Hi chaps
I've written to Marcus to find out more about the facilities - no reply just yet. (As an aside, Erny, I'd still be interested in information about your games club, but that's a slightly different thing now...)
I wasn't thinking of a RoC specific event - rather, just the opportunity to play 3rd edition. I've asked about a two day event - given that most of us will have to travel, we'll probably stay over - I was thinking a great opportunity for travelling oldhammerers to find a pub and tell war stories...
Anyway, I don't believe we're likely to get through more than 1 game of 3rd ed. in a day - the system is slow and most of us won't have played in 20+ years, so there'll be lots of reading books. Also, I suspect that most members of this forum would be prone to long stages of tomfoolery and general buggering around throughout the day.
Assuming that's the case, I've thought it would be a good idea for people us to include games masters. This is something that would allow some people who are more collector/modeller focussed to participate without having to bring armies or otherwise push stuff around. The alternative is if we have gaming over both days, players can GM for other players on one of the days, with players swopping roles the next day.
This will require preparation to happen before the day itself.
Lets pretend theres a dedicated event organiser who would receive the suggested communications and process them accordingly.
I'd propose that about two weeks (or earlier, if the attendee is ready) before the event, the following should occur:
Attendees should indicate whether they would like to play only, play and gm, or gm only.
Gamers could send a list of painted(!) figures or some sort of nominal army list to that person, who could match opponents (based on their figure lists and possibly preferences). So, for example, one could match Thantsants little Slann warband (if that was in his figure list he sent through) to one of Orlygg's RoC warbands, as this seems 'right' and 'fair' - as opposed to matching him to Erny's 60,000 point chaos horde.
Once this is done, the event organiser would allocate a GM and email that person the figure list. It would be up to the GM to create a scenario for the two players and their figures. The GM would set the table up for the two payers and possibly even dictate deployment, depending on the scenario. It would be up to the GM.
I suppose we could provide for those who would rather not have a GM and just manage events by themselves.
Another idea could be to organise normal games for the 1st day and arrange a large RoC 'all-in' game for day 2. I'd still advocate a GM for this, but perhaps we could even invite Bryan to do that for us?
Anyway, that was my unstructured braindump. Discuss.
I'll let you know when I get something from Marcus.
