Stockport Pick'n'Mix December 11th/12th

[ironchemistryman]

I'd like to add my own thanks to Hammy and any other organisers, as well as to the other competitors.

I also want to ask a general question; was this event typical of FoG competitions?

You see, there was something missing. The sound of contention. For one used to 6th edition and a little DBM (i.e. no competitive games for some years) it was hugely pleasant to find myself noticing that people actually seemed to be enjoying playing the game rather than the getting of one overon the opponent. Whilst I would concede it as possible that I have mellowed with age I was struck by how helpful and supportive my opponents were towards one (me) unfamiliar with the rules as played in contest.

So, the question (at last), was this typical of FoG (due to the clarity of the ruleset and the level of removal of the 'fiddly bits') or some kind of fluke?

One worry bubble only; the age profile of the players. With just a single (welcome) exception all players were of the age where they could be said to have entered their, er, prosperous years. Is this also typical?

[hammy]

I'd like to add my own thanks to Hammy and any other organisers, as well as to the other competitors.

I also want to ask a general question; was this event typical of FoG competitions?

You see, there was something missing. The sound of contention. So, the question (at last), was this typical of FoG (due to the clarity of the ruleset and the level of removal of the 'fiddly bits') or some kind of fluke?

One worry bubble only; the age profile of the players. With just a single (welcome) exception all players were of the age where they could be said to have entered their, er, prosperous years. Is this also typical?

Glad you had a good time.

I would say that in terms of contention the comp was much the same as other FoG comps. To be fair DBM tournaments were relatively placid places for most of the time that DBM was the main set as well. I think that forums like this and the old DBM list let most of the arguments get thrashed out well before hand. As an umpire the vast majority of my calls were for genuine "err what happens when we get into this mess" questions.

Age profile, well...... We are all getting older although there would have been another early 20s player there had the Wilkinsons made it.
We really could do with getting some of the Warhamster generation into Ancients. The new 28mm plastics may be the hook we need.

[MatthewP]

Just like to add my thanks to Hammy. A cracking tournament with six cracking games. Thanks to all my opponents and commiserations to Robbo who had one disasterous round were two bgs doubled dropped and routed into a third. (Everybody say Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh).

I do enjoy this format. Even games against prancing light horse, dancing knights and longbows are fun.

Matthew

[hammy]

I am afraid I didn't manage to get the results up last night. They are nearly ready to go, I just need to merge in the armies used against the player names and they it is good to go.

[davidandlynda]

Ours also ,Lynda got through all 6 games with only a bit of tiredness so that was good,
Robbos experience is nothing to my last game against Pete ,I went from no losses and needing 2 points to break him to my army breaking(12 BG's) in one ferocious round of combat.
6 knight bases broke 3 BG of HF superior HW through a succesion of cohesion tests who then burst through 2 BG of LF who had failed their tests for the routs ,the 2 points came from the unit that I had set up to sacrifice who duly obliged
Shades of Helsinki Nik
David
I'm still smiling though,

[hammy]

6 knight bases broke 3 BG of HF superior HW through a succesion of cohesion tests who then burst through 2 BG of LF who had failed their tests for the routs ,the 2 points came from the unit that I had set up to sacrifice who duly obliged

One might ask why the light foot were that close to the heavies

I was thinking about my last game where I lost two BGs of LF because of rolling 1s on evades. The real issue is why were these BGs more then the critical distance from their supports.

[davidandlynda]

Thats where they had evaded to

[hammy]

Thats where they had evaded to

In which case perhaps they should have not been in front of the heavies in the first place

OK decent HW foot exploding in no time against knights is not a very common occurence but it is far from impossible afer all

[davidandlynda]

To be fair I was "concentrating " elsewhere trying to get the last 2 points ,I should have moved everything away much earlier as I did in my 1st game against Robbo,The Galoglaich went and hid in a gulley away from any pikes
David

[hammy]

To be fair I was "concentrating " elsewhere trying to get the last 2 points ,I should have moved everything away much earlier as I did in my 1st game against Robbo,The Galoglaich went and hid in a gulley away from any pikes
David

My point entirely