Welcome to the Champter Approved Tournament Companion!
The following guidelines are designed to support organisers of Warhammer 40,000 events in delivering a fine-tuned tournament experience using the Chapter Approved Mission Deck. That product offers great scope for all kinds of matched play, and its many variables create a dizzying array of potential missions – thousands, in fact! Some of these are particularly well suited to the most hotly contested scenarios, and this pack provides suggestions for the best event configurations. We have also taken the opportunity to optimise certain Core Rules concepts for tournament play.
This document provides a ready-made framework for levelling the playing field and getting games underway quickly, whether you are planning your first matched play event or have years of experience organising the largest and most acclaimed tournaments. Its recommendations will be followed in full at most Games Workshop matched play events, and are considered the official way to play Warhammer 40,000 in a tournament setting, but can be adapted to suit your own circumstances – the terrain layout advice is aimed primarily at newer organisers, for example, and those with large established terrain collections should feel free to interpret it accordingly.
The recommendations are presented as follows:
Chapter Approved Tournament Mission Pool: 20 recommended tournament rounds to draw from, with pre-set Primary Missions and deployment modes that put all players on an equal footing and minimise pre-game admin.
Chapter Approved Tournament Mission Sequence: Adjustments to the steps players would normally follow to generate a mission and prepare the battlefield.
Chapter Approved Mission Deck Errata & FAQ: Updates to certain cards and answers to frequently asked questions.
Pairings and Rankings: Advice for fairly pairing players and determining rankings.
Terrain Layouts: A suite of carefully designed terrain setups to be used in conjunction with the Chapter Approved Tournament Mission Pool.
Designer’s Note: This document does not use the full contents of your Chapter Approved Mission Deck; it has been written to provide the best experience for strangers to play a pick-up game or face off in an event. For this reason we have not included the Asymmetric War cards, the Twist cards or the Challenger cards, which are left for pick-up-and-play games where you can plan and prepare. In addition, this document assumes you will be playing Strike Force sized games; as such, the layouts are designed to be used with the Strike Force Deployment cards. We recommend that tournament organisers who wish to run an Incursion event should adjust these layouts as appropriate.