Slitherine

Posted: **Tue May 19, 2009 7:01 pm**

What is the down side of adding two round tournament results to the rankings?

JM

Posted: **Tue May 19, 2009 7:39 pm**

Surely it has to be excluded because historical pairings (or as close as) were used.

Posted: **Tue May 19, 2009 8:20 pm**

nikgaukroger wrote:
hammy wrote:The question now is should I include this comp in the rankings?

I can't think of a reason not to other than Ray winning and Tim doing rather better than normal.

Anyone?

And that we don't include invitational comps perhaps

Well it is titled invitiational but Tim did make the invite fairly public.

I am sure we could manage to find a way to negate Tim's performance if we try hard

Posted: **Tue May 19, 2009 9:10 pm**

hammy wrote:
nikgaukroger wrote:
hammy wrote:The question now is should I include this comp in the rankings?
I can't think of a reason not to other than Ray winning and Tim doing rather better than normal.
Anyone?
And that we don't include invitational comps perhaps
Well it is titled invitiational but Tim did make the invite fairly public.
I am sure we could manage to find a way to negate Tim's performance if we try hard

I think if you check it was titled "Invitaional" - certainly in most places I typed it in and missed the keystroke for the second "t"...

Anyways, I wasn;t that fussy who I invited. It was mostly just those who asked

Posted: **Tue May 19, 2009 9:56 pm**

rayfredjohn wrote:
Scrumpy wrote:Looks more like a Visigoth not Vandal army with the Dom Roms onboard.
You're right but check out the competition rules. They are the same army by another name. I'm not sure how it became Early Vandal and not Visigoth.

Sorry to upset you. It really does cover the table at 900 points. I fought both battles on the Steppe and it didn't bother me.

Not so much bothered as confused. Which in itself is not that difficult. Glad to see a proper hf-type army winning. How would you have structured it for 800 pts though ?

Posted: **Tue May 19, 2009 10:41 pm**

timmy1 wrote:In response to Nik's 'Didn't there used to be somebody here that thought Illyrians were just road kill? Can't remember who, however ...', it was me. I have to say I am impressed, especially given the other results. Really want to read Tim's account of the game as I would have expected LRR to rip them apart.

Speaking as an Illyrian, I might have agreed with you. We did, though, have four generals lauded by Shakespeare. And buckets of luck.

Alan

Posted: **Wed May 20, 2009 9:58 am**

You win because of your skill, and lose because your opponent was lucky.

Posted: **Wed May 20, 2009 11:42 am**

Scrumpy wrote:
rayfredjohn wrote:
Scrumpy wrote:Looks more like a Visigoth not Vandal army with the Dom Roms onboard.
You're right but check out the competition rules. They are the same army by another name. I'm not sure how it became Early Vandal and not Visigoth.

Sorry to upset you. It really does cover the table at 900 points. I fought both battles on the Steppe and it didn't bother me.
Not so much bothered as confused. Which in itself is not that difficult. Glad to see a proper hf-type army winning. How would you have structured it for 800 pts though ?

I've been thinking about the 800 version. I'll send it you when I've come up with something.

Ray

Posted: **Wed May 20, 2009 12:15 pm**

Thanks. I used the Vandals under dbm in a mini tourney, enjoyed seeing my opponents face when my Cm(I) managed to kill some Cv(S), it was priceless.

Slitherine

Madaxeman Inviational FoG Tournament, May 17th London, UK