Competition scoring

johngl · Post by **johngl** » Tue Aug 09, 2011 4:12 pm

How are competition games scored? The rules make no provision for numerical scoring, or for a completed game to be anything other than a Decisive Victory - which seems a bit hard on a losing player who came close to breaking the winner's army.

hazelbark · Post by **hazelbark** » Wed Aug 10, 2011 11:01 pm

Therw is a tournament scoring sheet that translates matches to 25-0.

essentially convert your army ratio of losses and your opponents each to a 0-10 point scale.

You have a 12 AP army. You lost 4 AP. 4/12 = 3.3

Your opponent had a 15 AP army and lost 12. 12/15 = .8

You get 6.7 for what you kept and 9.2 for what you killed equal 15.9

Your opponent gets 4.1

If you break your opponents army you get an additional 5 points.

So it is zero sum 0-20 plus 5 if you break the opponent.

There is a sheet on the site somehwere on this.

johngl · Post by **johngl** » Thu Aug 11, 2011 8:07 am

Thanks, Dan. RBS has now sent me the sheet, enabling me to calculate that I lost yesterday's game 3-22! The sheet doesn't appear to be on the site, though.

rbodleyscott · Post by **rbodleyscott** » Thu Aug 11, 2011 10:49 am

johngl wrote:Thanks, Dan. RBS has now sent me the sheet, enabling me to calculate that I lost yesterday's game 3-22! The sheet doesn't appear to be on the site, though.

There is one on the FOGAM site, but that has decimal points, which I think is counter-productive - certainly it is not encouraging for newbies. I use its predecessor, which was rounded to whole numbers. Sadly James (or someone) took that off the site, so it isn't generally available.

Scrumpy · Post by **Scrumpy** » Thu Aug 11, 2011 12:14 pm

You know nobody would have sent you a score chart if you had won 22-3 lol

pyruse · Post by **pyruse** » Thu Aug 11, 2011 4:06 pm

Never mind the score, how was the game?

johngl · Post by **johngl** » Thu Aug 11, 2011 5:08 pm

It was just a learning game with starter armies - Prince Rupert's lads rolled over Fairfax. I'd played one game previously and my opponent hadn't even read the rules, so it was almost a solo game as I had to explain as we went along. Neither of us has played FoGAM as we still like DBM.

The next game I plan will be Henry VIII invading Italy and meeting the Milanese chivalry, with 800 point armies. I can do the same game with FoGR and DBM, to see how they compare. I'll write it up, with pictures if I can work out how to post pictures here - an idiot's guide to doing that would be most helpful!

hazelbark · Post by **hazelbark** » Thu Aug 11, 2011 5:56 pm

johngl wrote: I'll write it up, with pictures if I can work out how to post pictures here - an idiot's guide to doing that would be most helpful!

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johngl · Post by **johngl** » Thu Aug 11, 2011 7:01 pm

Here goes: Henry VIII and his men-at-arms cross the plains of Lombardy.

Wow, it works! Thanks, Dan and Hammy.

Battle next week