R&R for BHGS Challenge

[viking123]

Thanks for a great weekend - just above Nigel at the end.

Thanks to the BHGS organisers especially Tim, David , Lynda and all those who helped with the tables.

Big thank you to my 4 opponents - Bob, Kevin, Martin, Colin and Paddy who put up with moans about poor dice rolls.

Bob

[nigelemsen]

Thanks for a great weekend - just above Nigel at the end.

Thanks to the BHGS organisers especially Tim, David , Lynda and all those who helped with the tables.

Big thank you to my 4 opponents - Bob, Kevin, Martin, Colin and Paddy who put up with moans about poor dice rolls.

Bob

You clearly give me the wrong bag of dice... overall the dice i borrowed off you add a spread of luck... so youll have to find another excuse for being nearly as bad as me

[SwartzeHeinrich]

Thanks for a great week end, great games, great fun!

Thanks for the car rides the camp and terrain lending, the advice, the good graces, for the marvelous (and packable) camp i was given and so on and so on..... i had a great time.

[daveallen]

I'm now "solent Southampton". Not oxford club

Most sane people are happy to say Oxford just to avoid Alasdair and Ben in rounds 1 & 2!!!

Don

Why would you want to avoid them in Round 1? Surely good strategy to play Alasdair in the first round, thus improving your draw for the rest of the tournament, and you can't play him again..

Got to say it worked for me - Alasdair round 1 (8 points), Ben round 2 (22 points)

Made for quite relaxing games thereafter - Dave Redhead, Don Avis & Kevin Johnston...

Bizarrely, the 8 points I took off Alasdair were more than half the points he lost all weekend. What are we going to do about this guy?!

Dave A

[timmy1]

Make the games 900 points on 5'x3' tables...?

[titanu]

Big thank you to my 4 opponents - Bob, Kevin, Martin, Colin and Paddy ......
Bob

Clearly not too good on the maths then Bob

or were you not thanking me

[kevinj]

It's not only the maths as Bob didn't play me!

[viking123]

Not my fault I cannot spell?
Yes I did mean you Titanu and I should have said Keith>

Bob

[kevinj]

The results are now published on the BHGS site. Congratulations to Alasdair for an emphatic win and thanks to everyone for making the event very easy to umpire.

Thanks also to Ben, Bob A, Richard, Paddy and Dave for fun games.

[Vespasian28]

What are we going to do about this guy?!

Well, he has to retire at some point. But as he looked remarkably hale and hearty the one time I met him I would say other folk will get a look in sometime in the latter half of this century

[TimChild]

Judging from the results at the weekend, the answer would appear to be for everyone to bring an army consisting almost exclusively of camels.

[martinvantol]

What are we going to do about this guy?!

Well, maybe he'll get fed up of winning by such a big margin and start bringing an army with some pedestrians!!

I got him in this competition. For the first time I had the initiative, crowded the table with as much terrain as possible, tried to plug all the gaps between the terrain and shamelessly sent out my messengers to parley for peace on every turn. Sadly I didn't quite plug the gaps well enough.
So although I might have been able to get a draw, I would still have had absolutely no chance of beating his army.

The rest of my games were good games and very close. I proudly took a historically balanced army ... and was rewarded for my virtue by good dice throughout the weekend. I got slightly lucky against Keith and Bob. Against Dave Redhead was a different story entirely ... won it wholly on the dice!

A good weekend. Many thanks to the organisers.

[daveallen]

Well, maybe he'll get fed up of winning by such a big margin and start bringing an army with some pedestrians!!

I got him in this competition. For the first time I had the initiative, crowded the table with as much terrain as possible, tried to plug all the gaps between the terrain and shamelessly sent out my messengers to parley for peace on every turn. Sadly I didn't quite plug the gaps well enough.
So although I might have been able to get a draw, I would still have had absolutely no chance of beating his army.

I think this weekend showed that it isn't the mounted armies that are unbalancing the game, it's Alasdair. I suspect he could turn up with something mainly foot and still shred us.

Simon had an almost identical army and didn't even manage mid table mediocrity, RBS had a wholly mounted army and Alasdair 25-0ed him by marching a late tercio through the middle of it! I got lucky in the first game when he stuck the tercio behind his guns, other than that it was only going one way.

Maybe we should buy him a FoW army...

Dave

[martinvantol]

I think this weekend showed that it isn't the mounted armies that are unbalancing the game, it's Alasdair. I suspect he could turn up with something mainly foot and still shred us.

Simon had an almost identical army and didn't even manage mid table mediocrity, RBS had a wholly mounted army and Alasdair 25-0ed him by marching a late tercio through the middle of it! I got lucky in the first game when he stuck the tercio behind his guns, other than that it was only going one way.

I was going to give it a couple of comps before commenting again on this issue. But as you raised it, there were a couple of specific factors as to why some pistols-max people didn't do so well ...

(a) This was different from many pike and shot comps in that several people were able to bring lots of anti-pistol armies (2-3 camel armies, one massed bow, one wall-to-wall cheap spear, a couple of colonial jungle types).

(b) I still don't remember any games in which a balanced pike and shot army took on a pistols-max army and beat it. The best I saw them do was cram out the table with terrain and play for a draw ... and complain (understandably IMO) about what a poor game it was. And to do that you still need to win the initiative roll and hope the terrain lands right.

(c) Alasdair probably could turn up with mostly foot and still duff us all up spectacularly. That would be interesting to see.

Martin

[Vespasian28]

Alasdair probably could turn up with mostly foot and still duff us all up spectacularly.

We ought to start lobbying the IOC to include wargaming in the next Games so Alasdair can guarantee us at least one gold.