The Battle Barn

With Adepticon now less than 80 days away, and many of us planning on attending one or more of the events I thought it might be good if we were to try to band together to help us all improve our chances of table-top glory. To that end I present The Playtest Gauntlet!

The idea here is to help each other hone and refine our army lists and tactics through a series of test games against some of the most popular builds and recent GT winning builds out there. This would include such popular builds such as Draigo-wing, Deathwing, Razor-wolves, DoA, Razorspam BA, Purifier spam, Venom spam and any of the other popular builds out there.

It's to be a bit more in depth and analytical than just taking your various armies and playing games with them. Players would take turn using their own army or running one of the Gauntlet lists in each game. This would give them critical experience against some of those builds, but more, they would gain understanding of how the net-list builds work by having first hand experience running it.

For most games play would stop at turn three and the players would assess the field of battle. If it was fairly clear which way the battle was going they should stop the game there and discuss the nuts and bolts of how it went. If it's just too close to call then they could play it out to see which way the pendulum would swing. This would allow for more playtest games to occur than playing every one to its conclusion. These games aren't about your win/loss record, they're about improving your play!

Another idea is that at the beginning of each game if the player running his own army is getting the first turn the players should play out one turn of the opponents as if they had seized the initiative. It happens, and it can sometimes decide a battle before it even really starts. Seeing how your army and its deployment handle being seized on could be critical information.

So anyway, that's the basic gist of it. I haven't fully fleshed the idea out as I wanted to see if people would even be interested in doing it before I invested too much more time into it. Also, I wouldn't mind having some help in the fleshing out part either

Anyone interested?

I'm interested in this. For the most part at Adepticon in a least one of the four rounds you are likely to come across a spam army. and playing games like this will help you be better at combating these types of list.

Eric, as you said you haven't fleshed everything out yet but, are you thinking 2 players of 1k each- or 1 player at 1k. Basically only their part of the list they will be running.

I have a feeling he's actually talking about the championships. So lists of 1850.

My thoughts were geared more towards the 1850pt events since as of right now I am not registered in the team event. However, there is no reason that this cannot be applied to the team event as well. Even though I am not currently registered in the team event I would still be willing to help out with playtesting for it.

Also for this part of it, that would depend on the players involved and how they wanted to handle it. Players could play out only their half of lists vs. half of a gauntlet list. Or one person could play two of the 1k team lists vs. 2k of guantlet lists, or 2 v. 1, or 2 v. 2 or whatever.

My personal thoughts are that regardless of the # of players involved that running a full 2k would be best though. This gives not only insight on how each individual list matches up against the gauntlet, but also in how it synergizes with the other lists in its own team.

I love this idea Eric, sounds like a ton of fun.

As I am not playing in the championships this year I would be happy to volunteer as OpFor for those at the 1850 lvl.

I have the models that I could run (with a little proxy)
Draigo-wing
Deathwing
Razor-wolves
Razorspam BA
Purifier spam
Venom spam
henchmen spam GK

Let me know

I'd like to help but since i own eldar/chaos im not sure what i could bring that would fit one of those adeptecon list

Any help would be appreciated. Don't worry too much about what models you have, much of this will probably be using proxy's anyway.