What is Norcon

Norcon is the Premiere Northern California wargaming event.

Every year wargamers from all over California converge on Redding's "" park for two days of wargaming.

All gaming systems are allowed.  Events and tournaments are scheduled for all major gaming systems.

NorCon 2014
July 25th - 27th

  • Warhammer 40K Tournament

    in the 41st millenium, there is only war and the laughter of the thirsting gods...

     If you wish to play in this event please register.  Complete Information on rules, paint scoring, and composition can be found in the Downloads section of this website. 

    Rules Summary

    Rounds: 3
    Points: 1850
    Single Force Org
    Single Allied detachment
    Fortifications allowed
            You are allowed one Forgeworld Warhammer 40K approved unit in your main FOC. No Forgeworld fortifications or stationary turrets(units that cannot move on their own). A complete list of approved Forgeworld units will be posted at http://www.norcononline.com/forgeworldapproved.html No Forgeworld in your allied detachment. You must use a model to represent that is made up of at least 50% Forgeworld parts.

        Painting: Painting will be scored and added to your score for purposes of best overall. There will be prizes for painting as part of the Norcon painting awards. Separate prizes for painting will not be awarded by the tournament.

        Sportsmanship: Sportsmanship will be awarded with a simple thumbs up or thumbs down. If you mark thumbs down you will be asked to explain and if validated battle points will be deducted from the player receiving the thumbs down. All sportsmanship scoring is up to the discretion of the judge and the tournament organizer. Votes will be collected and counted for purposes of a best sport award.


        Tie-Breakers: Once again we will use the token based tie-breaker rules. Each player will be given 9 tokens that can be used at any time to re-roll a dice. Your opponent can use a token to stop you from re-rolling. This can continue back and forth until both players are out of tokens. At the end of the tournament tokens will be counted. If any awards result in a tie, the player with more tokens will be declared the winner. Players who preregister with a typed list will receive one additional token. You can preregister by sending an email with your list to matt@pandaros.com.

    Missions: Missions will be determined randomly from the book before each round. No mission will be played twice. Missions will be run as stated in the rule book with the scoring there.

    Tournament Format - Please Read

    This year's tourmanent will be campaign themed. The theme will have the following effects on the the tournament format. After all participants have been registered, all players will be split into two teams, the forces of order and the forces of disorder. Player's army race will be used to determine the team that they will join. Players from the forces of order will only play against players from the forces of disorder.

    1. There will be two best general awards. One for the forces of order and one for the best general of the forces of disorder.

    2. Missions will not be affected. Win conditions will be taken from the Warhammer 40K rulebook.

    3. There will be one best overall award, awarded to the best overall player from both teams.

    4. Each game table will represent a territory on a campaign map. After three rounds the team that won the most games on that table will gain control of that terriotory.

    5. There will be a show-case apoacalypse game starting at turn two in which tournament players will be able to contribute to by attaining campaign achievements. These achievements will not be tied to mission goals and will not decide individual game outcomes.

    You may be asking what is the point of this? The point of this is to provide a dual experience where gamers who want to compete at a tournament can have fun and gamers who want to play games to affect a story can have fun also. Players are free to ignore or focus on the campaign aspect. If you choose to ignore the campaign aspect, there will be no penalty. If anything, since there are two best general awards it will double your chances to win.

    Prizes for best general will be in the form of a trophy. The prize for best overall will be announced the day of the tournament. I promise you will not be dissapointed. If you have any questions please email me at matt@norcononline.com

    Warhammer 40K Tournament Results

    Tournament scoring is contained below. Please note that the paint score was weighted to match the total possible match scores.