In November, the UK 40k team
tournament is going ahead at Sanctuary Games in Sutton-in-Ashfield (near
Mansfield, Notts). After throwing out a request for players to join a team, I'm
delighted to say we had nearly a dozen requests! This of course means they'll
be three teams coming from the blogosphere.
The first team will be led by
Alex ‘From the Fang’ Brown, who runs the most excellent Blog Wars tournament
twice annually. His team will consist of gamers from the northern stronghold of
Sheffield and the surrounding areas.
The other two teams consist of
gamers predominantly from the Nottingham area, most of whom are regulars at the
First Company Veterans 40k club night at Warhammer World. After having analysed
which armies each player can bring, I have rationalised the seven interested
players into the following two teams:
‘Team Claws & Fists’
Graham (me!) – Astra Militarum
/ Tyranids / Eldar
Young Josh – Daemons
Andy ‘Fudal’ Lane – Space Marines
/ Tyranids
Darren ‘The Baron’ Grainger –
Orks / ???
‘Team Blood Claw’
John ‘Blood Claw’ Holland –
Space Marines / Astra Militarum
Daryl Dudey – Eldar / Daemons
/ Orks
Al Shrive – Tau / Daemons /
Tyranids
??? (Tom?)
Just a few words about the
rationale between the selection of players for the two teams. Firstly, I have
tried to include at least one ‘top tournament’ level player in each team; that
is, John Holland in Team Blood Claw, and Andy / Darren in Team Claws & Fists.
Secondly, I tried to make sure that there was as little crossover as possible
in terms of playable armies for each team – eg, both John and I use Astra
Militarum as one of our ‘main’ armies, so it would be unwise for us to both be
in a team together as we couldn’t both use our preferred army.
Anyway, that is the plan as it
stands at the moment!
The next step is for each team
to procure their team ticket. Tickets should be available from this weekend, via
the Facebook group set up by Sanctuary Games. Tickets are £80 / £90 per team
(ie £20-£23 per player). I will buy the ticket for Team Claws & Fists. John
– are you able to coordinate with your team and arrange to get your team’s
ticket?
Once we have tickets, the next
step will be for each team to begin the process of deciding which armies to
each take, list-building and match-up analysis (I’m looking forward to that
part!).
John / Daryl / Al – I am quite
happy to leave the organisation of your team completely to you! Basically
please treat your team as completely your own thing. I hope that will be ok for
you guys?
