Middle-Earth SBG

The Hague Tournament Rules pack

This is the rules pack for a “Middle-Earth SBG” tournament at The Hague’s Warhammer store, held
on 25 June

Rules and Armybuilding:

Games will be played using the “Middle-Earth Strategy Battle Game” rules manual.
Players are required to assemble a 600 point army following the standard rules and restrictions as
found in the Rules manual. These armies can be taken from the following books: “Armies of The Lord
of The Rings,” “Armies of The Hobbit,” “Gondor at War,” “War in Rohan,” “Quest of the
Ringbearer,” “Scouring of the Shire,”Fall of the Necromancer,” and “Defence of the North.”

TimeTable:
• 12:00: Arrival of participants, pre-event mingling and preparation
• 12:30: Round 1
• 14:00: Break
• 14:15: Round 2
• 15:45: Break
• 16:00: Round 3
• 17:30: End of Tournament - Awards and Prizes, GLORY!!

The Tournament, scoring, rounds, fun, the like:

A total of 94 points can be scored in the following categories:
• Up to 60pts for games played, three rounds with a maximum of 20pts per game.
• Up to 15pts for sportsmanship, awarded by your opponent at the end of the game for how
“sporting/nice/fun to plays against/etc etc” you were.
* Up to 16pts for painting, as judged by judge.
* Up to 3pts for having an army list.

Rounds:
The tournament will consist of three rounds of 1h30m (90min) each, this includes pairings, finding
your table and setting up.
Scenario’s will be determined at random, but will be determined from the “Rules Manual” (page 139 –
151)

People will be paired randomly for the first round and a swiss system will be used for subsequent
rounds.
When the scenario is completed, or when time is up; in which case the current phase is finished and
the game is the stopped. Report the scored VP of both players to the tournament organizer who will
award points accordingly.
In each scenario you can score up to 12VP, which will translate to scoring points in the following way:
* Draw: If a player score the same amount of VP as his/her opponent, both players score 10pts
• Minor victory: If a player scores 1 to 2 more VP than his/her opponent, the player with more
VP scores 12pts, his/her opponent scores 8pts.
• Victory: If a player scores 3 to 5 more VP than his/her opponent, the player with more VP
scores 15pts, his/her opponent scores 5pts.
 • Major victory: If a player scores 6 to 7 more VP than his/her opponent, the player with more
VP scores 18pts, his/her opponent scores 2pts.
• Massacre!: If a player scores 8+ more VP than his/her opponent, the player with more VP
scores 20pts, his/her opponent scores 0pts.

Sportsmanship:
At the end of each round of play, participants are required to score their opponent’s sportsmanlike
behaviour on a scale of 0 to 5, with 5 being the most sportsmanlike behaviour and 0 the very worst.
(Scorings of 0 will be investigated by the organizers, as scoring a 0 implies a participant’s behaviour is
so completely unsportsmanlike, none would wish to play against that person ever again.)

Painting:
During the second Break, participants are required to leave their armies on the table for the organizers
to judge.
Points are awarded for the following painting sub-categories:
Basecoat (no models unpainted to a basic standard) - up to 5 points
Detailing (proper use of shading and highlighting) - up to 5 points
Basing (painted and decorated bases for all models) - up to 5 points
Wow-factor (awarded at the organizer’s discretion) - up to 1 point

Army list:
Army list must be handed in at least two days prior the event, 25 June These can be send by mail to:
lucienjozef@hotmail.com or if you have my number you may whatsapp it to me.
Furthermore players will score 1pt for having a legible physical army list with them on the day of the
event, they score an additional 2pts if the list includes profiles of all models included in the army and
names their special rules.

Awards:
“Prizes” are awarded in the following categories:
• Overall Tournament Winner: Most Victories with total points used as tie-breaker.
• Best Painted Army: Highest total painting points.
• Most Sporting Opponent: Highest total sportsmanship points.

Written by:
Julian Toussaint (Fries 3)