| 1st Company Veteran Committee meeting Minutes 25th Feb 2010 | 27/02/10 |
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Present: Committee Members Matt Shaw, Richard Robinson, Scott Baird, Graham White, Paul Cook and Rob Henson Club Members Paul Welsh and Peter Harris Apologies: Darryl Steventon and Steve Cumming Items 1. Paul Welsh has been co-opted back onto the Committee in the role of Vice-Chairman; He will be responsible for liaising with Games Workshop, Club PR and maintaining the club CRB records. 2. The Club AGM has been set for 29th April 2010, a post is to appear on the forum and a newsletter generated to advertise the event. 3. It was decided that the issue of our GCN status was mute as Games Workshop have stated that membership is currently mandatory. 4. The issue of raising the Club minimum age limit to 18+ in order to avoid CRB checks is also mute as it would still be Games Workshop policy for all committee members to be CRB checked. CRB checks should be undertaken within one calendar month of appointment. Failure to comply would mean that the position on the Committee could not be taken up until the CRB check had been completed. 5. Matt gave a brief summary of where we are up to with regards to Open War XIII, the trophies have been sorted, lunch is booked, 56 tables have been booked and the Rules pack is now ready to be put on the website Tickets are due to go on sale on 19th March and have been held at £15. 6. Graham gave a brief overview of the Club’s finances. 7. The purchase of a Trophy and 3 medals has been approved for the current in House WFB Club Championship. 8. Rob will be working on setting up a similar tournament for 40K to commence in September. 9. The Games Day projects for 2010 have some new restrictions on them, it was felt that the proposed Wood Elf Wild Hunt project would not satisfy these conditions and has therefore had to be withdrawn. Similarly there is a doubt as to whether we can send our Historical project as it is not a core game system. The only possible project that might satisfy the conditions is the Orkynapolis Grot Bomber Squad game. Peter Harris gave a quick overview of what he and the team had in mind and has the full backing of the Committee subject to Games Workshop Approval. The budget for Games Day 2010 has been set at £150. 10. The Committee has approved the purchase of a set of 1st Company Veteran Shirts to be used for Events, Games Day, and Open War etc. The Shirts will be the property of the Club and will need to be returned duly laundered once used. 11. We have had a request from Games Workshop to write a 500 word piece promoting the club to appear as an article for White Dwarf. As Paul has been newly appointed to the role of PR he has been given the job of putting something together. 12. Games Workshop have also asked if we would be prepared to act as an advice line/help line /liaison for GCN Club Games Day projects based on the success of Orkynapolis. After a brief discussion it was felt that we couldn’t match the necessary requirements in terms of the resources, knowledge and time we have available, and have therefore declined the invitation. 13. It was agreed that Paul would cover Matt’s role as Club Chairman whilst he is on holiday. | |
| 1st Company Veterans AGM Thursday 29th April 2010 | 26/02/10 |
The Club AGM will take place at 8pm in the Gaming Hall on Thursday 29th April 2010. The Committee respectfully requests that all Club members suspend their games at this time in order to attend the meeting and vote for their choice of Committee members and any proposals. We will endeavour to keep the AGM as short and to the point as possible so as not to impact on your Games too much. Committee Elections There are 9 positions on the Committee as follows: 1. Club Chairman: Main duties include acting as the main contact for the club, main liaison with the Gaming Club Network, organize and chair committee meetings, as well as being the club leader. 2. Vice-Chairman: Main duties include being the main Liaison with Games Workshop, Club PR and maintenance of the Club’s CRB records 3. Treasurer: Main duties include the maintaining of the clubs finances and accounts, renewal of the Public Liability Insurance with GCN. 4. Club Secretary: Main duties include the maintenance of club membership database, producing the Agendas and minutes of committee meetings for distribution and co-coordinating election and committee vote results. 5. Web Technical Expert: Responsible for the technical control of the club website. 6. Tournament Co-coordinator: Lead organizer and contact for our Open War events. 7. 3 x General Committee Members: To help out with general overall running of the club as required. All Committee members will take it in turns to act as the main liaison person for the Club on Thursday nights. They will undertake this duty for one month before handing the role on to the next person. They will be responsible for dealing with new membership applications or membership renewals and must undertake a sweep of the hall at least once during the month to ensure that those people in attendance are actually Club members. Full support and training will be provided as necessary. On Club nights where they cannot attend they will be responsible for arranging cover with another Committee member. All Committee members must be CRB checked through the GCN and all paperwork needs to be completed within 1 calendar month of successful appointment to the Committee. Paul Welsh has been trained to do this on behalf of the GCN and will provide the necessary help and assistance as required. Any Club Member who wishes to put themselves forward should do so by contacting the Club Secretary in person or posting on the Club Forum under CLUB by 31st March. | |
| 1st Company Veterans & www.Ammobunker.org - Proud to be working together! | 03/10/09 |
The Ammobunker and the 1st Company Veterans. This year, Ammobunker did not take part in Games Day, the reasons for which are for another discussion, so I won’t go in to them here. For Ammobunker to take part again they looked into the possibility of starting up our own Gaming Club. However this wasn’t a very practical route to take due to Ammobunker being an online community first and foremost with members spread far and wide. However! Between Ammobunker and the 1st Company Veterans Gaming Club Committee, we have come up with a way forward. I am happy to announce that Ammobunker and the 1st Company Veterans have formed an affiliation; this will in future allow AB to take part in events such as GD under the umbrella of the 1CV but still under the AB name. In effect their participation in GD would appear just as last year with Ammobunker running their own tables under as much AB bunting as they would want (or could afford). This will have little impact on AB as a forum however, other than a notice on the Portal page informing people of the affiliation. Other than that AB will continue as before unchanged. I belive that Ammobunker is a great site, with lots to offer, and I hope that in the future, we can build on our relationship with joint events, offers etc... I can't recommend the Ammobunker site enough! | |
| Beginners WFB - The Autumn Challenge! | 02/10/09 |
| After speaking to several clubbers last night, I have come up with a cunning plan! There are now several of us, who after years of playing pretty much nothing but 40k, have decided to embark upon the route to madness that is WFB! Heres the plan: Between now and the 1st Thursday of November (which is Bonfire night no less), each participant needs to have at least 750 points built and at least undercoated, to start playing! So far we have: 1) - Darryl (that's me!) - Chaos Warriors 2) - Matt S. - Wood Elves 3) - Darrell Henson - Vampire Counts 4) - Gobbo - High Elves 5)- Rob Henson - Chaos Warriors (?) - TBA 6)- Studge - Dwarves (?) - TBA Whilst this is mainly meant for those who have played very little WFB, if you are a seasoned player, and want to start a new army, or just freshen up the one you have, please feel free to post! What we expect to see: At least a post on the thread in the Project Logs section (with or without photos) of what you want to play - and then a committment to meet the target! Let's get cracking! | |
| Gamesday 2010 - ideas! | 02/10/09 |
| Whilst Gamesday 2009 has just left the station, we're already thinking about next years! Last year saw a 40k themed table, and this year a historical table. This leads me to think (purely personally) that maybe for 2010 we should have as the main club table, with funding from the club, a WFB themed table! If you have an idea for a table, let one of the Committee bods know, and then we'll have a vote to find - 1st Co Vets GD Table 2010! HOWEVER! if you have a good idea for a different system, don't be shy! We can have more than one table for the club, but don't forget, funds may only be available in limited amounts! | |
| Help for Heroes | 14/09/09 |
| Dear All I have just received a letter from Help for Heroes (transcript) below. I'd just like to take this opportunity to thank everyone involved, so thankyou to the members of 1st Company Veterans Gaming Club, all the competitors at Open Wars 10 & 11, the Open War Sub-Committee, the Club Committee and our colleagues at Games Workshop. Without you guys this achievement wouldn't have been possible, I'm proud of you all. Regards Paul Club Chairman Transcript from Help for Heroes: Help for Heroes gratefully acknowledges the generous donation of £500.00 from 1st Company Veterans Gaming Club Your generosity is very much appreciated. As a new charity run on a largely voluntary basis withmost of our overheads covered by sponsorship, we ensure that your donation goes toward the cause rather into administrative overheads. Work has commenced on the swimming pool/gym complex at the tri-service rehabilitation centre, Headley Court near Leatherhead in Surrey and is due to be completed in January 2010. Our first recovery centre, The Mark Wright GC House is now up and running and will provide a launch pad to life for all wounded service personnel. Our focus now turns to raising a further £20 million to build recovery centres in the Super Garrisons across the UK. If you would like further information or would like to sign up for our newsletter, please visit our website at www.helpforheroes.org.uk Once again thank you so much for your donation, it is hugely appreciated and very much needed. Thumbs up! Yours sincerely Mrs Maria Rees ps (hand written) Thank you so much for thr fantastic donation, please pass on our appreciation to everyone involved. | |
| Minutes of Committee Meeting 20/08/09 | 21/08/09 |
| Present: Paul Welsh, Darryl Steventon, Graham White, Si Thorne, Rob Henson, Matt Shaw, Richard Robinson. Apologies: Scott Baird, Steve Cumming, Paul Cooke The following items were presented at the Committee meeting: 1. The Committee unaminously ratified the call for an Emergency General Meeting of the GCN in attempt to resolve some of the difficulties we (and other clubs) have encountered over the past 18 months or so. Copies of the proposal and Agenda can be obtained from the Club Chairman upon request in person. Paul Cooke supported the motion via email. 2. The Club has been approached by AmmoBunker with regard to becoming associate members of the 1st Company Veterans. A proposal was put forward that if they were to put together a Committee of 6 people who could be GCN CRB checked the Club would give free associate membership to Ammmobunker. Associate members do not recieve any Club member voting rights, may not stand for election to the 1st Company Veterans, preferential treatment for Open War Tickets or qualify for free Club events such as the Veterans Day (unless by invitation). The proposal was carried unaminously. 3. A proposal was made to upgrade one of our Open War Tournaments to a two day event, splitting the Gaming systems on to different days. The Committee felt that they are happy to keep Open War events as they are and the proposal was rejected unaminously. 4. A proposal was made to look into the possibility of having a third Club event, but rather than have another Tournament present a Campaign style event. The proposal was carried unaminously. An approach will be made to GW to see what is available. 5. The purchase of a special Battle mat for the Warmaster Napoleonics Gamesday project was ratified unaminously. The Battle mat has the advantage of being re-useable so may be used for future projects. | |
| Open War 12 Early Bird Offer | 18/07/09 |
| To all 1st Company Veterans Well it’s nearly that time of year again and the next Open War event is almost upon us. Open War 12 will be held at WHW as normal on the 31st October 2009. The rules pack will be online for you to download on the 1st August and tickets will be on general sale from the 10th August either via paypal through the Open War page or by paying cash at the club. Ticket price will be £15 as last time including coffee and doughnuts in the am and roast dinner / hot pub at lunch. We are offering all Vets a special early bird offer - If you buy your ticket with cash at the club during the first two weeks of sales then you will only pay £10 instead of £15. To take advantage off this offer you must be a paid member of the 1st Company Veterans and you must buy your ticket between August 10th and August 20th, tickets bought after this date will be at the full price. This special offer can not be used when buying tickets through paypal and is limited to 1 ticket per member. Hope to see you in October Matt Shaw 1st Company Veterans Events Coordinator | |
| Early Bird Membership Renewal Scheme on until July 16Th. | 27/06/09 |
| Membership fees have been reduced to just £5 for anyone who renews their Club membership on or before July 16th. | |
| Minutes of Committee Meeting 18/06/09 | 19/06/09 |
| Present: Committee: Paul Welsh, Paul Cooke, Scott Baird, Rob Henson, Richard Robinson, Matt Shaw & Graham White Club Members: Stuart Beardsmore Apologies Steve Cumming, Si Thorne & Darryl Steventon Bank Graham gave a quick overview of where we are up to with regards getting the signatories on the Club updated. Nat West have finally sent a copy of the current list to Richard who will forward on to Graham. Club Charity Paul and Graham to finalise the payment of the money raised to Help for Heroes. The nominated Charity for 2009/10 is the MacMillan Cancer Trust. Open War 12 (21/10/09) The Sub-Committee for Open War 12 will be Matt Shaw, Rob Henson, Darryl Steventon, Stuart Beardsmore, Scott Baird (Web) and Paul Welsh. The general concensus is that we will not be making any major changes to the rules pack, other than to look into the feasability of alternative missions for 40K and a revised system for scoring the painting/ best army . We are committed to hosting the YBBL finals which will be taking 6 tables out of our allowance at the event. Although we hope to have a small additional OW Bloodbowl tournament this will be subject to ratification once we have confirmed how many tables we have available (Paul to chase up with Andy Joyce). We have decided to hold the ticket price at £15 per head, subject to there being no significant increase in Food costs. Membership Renewals The price of membership is to be held at £10 for 2009/10. Membership renewals are due from 01/07/09. Paul will arrange to get a batch of blank membership cards printed along with a batch of membership renewal/ New membership forms. General Housekeeping The Committee will now take turns to be the 'Committee Member on Duty'. This will mean that they will be responsible for dealing with any queries, new members, getting the signing in Book completed (Paul to obtain a new signing in book) and enforcing the Club rules and ensuring the hall is tidied up at the end of the night etc. This will mean that for that night they will give up their gaming. The rota will come into effect from July 2nd 2009. If you are not available on any particular night it is your responsibility to arrange a swap with another Committee member. Paul will take the first duty on July 2nd and will issue the rota to committee members in the next few days. As a Club we have an obligation to be out of the hall by 10pm. To this end all gaming in the hall must cease at 9.30pm giving all club members 30 minutes to pack away their minatures and help tidy the hall. It is the Committee Member on Duty that has the responsibilty for enforcing these rules although they should be supported by all other Committee members. AoB We have had an approach from Corky about promoting his Independant GW Stockist business on the forum. It was agreed that we would allow him to have a Link on the forum in exactly the same way as we have done for Steve Wood. As he also asked about Club T-shirts Scott will also arrange to add the Link Steve Cumming set up for Club Merchandise. Club members who are interested will be able to sort themselves out. | |
| LIMITED SERVICE THURS JUNE 11th | 23/05/09 |
| As per the notices put up at Warhammer World the hall will not be available to us on this date. Bugmans will still be open. Cheers Paul | |
| AGM 2009 Minutes | 03/05/09 |
| COMMITTEE ELECTIONS CHAIRMAN Paul Welsh SECRETARY Darryl Steventon TREASURER Graham White COMMITTEE Rob Henson Matt Shaw Scott Baird Si Thorne Paul Cook Steve Cumming Richard Robinson Many thanks to all those that gave up their valuable time during the last 12 months to help run the club and to those who have volunteered to carry the mantle for the next 12. CHARITY NOMINATIONS Following our decision to make our Open War Tournaments charitable events we need to decide on our Charity for 2009/10. Last year we raised around £500 for Help for Heroes, so many thanks to all those people who made this possible or contributed to this worthwhile cause. This years nominations are: Help for Heroes The Royal British Legion Notts Air Ambulance Keep the Vulcan in the Sky. We will try to gather a little information on each charity, before we ballot the Club membership on their prefered choice. HOUSE KEEPING Could I remind all Club members that use of GW's magnificent gaming hall is a privilige not a right. I was personally embarrassed to receive two complaints from GW representatives over the lack of respect some members have being giving to our use of the hall. I will reiterate our responsibilities: 1. Please take care of all tables and scenery. DO NOT just dump unused scenery onto an unused table in a big pile. DO NOT keep your boxes and figure cases on the gaming tables., when not in use they should be stored out of the way under the table (don't block the access ways). 2. Please ensure that any drinks brought into the hall are in either plastic or paper cups. Glass should not be brought into the hall. Drinks should be those purchased on the premises although GW is relaxed about the use of bottled water or similar beverages. UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES should any Alcohol that hasn't been purchased from Bugmans bar be consumed on the premises. 3. It is every Club Members responsibility to ensure that all rubbish, cups etc are tidied away or correctly disposed of before we leave the hall. All scenery should be placed in a tidy and useable condition on all tables ready for other people to use. IT IS NOT THE RESPONSIBILITY OF GW STAFF TO CLEAR UP AFTER US. Please show a little pride. 4. Thursday Nights between 6pm and 10pm is for members of 1st Company Veterans Gaming Club and guests authorised by the Committee only. If you see any one new floating around please try to help them or pass them on to a Committee member. TOURNAMENTS Although we run our own Tournaments, as a Club we can enter other peoples Tournaments too. The Club may be able to help with transportation costs. If you want to raise a 1st Company Veterans Team for any given event and you are prepared to Organise it, we will give as much support as we can. VETERANS DAY SUNDAY 24th MAY We have 25 tables available with a combination of participation games, demonstration games and free gaming available. The event is FREE for all club members and will include lunch. If you are interested in attending please let me know by 14th May at the latest (so I can pre-order the food). Paul Welsh | |
| Aeronautica Skwadron Cup II March 5th and 12th 2009 | 11/02/09 |
| First round will run 5th March 2009. Each player will play 3 randomly drawn dogfights using fighter aircraft up to a value of 85pts. Only Aircraft in Aeronautica Imperialaris may be used. The two players with the greatest number of VP's will automatically qualify for the semi-finals. On 12th March those players finishing in 3rd-6th place will play one further Dogfight, this will be straight KO with the winners of the two Dogfights going on to the Semi-finals, which will be randomly drawn. The Winners of the Semi-finals will play off in a Final Dogfight to determine the overall winner. Should any of the top 6 players be unavailable on the 12th March the next highest qualifier will take their place (so bring your aircraft!) Cheers Paul | |
| January 2009 Newsletter | 15/01/09 |
| Club AGM 2009 The club AGM is scheduled for Thursday 30th April 2009 from 9pm in Bugmans Bar. We would appreciate your attendance for the AGM. This is the time of year when we elect a Club committee, anyone wishing to stand is welcome to do so. There are 9 Committee places available including Chairman, Secretary and Club Treasurer (some accounting competency is essential for this role). Nominations/applications need to be presented to me (as Club Secretary) either in writing or by email (pauldotwelsh19atntlworlddotcom) by 16th April 2009. Late applications may be considered at the discretion of the Club Chairman. If there are any issues that you would like to raise for consideration at either the AGM or by the Committee please can you let me have them by 16th April 2009. One of the things we will be looking at is a Club nominated Charity, suggestions for this years charity will also need to be with me by 16th April 2009. The three charities with the most nominations will be short-listed and presented to a Club Members vote. OPEN WAR EVENTS This years Open War events will be held on April 25th and October 31st. Gaming systems will be 40k, WFB, Epic & Bloodbowl. The rules for Epic & Bloodbowl will remain unchanged. 40k and WFB will be amended to allow anything in your Army list including Special Characters etc. 40k will be raised to 1750pts with WFB to 2500pts. Ticket prices will be held at £15. More details will be made available once the Rulespack has been updated. VETERANS DAY Sunday 24th May Darryl & I have managed to book 25 tables for the sole use of Club Members on Sunday 24th May. This event is open to paid up club members only and will be set up to include all those games we don't normally get to play, e.g Dark Future, Necromunda, Space Hulk, Great War and anything else you want to have a go at. The Orkynapolis team will also be in so members can have a go at this game too, your membership fees helped pay for it so you might as well have the pleasure of trying it out. Lunch will be provided in the restaurant. If you are interested in attending this event please let me know ASAP as it will be run on a first come first serve basis for 60 places. Please be aware that as the Club is paying for lunch out of the Club funds you will be given a Bill for Lunch if you don't attend the event having booked a place. Regards Paul Welsh Club Secretary | |
| REDUCED SERVICE THURSDAY 4TH DECEMBER | 28/11/08 |
| JUST TO REMIND YOU ALL THERE WILL BE A REDUCED SERVICE THIS COMING THURSDAY AS GW WILL BE USING THE GAMING HALL FOR THEIR CHRISTMAS PARTY THIS WEEK. SOME GAMES CAN STILL BE PLAYED IN BUGMANS EG BLOODBOWL, ROLEPLAYING GAMES. SOME GAMING TABLES MAY BE AVAILABLE BUT THIS ISN'T GUARANTEED. CHEERS PAUL CLUB SECRETARY | |
| Reduced Service - 4th December 2008 | 22/11/08 |
| Gaming Arena Reduced Service, 4th - 8th December Dear customers, Please note that on the 5th of December we have a large internal event taking place at Warhammer World and so will only be able to offer a reduced service during the period of 4th - 8th December. Gaming Tables will be limited on the 3rd and 4th, extra tables in the Restaurant. Gaming Tables will be very limited on the 5th, tables only available in the Restaurant The Art and Design Exhibition will be unavailable or limited access. Games Workshop Store and Citadel Miniatures Hall will be open. Bugman’s will continue to provide normal lunch and evening menu’s. The Hobby Bar will be open as usual at the weekend. We will be back to full normal service on the 8th of December, but we strongly advise that if you are planning a trip to Warhammer World you avoid the 4th and 5th if at all possible. If this creates any specific problems for you, then please email the Warhammer World Content Team and we will do whatever we can to accommodate you. whworldevents@games-workshop.co.uk Our apologies in advance for any inconvenience. Best regards, | |
| WFB In House Tournament starts Thursday 13th November | 07/11/08 |
| 1St Company Veterans: Autumn Warhammer Fantasy Tournament. Format: • 3 weeks in duration start next week 13.11.08, 7 pm in the Bar for the draw. • Escalator battles: Week 1 500 pts( 2 games), Week 2 1000 pts, Week 3 2000 pts • Points awarded for win, draw, defeat- positioned against opponents accordingly • Round 1 500 pts- Random draw • Round 2 500 pts- opponents according to points scored • No Storm of Chaos armies or sad beardy ones (Rick & Christian) Rules: 500 point army: • You must have a single Hero to lead the force, but the Hero may not be an Army Battle Standard Bearer. • The army must consist of at least two units and no more than four units (excluding the Hero). • You must have at least one Core choice. • You may take one choice of either Special or Rare Units, but not both. • You must include at least one infantry unit of 10+ models except Ogre Kingdoms • No unit may be larger than 25 models. • No unit may carry a magical standard. • No single model may cost more than 125 points. • An army may have no more than one chariot or war machine. This also applies to choices that allow more than one item per pick, like Goblin Wolf Chariots. You may only buy one per choice. Here are a couple of army specific notes: • Bretonnians do not have their Army Battle Standard Bearer. • Tomb Kings must have a Liche Priest as the Hero. He will also act as the General. However, the Liche Priest is allowed to be purchased with up to 165 points. • Tomb Kings may have more than one Chariot. • A Vampire Thrall may lead a Vampire Counts army. The 1000 and 2000 point armies are to be done as per rule books. If you are interested pls e.mail me: m.lees@holgate.notts.sch.uk | |
| 1st Company Veterans "CUSTOM TEMPLATES" | 05/10/08 |
| We are taking orders for some club custom templates The templates will cost £6 and consist of One 5" large blast One 3" small Blast One Flame All will have the clubs logo engraved into them! If you would like to get a set please see the forum or ask a committee member on a Thursday evening! | |
| Christmas Mini 40K Tournament | 05/10/08 |
| There is going to be an 600Pt's Warhammer 40K tournament on the 11th and 18th of December. Please see forum for details! Cheers Studge | |
| Orkyanapolis - the Trophy! | 19/09/08 |
| After speaking to GW yesterday, they have kindly asked wheter we would like to display the trophy that BigNob Pete Da MadMek and his Krew won at Games Day in the store at Warhammer World! I think that this shows that the club is now the best around! | |
| Orkyanapolis 40,000 - Da Race | 15/09/08 |
| Well today was the Day! It was great we ran four races, all quite unique and good fun. And to cap it all off WE WON THE AWARD FOR "BEST CLUB CONTRIBUTION" We have a shield which I will get engraved and we might get our picture in either White Dwarf or on the GW website. I would like the thank the team at Games Day, Ed, Studge, Andy, Graham, David, John and Richard for all their help and support. Also many thanks to all the other club members for their support and figure painting etc and to my wife Caroline for putting with the scenery building team. | |
| No Club night 18th September | 03/09/08 |
| Due to GW closing the hall for a private event, there will be no club night on 18th September. Apologies for the inconvinience, but this is beyond the comittee's control. | |
| Newsletter august 2008 | 15/08/08 |
1st Company Veterans Newsletter August 2008 Club Rules It is a shame that I have to begin this Newsletter by having a bitch at the vast majority of you for not following Club rules. This is supposed to be an Adult club so can we please make sure we act like one. The main Rule Breach’s are as follows: 1. Failing to sign in. It’s not difficult, you know where the signing in book is, this is supposed to be a requirement for being able to use the hall. I’m trying to think of a polite way to put this, but I can’t, so for **** sake just do it OK! 2. Showing complete disrespect and disregard for the tables and scenery that GW so kindly supply us with. You’ve all been told before to keep your boxes, figure cases etc off the tables, this is a simple request so please just do as asked. Equally unwanted scenery must not just be dumped on a free table, please store said items carefully beneath your table until you have finished your game and then put the scenery back in an appropriate and useable manner. 3. Glass is not allowed in the hall, if you need a drink please make sure that it is the appropriate plastic or paper container. 4. It is the responsibility of EVERY club member to ensure that the hall and tables are tidy and ready to use when you leave, there have been times that the place has been left as a right s***hole. Come on guys get your act together! 5. Membership Renewals, in order to play on a Thursday night between 6pm and 10pm you MUST be a member of 1st Company Veterans Gaming Club. During this time our Club rules must be obeyed. Although GW staff have honorary membership you are still subject to the club’s rules. If you haven’t renewed your membership please do so ASAP. 6. Guests, other than GW staff, Guests must be signed in by a Member of the Committee. For those of you who don’t know who they are here are their names:  Darryl Steventon (Club Chairman)  Paul Welsh (Club Secretary)  Peter Harris (Club Treasurer)  Matt Shaw (Tournament Co-ordinator)  Si Thorne (Asst. Tournament Organiser)  Stuart Beardsmore (Club Caretaker)  Steve Cummings (Club PR and Special Projects Co-ordinator)  Scott Baird (Web Technical Guy)  Richard Robinson (Web Content guy) Failure to comply with club rules could result in your membership being suspended or in a worst case scenario withdrawn. Please don’t let this happen to you. OK unpleasant bit over. Open War 10 Twice a year this Club plays host to a tournament in several gaming systems. This is your opportunity to pit your skills against players from other parts of the country, some of whom are regarding as the leading players in their chosen system. The next Open War takes place on Saturday 18th October 2008. This year we are operating 5 gaming systems:  Warhammer Fantasy Battle  Warhammer 40K  Epic  Bloodbowl  Warhammer Ancients This is your tournament guys, and I’d strongly urge you to support the event to uphold the honour of this club. Tickets are £15 each which includes lunch (which is a hot meal & Dessert). You will take part in 3 games throughout the course of the day, and there are prizes available for both Generalship and painting. The winners of the Team event get to choose a charity to make a donation to. So come on, sign up for a great day out and a good challenge. Tickets can be obtained via the website www.1stcompanyveterans.net or from Matt Shaw (or nominated committee member) on a Thursday night. In House Apocalypse Challenge There will be a full in house Apocalypse tournament beginning in April 2009, using 4000pts Armies. You can enter as an individual or with a partner. We will be having a dry run to test the rules starting in October for which I need 8 entrants. Any volunteers please see either Si Thorne or myself. Warhammer Historical: Great War Darryl Steventon and myself had our first taste of this on 14/08/08 and thoroughly enjoyed it. If anyone else is into this game, or would like to be, let us know we’d love to play you. AoB This is your club, so if there is something you’d like to try or an event you’d like to organise, let us know and we’ll do our best to support you if there is enough interest. Regards Paul Welsh Club Secretary | |
| Membership Renewals for July 1st 2008 to June 30th 2009 are now due | 01/07/08 |
| Just a quick reminder to all Club members that the annual membership subscription is due this month. To renew, just collar me or one of the other Committee members and we'll sort you out. (Basically confirming we have your correct details and issuing a receipt). As an added incentive any renewals made before 31st July 2008 will recieve a 25% 'early bird' discount, so renewal will only be £7.50. Please be aware that I do not walk around with a bucket of change in my pocket, so if you could have the exact amount due I would appreciate it. Many Thanks Paul Club Secretary | |
| Updated rules for the Website! | 20/06/08 |
| This website is the internet home of the First Company Veterans, and, like any home, we have a simple set of rules that we would like everyone to follow, to make it the best possible place to be! 1) Personal Behaviour - Do not post any message that is deliberately offensive or insulting except when it can clearly be taken in nature as humorous and in the context of the conversation - think first - if you think the person you are talking to may read your post as offensive or aggressive, or that someone else may misread it as being so, either reword it or do not post it at all. Please avoid abusive language and swearing, Even though the club itself operates an over 16's policy, it is impossible to enforce that here. Any clear violations of this will be dealt with swiftly. - Bullying, homophobia, racism and religious hatred will NOT be tolerated and are the quickest way of ensuring that you are expelled from the forum. - Do not use the forum as a means to attack others (whether member or non-member) or other websites, manufacturers and forums. Discussion is encouraged, using the forum to rant and rave will not. - Personal attacks, or attacks on friends of another member are NOT allowed. Anything which is likely to cause offence, be it abusive, malicious, vulgar, defamatory, hateful, seditious, blasphemous, racist or sexually orientated will be deleted by the Committee and appropriate action taken against the offending member. Remember, we are ALL friends here. - Members must not engage in one-to-one arguments, disagreements or disputes of a personal nature. 2) Threads - When starting a new thread please check you are starting it in the correct area of the forum and that a thread covering the same topic has not already been started. - New threads should be given a title that is relevant to the thread topic. If you want people to know what you are posting about, tell them! Posting - Posts should be clear and understandable to all - no ‘txt speak’ or shorthand that might confuse or be misinterpreted. Please remember that we have members from around the globe who may struggle with hard to read postings. - Do not post pointless and irrelevant spam. Banter, humorous comments etc are encouraged but making posts simply to get your name on the board, elevate your thread or to raise your post count will be frowned upon and these posts will be removed. Please avoid thread necromancy and flaming. - When replying within a Project Log Thread, please limit the use of short "Great work man" type messages. They can appear to be spam as identified above or can sometimes just appear "lazy" and "routine". It is good to enthuse and bolster peoples work, but please be a little more considered and forthcoming. Of particular note, these short messages cost us space! - Criticism is fine as long as it is constructive; do not simply state you do not like something or that someone’s ideas are stupid. If you want to comment do it politely and explain your reasoning. Remember, this forum exists for everyone - we're not all walking encylopedias for the rules of the game, or 'Eavy Metal grade painters! Please avoid violation of copyright or intellectual property. (including posting stat lines or rules quoted directly from rule books.) Please do not download copyrighted material into the forum. If you are replying to a rules query, please quote the book and page number on which the rule can be found, and by all means explain what the rule means in your opinion, but please, to stop us falling foul of Copyright law, DO NOT quote word for word the rule! - Once you have posted, and you wish to change or add something to your post, use the EDIT button. Please use it to delete double posts. If you have posted your thread in the wrong forum, please ask a committee member to move it. - Do not post material that contains adult content, or links to sites that have adult content. This site is viewable by all, and as such adult content will not be tolerated - as a rule of thumb, if you would not be able to look at something at work, don't post it here! 3) Moderation - Failure to abide by these simple rules may result in censure or in extreme cases, expulsion from this Forum and the Club. - The Committee reserve the right to edit, relocate or remove any topics / posts / images we deem inappropriate or disruptive to our community. Please note that, from time to time, topics may be removed for being inappropriate even though your individual post in that topic may have been fine. Please do not feel this reflects badly on you. Occasionally, information in certain topics can become outdated or contravenes our code of conduct and is best removed. This will only be done when every other avenue of action has been taken. Overall, please remember that this website is done 'By the members for the Members'! Many thanks, Darryl Steventon Club Chairman 2008/09 | |
| Club Shirts! | 23/05/08 |
| An order for the Club Shirts is now being taken! Type = Polo Colour = Light Grey Sizes from S to XXL The cost of this shirt plus a 1st Company Veterans Badge will only cost you £6.50! To order one or more of these Shirts please ask for Studge (club Caretaker) on a Thursday evening. Cheers Studge Club Caretaker | |
| Newsletter April 2008 | 11/04/08 |
| 1st Company Veterans Newsletter April 2008 AGM 10/04/08 Committee Elections: CLUB CHAIRMAN: Darryl Steventon CLUB SECRETARY: Paul Welsh CLUB TREASURER: Peter Harris TOURNAMENT CO-ORDINATOR: Matthew Shaw TOURNAMENT ORGANISER: Si Thorne PR & SPECIAL PROJECTS GUY: Steve Cumming CLUB CARETAKER: Stuart Beardsmore WEB TECHNICAL GUY: Scott Baird WEB CONTENT GUY: Richard Robinson All were elected uncontested. Peter Harris gave a brief overview of the Clubs finances. Paul Welsh gave a quick overview of the Club and reiterated the current club rules when using the gaming hall. Proposal Vote Results: PROPOSAL 1: Future expenditures in excess of £50 to be sanctioned by the Committee provided at least 6 of the 9 Committee members agree. Carried. PROPOSAL 2A To invest in scenery for gaming systems that GW don’t appear to cater for. E,g. Epic, Warhammer Ancients etc. Carried PROPOSAL 2B To purchase basic starter kits for various gaming systems for members to try out games before investing in their own figures etc. Rejected AOB Mark Lees proposed that we contact GW to try and arrange a Club charity event. The idea suggested is that with GW’s support we’d like to hold a 25 hour sponsored gaming marathon to raise funds for a local charity. Members gave this overwhelming backing, an approach to GW to be made by the Committee ASAP. Darryl Steventon gave a brief overview of Open War 9 and some discussion took place as to how we would like events to progress in future given that space is now restricted. It was agreed that as a Club we would like to support the Gaming systems enjoyed by our Club members more. For Open War 10 the club has committed to introducing Warhammer Ancients as one of the gaming systems. The Tournament Co-ordinator will also contact the GW events team to see if we can a) increase the capacity from 80 at all and b) introduce Bloodbowl as a satillite event, e.g. using Bugmans Bar or the Conference Room facilities. The club was asked about the feasibility of a Trade account with GW to obtain discounted models. At the moment it is not GW policy to offer gaming clubs discounts, although the GCN (to whom 1st Company Veterans are affiliated) have been looking at negotiating with GW on this subject. SPRING TOURNAMENTS The Spring Tournaments are progressing nicely. Rob Henson has won the Bloodbowl event and Phil Rood won Aeronautica Imperialaris. The results for WFB, 40K and Ancients will be completed soon, with Epic and Legends of the Old West to follow. April 5th saw Open War 9 with the club doing well in Epic and moderate in 40K, we didn’t trouble the leaders in WFB. As a result Flame On retained the team trophy, with the Dragon Slayers relegating us to 3rd place. | |
| AGM 10/04/08 | 11/03/08 |
| The club AGM will be held in the main gaming hall from 9pm on 10/04/08. On this night you will need to start winding your games up at around 8:45pm. 1st Company Veterans AGM Agenda 10/04/08 * Introduction (Darryl Steventon on behalf of Steve Watson) * Club review (Paul Welsh) * Treasurery Statement (Peter Harris on behalf of Richard Robinson) * Committee Elections 1. Club Chairman: Darryl Steventon is elected unopposed. 2. Club Secretary: Paul Welsh (subject to taking 13 weeks out) 3. Club Treasurer: Peter Harris is elected unopposed 4. Web Technical Guy: Scott Baird is elected unopposed 5. Web Content Guy: Richard Robinson is elected unopposed. 6. Tournament Co-ordinator: Matthew Shaw is elected unopposed. 7. Tournament Organiser: Si Thorne is elected unopposed. 8. Club Caretaker: Stuart Beardsmore is elected unopposed. 9. Club PR : Steve Cummings is elected unopposed. * Proposals (Chairman) Each proposal will require a second to the motion. 1. Allocating funds to special Club projects such as Gamesday. Under the current club rules we need the membership to approve purchases over £50. Proposal 1 is to change this rule so that the Club committee can approve purchases over this amount providing at least 6 of the 9 Committee members agree. 2. More support for all Gaming systems. As a club we have sufficient funds to give support to some of the less widely played gaming systems. Proposal 2a is to purchase appropriate scenery for such gaming systems as Epic, Warhammer ancients, Aeronautica Imperialaris, Legends of the Old West/High Seas etc. Proposal 2b is for the club to purchase some basic starter sets so that club members can try various gaming systems out before making the heavy investment often required to embark on a new gaming system. Under proposals 2a & 2b items will be signed out on loan to club members. * AoB & Close Club Review 2008 When the current committee came together in May 2007, Games Workshop had charged us with achieving certain goals for the club. Firstly they required us to become a Club, rather than groups of individuals meeting in their gaming Hall. Gathering everyone into one Club has been a mammoth task but we think the results have been worth it. Seeing virtually every gaming table in use each and every Thursday night is a wonderful sight. With a membership that has increased over 4 fold to over 120 members 1st Company Veterans is now the biggest single club within the GCN. A membership card and signing in system have been implemented; granted there have been a few initial teething problems with issuing the membership cards, but we are getting there. Special thanks must go to Richard Robinson, Darryl Steventon, Stuart Beardsmore and Peter Harris for all the help they have given me to get this off the ground. Information sheets and Quarterly newsletters have also been implemented, if there are items you want to raise let us know and we’ll do our best to promote your thoughts. Our relationship with both GW and the GCN has grown from strength to strength, as the club has become more proactive in it’s support of the hobby. Thanks must go to Brian Aderson and the Games Workshop events team for all the terrific support they have given this club over the past year. This year will see 1st Company Veterans promoting the hobby, GW and the GCN at Gamesday with the Ork Battlewagon Racing project run by Pete Harris and friends. CRB checks are still available free of charge through GCN, members interested in getting a CRB check just need to contact a committee member and we will endeavour to arrange for a GCN Committee member to sort this out for you. Scott Baird, with help from Richard Robinson, is continuing to work on updating the Club web site. For those of you who aren’t familiar with it, visit www.1stcompanyveterans.net for articles, arranging a game, hobby related chat and news. We are running more in house tournaments with 40K, Bloodbowl and Aeronautica Imperialaris having featured recently. The new Spring Tournaments are underway which also include WFB and Epic. As a club we would like to encourage more events particularly for Warhammer Ancients and Legends players. Open War continues to do well and is a well-respected tournament throughout the gaming community. The advent of Apocalypse has seen some interesting projects; November saw a massive 15000pts aside Tyrranid vs. Imperials battle organised by Si Thorne, with every single figure having been painted. It was so successful that the next project has been booked for August 9th 2008 and is set to be even bigger, with additional special rules, conversions and the like with a Chaos vs. Imperial confrontation spread across 4 battlefields. Steve Cummings, Mick and Phil Rood and friends have been working on a Warhammer Ancients Napoleonics system. Anyone who saw their fantastic recreation of the battle of Waterloo couldn’t fail but to be mightily impressed. This Committee has made great strides on building on the foundations laid by it’s predecessors, hopefully the incoming committee can take up the baton and carry this success on. A number of Committee members have decided to stand down this year due to other commitments. Many thanks go to Steve Watson, Scott Bennett, Graham White and Scott Warrener for their efforts in helping to manage this club over the past 10 months or so. Finally to each and every Club member, thank you for your support to this club, without you Thursdays would be dull days indeed. Paul Welsh Club Secretary | |
| Aeronautica Imperialaris Dogfight Rules for 21/02/08 | 15/02/08 |
| Just to remind all of you that may be interested the Aeronautica Imperialaris Tournament will take place this coming Thursday 21st February. Battles will be 4 player games with the top three players plus one random wildcard contesting the final. The winner of this final game will be the Tournament 'Top Gun' and will win the Sqwadron Cup. The rules are as the basic Dogfight Rules from Aeronautica Imperialaris with a few amendments to the scoring system to take into account that games are multi-player events. Aeronautica Imperialaris :Sqwadron Cup Dog Fight Tournament Rules 1. Airforces must be made up of Fighter classification aircraft only up to a maximum of 60pts. Selections may only be made from the original Aeronautica Imperialaris rulebook; you may not use any of the new items found in Aeronatica Tactica. 2. Dogfights will be 4 player free for all using the standard Dogfight rules as found in Aeronautica Imperialaris with the following amendments. 3. If forced to disengage you must do so as quickly as possible via the most direct route. 4. Victory points will be awarded as follows: i) Initial damage to enemy aircraft 25% of its Points value, rounding up to the nearest full point. ii) Enemy kill 75% of the aircraft’s Points value, rounding up to the nearest full point. iii) Where aircraft only have 1 hit point then you will receive the full 100% for a kill. iv) Aircraft still on the table after turn 12 are automatically classed as disengaged and score the appropriate victory points as per Aeronautica Imperialaris rule book. v) Damaged Aircraft that successfully disengage score 50% of their points value. vi) Undamaged Aircraft that have used all their ammo score 100% of their points value if they successfully disengage. vii) Undamaged Aircraft that still have ammo receive zero victory points for disengaging. viii) If forced to disengage because of casualties your Airforce will suffer a -10 Victory Points penalty. ix) If you disengage voluntarily and any of your aircraft still have ammo your airforce will suffer a -20 Victory Points penalty. x) If you disengage voluntarily because all your aircraft have expended all their ammo you will receive a +10 Victory points bonus. xi) If your airforce is one of the last two remaining forces on the table you will receive a +10 Victory Point bonus. Hope to see you all Thursday, Regards Paul | |
| 2008 Chariot League | 11/01/08 |
| Club member Pint as arrange a Chariot Racing League. Please see the forum for more details. | |
| Club AGM Thursday 10th April 2008 | 05/01/08 |
| Time and venue to be confirmed. All Club members are invited to attend and also vote in Committee elections or even stand for committee. Any Club member who wishes to stand for election onto the Committee will need to register their interest with the Club Secretary by midnight 16/03/08. There are 9 positions on the Committee available: Chairman Treasurer Club Secretary Tournament Co-ordinator Tournament Organiser Club Caretaker PR Web Technical guy Web Content guy A brief description of the main duties for each role are included in the January Newsletter which will be available at the club from 10/01/08 (and possibly on this website in the very near future). Alternatively you can ask me on a club night. Regards Paul (Gobbo) Club Secretary | |
| 1st Company Veterans Newsletter January 2008 Edition | 05/01/08 |
| Item 1: Membership Can you please be aware that Thursday nights between 6pm and 10pm, the gaming hall is for the private use of 1st Company Veterans club members and approved guests only. In all cases every club member and approved guest must sign in using the signing in book located by the stage. This is one of the conditions stipulated by Games Workshop in order for us to use the hall, please do not abuse this club rule. Approved Guests fall into one of the following categories: 1. A member of Games Workshop Staff, subject to having the correct valid ID. 2. A member of Forge World Staff, subject to having the correct valid ID. 3. A 16+-year-old member of the Wot Notts Gaming club, subject to having valid club ID. 4. A guest invited by the 1st Company Veterans Committee for a specific purpose. E.g. Other GCN club members for challenge matches. 5. Prospective club members on their first visit to the club subject to being signed in by a member of the club committee. 6. One off visitors (for example from abroad) subject to approval of a committee member. In all cases the club has the discretion to refuse admittance on club nights. Item 2: 1st Company Veterans AGM This year’s AGM will take place on Thursday 10th April. The details of the time and location will be announced in due course, all club members are invited to attend. Part of the AGM will be dedicated to the election of the club committee and any club member can put themselves forward for one of the following positions: 1. Club Chairman: Main duties include acting as the main contact for Games Workshop and the Gaming Club Network, as well as being the club leader. 2. Treasurer: Main duties include the maintaining of the clubs finances and accounts, renewal of the Public Liability Insurance with GCN and co-ordinating the Open War ticket applications. 3. Club Secretary: Main duties include the maintenance of club membership, producing the Agendas and minutes of committee meetings, co-ordinating election and committee vote results and producing quarterly club newsletters. 4. Web Technical Expert: Responsible for the technical control of the club website. 5. Web Content Guy: Main duties include being the editor for items to go on to the club website, publication of club information letters and assisting the Web Technical expert. 6. Tournament Co-ordinator: Lead organiser for our Open War events. 7. Tournament Organiser: Assistant to the Tournament Co-ordinator. 8. PR Guy: Responsible for the public image of the club, advertising club events and co-ordinator for club projects (e.g. Gamesday) 9. Club Caretaker: Duties include co-ordinating the adherence of club rules on gaming nights and issuing membership cards. Applications need to be registered with the club secretary by midnight 16/03/08. Item 3: Forthcoming Events Thursday 21st February 2008: Aeronatica Imperialaris Cup Competition. This competition has been designed to incorporate Veteran and Novice players alike, using 60pts worth of fighter aircraft (normally between 2 and 5 aircraft per player). Games will dogfights between approximately 4 players per table. The top three scoring players plus a randomly drawn wildcard player (so anyone can make the final) will contest the final Dogfight for the title of Top Gun and the Skwadron Cup Trophy. Please see the club website for details: http://www.1stcompanyveterans.net Saturday 5th April 2009: Open War 9 The club runs two major tournaments per year. The gaming systems used are 40K, Warhammer Fantasy Battle and Epic. Tickets are £15 each and include a meal voucher from Games Workshops Restaurant. There are prizes available in each of the gaming systems, including the Best Army award in each system. There is also the prestigious Team Trophy award, currently in the hands of our rivals Flame On. In order to try and win the trophy back this year we need as many club members as possible to enter the tournament, particularly WFB players. The rule pack and ticket applications should be available via the website shortly http://www.1stcompanyveterans.net. The closing date for entries is 16th March 2008. Item 4: Ork Battle Wagon Racing This years special project is being run by Pete Harris, and is due to culminate in a club participation game at this years Gamesday. The next demonstration game is scheduled for Thursday 24th January 2008. There are a significant number of construction and painting projects that need willing volunteers to lend a hand. Anyone interested should either contact Pete Harris on a games night or express an interest via the club website http://www.1stcompanyveterans.net Item 5: CRB Checks Any club member can have a CRB check done for free via the Gaming Club Network (GCN). In order to take part in events such as Gamesday or to sit on the Committee a CRB check needs to be undertaken. Anyone interested in having one of these done should contact the club secretary and he will try to arrange a convenient time with the GCN. Paul Welsh (Gobbo) 1st Company Veterans Club Secretary | |
| Nepoleonic Warmaster | 01/01/08 |
| Last weekend 6 Club members re-fought the battle of Waterloo using modified Warmaster rules. I hope some of you saw this spectacular game. If not, here is a <a href="http://www.1stcompanyveterans.net/articles/?artno=20">link to the article</a> | |
| 40K Chaos players required for mega Apocalypse Battle | 28/12/07 |
| As per Si's thread on the forum, players are required to take part in a mega Apocalypse battle which is scheduled for September 2008. Yes we know it's 9 months away, but this gives budding enthusiasts the opportunity to build, paint and test out a full 3000pt Army ready for the main event. Comprehensive details of all the rules etc will be available in due course, the main rule at present is to have a 3000pt fully painted Chaos or Imperial (Imperial Guard, Space Marines, Witch Hunters or Daemon Hunters) force. For now we are looking for volunteers to play the Chaos side, depending on the number of people who join up, we may have some more slots on the Imperium side too. Anyone interested should post on this forum or let either Si or myself know on a gaming night. Cheers Gobbo Club Secretary | |
| Web Technical Guy | 15/12/07 |
| Scott Baird has re-joined the Committee as our Web Technical guy, welcome back Scott. | |
| Aeronautica Imperialaris Tournament 21/02/08 | 15/12/07 |
| The date is set for the inaugral Sqwadron cup for Aeronautica Imperialaris. Following on from the conclusion of Bloodbowl (and deftly sidestepping St Valentines day) Thursday 21st of February 2008 has been selected. The tournament is open to 1st Company Veterans club members and invited guests and is basically a fun introduction to this gaming system. Forces are to be restricted to 60pts worth of Fighter Aircraft only, depending on what you choose you'll be looking at between 2 and 5 Aircraft. We'll be using the basic Dogfighting rules, but rather than having one on one battles, the games will be multi-player free for alls. Depending upon the number of entrants there will be 2 initial battles with 4 players per game (give or take). After the first two Dogfights the 3 players with the highest score plus 1 wildcard (drawn at random from the rest of the entrants) will fight the final battle, the winner of the Sqwadron Cup will be the winner of this final Dogfight (so whatever went before counts for nothing). And yes there will be a trophy which will incorporate Forgeworlds Ork Sqwadron leader. Any one interested in taking part should either let me know via the forum or grab hold of me on Club nights. For those who haven't played before I'm looking to run a few practice games in January. Paul aka Gobbo 1st Company Veterans Club Secretary | |
| 40K Doubles Tournament 20th & 27th December | 05/12/07 |
| We are having a mini 40K doubles tournament over the Christmas holidays, Please see the forum for more information | |
| Planned Maintenance | 20/11/07 |
| Due to planned maintenance to the server the website will be temporarily unavailable on November 27th 2007 from 00.00 hrs to 04.00. hrs (so they tell me, I expect no one will notice) | |
| Round 2 Complete | 20/11/07 |
| The Winter 07 Blood Bowl league moves into the third round, 5 players have been killed... Gotta love stats like that! | |
| Blood Bowl League Kicks Off | 03/11/07 |
| The Winter '07 Blood Bowl League has kicked of with 14 teams competing in two leagues for places in the Grand Final. You can keep up to date with the action here Blood Bowl Winter 07 or watch out for the games being played in the hall. | |
| Arcane Scenery and Models | 19/09/07 |
| Long Term Club Member, Mr S.Woods, has recently started trading in games-workshop products, he has agreed to give all Club Members at least 15% Discount off RRP. Please visit Arcane Scenery and Models. To place orders please ask for Mr S.Woods or see a Committee Member on club evenings. | |
| New Committee Members | 10/09/07 |
| During Thursdays club meeting 3 new committee members were elected:- Darryl Steventon Graham White Scott Warrener | |
| Membership Cards | 10/09/07 |
| An apology to all Club members for the delay in getting the membership cards out to you. They should all be issued by the end of this month. If for some reason you don’t receive your card by second week in October, please see a Committee member with your subscription receipt and we will endeavour to sort this out ASAP. | |
| Club Special Project for Games Day 2008 | 10/09/07 |
| Peter Harris has come up with a mad Ork Battlewagon Racing Game, which we’d like to use for Games Day next year. The game will need play testing before being presented to Games Workshop for approval, so we’d like as many volunteers as possible please. We will also need to build some sort of Ork village and paint up hordes of Orky supporters so if you fancy getting involved in this let us know. If Games Workshop approve the Game entry to Gamesday for those volunteers who run the event should be free, you will however need to be CRB checked. | |
| Open War 8 Rules Pack Complete | 14/07/07 |
| It's now avaliable here | |
| Open War 8 Rules Pack | 08/07/07 |
| Dont worry The Rules Pack is being sorted as you read this. It should be up very soon, so keep an eye out!!! | |
| Standings | 08/07/07 |
| Did you know that being a member of the 1st Company Veterans allows you to enter your nights gaming results onto our standings page. There is a prize at the end of the year for being the best general in your chosen system. | |
| Warhammer 40,000 Mini Tournament | 18/06/07 |
| The next Warhammer 40,000 mini tournament will be on the 12th and 19th of July please see the events page for the tournament rules | |
| Club Membership | 18/06/07 |
| Club membership subscriptions are due from 1st July 2007, the committee have voted to maintain the rate of subscription at £10 per annum to cover the period 01/07/07 - 30/06/08. Any one who wishes to use the gaming hall between 6pm and 10pm on a Thursday night must be a club member. | |
| Open War 8 | 18/06/07 |
| Tickets for Open War 8 will be on sale from 21st June | |
| Committee | 18/06/07 |
| Due to outside commitments Simon Thorne has had to resign from the committee. | |
| New Signing in books | 18/06/07 |
| ALL Members, visitors and guests to 1st Company Veterans gaming nights MUST SIGN IN. Signing in books will be placed in strategic locations; it is each person’s responsibility to ensure that they comply, as this is one of the conditions of being allowed to use the gaming hall. This ruling will be in service after the 1st July 2007. | |
| Committee Revamp | 16/05/07 |
| On the 3rd may the club got some new committee members to help out/take over the old committee who deserve a break. The new committee members are:- • Steve Watson - Chairman • Peter Harris - Social • Paul Welsh - Caretaker/Secretary • Scott Bennett - Open War Organizer • Simon Thorne - Open War Organizer • Matt Shaw - Open War Organizer • Richard Robinson - Club Treasurer/Web • Stuart Beardsmore - Web/Social | |
| Club Survey | 16/05/07 |
| There will be a club survey going out between Thursday 17th May and Thursday 8th June. This is to see if you as a member of this club would like anything changing. So make sure you get your say and pick one up | |
| News Letter | 16/05/07 |
| As the new committee gets there feet under the table, there will be quarterly news letter handed out on a Thursday evening, so keep an eye out to keep your self up to date with club affairs. | |
| 2007 Lord of the Rings GT Review | 16/05/07 |
| Read up on the Lord of the Rings GT held in January 2007 on the Articles page... | |
| Forum on our website! | 05/02/05 |
| The Forum hits the ground running! | |
| Calendar online | 01/12/04 |
| We can at last reveal the Club Calendar for 2005 !! So now its over to the club members, to fill up the Thursday nights with events and campaigns etc...... | |
| Patrol Tourney | 30/11/04 |
| With only a few days to go, the excitement is building for the first
week of the 40k Combat Patrol tournament. 2nd and 9th of December durring club hours See you at 6.45 in Warhammer World... | |
| Open War 2 - Rule Pack Finished | 28/10/04 |
| What with the name change and redesign of the logo this took longer than expected. I think the wait was worth it.
Thanks to Bryn Jones and Andy Williams for their efforts. Cheers Scott | |
| New Website | 26/10/04 |
| After the change of our club name, the next on the list of jobs was the website. The move is now complete, all content has been moved. Though there are still a some things to add to this site! The message boards being the most important. | |
| Open War 2: Tickets on Sale | 05/10/04 |
| Tickets are now on sale. For more information click here | |
| New Club Name: "1st Company Veterans" | 28/09/04 |
| As of last night and the subsequent avote the name of the club has changed to
1st Company Veterans So over the next few weeks you will see things slowly moving accross to this name. Thanks for everyones patience on this. Regards Chris | |
| Open War II - DRAFT Rules | 24/09/04 |
| The DRAFT Rules pack is available for you to read. This should be finalised and ready to print by the end of the month. http://www.warhammerworldveterans.net/events/open_war_2.php | |
| Bloodbowl League Starts 15th July | 04/07/04 |
| The 15th of July see the start of our Bloodbowl League. We will be playing Bloodbowl on the following Thursdays for those who wish to take part. July 15th, August 19th, September 16th, October 21st, November 18th, December 16th. You have 1000000 to spend on your team so get them ready for the long and bloody season to come. | |
| Warhammer Campaign | 30/06/04 |
| The 1st of July is the start of a short 2 month Season of WFB.
First off there will be a campaign - a tree campaign out of the storm of chaos book - TREE 2, page 75. It will last either 4 or possibly 5 weeks, depending on which branches are taken. I'm just going to pair or as close to as I can everyone who wants a games (maybe two if they are small games etc) and then total the points, victories and determine which branch to follow. Not rocket science. Also try to get a little story from each game to write up! Therefore any size force can play and it does not matter if anyone can't make each week. Obviously the Good will be paired off against the Evil. | |
| Club AGM | 21/05/04 |
| The club AGM will be held on June the 10th in Bugmans Bar at 9pm, with the bar open for as long as we need, up until 11pm (we'll probably finish before that, but can stay on drinking there, rather than go up the road as usual). We all typically start our games at 7pm....so all that will be required is for one week that you start your games a little earlier if possible and play at a brisk-ish pace (would be good if you could avoid arranging any mammoth, 4,000 point games that week too....!!).
Do not fear, this is not a dry, boring meeting.........what we need to do as a club is: 1 -Review our activities to date 2 - Decide on what we as a club want to do with the time WW gives us (see debates on gaming seasons) 3 - Check Chris hasn't been fiddling the books. 4 - AND MOST IMPORTANTLY - find new and willing volunteers to help out on the committee. There will be specific positions up for grabs (details to follow later), or you can sign up to be a general committee member, and help out wherever you can/want to. The club will only be able to continue if we get willing volunteers to actually do things.....we can have all the ideas in the world to improve the club, but we need people to do actually get things moving. There will soon be information about the meeting appearing here. | |
| Warhammer World Veterans Club Dice for Sale | 01/05/04 |
| The fabulous Dice with our Warhammer World Veterans Club Logo on them are available to buy. These went down such a storm at the recent Open War 1 Tournament and are for sale to members now. They are priced at ?3.00 for 10 dice. | |
| Gaming Seasons | 30/04/04 |
| A few of us were chatting about this as an idea, please will you all have a look at the thread on our MSN Forum and make you comments on the appropriate thread. See - "Thursday Gaming Seasons - a cunning plan" and also after reading that - "Specialist Games Poll" Thanks Steve | |
| 40k Grand Tournament Final Report | 09/03/04 |
| A number of us where at this event over the weekend. Well done too Chris Taylor the highest placed Veteran who finished 7th overall and was the 4th Best General with his Necron horde out of 149 entrants. Also placed towards the top were Andy Garrard (28) James Dachtler (38) and Scott Baird (40). Scott did very well on his second day after his Shooty Chaos Undivided army was butchered in 2 turns without firing a shot by a fully infiltrating Kroot Mercenary Army. NASTY. Chris is now hoping to defend his Best Veteran record at our Open War Tournament next month. | |
| That was Quick | 20/02/04 |
| The full and final version of the rules pack is now avliable to down load here. | |
| Open War Rules Avaliable | 20/02/04 |
| The type set rules pack is now avaliable to down load, all that remains is the front cover and it will be finished. Download here. | |
| Club Shirts and Badges Now in Stock | 13/02/04 |
| We have just received some more stock of the magnificent Warhammer World Veterans Club shirts and badges. So now is your chance to to become one of the best dressed gamers around. They are available in sizes M, L and XL and are priced at ?16.00 each. If you want one please see Chris Taylor or Steve Cumming on a Thursday Club night at Warhammer World. Thanks Steve C. | |
| Draft Rules Pack Released | 20/01/04 |
| The draft version of the rules pack has been put on the site for your information. Download here. | |
| Opening Night | 09/01/04 |
| Thank you to everyone who turned up - the veterans club is up and running officially. For those who have already paid their club membership for the year thank you very much. For the rest of the members who came along the first week was free but to sample and play on the Warhammer World tables & all the great scenery it will cost ?10 to join for one year, this works out to be about 20 pence per week (19.2p to be exact). This money is to cover the expenses only of running the club, as members at the next committee meeting you get a say as to how this money is spent. (See the club rules for more details) To any new members - feel free to come along your first week is free - most Games Workshop games are played (40K, WFB, LOTR) by someone somewhere in the room every week. This includes the specialist games range (Bloodbowl, Epic, BFG & Warmaster mainly) Thanks for reading this and long may the club continue. Chris Taylor (Treasurer) | |
| First Club Night | 09/01/04 |
| The first night seemed to go without any problems. Thanks for your help and cooperation. An online data base which will extend to users, message boards, etc. has been started, started small - at the moment it is just the games played | |
| Date finalised for Clubs first tournament | 06/12/03 |
| Put it in your diaries, the 24th of April 2004 will be the date of the Warhammer World Veterans Tournament. Name of tournament yet to be decided. Have a look at the latest information here. | |
| Rules and minutes on web site. | 02/12/03 |
| The draft rules have been amended and are now posted on the web site here. | |
| One Evening - One Tournament. | 28/11/03 |
| Gus O'Connor has won the first 40k in 40minutes, the three knock-out rounds were played at a fraught pace and finished in under two hours! Thanks James for running the mini tournament. | |
| Committee Voted in. | 25/11/03 |
| There was much debate about a great number of things, including electing the committee. The Club Rules have been set and a variety of jobs have been handed out. Hopefully everything is now on course for the 8th of January start date. The club is also going take over running the open tournaments, the first of which will be in March 2004. The club rules and the minutes of the meeting should go up on the site this weekend. | |
| The first committee meeting. | 20/11/03 |
| The first committee meeting will be held on Tuesday the 25th of November in the White Hart, a stones throw from WW, at 8pm. All are welcome to attend this. | |
| The Draft Rules are put up for discussion. | 13/11/03 |
| A draft copy of Club Rules have been written and placed up for discussion on the Warhammer world Veterans New Group. See the Club Rules thread. | |
| The Veteran's First Decision | 06/11/03 |
| Seconded by James Scott's motion to go to the pub was voted through without a hitch. | |
| The Greatest Club in the Warhammer World | 03/11/03 |
| The Veterans who game at Warhammer World on a Thursday night as a group are picking up the gauntlet thrown down by Che Webster: We are going to become a Club. Not just a club but the best in the Warhammer World. There is plenty of work involved, but we're up for the challenge. | |
