Whoa, whoa, whoa - everyone just calm down for a sec.
It's great to see the enthusiasm, but bear in mind nothing yet has been agreed with Foundry. I'm sure it will be and they are very (very!) accommodating, but let us organise what we want to do so that they understand what they're letting themselves in for so that we can get an actual agreement that says this thing is going ahead.
So, I'll bite - I'm happy to try and organise this thing for us.
Looking at this thread, the suggestions up until now have been braindump sort of suggestions. A little unstructured in their presentations (mine included).
So, firstly, I want to make clear the ideas that have been proposed so far:
1. Realm of Chaos warband mini-campaign. I understand this to be approximately a 10-20(ish) figure sort of skirmish?
2. Realm of Chaos demo game - I understand this to be a large game, either with two large armies from Harry and Erny and the potential for others to join in.
3. 2nd Edition Scenarios - Magnificent Sven or Orcs Drift (presumably provided by Thantsants) - I swear I'll bring Terror of the Lichemaster if someone can find me a Lichemaster (in time!)!
4. A massive chaos horde (60,000pts?) being challenged by smaller, allied forces?
5. A remote oldhammer game played on the internet? Presumably for those too far away to get in?
6. Pre-event player and army matching for GM'd standard games of Warhammer.
7. Stock standard WFB3, as organised on the day by those present
Now I'm not saying which of these things any of us prefer just yet, I'm just tabling the suggestions I've been able to distil from this thread so far.
Secondly, now that the options are a little clearer, we need to understand what they actually mean - and who they are for!
Who they are for. Its great that there are people who are proposing demo games, but you need to be clear on what you're proposing - if you do mean to being 60,000 points of chaos, that means you need to transport 60,000 points of chaos safely there and back.
If you're proposing to run some sort of demo game, if could be that you may not end up actually playing a game yourself.
If you're proposing to share your armies - that means that someone else - someone you may never have met ever before, will be accountable for your army on the day. That's fine if its a regular oldhammerer who appreciates the true value of what he's working with, but if we're thinking of anybody participating in a demo game, that could mean that members of the great unwashed are manipulating your figures - are you okay with that?
I'm not at all sure how the internet thing will work, in all fairness. I think that would detract from events on the day and be very hard to manage, but I'm open to ideas.
Thirdly, how do we promote oldhammer from this event (if at all)?
That is - not how do we promote the event, but what lasting things from this event can we burn into other people's brains?
Demo games are an obvious option here, but need to be considered in light of two above. Also, would too many demo games detract/distract people? If you're running demo games with the intention of promoting oldhammer, you'd better be good with people too (no garlic abuse the night before)!
Do we showcase a specific army matchup? I.E. do we put the two most beautiful armies on the most beautiful table and get the best photographic equipment we have to track the battle and produce a battle report?
Fourthly, who wants to participate in 'doing things'?
I'll create a separate thread for this specific question, so that it doesn't clutter this one. But, this is not 'I think I'd like to sort of maybe help with some kind of skirmishy sort of game with ponies and goldfish or something...', but rather - a clear commitment - My name is X and I can help do Y on the day because of Z'. Its better to have 3 committed people than 20 non-committed people. If you have a good idea, but don't think you're the one to implement it, that's fine too - I'm not saying don't suggest things - just be clear on whether or not you can actually do the thing you're proposing to do, or if you want someone else to consider doing it.
Fifthly, there are things which aren't games coming up. Are there other ideas and can you help?
A painting competition (Golden Gobbo?)
Art exhibition?
A bring and buy/trade mechanism (Marcus has confirmed he's happy for this to happen, but out of respect, I think we should try and keep this to OOP things. Not hard for us I don't think...)
So - these are things to think about. I think we should come up with some good answers to these before we promote this thing any further.
