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Special
Events
Campaign
Tyranids
Officially Sponsored Worldwide Campaign by Games Workshop!
Starting on March 10th, the Game Matrix has been participating in Campaign
Tyranids, the new worldwide campaign sponsored and run by Games Workshop. This
is an eight-week long Campaing featuring mega-battles, painting competitions,
scenery competitions, open gaming, league games, battle fleet gothic games, and
a grand finale huge mega-battle on Saturday April 28th.
As a sponsored event, this Campaign has many things that are different than most
of the leagues or games that happen at the Game Matrix. The league is based on a
Tyranid invasion of a solar system in the Segmentum Obscurus part of the Galaxy.
The whole event is based on how many planets that the Tyranids and Imperium can
claim. The planets are claimed through different events and games that will take
place from now until April 27th. In example, from March 10th to March 13th, we
counted all of the games that took place during open gaming hours towards the
Campaign. There were 49 games played during these three days with the Tyranids
getting 19 victories and the Imperium getting 23. (Draws are not included) Since
we have set up this as one of our time periods, the Imperium cleansed the planet
of Tacomicus, and gained the upper hand in the Campaign. The Tyranids quickly
struck back and won the next planet, Cosmopolis, by a narrow one game victory.
We will also be hosting a variety of Special events that are included for the
Campaign. The first is a painting competition that will happen on the night of
March 21st, which is also our Youngblood night and painting day. Every entry
will earn one point for their side, while the winner of each category will earn
6 points for his side (second gets 4 points, and 3rd gets 2). The side which
earns the most points will earn the planet! The categories for the painting
competition are: single figure, full squad, and monster or vehicle.
We will also have two events on Saturday March 24th, starting with our scenery
competition. The idea behind this is to help supply some more cool terrain for
the store, while also helping everybody learn how to build better terrain.
Scoring will be the same as for the painting competition, while the categories
are: small (less that 4”), medium (4”-8”), and large (8”+) pieces of terrain.
The idea is to build some cheap terrain out of easily obtainable items, and we
even have a lot of extra cool foam board, styrofoam, and cardboard at the store.
The second event on March 24th is the really cool Mega-Battle Bug-Hunt! This
will be a five hundred point bring and battle, with some cool special rules for
the Tyranids-they get Raveners free! So bring in your force and join the day
long mega battle, startin at 12:00 noon!
As we get closer, more events will be announced, like more mega-battles and a
competition to see who has the best conversion in the store. So stay tuned and
stop by to see our calendar and hear about the new events for Campaign Tyranids.
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