TALES FROM THE OLD WORLD - WAR OF THE EVERCHOSEN 3: DRAKWALD

The end times never happened.

Instead, a rumour spreads of an ancient artifact that lies lost in the Drakwald forest. The strange magical aura of the artifact invades the sleeping dreams of lords, kings and generals around the world. Showing them alluring visions of great riches, endless power and victories in countless battles.

Now armies of all races, from each corner of the Warhammer world, march on the Drakwald to claim this mysterious artifact (it's identity soon to be revealed) to become the most powerful leader in the known world.

HOWEVER.... there are beasts and horrors of all kinds that swarm within those dark woods. They refuse to give up their home to trespassers without a fight.

Can you claim the title of ruler of Drakwald Forest? (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 STRANGE REALM OF THE DRAKWALD

The environment your army walks into continually changes as your army gets deeper into thedark woods of the Drakwald.

Starting from the 2nd game of the event, you roll a D6 before playing your game to find out what scenario you will play...

Roll of 1 - Ambush! Both armies use beastmen ambush rules. At least half of your army should be on the table and at least 2 units have to use the ambush rule. Infantry, monsters, hounds and characters on foot only can ambush. No calvary or flyers. From turn 2, each ambushing unit can appear on a table edge of your choice - unless you fail a leadership test before coming onto the table. In that case, a scatter dice decides which table edge you come on from. 

Roll of 2 - Chaos Shrine 

You come across a huge chaos shrine in a clearing. It stands in the centre of the battlefield. The army with the closest unit to the shrine (minimum unit strength 3. If equal distance, the biggest unit strength)  gets +2 power dice dice that turn and that unit itself gets magic resistance 2 that turn too. (dwarfs and khorne armies get +2  dispel as thier runes or weapons swell with power). No spells can be cast on units within 6" of the protective aura of the shrine. Any characters within 12" of the shrine get the regeneration rule. The shrine itself causes terror, even to chaos armies due to the confusing visions shown in their minds.

Roll of 3 - Attack of the Asrai 

Chaos beasts are not the only danger in the forests of the Old World. 4 Wood Elf way watchers are hidden in each wood on the table (there must be 1 wood in each half of the table). Each shooting phase they shoot out at nearby units each shooting turn (measured from centre of wood). Choose the 3 nearest of each army. Number them up to 6 and roll to see who they shoot at (the opposite player rolls to hit and wound with the usual shooting modifiers). AND each general can cast treesinging as a bound spell lvl 4 each turn which can be dispelled.

Roll of 4 - Unnatural Roots

Roll a dice for each on your units at the beginning of each movement phase, as you would with animosity or unruly. On a role of 1, unnatural roots grab the ankles of the unit and stop them moving. Shooting units can still fire as normal and spell casters cast spells. Skirmishers, fast cav and anyone who does not suffer movement penalties through woods are unaffected by the roots as they are quick enough to escape.  

 Roll of 5 - Shifting forest of the Drakwald All terrain is taken off the table. Both armies deploy as normal in turn one by one. To represent how the land of the Drakwald is constantly shifting and moving, we then set the terrain. Once both armies are deployed, players then take turns to place down a single terrain peice at any point in the table they want (there should be 6 terrain peices per table, so you can roll for which to be able to place first). Terrain can be placed under units - eg a hill under war machines, or forests under units to hide. Scout units don't get placed until all terrain is placaed down (so you would deploy armies, deploy terrain and then deploy scouts in that sequence).

 Roll of 6 - Law of the woods. Challenge!  Only the strong leaders suvive in the Drakwald. Before the battle, the generals call for a challenge in one to one combat. Each lord is placed in the centre of the table in front of the already deployed armies. Each lord rolls at same time including magic items, weapons, armour and wards. Who ever causes most wounds wins. Both lords can still fight in the battle afterwards but the loser has -2 to all characteristics (except movement) for the battle (to a minimum of 2) as he is injured from the epic fight. A challenge CAN be refused but the cowardly lord has -4 to his leadership for the battle (Inc when his units try to use his LD) to a minimum of LD2 and everything causes fear to him/her if he is charged or charges, even  halfings!  Mounts are not included in challenge as the epic fight is fought on foot.  HOWEVER - Wizard Lords can choose a hero in the army to fight in their stead.  Skaven grey seers, brave and honorable as always, can choose other characters or monsters (eg rat ogre) to hide behind.  Necromancers can raise a character or monster from thier army to fight in their place.  However if your casters choose to use someone in their stead and loses, the Lord would be the person to take the penalties in the battle as theier were magically controlling their hero and took the pain instead.

#2 - THEY ARE COMING FROM THE TREELINE!!!

Each table will include 2 woods (one in each side of the table). At the beginning of each turn, the players roll a dice. On a roll of six, a random enemy charges frenzied from the trees and moves towards the nearest unit until it reaches combat via a charge (it goes towards the larger unit strength if its too closse to call which is closer. If same unit strenght, roll off to decide). You do not roll again while the new unit is still on the table. If the unit runs from combat it is removed from the table. You could see (decided by the organiser):

- Beastmen

- Giants

- Treemen

- Giant Chaos Spawns

- Greater Daemons

- Way Watchers

- Fimir

- Dryads

- Trolls

- Minotaurs

- Tuskogor Chariots

And much much more

#3 – SPECIAL NAMED CHARACTERS ARE 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 or group that has to be together (eg Gotrek and Felix or Hemmler and Krell) per army when getting your ticket – Once all armies are in and all those that want a special character has reserved him /her, you can then reserve special named ‘hero’ characters too.

However, Archaeon is dead in our lore so he 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. We have grown an amazing supportive community for these events and we wont have that spoilt.

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 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!  (26 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 (contact us if you are not sure of official sizes).

- 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 October 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' of the 'Tales From The Old World' page 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. We reserve the right to politely ask for changes if your army is clearly overpowered (you dont want everyone to hate you do you haha)

- 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 26 SPACES ARE FILLED!