WELCOME TO THE THUNDERDOME!

1.0 Event Rules 1.1 Thunderdome List Construction Rules o Thunderdome is a multiplayer format that supports anywhere from 4 to 8 players at a time. o Each players army consists of only three models: three Warcasters/Warlocks (hereafter referred to collectively as Casters) from the same faction. There are no warjacks, warbeasts, solos, units, or anything else in play.

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Warlocks use the mechanics for Focus instead of Fury they gain their full Fury value at the start of the turn, and overcharge instead of transferring.

Ignore Pacts and Contracts when constructing your pool. Each Caster choice can only ever bring one model to the table. No Halfjacks, no Keg Carrier, only one Coven member, Goreshade has no feat, etc. Yes, this makes some casters a bad choice in the format. The Casters are considered to share a battlegroup.

1.2 Additional Rules Game Board: The board is a circle 3ft in diameter. The outer rim is divided into eight deployment zones; each player chooses a deployment zone through democratic elbowing, and may deploy models up to 3 from that zones board edge. o Friendly Neighbors: Take note of the players who deploy in the spaces adjacent to you. You cannot damage or otherwise affect that players Casters in any way until that player has killed an enemy model. (In other words, youll need to walk a bit to find your first victim) o Combat Has Consequences: Models cannot be healed (exception: models with Tough can still heal 1 point on a successful roll), cannot be repaired, and cannot regenerate power fields in any way. Once damage is inflicted, it cannot be removed. o Spite Turns: Once all of a players Casters have been eliminated, that player continues to have turns. Whenever that players turn comes up, he may select one model anywhere on the board and place it anywhere completely within 3 of its current location. That models controller may then turn that model to face any direction. If the owner of that model attempts to influence your choice of where to move that model in any way, you may instead place that model anywhere on the board and turn it to face any direction of your choosing. You are encouraged to put it in the most precarious and/or disruptive location you can possibly think of, and then smile coldly at the folly of the models owner. 1.3 Timing o Warcaster Thunderdome is intended to be a very fast format. While there are no timed turns per se, players should be punished with badgering and verbal abuse if they play slowly or waste time strategizing . Plan on your opponents turn when its your turn, GO! 1.4 Scenarios o Custom Thunderdome scenarios will be used. Thunderdome scenarios reward advancing toward the center of the board, and harshly punish hanging at the back. o All scenarios are played on a circular board 3ft in diameter. Utterly impenetrable walls separate each players deployment zone. o Players score a Skull for each enemy caster they kill or remove from play. The player with the most Skulls at the end of the game is the winner (even if that player was eliminated before the end of the game). 1.5 Player Responsibilities o Each player must bring his/her own dice, rulers, templates, counters, markers and other accessories. Players are responsible for having Front Arcs clearly marked on all models in their army. o Thunderdome strains the very definition of purely for fun. If you find yourself complaining about anything, you are doing it wrong.

2.0 Specific Caster Modifications & Exceptions o 2.1 Cryx pGoreshade: No Deathwalker; feat does nothing. Witch Coven: One FOC3 witch, no Egregore. CTRL centered on your one Witch. Mortenebra: No Derelyss. 3Gaspy: No Vociferon. o 2.2 Cygnar Darius: No halfjacks. 3Nemo: No Finch. o 2.3 Khador Old Witch: No Scrapjack. 3Butcher: No puppies. o 2.4 Menoth Reznik: Can wrack other casters (because wracks are awesome), but wracks are incorporeal and purely decorative they have no game rules. o 2.5 Retribution none o 2.6 Cyriss Directrix: No servitors. o 2.7 Mercenaries none o 2.8 Circle Kromac: Can change forms normally (only one model is in play at a time). Cassius: No tree. CTRL is centered on Cassius. o 2.9 Legion eThagrosh: Cant spawn a lesser warbeast. Bethayne: Can begin melded or unmelded; decide at deployment, and then she remains that way for the entire game. o 2.10 Skorne

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Zaal: If you can figure out a way to get the Kovaas into play, be my guest. 3Makeda: No ancestral guardians. 2.11 Trollbloods Borka: No keg carrier. Hunters Grim: No pygs. 2.12 Minions none

3.0 Tournament-Specific Rules We usually play Thunderdome in single games just to kill time, but if youd like to run it as a full-fledged tournament, heres how I suggest handling list-building between rounds: 3.1 Caster Pool: o Each player will bring a pool of FIVE Casters with them to the event. o Uniqueness applies your pool can only include one version of any named character. o Each round, each player selects three casters from their pool to play that round. o A caster cant be selected for the 2nd time until all other casters in the pool have been played once, and so on. Heres an example of the list selection table that will be on the score sheets, and how it might look after four rounds: Caster 1st Use 2nd Use 3rd Use pCaine 1 3 4 Kara 1 3 4 Siege 1 2 pHaley 2 3 pStryker 2 4 Every caster needs a 1st use before you can go into the 2nd column; picking Haley and Stryker in round 2 frees up the three casters you used in round 1, letting you splash over and take Siege again.