Northern Doubles FoG - Round One at Vapnartak

dave_r · Post by **dave_r** » Thu Jan 29, 2009 12:18 pm

Runners and Riders as follows:

Colin Betts & Mike Goss: Burgundian Ordonnance
Neil Howard & Nick Hewitt: Later Medieval German
Alan Cole & Paul Carter: Later Serbian
Paul Crozier & Tony Robinson: Medieval French
Roger Greenwood & Alaistair Moore: Free Company
Bob Aspland & Partner: Salad-in's Army of Damascus
Mick Hood & Neil Duffel: Western Dominate Roman
Paul Dawson & Paul Johnson: Later Ottoman Turkish
James Hamilton & Michele Minett: Seljuk Turk
Andy McKay & Dave Hoey: Free Company
Matthew & Andrew Martin: Dominate Roman
Andy Wallace & Martin Routh: Principate Roman
Dave Ruddock & Dave Eltringham: Skythian
Dave Redhead & A.N. Other: Tatar
Martin Buxton & Steve Clarke: Palmyran
Bob Amey: Alexandrian Macedonian

Open competition with six of the seven books represented, so something must be working. Occuring Sunday 1st February at Vapnartak.

hammy · Post by **hammy** » Thu Jan 29, 2009 12:23 pm

15 teams, not at all bad Dave.

Nice to see Bob Aspland taking the plunge. Seems the boot camp made an impression.

BTW I have edited your post to fix your multiple misspellings of Michele's name

Katsu · Post by **Katsu** » Thu Jan 29, 2009 2:31 pm

Will this be a 1000 point event?

JM

hammy · Post by **hammy** » Thu Jan 29, 2009 2:33 pm

Katsu wrote:Will this be a 1000 point event?

JM

900 points, 2 games, see http://www.maws.org.uk for details. Follow the links to Northern DBM league (although it looks like there may well be no DBM this year)

dave_r · Post by **dave_r** » Sat Jan 31, 2009 9:03 pm

The clueless terry who organises this tournament didn't send me the last list until 10 minutes ago....

We now have 16 teams

timmy1 · Post by **timmy1** » Mon Feb 02, 2009 10:07 am

Dave (or clueless Terry - who needs friends...) or anyone else who knows. How did this go? Do we have a winner, or anyone scoring 4398 points in the final round stories to share?

hammy · Post by **hammy** » Mon Feb 02, 2009 10:20 am

First place went to Roger Greenwood and Alistair Moore's Free company
Second to Paul Dawson and Paul Johnson with Ottoman
and third to Robbo and Paul Crozier's Medieval French

Lots of light horse armies were ineffective against massed quality foot archers in the top two armies.

timmy1 · Post by **timmy1** » Mon Feb 02, 2009 10:22 am

James

Thanks. Lets hope that puts the LH / initiative is broken threads to bed for a while.

hammy · Post by **hammy** » Mon Feb 02, 2009 10:25 am

timmy1 wrote:James

Thanks. Lets hope that puts the LH / initiative is broken threads to bed for a while.

Nah, that will not go to bed for a while and as the Northern league is doubles and 900 points it isn't really a far comparison.

Ascot will be the interesting one, I expect 80 or so FoG entries all into one huge open period so Dominate swarm, shooty light horse and every thing else under the sun will be able to fight it out.

I am willing to bet that Graham Evans, Bruce Brown, Dave Handley and Simon Hall will all finish in the top 10%.

timmy1 · Post by **timmy1** » Mon Feb 02, 2009 10:30 am

Not if you lock them in the basement for 3 days they will not. LARGE SMILEY.

dave_r · Post by **dave_r** » Mon Feb 02, 2009 1:11 pm

I am willing to bet that Graham Evans, Bruce Brown, Dave Handley and Simon Hall will all finish in the top 10%.

If you are expecting around 80 entries it is quite a bold statement to say that the above four are going to be in the top 8.

I for one am willing to bet they aren't all in the top 8. I don't think they will miss by much, but.....

hammy · Post by **hammy** » Mon Feb 02, 2009 2:04 pm

dave_r wrote:
I am willing to bet that Graham Evans, Bruce Brown, Dave Handley and Simon Hall will all finish in the top 10%.
If you are expecting around 80 entries it is quite a bold statement to say that the above four are going to be in the top 8.

I for one am willing to bet they aren't all in the top 8. I don't think they will miss by much, but.....

I think that three of these four in the top 10% (assuming they all enter) is highly likely making it all four means that someone might take a bet.

All we need to do now is decide on the value of the bet.

pbrandon · Post by **pbrandon** » Mon Feb 02, 2009 2:32 pm

Can I play?

Paul

dave_r · Post by **dave_r** » Mon Feb 02, 2009 6:25 pm

I am willing to bet that Graham Evans, Bruce Brown, Dave Handley and Simon Hall will all finish in the top 10%.

I think that three of these four in the top 10% (assuming they all enter) is highly likely making it all four means that someone might take a bet.

That was an embarassingly quick turnaround even for you Hammy

Can I play

No you have to organise

CLAVDIVS · Post by **CLAVDIVS** » Mon Feb 02, 2009 10:32 pm

Hi All,
We had very good turn out for the 1st round of the year at York with 16 team’s book into the FOG competition.

THE NEXT ROUND IS:
Round 2. Sunday 19th of April 2009 at Emlyn Hall
on Emlyn Street, Walkden Manchester at the Manchester Area Wargames Society
meeting hall.
For a map of the hall go to the maws web site at www.maws.orgb
Players to arrive at 09:00 am for a 9.30 start to the games.
Army list to Colin or Geoff by the 03/04/09.
The DBM Competition will be Singles
The DBMM Competition will be mixed Singles and Doubles
The FoG Competition will be Doubles

CLAVDIVS · Post by **CLAVDIVS** » Tue Feb 03, 2009 12:32 am

Hi All the results for sunday

1 101 Roger Greenwood & Alaistair Moore Halifax 101 35 32 67 104 106 002 SA12 Free Company
2 002 Paul Johnston & Paul Dawson York 002 31 24 55 109 103 001 Later Ottoman. Turk
3 119 Tony Robinson & Paul Crozier Newcastle 119 31 20 51 105 005 001 SA10 Medieval French
4 103 Dave Ruddock & David Eltringham MAWS 103 31 8 39 117 002 002 IF08 Skythian or Saka
5 120 Bob Amey & Chris Thorn Nottingham 120 20 17 37 100 018 ? IF12 Alexandrian Macedonian
6 100 James Hamilton & Michelle Minnet MAWS 100 12 24 36 120 117 002 SS05 Seljuk Turk
7 005 Mike Goss & Colin Betts MAWS 005 22 12 34 121 119 002 SA16 Ordonnance Burgundian
8 018 Dave Hoey & Andy McKay Halifax 018 18 15 33 015 120 ? SA12 Free Company
9 106 Matthew Martin & Andrew Martin Rotherham 106 32 0 32 Bye 101 ? LT02 Dominate Roman
10 104 Mick Hood & Neil Duffell Rotherham 104 0 32 32 101 Bye 001 LT02 Dominate Roman
11 115 Dave Redhead MAWS 115 14 17 31 018 121 001 Tatar
12 121 Martin Routh & Andy Wallace Rotherham 121 10 15 25 005 115 001 LT01 Principate
13 109 Martin Buxton & Steve Clarke MAWS 109 1 16 17 002 105 001 LT16 Palmyran
14 105 Alan Cole & Paul Carter Rotherham 105 1 16 17 119 109 001 Later Serbian
15 117 Neil Howard & Nick French - 117 1 8 9 103 100 ? SA18 Later

nikgaukroger · Post by **nikgaukroger** » Tue Feb 03, 2009 6:50 am

CLAVDIVS wrote:
9 106 Matthew Martin & Andrew Martin Rotherham 106 32 0 32 Bye 101 ? LT02 Dominate Roman
10 104 Mick Hood & Neil Duffell Rotherham 104 0 32 32 101 Bye 001 LT02 Dominate Roman

Were these Evans-esque Dom-Roms?

hood_mick · Post by **hood_mick** » Tue Feb 03, 2009 9:00 am

No, while having either 6 or 7 arm aux, we were cavalry heavy with 3 BGs of arm sup cav and 2 of sup LH bow and an Alan LH ally. The other was packing legionaries and protected aux and I think an Alan ally.

BrigPaul · Post by **BrigPaul** » Tue Feb 03, 2009 10:15 am

3 119 Tony Robinson & Paul Crozier Newcastle 119 31 20 51 105 005 001 SA10 Medieval French

Newcastle! You winding us up or what! lol. Brigantes.

hammy · Post by **hammy** » Tue Feb 03, 2009 12:47 pm

BrigPaul wrote:
3 119 Tony Robinson & Paul Crozier Newcastle 119 31 20 51 105 005 001 SA10 Medieval French
Newcastle! You winding us up or what! lol. Brigantes.

Well they kept on re introducing the same spelling mistakes in Michele's names so why should they get you living in the right place