Upcoming Events: Scar wars 2017

by | Oct 22, 2017

Decent medium-scale tournaments are few and far between locally, so when I heard about Scar Wars, I was very intrigued. Having played in a few smaller competitions, I thought I'd have a bash at this local event. Ticket have only been available for a week or so, but there's already quite a bit of interest from competitors and sponsors alike. Here's what they have said about the event:



"The team at Scar Wars have loved miniature gaming for as long as we can remember... we play many different games and are keen to promote and advance many game systems throughout the region. Lately we have noticed that there are but few competitions and tournaments in the local area to facilitate competitive gaming, as well as the untold depth of narrative gaming campaigns that most of us love."

"So, initially, we discussed how we would introduce the “Scar Wars” brand and we decided to try and run an event that was local to us, in our sunny hometown of Scarborough with the view of establishing a regular, fun, but involved tournament scene that didn’t solely focus on game system.... but which game system should we do first?"

"Tournament 1 had to be.........40k..."

A perfect start. 40k is a nice, well known game to work with. But it's not your average meta-tourney:


"We hope to provide a day of competitive gaming where the games are close fought and players need to rely on tactics and skill to win the games. If you want to see armies with a variety of units in them (instead of just cut and paste the best units from the current meta list) this is the event for you."


So an event with  no net lists that actively encourages thematic armies? Sign me up! Some of the rules to help make this more flavourful include:

-1850 pts from one single faction, no chapter/legion/warband mixing
-fw is allowed
-you may not take any unit (including variants, e.g. ironclad and venerable dreadnoughts) more than twice. Tank squads can only be 2 big, or 2 units of 1.


This should lead to some interesting lists: no leman russ spamming, no all-knight armies, new auto-win net lists, and the points value means some creative lists must be developed. I already have a few ideas.

There are still places left in the wave one ticket release, so get over to the page and sign up! Since the event was launched, ticket prices have dropped to £20 which is a nice bonus. You also geet lunch and a goodie bag included, which is a nice bonus, even if you are just there for fun and not to win. I've also heard the prize support will be nice as well.