NICON 2010 Flames of War Tournament 5th & 6th June 2010 Cosmopolitan Club Mt Maunganui, located at 56 Miro St. Mt. Maunganui. 

Held by the Tauranga Tabletop Gaming Club (T3GC) 

Major sponsor Battlezone Ltd 

All players must register for the tournament by visiting the NICON website – 

http://www.t3gc.org.nz/upcoming-events/nicon-2010 

For more info http://www.ableelectricians.co.nz/nicon10.htm 

Despite what the website says, Lists and Registrations need to be in by 21 May. 

Rules – Battlefront’s Flames of War 2nd Edition 

Competitions: 

Mid War - 1500pts 

Late War - 1750pts 

Armies – 

Mid War: Any valid list from Eastern Front & North Africa 

Late War: Any valid list from Fortress Europe, LW Army Books, Any Official BF PDF in use prior to 30 April 2010. 

Games – 5 x 2 hour 30 minute rounds with 3 on Day 1 and 2 on Day 2. 

All Games on Day 1 will be randomly drawn with Historical match-up’s and no Blue on Blue as much as can be avoided. Games on day 2 will be Swiss chess based on generalship scores from the previous day.

Scoring 80% Generalship 

10% Army Composition 

10% Sportsmanship 

Awards 

1st Overall from each competition 

2nd Overall from each competition 

3rd Overall (dependant on numbers) 

Best Painted by Player Vote from both competitions 

Best Sport from both competitions 

The tournament schedule will be as follows: 

Saturday 5th June 

• Registration 0830 – 0900 

• Game 1 0900 – 1130 Encounter 

• Game 2 1230 – 1500 No Retreat 

• Game 3 1530 – 1800 Road Block 

Sunday 6th June 

· Dress Parade 0900 - 0930 

• Game 4 0930 – 1200 Fighting Withdrawal 

• Game 5 1300 – 1530 Free for All 

Referee Decisions 

We expect that players will play in a friendly spirit. Questions of interpretation of the rules will normally be sorted out by players. The Referee’s will make a decision where requested, and the referee decision will be final.

Army Composition Scores (10%) 

History Scoring 5% History unashamedly based off Kit’s Battlecry 2009 History Questionnaire. 

1. What Company is your force historically based upon? (1pt) 

2. What Theatre of War and historical timeframe is your Company/Battalion from? (1pt) 

3. Describe one interesting thing about a unit in your force or your force in total. (2pts, with list checker discretion about whether you get 0,1 or 2) 

4. When was the battle of Gate Pa and what were the names of the opposing leaders? (to get 1 pt you need to get all 3 right) 

Painting Scoring (5%) 

To be determined by the list checker for each comp no later than after the dress parade. 

0 points Any unpainted or primer only miniatures 

or 

Cumulatively 

1 point – Painted in base colours 

1 point – Coherently based (ie no unpainted grey showing, and some effort at covering the base, and a consistent style!) 

1 point – Highly detailed bases (3+ covering materials or miniature dioramas) 

1 point – Appropriate unit markings and or ranks (incl. waffenfarbe for Kit) 

1 point – Detailed painting shading, highlights, washes etc 

1 point – 80%+ painted by self 

The best self painted army will be chosen by popular acclaim through player’s choice voting. Players using more than 20% borrowed or professionally painted units are not eligible for this prize.

All armies must be fully painted, and all miniatures must be fully WYSIWYG. 

Sportsmanship Scoring 10% – Proposed scoring change: 

Everybody is a good sport, some may be better than others. We think sportsmanship has advanced beyond the 1-5 scheme. So we are thinking about awarding 5% automatically for being the good sport that you are and the other 5% being awarded by players voting for the best 3 sports they played against over the 5 games. Of course it will be at the umpire’s discretion if we have to take away the good 5% because someone is being a total pratt, but we promise to tell you if we do.

Umpires at this stage are: 

Russ Pemberton – MW, Russ will play LW. 

Steve Hill – LW, Steve will play MW. 

MW Participants Amy lists to be submitted to 

Russ Pemberton – Russell_pemberton@yahoo.com.au 

LW Participants Army lists to be submitted to 

Steve Hill – lanasteve@xtra.co.nz 

Army Submission: Please provide army list and history to the above email addresses by 21/05 to allow list checking and match-up’s to be arranged. Files greater than 1 MB will be rejected. Please provide a club affiliation if you wish to minimize the chances of playing other local opponents. Russell and Steve promise not to talk to each other about the lists.