European Single Championship (ESC) 2011 40K - Information and Rules

Rulespack for Montreux ESC 2011 v1.1

Welcome to the Tournament Rules Pack for the 2011 ESC.

1.Tournament outline

1.1 1850 pts Armies, Standard Force Organization Chart.
Armies have to be fully painted/based and be WYSIWYG.
Teams will be matched by swiss system after the first round which is random.
Official language of the tournament is English.
The date for the Tournament: 17-18 August 2011
Location of the venue is Montreux (Switzerland - map link to follow in an upcoming update)

1.2 Tournament Schedule
To be updated when overall event schedule is finalised.

2. Rules

The 40K ETC is governered by the standards and rules in this document in addition to those laid down in the ETC Charter.
We play with the 5th edition of the Warhammer 40000 rules without any add-on. Imperial Armour, Forgeworld or Apocalypse rules are not allowed.
English version of army books and rulebook takes priority over other versions.
Each player must have all codices and rules they're using, army roster, dices, measure tape and templates.
All official FAQ and ETC Rules Clarifications are in use.

3. Armies

3.1 Allowed Army lists:

Available codices:
- Codex: Chaos Space Marines
- Codex: Grey Knights
- Codex: Dark Eldar
- Codex: Eldar
- Codex: Imperial Guard
- Codex: Necrons
- Codex: Orks
- Codex: Space Marines
- Codex: Blood Angels
- Codex: Dark Angels
- Codex: Black Templars
- Codex: Space Wolves
- Codex: Tau Empire
- Codex: Tyranids
- Codex: Chaos Daemons
- Codex: Witch Hunters (witch hunters can use inducted guard as per printed codex).

No Witch Hunter, Deathwatch or any Allies are allowed.
Army lists (codices) which will be published after 19th june 2011 won't be used.
Special/Individual Characters are allowed.

4. Games

4.1 Scoring Battle points (BPs):

Primary objective (8 points)
The player that wins the primary objective scores 8 points. If the primary objective is a draw both players score 4 points.

Secondary objective (4 points)
The player that wins the secondary objective scores 4 points. If the secondary objective is a draw both players score 2 points.

Victory points (8 points)
Calculate the victory point difference between the players and consult the table below:
VP dif ---- Winner -- Loser
0-300 -------- 4 --------- 4
301-600 ----- 5 ---------- 3
601-900 ----- 6 --------- 2
901-1200 --- 7 --------- 1
1201+ ------- 8 ---------- 0

To sum up, the result players consists of points awarded for primary and secondary objectives, plus or minus a bonus or malus due to Victory Points.

4.3 Missions :
In all missions, special rules that will be used are : Reserves, Outflank,Deepstrike, Nightfigthing. Tabling player gets 20 BPs, tabled player gets 0 BPs.

Mission 1
Deployment: Spearhead. See page 93 in the rulebook.
Primary objective: Annihilation. See page 91 in the rulebook.
Secondary objective: Capture & control. See page 91 in the rulebook.

Mission 2
Deployment: Dawn of War. See page 93 in the rulebook.
Primary objective: Capture & control. See page 91 in the rulebook.
Secondary objective: Seize Ground (4 counters). See page 91 in the rulebook.
Positioning the objectives: Each player will each place 2 objectives, of which only two will count for 'Capture & Control' while all will count for 'Seize Ground'. Dice-off determines who places a single counter that will count for 'Seize Ground' first. After both players have placed their counter (at least 12" apart and from board edges, gents), proceed to dice-off who will deploy first and normally start the game. The player that wins this dice-off places his 'Capture & Control" counter anywhere within 6" of his long board edge and deploys his army, after which the other player does the same. Both 'Capture & Control' counters also count for the 'Seize Ground' objective.

Mission 3
Deployment: Pitched battle. See page 92 in the rulebook.
Primary objective: Seize Ground (5 counters). See page 91 in the rulebook.
Secondary objective: Annihilation. See page 91 in the rulebook.

Mission 4
Deployment: Dawn of War. See page 93 in the rulebook.
Primary objective: Annihilation. See page 91 in the rulebook.
Secondary objective: Seize Ground (3 fixed counters). See page 91 in the rulebook.
Positioning the objectives : one objective is in the center of the table. The other 2 objectives are 24" from player's table edge and 6" of lateral table edges.

Mission 5
Deployment: Pitched battle. See page 92 in the rulebook.
Primary objective: Capture & control. See page 91 in the rulebook.
Secondary objective: Annihilation. See page 91 in the rulebook.

Mission 6
Deployment: Spearhead. See page 93 in the rulebook.
Primary objective: Seize Ground (3 fixed counters). See page 91 in the rulebook.
Secondary objective: Capture & control. See page 91 in the rulebook.
Positioning the objectives : one objective is in the center of the table. The other 2 objectives are in the center of both unoccupied table quarters.

5. Lists Submission and completing registration :
Names of players with armies and army lists are to be submitted by 23:59 on the 24th of July 2011.
Players that do not meet that deadline and submit incorrect army lists will receive a 5 BPs penalty that will be deduced from their BP total after round 5 pairings and affect overall rankings.
Army lists are to be sent to via PM to users chtiofonce and Tomepnk on forum http://www.warhammer.org.uk . After the submission deadline they will be published in the warhammer.org.uk ETC public section for all to see. Payment will also be required to complete registration, follow instruction here http://warhammer.org.uk/phpBB/viewtopic.php?f=43&t=85093.
Army lists are to be submitted in the following approved format (Use plaintext-format, readable in forum posts). Army lists not using this format will not be accepted.

+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
PLAYER 1: (firstname, nickname, secondname, country)
ARMY DESCRIPTION : (codex used, mention relevant details which impact force organisation chart and choices, for instance Ravenwing)
HQ1 : (codex entry name, detailed cost of every options & wargear and their multiplier if any, transport reference number if relevant) [(point total without transport)pts]
HQ2 : (idem supra...)
Elite1 : (...)
Elite2 : (...)
Elite 3 : (...)
Troop 1 : (...)
Troop 2 : (...)
Troop 3 : (...)
Troop 4 : (...)
Troop 5 : (...)
Troop 6 : (...)
FA1: (...)
FA2: (...)
FA3: (...)
HS1: (...)
HS2: (...)
HS3: (...)
Transport1 : (codex entry name, detailed cost of every options & wargear and their multiplier if any, unit transported) [(point total)pts]
Transport2 : (idem supra...)
TransportX : (...)
(don't forget to delete unused entries)
TOTAL [(point total)pts]
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For examples of proper application of this template please look up http://warhammer.org.uk/phpBB/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=75250

6. Version history :
2011/05/19 v1.0 by chtiofonce : enjoy.
2011/06/30 v1.1 by chtiofonce : modified paragraph "5. Lists Submission and completing registration" and updated Mission 2.