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Firestorm is being used. The new FAQ from games workshop clears up exactly what that means.
Also,
40k pack - https://bloodandglory.baddice.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Bad_Dice_40k_Champs_RP.pdf
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Use Genius Scan or Scanbot.
both are fast and accurate. plenty more are available though
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if people want access I can dish it out, but we had issues early on with the open doc getting messed with. a few moderators would be great to keep it updated
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AoS rules pack is up!
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will be done by 7 for sure. Probably more like 6.30 but that might be pushing it to see awards and get to your train.
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Yes they will be on sale for sure.
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Entry lists updated on page 2.
AoS 85
Achievements 15
40k 67
HH 20
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So the cat is out of the bag.
SHADESPIRE WILL BE AT BLOOD AND GLORY!
Games Workshop announced today that Blood and Glory will be having Shadespire events.
Full details of these events will be revealed over the next few weeks but tickets are on sale now for events running on Friday afternoon and Saturday evening. This will fit around the Age Of Sigmar championships so you can take part in both.
Get Shadespire Tickets at http://bloodandglory.baddice.co.uk/shop
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SHUT UP AND TAKE MY MONEY!!!!!!
p.s. I'm up for this!
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Entry lists updated. up to 75 for Age of Sigmar so far.
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Armies, but whatever makes you happy
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What are you guys bring over with you?
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lol, that won't happen! Glad to have you here!!
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There is no limit at the moment, but as it gets closer to the event I will be capping systems that are less popular and offering other ones, basically using the allocated space to give other games a chance
Blood Bowl is probably the top of that list
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I have posted the entry lists to the Blood and Glory website.
I'll update the first post too.
60 Players for AoS so far. 140 players across all systems so far. Its going to be a cracking event!
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I'll be posting the entrants lists this week. Been a bit busy the last couple!
Back on track now baby is here and settled
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We recorded an episode of Bad Dice with Mark and Stave last night! Really excited about the event and seeing what GHB2 beings to the game.
@Stevewren is building some amazing tabes for Warhammer Achievements.
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If you need any help with travel plans on the UK side let me know and I will try and assist
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You totally should come! it would be awesome to have you.
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Rules Packs
Age Of Sigmar Championships - TBC
Warhammer 40k 8th Edition - TBC
Horus Heresy Rulespack - https://bloodandglory.baddice.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/First-Blood.pdf
Achievements Rulespack - https://bloodandglory.baddice.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Warhammer-Achievements-5-Rules-Pack.pdf
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I'm really happy with how tickets are going.
Age of Sigmar 101
Warhammer Achievements 16
Warhammer 40k 76
Horus Heresy 23
Shadespire 36
We have sold over 250 tickets across all systems. This will make us the largest Games Workshop events tournament in the UK right now! With only a couple of months left until the event its not too late to still get involved.
If you are already coming then help us out but telling all your friends about Blood and Glory!
The full list of players can be found below.
Warhammer 40k
Pavandip Aujla
Mark Gebhard
james karch
Robert Crouchley
Alex Harrison
Timothy KING
Mark Borland
Luke barwick
James Smith
Darryl Steventon
Zachary Becker
Paul Wallis
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Mark O'Sullivan
Emmet Keane
+1
James O'Brien
Andrew Foot
gareth roberts
+1
Matthew Jarvis
+1
Matthew Jarvis
Dean Murphy
John Ellison
+1
Paul Robson
Matthew Elliott
Liam Callebout
+1
Mark McKay
Simon Stocks
Shaun Molyneux
Nicholas Tyrrell
Daniel Davies
anthony chew
Mark Waterhouse
+1
Craig Shephard
Ricky Molyneux
James Harding
David Hanson
Simon Hyett
Colm McCarthy
Elliot Haugh
matt morgan
+1
Garry A Burgess
Byron Chatzis
Thomas Crowther
jack mathews
Chris Gilbert
Ben Pritchard
Liam Jordan
Dom Sutherns
mark crombleholme
Brett Armitage
Scott Robertson
Alexandros Nikolopoulos
Alex Cable
MARK POCOCK
david Calder
Leo Kyprianou
donald yoxall
adam ryland
Thomas Lawler
Eric Hoerger
Chris Brand
Euan Bedford-Cooper
Douglas Price
Edwin Heapy
Oliver Rowley
Alan Wilkinson
Christopher Nettleship
Harry Hailwood
John Holland
Warhammer Age Of Sigmar
Dan Shaw
peter scholey
John Southgate
Richard Elsdon
andrew bryan
Adam Rawson
Joseph Mather
Carl Martin
Terry Pike
Thomas Fldes
paul haley
John Poole
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Paul Whitehead
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Andrew Woods
james allen
+1
Stephen Curtis
Jon Barwise
Morten Winkel
Alexander Hansen
Michael Biggs
Alasdair Hutchinson
Kristoffer Mallberg
Henrik Salomonsen
Stephen Curtis
Carl Kennard
gareth roberts
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Erik Sundberg
Adam Rawson
Shane Hurley
Lawrence East
Darren Watson
christopher myhill
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Eirik Lanes
christopher myhill
Stephen Sanderson
James Hayday
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Adrian McWalter
James Warth
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Max Halford
Clinton Liem
Vincent Cintamani
miles hewitt
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Peter Myhill
marc wilson
Paul Buckler
Ian Spink
Jason Hodgkinson
James Tinsdale
Matthew Arnold
Stephen Watson
Ric Nightingale
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Andy Dunn
Anthony Magro
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Will Barton
sean mckechnie
Thomas Fretwell
Jack Mayland
Joe McGough
Rob Boyce
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Liam Cook
Simon Partridge
Sam Davies
ARTHUR TREITL
Rob Bradley
Les Martin
Lewis Swan
Bruce Mcguff
matt cave
Russ Veal
Nicky Martin
+1
Gary Percival
Joey Logan
Simon Weakley
Christopher Eaves
Tomasz Namielski
ian crew
Craig Namvar
Tony Moore
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Mike Burgess
A J Frazer
Justin Schenck
Craig Chesters
james ramsay
Chris Green
Dan Mitchell
kane holloway
Thomas Bell
Horus Heresy
Ben Williams
Thomas Whitbrook
Tom Stallard
Andrew O'Reilly
Thom Willis
Alistair McGregor
Aaron Tunney
Michael Farrell
+1
Colin MacLeod
Robert Ing
Brett Packham
Joseph Landy
Justin Hill
James Brown
Robert Hoyle
Graham Mills
+1
Tom Hall
+1
Joseph Landy
Sam Shaw
Matt Smith
Warhammer Achievements
Declan Waters
Steve Foote
Ben Foote
Tim Fisher
Mark Paddon
Ian Gilmore
M. Onerdonk
Nick Peart
Andy Davis
tom bridges
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Ben Smith
Nicholas Thompson
Nigel Bartlett
Craig Dolan
Ben Johnson
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For details of local hotels
Local Hotels for Blood and Glory 2017
Blood and Glory has moved venue to the amazing Roundhouse in Derby.
We are very close to the Derby Train Station and surrounded by hotels. Here is a list of the closest places to stay.
Event Location – The Round House, Roundhouse Road, Pride Park, Derby DE24 8JE Hotel Address Price per night Distance Website Holiday Inn Express Wheelwright Way, Pride Park, Derby, DE24 8HX, United Kingdom £53 0.4 mile Click Here Holiday Inn Riverlights Morledge, Derby, DE1 2AY, £51 1 mile Click Here Premier Inn The Wyvern, Stanier Way, Derby DE21 6BF £30 – £45 1.7 miles Click Here Premier Inn Morledge, Derby, Derbyshire DE1 2BB £30 – £45 1 mile Click Here Premier Inn Full Street, Derby, Derbyshire DE1 3AF £30 – £46 1.6 miles Click Here Midland Hallmark Midland Road, Derby, DE1 2SQ £100 0.7 mile Click Here Jurys Inn Kings Street, Derby, DE1 3DB £50 – £75 1.8 miles Click Here The Stewart 119 London Road, Derby, DE1 2QR £49 – £79 0.8 mile Click Here Cathedral Qtr 16 St Mary’s Gate, Derby, DE1 3JR £60 1.9 miles Click Here Derby Conf Centre London Road Alvaston, Derby DE24 8UX £65 1.2 miles Click Here Travelodge Cricket Ground The County Ground, Nottingham Road, Derby, Derbyshire DE21 6DA £34 – £55 1.7 miles Click Here Travelodge Pride Park Prospect Place, Millenium Way, Pride Park, Derby DE24 8HG £34 – £55 1 mile Click Here Aston Court Hotel Midland Road, Derby, DE1 2SL £39 – £46 0.7 mile Click Here Other useful booking sites www.laterooms.com www.hotels.com www.booking.com www.lastminute.com -
Event Title: Blood and Glory 2017 - Bad Dice Gaming Convention
Event Author: Ben
Calendar: Events UK
Event Date: 11/03/2017 12:00 AM to 11/05/2017 12:00 AM
Hi everyone.
I want to share with you all the details for Blood and Glory 2017.
THE BAD DICE GAMING CONVENTION
——BLOOD AND GLORY 2017——
THE ROUND HOUSE, DERBY, UK
EUROPE’S BIGGEST AOS AND 40k EVENTS
This is the 5th year we have ran Blood and Glory the event is being turned up to 11! We have brand new spectacular venue and will be expanding to include not only Age of Sigmar but also 40k and Horus Heresy.
I posted a podcast about the event here - http://baddice.co.uk/blood-glory-tickets-sale-now-aos-daily-100/ and you can also check out the video we recorded at the venue.
This event is set to be the biggest and best Bad Dice event yet. We have an amazing new venue that can hold up to 700 players and we intend to fill it!
The Age of Sigmar and 40k Matched Play GT’s are going to be huge but we also have plenty going on for players who prefer Narrative and Open play.
Warhammer Achievements is a Age of Sigmar Narrative play event and we are welcoming the Imperial Truth team who are running a Horus Heresy narrative event.
So if you want to test your AoS and 40k skills against the best players in the world, see amazing painted models and hang out for a weekend of gaming then grab a ticket before they sell out.
GET TICKETS HERE
Event Information
Date: 3/4/5 NOVEMBER 2017
Location: THE ROUNDHOUSE, ROUNDHOUSE ROAD, PRIDE PARK, DERBY, DE24 8JE
Systems: Age Of Sigmar, Warhammer 40k, Horus Heresy and more TBC
JOIN THE FACEBOOK GROUP
Warhammer Age of Sigmar – GET TICKETS HERE
Generals Handbook matched play
2000 Points Battlehost using Generals Handbook 2017 including ALLIES and new Allegiance abilities.
6 games, 2 day event.
Bad Dice Rankings EventRulespack - http://baddice.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/bloodandglory2017_AoS_Championships.pdf
Warhammer 40,000 – GET TICKETS HERE
New 40k Rules
Battleforged armies
2000 Points
6 games, 2 day event.
ITC Event
Horus Heresy – GET TICKETS HERE
Warhammer Achievements – Tickets at https://bloodandglory.baddice.co.uk/shop
Age of Sigmar Skirmish details to be released soon. All Day friday for open skirmish gaming.
Seminars, specialist games, Painting Contests and lots more to be announced.
More information to be revealed in the coming weeks.
It’s worth underlining the Bad Dice Team’s aim for this whole event. It goes without saying that we want everyone to leave having had an amazing weekend. We also want to give players new to the tournament scene the chance to jump in without feeling total out of their depth while giving the regulars an event that they will be more than happy to recommend to their friends and can’t wait to attend again the following year.
We want to celebrate all areas of the hobby but keep the competitive edge that is part of the fun of tournament gaming. My personal highlight from most of the events I have attended over the years is the social side. The events that stick in the memory are the ones that offer lots for the players to do and keeps them gathered in one place in the evenings. We will make sure that no matter your preference for a tournament evening, we should have something on offer to keep you entertained and having a great time. Between the Bad Dice team, and our huge list of advisors, helpers and contributors we have attended and organised 100’s of events, this lets us see what works well, what we like and dislike and what we want to bring to Blood & Glory.
The event is taking place at the Roundhouse in Derby. A beautifully renovated listed building that is the perfect setting for a gaming event.
The Bad Dice event ethos is firmly in place here, we want to see amazing armies on the best gaming tables with game mats and terrain on each board. Gamers of all levels of experience are welcome from total newcomers to the hobby right up to grizzled veterans, we have something for everyone.
http://roundhouse-events.co.uk
Check out the video below for a better look .
Questions?
If you have any questions at all about this event feel free to get in touch.
You can contact Ben all over the web!
Email – bencurry@baddice.co.uk
Twitter @baddice_podcast
Facebook – facebook.com/baddice
Instagram – @bencurry

Blood and Glory 2017 - Bad Dice Gaming Convention-
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Covering The Expanding Costs Of TGA
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Hi TGA.
UPDATE FOR 2020 FURTHER DOWN THREAD
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Back in feb (see below for original post) I gave a shout out for help to this amazing community which ultimately resulted in me being told the many varied and wonderful ways that you would all like to support the site.
The gist of this is that the site is getting very expensive to run (I’ve paid out over £3000 in the last 12 months) and as the community grows the costs are ever increasing.
I previously wrote about this in detail so I won’t go into it all again, but the response was just amazing!
Its taken me another 6+ months to get around to it, but over the next few weeks I will be introducing a 3 ways that will help cover the running costs of TGA.
I’ll talk here about how we will be doing this, and why I have chosen each of them.
After thinking about this long and hard, I have decided that I WILL be including display ads on the site. I was initially very much against doing this as the last thing I want is for the site to look like many other places online where you get bombarded with Ads.
However, if done right I think it can work very well.
I will be finding advertisers that are relevant to our community and working with them to help their business, which in-turn will better the community. It will also be a way for to support the site without forcing anyone to pay.
The amount of ads will be tiered. Guests will get lots, Registered members less. There will also be an option to ‘turn ads off’ by joining one of the premium membership groups, which leads me nicely onto the next bit…
Available right away is just a single membership group. I hope to expand this in future to offer higher and lower options for those that would like to give more and receive move value in return, and also for those who would like to support the site but are limited in what they can afford (or are willing) to pay. That is a further cost to get implemented so fo now we have a single membership group.
TGA Members - £5 per month
Sign up here - https://www.tga.community/subscriptions/
Donations are a simple and fuss free way of contributing. A one off payment, of any amount you like, however often you like.
Donate here - https://www.tga.community/clients/donations/
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In April I will have been running the The Grand Alliance Community forums for 2 years and in this time we have gone from a small group of users to an ever expanding membership that is currently flying towards 10000 total members.
As I type this we have 80 members logged in and browsing and another 100+ guests. Age of Sigmar communities from all over the worlds are using the site and contacting me with exciting news from their local areas all the time (AoS Maters evening in the Philippines is the latest!!!)
Because we are all nerds and love stats, here are a few highlights and some stats from google.
The Leaderboard - http://www.tga.community/topmembers/
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So the crux of all this is that its getting expensive to run.
2 years ago I started the website on a £30 monthly cloud hosting plan that included the cost of the software. I did all the work myself and hired in some help here and there where i needed to. During this time we have had some problems crop up here and there. Image hosting became an issue. The sheer number of photos that people were sharing exceeded the bandwidth that the cloud hosting offered so I had to set up Amazon hosting for the images, long term members might remember the loss of images but this has been resolved for quite some time now.
The next major obstacle was email. I set up a gmail account to handle all email that the forums send. This includes notifications and registrations. after a while i started getting emails from people who were unable to register. I traced this down to the fact that free accounts only allow so much email per day before placing a block so a proper transactional email service was brought in. Mail chimp and Mandrill. This is now costing as much as the actual forum software to maintain.
Where we are at now is monthly running costs of over $200, rising up every few months as the number of active uses on the site increase.
Costs at the moments are (all in USD):
Forum software and hosting. Currently $130 USD
Email service $63 for the plan and first 25000 emails. Further top ups of $18 per 25000 emails. most months this is 1 top up, but last months it was 2.
Amazon AWS S3 Hosting this varies on the amount of up and downloads but is usually $15-20
Total is somewhere between $225- $250 per month and varies a little month to month with the trend being a 25% increase each 1/4. If the rate stays the same as it has for the last 2 years in 12 months time it will be entirely unmanageable without help.
What I am looking for is suggestion and ideas from the community of covering these costs.
There are a few obvious options
1. Advertising.
I could easily load up the site with adverts and end up looking like Bell of Lost souls. There is a reason the site has had not ads from the start, and probably that same reason why its become so popular, no-one really wants this, it does however pay the bills.
This would like like selling banner adverts to anyone interested, and also promoting affiliate links.
This would also be quite labour intensive of chasing advertisers and making sales.
2. Members section.
I could open a premium membership level. It would have a monthly subscription. £2 per month. 100 members would see all the bills paid. thats 0.01% of registers users signing up.
What you would get is the features that the forum has available already but i don’t have the time/skills to put in place. I can spend time/money to get it set-up and it would be paid for by the first month or 2 of subscriptions, after that the bills will be covered each month.
More likes, better reputation system. better titles/profile system. Members only ‘off topic’ chat area. Groups and clubs system. Most of the things that regularly get requested.
Importantly this would be ‘bonus’ stuff. Not things that are essential to enjoying the community.
3. Patreon system.
4. A kickstarter
5. a mixture of all of the above.
6. any other suggestions?
So I am totally open to suggestions and ideas and would prefer the community to decide the best way to approach this.