The full report and additional pictures are posted on our club web site http://www.lshm.net
Steve Payne was the winner with a near perfect score of 73. Nathan Hook came in second and Hank Esslinger came in 3rd. Dave Bennett was awarded the prize for best painted 10mm army and Marty Woverton won for best 15mm painted army. Steve Payne won for best camp. A hallmark of tournaments run by the Austin group is prizes for participation. Its long been our view that everyone should have a chance to walk away with something and not tie that to winning the tourney. Kevin Stork won the drawing for the participation prize this year. We also have at least one whimsical prize and this year that went to Fred Askew for the longest streak of failed cohesion tests. Rob sent me a bunch of pictures of the tournament and I made a web album for them and posted it on the club web site.
http://www.lshm.net/albums/fogtourney08inaustin
Participants in the event are encouraged to post comments and especially post their own battle reports. For myself, I had a lot of fun even in the two rounds where I got my head handed to me. I ran a Mauryas Indian army and in the first round I played the dreaded Early Achaemenid Persian army run by Steve Payne, a very experienced and tournament-wise player who you can't give an inch to. I gave him about a foot and a half and the only consolation from that game was I was the only person to score any points against Steve (2-23 loss).
My second game. What can I say about my second game. Its one of those games that you just have to laugh about. I was playing a young fellow named Chance Gamble (yes really) who I am pretty certain cannot legally enter the city limits of Las Vegas or Atlantic City. Talk about hot die rolling, right off the bat he killed not one but two of my generals on rolls of 12. Then he charged into the woods with protected cavalry against my swordsmen armed protected Indian medium foot archers and stomped them. How does that happen?!?? Its like that one moon landing that could not be duplicated on a computer, it just can't happen but it did.
He ran a Komnenan Byzantine army although with his dice rolls he could have beat me with nothing but camp followers and a couple of flaming pigs (6-19 loss).My third game was finally a victory against a Cillician Armenian army which was fought against Chance's dad Lance. I got the upper hand early on and kept it. It was a fun game though and a closer run thing than the score would indicate (25-0 win).
Here are the tournament results:
1st ---- Steve Payne --------- Early Achaemenid Persians---- 73 points
2nd ---- Nathan Hook --------- Gauls --------------------------- 53 points
3rd ---- Hank Esslinger------- Attalid Pergamine --------------45 points
4th ----- Marty Wolverton -----Komnenan Byzantine ----------42 points
5th ------Team GHG -----------Late Republican Romans -------42 points
6th ------Kevin Stork ----------Seljik Turk-----------------------37 points
7th ------Dave Bennett---------Mauryas Indian ----------------33 points
8th ------Chance Gamble ------Komnenan Byzantine ---------26 points
9th ------Fred Askew ----------Late Carthagenian -------------26 points
10th ---- Bob Huey ------------Dominate Roman --------------26 points
11th ---- Bob Green -----------Syracuse -----------------------24 points
12th -----Lance Green --------Cillician Armenean --------------8 points