Victorian Championships, Melbourne, Australia, 8/9 November

[Daymond01]

The League of Ancients is hosting our final FOG tournament for the year at Club Tivoli. The event will be divided into three separate sections, 15mm classical (Immortal Fire, Rise of Rome, Legions Triumphant), 15mm medieval (Rise and Fall, Swords and Scimitars, Storm of Arrows and Eternal Empire) and 25mm open competition.

All games will be on 6x4 tables, 2 games per day, entry $10 per day. 15mm competitions will be 800AP and the 25mm competition will be 600AP.

Army lists to me by 1 November at lyle.daymond@bigpond.com

Lyle

[Redpossum]

I definitely need to become rich so I can fly around the world and attend all these tournaments.

Is there a consolation prize for finishing last in the World Rankings?

[WhiteKnight]

You are spot on there Possum! You need loadsa money and to be outta work to make the most of the range of international opportunities FOG seems to have created! UK, France, Spain, Italy , Canada, all over the USA, Australia, New Zealand, Germany, Scandinavia, Argentina and apols if I have missed anywhere!!! As said elsewhere, any international ranking needs to have players from all these places playing each other, as they do in other sports and pastimes, like tennis and chess. Just how we as a community manage that is the challenge...

Martin

[Daymond01]

The League split its November competition into 3 categories and we managed to fill the minimum numbers we needed. Our regular visitors Brett Kvisle and Jason Williams came down from Sydney and took at a trophy home with them (not an unusual occurence). Dean Bedlington was merely content to come down from the national capital, Canberra, and exchange lead for currency (almost like alchemy). Most of the usual suspects did well, especially regular tournament winners Mark Robins, Michael Gray and Martin Morgan. Lots of horse archers, pikemen, knights and impact foot featured.

The Best Army award went to Steve Neate's Germans, while Paul Coia won the award for sportsmanship. It was nice to see the 25mm figures being used as most tournaments in Australia use 15mm scale. My personal lack of familiarity with the rules (as umpire) was
compensated by my understanding of how to use the FOG score sheet!

Lyle Daymond
Treasurer
League of Ancients

15mm Ancient Period
Jason Williams (NSW) - Western Hunnic - 73
Ian Sharp - Alexandrian Macedonian - 58
Brett Kvisle (NSW) - Later Ptolemaic - 55
Django Upton - Graeco-Bactrian - 45
Paul Garnham - Dominate Roman - 16 (2 Games)
Lyle Daymond - Dacian - 16
Scott Parkinson - Galatian - 12 (2 Games)

15mm Medieval Period
Martin Morgan - Ottoman - 67
Richard Stubbs - Ilkhanid Mongol - 54
Ian Poade - Condotta Italian (Venice in Italy) - 54
Michael George - Medieval Portuguese - 53
Simon LeRay-Meyer - Ordonnance French - 43
Michael Coughlan - Latin Greek (Latin Empire) - 29
Tristan Powell - Nikephorian Byzantine - 28
Paul Coia - Medieval Castilian - 27

25mm Open Competition
Mark Robins - Early Successor (Seleucid) - 88
Michael Gray - Foederate Roman - 77
Michael Bornstein - Khazars - 62
Charles Watson - Early Byzantine - 54
Dean Bedlington (ACT) - Late Republican Roman - 50
Geoff Frost - Later Ptolemaic - 30
David Smith - Graeco-Bactrian - 25
Steve Neate - Early German - 10