BattleCry 2008 (Auckland) February

Auckland
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BattleCry

Weekend of the 8th, 9th and 10th February 2008

Freemans Bay Community Hall (same place as last time)
52 Hepburn Road, Freemans Bay, Auckland.

Weekend cost: $30
One Day cost: $20
(included in the Weekend and One Day costs are the Larp and Sat night Board Games)

Friday night Larp only or Sat night Board Games only: $5

If you pre-register and prepay before 28th January for the weekend or one day events, you get a $5 discount*
(*no discount for the Larp or Sat night $5 charge)

Tournaments available: (all 2 day unless indicated)
40K (1850pt)
25mm DBMM Doubles Medieval/Ancients
Victory at Sea
Warmachine/Hordes
Babylon 5 “A Call to Arms” miniatures**
6mm Moderns
Beach Bloodbowl (Sat daytime and evening only)
Magic the Gathering CCG (Sat only)
Vampire the eternal struggle(Jyhad) CCG
Legend of the 5 Rings CCG (Sun only)
Roleplaying (a huge range of games including RPGA sanctioned games, various systems and free-form system-less games)
Board Games evening (Sat night)
Diplomacy (New Zealand Championships) 3 sessions (Sat am, Sat night, Sun am)
Munchkin (Sat night only)

Other events include:
Friday night Larp at Freeman’s Bay Community Hall

Demonstration games throughout the weekend for people to join in and try out. These include Operation WW2 (Operation Overlord), Diplomacy, Babylon 5, Flames of War and numerous board games.
Sunday lunchtime paper sword battle with Alfs Imperial Army
Sunday night Pizza dinner and prize giving
Raffles and spot prizes.
Shop stalls during the weekend

There are heaps of prizes up for grabs. Check out our list of sponsors on our website.

Free door loot bags for everyone who attends with all sorts of goodies inside.

BattleCry Tshirts will be available for $25 each. Tshirt photo’s will be up on the website soon.

Special BattleCry Dice for sale. We have sets of 10xD6 dice for sale at $10 a set, these feature our BattleCry logo on the 1 side.

If you are interested in helping in any way, shape or form, please let me know. We will be needing help setting up, packing down, stuffing loot bags, sourcing goodies, advertising etc. If anyone knows of other clubs, shops, gaming places that might be interested in being involved that haven’t had me talk to them already, please let me know asap. Also if there are any other NZ events who would like to advertise for free through our loot bags, please email me.

Keep an eye on the America website here info@theamericaclub.net.nz

Regards,
Karen

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Yes, there is a Larp on Friday night. Cost to take part is $5 or if you are attending the tournaments then it’s included in the weekend price.

Cameron Burns is our organiser for this event.

More details as they come.

#3

The Show Must Go On

It’s New York. It’s the roaring 1920’s. It’s the height of the glitzy era of theatre. The World War is over and It’s the opening night of the new opera “The Terrible Tale of Lord Falminstien” on Broadway. It’s a musical extravaganza…in fact the show should be the talk of the town come tomorrow morning.

The LARP this year is a No-Combat Murder Mystery set in the 1920’s written by firsttime LARP writer Cameron Burns. The setting for the LARP will be the after party of an opening night performance. Pre-registration is encouraged as additional characters may have to be written. Costuming is Highly encouraged, But need not be spectacular, even if merely the level of collared shirt and dress pants.

#4

Think:

Chicago (this is probably the best one)

King Kong

The Untouchables

The opening squence of Indiana Jones and the Temple of doom

Anything set in the 1920’s/30’s

#5

LARP info not yet given out…

Character Hand Out and Briefing 6:30
Game start 7

Freemans bay hall

#6

I’ve got some photos from before Friday night’s game:

http://picasaweb.google.com/silver.owl/TheShowMustGoOn

#7

It will be a long time before I write another pre-gen’d LARP…

#8

[quote=“Cameron”]It will be a long time before I write another pre-gen’d LARP…[/quote]I’m sure it will be wonderful. :slight_smile:

#9

It was a hell of a lot of fun

#10

Here’s an article Breakfast did on Battlecry (though it seems to focus largely on larping)

youtube.com/watch?v=V00aEb9LIz4

#11

Awesome work Cameron.

Yeah, the Breakfast people wanted something more visual than a bunch of people sitting round a table with bits of paper… or miniatures. I thought the interview went pretty well…