April 1, 2016: Year 6; Edition 7
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Major Primer Changes for 40K Due to GW's New Competitive Format
After reading this article, make SURE you click the updated Primer link below.
With GW suddenly exploding onto the tournament scene with their announcement of redoing their ever popular Games Day events around the country and opening another Warhammer World in Memphis, we at the NOVA Open are surprised and excited! We're
EXTREMELY
happy that GW is rejoining the tournament scene, but this might not automatically fix the problems with the game currently. Their new Official Tournament Army Construction guidelines are interesting, however, restoring the original FOC and limiting Tournament Armies to just a single Combined Arms Detachment and no Formations.
We at NOVA welcome change to the game, but are always careful with how we implement new changes. We'll be cautious about fully implementing the GW Competitive Tournament Guidelines for NOVA. One thing that concerns the Executive Board, Leads, and FAQ Council is GW reducing the points of competitive games to 1000 with no Super Heavy or Gargantuan Creature restrictions. While the community has been pushing for smaller games, 1000 points is a bit on the small side. We'll be discussing with the community about how we'd like to handle that.
Another interesting prospect of GW's Competitive Army Construction Guidelines is the requirement for 50% of your force to be Troops. We here at The NOVA actually really love this idea and jumped on board 100%. We'll be moving to 50% minimum Troops immediately!
With that said, we're very excited to see what GW throws at us! We'd like to hear all feedback on how you'd like us to handle it as well. And over the coming months we'll try and figure out how to handle it for this year's NOVA Open. Go see more details in our Primer right now!
Phil Rodokanakis
NOVA Open Warhammer 40,000 GT/Invitational Co-Lead and Terrible Troll
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CONVENTION DATE: Sep 1-4, 2016
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Few Swag Bags Remain
30K Event Space Expansion
Registration Update
Swag Bags Running Out
Remember - only the SuperNOVAs and first 400 Convention Access Pass (CAP) registrants are guaranteed to receive one of NOVA Open's epic swag bags. Each bag typically includes tons of cool items, discounts at our vendors, and more. Last year's even included top tier brushes, cool scenic bases, and more.
We're down to only about 60 CAPs left that include Swag Bags. So, if you want to guarantee yourself one, make sure to go and snag your CAP today!
30K Event Space Expansion
Though it's only NOVA's first year hosting Horus Heresy events, a couple already sold out and the rest seem headed in that direction. As a result, we've done our best to expand, and will be enacting changes to 30K event sizes shortly (once we've given those on the wait lists a chance to snag their spots). The Asymmetrical and Escalation events will be expanded, for now, from 24 to 36 spots each. Grab them while they're hot! Expanding the Asymmetrical event only added a handful of spots, once the wait list was accounted for. These are some hot ticket events for 2016!
Registration Update
The following events are a couple of the ones down to less than half their space remaining -
- 30K Escalation, 30k Asymmetrical Campaign; 30K Big Blam
- TNA - The Art of Painting Hot Chicks (both classes); Painting Sheer Fabric
- X-Wing Championship; X-Wing Narrative (both sides); X-Wing Hunger Games (both events)
- Armada Championship
- 40K Trios Team Tournament
- Malifaux Narrative, National Championship, Treacherous Ties, and Enforcer Brawl
- Age of Sigmar Tournament
With over 500 individuals already registered for NOVA this year, we're crushing past records; don't miss out!
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Wave 9 Changes Affect X-Wing Primer
The contents of Wave 9 have been the source of much speculation for the last few months. X-Wing players
from all over the world will be fielding new ships from "The Force Awakens." These ships include the Upsilon-class Command Shuttle, the TIE/sf, and the much requested upgrade for the YT-1300 which includes Rey Skywalker as a pilot.
NOVA Open will be the first major tournament where this meta shift will be tested. Wave 9 is expected to be released this summer.
With this announcement of Wave 9, the NOVA Open X-wing leads have updated the primer.
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NOVA Open Primer Tournament
The Portal in Manchester, CT is holding a 2-day 40K event
May 7th and 8th and will be using the NOVA Open Rules!
Where: The Portal, 60 Hilliard St Manchester CT
When:
7 - 8 May 2016
What time: 0900hrs
Format: Nova primer missions and FAQ, 3 games Saturday 2 games Sunday
Price: $25 if paid in advance (call the store
860-432-0711) $30
if paid on the day
This event will count for ITC points, so for you East coast folks who want to try and get some points at a two-day event, come along.
There will be a cap at 60 players with priority going to those who pre-register, everyone else will go on a wait-list in case of no-shows. 48 folks showed up to the one-day event in March and this two day event is expected to fill up.
Facebook site: Click Here
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Silmarillion House Rules Allowed in Lord of the Rings GT
Our Lord of the Rings leads have always wanted to know what it would be like to introduce Morgoth and Ancalagon to the Lord of the Rings. Now we will find out!
All the heroes and villains of Tolkien's beloved story are now available for play and their rules are on Games Workshop's website!
Although some of the rules for these models will create some questions about balance (Ancalagon can breathe fire with a 24" area of effect, Strength 10, Instant Death blast), feel assured that this event will still be fun as we celebrate Tolkien lore with the 6 foot, highly detailed statues that represent these amazing miniatures!
For a copy of all the Silmarillion Rules, go to the Primer posted
HERE
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New Prizes at NOVA Open 2016
Infinity Prize
Very rarely are we able to show some of the awesome prizes that our NOVA Open contestants can win, but sometimes we are just too excited to hold back the fun!
First we have a new Profile made by Corvus Belli for the Infinity players! This
Krakot
Renegade is a limited prize with only three given away at the NOVA Open 2016 Infinity Tournament! See the rules for this fantastic miniature
HERE
Lord of the Rings
The Necromancer Trophy made by Shadow and Flame is another exciting miniature
to be given away at the Lord of the Rings GT! This is a fully painted model with an amazing display base easily worth the quality and prestige of a Golden Demon or Capital Palette winner!
The Second and Third place winners will also get highly detailed miniatures such as the out of production Boromir of the White Tower made by Flameon Miniatures and Lord Elrond made by Four Realms of Chaos.
To continue the fun, we are including more trophies for bracket winners all throughout the Lord of the Ring's GT! The NOVA Open 2016 will be a fantastic year for our contestants!
Silent Auction for Charitable Foundation
Every year during the
NOVA Open
, the NOVA Open Charitable Foundation holds a silent auction of amazing models, hobby and gaming items, and art work. At this year's NOVA Open the silent auction will end Sunday at 2:15 pm. Make sure you stop by and get your bids in.
With the amazing coordination by Eric Fontaine, we have received our first item for the silent auction....Chaos Lord of War!
Thank you, Don Neely, for this amazing donation.
Be sure you check out the amazing items that will be up for silent auction by the NOCF this year.
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NOVA Open Unveils New Primer for Age of Sigmar Points System
All - make sure you cick the link to the updated Age of Sigmar at the end of this article for more information.
Age of Sigmar Points System
We are proud to unveil the new Age of Sigmar primer, based upon GW's newly released
Age of Sigmar Points System.
After receiving numerous requests from Age of Sigmar players, the NOVA Open has decided to replace the Clash Comp's pool system for the competitive play tournament with a new system for creating army lists for this event. The new primer does not apply to narrative events, which will continue to use
scrollbuilder.com to create army lists.
How does this work?
The primer uses a variation of other unofficial systems used for Age of Sigmar competitive play. Broadly, a list with 30 counted wounds allows players to choose six warscrolls, 10 wounds of models with the "hero" keyword, eight wounds of models with the "monster" keyword, and eight wounds of models with the "warmachine" keyword. All models with 15 or more wounds must come from the same compendium. All named heroes are one to two choices and can only be used once.
Painting Penalty
While we will not establish painting rules for most factions, we will impose a two-wound penalty for every unit in Stormcast Eternal armies that do not use the Hammers of Sigmar Stormhost paint scheme.
Click here for additional information for on the primer.
After clicking on the link, the players see the following rules on the website:
In addition to these rules, the primer establishes a two wound penalty for all players using circle bases. Players with square bases used in prior versions of Warhammer Fantasy will be able to play without these penalties. As a service to our community, the NOVA Open will run a retrofitting room with bases and glue that its sponsors have generously donated for this year's tournament.
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Second NOVA Open Terrain Day
March 19th saw the second official NOVA Open Terrain Day of the 2016 season. It was an amazing turnout! Thank you!
We managed to get just about everything on the list created (and a few more just for fun). Even the rain can't stop us!
Here was the list going in:
Plans for 3/19/2016
- 30 Small Hills for Hobbit sized 6x6 inches
- 8 Houses for Hobbit 6x6 inches and 4 inches high
- 6 med ponds for Hobbit 6 inch diameter
- 10 small ponds for Hobbit 5 inch by 5 inch diameter
- 30 Small ruins for Hobbit 6x6 inch base
- 20 Small Ponds for Malifaux 5x5 inch base
- 20 Small Houses for Malifaux 3x5 inch base
- Mold Making Demo for Hobbit Infinity/Malifaux project
- Mold Casting Demo (wood Crates for AOS)
- Open discussion of new fence design (castable)-NEW Design developed!
In the end we made 30 small 2 inch high hills that we will find a home for at the event!
Join us at our next Terrain Day on April 16th.
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Book Your Room Today With No Risk
Extended Room block is
85% SOLD OUT. The first NOVA Open room block sold out! The hyatt graciously increased the number of rooms. Book your Room today.
The room rates for the NOVA Open 2016 are only
$93 per night
, a rate we worked hard to secure with the Hyatt, and proud to offer our attendees. Remember reservations can be cancelled up to 48 hours before the
NOVA Open begins.
Book Early - No Risk!
Think of the NOVA Open as your "end of summer" convention. With its close proximity to Washington, D.C. (free museums, memorials, and monuments), plus one of the lowest hotel room rates available in the area, think about turning your trip into a family vacation!
$93.00 room rates are currently available from August 29 - September 6, 2016
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