Southern League - Clevedon round - Take away - Sun 24 March

[alasdair2204]

Almost ready for Sunday.







Hopefully worth fighting for.

Best presented army will be decided by my daughter, after all she is an art student.

See you all Sunday.

Don

Now I want to win

they are brilliant

Cheers

Alasdair

[MarcP]

Don,
Thanks for running todays competition, I enjoyed the learning curve - shame I can't start over again and try to do better

[donm]

Can I just say a very BIG Thank You from my daughter for all who donated by entering and buying food and drink.

1st Alasdair Harley - 54
2nd Dave Allen - 51
3rd Pete Dalby - 51
4th Andy Whitby -51 (count back decided on their opponents scores against the other palyers).
5th Don Avis - 49
6th Paddy Bray - 42
7th Richard Bodley-Scott - 38
7th Brian Holmes - 38
9th Gordon Malcolm - 34
10th Tom Elsworth - 30
10th Andy Scott - 30
12th Ray Boyles - 29
12th Chris Beesley - 29
12th Tim Porter - 29
15th Mike Shepherd - 28
16th Roy Boss - 24
17th Keith McGlynn - 23
18th Marc Priest - 22
18th Mark Fry - 22
20th Steve Hacker - 21
21st Andy Unwin - 19
21st Lee Fisher - 19
21st Jerry Bray - 19
24th Bob Medcraft - 17
Don Mchugh - Non-playing umpire.

Best presented army went to Keith McGlynn with his beautiful Aztec army. (pictures from Tim soon).

Thank you again to you all, we now move on to the London round.

Don

[rbodleyscott]

Thanks Don for a very enjoyable day. Even if I did have to play 3 Mughal armies.

Highlight of the day for me was my allied BG of 6 Tibetan "cataphracts" single-handedly defeating my third round opponents by inflicting all 13 of the Attrition Points required for victory.

[quackstheking]

Firstly thanks to The Don, daughter Jenny and the "Clevedon Crew" for a brilliant day, and well worth the 5 1/2 hour round trip from Hertfordshire. Thanks also to my 3 opponents for 3 good games.

Having taken the Hawaiians for a "fun day out", I must admit they performed very well and 5th place beat my expectations. They are BIG (19 BG's with 138 bases! ) and surprisingly resilient in period. I did have to resort to pre-drawn deployment maps so I could make sure I got them all on the table in the central deployment zone and needed the numbered sabot movement trays to get the toys on the table quickly and keep the game flowing.

After a big win against Andy's Mallacan, when the Impact foot didn't win a single impact (Andy's dice were appalling), a 14-6 win against Brian's Mughal's with 4BG of artillery, the Hawaiians found themselves on the "Top Table" facing down Alasdair's Hindu Indian with 7 BG's of foot!!! A very hard earned and bloody 10-10 draw was fought out with Alasdair about to roll up my right flank but he was losing at least his camp and 3 other BG's on my my left. A great game, but one I needed to win to trouble the prize winners.

The format for the day is great and although I'm not a real fan of "pre-set" terrain, for a one day comp that enables you to get in 3 games, it really works!! The next round is in London with a return to the ECW -Not much wacky I can take there so I guess Rupert and his cavaliers will get another run out!

If you haven't tried these 1 day events, get along to one as they're particularly suited the new players who get to experience the rules and learn very quickly!

Don

[viking123]

Tom, Jerry and I would like to add our thanks to Don and his lovely daughter, Jenny, for a great Sunday's wargaming.

As predicted I lost all my games and came last.

Bob

[petedalby]

As predicted I lost all my games and came last.

Beware of self-fulfilling prophecies Bob!

A great day out though - thanks to everyone involved. Shame I can't make it to London but hoping to catch the last 2 - just needs dates to run past SWMBO please?

[donm]

Don's 'lovely' daughter would like to say thank you very much for all you kind messages and thank you guys for turning up!

I hope you had a good day

Thank you all so much!

Jenny

[timmy1]

Bob

You coming last was not a very difficult prediction...