The Dustbin

[stockwellpete]

The tournament is now full and we have signed up a record 96 players for this season. My thanks to everyone who has mentioned the FOG2DL to other players and encouraged them to join. There are still some reserve places left, but even those are filling up quite quickly. I will put up the divisional line-up for Early Middle Ages later today and then the next job will be to allocate everyone their armies. I will put a separate post up about this but I would like them by the end of Friday so I can do that job over the weekend.

[stockwellpete]

Here is the divisional line-up for Early Middle Ages. Again some players will find themselves moving up to a higher division even if they finished mid-table last time. This is because the number of players returning from last season's higher divisions is a little bit lower than usual. One or two players have been fast-tracked an extra division as well because of this.

Division A
CheAhn (1600)
ConstantinIX (1200)
harveylh (1200)
Macedonczyk (1600)
melm (1200)
Nosy_Rat (1200)
pantherboy (1600)
rbodleyscott (1600)
Snugglebunnies (1200)
Triarii (1600)

Division B
bomber23 (1200)
Challenge1 (1200)
Cunningcairn (1200)
Dan Zanzibar (1200)
desertedfox (1600)
IMC (1600)
kraff (1600)
LuciusSulla (1200)
paulmcneil (1600)
sunnyboy (1600)

Division C
Aetius39 (1600)
General Shapur (1600)
grumpydaddy845 (1200)
Karvon (1200)
MorkinThe Free (1200)
mr cholo (1200)
Najanaja (1200)
Stew101 (1600)
ulysisgrunt (1600)
Warg1 (1200)

Division D
BishUK (1600)
Bluefin (1600)
Conteshard (1600)
Doyley50 (1200)
joggy (1600)
Kerait (1600)
random27 (1600)
rs2excelsior (1600)
Rob123 (1200)
tmac11 (1600)

Division E
Barrold713 (1600)
Blagrot (1600)
deeter (1600)
DryNick (1600)
ggarynorman (1600)
kronenblatt (1600)
Morat (1600)
snooky51 (1600)
TomoeGozen (1600)
Tratmot (1600)

Division F
angel42052 (1600)
carpenkm (1600)
CoryC (1600)
Darkwater247 (1600)
General Kostas (1600)
hscic (1600)
SSB (1600)
toska (1200)
wellsonian (1600)
wmpryor (1600)

Please note: I have entered the preferred army size in brackets after each player's name (either 1200 or 1600). Some players have not yet expressed a preference so you have been put down as 1200pts. If you want to play at 1600pts please let me know by the end of Friday.

[Blagrot]

In biblical do you want the match results up individually or should we wait until both halves of the mirror match are done before we report it? If it's the latter, will this make any difference to the time control?

Thanks
Blagrot

[stockwellpete]

In biblical do you want the match results up individually or should we wait until both halves of the mirror match are done before we report it? If it's the latter, will this make any difference to the time control?

Thanks
Blagrot

Yes, report the results individually please. Some players will play simultaneously, others consecutively.

[grumpydaddy845]

My Army List:

Dailami 928-1055 AD
Norman 923-1040 AD
Ghaznavid 962-1187 AD
Rus 960-1053 AD

[stockwellpete]

That is so I can start allocating them over the weekend. Thanks.

[stockwellpete]

I have sent everyone who has not yet submitted their armies a PM this evening.

[lydianed]

Jeez that went quickly...

May I queue with the reserves for Classical Antiquity, Early Middle Ages and Biblical please

[kronenblatt]

Biblical

Instructions

This is the first season of a revamped Biblical section. The old divisions of ten players has been replaced by smaller six player divisions, where each player will play five historically themed “mirror matches” against the other players in their division.
Here are the five historical match-ups that will be used in Season 9 . . .

Egyptian 664-571BC v Kushite 727-656BC (Invasion of Lower Egypt 664BC)
Median 836-627BC v Skythian 750-551BC (Skythian invasion 653BC)
Greek 680-461BC v Lydian 687-551BC (Campaign 615BC)
Assyrian 681-609BC v Babylonian 626-539BC with Median allies (Fall of Assyria 613BC)
Indian 500BC-319AD v Persian 545-481BC (Persian invasion 518-516BC)

Please note: armies are 1200 points for this section.

Should games be set up as actual mirror matches, or as individual battles, first player 1 with army A vs player 2 with army B and then player 1 with army B vs player 2 with army A? The former will mean same map, but latter may mean more variety and fun, at the expense of possible unfairness when terrain is generated in the two different maps.

[stockwellpete]

Biblical

Instructions

This is the first season of a revamped Biblical section. The old divisions of ten players has been replaced by smaller six player divisions, where each player will play five historically themed “mirror matches” against the other players in their division.
Here are the five historical match-ups that will be used in Season 9 . . .

Egyptian 664-571BC v Kushite 727-656BC (Invasion of Lower Egypt 664BC)
Median 836-627BC v Skythian 750-551BC (Skythian invasion 653BC)
Greek 680-461BC v Lydian 687-551BC (Campaign 615BC)
Assyrian 681-609BC v Babylonian 626-539BC with Median allies (Fall of Assyria 613BC)
Indian 500BC-319AD v Persian 545-481BC (Persian invasion 518-516BC)

Please note: armies are 1200 points for this section.

Should games be set up as actual mirror matches, or as individual battles, first player 1 with army A vs player 2 with army B and then player 1 with army B vs player 2 with army A? The former will mean same map, but latter may mean more variety and fun, at the expense of possible unfairness when terrain is generated in the two different maps.

Yes, as actual mirror matches please.

[kronenblatt]

Biblical

Instructions

This is the first season of a revamped Biblical section. The old divisions of ten players has been replaced by smaller six player divisions, where each player will play five historically themed “mirror matches” against the other players in their division.
Here are the five historical match-ups that will be used in Season 9 . . .

Egyptian 664-571BC v Kushite 727-656BC (Invasion of Lower Egypt 664BC)
Median 836-627BC v Skythian 750-551BC (Skythian invasion 653BC)
Greek 680-461BC v Lydian 687-551BC (Campaign 615BC)
Assyrian 681-609BC v Babylonian 626-539BC with Median allies (Fall of Assyria 613BC)
Indian 500BC-319AD v Persian 545-481BC (Persian invasion 518-516BC)

Please note: armies are 1200 points for this section.

Should games be set up as actual mirror matches, or as individual battles, first player 1 with army A vs player 2 with army B and then player 1 with army B vs player 2 with army A? The former will mean same map, but latter may mean more variety and fun, at the expense of possible unfairness when terrain is generated in the two different maps.

Yes, as actual mirror matches please.

Oki, will do: thanks for clarification.

[carpenkm]

Thanks for including me. My preference would be 1600 pts, but i don't really mind. Army lists:

Norman 923-1040 AD French Allies
Anglo-Danish 1017-1041 AD Welsh Allies
Viking 900-1049 AD French Allies
Byzantine 988-1041 AD

[Conteshard]

Hi! please set me for 1600, thanks

Done - stockwellpete

[sarmation]

1 dacian 89 106 + sarmatian ally
2Sassanid Persian 350-476 AD +kushan ally
3 Hunnic (Western) 376-454 AD + germanic foot
4 palmyran

[desertedfox]

Pete,

In Biblical, how to determine which historical matchup to play against which opponent?

[McHarg]

I signed up for LA and Biblical, but I do not see me listed. Should I have put my selections somehwere else?

Geoff

[Stormcrow]

Prefer 1600 pts.

Norman 923-1040 AD w French 88-1049AD
Polish 966-1057 AD w Rus 960-1053 AD
Byzantine 740-903 AD w Serbian 850-1039 AD
German 933-1049 AD w Lombard 776-1049 AD

(Reserve)

[Stormcrow]

Please add to reserve.

(Reserve)

[Stormcrow]

Please reserve me for any of the periods.

[stockwellpete]

I signed up for LA and Biblical, but I do not see me listed. Should I have put my selections somehwere else?

Geoff

Yes, you have been entered into both of those two sections.

In Late Antiquity you are in Division F . . . viewtopic.php?f=501&t=101446 and I have sent a group message to everyone who has not yet submitted their armies (you are included in the message) asking them to make their four selections by the end of the day. So this is your priority right now.

In Biblical you are also in Division F . . . viewtopic.php?f=501&t=101390 and you do not have to submit any armies for this section as I will be providing a fixture list for everyone with historical match-ups. You don't need to do anything now regarding this section.