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The Innaugural Eldar POC Battle Report competition!!
« on: September 22, 2013, 03:21:00 PM »
Welcome to the inaugural Eldar PoC Battle Report competition.

We among the Autarchs and Farseers thought it was about time to open up a competition.  We want to start this PoC rolling on its way to becoming the best Eldar entertainment and information page on the WWW.

Presently the largest topic of discussion on the POC has been about the qualities of a good battle report and finding ways in which we can increase the number of Eldar orientated reports appearing for our enjoyment and mutual benefit. Therefore it seems appropriate that this competition follows


The Rules Bit:
1)   Battle reports must be written by the Eldar player from the Eldar point of view.

2)   Standard battle report niceties to be followed.  Full lists for both armies, mission and deployment.

3)   The style of the report is entirely up to you.  Whether you give us a blow by blow account or a dramatized version or even a tactics driven version is up to you.  (We advise against video reports for now but may include them for submission in future competitions.) 

4)   Don’t skimp, we don’t want to see just a brief summary or overview of the result.  We want detail and lots of it.   

5)   Put your own signature on it, make it yours.  Wyddr uses Jpeg maps, Koval writes a story.  Make it unique to you somehow if you can.

6) Sign yourself up here on this thread.  Your report must be posted as per forum rules in the Battle Reports section.

7) Once you have posted your report then edit your signing up post on here with a link to your report.

8 ) The competition runs as of NOW until midnight GMT 31st October 2013

9) The reports will be judged by a panel of judges who are currently being assembled (prodded until they agree).


The Prizes and The Glory

Prizes are on offer for 1st, 2nd and 3rd places.
1st – +3 Rune points
2nd - +2 Rune points
3rd – +1  Rune point
These points will be in addition to the 3 points you will earn ordinarily through posting an Eldar Battle Report and linking it to the POC

Furthermore those top three reports will then be archived in the POC Crystal Library for all to look at in the future.


Some guidance from the Judges.

Judge 1: Good presentation, I suppose. I don't want to see a wall of text, I want to see something that's presented nicely and is easy to read and follow.I'd also want to see something suitably descriptive, so more than "I rolled a 6 and destroyed Bob's Rhino".

Photos are optional but highly advisable so that we can A) see the highlights B) get a general impression of the battle itself. Beyond that... make it fun.


Judge 2: Personally I look for a clear and concise report that isn't too wordy and doesn't try to describe every single shot and assault.

There are quite a few different styles that all work well.
I'd say it really needs to contain pictures (though actually I've read some great ones without).



I Look forward to seeing your submissions.  Good-luck and Enjoy
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Re: The Innaugural Eldar POC Battle Report competition!!
« Reply #1 on: September 22, 2013, 07:06:36 PM »
I'm really looking forward to this.
As much as anything this will be a really good way to see how people's play style has progressed over the last few months of dealing with the new codex.
And also batreps are always fun....

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Re: The Innaugural Eldar POC Battle Report competition!!
« Reply #2 on: September 23, 2013, 06:31:52 AM »
Dargh! If I wasn't in the middle of moving house I'd be all over this!

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Re: The Innaugural Eldar POC Battle Report competition!!
« Reply #3 on: September 23, 2013, 02:03:51 PM »
Out of curiosity, do these have to be 40K batreps, or can we write about Specialist Games (Inquisitor, Necromunda, Epic, BFG) as well?

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Re: The Innaugural Eldar POC Battle Report competition!!
« Reply #4 on: September 23, 2013, 04:39:43 PM »
Out of curiosity, do these have to be 40K batreps, or can we write about Specialist Games (Inquisitor, Necromunda, Epic, BFG) as well?

Yes 40K only this time around.  The emphasis on the POC at the moment is on examining the difference in play style between 5th and 6th ed and the best way to do this is to observe other people playing Eldar in 40k.

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Re: The Innaugural Eldar POC Battle Report competition!!
« Reply #5 on: September 24, 2013, 10:07:46 AM »
To clarify (because I'm a pedantic little amphetamine parrot)  This has to be a Battle report with the author being the Eldar commander... ???
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Re: The Innaugural Eldar POC Battle Report competition!!
« Reply #6 on: September 24, 2013, 10:17:27 AM »
To clarify (because I'm a pedantic little amphetamine parrot)  This has to be a Battle report with the author being the Eldar commander... ???

It looks pretty clear cut to me ;):

1)   Battle reports must be written by the Eldar player from the Eldar point of view.
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Re: The Innaugural Eldar POC Battle Report competition!!
« Reply #7 on: September 24, 2013, 10:42:23 AM »
Yeah and then Kovel when and muddied the waters...  :P

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Re: The Innaugural Eldar POC Battle Report competition!!
« Reply #8 on: September 24, 2013, 10:51:50 AM »
Yeah and then Kovel when and muddied the waters...  :P

More like he was talking about a different pond....

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Re: The Innaugural Eldar POC Battle Report competition!!
« Reply #9 on: September 28, 2013, 12:45:58 AM »
Oh boy!! Well I'm in. May have to get with y'all for posting help but think this will be a good time. Also about time for me to learn how to do some of this computer stuff. And stupid question time, do all the models need to be painted for a visual report?
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Re: The Innaugural Eldar POC Battle Report competition!!
« Reply #10 on: September 28, 2013, 03:07:17 AM »
This looks like it should be good. I've been away from my Eldar for an absolute aeon (ashamed to say I haven't even bought the new codex yet!) so it would be really beneficial for me to see exactly how the newer stuff can work together.

I'd like to remind everyone that just because this is a battle report writing competition, I don't think the judges would be looking for the "best win". You can write a great report and lose the battle - so I'm looking forward to seeing some engaging posts and hopefully learning a few things!


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Re: The Innaugural Eldar POC Battle Report competition!!
« Reply #11 on: September 28, 2013, 09:56:29 AM »
I'd like to remind everyone that just because this is a battle report writing competition, I don't think the judges would be looking for the "best win". You can write a great report and lose the battle - so I'm looking forward to seeing some engaging posts and hopefully learning a few things!
All my report are written like this, searching for that elusive "best win"  :-\

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Re: The Innaugural Eldar POC Battle Report competition!!
« Reply #12 on: October 4, 2013, 05:26:13 AM »
@Dread... No its not a requirement to have every model on both armies painted, nor even your own things.  This competition is about being inclusive for everyone and not limited through petty restrictions.  Of course it would be great if everything was painted but I realise this is not always possible.

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Re: The Innaugural Eldar POC Battle Report competition!!
« Reply #13 on: October 4, 2013, 11:34:47 PM »
Cool, got it. Now to get a game.....
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Re: The Innaugural Eldar POC Battle Report competition!!
« Reply #14 on: October 15, 2013, 08:33:47 AM »
There are, give or take, fifteen days left for you all to enter.  That should, hopefully, be sufficient time.  It would be good to see some entries.
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Re: The Innaugural Eldar POC Battle Report competition!!
« Reply #15 on: October 17, 2013, 12:39:20 PM »
I was just about to come and gently nudge this thread and see if we have had any takers as of yet.  Sad to see that we don't!  Come on people

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Re: The Innaugural Eldar POC Battle Report competition!!
« Reply #16 on: October 18, 2013, 02:04:42 AM »
I have a game coming up this weekend. Will do my best to get one up. Just trying to come up with a list I'm happy with.
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Re: The Innaugural Eldar POC Battle Report competition!!
« Reply #17 on: October 18, 2013, 05:40:32 AM »
This sounds like fun. I haven't made a batrep in a long time as I don't get to play many games these days however I'll try and submit something for this.

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Re: The Innaugural Eldar POC Battle Report competition!!
« Reply #18 on: October 22, 2013, 03:01:09 PM »
I hope you both manage to get a game in and write up the report.  9 days remaining should be plenty of time

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Re: The Innaugural Eldar POC Battle Report competition!!
« Reply #19 on: October 22, 2013, 10:38:15 PM »
Well we played this weekend but I didn't use my beloved elder. We were doing 40k in 40 minutes with 400 pts. So I do have a game set up before time is up and will get it done unless something un-foreseen happens. Thought a 400 pt game just wasn't worthy. But our 2k game will be perfect for it.


                                                                             


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