Lead Painters' League Season 5 Rules

[Ray Rivers]

At first I thought "theme bonus points" were only awarded to 'new' teams but I think I misinterpreted the rules...

I wouldn't bet on it.

The LPL is designed to get folks to paint miniatures... not to "exploit" rules.  I think this has been said already quite clearly and if nobody has responded to Red Orc's post, that is probably deliberate.

My bet is that if you use the same 5 civilian minis in rounds 5 and 10 you will get 0 bonus points.

But hey, try it if you want, just don't be surprised at the result.

[Westfalia Chris]

Previously, all Bonus round teams had to be newly-painted to qualify for the extra bonus points as well. Unfortunately, it is not as clearly worded in the rules as I thought.

Not being directly involved in the running of this Season, this is not a definitive ruling, but should be read as "the rules' intention".

So, in the mentioned example (African Movie Civilians) you would only get the theme points for round 1, and NO bonus points whatsoever in rounds thereafter.

Obviously, I will need to rework the rules and create a Lisbon-Treaty-size legalese monstrosity to take care of all people...

[pierrebi]

My bet is that if you use the same 5 civilian minis in rounds 5 and 10 you will get 0 bonus points.

if they are "African Civilian" you should get bonus 2 times 

[Wirelizard]

Obviously, I will need to rework the rules and create a Lisbon-Treaty-size legalese monstrosity to take care of all people...

Well, if you give your Treat-sized rules a good stout binding, you can use the book to thump people with when they persist in asking end-run type questions... 

[Centaur_Seducer]

Damn, real life is forcing me to skip this season

But I have a plan that involves a lot of painting and unpublishing for LPL6 though

[Prof.Witchheimer]

If you paint some civilians (round 1, +10) with a plausible connection with Africa (round 5, +10) who feature in a famous movie (round 10, +10), you can still pick up 30 bonus points even if you don't get any new-paint bonuses.

Yes, that's correct. There's "newly painted" bonus and "theme" bonus. There aren't any correlations between these two bonuses.

[Prof.Witchheimer]

if they are "African Civilian" you should get bonus 2 times 

And that's correct too.

Generally. Lads, please don't try to push/persuade anyone to paint as much as possible or to accomplish to so-called spirit of LPL. That's fun contest and everyone may decide what the fun is about. Please refrain from converting anyone to a new belief. We have rules and they're the basis of that contest. Not the spirit or whatever else.

I'd love to get that thread back to an infomation one. Questions and Mod Answers. Not more.

[Red Orc]

Professor, I hope before that occurs you'll give me the opportunity to apologise to anyone that I may have offended (and it certainly seems I have offended some people) by my questions about the rules. I has never been my intention to 'exploit' the rules, or to challenge them - you and Captain Blood know this already as we've discussed it by PM - merely to clarify certain things that were unclear. It does seem that I'm not the only one who has misinterpreted some of the rules. I think this inevitable with any set of rules, and I applaud the efforts of yourself and Captain Blood to explain and clarify with patience and tact.

[Prof.Witchheimer]

Thanks, Red Orc. The matter is closed now.

Back to the paints and brushes then, LPL is coming

[Tomsche]

I have one question though, albeit perhaps one more for `common sense` then die hard ruling

Do actual `miniatures` count or actual `bases`.  Something I pondered over last year due to having a preference to smaller scale models (like the 10mm celtic irish I `debuted` with last year), but I base those usually 6 - 8 `models` on a 4 by 2 base.  Does one base as such would have already claimed the 5 man limit, or actually 5 bases of 8 models?  I played it safe last year by entering 7 bases (hance about 100 `individual models`) but I ask this now because with some 28mm models (like the bonus round 1, civilians), I tend to use the multi-bases from Renendra.
Just so that those green things have some actual use  but just wondering.

[Captain Blood]

Five figures minimum, any scale.

[zemjw]

I have a question about submitting an entry (still deciding, basically alternating day by day at the moment  )

What information is required when we submit an entry? From looking at previous leagues, the pictures seem to have titles, so presumably that's required.

However (looking for a duck and cover smiley here), how do we indicate whether the entry includes previously seen figures? Are there any particular tags that we could use in the email to make Captain Blood's life a little easier

Thanks

[Captain Blood]

Please tell me when you send your entry if it’s a ‘new’ team or an ‘old’ one.
 
Please also clearly state the name of your team / entry. Please try not to make the titles of teams too long. They all have to be typed in by hand as each match is set up. And there is only a certain field size available for the title of each match. Do me a favour and keep the titles short as you can please  

It's all there in the rules 

[zemjw]

Thanks.

Worringly, I had read that post before asking the question, but completely missed it - senior moment 

[achab]

I still have a doubt about round 10 theme. Rules say "a scene or a group". I understand that for this round alone, we are allowed to enter a scene featuring opponents, such as a famous western gunfight, as long as the total number of figures is 5 or more? I'm asking because there are many so cool movie scenes I'd like to see (or paint) that do not feature a team of 5.

A.