Slitherine

Div. B challenge:

steve-h8, password: Steve

Cheers
/Oskar

Division C

George123 - Macedonian Successor 9/37 beat Okie - Palmyran 25/24

Thanks for the game.

klayeckles wrote:Div A
klayeckles early persian platea 41/47 vs morbio roman crassus 32/32

another close enounter of the persian kind...a scrape by come from behind last minute victory snatch. thanks morbio it wasn't perfect but it was fun!

It certainly was a fun challenge, thanks for a great game.

Division B

Turk1964(Dominate Roman Eastern Early)32/33 def Rexhurley(Gepids) 43/42

Another nail biter for the Romans. A good come back from Rex on his last turn nearly forced the draw. The Romans hung on but only just. Thanks Rex for a good game. Cheers Mark

Division B

lydianed (Latin Greek Achaia) 15/41 bt iandavidsmith (Condotta - Florentine) 38/31

This round of the Sandwich Cup goes to me.

Challenge for ironclad

Your Lombards vs my Ghaznavids. pw lombard

Pm also sent.

Cheers lydianed

Div D

conaire- Medieval Irish (later) 31/52 beat semaeon - Medieval Danish (early) 32/28

With the completion of this game I have played all my games in this section. I must express my appreciation to the tournament officials and the great players I have completed against for making this a great tourney.

Adjudication

Londo v davouthojo 2 matches, both awarded to Londo, no move from davouthojo for 14 days (3-0 voting)

Adjudication

ianiow v davouthojo 2 matches, both awarded to ianiow, no move from davouthojo for 14 days (3-0 voting)

Right, that's it! Turkoman is out and Cunningcairn is in. I will get the table changed as soon as possible. You may start your matches now, Martin. Good luck.

Division C announcement: important

Cunningcairn (using Western Turks, Khazars) has replaced Turkoman in this division. You may start your matches immediately.


Gokturk warriors

eric (Golden Horde) 27/33 vs Lysimachos (Timurids) 32/28

Very tough encounter and thought I'd lose it at one stage.

Congrats to Tiavals for winning the group and thanks to Steve and Guido

FINAL GROUP STAGE TABLES




Quarter-final line-up
1. Tiavals v Londo
2. ianiow v ericdoman1
3. pantherboy v hidde
4. CheAhn v klayeckles

The format will be . . .

The top 2 from each group will go through to the knock-out stage where again all matches (quarter-finals, semi-finals and final) will be mirror matches. The player with the better aggregate score will progress to the next round. The semi-final and final will use scenarios designed by myself - two famous eastern European battles, Kosovo Polje and Grunwald-Tannenberg.

Group matches must be completed by Sunday 3rd November; quarter-final matches by Sunday 17th November; semi-final matches by Sunday 1st December and the final by Sunday 15th December.

Quarter-Finals
Medieval Germans (early) v Hussites

Semi-Finals
Battle of Kosovo 1389 scenario

Final
Battle Of Grunwald-Tannenberg 1410 scenario

All matches will be "mirror matches".

Division B

lydianed (Latin Greek Achaia) 15/41 bt steve-h8 (Nikephorian Byzantine) 40/36

Thanks for the game.

You may start your Quarter-final paired matches on Sunday 3rd November and you have 14 days in which to complete them. We will be posting a new chart on Sunday morning. The armies you will be using are Early Medieval Germans (no Swiss allies) and Hussites (Polish allies may be selected).

If a contest ends with both players winning one match each then a tie-breaker will come into operation. The tiebreaker will work like this . . .

Match 1: Player A 25/35 beats Player B 34/32
Match 2: Player B 20/31 beats Player A 33/33

Looking at Match 1 Players A has 10 break points left in his army and he has inflicted 2 extra break points over that which was required to rout his opponents army - so 10+2 + 12
Looking at Match 2 Players B has 11 break points left in his army and he has inflicted 0 extra break points over that which was required to rout his opponents army - so 11+0 + 11

So Player A has beaten Player B by 12-11 in the tiebreak.

If the scores in the tie break had been equal then the contest would have been decided by a toss of the coin.

Are there any questions about this tie-break procedure? Does everybody understand it OK?

Division C

lydianed (Gallic Early Lowlife) 42/45 bt Supervark (Early Limigantes) 50/44

Notwithstanding a 10 - 0 score in my favour in the last round this was an evenly matched battle from the start. Both sides had runs of poor dice results and with a different set of random numbers I could have lost in the two of the last three rounds. My opponent played faultlessly and was let down by dice and undisciplined troops.

BTW - Barbarian armies at 400pts suck the fat one. There aren't the points to swamp the battlefield so it fails to conquer either by quantity or quality.

Division D

teletabicus - Late Republican Roman (12/26) beat tofman04 - Dominate Roman (33/29)

to do the difference the major skill of the old Republican legionaries against the less trained and more 'archers oriented' Roman army of 3 centuries after. Thanx for the game