Berks PA Gaming Club: 2011

Berks Spring Assault 3:

April 21, 2012

Date: April 21, 2012

Time: Registration 9:00am-9:45am

Location: Riveredge Banquet Center, 2017 Bernville Rd, Reading PA 19601

Warhammer 40,0000 tournament: 1000 points. 4 rounds of Warhammer 40K, Catered Lunch is included.

Entry Fee: $45. Pre-registration discounted price: $40 if pre-registered by April 10th, 2012.

Berks-PA Gaming Club Elite members get an additional $5 discount with club member card shown.

We are planning on being able to host 70 players, but can expand to more if needed. Based upon last year's attendance, that could happen.

We here are Berks-PA Gaming Club will be hosting our third round of Berks Spring Assault. Each year this event grows and becomes even more of a fun party than the previous year.

Sportsmanship will be key to scoring this year, as much as last year. Details will be posted once we finalize all tournament information. One thing we pride ourselves on, especially with this tournamaent is having FUN! Sportsmanship is a MAJOR part of overall scoring.

Armies do NOT need to be painted, but having painted armies will help as Appearance will be minor part of overall scoring. Appearance will be scored by tournament judges on a very simple scale.

1,000 point Warhammer 40K armies from all Standard Codecies.   Currently, IMPERIAL ARMOR AND CHAPTER APPROVED LISTS ARE NOT PERMITTED (Please see below)
We want you to come and have fun and enjoy yourself. This is the perfect environment for new players as well as veterans trying out new lists or new armies.     If you are not sure of a list or have a special request, pitch it to us, and we may approve if if it is theme and fluff based and not so much a power-gamer list.
***DUE TO THE LOGISTICAL DIFFICULTIES IN SUPPORTING IMPERIAL ARMOR AND CHAPTER APPROVED UNITS, THEY WILL NOT BE ALLOWED AT bERKS SPRING ASSAULT.    ONLY THE FOLLOWING (and current versions) CODEX BOOKS WILL BE ALLOWED:
* Black Templars
* Blood Angels
* Chaos Daemons
* Chaos Space Marines
* Dark Angels
* Dark Eldar
* Eldar
* Grey Knights
* Imperial Guard
* Necrons
* Orks
* Sisters of Battle (*White Dwarf Version)
* Space Marines
* Space Wolves
* Tau Empire
* Tyranids
***If you want to use special models or custom "counts as" models, please have them WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get), and make sure that they are clearly able to be distinguished amongst other models.   If you are not sure, contact the tournament organizer and submit a picture so we can approve or disallow your model.

ALL Games will be played on 4' x 4' tables, so expect a lot of bloody action! This is Berks Spring ASSAULT!

You will need Six (6) copies of your army list: 1 for the Tournament Ogranizer, 1 for you , and 1 copy for each of your opponents. If your list is not legal, you will lose points, be asked to leave, or have your scores adjusted as we see fit.

You will need a copy of the 40K rule book, your codex, all dice and templates and rules associated with your army. If you do not have these we will make sure that some are available for purchase from one of our vendors.

We will play 2 rounds, break for lunch and play 2 more games.

Lunch will be included with your entry fee. If you have special dietary needs or are a vegan, please contact us directly so that we can make special arrangements. Catering will be done on site.

We will have 13 prizes available: Best overall, (1, 2, 3, 4), Best Sportsman (1, 2, 3), Best Appearance (1, 2, 3). Best Youngblood (under 16), Best Youngblood Sportsman, and a special award: Player's Choice for best overall army and theme.

We will also recognize Army Domination by best in each codex with a minor prize from one of our sponsors. This will be by codex, not by lumping all space marines into one category. You paid for a seperate codex, so we feel that you should be rewarded by codex.

We will do our best to operate on a tight schedule this year. Last year's event went pretty smoothly, and with more space we are hoping for better transition of movement.

There is a Quality Inn attatched to the Banquet Facility and we are right down the road from the Reading Municipal Airport, and there is a Holiday Inn Express there for those travelling from out of town.

We are going to have around or over 20 sponsors this year and are dilligently working on more swag to hand out to our participants this year. Almost all of our sponsors from last year have returned and are offering even better support as our event continues to grow.

FORCE ORGANIZATION CHART will be modified as follows:

* 1-2 HQ (up to 3 for space wolves)

* 2-6Troops

* 0-2 Elites

* 0-2 Fast Attack

* 0-2 Heavy Support

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We will again be hosting our Annual Golden Grot Painting competition. Categories will be listed officially soon but we are looking at: Individual Model, Squad, Vehicle/large creature, and Open Category (anything goes). Winner in each category will receive a small trophy and prize. Models do NOT have to be Warahmmer 40K, but can be from any game system. This is just a chance for you to show off your hobby. The only limitation is that they can not be in your current army list, because they will be on display until round 3.

* Another category this year will be BEST CLUB TABLE. We are inviting all of the participating gaming clubs to assist in supporting the event by 'sponsoring' some tables. To sponsor a table, all your club needs to do is agree to bring terrain to cover 2-4 tables. Show off your club's goods, put up club banners and flags, participate in the event. By helping out, we can fill 35 tables with everyone chipping in a little bit. Some clubs did this last year and it was a great help. This year we will offer a prize to the best presented table by attending clubs.

We will also be having our Basket-Raffles, as that was a big hit last year. Raffle tickets will be available for a variety of prizes donated from our sponsors as well as club members. Last year some of the bigger prizes were a Baneblade tank, and a 1000 points of Grey Knights, and an Imperial Guard Battleforce. Look for similar fun prizes this year

More details to come, so check back on this page often.

Schedule of Events for Berks Spring Assault 3:

9:00am Registration till 9:45am.
10:00am - 11:30am Round 1 games (90 minutes to play)
11:30 Break for 30 min.
12:00pm - 1:30pm Round 2 games.
1:30pm - 2:30pm Lunch Break
2:30pm - 4:00pm Round 3games
4:00pm - 4:30pm Break for 30 min
4:30pm - 6:00pm Round 4 games
6:00pm - 6:30pm Raffles/drawings
6:30pm Final awards and prizes.

PRE-REGISTRATION OPEN UNTIL APRIL 10TH. Discounted rate is $40. AFTER April 10 (11:59pm) price goes up to $45, same at the door. Seating: 70 slots (though if we sell out, I may be able to fit more).

Pre-Register on PayPal sending payments to this email: BianconeGlobal@comcast.net Or you may make arrangements to pay me in person.

CURRENT LIST OF SPONSORS:

* KR Multi Case
* Showcase Comics & Games
* RAR Studios
* Noobhammer.com podcast
* 1-Up Collectibles
* Chapter House Studios
* The War Store http://www.thewarstore.com/
* Gale Force Nine
* HazeKnight Custom Pre-Made Wargame terrain
* Terran Scapes
* Mechanicon Grand Tournament Series
* Iron Halo.net
* Secret Weapon Miniatures
* Red Dragon Terrain
* Northeast Gamers Hub
* Linglestown Paintball
* Spikey Bitz
* FTW Games (Richmond, VA)
* Litko accessories: http://www.litko.net/
* Dream Pod 9: (makers of Heavy Gear game)
* Turn-8 podcast http://www.turn-8.com/
* Hooters of Reading (Wyomissing).
* Miniature Painting by Lady Mantis.

Click Here for: Tournament Packet Available For Download

We here at the Berks-PA Gaming Club have been continuing to expand our network of friends and keeping relations good between other gaming clubs.     Sure, other clubs can be different, run events differently, and also host different formats for tournaments.     I have to say that our members really enjoy the diversity offered by other events and we enjoy meeting new players and broaden our horizions by meeting with other clubs and playing games against them.

As these hobbies are social ones, especially Warhammer 40K, what better way to make new friends than to play in a fun event with some like minded companions and share in our hobby even more.    So, the first one of these events took place in August when 3 of us from Berks rolled into Willow Grove PA and played 3 of their members, including one of the personalities of Turn-8 Podcast.     Our own Myke Moll drew up a scenerio along with Dave Setzmen (Brave New World's club president) and hosted us in a 3 vs 3 mega-battle.   Each player had 1500 points with a standard force organization chart.    It was a fun time and our team really played well as a team.    Units were allowed to share transports and such things, so we split our units up and pulled some fun tricks on everyone.    Our advantage was that it seemed to us that BNW players were fighting 3 separate battles instead of cooperating as well as we did.

All in all it was a good time and we left as victors, but made some new friends, which is what this was all about.    We had such a good time we agreed to do it six months later.    So now we roll into December 3, 2011.   Our local store was inbetween locations due to lease issues so we had to comprimise and I hosted the event at my home.   I was able to set up a 4' x 12' city scape that our own Angel Crespo expertly designed for us.   When we first played BNW we did this on a 4' x 8' and it was a little tight.   So we expanded to 4' x 10', but I had 2' extra if we needed it, so we just used that for placing models this time around.

I opted to not play in the event and work more as a Game Master and Referee.   We also had 3 additional 4'x6' tables set up in my "Man Cave" for additional players to come and get in more 1vs1 games with other Berks club members.

Our local team consisted of our club Vice President, Darryl Hartman Jr running Dark Angels Deathwing terminators, John Tinney with his Imperial Guard, and Billy Schollkopf with his Space Marines (Void Grizzlies). They teamed up in a Cities of Death style fight against the combined forces of Dave Setzman's Hive Fleet Naga (Tyranids), with Chris Opdyke's (Opy on Turn-8 podcast) Eldar and Kevin's Space Marines. These guys were looking to avenge their club's name after the beating we gave them back in August, all in good fun.

The scenerio I created featured a full city scape, 2 rivers counting as dangerous terrain but offering a 5' cover save for being submerged. 2 intact impasable terrain buildings (one was a 9 story sky scraper). All the rest were ruins. You could shoot the ruins and make them Dangerous ruins, and if hit again, they could collapse and become rubble as per the Cities of Death rule book. Each team also received 3 tank trap strategems, 3 obstacle strategems, and 1 random strategem per player. The random strategems were drawn from a bucket, and the fun part was that no two players drew the same one.

To cap things off, each player would also draw a random personal mission. These were personal objectives to be completed in the process of the game and would earn each team additional points.

Scoring was going to be relatively simple. There were 5 main objectives pre-set on the table and they were pretty evenly spaced around the table. Each objective could be scored by having the most Victory Points worth of units with a Weapon Skill in 3 inches of an objective. Each objective was worth 1000 points. Personal objectives were worth 500 bonus points each, and than we would score also by straight victory points, so with 3 armies at 1500 points, that was another 4500 points. Total for a perfect score would be 11,000.

Players had the following objectives and strategems for their armies:

Berks Gaming Club Players:
Dark Angels: (Exiles of Caliban):
Strategem: Booby Traps:

You get 4 Booby Traps to set. Record these privately with the referee. These may be placed in ruins or obstacles NOT in the enemy deployment zone. If that ruin or obstacle would become destroyed the trap is lost. You may trigger the trap whenever an enemy unit passes through the ruin or area marked with your trap. The owner of the target unit selects a model in their unit to take a ST:8 AP:2 hit with no cover save allowed. Vehicles take the hit on their front armor.

Personal Objective: Purge the Heretic OR Capture the Psyker: Choose an enemy HQ Psyker. You must find a way to capture or kill this target. You can do it through shooting or close combat, but make sure that your target doesn’t survive. If the enemy has no psykers, than choose an enemy HQ unit and make sure they are dead before the battle is over. (He chose the Tyranid commander: Swarm Lord)

Imperial Guard (1st Terran Infantry):

Deep Strike Stratagem:

Allow any ONE unit to deepstrike. If giving to a unit that already has deepstrike, they may reroll the scatter dice, and also reduce the amount of scatter by 1d6”

Personal Objective: Demolition Man: You need to reduce at least 2 structures to destroyed ruins. One just isn’t enough, you must completely destroy 2 ruins to maintain your ‘reputation’ if you’re going to continue to be the Bad Ass you are when it comes to waging war.

Space Marines (Void Grizzlies):

Strategem: Fortification:

Choose a building or ruin in your deployment zone. This structure offers +1 to cover saves, and also ignores the effects of grenades when it comes to assaulting units within it.

Personal Objective: Big Badda Boom: Choose one of your HQ units. They are tasked with destroying an enemy vehicle and causing it to explode. Wrecking it isn’t good enough. You need to make it blow up. This also must be done via close combat with a power weapon, grenade or melta bomb, or similar non-shooting, non-psychic attacks.

Brave New Worlds Players had the following strategems and personal objectives:

Tyranids (Hive Fleet Naga):

Strategem: Infiltrators:

Give any ONE unit the ability to Infiltrate.

Personal Objective: Bounty Hunter: A price has been placed upon the head of an enemy HQ of your choice. Your goal is to seek this unit out and take him down in close combat with one of your units. As long as that unit survives the battle, you will have been considered successful in capturing your bounty.

(He selected the Dark Angels comamnder: Belial)

Eldar (Craftworld Iyanden):

Strategem: Plunging Fire:

This may be used by any unit on your team. When used during your shooting phase, cover saves taken from shooting within 18” suffer a -1 penalty, so long as the firer is higher elevation than the target.

Personal Objective: Fear Factor: Your army commander wants to make sure that others know that they are here to fight and mean business. The best way to accomplish this is to defeat an opponent and make them run off the table. All you must do is make sure that one of the enemy’s units flees off the table. You must make them flee, you can not run them down from an assault. Do this and the enemy will know and fear your name!

Space Marines:

Strategem: Ammunition Store:

This stratagem is used during your shooting phase. Place this in a piece of area terrain. ONE unit that you control may re-roll any failed to hit rolls.

Personal Objective: Friendly Fire: You have a bit of a rivalry with one of your allies. You must make sure that somehow you cause a friendly fire accident. This can be done by scattering a blast weapon onto one of their units, destroying a ruin, or catching them in the range of an exploding vehicle. Make sure you kill at least one of your allies models to “Teach them a lesson”.

While I am not going to go to any great lengths on a battle report here, I will highlight a few key points of the battle. No one achieved their personal objectives. Some came close, but no one sought to try it out. Once we all got together I made sure to have everyone read through the "rules packet" with me, to clearly explain the rules and objectives of the mission. We had very few challenges with any of that since we all went over it together asked questions and got clear answers on all of that.

Brave New Worlds players won the roll off and selected their side of the table. We kept it to a simple Pitched Battle deployment, 12 inches in from each long table edge. Berks players than set up their forces.

The first thing to take note of was that the BNW Space Marine player set up a Devestator squad with 4 missle launchers and they made use of the Ammunition Store strategem. This allowed them to reroll their attacks. This was huge because the Dark Angels terminators were bunched up in tight groups in buildings, and even though they had 2+ armor saves, they took a LOT of fire during the game.

Combined attacks of Eldar War Walkers, 2 Night Spinners, Pathfinders and anything else the BNW team had that could shoot targeted the 28-man Dark Angels army all game long. Both the Tyranid player and Dark Angel players set up in the center of the battlerfield and in the center of all of the boards, the middle of the 10' stretch was an objective. Terminators don't like moving after being hit by Night Spinners, not wanting to take the dangerous terrain tests. (***Take Note Eldar Players, this is a good trick that would work against those pesky Grey Knights!).

BNW dropped an Iron Clad dreadnought deep on the Berks team's right side. Berks had a chance to hit it with a Land Raider Crusader, missing with the multimelta, but rending with the Assault Cannon and did score a penetrating hit on it, but failed to stop the machine. The dreadnought would go on a rampage and wreck the Land Raider and cause some mayhem for the Imperial Guard on that side of the board.

When the genestealers outflanked on the right, the Imperial guard met them with lots of fire. Flamers took out like 18 of a 20 man unit along with supporting fire. However, despite multiple attempts to finish off a lone gene stealer and a Brood lord, they kept making their armor and cover saves and eventually got to the IG commander and cut them down. All I can say for the IG player is that for a long time he had some extremely bad dice rolls, and even law of averages should have seen some success come his way.

The Berks space marine player on the far left of the board had his hands full with Eldar and marine units, and actually took out some Eldar units until eventually he too became overwhelmed. At least he had units left on the board by the end of the game.

There was a huge clash in the middle that came down eventualy to a Death Star unit of a Tyranid Swarmlord and tyrant guards as well as an Eldar Farseer or Autarch with a Librarian. They also had a Biovore there and a venomthrope. The funny thing here was that the Guard player had a unit he affectionately referred to as "Three Blind Mice"...which was made up of 3 ratling snipers. The funny thing here is that for 30 points, these "blind mice" put the final blows on many units including a Tyrant Guard, a Trygon, and the Venomthrope.

The epic fight came as Belial took on the Swarmlord and when it came down to it he and his unit failed to put it down with their thunderhammers. They in turn were stuck in combat and before the Swarmlord could take out Belial and claim the Tyranid Personal Objective, the eldar player struck him down, not realizing that he robbed his companion of bonus victory points.

In the end it was a total routing of the Berks armies by Brave New Wolrds. Brave New Worlds held 4 objectives and Berks had Zero. No one completed their personal objectives, but the final victory points told the final tally: BNW scored around 4000 Victory points, leaving Berks will less than 500 points total in units on the board. Berks scored about 2400, leaving BNW with half of their total armies on the table. the total score was like 6400 to 500, a total Massacre by my standards.

Brave New Worlds did well and as was the original plan, had a good time. One of their other players, Nick, a Chaos Space Marines player took on one of our own with a similar army, both dedicated to Khorne, the blood god. They had a blast duking it out and bonding over a fun game.

And that is really what all this was about. Getting players together from two other clubs, creating a scenerio and letting everyone have a fair shot at seeing what happens. Its games like this, not timed, not stressed, just fun and over food and drink that make the hobby what it is. As much as I and many others enjoy giong to and competing in tournaments, it is hard to really get a chance to bond with someone when you are playing in a timed or scheduled event. You have to do that between rounds, when you can sit down and grab a bite to eat together. But in this environment, we got to do just that. Some players from both clubs came along to support their club teams and spectate the game and just enjoy the overall atmosphere of the event. We look forward to doing this again with these guys in another 6 months and also setting up similar events with other gaming clubs.

* October 23: War Machine 2 vs. 2 Event: Mangled Metal Tournament At Showcase Comics, Granite Run Mall.

* October 30, 2011:   Auction time at Showcase Comics & Games:   All kinds of games, comics, and hobby items available!   This is an event not to miss!

* November 4-6: The Mechanicon: Grand Tournament and Game Convention. Warhammer 40K Grand Tournament as well as many other games including: Warhammer Fantasy, Battlefleet Gothic, Blood Bowl, Warmachine, Warhammer 40K Kill Team tournament (hosted by Berks-PA Gaming Club), and many more events, charity auction, and more!   More information can also be found at the Northeast Gamers Hub.

* November 11, 2011:   Snake Eyes Gaming: Steel City Showdown Warhammer 40K event
- 1850 points at Legions Games in Pittsburgh, PA with the Snake Eyes Gaming Club.

* November 18-20, Border Raids: Showcase Comics Warhammer Fantasy Battles Grand Tournament. Special 2500 points "Low-hammer" set of rules, always a great event!

* January 7 2012: Berks Winter Blast!   This is going to be a prelude to Berks Spring Assault, (April 21, 2012).   This will feature 1000 point Warhammer 40K armies in a team environment.    Players will play 3 games of Warhammer 40K using special missions determined by the Berks Tournament Ogranzier.   Each round, players will be matched up with a new partner at Random!   Awards will be given out for Best Generals (by battle points, helping your team mates), and by Sportsmanship.   Entry to this event is $10 (subject to change).   Location TBD, but will be in the Reading Area.

Well, Summer has passed us on as we move into Fall and the school season. But a gamer's dice never rest too long. There are plenty of events happening around the area.

Big news for Berks is that our club will be hosting three sessions of a Warhammer 40K Kill Team mini-tournament held over the weekend of November 5 & 6 at the Mechanicon GT. These are separate events run in addition to the main Warhammer 40K Grand Tournament and other games. Saturday night there will be a late-night round starting at 9:00pm to allow players that are competing in the GT to participate as well.

With the Mechanicon GT on the horizon, many Berks club members are preparing for the event. Our featured event coming up to help those players prepare is the Road to Mechanicon tournament. This is an 1850 point Warhammer 40K tournament. 3 games played usinug the 2009 Mechanicon rules and missions. Scoring will be very similar to the GT style of points.

The entry fee is $20, and while the armies playing do not have to be completely painted, there is an exception if you want to win first place. The top honor prize is a ticket to compete in the Mechanicon GT vauled at $125. Only a fully painted and based army will be eligible to win the ticket because only painted armies are allowed to compete in a Grand Tournament.

There will also be prizes for 2nd and 3rd place overall, best sportsman and best appearance. The vaule of those prizes will be determined by attendance of the event.

Upcoming Events in Berks and local area:
* October 1st: Berks Road to Mechanicon tournament held at The Last Level, 600 West Penn Ave in West Reading PA.

* October 8-9: Fort Buyaki Invitational, Warhammer 40K tournament in Seacaucus NJ.

* October 8-9: Battle for Salvation Grand Tournament, Warhammer 40K Nova style event.

* October 15th OR 22nd?: Berks Club Day @ Last Level, open gaming all day. There has been talk about a Club vs. club event with the North East Big Gunz club members. More details to come.

* November 4-6: The Mechanicon GT Warhamemr 40K Grand Tournament, Warhammer 40K Kill Teams, Heroscape, Warmachines/Hordes, Privateer Press, Blood Bowl, Battlefleet Gothic, and much, much more, all happening at one awesome convention location in West Chester PA

There are lots of activities going on Gaming Wise here in the hot summer. As summer vacation draws to a close and the school year looms before us there are plenty of opportunities to get out and enjoy some local gaming activities.

Locally, Berks Gaming Club members will be frequenting several spots, especially The Last Level , located at 600 West Penn Avenue in WEST READING, PA.

Wednesday nights twice a month some Berks club members will be hosting painting clinics as well as demonstration games and of course, the facility is always open for Open Gaming at any time.

Berks players will also be scheduling games at other locations, be it in our own homes or other public venues, and those times can be found at the Game Set Up area of the Northeast Gamers Hub.

Upcoming events of note for August are:
* August 6th: Berks-PA Gaming Club vs. Brave New Worlds: This is an interclub challenge featuring 3 members from each club in a Warhammer 40K big-battle, 3 players per side, 1500 point armies, on one battlefield for club bragging rights. There will also be a few spaces open for other open games if Berks Players want to come along and challenge players from Brave New Worlds in one-on-one games.

The folks from Turn-8 Podcast will be covering this event and featuring it as their battle report for episode 5.

* August 6th: Lancashire Wargaming club day. Our friends in Lancaster PA host their monthy games day for Open Gaming in Litiz PA.

* August 13th: Warhammer 40K 'ard Boyz tournament. This is a FREE GW-sponsored event and several locations in the area will be hosting preliminary rounds. The top 3 players from each location will advance to compete in the Semi-Finals in September.

* August 20th: Berks Club Day: Saturday Aug 20th the Berks Club will be meeting at 11:00am at The Last Level in West Reading for their monthly club meeting and a day of open gaming. Several games will be avaialble to play, please check our facebook page or the Northeast Gamers Hub for more details. A Warhammer 40K Kill Team mini-tournament will be run that day as a trial run for an event we are sponsoring for The Mechanicon GT in November.

Folks at The Last Level are offering to host a Painting & Modeling competition to coincide with the West Reading annual Arts Festival (Art on the Ave).

Entries can be submitted in one of four categories:
Best Single Model: any standard, non-vehicle, army component. Winner based on Model Construction and Paint Quality.

Best Transport: any vehicle based model. Sub-category option for large-scale beasts (Giant Tyranids/Balrogs/etc...) Winner based on Model Construction and Paint Quality.

Best Terrain Piece: custom terrain of any sort. Winner based on Model Construction, Paint Quality, and originality of design. Winning piece will become property of the The Last Level for open gaming use. (this is a play off of an idea we were talking about for the club, obviously they liked this idea).

Best Custom Model: any piece (character or transport) customized by more than just paint color. Winner based on Model Construction, Paint Quality, Originality of Design, and Overall Coolness .

Best of 3 Judging will take place at 3pm: The Last Level staff will combine their votes into one vote, the 2 other judges are yet to be determined, but will most likely be artists participating in the Art on the Ave event taking place on Penn Ave.

Prizes will be awarded to the top winner in each category, as well as a Special Prize for Best Artist in Show.

Art on the Ave will be all day long, so come early, hang out, enjoy the event, paint and display your models (tables will be available for display along Penn and 6th Avenues).

Golden Grot Painting Competition:

1st Place: Leslie McCormack of Berks-PA Gaming Club, with her awesome Tyranid Harradin conversion

2nd Place: Andy Miller of Brave New Worlds with his Blood Angels Storm Raven

3rd Place: Eric Bates of Berks-PA Gaming Club with: Blood Angels Storm Raven

Best Overall:

1st Overall: Tony Spino, Gaming Garage, West Chester PA (Eldar...made from Skaven)

2nd Overall: Matt Defranza

3rd Overall: Wilson Badillo Jr, Beltway Gamers, Rockville MD: (Chaos Space Marines)

(4th: honorable mention: Dave Setzman, Brave New Worlds, Willow Grove PA (Tyranids)).

Sportsmanship:

1st Sportsmanship: Gary Klinger, Snake Eyes Gaming, Altoona PA

2nd Sportsman: Tom McCole, Philadelphia Area Gamers, Philadelphia PA

3rd Sportsman: Bill Olstein, Snake Eyes Gaming, Altoona/Pittsburgh PA

Appearance:

1st in Appearance: Frank Osborne, Gaming Garage, West Chester PA (Traitor Imperial Guard)

2nd best appearance: Chris Smoker, Pottsville PA, (Dark Eldar)

3rd best appearance: Josh Toriano, Snake Eyes Gaming, Altoona PA

Best Youngblood overall:

Alex Fulmer, Lancashire Wargaming, Lancaster-PA

Best Youngblood Sport:

Wilon Badillo III, Beltway Gamers, Rockville MD ( Imperial Fists)

Player's Choice: Best Army (Theme, composition, appearance):

Wilson Badillo Jr, Chaos Space Marines, Beltway Gamers, Rockville MD

Smoking boots! (Last place):

Steve Regrut (Battle Sisters/ Whitch hunters), Berks PA Gaming Club, Pottsville PA

Army Domination Awards (by codex):

Black Templars: Isaac Nohr, Lancashire Wargaming, Lancaster PA

Blood Angels: Jon Kissinger, Berks-PA Gaming Club, Reading PA

Chaos Space Marines: Wilson Badillo JR, Beltway Gamers, Rockville MD

Dark Angels: Jon Sullenberger, Lancashire Wargaming, Litiz PA

Dark Eldar: Charlie "Darklance" Emslie, Berks-PA Gaming Club, Boyertown PA

Eldar: Tony Spino, Gaming Garage, West Chester PA

Grey Knights: "Texas Joe" Seaman, Beltway Gamerss, Rockville MD

Imperial Guard: Matt LeBaron,

Orks: Alex Fulmer, Lancashire Wargaming, Lancaster PA

Space Marines: Marc Smith, Beltway Gamers, Rockville MD

Space Wolves: Mike Mirobelli, Snake Eyes Gaming, Altoona PA

Tau Empire: Jerrome Nicolson, Gaming Garage, West Chester PA

Tyranids: "Kungfu Dave" Setzman, Brave New Worlds, Willow Grove PA

Witch Hunters: Mike Keisling, Brave New Worlds, Willow Grove PA

Not Represented:

Chaos Daemons, Necrons, and the last chance to play the old Daemon Hunters codex.

Official Rankings

Rank	Name	Score
1	Tony Spino	126
2	Matthew DeFranza	125
3	Wilson Jr.	124
4	David Setzmen	123
5	Josh Tariano	122
6	Marc Smith	119
7	Mike Kiesling	118
8	Matthew LeBaron	115
9	Bill Olstein	113
10	Chris Opdyke	110
11	Erik Lydon	104
12	Jon Sullenberger	104
13	Tom McCole	103
14	Gary Klinger	101
15	Alex Schleicher	98
16	Eric Bates	98
17	Ross Famous	98
18	Alex Fulmer	97
19	Andy Miller	97
20	Ben Leisey	96
21	Isaac Nohr	96
22	Joseph Seaman	96
23	James Nicholson	95
24	Matt Sweitzer	95
25	Mark Van Horn	94
26	Mike Mirobelli	94
27	Angel Crespo	92
28	Wilson III	92
29	Zach Hubbs	92
30	Frank Osborn	90
31	Ken DeNisco	90
32	Lovell Harmon	90
33	Akil Harmon	89
34	Colin Gallen	89
35	Dave Scarlatella	89
36	Jason Santiago	89
37	Myke Moll	89
38	Charlie Emslie	88
39	Ed Mlynar	88
40	Nate Snelbaker	88
41	Chris Smoker	87
42	Nathan Crouther	87
43	Rob Morris	87
44	Jerome Nicholson	82
45	Edgar Bloom	81
46	Jon Kissinger	79
47	Buford Culver	76
48	Tucker Steinmetz	74
49	Jason Locke	73
50	Steve Regrut	73

Date: May 14th, 2011

Time: Registration 9:00am-9:45am

Location: Berkshire Heights Fire Company: 808 North Park Rd, Wyomissing, PA 19610

Warhammer 40,0000 tournament: 1000 points. 4 rounds of Warhammer 40K, Lunch included.

$30 entry fee, $25 if pre-registered.

Berks-PA Gaming Club Elite members get an additional $5 discount with club member card shown.

We here are Berks-PA Gaming Club will be hosting our second round of Berks Spring Assault. Last year was an amazing success, despite some issues on planning, as we were new to hosting tournaments. We have a bigger location, better support and lots of fun being planned this year.

Sportsmanship will be key to scoring this year, as much as last year. Details will be posted once we finalize all tournament information. One thing we pride ourselves on, especially with this tournamaent is having FUN! Sportsmanship is a MAJOR part of overall scoring.

Armies do NOT need to be painted, but having painted armies will help as Appearance will be minor part of overall scoring.

1,000 point Warhammer 40K armies from all standard codex and Chapter approved allowed

Games will be played on 4' x 4' tables, so expect a lot of bloody action! This is Berks Spring ASSAULT!

You will need Six (6) copies of your army list: 1 for the Tournament Ogranizer (me), 1 for you , and 1 copy for each of your opponents. If your list is not legal, you will lose points, be asked to leave, or have your scores adjusted as we see fit.

You will need a copy of the 40K rule book, your codex, all dice and templates and rules associated with your army.

We will play 2 rounds, break for lunch and play 2 more games.

Lunch will be included with your entry fee

We will have 9 prizes available: Best overall, (1, 2, 3), Best Sportsman (1, 2, 3), Best Appearance (1, 2, 3).

We will also recognize Army Domination by best in each codex with a minor prize from one of our sponsors.

We will operate on a much tighter schedule this year and NOT use the same problematic tournament program we had last year, so that things will run a lot smoother.

Last year we had 45 people show up, 38 were players. We will have the capablities to going to 50-60 players this year if needed. we are only 2 blocks away from where the tournament was held last year at the Country Inn & Suites hotel.

FORCE ORGANIZATION CHART:

* 1-2 HQ

* 2+ Troops

* 0-2 Elites

* 0-2 Fast Attack

* 0-2 Heavy Support

Click here to view tournament packet.

To pre-register, contact Steel Thunder Mike at steelthunder@comcast.net .

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