ETC Side Event 40k - Information and Rules

Rulespack for Munster ETC 2009 v1.0 (last updated 20090604 by chtio, edited by Badger)

1.Tournament outline

1750 pts Armies, Standard Force Organization Chart.
Armies have to be fully painted and be WYSIWYG.
Opponents will be matched by swiss system (first round is random).
Official language of the tournament is English.
Battles have max 2,5h and take place on 72"x 48" tables

2.General Rules
We play with the 5th edition of the Warhammer 40000 rules without any add-on. Imperial Armour, Forgeworld or Apocalypse rules are not allowed.
English version of army books and rulebook takes priority over other versions.
Each player must have all codices and rules they're using, army roster, dices, measure tape and templates.
All official FAQ and Euro Rules Clarifications are in use (clarification corpus in writing as of 20090604).
Referees can give penalty points for cheating (player get 20-0 defeat in a battle where cheating occured). Moreover a red/yellow card system will be implemented (referee reflexion pending as of 20090604).

3. Armies
3.1 Allowed Army lists:
- Codex: Chaos Space Marines
- Codex: Daemonhunters
- Codex: Dark Eldar
- DE: Wych Cult
- Codex: Eldar
- Codex: Imperial Guard
- Codex: Necrons
- Codex: Orks
- Codex: Space Marines
- Blood Angels
- Codex: Dark Angels
- Codex: Black Templars
- Codex: Space Wolves
- Codex: Tau Empire
- Codex: Tyranids
- Codex: Witch Hunters
- Codex: Eye of Terror - SM: 13 co.
- Kroot Mercenaries
- Codex Deamons

No Witch Hunters, Deamon Hunters, Deathwatch or Kroot allies are allowed.
Army lists (codices) which will be published after 8th june 2009 won't be used.

3.2 Army lists limitations :
Special/Individual Characters are allowed with an exception for:
-Ghazghkull Thraka
-Eldrad Ulthran
-Forgefather Vulkan He'stan
-Shadow Captain Kayvaan Shrike
-Kor'sarro Khan
-Fateweaver, Oracle of Tzeentch
-The Masque
which are banned.(The council took the new IG codex into account for voting the ban list) .

3.2.1 IMPORTANT: All the relevant FAQs can be found here: http://www.hellhound.ch/download/ETC40k2009_Clarifications_v1.1.pdf

Beware, that is a lot of reading...

3.3 Missions :
We are playing 6 battles, missions are :
Battle 1: Mission: Seize Ground with 5 counters. Deployment: Dawn of War.
Battle 2: Mission: Capture and Control. Deployment: Pitched battle.
Battle 3: Mission: Annihilation. Deployment: Spearhead
Battle 4: Mission: Capture and Control. Deployment: Dawn of War.
Battle 5: Mission: Seize Ground with 5 counters. Deployment: Spearhead
Battle 6: Mission: Annihilation. Deployment: Pitched battle.

Fist step - decide who is the winner based on rulebook rules. The result is always 15 (winner) :5 (looser). If it's tied on the objectives both players recieve 10.

Second step - Add/distract points for Victory Points like this:
Difference in vps / game points bonus & malus for each player
1450-1750 / winner +5 & -5 for looser
1150-1449 / winner +4 & -4 for looser
850-1149 / winner +3 & -3 for looser
550-849 / winner +2 & -2 forlooser
250-549 / winner +1 & -1 for looser
0-249 / no bonus & malus for vps

To sum up, the result of an individual players consists of points awarded for objectives (win = 15, tie = 10, loss = 5, see step 1), plus or minus a bonus or malus due to Victory Points (see step 2).

and the FAQ(still may change/get updated/edited):

http://warhammer.org.uk/phpBB/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=61167