The Last Chancers

Introduction to The Last Chancers day
2023-09-23 13:00 - 18:00 (Europe/Dublin) | De La Salle Pastoral Centre, De la Salle Pastoral Centre, (Church Grounds), St. Patrick's Road, Wicklow, Wicklow, Ireland
Do you want to introduce a new game to the group, or would you like to recruit new players to a game you’d like to start running or do you simply know someone who you’d like to introduce to the club?
If you answered yes to any of these questions, then this day is a perfect opportunity to run some demo games and attract players to the club.
If you’re interested in demoing or running something on the day please DM Dan with what it is by at latest Sunday the 17th at 11:59pm and I’ll post the list of what people are going to be running on the day on the morning of Monday the 18th so people can plan accordingly.
So far we have the following games that the club members have signed up to demo:

King of Tokyo
BattleTech Alpha Strike
Eclipse (a board game for up to 4 players)
Board games

As usual, the event is free for the club members, and the usual non-member table fee applies.

1,000 pts 40k Event
2023-08-26 12:30 - 19:00
Hey chancers,
We’re happy to announce that we’ll be hosting a Warhammer 40k 1000pts event on August 26th at 12:30 pm
For the event, you will need:
*A 1000pts army
*1 printed copy of your army list
*A copy of the core rule
(Accepted copies of this are a printed pdf, the app a digital copy of the pdf or a physical copy of the book)
Your Dice and tape measure

Blood Bowl Night
2023-08-18 18:00 - 22:00, 2023-07-21 19:00 - 22:00 | De La Salle Pastoral Centre, De la Salle Pastoral Centre, (Church Grounds), St. Patrick's Road, Wicklow, Wicklow, Ireland
Round four of our 10-player Blood Bowl season will be taking place this Friday!
Check over on the Discord server to keep abreast of the pairings and current scores.
We hope to see you all there on the day.
As an additional reminder, whilst this is a club-run event, we very much encourage folks to organize their own games outside and around these scheduled events; these are just intended to be a starting point for people to plan around and know exactly when they’ll be happening.

TLC Painting Day
2023-08-12 12:00 - 19:00 | De La Salle Pastoral Centre, De la Salle Pastoral Centre, (Church Grounds), St. Patrick's Road, Wicklow, Wicklow, Ireland
Hey chancers,
This Saturday will be the club’s semi-regular painting day event from 12:30 until 7.
On the day, things that you’ll need to bring are some miniatures, any paints you’ll require, a pallet and some brushes. We’ll provide jars, kitchen towel, and some newspaper for your work area.
As usual, we encourage anyone not wanting to paint on the day to book tables for games as normal there will be plenty of space for everyone.

Friday Night Commander League
2023-08-11 18:00 - 22:00 | De La Salle Pastoral Centre, De la Salle Pastoral Centre, (Church Grounds), St. Patrick's Road, Wicklow, Wicklow, Ireland
The second Friday of every month will be set aside for our Friday night commander league; decks are limited to a maximum value of €50 and must follow all the usual deck-building restrictions for the commander format.
Or any other format of Magic you might feel like playing; bring down your decks, and you’ll most likely get a game!
We hope to see you there!

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40k combat patrol
2023-07-15
Hey chancers we’re delighted to announce that on July 15th we’ll be hosting the first of our Warhammer 40k 10th edition events,
it will be a day to have some fun playing the new combat patrol game format, and get to grips with the new core rules.
All you’ll need on the day is dice, your army chosen from the relevant combat patrol index, at least 1 printed copy of your chosen combat patrols pdf and a tape measure.
Please be sure to pay close attention to the combat patrols loadouts as these are fixed and can easily lead to bringing an illegal list.
All the core rules and combat patrol rules and combat patrol indexes are free and readily available for download on the Warhammer community website,
or on the free Warhammer 40k 10th edition app which can be downloaded on the android or iOS app stores.
Also if you’re interested in trading your unwanted halves of leviathan you’re welcome to do so on the day
We encourage anyone who isn’t interested in the event to still book tables, as always there will be plenty of space for everyone on the day

Friday Night Commander League
2023-07-07 18:00 - 22:00 | De La Salle Pastoral Centre, De la Salle Pastoral Centre, (Church Grounds), St. Patrick's Road, Wicklow, Wicklow, Ireland
The second Friday of every month will be set aside for our Friday night commander league; decks are limited to a maximum value of €50 and must follow all the usual deck-building restrictions for the commander format.
Or any other format of Magic you might feel like playing; bring down your decks, and you’ll most likely get a game!
We hope to see you there!

The Last Chancers AGM
2023-06-24 17:00 - 18:00 | De La Salle Pastoral Centre, De la Salle Pastoral Centre, (Church Grounds), St. Patrick's Road, Wicklow, Wicklow, Ireland
As the club has been running for another year, we are happy to announce that the Annual General Meeting will be taking place on the 24th of June, for the first time in person!
We will be running the meeting at the community centre from 5 pm to 6 pm with the hopes of making a full day of it for both members and non-members alike.

We will be covering several topics, but of course, the most important one will be the appointment of the Club Board for the upcoming year.
If you’d like to become an official on the Club Board, please let us know.
For nominations, please send us an email at thelastchancersireland@gmail.com with the subject line ‘AGM Club Official’, with the position you would be interested in.
The positions on the board for this year are:
Club Leader
Treasurer
Secretary
Events Officer
Social media Officer
—
As it currently stands, four out of the current five board members are happy to continue in their positions, but our Treasurer will be stepping down and so it’s vital that we fill it – each club must have a treasurer!
Talk to the board if you’d like to know what the role entails; it shouldn’t take up more than 4-5 hours a month.

If you have any questions, please reply to that email or reach out to any of the board members on Discord.

Blood Bowl Night
2023-06-16 18:00 - 20:00 | De La Salle Pastoral Centre, De la Salle Pastoral Centre, (Church Grounds), St. Patrick's Road, Wicklow, Wicklow, Ireland
Round three of our 10-player Blood Bowl season will be taking place this Friday!
Check over on the Discord server to keep abreast of the pairings and current scores.
We hope to see you all there on the day.
As an additional reminder, whilst this is a club-run event, we very much encourage folks to organize their own games outside and around these scheduled events; these are just intended to be a starting point for people to plan around and know exactly when they’ll be happening.

Friday Night Commander League
2023-06-09 18:00 - 22:00 | De La Salle Pastoral Centre, De la Salle Pastoral Centre, (Church Grounds), St. Patrick's Road, Wicklow, Wicklow, Ireland
The second Friday of every month will be set aside for our Friday night commander league; decks are limited to a maximum value of €50 and must follow all the usual deck-building restrictions for the commander format.
Or any other format of Magic you might feel like playing, bring down your decks and you’ll most likely get a game!
We hope to see you there!

Board Game Day
2023-05-27 12:00 - 19:00
Hey chancers, we’re happy to announce we’ll be hosting a board game day on the 27th of May.
Bring along your favorite board games, and if you know anyone who you think might enjoy themselves, we encourage you to bring them along as always if it’s their first time joining us, it’s free for the day.

Blood Bowl Night
2023-05-19 18:00 - 22:00
Round two of our 10-player Blood Bowl season will be taking place this Friday.
Check over on the Discord server to keep abreast of the pairings and current scores.

Friday Night Commander League
2023-05-12 18:00 - 22:00 | De La Salle Pastoral Centre, De la Salle Pastoral Centre, (Church Grounds), St. Patrick's Road, Wicklow, Wicklow, Ireland
The second Friday of every month will be set aside for our Friday night commander league; decks are limited to a maximum value of €50 and must follow all the usual deck-building restrictions for the commander format.
As an additional reminder, whilst this is a club-run event we very much encourage people to organize their own games outside and around these scheduled events; these are just intended to be a jumping-off point for people to get started playing something new or to have a regular easy to plan around recurring event so that people know when others will be in playing that game.
We very much hope to see many of you there.

Flames of War: Mid-War tournament
2023-04-23 | De La Salle Pastoral Centre, De la Salle Pastoral Centre, (Church Grounds), St. Patrick's Road, Wicklow, Wicklow, Ireland
The event is limited to 16 attendees and tickets will be €15 and will be available on a first come first serve basis signing up can be done here
https://tournykeeper.com/#/tournament/details/1232
Armies used at the event must be 101 points and must follow the ETC rules for list construction
Army lists will be required to be submitted before the event,
List submission will be handled using the TournyKeeper platform.
Lists will be due by 9th of April, End-of-Day.
The rosters will be published for everyone’s perusal on the 10th of April.
The TO list (byebuster) will be made public by the 2nd of April.
Players that would like to participate but don’t own a Mid-War army are encouraged to reach out to @PiBis/Piotr/Polish Peter(he/him) on Discord. Spare lists might be available to lend.
If you have any further questions about the event please PM @PiBis/Piotr/Polish Peter(he/him) on Discord.

Blood Bowl Night
2023-04-21 18:00 - 22:00
Due to the response from you all based on the recent survey, were happy to announce the blood bowl recurring Friday night league.
The league started on February the 17th and reoccurs each 3rd Friday of the month.
The first 2 Fridays will be set aside for some pre season friendly’s, this is to accommodate new players getting to grips with the rules after which players will compete for glory in a league, format to be discussed closer to the time
Things you’ll ideally need to bring with you is a team and if you happen to have a pitch and templates that’d be appreciated too (either a 2nd edition pitch and matching templates or 3rd edition and matching templates and the appropriate dice)
And if you don’t have a team but still would like to have a try pm myself or another board member between now and the 15th and we’ll organize the lend of a team for the pre season friendlys so you can see what you think.
We hope to see you all there on the day.
And if you’re unsure what blood bowl is feel free to check out the linked YouTube video for a breif explanation of the game

As an additional reminder, whist this is a club run event we very much encourage folks to organize their own games outside and around these scheduled events, these are just intended to be a starting point for people to plan around and know exactly when they’ll be happening

TLC Painting Day
2023-04-15 12:00 - 19:00
Hey chancers,
This Saturday will be the clubs semi-regular painting day event from 12:30 until 7.
On the day things that you’ll need to bring are some miniatures, any paints you’ll require, a pallet and some brushes. We’ll provide jars kitchen towel and some newspaper for your work area.
As usual we encourage anyone not wanting to paint on the day to book tables for games as normal there will be plenty of space for everyone.

Friday Night Commander League
2023-04-14 18:00 - 22:00
The second Friday of every month will be set aside for our Friday night commander league, decks are limited to a maximum value of €50 and must follow all the usual deck building restrictions for the commander format.
As an additional reminder, whist this is a club run event we very much encourage people to organize their own games outside and around these scheduled events, these are just intended to be a jumping off point for people to get started playing something new, or to have a regular easy to plan around recurring event so that people know when others will be in playing that game.
We very much hope to see many of you there.

TCGG March Gamesday
2023-03-26
This is an event in support of the Treaty City Gamers Guild March Gamesday!
Located over in Limerick city, they have reached out to us in the hopes of bringing our communities together, below you’ll find a link to their facebook event page as well as their discord server.
https://fb.me/e/MQuI6c8m
https://discord.gg/mG3kzHSr
They are comprised of several groups who rent a shared space together much like our own endeavour at the community centre. They are also hoping to run a Blood Bowl event in June which may certainly be of interest to some of our members.
So if you’re looking for my hobby spaces to join or perhaps know someone out that way who might be interested do check this out!

Warhammer 40,000 - 1000pts doubles event
2023-03-25 12:00 - 19:00 | De La Salle Pastoral Centre, De la Salle Pastoral Centre, (Church Grounds), St. Patrick's Road, Wicklow, Wicklow, Ireland
We will be hosting a Warhammer 40,000 – 1000pts doubles event on Saturday the 25th of march from 12:30 until 7 using the new arks of omen detachment rules
(they are available either in the new chapter approved book,
https://www.games-workshop.com/en-IE/40k-grand-tournament-mission-pack-and-points-book-2023-eng
or for free on the Warhammer community page,
https://www.warhammer-community.com/2022/12/22/arks-of-omen-grand-tournament-pack-a-new-detachment-for-the-next-season-of-warhammer-40000/)
Players will be paired with one another on the day, so no need to worry about finding a partner leading up to the event
For those who have never played a Warhammer 40,000 doubles game, you and your partner on the day will join forces each with your 1000pts armys against two other opponents each with 1000pts, and the aim will be to coordinate with your partner to score the most victory points in 5 turns. (edited)

Blood Bowl Night
2023-03-24 18:00 - 22:00 | De La Salle Pastoral Centre, De la Salle Pastoral Centre, (Church Grounds), St. Patrick's Road, Wicklow, Wicklow, Ireland
Due to the response from you all based on the recent survey, were happy to announce the blood bowl recurring friday night league.
The league starts on February the 17th and reoccurs each 3rd Friday of the month.
The first 2 Fridays will be set aside for some pre season friendly’s, this is to accommodate new players getting to grips with the rules after which players will compete for glory in a league, format to be discussed closer to the time
Things you’ll ideally need to bring with you is a team and if you happen to have a pitch and templates that’d be appreciated too (either a 2nd edition pitch and matching templates or 3rd edition and matching templates and the appropriate dice)
And if you don’t have a team but still would like to have a try pm myself or another board member between now and the 15th and we’ll organize the lend of a team for the pre season friendlys so you can see what you think.
We hope to see you all there on the day.
And if you’re unsure what blood bowl is feel free to check out the linked YouTube video for a breif explanation of the game

As an additional reminder, whist this is a club run event we very much encourage folks to organize their own games outside and around these scheduled events, these are just intended to be a starting point for people to plan around and know exactly when they’ll be happening. (edited)

Friday Night Commander League
2023-03-10 18:00 - 22:00 | De La Salle Pastoral Centre, De la Salle Pastoral Centre, (Church Grounds), St. Patrick's Road, Wicklow, Wicklow, Ireland
The second Friday of every month will be set aside for our Friday night commander league, decks are limited to a maximum value of €50 and must follow all the usual deck building restrictions for the commander format.
As an additional reminder, whist this is a club run event we very much encourage people to organize their own games outside and around these scheduled events, these are just intended to be a jumping off point for people to get started playing something new, or to have a regular easy to plan around recurring event so that people know when others will be in playing that game.
We very much hope to see many of you there

Introduction to The Last Chancers day
2023-01-28 | De La Salle Pastoral Centre, De la Salle Pastoral Centre, (Church Grounds), St. Patrick's Road, Wicklow, Wicklow, Ireland
With a new year brings new opportunity, and to get this new year of 2023 off to a start we’re hosting the “introduction to the last chancers day”, here’s what we need from you guys to make this event a success.

Is there a game that you want to see played at the club more?
Do you know a person who has interest in one of the games or activities that take place at the club?
Have you been looking at a new hobby or game and need an opportunity to recruit more people to try it out?

If you answered Yes to any of these questions we are looking for volunteers to run intro games to these games on the day, or to invite those people in your life to attend on the day as is tradition the first day in attendance is free.

Have any questions feel free to email us or drop a question on Discord and we’ll get back to you.
Should you wish to run intro games of something on the day please private message one of the board members to sign up, or drop us an email at ‘thelastchancersireland@gmail.com’

Warhammer 40,000, an introduction to Warzone Nephilim
2022-10-28 12:30 - 17:30 | De La Salle Pastoral Centre, De la Salle Pastoral Centre, (Church Grounds), St. Patrick's Road, Wicklow, Wicklow, Ireland
Hello Chancer,
We’re excited to be hosting our latest Warhammer 40,000 event an introduction to Warzone Nephilim. If you want to come down and learn to play, and try out the latest rules expansion or just get in some fun games feel free to join us.

Participants will require:

a 1000 points army list
a tape
dice
a rulebook
any relevant codexes.

A printed or handwritten army list will be needed on the day.
If you’re using a handwritten list be sure to include any Warlord traits, Any relics, Psychic powers and CP costed abilities.
You can find a free digital copy of the core rules here https://www.warhammer-community.com/2020/07/02/free-core-rules-new-models-sighted/ For your army building needs The official Warhammer plus army builder app is available here https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.gamesworkshop.warhammer40k Or you can use Battlescribe to build a list, which you can find here. https://battlescribe.net/?tab=news

Saturday September Smallhammer
2022-09-24 13:00 - 18:00 | De La Salle Pastoral Centre, De la Salle Pastoral Centre, (Church Grounds), St. Patrick's Road, Wicklow, Wicklow, Ireland
Hello Chancers!
We are running a small Warhammer 40k gaming event this Saturday the 24th of September. The aim is to run 1-2 games in a casual and beginner-friendly fashion.
Format as follows:
Game system: Warhammer 40k.
Game size: 1000 points or 50 PL.
Mission pack: Tempest of War (the new objective deck from Games Workshop: https://www.games-workshop.com/en-IE/40k-tempest-of-war-card-deck-2022-eng). The cards will be provided.

What to bring:

yourself
your army
printed army list, if possible (see instructions from the previous beginner event here: https://www.thelastchancers.org/event/40k-learn-and-play/ )
dice and a tape measure

The event starts at 1pm and ends at 6pm.
Any questions, please email thelastchancersireland@gmail.com or DM Iarek on Discord

Age of Sigmar Intro Day
2022-07-30 | De La Salle Pastoral Centre, De la Salle Pastoral Centre, (Church Grounds), St. Patrick's Road, Wicklow, Wicklow, Ireland
We’re excited to be hosting our first AoS event. If you want to come down and learn to play, try out the game or get some good games in please join us.
Hosted by one of our lovely members, Dan Kelly.

You’ll need a 1000 points army list or just bring yourself, as we will have some AoS armies available to borrow for the event.
Participants will require a tape, dice a rulebook, and their battletome or a printed army list. (If you do not have this, you can email your list to the club on the day and we can print it for you before we begin playing.)
If you are interested in playing for the first time, you can find a digital copy of the core rules here
https://www.warhammer-community.com/…/download-the-new…/

And if you don’t have the offical Age of Sigmar app, you can use Battlescribe to build a list, which you can find here.
https://battlescribe.net/?tab=news

Operation "Mayfly" - Flames of War tournament
2022-05-21 08:00 - 2022-05-22 17:00 | De La Salle Pastoral Centre, De la Salle Pastoral Centre, (Church Grounds), St. Patrick's Road, Wicklow, Wicklow, Ireland
Operation “Mayfly” two-day Flames of War tournament in Wicklow.

* The tournament is capped to 16 players – first-come, first-served.
* The tournament will take place at the De La Salle Pastoral Center in Wicklow town on the 21st and 22nd of May.
* The registration closes on Sunday, April 24th.
* The entry fee is EUR15 and the monies will be put directly towards the venue rental and prizes.
* The payment will collected via PayPal.
* The payment details will be sent to the e-mail address provided in this registration form on or before April 24th.
* The payment will be due by May 1st.
* The detailed rules pack will be distributed by May 1st.
* We’ll be playing 105pts, Late War

Please use this invite link if you’d like to join “The Last Chancers” discord server: https://discord.gg/jKkhf9R5Qy

The club's AGM for 2022
2022-05-15 20:00 - 22:00
The clubs Annual General Meeting will be happening on the 15th of May, held on the club’s Discord server. More information to follow!

40K Learn and Play
2022-04-23 12:00 - 20:00 | De La Salle Pastoral Centre, De la Salle Pastoral Centre, (Church Grounds), St. Patrick's Road, Wicklow, Wicklow, Ireland
Hello Chancers!
It’s the clubs pleasure to announce another 40k learn and play day!
We hope you’ll join us on April 23rd from midday until the evening.

Come and play some games, learn how build lists for your armies, see how to optimise 40k terrain for the best gaming experience and much more!
All you need is a few models aim for 500/1000 pts. There will also be a few armies there on display for you to see what you would like to play.

If you have any questions please let us know at thelastchancersireland@gmail.com.

Overall event notes
The event starts at 12:30.
First game at 1pm, second game at 3pm, the centre closes at 8pm. More detailed agenda to follow!
Notes for seasoned players

Please bring a 500pt list.

This is for introductory games if you are paired with a newer player.
When building this list, think towards being interactive and not skewed towards a single archetype (e.g. 500 points of Harlequin bikes might be too swingy for a fun game, same goes for too many tanks/artillery/hordes).
This is your chance to use more fun and less efficient options 🙂

[Optional] Please also bring a 1k list.
Bear in mind that you might end up playing somebody who hasn’t played in 10 years, or is playing for the 1st time ever.

Notes for the newer players – preparation for the event
You only need to bring yourself (and your models!) to the event, but to make the experience more enjoyable, there are several things that would help:

Some 6-sided dice (about 10 should be enough, more is always better)
A tape measure (marked in inches)
If you know how to build a 40k army list, please bring a 500pt list (or 25 Power Level), ideally printed out with all the relevant rules. See Battlescribe below. If you don’t know what we are talking about, just bring the models and we’ll help you on the day.
The 9th edition 40k rulebook.

If you don’t have the BRB, you can use this PDF for basic rules https://warhammer40000.com/rules/ , or the 40k app (linked on the same page).
We strongly recommend that you have a paper copy of the core rules if you are a newer player, and we will have a couple of copies to borrow.

The up-to-date rules for your own army (called a codex). You can check if you have the correct codex by looking here: https://www.games-workshop.com/en-IE/Warhammer-40-000?N=446193531+3272198241&Nr=AND%28sku.siteId%3AIE_gw%2Cproduct.locale%3Aen_IE_gw%29&Nrs=collection%28%29%2Frecord%5Bproduct.startDate+%3C%3D+1650577800000+and+product.endDate+%3E%3D+1650577800000%5D

If you do not have a codex with you, try to bring a printout of the relevant pages for your models (e.g. unit rules and some core army rules).
Alternatively, you can use the Battlescribe ( https://battlescribe.net/ ) app. Please see the below on some pointers to use Battlescribe.

You won’t need any mission books, as the mission will be provided 🙂

Using the official 40k app
The official 40k app can be found here: https://app.warhammer40000.com/ . The information included in the free version is fairly limited, but it can give you the core rules and the army rules.
Despite the clunky interface, Battlescribe is generally a safer option for the moment.
Using Battlescribe
NB: the Club is in no way affiliated with Battlescribe, use of any 3rd party software is entirely at the players discretion.

Download Battlescribe on your device of choice (https://battlescribe.net/?tab=downloads)
Add the “Warhammer 40000 v9.3.12” data source (there are multiple 40k-related data sources there, be careful!)
Create a new Unbound detachment with your army faction, e.g. Astra Militarum
Add all the models you are bringing to the roster
Export the roster as an HTML/PDF document.
Now you can view it on your device (or, better yet, print it out!)
The roster will generally have the following information:

Your unit characteristics and rules
The options you selected for your units (e.g. weapons and psychic powers)
The specific rules for your regiment, e.g. Cadians

Flames of War game day
2022-02-26 12:30 - 20:00 | De La Salle Pastoral Centre, De la Salle Pastoral Centre, (Church Grounds), St. Patrick's Road, Wicklow, Wicklow, Ireland
3 full tables available
Points limit 105pts

Game time limit 2.5 hours

Please note new players are welcome but they should understand that this is a day with the intention of giving the Chancers who are going to play a tournament next month the time to practice. There will be of course opportunity to assist them no matter your experience level but if you primarily enjoy flames of war for the historical aspect, this day may not align with your ideas.

For any questions please reach out to Sean Murray directly or thelastchancersireland@gmail.com
