Our new national gaming venue is located in Mansfield, England which is right in the centre of the UK, and easily accessible from Europe via several major airports, as well as all road and rail links from entry ports on the east and south coasts of the country.

The event brings teams of 4 players working together to compete for the title of 2010 Hordes and Warmachine European Team Champions. Each member of your team plays 5 games over the weekend and at the end of each game the scores are added together to get a ‘team’ score. Teams then get drawn against each other using the Swiss system. Members from the UK tournament scene Team Octopii are to be thanked for the concept and their hard work creating a working rules pack.

The tournament is open to teams from all over Europe and is expected to be hotly contested as teams battle it out to see exactly who does “have a pair!”

This event has been sanctioned by Privateer Press as their official team event for Europe, and there are a lot of very experienced people working hard behind the scenes to bring this event to reality.

There are tons of fantastic prize support throughout this event and Privateer Press themselves are providing some really cool and unique prizes for the winners.

More details will unfold as the weeks pass by, in the meantime follow the links on the Maelstrom site to get your team tickets. They are on sale from tomorrow Friday March 5th.

In first place, and the holder of the first ever Hordes and Warmachine European Team Challenge title we have

Team Sprocket from Belgium - Dirk Pintjens, Tommy Geuns, Peter Gaublomme and Wout Maerschalck

Second place brings us another ''overseas'' team - the colourful Firestorm Fairies from Wales - Rob West, Martyn Jenkins, Patrick Vance and Ben Josling.

And in third place the first English team - the Bottle Bank Bodgers from London - John Snape, Conrad Gonsalves, Aaron Boyhan and Chris Wood.

The Most Sporting Team were the Iron Kings from Exeter way - Fred Cock, Thomas Brine, Craig Read and Dave Perks.

The Best Painted Team went to the Dragon Slayers B, home grown here in Mansfield - Rob Lane, Tim Fisher, Dan Melia and Adam Gray.

The Best Themed Team were the Coalition Of Greatness - Kev Martin, Andrew Martin, Kev Beadle and Dean Winson who hail from the Nottingham area.

The individual Best Painted Army award went to JTY and his superb Khador army.

Kev Bryant won the Best Objective Marker and Martyn Jenkins got a special award for ''beating the Maelstrom Knight!''.

The Best in Factions were;-

Cygnar - Tommy Geuns
Circle - Dirk Pintjens
Cryx - Peter Gaublomme
Khador - Wout Maerschalck
Menoth - Ben Josling
Legion - Patrick Vance
Retribution - Chris Woods
Skorne - John Snape
Trolls - Tom Brine
Mercs - Dave Perks

The special Wooden Spoon Award went to the members of the Black Border Gaming Force - Piet Pynket, Dominique Majoie, Olivier Decru and
Jasper Decru.

Celebrity Craig was here at the weekend too.

Celebrity Craig!

Clipboards required!!

Pulled a Fairy from a Firestorm!

The Susans will definitely be back for more next year!

I've just gotten in and taken the pictures from my camera - they're currently all hosted on a Dakka gallery, over here - http://www.dakkadakka.com/gallery/image … 02010.html

Enjoy!

What pictures did other people get?

Table

1    David Bartley vs Nick Roberts   
2    Ian Gill vs Tim Lawrence
3    Andy Przybyla vs     Jonathan Pickles   
4    Craig Johnson vs Matthew Cole

VT Vauxhall Conference Division Team vs Team Shenanigans

5    Chris Taylor vs Phil Manwaring   
6    Ian Jones vs Henry Clark
7    Ian Hapgood vs Annie Marie Manwaring   
8    Sabeel Javaid vs Kev Bryant

Team Avalanche vs The Coalition Of Greatness

9     Ed Smith vs Kev Beadle
10    Robert Cornell vs Kev Martin
11    Paul Watson vs Dean Winson   
12    Dan Kirk vs Andrew Martin

Team Susan vs Team Portbury Knights

13    Rich Baker vs Chris Roberts
14    Felix Hughes vs Andy Wright
15    Sam Dale vs Adam Stone   
16    Richard Turner vs Mike Harvey   

Team "Has anyone seen my pair?" vs The Black Border Gaming Force

17    Austin Pickles vs Piet Pynket   
18    Andy Garrard vs Jasper Decru
19    Mark Coultas vs Olivier Decru   
20    Andy McBirnie vs Dominique Majoie   

Team Epic Flail vs Team Roughnecks

21    Phil Shaw vs Rob Evans   
22    Tom Fretwell vs Marcus Gill   
23    Liam Jordan vs Richard Dean
24    Brett Wilkie     vs JTY   

Dragon Slayers B vs The Inglorius B*stards

25    Rob Lane vs Nicholas Johnson
26    Adam Gray vs Andres Olivares
27    Dan Melia vs Sam Sedghi
28    Tim Fisher vs Simon Robinson

Dragon Slayers vs Team Firestorm Fairies

29    Rich Paget vs Ben Josling   
30    Nathan Hoole vs Martyn Jenkins
31    The Mysterious Mr X vs Patrick Vance
32    Ash Mitchell vs Rob West

Team Maelstrom Minions vs Team CGC Awesomesaurs

33    The Muffin Man vs Tom Hutchings
34    Chris Wooley vs Alejandro Ball   
35    Andrew Galea vs Vishal Odedra
36    Jonathan Rooney     vs Marcus Steffen   

Team Sprocket vs The Viet Taff

37    Peter Goublomme vs Phil Johansson
38    Dirk Pintjens vs John Johansson
39    Tommy Geuns vs Alun Evans   
40    Wout Maerschalck vs Christopher Reavley   

Marple Marauders vs The Ninth Legion

41    Gerry Brawley vs Alex Speight   
42    Mark Muslek vs Graham Allington   
43    Tom Mawdsley vs Conrad Betts   
44    Tony Moore vs Gavin Beckitt   

Team Quattro Formaggio vs The Bottle Bank Bodgers

45    Kevin Johnson vs John Snape   
46    Steven Bowditch vs Chris Wood   
47    Martin Bowditch vs Conrad Gonsalves   
48    Stanhope Crooks vs Aaron Boyhan   

The Iron Kings vs The Cheeseheads

49    Craig Read vs Jurn De Ruijter   
50    Thomas Brine vs Quint De Ruijter   
51    Fred Cock vs Rob Kneepkens   
52    Dave Perksvs Sankher Amarakoon

I know the Dutch are coming And I recognised another team from Belgium (as is ours, TBBGF).
But where do all the other teams come from? (It is te ETC after all...)

Njoy,
Piet

Enjoy

I've just spoken to a friend of the players for Team Roughnecks and they are a player down due to unforseen circumstances.

If there are any players at all who want to get in on this awesome event at the last minute please dont hessitate to reply here or PM me. They already have tickets and hotel booked all you have to do is say, yes I have a free weekend and yes I have a painted 50 point warmachine/hordes army and away we go.

Jamie

would like to see if its not too late the maelstrom bar could stock either Bulmers Pear cider or Magners Pear cider, i know i wasn't the only one drinking such a drink at the nationals and am sure it would be a great success.

cheers

Faction                Number         # of Casters          # of Tier lists
Khador                     18                    9                         2
Cryx                         17                    8                         1
Cygnar                     14                    7
Protectorate              11                   6
Trolls                        10                   6
Retribution                  9                   4
Mercs                         8                   5
Legion                        7                   3
Circle                         6                    4
Skorne                       4                   4
   
total                       104

Runner up prizes...

Nearly the winner prizes... (close but no cigar!)

And for the winning winners... (fanfare please!)

So, we have signed posters showing the Prime MKII cover art, uncut mark 2 cards and totally unique PP event banners, all of which will be framed. Plus loads of other random stuff of course. There also might be the odd Maelstrom swirl trophy to accompany the prize support as well. Oh, and bragging rights of course !!

Knock yer socks off!