World Team championships - Derby 2nd/3rd October 2010

[domblas]

Great event, with a very strong field of players. Not many wolves noticed coming in from the sea ... mainly cavalry fights.

To say I "enjoyed" the first day would be a tad masochistic - I have just finished melting down the dice. Pain apart, it was still enjoyable being thrashed by Lance and Roger! Well done to both for playing fine games and getting the run on the dice. Andy and Phil on day 2 were also both excellent games and had me in a slightly less of a state. In the one with Phil we almost managed to get our troops in all four corners of the table by the end, with a fight in the middle as well. Nobody watching had a clue whose BGs were whose, and at times I think we were in danger of getting confused.

Luckilly I excelled at the most important part of a team comp - choosing good team mates! Terry and Richard between them carried me to a (much undeserved) share of 3rd place. Well done chaps! FOr my part some bad dice - but probably a bad army choice given what I ended up playing against. We discussed it at the end and "the authiors" will be back to try to improve to 2nd or 1st next year.

Si

PS Most amusing moment of me not knowing our own rules. Never realised that mounted break-off from skirmishers. Had 8 LH vs 5 LF and decided to be agressive and walk a column of MF right up behind both my LH BGs. The LF held and Roger laughed as I couldn't break off with either and as a result I went disrupted with both. Very funny and it lost me a LH BG. Roger thought I was doing it as a cunning agressive move, having carefully weighed up the risks. Nah! Just didn't know what I was doing.... how they laughed

Could you comment your bad army choice? I can see 2 magyars in pool 2. How yourrs and Grahams where built?
Edward

[shall]

My army had

3 Sup Bw'/Sw Arm and 1 lancers
Then 5 prot cv Bw/Sw
4 Lh
1 MF

Set up was very good to get steppes and swarm, shoot and run over a foot army by keeping Cv vs LH to have more dice shooting and more fighting potential vs DISRed foot .... but never played one. Less good against arm lance cav armies, but managed to rumble the one we played.

The porblem I found is that it is good when winning, but it struggles to resist a stream of bad luck - which I got an unfair dose of on day 1. Other armies are much more resilient and can survive this, but this army could n't do so.

In short, it was a very aggressive version with max punch an low resislience ... so I made the choice to max my chances of big results ... AND I SUCCEEDED... but alas half of them were in the oppoenents favour.

It was good fun though ...... eventually.

Si