lists may be a maximum value of 2,000 Points using the guidelines provided in the Pitched Battle section from General’s Handbook 2022.
Attendees will be matched by the swiss pairing system after the first round. The first round will be randomly drawn ahead of the event.
Individual rounds are set at 3 hours. 15 minutes of this time is set aside for deployment. The remaining hours are allocated for gameplay.
Matches will take place on a standard 60″x 44″ table” table using pre-generated terrain maps (Those will be provided before the event).
FAQS related new releases that come after the cutoff will be used.

The official aos worlds chessclock rules will be in play (Those will be provided before the event).

Attendees must submit their army lists by 23:59 CEST on June 28th, 2022. (@ qlottenbach@gmail.com)
Final publication of tournament lists will be on June 29th, 2022.

EVENT SCHEDULE
Meeting: 08:30
Round 1: 09:00-12.00
Round 2: 12:45-15.45
Round 3: 16.00-19.00

FORMAT CONSIDERATIONS
The rules of GHB realm rules will be in play.
3 Matched Play Missions will be used in the event.
Scenery Rules are in use and will be generated on tables by the players.

WHAT YOU NEED TO BRING
Your army models (in addition to any models required for summoning during the battle)
Dice
Battletome and any supplements your army list will be using (and relative FAQ and Designer’s commentary)
Rulebook
The General Handbook 2022
Measuring devices
Tokens or other means to mark various in-game effects like spells and abilities (6-side dice isn’t appropriate)
All dice used at the event must be easily legible from across the table.
GW faction dice are often not legible enough to be used however with your opponents consent they can be used providing both players can read them easily.
All of a player’s dice with symbols must only have symbols on either the 1 or 6 facing and not both.
Army Composition

LIST BUILDING
Only Warscrolls with Pitched Battle Profiles may be used at the event. This includes Forge World models that have a Pitched Battle Profile. Note that Allegiance Abilities can and should be used. Compendium warscrolls are also allowed if they have a Pitched Battle profile. Warscroll Battalions are not allowed to be played (as of AoS 3.0)
Lists must be created via the official WH AoS App or the warscroll builder. List must be submitted in PDF form.

The following is required (if applicable) on each list submitted:

Player name
Allegiance (ex. Stormcast Eternals)
Sub-Allegiance (ex. Anvils of Heldenhammer)
Battlefield role headers ( ex. Leader, Battleline, etc.)
Model count per unit (ex. 5x Liberators)
Total points cost per unit
General
Command Trait
Artefacts
Triumphs
Grand Strategy
Battalions used
Reinforcement points indicated on units that are utilizing them
Unique Enhancements
Additional Enhancement picked with Magnificent
Spells chosen from book lores (warscroll spells not required)
Prayers chosen from book lores (warscroll prayers not required)
Wargear selection and count (not required if there is only one option) (ex. Liberators: 1x Grandhammer 4x warhammers)
Allies (points/400 and marked as allies next to unit entry)
List points total/2000
Units that are part of a battalion must be specified in army lists
Drop value

If there are any mistakes in the list there will be penalty points applied according to the degree of the mistake. (min. 5 penaltypoints)

MODELS
All unit options and wargear must be shown correctly on the models (What You See Is What You Get). Models that are not official, do not fit the WYSIWYG profile, or considerably deviate from the norm MUST be presented to the judges at qlottenbach@gmail.com, at least one week prior to the tournament for approval.
All models must be based on the correct round/oval sized bases. Models must NOT be painted fully but there will be points added for full based / full painted armies. (10points each)

MISSIONS AND SCORING
The most recent versions of the official Matched Play Battleplans will be used, taken from the GHB 2022 and Core Rulebook.

A Tiered Scoring system will be used for the event, with the number in parenthesis to the right of each mission noting the required Victory Points differential that must be scored to achieve a major victory. For example, if a scenario states “>3” then the Major Victory is awarded to the player if they score GREATER THAN 3 Victory Points more than their opponent.

BATTLEPLANS

HEAD-ON COLLISION
THE MIGHTY AND THE CUNNING
THE LURKERS BELOW

At the end of each game players work together to determine the victory points achieved by each player during the battle. Once the total number of victory points is determined for each player; players then use a differential between those points to determine the margin of victory. The differential in points should be referenced below to how the round is scored.

The result is scored for that round.

Result of the players Score differential
10-10 0
11-9 1
12-8 1-2
13-7 3-4
14-6 5-6
15-5 7-8
16-4 9-10
17-3 11-12
18-2 13-14
19-1 15-16
20-0 17+