I was asked
to do some translations on the topic on team tourneys. I'll start with covering
the rules for the team tourneys for 6 players in a team.
The team
consist of 6 players, one player is a team Captain. Every player in a team should
run an army from a unique codex (at least its primary detachment).
Every
player play with his army and only his army at the tourney, no rotating usually
possible. Each round a team plays with a different team simultaneously at 6
tables. The opponent team is chosen by the tourney organizers (TO). After
opponent team is defined – team captains have to do the pairings (I’ll call it “the
game of pairings”).
The game of
pairings routine:
First each
captain secretly write down the name (or army) of one of his players. Then
captains roll off to see who should start the game of pairings first. The
captain who lost the roll off chooses one of his players as the first defender
(he cannot choose champion, though). Then the captain who won the roll off choose
one player from his team to play with the first defender. So, the first pair is
defined. Then the first defender chooses the table on which to play (he can
choose any table from 6 available).
Then the
captain who won the roll off chooses the second defender and the opposite
captain chooses the player to attack that defender. Second defender chooses the
second table and so on, until all 5 players find their pairs and chose tables.
After all
five pairs are done, captains reveal the champions, who play at the last
(unchosen) table.
The same
mission, defined by TO is played in each tourney round on all six tables simultaneously.
No random missions usually possible.
After all
games are finished, every player achieves game points from 0 to 20. The result
of the team depends on the sum of game points of all the players from the team,
and for the 6 players it will look like this:
68-120 game
points = Victory, 2 tourney points
53-67 game
points = Draw, 1 tourney point
0-52 game
points = Defeat, 0 tourney points
I’ll try to
give you an example for the game of pairings. Let us assume that we have two
teams: Alfa and Delta.
Team ALFA:
GK, BA, DE, CSM, TYR, SW
Team DELTA:
GK, BA, IG, SB, CSM, DAE.
First of
all captains choose champions. The captain of team Alfa want to hide tyranids
from DE and write “tyranids” secretly on a piece of paper. Team Delta captain
don’t know that tyranids are champions and try to hide his IG from tyranids in
a champions game. So, the champions are IG and Tyranids, but it’s a secret for
the opposite team.
Captains
roll off and Delta wins!
Pair 1 - Team
Alfa captain has to choose first defender – he chooses GK, as most stable army
in his team.
Team Delta
captain found out that the best pairing for his Daemons is GK, so he attacks GK
with Daemons.
As a
result, the first pair is GK – Daemons and the GK player chooses a table with
no LOS blocking terrain to have better possibility to shoot down Daemons.
Pair 2 - Team
Delta Captain choose GK as his defender. Team Alfa captain attacks with CSM.
The second
pair is GK – CSM and the GK player chooses the table (1 of 5 left).
Pair 3 - Team
Alfa captain put his second defender – SW. And team Delta captain attacks with
BA.
Third
pairing is SW versus BA. SW player chooses the table (1 of 4 left).
Pair 4 - Next,
team Delta captain put CSM as defender. Team Alfa attacks with DE. CSM players
chooses the table (1 of 3 left).
… and still
team Alfa captain do not know the champion of team Delta…
Pair 5 - The
fifth pair is automatic. Team Alfa captain reveal the last player left in his
team – BA. And team Delta captain has to reveal his last player – SB. It is
called “the last man standing game”.
Nevertheless,
BA player can choose table (1 of 2 remaining).
Pair 6 - Champions.
Finally, both captains show their notes with champion’s names written.
Champions play with each other on the last table left.
The six
pair is IG versus Tyranids.
After all
the games finished, captains write down the points gathered by their team
players. For example, team Alfa got 58 points and team Delta – 62 points.
It is
called a DRAW and each team earns 1 tourney point.
Here is an
example of a filled tourney table for a six player game (shortened):
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