Venta Belgarum tournament V3, 2018 24th 25th february

[philqw78]

I'd do my usual guess at what armies people are using, but I already know Ruddocks
David Putt loves Chinese
Pete has been threatening to use Thracians, but I reckon he'll use pike +Arty
Bannister will pick his army when all the rest are in
Phil of Jelly will pick something ridiculous, or something good ridiculously
Mr Putt will have polluted the minds of Plymouth. More Chinese
Except Paul who will have a decent army, sea people
Oxford will be as random as usual, Mr Lynda will have Sea people if allowed
As for MAWS- Pwobabwy Bwoody Womans and Chinese

[notrum]

So what happened to the Reigate contingent?

They had already committed to Burton, but if the tournaments had been different weeks at least two of us would have entered.

Steve

[davidandlynda]

You could have left Dave's off,assuming the devil hasn't returned his soul as of no use he will probably dice his way to victory with anything.
Sea Peoples were considered by me , would have meant some painting so I've gone a little left field,nothing new there
Mr Lynda

[grahambriggs]

So what happened to the Reigate contingent?

They had already committed to Burton, but if the tournaments had been different weeks at least two of us would have entered.

Steve

Yes we entered Burton early as Mr Murton is organised. Perhaps next year we can do both.

[lakedaimon]

Here are there. These are runners and riders

David Ruddock - Han Chinese.
Paul Bartlett - Etruscan
David Bannister - Sea Peoples
Steve Brown - Selucid
Pete Dalby - Alexandrian Macedonian
Phil Powell - Late Republican Roman
David Putt - Median
David Morrison - Selucid
David Fairhurst - Selucid
Martin Simpson - Han Chinese
Linda Fairhurst - Han Chinese



John Akers - Selucid
John Patrick - Late dynastic Egyptian.
David Fairbrother - Selucid
Philip Jelley - Han Chinese
Ian Carbutt - Classical India
Ian Newell - Ancient British
Richard Lindley - Minoan.
Dwain Simpson - Sea Peoples
Allen McFarland - Early German
David Massey. - Selucid
Renfrew Pearson -late republican roman
Colin Boulain New Kingdom Egyptian .

Should be twenty three names, so we are looking for one more, but have volunteers for the first two rounds as byes. If you cannot make it, let me know, as the Saturday breaking player will need to leave earlier if we end up with evens!!!
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It's a 0900 registration, 0930 start. Two games each day.

One more we will be booking a restaurant for Saturday night, please let me know if this interests you.

David

so seven pike armies,four Han but some interesting ones as well.

[petedalby]

I'm surprised - more Seleucids than Han.

[philqw78]

Well I managed to fool Ruddock into taking them

[lakedaimon]

It's probably due to the chariots they can have. My money is on Etruscan.

David

[philqw78]

Looked at Etruscan. More superior armoured offensive spear than anybody else. 30 bases IIRC. Then it falls over

[Hobbit]

Looked at Etruscan. More superior armoured offensive spear than anybody else. 30 bases IIRC. Then it falls over

What a shocking thing to say, don't listen men.

[philqw78]

If the cavalry could have dismounted and it had some decent MF it would have been great

[dave_r]

Results of Belgarum as follows:

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1  David Bannister    98
2  Dave Ruddock       92
3  Steve Brown        91
4  David Fairbrother  80
4  David Fairhurst    80
6  Ian Carbutt        76
7  Paul Bartlett      74
8  Phil Powell        73
8  Phil Jelley        73
10 Dave Morrison      65
11 David Putt         64
12 Ian Newell         62
13 Owain Simpson      61
14 Dave Massie        60
15 John Akers         57
16 Renfrey Pearson    54
17 Martyn Simpson     52
18 Lynda Fairhurst    51
19 Alan McFarlane     40
20 Colin Boulain      39
21 Richard Lindley    36
22 John Patrick       26

Many thanks to all my opponents - four good games and very enjoyable under v3. The special rules had everybody frantically looking through rulebooks attempting to work out how scythed chariots worked....

Unfortunatly Pete had to drop out half way through - hope everything is OK.

[davidandlynda]

Just goes to prove if your name isn't Dave your chances are much reduced
Chariots were fun, best was going straight through Steves disrupted pike block,mind you the one that followed up and charged the flank of the adjacent one was a complete failure.
Good weekend,highly recomend going next year
David

[navigator]

Bad form to win your own tournament though...i deliberately lose mine each year

[terrys]

Bad form to win your own tournament though...i deliberately lose mine each year

Not so bad - I had to rewrite the rules in order to win Badcon !!