GW doubles tournament next mouth?

Anyone going to this?
I've been playing warhammer since 5th but this is my first GW tournament!
Me and my mate have a Ogre/Dwarf army.
Whats It like, is it fun, is it worth the money?

I realy want to post our army but Is that good Idea on a forum?

Which GW?

Remember this forum has users all over the world 

Posting your list is fairly safe unless you know your opponents are likely to be on here.

Tournaments are fun, take it easy and enjoy it. Doubles tournaments are often really entertaining.

I've played in 1 doubles tourney recently and I teamed with lizards. Brets and dwarves seemed to be the chosen combo if I remember correctly.

Given my experience with GW tourneys is that they often don't allow enough times for turns... Doubly so in a doubles tourney. You really need a combo that's going to smash face quickly in order to rise to the top. So if you go ogres, I would forgo all shooting (let the dwarves handle that) and go smash face. Well, maybe take some ironblasters.

Given my experience with GW tourneys is that they often don't allow enough times for turns... Doubly so in a doubles tourney. You really need a combo that's going to smash face quickly in order to rise to the top.

This. Make a spread sheet of rules you need to refer to often(miscast table, Errata, Alliance rules ect) This will speed up the game. Also make sure you and your buddy can move your miniatures table to table quickly.

I'm assuming you mean the one at Nottingham HQ on the 17th/18th? I'm going to this, taking double goblins. Hope to see you there!

Given my experience with GW tourneys is that they often don't allow enough times for turns... Doubly so in a doubles tourney. You really need a combo that's going to smash face quickly in order to rise to the top.

This. Make a spread sheet of rules you need to refer to often(miscast table, Errata, Alliance rules ect) This will speed up the game. Also make sure you and your buddy can move your miniatures table to table quickly.

I have to be honest, I've been to all of the last 4 doubles tourneys run at Nottingham and this has never been a problem. They have always provided more than enough time for games and between games, the minimum between games is 30 mins between the 2nd and 3rd on the saturday, the others have over an hour for lunch between them! Most people have time to find their table, put models down, go to the bar and even start deployment before the game time starts, and the 2 1/2 hours for each game is ample.

The tourney itself is rarely competitive, there's the same 4 or 5 teams each year who dominate the top 6 tables then after that most people bring fun lists, and no one take sit mega seriously its really much more of a fun tourney.

Posting the list would be fine, no one is suddenly going to taylor their list to try to beat you on the off chance that they play you in one of their 5 games against any of 100 or so teams. Also as I said its not in any way a serious tournament so no one is going to learn your item combos to try and gain some miniscule advantage.

Our list has 120 night goblins, 7 chariots, 2 pump wagons, 2 Manglers, a doom diver and a troll... and the wizarding hat. Just got to hope it all behaves itself!

I'm assuming you mean the one at Nottingham HQ on the 17th/18th? I'm going to this, taking double goblins. Hope to see you there!



Our list has 120 night goblins, 7 chariots, 2 pump wagons, 2 Manglers, a doom diver and a troll... and the wizarding hat. Just got to hope it all behaves itself!

Lol EPIC. Good to see a warhammer fan who know s how to have fun!

Also "a" troll? Flanker?

Also "a" troll? Flanker?

I wish he was a flanker... he has to stay within 12" of the general for stupidity tests! Planning to use him to jump on redirectors.

I'm assuming you mean the one at Nottingham HQ on the 17th/18th? I'm going to this, taking double goblins. Hope to see you there!

Given my experience with GW tourneys is that they often don't allow enough times for turns... Doubly so in a doubles tourney. You really need a combo that's going to smash face quickly in order to rise to the top.

This. Make a spread sheet of rules you need to refer to often(miscast table, Errata, Alliance rules ect) This will speed up the game. Also make sure you and your buddy can move your miniatures table to table quickly.

I have to be honest, I've been to all of the last 4 doubles tourneys run at Nottingham and this has never been a problem. They have always provided more than enough time for games and between games, the minimum between games is 30 mins between the 2nd and 3rd on the saturday, the others have over an hour for lunch between them! Most people have time to find their table, put models down, go to the bar and even start deployment before the game time starts, and the 2 1/2 hours for each game is ample.

The tourney itself is rarely competitive, there's the same 4 or 5 teams each year who dominate the top 6 tables then after that most people bring fun lists, and no one take sit mega seriously its really much more of a fun tourney.

Posting the list would be fine, no one is suddenly going to taylor their list to try to beat you on the off chance that they play you in one of their 5 games against any of 100 or so teams. Also as I said its not in any way a serious tournament so no one is going to learn your item combos to try and gain some miniscule advantage.

Our list has 120 night goblins, 7 chariots, 2 pump wagons, 2 Manglers, a doom diver and a troll... and the wizarding hat. Just got to hope it all behaves itself!

Yeah, well my experience is 100% local, so it doesn't surprise me that your events go smoother.

Ah, my local GW doesn't seem to put on any tounaments and the like, they only have 2 or 3 tables. I guess it would be far more difficult for shop-run ones to go so smoothly!

Ah, my local GW doesn't seem to put on any tounaments and the like, they only have 2 or 3 tables. I guess it would be far more difficult for shop-run ones to go so smoothly!

I have bunker local to me, but they are fairly new. Also, fantasy isn't huge in this area, so you get a lot of new players in those tourneys - they tend to slow things down too.

I'm assuming you mean the one at Nottingham HQ on the 17th/18th? I'm going to this, taking double goblins. Hope to see you there!

Given my experience with GW tourneys is that they often don't allow enough times for turns... Doubly so in a doubles tourney. You really need a combo that's going to smash face quickly in order to rise to the top.

This. Make a spread sheet of rules you need to refer to often(miscast table, Errata, Alliance rules ect) This will speed up the game. Also make sure you and your buddy can move your miniatures table to table quickly.

I have to be honest, I've been to all of the last 4 doubles tourneys run at Nottingham and this has never been a problem. They have always provided more than enough time for games and between games, the minimum between games is 30 mins between the 2nd and 3rd on the saturday, the others have over an hour for lunch between them! Most people have time to find their table, put models down, go to the bar and even start deployment before the game time starts, and the 2 1/2 hours for each game is ample.

The tourney itself is rarely competitive, there's the same 4 or 5 teams each year who dominate the top 6 tables then after that most people bring fun lists, and no one take sit mega seriously its really much more of a fun tourney.

Posting the list would be fine, no one is suddenly going to taylor their list to try to beat you on the off chance that they play you in one of their 5 games against any of 100 or so teams. Also as I said its not in any way a serious tournament so no one is going to learn your item combos to try and gain some miniscule advantage.

Our list has 120 night goblins, 7 chariots, 2 pump wagons, 2 Manglers, a doom diver and a troll... and the wizarding hat. Just got to hope it all behaves itself!

Yeah thats the one. Two and ahalf hour drive to get to the bastard but I am looking forward to it!

We are taking a 70% scout army, so combat should be happening pretty quick and the games might be over in a flash.

The list is-
1 Firebelly
7 Bulls
10 trappers
1 sabretusk
8 scouting maneaters

1 scouting Runesmith
40ish scouting rangers
1 boltthrower
1 cannon

How do you think it will do?
We have done well in play testing. Seems to give people a lot of problems.

Haha, that list is awesome, really in your face! I can see it causing a lot of shooty lists problems.

This is exactly why I like the doubles, loads of lists that are mad as a bag of cats, and they can end up doing really well. Last time we went with Orcs/Ogres double Giant list and came 18th with the giants racking up countless VPs.

I'll be keeping an eye out for your force.

Yeah me to. Shouldnt be to hard to miss so many goblins and chariots!

On a side note, I brought the O&G army book last week. Is a very heavy chariot list any good?
I'm talking black orc warboss on chariot, black orc BSB on chariot, goblin shaman on chariot, 2 units of 3 wolf chariots, 2 boar chariots, 4 pumpwagons, a goblin great shamam and 1 or 2 units to fill up core.

Chariots can be great support units but with the steadfast rule in the game they struggle on their own, you pay a fair few points for impact hits so if combat goes on for a couple of rounds you can find yourself losing to lesser troops.

Get a tandem charge off with a ranked up unit though and your laughing, the extra 4-5 points of combat res they'll generally bring is very useful.

The main thing to remember about a chariot list though is that it is only really the speed of infantry since they cant march. The have the ability to make longer charges but I find that most of the time the extra movement increases the chances of making a long charge and infantry unit may struggle to make.

You may have seen these:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4E1m4kfhdo&feature=plcp
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Rj54JBhY90&feature=plcp

They are a couple of youtube battle reports of chariot heavy O&G armies, some good tactics in there.

Cheers T Bone, I'll give them a watch.

Glad to hear that the tourney is more fun than overly competitive. This will be my first tournament as well (despite having been playing for 15 years).

We are going for a might and madness style list with the Ogres providing the might and the Night Goblins providing the madness (Although has been known to be the other way round!).