Greetings fellow SWM community players!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yes, I know, it's super pre-mature, but with Gen Con approaching for many of you, I know there are many still, that can't make it to the Con this year. So, that leads me to the excitement for me and hopefully, many others that are excited to come to the Con next year. I was hoping to get a pulse check and to start the hype early, to get Epics back into the mix next year. Also, I wanted to see if anyone was interested in getting 2 more "Bounty Hunter" challenge characters going as well ( Yes, I know that lack of funding is the big one on this one )


1. & 2. Who is interested in either an Epic 500pt Tourney or an Epic Duos 200pt Tourney? Or perhaps, both?


3. Any interest in starting the design process on 2 "Bounty Hunter" challenge characters, that could be part of the design, playtest, and donation drive, to be released in time with the release of V-Set #16, and Gen Con 2018? The event would be 2 character cards that could be challenged individually in a 200 pt game, and won, by participants that challenge the "event master" in a 200pt game. This was done many years ago, and was incredible fun for all that participated. I would even volunteer to help in anyway possible ( design, playtest, donate, and even be one of the "gamemasters" at GenCon, fielding the 100pt "Bounty Hunter" challenge character/s.


Feel free to post other event ideas, as well, that you would like to see, but please give your opinions on my 3 event ideas. Thank you so much everyone. May the Force be with us all!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I will help design, play test, balance, find raise, etc for more bhc pieces. Practically anything, I love those pieces.

We need an OR piece (Nomi) and a Sith piece (VADER!!)


As for events, I am loving all of them. Just need to space them or with everything so I can play them all.

Epics will more than likely make an appearance at gencon 2018. It is tough to balance everything and write a schedule that appeals to everyone, but generally James tries to keep rotating stuff in and out as we have a limited number of time slots and lots of options for games anymore.

For instance there are basically 3 main time slots each day (ie 12 hours of gaming time is as much or more than most people want to do) and if an two minis specific events overlap it splits demand as most minis people would play in both.

So this year
Thursday AM -- nothing because people have always complained that it starts too early or they can't get to the dealer hall, etc.
Tursday afternoon/PM -- Champs

Fri AM -- Imperial Assault Tournament takes up all our space so no room for anything else
Fri afternoon -- Battle through the Ages
Fri Evening -- Team

Sat AM -- Casual/League uses up all of our space so no room for anything else
Sat afternoon -- Community Tournament AND Tile Wars get worked into the afternoon and early evening
Sat evening -- Royal Rumble

Sunday -- Sealed

So as you can see, it is tough to try and get stuff on the schedule as we do not have the time to run everything that everyone wants to play. And this doesn't count the fact that we worked to try and get a Galactic War type event on the schedule (but ultimately decided to try and push back to next year as there are many moving parts in something like that).

I'd play thursday morning as well in 2018! A matter of fact if I drive down there and could have done something at that time but didn't I would be upset on missing out on a potentially awesome time.

BHC Challenge all the way.
I will be a "Gamemaster" as well (as long as it doesn't cut into other play time)

I can't say for 100% but I am guessing that Deaths_Baine would want to maximize his time playing stuff as well.
Theultrastar is more talky talky (haha) so who knows.

I think we had 7 "kill-em-all and maybe gambit" minis events this year (i.e. excluding mass battles and scenarios like the Rakghouls or Death Race):

* Championships
* Through the Ages
* Team
* Casual
* Tile Wars
* Royal Rumble
* Sealed

Did I miss any?

Assuming we have 7 events again next year, I think Championships, Sealed, and Team are locks to appear again. Through the Ages and Casual seemed to cover just about the same ground in that they were pre-built squads. I could see them combined into one, but a pre-built squad event should definitely be included.

That would leave three slots for "special rules" tournaments such as:
* Royal Rumble
* Tile Wars
* Epic (500? Duo? Tile Wars?)
* Dynamic Duo/Triple Threat/Force Four/etc

Royal Rumble isn't my preference but it's very popular so would probably get a slot. Epics weren't present this year so they should probably make a return in some format (I'd vote for Epic 500). For the last slot I'd vote Tile Wars or Force Four.

heck if I could absolutely be sure I could be there I'd run BHC no problem.

Ahh, gotchya. Yeah, special scenario rules and prebuilt 'squads'.

Hopefully I will be be to attend more than 1 day for the first time next year.

Just asking here.
How many people would need to play too make it worth it?
If we are doing epics this year maybe bhc next year.
But I think if it is just a numbers issue, we can probably get the numbers

I also did a bit more digging. In 2014 we submitted a full slate of BHC events. GenCon cut us to one days worth, six 2 player sessions. We had 10/12 attendance. The real problem is this. At GenCon this year we had 20ish swm players. 2/4 of them would judge the event. The other 16 or so would play over 8 hours. In that time no other swm events could happen because a good percentage of our player pool is either GMing or playing BHC. So the real question is, which two swm events that we run now would we want to cut to make room for BHC?