WELCOME TO THE HORUS HERESY THRONE OF SKULLS : ASSAULT ON ANGELUS MINOR Throne of Skulls is a non-competitive gaming event for anyone who wants to play fun games set during this age of darkness and treachery. This event features a relaxed atmosphere where players can focus less on winning games and more on rolling dice, killing Space Marines and enjoying themselves. All the awards are based on sportsmanship, painting, gentlemanly conduct and having a good old laugh with like minded people. If that sounds like something you would like to take part in, then read on. WHAT IS THE HORUS HERESY? The Horus Heresy is a story from the distant past of the Warhammer 40,000 universe - a galactic civil war that ended in the creation of the Imperium as we know it today. It was a time of legend, betrayal and strife and makes an ideal battleground for our games. At its most basic, this means we use a special series of supplements produced by Forge World designed to let you re-create these battles. Event Essentials Date: 19th-20th August System: Warhammer 40,000 - Horus Heresy - The Age of Darkness Points Value: 2,000-3,000 points (read more on this under the Army Size section!) Number of games: 5 Army Selection: Use the rules presented for your army in the appropriate Horus Heresy publication. See below under Army Size for further details. Scenarios in use: Randomly rolled Age of Darkness Scenarios with randomly rolled deployments each round Propaganda Machine: *see Assault on Angelus Minor the battle begins later in the pack. Publications in use: All Horus Heresy publications from Forge World, including all campaign books, experimental rules and event programmes. Additional: All miniatures in your collection must be Games Workshop Miniatures and be fully assembled, painted and based. Each model must fully represent, in full, what you have presented on your army list. All miniatures in your collection must be produced by Games Workshop and be fully assembled, painted and based. Each model must fully represent what you have presented on your army lists.
*ASSAULT ON ANGELUS MINOR: The Battle Begins... As the forces landed on Angelus Minor and battle begun the forces were joined by members of the Imperial and Traitors propaganda machine. These are limited in number but are crucial to keeping a populace compliant and so must be kept alive at all cost! This model is free to include in your force and takes up no slot on the Force Organisation Chart, but acts like any normal Independent Character would during the game. You can build this model however you d like to match your army or as a complete stand alone model, we will be adding a special Painting competition on Saturday evening for the best Iterator or Diabolist model. Additional Secondary Objective: The Propaganda Machine. This Secondary objective is added on to all five games played over this weekend, this Objective is Scored as follows: If your Iterator or Diabolist is killed during the game he is worth 5Vp s to the opponent but if your Iterator or Diabolist is Alive at the end of the game he is worth 10Vp s to the owning player. Iterator/Diabolist WS3 BS1 S3 T3 I2 W2 A1 LD 7 Equipment: Light protective gear 5+ save, Knife (S as user AP -) Iterator: once per game The Imperial Truth the Iterator and any unit it is joined by can re-roll a single failed Fear, Break Strength or Toughness test in one turn of the game declaring its use after the model/unit fails its relevant test. Diabolist: once per game The Corruption Flows the Diabolist and any unit it is joined by can re-roll a single failed Fear, Break Strength or Toughness test in one turn of the game declaring its use after the model/unit fails its relevant test. This Model is required to be included into every army taking part in The Horus Heresy Throne of Skulls Assault on Angelus Minor and is a great opportunity to show off your modelling and painting skills, the model should be suitably based on a 25mm or 32mm round base as appropriate.
SCHEDULE SATURDAY 19th AUGUST 9:00am Bugmans Bar opens and Registration begins, Why not treat yourself to a legendary breakfast. 10:00am Welcome and Event Briefing 10:30am 13:00pm Game 1 13:00pm 14:00pm Lunch and Legends painting competitions : Primarch, Hero, Artefact and Company of Legends 14:00pm 16:30pm Game 2 16:30pm 17:00pm Break 17:00pm 19:30pm Game 3 19:30pm Propaganda Machine Painting competition 8:00pm Warhammer World closes SUNDAY 20th AUGUST 10:00am Warhammer World opens. 10:30am 1pm Game 4 1pm 2pm Lunch and Best Army Competition 2pm 4:30pm Game 5 4:30pm 5pm Break 5:00pm Award Ceremony and Event closes 6:00pm Warhammer World closes WEEKEND GAMES The weekend will consist of five games of Age of Darkness, each of which, you will have two and a half hours to play that round. Games will be played on a 6 x4 board and you will be matched against a random player to play against (in the unlikely event of a repeat match up please let a member of staff know as quickly as possible so that we can sort out a replacement player for you where possible). Each game will be played using the Age of Darkness Missions found in Horus Heresy: Legiones Astartes: Age of Darkness Army List book. A NOTE ON PAINTING AND BASING: At registration we will ask you if your army is fully painted and based. If it isn t don t panic! We will do our best to give you the time and space you need to get your models finished before your first game. As we don t allow anyone to play with unpainted or unbased models, but we understand that life gets in the way sometimes, we will do our best to help you get them up to standard. If you have a model which is unfinished, then we politely ask you to remove it from the table, as we are obliged to protect the experience of every attendant - we all want to play against fully painted armies, and this event is designed to give everyone the opportunity to do just that!
v ARMY SIZE Throne of Skulls is one of Warhammer World s best entry-level events. Throne of Skulls allows you to come along and take part in an organised play event (note: Throne of Skulls is really not a tournament!) without any pressure to win your games or squeeze the most out of every unit. Horus Heresy games tend to be played at bigger points values, but not everyone has 3,000 points ready to go, so we use a Flex system in order to make sure that everyone gets to play a decent sized game, while allowing anyone who wants to get into the Horus Heresy the opportunity to do so. The Flex System: At this event, the minimum size army you should bring is 2,000 points, but, if you happen to have more than that, bring it along and if your opponents are up for it, you can play a larger game of up to 3,000 points. In general, you should expect to play 2,000 point games, and anything larger than that is a bonus. A good idea is to write a separate army list at 2,000, 2,500 and 3,000 points. That will allow you to easily flex your choices between games to suit your game. Also, there are lots of exciting extras like Relics, Force Organisation Charts, Fortifications and legendary characters available to players that are specific to the Horus Heresy. These are found across the various publications from Forge World and all of them are fine to use at our event! If you see something and you are not sure then just give us a call on 0115 900 4994 and ask - we are more than happy to help. Multiple army lists are allowed! Please be aware that we don t expect you to stick to the same army all weekend. You are more than welcome to bring a variety of armies and units and change between games. The only stipulation is that you stick to the points values set down in each game FAVOURITE GAME VOTES Favourite Game Votes are simple - just pick the game you enjoyed the most at the event. It s a great way to acknowledge a really fun game, opponents with whom you had a great rapport, or maybe it was just that their army looked fantastic. Votes are taken at the end of the day with the results of your final game, so please show your appreciation of your favourite opponent. The player with the Highest number of Favourite game votes at the end of the Weekend will be crowned the Assault on Angelus Minor Champion!
LEGENDS PAINTING COMPETITIONS Legends gives you the chance to show off your skills with single models and units rather than with whole armies. Simply enter the relevant category when it s open; once all the entries are in, we will ask all the players to vote for their favourites. The player that earns the most votes in each category will earn the relevant award at the Award Ceremony. (Please note: only miniatures from your Horus Heresy Throne of Skulls forces may be entered into this competition). Primarch of Legend: All Primarch Models, Hero of Legend: All types of Infantry, Cavalry, Bikes and Jetbikes. Propaganda Machine of Legend. Artefact of Legend: Any unit not covered by either of the other categories. Company of Legend: Any unit of five or less Infantry or cavalry on 40mm bases or smaller, or three or less Cavalry, Bikes, Jetbikes or Infantry on 50mm bases or larger. BEST ARMY COMPETITION It s an honour for any player to have their army nominated for the Best Army competition. Make sure you show your appreciation by voting for your favourite collection from those selected during Sunday lunch time. The player who receives the most number of votes will receive the Best Army award. The Events Team will select the majority of best armies on Saturday so make sure to have your best on display! To qualify for a Best Army nomination you must have constructed and painted the army yourself. THE AWARD CEREMONY At the end of the weekend, it s time to reward the achievements of some of the players. We will be awarding the Legends Competition Winners for: Primarch of Legend Hero of Legend Artefact of Legend Company of Legend Propaganda Machine of Legend Along with the Best Army Award and the Assault on Angelus Minor Champion Award.
YOUR MODELS Here at Warhammer World we have a set standard for all our gaming events that all models (including arms legs, parts and so on the whole model!) in your army are 100% Games Workshop, and that they are all fully painted and based. There are no exceptions to these rules! YOUR TICKET Your ticket to this event covers entry for you to the Horus heresy Throne of Skulls Assault on Angelus Minor. At the heart of the event are five games of Warhammer 40,000 These Five games will see you play against like minded players. There are lots of fun things to aim for, from painting competitions to gaming awards. It s definitely all to play for! Finally, you will be served a tasty hot lunch on Saturday and Sunday CONVERSIONS AND PROXIES We often get asked if conversions and proxies are allowed at our events. The answer is yes but we need to check them first. Not every conversion or proxy is suitable for organised play, or for Warhammer World. For example, there is a difference between a Dreadnought Drop Pod, a Legion Drop Pod and a Dreadclaw Drop Pod and we would expect any player to use the correct one in any army they bring, for the sake of clarity and to prevent any confusion on the part of their opponent. If you are in any way unsure, consult our handy flowchart below: Are you planning to use conversions or proxies of any kind (aka. anything other than the stock model)? YES! Contact us at 0115 900 4994 or email us at whworldevents@gwplc.com NO! Carry on - nothing to worry about except getting it painted on time CODE OF CONDUCT Here at Warhammer World we expect everyone to use fully painted and assembled models and to treat everyone they encounter with civility and respect. This is just as true during your games - especially at a Throne of Skulls where the objective is not to smash your opponent s to a pulp every game but instead to enjoy a great game and spend time with quality, like-minded people. Bringing a so called cheesy combo, blatant rules abuses and super mega kill-my-opponent-in-one turn armies are actively discouraged. I wouldn't recommend bringing them as they won t help in your quest for glory and your games will more than likely be over very quickly! While we try not to have comps or restrictions at any of our events, some people always turn up to smash people and while this is absolutely fine way to play the game, it s more suited to Grand Tournaments or other competitive events where winning really matters and affects the end result of the game. CONTACT US If you want to ask us questions, discuss the models you wish to bring, or want to find out more about Campaign Weekends, please feel free to get in touch with us: Phone: 0115 900 4994 Email: whworldevents@gwplc.com Post: Warhammer World Events Team Games Workshop Willow Road Lenton Nottingham England NG7 2WS Find out all the latest Warhammer World news by signing up to our newsletter at: warhammerworld.gamesworkshop.com/ newsletter Find out about and get your tickets for upcoming Warhammer World events at: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/ Find us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/gwwarhammerworld/