Bolt Action tournament @ PAWs – 7/8th Feb

Tournament Entry

Entry fee is £20.00.  Payments must arrive by 31st December, 2014. Cheques payable to Plymouth Association of Wargamers, and marked BA on the back, should be sent to:

Tournament Contacts

Mick Allen has volunteered to umpire the competition, but the primary point of contact will be Clive Dudley, who will also accept emailed army lists.

Tournament Schedule

Saturday
09:00-­-9:45 Enrollment
10:00-­-12:00 Game  1
lunch break
13:00-­-15:00 Game 2
15:30-­-17.30 Game  3

Sunday
9:30-­-11:30 Game 4
lunch break
12:30-­-14:30 Game 5
15:00 prize ceremony

Tournament Rules

1.FORCES

Players must use a 1,000 requisition points force, consisting of one or more Reinforced Platoons, as presented in the Bolt Action rulebook (page 124). Armies can comprise of a maximum of 12 Order dice (i.e. 12 units). These forces must be selected using one of the following army lists:

• The army list section of the Armies of Germany supplement book.
• The army list section of the Armies of United States supplement book.
• The army list section of the Armies of Great Britain supplement book.
• The army list section of the Armies of the Soviet Union supplement book.
• The army list section of the Armies of Imperial Japan supplement book.
• The army list section of the Armies of France and the Allies supplement book.
• The army list section of the Armies of Italy and the Axis supplement book.

2. GAME TIME

After two hours of gameplay, the players must finish the current turn, and then the game ends automatically.

3. ARMY LIST

The players must write down the army list they are going to use for the duration of the entire tournament. They must leave a copy of their list with the referee before the start of the tournament. The force list is public and the opponent can always look at it and ask you questions about your force.  Army lists must reach the organiser for checking by January 25th, 2015

4. MATCH – UPS

The match-ups of Game 1 will be random. In the following games players will be matched using Tournament Points (TP) and Casualty Points, as explained below.

5 . SCENARIOS

The following scenarios will be played, as described in the BA rulebook , on table with terrain that ahs been pre-set by the organisers.

• Game 1: Demolition
• Game 2: Top Secret
• Game 3: Envelopment
• Game 4: Point Defence
• Game 5: Hold Until Relieved

6 . TOURNAMENT POINTS

Victory is calculated as described in the Scenarios being played and Tournament points are awarded for victories, defeats and draws as shown below:

Victory 3 TP
Draw 1 TP
Loss 0 TP

In addition, players must also record how many requisition points of enemy units they destroy during their games. These destroyed enemies points (Casualty points) are always added together in a running total and are used as a tiebreaker to pair players that are on the same level of Tournament Points.
From the second round, players will be paired using a Swiss system (i.e. matching players on the same amount of TPs, in descending order). In case of more than two players on the same number of TPs, players will be matched in descending ‘ Casualty points’ total.
If they have the same TP and Casualty points total, players will be paired in alphabetic order.

When two players that have already met in a previous turn are matched to play each other again, they must randomly select opponents from the players on the next table down . This rule does not apply on the top five tables during t he last turn of the tournament.

7 . WINNING THE TOURNAMENT

The winner is determined at the end of the last round , according to the following criteria:

• The player with the most TP will be the winner.
• In case of same TP at the top, the winner will be the player with the highest Casualty points total.
• In case of same Casualty points total, we’ll see if the players have played each other during the course of the tournament and the winner will be the winner of such match.
• If the players never met in the tournament, the tournament ends with a joint victory and the players share the first prize.