The general rules for the tournament are straightforward. You must use the same army for each game. The 7th edition set of rules must be used. Furthermore, contestants should know that this tournament is for fun, and that poor sportsmanship will not be tolerated.

1. You must bring a 2,250-point force using the standard 2,250-point force restrictions.
   
   
2. If the 8th Edition of Warhammer is released by July of this year, replace all references to "7th Ed." below with "8th Ed."..
   
   
3. You must create your army using appropriate 7th Ed. Warhammer Armies book (only the latest army book will be allowed for an army!). Ravening Hordes may be used for Chaos Dwarf armies. For Dogs of War, see below.
   
   
4. Special Characters (AKA "Named Characters") WILL be allowed in this tournament, with the following restrictions: 1) No Lord-level Special Characters, 2) No Special Characters from the Daemons of Chaos army book. If you are uncertain about whether or not a character is a Special Character, contact Mark Havener and ask. We don't want anyone showing up with The Masque of Slaanesh on their army list and having to make a last-minute change!
   
   
5. Dogs of War may use the "Dogs of War", "Regiments of Renown", Menghils Manflayers and Giants articles that originally appeared in WD, as well as Ogre Kingdoms units as laid out in the Ogre Kingdoms army book. Empire and Ogre Kingdoms armies may take any Dogs of War unit as a Rare choice (2 DOW units = 2 Rares) EXCEPT Giants! No other army but Dogs of War may take a Dogs of War Giant.
   
   
6. Ogre Kingdoms armies (and ONLY Ogre Kingdoms armies) may use Rhinox Riders. However, no army may take Ghark Ironskin, as he is a Special Character (see above). Also note that according to the Ogre Kingdoms army book, Gut Magic Spells may not be used to augment any unit that is not listed as an Ogre unit on page 19 of that book, so Rhinox Riders may not be augmented with Gut Magic Spells. Finally, note that anyone wishing to use Bull Rhinoxes must have suitably larger models than ordinary Rhinoxes (i.e. the Forgeworld Bull Rhinox Models)
   
   
7. You must supply the tournament organizers with a copy of your army list one month prior to the start of the tournament (preferably in electronic format, but hard copies will be accepted as long as they are legible and include the necessary information). This means that army lists are due to Mark Havener no later than August 1, 2010. Folks registering after August 1 will be allowed one week to submit their lists. Late lists WILL incur a reduction in BATTLE SCORE! The judges need to validate each list prior to the tournament, so late lists affect our schedule. Note: army lists in Armybuilder format (either .rst, .txt, or .html as long as they include all the necessary information, like army percentage breakdowns) will receive 2 BONUS POINTS added to the player's overall score!
   
   
8. What You See Is What You Get (WYSIWYG). If a model is armed with an item, it must be shown on the figure. Models for army list choices that are not available must be converted. If you are in any way in doubt about whether your conversion or scratch built piece might not be acceptable please contact us before the tournament. We don't want someone to show up with something they can't use!  This tournament will have a painting score so painted models are recommended.  You may use non-Games Workshop models in this tournament.
   
   
9. Storm of Chaos armies WILL NOT be allowed. They were fun while they lasted, but they are outdated now. Let it go.
   
   
10. Rules Clarifications from the Games Workshop website will be in use. See Here
    
    
11. You must conduct yourself in a manner that will not bring our  hobby into disrepute.
    
    
12. You must bring all materials needed to play including dice, measuring device, templates, models, and any rules that you will be using.
    
    
13. The following publications and articles will be in use:
    
    
    • Warhammer Fantasy Battle 7th Edition Rulebook.
      
      
    • All released Army Books (latest releases of course)
      
      
    • Ravening Hordes for Chaos Dwarfs.
      
      
    • The aforementioned Dogs of War articles for those armies that can use them (DOW, Empire, Ogre Kingdoms ONLY)
      
      
14. A player MUST have a copy of all rules he is using for his army for his opponent to check if necessary! This means that if you want to use an article from an Annual or White Dwarf from the list above, you MUST have the appropriate book with you at the tournament!!!



15. Each player MUST exchange army lists with his opponent before starting each game. This is actually written into the scenario rules as well, but many players miss it. You don't have to let them keep it, but you have to at least let them review it!



16. Anything not mentioned or presented here is not legal for this tournament.

A Few Words About Terrain

At the SAWS Challenge types of terrain are many and varied. For the most part terrain we use is covered in the Warhammer Rulebook, but there are some exceptions which are worth pointing out:

• Fields: Some tables have areas of 'fields' with growing crops. These are treated as Difficult Terrain. If the fields have standing crops, treat them as woods for determining line of sight. Fields without standing crops (cleared fields or fields with very low plant cover) do not block line of sight, but still impede movement.
• Rivers: The Rulebook (p16) tells us to treat Rivers as either Very Difficult Terrain or Impassable Terrain, and to treat fords as Difficult Terrain. We feel that this is too constricting to be playable, so the following guidelines hold true for rivers at the SAWS Challenge:
  
  1. Streams: River sections that are less than 1.5" in width are treated as 'streams'. Streams are Open Terrain.
  2. Rivers: River sections that are 1.5" in width or greater do represent rivers, and are treated as Difficult Terrain.
  3. Fords: Some river sections have fords. Fords are treated as Open Terrain.
• Big Hills: Some tables have very large hills built into them or sitting on them. One these tables these huge pieces of terrain ARE treated as hills.

The following are the scenarios that were used last year, and this year's scenarios will most likely be quite similar. The specific scenarios to be used this year will be loaded to the site as we get closer to August!

1. Scenario 1 - Headhunt!
2. Scenario 2 - Pitched Battle
3. Scenario 3 - Magic Flux
4. Scenario 4 - Capture the Objective
5. Scenario 5 - Hold that Ground!

We're departing from our format from past years and we WILL NOT have special table rules to represent the various lands of the Warhammer world.

Scenarios and table rules will be 'locked down' at least 30 days prior to the event (and hopefully much earlier!)

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