It’s way before the Month of November, the the good folks at Drawbridge games have cooked up the rules we’ll be using for our Third Annual TANKS-Giving event. And we just couldn’t wait to share them. This is an event where players field a host of tanks in a knock-down, drag-out survivor wins it all style event.

WHEN: Thursday, November 9th. Set-up for game, pictures, and painting accomplishments inspection at 6:30pm, dice start at 7:00pm sharp.

WHY: A motivation to paint tanks for our 40k armies, and then to field them en masse in one glorious free-for-all battle. Fun at the event, motivation for painting new things, and prizes!

WHAT: Players can bring up to 1,200 points of tanks and sorta-tank-like vehicles (see full list below). All models must be painted to tabletop standard. Unlike prior years, we want to do a bit more encouraging of new painting and faction developing, so people can field any two fluff-appropriate alliance forces, but cannot field forces together that simply would not collaborate. For instance, that does permit taking Chaos Space Marine tanks alongside Imperial Guard tanks, or Space Marine tanks alongside Sisters of Battle tanks, or Adeptus Mechanicus tanks alongside Votann tanks, or Aeldari with Drukhari, or Chaos with Genestealer Cult (deep lore!), etc. However, no Ork tanks alongside Tau tanks, or Space Marines with Necrons, for examples. No HQ, character, or proper-named vehicles allowed. This year we are allowing choices with the Titanic keyword, so paint up them big behemoths if you want. However, no Legends or Horus Heresy stuff. Also, this is a shooting war–so while some tanks have melee options there will be no charge or combat phases, to keep things rolling nice and smooth. As always, if I missed something just contact me on socials or here to verify if it’s permitted.

HOW: There will be a door prize raffle with some great 40k prizes as always for our big events. Everyone who shows up with a painted force, from a single tank to a full 1,200 points gets one name entry. For each newly-painted (painted for this event specifically) model, you’ll get an extra ticket with your name in the prize drawing. The winner (last tank or team of tanks standing) will get five extra tickets with their name in the drawing. And we’ll vote for best painted single model as well as best painted overall tank-squad, winner of both getting extra entries to the drawing as well. As for the game, we’ll use the playing card system as often is the case with our big events: each round every player will be dealt a card that will determine turn order.

KING OF THE HILL: Added this year is that there will be a king-of-the-hill element to the game. We’re going to have a hill built to span two boards, and two other smaller hills, one on each board. The tank that is most central on each hill will get a Feel-No-Pain sort of ability to shrug off wounds. For the two smaller hills it will be a 5+ Feel-No-Pain, and for the big central hill it will be a massive 4+ Feel-No-Pain. The last tank to be atop the large central hill will get a bonus entry into the drawing as well, even if it’s not the final survivor.

WHO: You! Entry is $5 for Drawbridge Gatecrasher Members (only $35 for the entire year, and includes 10% discount on all purchases for that year plus 20% on select pre-orders), and $7 for General Admission.

Models are straight off of the index card, so no faction rules or detachment rules (sorry Aeldari players, no Strands of Fate). No command points or stratagems will be included in the game. If a model’s index card has a synergy rule for other models, then it works only on models from the same Faction.

One of the most popular 40k theme events at Drawbridge is back for round three: it’s Knight Night / Fight Night Three! This time it’s an Eliminator Match. The event happens on Thursday, September 14th with setup at 6:00pm and start time promptly at 6:45pm. Rules and restrictions for the event follow, and whether you took part last year or are new this time we welcome you to this great event.

Knight Night / Fight Night Three will be an Eliminator style match at Drawbridge Games, where Knights of all shapes and sizes will be able to climb into the ring and try and see who can make it to the end.

Knight Night / Fight Night Three Rules:

There will be five tables set up as “rings” for the event. In each ring there will be a maximum of 5 Knights (we’re going to cap entries at 25). The one that is the most points will start in the center, and then each turn one of the others will be added at random. The goal is to be the last model standing–knocking all of other competitors by “pinning” them. The last standing model at each table then moves to the championship table, where those five champions duke it out in the same way for the honor of being the Knight Night Fight Night champion.

Every round of combat all participant Knights in the ring are dealt a playing card, and play turns will run in that order: lowest numbers first, with suit order high-to-low in reverse-alpha to break numerical ties, so Spades > Hearts > Diamonds > Clubs, with Aces low. The active Knight will move, shoot, can charge and fight. Note that models attacked won’t swing back (there’s no ordinary combat phase). The goal is to incapacitate opposing Knight models by taking all of their wounds, which represents knocking them out and pinning them. There are a few different special rules we’ll be using that will both help this happen, and give Knights a chance to keep fighting in the ring.

“Recover In the Corner” action: Declare at the start of your turn. Roll 1d6 and recover that many wounds. Can move (including advancing) but cannot fire any weapons, charge, or make any melee attacks until the start of its next turn.

“Re-roll Chip”: Every Knight gets one re-roll chip. Every player who puts up a promo (posted on the Drawbridge Events social media page) gets a second re-roll chip per player participating in that promo. The player with the best promo (judged by Enrico) gets a third re-roll chip. Re-roll chips can be exchanged or traded as you wish during the game with other players. They can be spent to re-roll any one d6 roll (including the “Going for the Pin” table or the result of a “Recover in the Corner” action). They can also be spent to get rid of the card you’re dealt at any point for turn order, and be dealt a new random card from the deck. Note that no one will have CP’s or faction/detachment abilities to keep things nice and simple, this is a sort of replacement for that.

“Going for the Pin” chart: Whenever a model is reduced to 0 wounds, the player who reduced them to zero immediately must roll on the following chart (any model rules that might trigger on “when reduced to zero wounds” such as exploding are ignored). Conceptually a wrasslin’ match is about pinning your opponent. While we don’t have rules for pinning, these are the results when the participants take those devastating finishing attacks. Note that in this case, the model

Painting Requirements: All models participating in Knight Night must be painted to a tabletop standard and based. Part of this hobby is, well, the hobby, so I want to encourage people to paint and get models finished for events. There will be additional chances at prizes for those who paint up a new Knight model for the event.

Knight Options and Choices

Knights: Players can choose any non-character Knight from the Imperial Knights or Chaos Knights indices. These are vanilla versions of the index sheets folks, so just those rules that appear on the card (no detachment or army rule). If you’re inclined to run one of the Knights from Forgeworld like the Acastus or Cerastus (which I guess is coming to plastic soon), that’s fine too–we’re using those as the upper echelon comparison to other factions). All Knights must be the Titanic ones, so no Wardogs or Armigers or other smaller-class Knights.

When is a Knight not a Knight: We’re not able to allow in every Xenos and Chaos faction, but applications to field other types are allowable if they’re comparable in stature to the various Knights (note they may not be comparable in points). We know this limits participants in a way, but don’t worry we’ve always got another event on the horizon.

• Stormsurge
• Ta’unar Supremacy Armor
• Wraithknight
• Revenant
• Gorkanaut
• Morkanaut
• Stompa
• Lord of Skulls
• Seraptek Heavy Construct
• Hierophant
• Norn Emissary

If I’m missing anything, let me know. I’m excited to see what cool models people put together for this fun event.