Operation Bear 2024 - Melbourne’s First Third Edition Bolt Action Event
Schedule
Sun Oct 27 2024 at 07:45 am
UTC+10:00Location
The Gaming Verse - 51 Queen Street, Melbourne 3000 | Melbourne, VI
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Operation Bear 2024 Player PackA Melbourne based, 3 game
1033 point Bolt Action Event
Welcome to Operation Bear 2024!
With the release of Bolt Action Third Edition, we are pleased to announce that Operation Bear will be Melbourne’s first Third Edition, Bolt Action event. Traditionally Operation Bear has been a semi-competitive tournament style event. Given that we will all be learning the new rules at the same time, this year will be a much more casual, hobby focussed. It is less about winning and more about discovering how the new game works as a community.
Bear 2024 will be held at The Gaming Verse in Melbourne’s CBD on Sunday, October 27th.
Operation Bear will continue to be a universally accessible Bolt Action event, in that we would like this event to fit all kinds of players. This is especially the case since we are essentially new players of this game. This event is for everyone and we ask that all players consider the fun of their opponent before submitting lists and while playing games.
Location:
The Gaming Verse
51 Queen St
Melbourne, VIC 3000
(03) 9600 0705
Contact Information:
For more information please see the Facebook event, any queries will be covered off there.
Timings:
Please be on time for this event. Registration for paid players opens at 8:45 AM on the 27th of October. Games will begin at 9:15 AM sharp. Please pay and submit your list prior to the first day of this event.
Army Lists:
As we are all basically learning the game at the same time, we ask that players turn in their lists using Excel or a similar document at least a week prior to the event. While we would like players to experiment and take lists that they like, we would ask that players be mindful of their opponents and their enjoyment when submitting lists.
We would like to encourage people to experiment and play with lists that are fun to play with and to play against. This is NOT a win at all costs event. The TO’s reserves the right to ask players to resubmit army lists that are considered... perhaps "too hard" for the spirit of the event.
If you are unsure, please ask.
• All armies for this event should be no larger than 1033 points.
• Forces may be made up using the Force Selection rules starting on page 182 of the Bolt Action Third Edition rulebook.
• Amies may include as many rifle platoons as players want but for this event, we are asking that players include no more than one of each of the other platoon types (e.g. no more than one engineer platoon and no more than one armoured platoon).
If you have any questions please ask.
ARMY LISTS ARE DUE (by midnight) on October 20th.
Please email them to: whatisabattle (at) gmail (dot) com
Awards:
Given the purpose of the event, we will only have 3 trophies on offer.
Best Sportsman (for the player that folks most liked playing)
Best Painted Army (as determined by players in the event)
Best Themed Army (as determined by the TO, if your army has a theme make sure this is communicated to the TO)
You will notice that there are no awards for winning games at this event. This is intentional. The purpose of this event is to come together as a community to learn the rules and have fun. Given the flexibility of listing in Third Edition, it is the perfect time to consider how you could tailor a force to suit a particular unit in history or at a specific battle and be in contention for the Best Themed Army award.
There will be a large prize pool for this event. Prizes will be randomly drawn and ideally everyone will get a nice prize for coming. Again, winning games will have no impact on prizes or trophies for this event.
Games:
Operation Bear is a one day, three game event. Each round will go for 2 and a half hours. In Round One, players will be chosen at random but grudges are possible at player request.
We will be running missions out of the new Bolt Action rulebook. Everyone will be playing the same mission each round. These will feature a wide range of deployment and victory conditions.
We will be posting the missions for this event on this event’s Facebook Page after all the lists for the event have been turned in.
For those wondering, we will be tracking wins and loses at this even, only to set up who plays who each round but these will not be used for any other reason.
Registration:
To register please buy your ticket from the Gaming Verse website:
https://www.thegaming-verse.com.au/products/bolt-action-op-bear-ticket
There will be a 24 player cap for this event.
For this event you will need:
• Warlord order dice (rounded edges preferred) and enough six sided dice to play the game
• 3x40mm circular objective markers
• A tape measure
• The third edition rulebook
• Pin markers
• A pen and/or a pencil
• 3 print outs of your army list
• An appropriate dice bag
Sponsors:
We would like to thank our incredibly generous sponsors for this event:
The Cast Dice Podcast network has donated half of the prizes for this event. Please consider checking out the many podcasts on that network the next time you fancy listening to a show on your travels or during your downtime.
The War and Peace gang have once again generously provided prize support for this tournament. As the Australian distributor of Warlord games products they have a great selection of product AND have a super friendly and helpful staff that love to "talk shop." Give them a call or check them out online:
https://www.warandpeacegames.com.au/
We would also like to express our thanks to Warlord Games for writing such a great game system (Bolt Action) and for consistently providing great prize support for our events.
https://store.warlordgames.com/
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Where is it happening?
The Gaming Verse - 51 Queen Street, Melbourne 3000, 51 Queen St, Melbourne VIC 3004, Australia,Melbourne, Victoria, AustraliaEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
