Still want to do an "army-swapping" tourney. Toys

Darkblood Skullpulper · Earthshaker Joined: 29 Nov 2010 Posts: 195

I can post details later, but I think this will be fun... I've got some pretty fun concepts planned.

What would be the best date to hold this? Right now we've got Dragon Wars coming up in late Oct., and a tournament in Nov. in PA that doesn't sound like it's getting a lot of CGL love.

Would mid-November be an option? Early December? I don't want to run too close to Thanksgiving or Xmas, so unless people are going to looking for a tourney in late fall, I might have to push this into 2012.

No Toys for Tots since Shawn Reis left, right? Would it make sense to have this one take on that role?

What say you all?
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treehugger · Questing knight Joined: 30 Nov 2010 Posts: 2166

I always feel weird just picking up someone else's model let alone playing their army.

As for toys for tots. Would love to see some sort of event.
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Darkblood Skullpulper · Earthshaker Joined: 29 Nov 2010 Posts: 195

No guilt needed. Unpainted models/armies are going to be allowed, though each army can get a bonus for being well painted, mostly all painted or even more than half painted. It's more fun to play with painted armies, after all.

Bringing anything at all means accepting the fact that random chance may cause another person to damage your toys, instead of the normal course where only you would be likely to do so. It'll just be us, so potential for serious mayhem should be fairly limited.
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One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs.

Darkblood Skullpulper · Earthshaker Joined: 29 Nov 2010 Posts: 195

I will commit tentatively to doing this as Toys for Tots. I need to think what exactly that will mean, but at a minimum, I think that toys will need to be the entry fee and there will need to be a silent auction.

If that's going to be the case, the December is when this'll need to be.
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One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs.

treehugger · Questing knight Joined: 30 Nov 2010 Posts: 2166

Rissan4ever · Joined: 22 Dec 2010 Posts: 820 Location: Herndon, VA

I agree with putting this in early December and making it our Toys for Tots event.

Will this be a 40K event or WHFB? I'm in if it's 40K.
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Darkblood Skullpulper · Earthshaker Joined: 29 Nov 2010 Posts: 195

I'm no Moe the Great. Fantasy only for the first year I run this.
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There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old's life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged.
One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs.

Rissan4ever · Joined: 22 Dec 2010 Posts: 820 Location: Herndon, VA

Well, dang.

Whatever happened to Moe, anyway?
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Darkblood Skullpulper · Earthshaker Joined: 29 Nov 2010 Posts: 195

Darkblood Skullpulper · Earthshaker Joined: 29 Nov 2010 Posts: 195

OK, here's a thought I want to run by the group:
My company will do dollar-for-dollar matches of individual charitable donations. Thus, if I collect cash registration fees for a Toys for Tots event and donate in my own name, we can get double the cash impact. However, this would have to be done as a personal donation by me. As a consequence, I could also deduct the amount from my taxes, getting something like a 22% additional cash benefit.

So, if the event had a registration fee instead of a toy donation and we had 10 people at $10 each, that would mean $200 goes to Toys for Tots, and I'd kick in an additional $22 either to the charity or as prize support. Much more fun to buy an actual toy than to pay registration fee, though.
I could handle the silent auction proceeds in the same way, though I'd probably want to round it down to the nearest hundred.

I think the best idea might be to keep a toy as the registration fee, but I would use silent auction proceeds to double-dip and get a corporate match from my employer. Good idea/bad idea? Anyone have a concern that I might run off to Aruba with the proceeds?
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There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old's life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged.
One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs.

Skipschnit · Herr Pyramid Dictator! Joined: 29 Nov 2010 Posts: 2274

Personally, I don't care who piggy backs or benefits from perks in a charitable (or non in some cases) as long as the main benefactor (Toys for Tots) gets the most out of it. If by doing this in this manner, that T4T gets double, then I'm all for it. I'm not getting anything back other than enjoyment, and I'm not putting forth any work, and I didn't expect any return for me anyway...so I have no problems at all giving cash and a toy. To keep more money going to charity, for me personally, I'd rather have a paper certificate or a cheap ass trophy that I can look at than to have something else I have to put together or paint.

What if, instead of playing with someone else's toys, you make it kind of like an army Sudoku? People write the army lists for other's armies and put them in a pool and you randomly pick which list you will use for that game? Keep it 2000 pts and as part of the registration, the armies are displayed (2500 pts worth) and for the first 45 min. to an hour, people take turns writing out a 2000 pt list from the models displayed? Six different lists, three are chosen randomly to play. Just an idea if people are wierd about using other's armies or letting others use their army.
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Darkblood Skullpulper · Earthshaker Joined: 29 Nov 2010 Posts: 195

Interesting concept, Ben, but I've been wanting to do an army-swapper for quite some time now and have some fun plans. I truly believe that any army can beat any other army in the scenarios I'm planning - victory points will not matter in the least.

There's no paint requirement, so you can bring anything at all off your shelf. Details to be finalized, but I'm thinking 0-8 points in primary objectives per game, 0-4 points in secondary objectives per game, 0-3 points total for degree of paint applied, and 0-3 points total for the "fun factor" in each army. So ,really no big deal if you bring unpainted stuff.

Besides your own battle scores, you'd also pick up the average battle score of the army you bring as a 4th battle score. Not too much to make people bring killer lists, but not so little as to bring complete creampuffs.

Work with me here. For the children. Won't someone think the children?
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There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old's life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged.
One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs.