TALES FROM THE OLD WORLD: WAR OF THE EVERCHOSEN 2

The end times never happened.

Archaon died in his failed invasion of the Old World and his successor Flem, Lord of a thousand Poxes (Nurgle champion and winner of the first War of the Everchosen), was betrayed by the followers of Tzeentch and Slaanesh, who abandoned him when surrounded by the armies of The Empire, The Dwarfs and the Elves*. Leaderless and pursued by the defenders, the endless horde of the Chaos invasion was pushed from the heart of the Empire and into the dark lands of Sylvania, forcing out the Vampire counts that have ruled there for hundreds of years.

Now the former lieutenants of the Everchosen and all races of the world make their move to claim the lands of Sylvania for their own - while the vampires return to retake their home.

Can you claim the title of ruler of Sylvania? (and bragging rights in the Warhammer Community?)

Over a 2 day fun thematic 6th-edition event, you will have five 2500 point battles to fight for the title.

𝐄𝐚𝐜𝐡 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐚 𝟏𝐯𝟏 𝐩𝐢𝐭𝐜𝐡 𝐛𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐥𝐞 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐨𝐰𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐬𝐜𝐞𝐧𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐨𝐬 / 𝐫𝐮𝐥𝐞𝐬…

#𝟏 – The horror and darkness of Sylvania

The environment your army walks into continually changes as your army gets deeper into the strange land of the Vampire Counts.

Starting from the 2nd game of the event, you roll a D6 before playing your game to find out what has changed in your environment (affecting both players)…

1. Vampiric hunger – The strange Sylvanian environment causes emotions to become uncontrollable and your army starts to feel the irresistible blood hunger of the vampires. All units start the battle frenzied and hate their enemy, but as soon as a unit or character wipes out an enemy unit in close combat (including pursuing and catching them), they become sated by the kill - losing frenzy and hatred but getting the rules of stupidity for the rest of the game instead (even if immune to psychology).

2. Zombies! – There are 5 points on the battlefield, all numbered. At the beginning of each turn (each game turn not player turn), Roll a d6 to see at which of these points has d6 zombies crawl up from the ground. Roll a scatter dice to see what direction the raised zombies face. They move towards the nearest unit they are pointing towards until in charging distance. The zombies can charge straight away as soon as they rise (as long as they are facing the right direction). On a roll of 6, both players instead roll another D6, the highest roller can place 2d6 zombies wherever they want on the battlefield as long as they are out of combat (maximum 6 on a front rank– no long lines of zombies!). These zombies are different than rolling a 1-5 unit and can not move the turn the arrive .

3. Nightmares – Vampiric Illusions contort and contract the look of the enemy in your mind. This makes all charges cause fear (as the unit sees their greatest fear charging towards them) and all lord characters cause terror. If immune to psychology or fear-causing yourself - instead of being scared, your troops become confused by what’s happening, making them slow to react. You still take a leadership test. If failed, its -1 to hit for that first round of combat.

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4. Darkness Falls - A darkness covers the battlefield. Both players use surprise deployment (A screen is put across the middle of the battlefield. Both players deploy their entire armies at the same time, then the screen is removed to reveal positions of each army). You have 2 minutes to deploy – if you do not deploy in that time, your opponent chooses who goes first and gets 2 free d6 rerolls to use any time in the game. Just get your army ready on its movement trays before deployment!

5. Immortality – Strange magic from the dark land of Sylvania make you more powerful. All units have 5+ ward save except against magical attacks (including magic items) and all lord and hero characters get the regeneration rule (fire attacks stop regeneration).

6. Vampire future sight – Your army starts to see visions of the future and anticipate the enemies actions. Your army has +2” to all movement, shooting and spell distances. +4” on charge (except flyers).  Each player also gets 1 free d6 re-roll per turn (can be used on rolls to hit, wound, save, cast or leadership tests.)

#𝟐 𝐓𝐡𝐞 Vampires want their land back

The different bloodlines of the Vampires abhor the mortal filth that has stepped onto their lands. They look to drive out those that defile Sylvania. From turn 2 of each battle, at the beginning of each players turn you roll a D6. On a roll of a 6, A flying strigoi vampire count arrives on the field from a scatter-dice-chosen table edge, controlled by the roller for 2 turns. However, it is frenzied towards CHARACTERS who challenge their rule of Sylvania. Essentially, if the vampire is within charging distance of an enemy character, the vampire MUST charge it, and challenges it if in a unit (a champion cannot accept in the characters place as they become terrified).

If any Characters are killed by an invading vampire, they are resurrected and become a vampire for the rest of the event!

• If your lord is killed he / she comes back as a Vampire Lord if your lord is on a 20mm or 25mm base (eg ancient treemen or greater deamons etc come back as normal) .
• If your character was a wizard on 20mm or 25mm – Your Character comes back as a Necrarch Vampire Count at the same level (You can use arcane items but can no longer use your former weapon or armour.). You use the same magic lores as you were using previously (not vampire lore).
• If your non-lord melee character is killed by the vampire - If mounted, It is resurrected as a Blood Dragon (along with all bloodline powers / rules). If on foot, it is resurrected as a Strigoi (unable to use magic items or mundane weapons like great weapons. But you can use the bloodline powers of the Strigoi to the same value as the magic items you were using in ‘your previous life').

If you have a special character killed by a vampire, instead of them becoming a vampire, there will be some interesting rule changes for them instead! (for good and for bad)

As a bit of fun, if you want to have an undead painted version of your characters – this would be more than welcome!!!

#3 – Special Named Characters – NOW ALLOWED!

Famous named special characters (Malekith, Skarsnik, Karl-Franz, Mannfred Von Carstien etc) are now ALLOWED. However, we only can have one version of that character per event. 

For example, there can’t be 2 Beastmen armies with Khazrak One Eye or 2 wood elf armies with Orion. So if you want the character in your army, you need to buy a ticket to be able to reserve that character so nobody else uses him/her as it will be a first come, first serve system with characters. There is no reserving of characters without a ticket purchased. 

Once you have purchased a ticket, we will contact you asking what character you have to use - if you do not want to use a special character that is fine!

You can only have 1 special named character per army when getting your ticket – with one exception… if someone brings Gotrek and Felix (why break up the old pals). Once all armies are in and a all those that want a special character has reserved him /her, you can then reserve special named ‘hero’ characters too.

However, Archaeon is dead and Teclis is injured in our alternative lore (from bringing down the last everchosen Flem. Background story on this coming soon). They both cannot be chosen in this event.

Victory

Games are decided by victory points.

𝐖𝐡𝐨𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐡𝐚𝐬 𝐦𝐨𝐬𝐭 𝐕𝐏 𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐞𝐧𝐝 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐞𝐞𝐤𝐞𝐧𝐝 𝐢𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐄𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐜𝐡𝐨𝐬𝐞𝐧!!! 𝐖𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐣𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐨𝐮𝐬𝐲-𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐩𝐢𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐳𝐞𝐬.

𝑁𝑜𝑤, 𝑙𝑒𝑡𝑠 𝑗𝑢𝑠𝑡 𝑔𝑒𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑏𝑖𝑡 𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑤𝑎𝑦...  𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑖𝑠 𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑎 'ℎ𝑎𝑟𝑑𝑐𝑜𝑟𝑒' 𝑡𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑛𝑎𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡, 𝑖𝑡𝑠 𝑎𝑛 𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑖𝑠 𝑔𝑜𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡𝑜 𝑏𝑒 𝑓𝑜𝑐𝑢𝑠𝑒𝑑 𝑜𝑛 𝐹𝑈𝑁. 𝑄𝑢𝑖𝑡𝑒 𝑠𝑖𝑚𝑝𝑙𝑦, 𝑎𝑟𝑠𝑒ℎ𝑜𝑙𝑒𝑠 𝑤𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑏𝑒 𝑡𝑜𝑙𝑒𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑑.

𝑇ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑤𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑏𝑒 3-4 𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑜𝑐𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑝𝑒𝑜𝑝𝑙𝑒 𝑎𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑤ℎ𝑜 𝑝𝑙𝑎𝑦𝑒𝑟𝑠 𝑐𝑎𝑛 𝑔𝑜 𝑡𝑜 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑟𝑢𝑙𝑒 𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑜𝑙𝑢𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑖𝑟 𝑑𝑒𝑐𝑖𝑠𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑠 𝑤𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑏𝑒 𝐹𝐼𝑁𝐴𝐿, 𝑙𝑖𝑘𝑒 𝑖𝑡 𝑜𝑟 𝑛𝑜𝑡. 𝐴𝑛𝑦𝑜𝑛𝑒 𝑤ℎ𝑜 𝑐𝑎𝑛𝑡 𝑎𝑔𝑟𝑒𝑒 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑠𝑦𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑚 𝑜𝑟 𝑑𝑜𝑒𝑠𝑛'𝑡 𝑝𝑙𝑎𝑦 𝑓𝑎𝑖𝑟 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑓𝑖𝑟𝑠𝑡 𝑝𝑙𝑎𝑐𝑒 𝑤𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑏𝑒 𝑎𝑠𝑘𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑙𝑒𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑎𝑠 𝑤𝑒 𝑤𝑎𝑛𝑡 𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦𝑜𝑛𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑒𝑛𝑗𝑜𝑦 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑑𝑎𝑦.

In fact there will be prizes (as well as boons for generals through the event) for fair play practices. Good guys win sometimes.

So 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐬𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐥𝐨𝐨𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐚 𝐠𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭 𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐟𝐮𝐧 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐝 𝐩𝐞𝐨𝐩𝐥𝐞, 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐰𝐚𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐟𝐨𝐫? 𝐆𝐞𝐭 𝐚 𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐤𝐞𝐭 TODAY

Want a ticket before it fills out? There is an early bird ticket price of £39.99  - Book your place now before there are none left!  (30 spaces only!).

For an extra £10 you will also be provided with lunch each day (provide dietary requirements with your army list before the event).

FAQS:

- Yes your army has to be fully painted (each model has to have at least 3 colours) and based on a correct size base.

- Yes proxy models are fine as long as they are easily recognisable (or at least with a bit of explanation!) and are on the correct base size.

- We cannot give refunds after July 1st 2023 as we have to pay for the venue by then. All we suggest after that point, if you cant make it, find a replacement to purchase a ticket off you on the Warhammer Fantasy Facebook pages.

- We cannot 'reserve' places at the event. Only purchasing a ticket guarantees you a place at the event.

- You cannot 'reserve' a special character until your ticket has been purchased. Please feel free to message Dave Warhammer on Facebook to see  if your character is still available.

- When it comes to army lists, as long as it is listed in an official GW publication (inc white dwarf) it is allowed unless it is against any other of the event rules.

- Yes if the event doesn't happen for some reason, you will get a 100% refund

- Yes if you and your opponent would prefer to CHOOSE a environment/scenario instead of rolling for one, thats fine!

- Yes, if you prefer to not roll scenarios in your game at all and just have a straight 1v1 pitch battle, feel free.

GET YOUR TICKET BEFORE THE 30 SPACES ARE FILLED!

*A short story of that happened to the invasion of the Empire by Flem Lord of a Thousand Poxes after the first War of The Everchosen will be posted soon!