Britcon and Worlds 2012

[philqw78]

just look at crimewatch he is about

But I have got a body from baywatch

[dave_r]

just look at crimewatch he is about

But I have got a body from baywatch

BOBFOC

[philqw78]

Glad you agree Dave.

[CLAVDIVS]

44 DD get me all the time

[Robert241167]

You and your fetish for manboobs Colin !!

Rob

[CLAVDIVS]

If you & Phil have got them uses them

[olivier]

Do you know where I can find the list of trader exepected at Britcon alongside Slitherine and Apple?

[LordNytram]

Hammy, can we get some confirmation/acknowledgment on entries? In my case I've paid entry so I have a record of application for entry - but I assume thats no guarantee of a place (from your posting). But I have absolutely nothing to confirm Davids entry as he's a junior and no payment made.

I'd like to echo Alans comments. I've made two payments, one via paypal for myself in which I was able to follow instructions and add my details and another paid using my visa card on behalf of David Bannister where I didn't spot an opportunity to provide his details. I sent and e-mail to the BHGS website explaining and asking for confirmation and I never heard anything back at all. Its really essential that you publish a full list of entrants.

Especially now you say there are limited spaces. Both David Bannister and I have booked accomodation and we don't want to be turning up on the day and find we are told that you don't have our entries! I don't care if the list or entrants to date are published here or if you send e-mails but please do one or the other at the very least. In addition I'd appreciate an e-mail reply to confirm you have both entries on your books in my case.

[jdm]

Unfortunately Slitherine will not be attending Britcon this year, and I doubt Apple will

Regards
JDM

[zoltan]

Unfortunately Slitherine will not be attending Britcon this year, and I doubt Apple will

Regards
JDM

Aww shucks JD, man up!

Oh right you will be there to play, but there won't be an official Slitherine trade stand.

[grahambriggs]

Unfortunately Slitherine will not be attending Britcon this year, and I doubt Apple will

Regards
JDM

Bar profits will be down then.

[Jilu]

Hi All
Firstly I would just like to thank you all for the feedback and comments on the forum, we do listen and its entirely appropriate to comment here, it’s what the forum is for, but I have to say there is a significant amount of misinformation, assumptions, rumor and incorrect comments about our intentions and the various platforms that we have been working on to upgrade the Tabletop FOG experience. So I will try and explain

Firstly, we are committed to FOG Tabletop rules, if this were not our intention we would simply announce as Games Workshop have done that they no longer support ancient wargames rules and they will no longer sell these. It’s as easy as that.

It’s worth revisiting what causes all of this and why we feel change in the process is necessary. We have listened to the frequent and numerous suggestions for rules changes and upgrades, we are pretty experienced in Tabletop wargaming so this is no surprise to us. No Rule set has ever been tested to the level of FOG ancients, yet after 3+ years of playing there is now a vast treasure trove of further improvements that can be made. It’s the very nature of Tabletop gaming and we more than most understand this. The dilemma is therefore not how to kill off FOG, but how to support it and we are talking the economics of Tabletop not video games here, so we have to be realistic. In the last analysis and despite our love of Tabletop this is our business.

When we looked at how we might best support the rules going forwards it became apparent that the traditional paper book method works really well for an initial release and we are fully committed to this, as I think is demonstrated by the launch of our new Napoleonic rule set, but how to support these rules going forwards is the big challenge. No one else has managed to solve this issue and remember our motivation is not connected to selling miniatures. For us this is a standalone product, so the economics have to be realistic. Warehousing, Printing, distribution and retail all add cost and so far as traditional book publishing goes you don’t need me to comment on the transitions that are taking place there. It’s hard enough to find outlets to sell the original books these days and wargames rules depend on iterations to survive, so a second version of the same product is for some hard to understand or sell.

So when agonizing over how best to support our “baby” we looked at a number of platforms and please bear in mind that each platform (e.g. ipad) has to be paid for and coded from scratch and then supported going forwards. Now if we were dealing with “Call of Duty” the economics of multiple platforms makes sense but we are not, so choices have to be made and I have to say that the touch screen, scrolling and indexing capabilities of the ipad are really suited to supporting players during games. The ability to instantly find a topic is second to none and enhances the whole game playing experience, but at present you only have my word for that and I fully understand the jury is still out. We also decided to add PC and MAC to the list of supported platforms as just about everyone on the planet now has access to these. So when one considers the cost of an army and the years of reuse in both an army and a rules set, is a potential one of cost to enhance the hours spent gaming really such a negative factor?

So where are we now? At present we are waiting on Apple approval to launch the ipad, normally no more than a couple of weeks. PC and MAC should also be ready by that time and all will be released simultaneously; at least that is our current plan.

However, we have also listened to what you have said and we are now investigating as quickly as we can a method of providing access to a “paper” version as well. We are committed to finding a solution to this and there are various alternatives that we are looking into to assess cost and time scales. We will advise further on this when we have the various responses to hand, but it is likely this will follow the release of the original platforms.

So in the last analysis the success or otherwise of all this is not just dependent on us, it needs your continuing support, but we do recognize that if we can’t deliver a quality wargames experience in our very specialist niche area then you will not continue to support the Rules.

Best Wishes
JDM

[davesaunders23]

Unfortunately Slitherine will not be attending Britcon this year, and I doubt Apple will

Regards
JDM

Bar profits will be down then.

not unless Nik is a no show.

[davidandlynda]

There is a list of runners(no riders yet)on the BHGS site(www.bhgs.org.uk)news section
David

[hammy]

RIders will not be published until they are at least close to complete.

There will be regular updates on the news page from this point onwards.

Hammy

[kevinj]

There is a list of runners(no riders yet)

Surely the Army is the Runner and the Player is the Rider?

[ney63]

Kevin im still waiting for hammy to send me the list of players so i can cross check who as and who asn't sent there list in before i send the runners and riders in to be published.

Andy

[titanu]

Kevin im still waiting for hammy to send me the list of players so i can cross check who as and who asn't sent there list in before i send the runners and riders in to be published.

Andy

FoG 15mm Ancients

1. Graham Evans
2.George Dick
3.John Muir
4.Phil Powell
5.Paul Brandon
6.Alan Cutner
7.Hugh Cameron
8.Rob Ashley
9.Robert Amey
10.David Bannister
11.Juan Francisco Navarro Almao
12.Darrell Pearce
13.Peter Butler
14.Gordon Jamieson
15.Martyn Simpson
16.Stephen Clarke
17.Marco Baroni
18.Lynda Fairhurst
19.Stephen Ladanyi
20.Harrison Pearce
21.Stuart Tonge
22.Richard Collins
23.Pablo Suárez Cortés
24.Christopher Proudfoot

FoG 15mm Medieval

1. Craig Byron
2.Peter Reilly
3.Salvador Senabre Juncosa
4.Eric Doman
5.Robert Taylor
6.Shaun Drummond
7.Richard Woolford
8.Kevin Ellis
9.Matthew Iverson
10.David Ruddock
11.Peter Card
12.David Morrison
13.Fremont Guillaume
14.Ivan Monedero Fernandez
15.Olivier Dader
16.Eric Lajus
17.Peter Dalby
18.Franck Cieur
19.John Patrick
20.Dave Saunders
21.Andrew Ellis
22.David Fairhurst
23.Gilles Wielgosz
24.Anthony Leroy
25.Eric Thomson
26.David Cutner
27.Paul Robinson
28.Rich Love
29.Graham Fordham
30.Paul Longmore
31.Ian Stewart


FoG 25mm Ancients & Medieval

1. Brian Espie
2.Dino Monticoli
3.Sylvie Mills
4.Ian Speed
5.Steven Hacker
6.Steve Brown
7.Richard Jeffrey-Cook

[ney63]

Right lists from players i have not Received.

FOG EARLY: Phil Powell ( Not the first time been late)

Darrell and Harrison Pearce (not the first time been late)
Stephen Clarke


Andy

[AlanCutner]

If you have all the lists for 15mm Medieval and 25mm, how about publishing those?

And I don't care that people know I'm using Dominate Romans in the early period.