Roll Call

[alasdair2204]

With a few days to go I have 9 lists so far, 7 to go unless we have a flurry of last minute entrants.

Also 9 different armies, keep it up guys!

BRILLIANT

Though I am never sure if that's a good thing for us individually, obviously its good for the competition and for us as it means we play a good range of armies which I like, but from an individual perspective it means no ones chosen the same list as me so does that mean my lists not as good as I thought it was, I hope not, I can't wait to play my army, I've never seen the army before and get to see it on the day and a big thanks to Jim for lending it to me as I wanted to try out something different, so get those lists in so we can all see what the oppositions got, and by the way I lent Nigel his army and if mine and his are anything to go by the range of armies will be wide both geographically and in troop types

Cheers

Alasdair

[nigelemsen]

A spread of armies is always good fun, nothing worse than traveling to a comp to play four games of civil war... No pun intended... I suspect attack at devises will fall fow of this...

Ps: haven't clue on how to use the army kindly borrowed from alasdair... But will certainly fun

[kevinj]

12 received now. Still all different

Either this period has great scope for variety or none of us know what we're doing with it!

[alasdair2204]

12 received now. Still all different

Either this period has great scope for variety or none of us know what we're doing with it!

None of us has a clue

I think this is one of the themes we are still learning as it comes up only about once a year, and a variety of armies can do well, for example last year an all mounted army (Tatar)came first and an all foot (Irish) army second

cheers

alasdair

[kevinj]

Gents, thanks to everyone for getting your lists in promptly. We didn't quite get to 16 different armies, but those which are duplicated are quite different to each other in both cases. Looking forward to seeing everyone in a couple of weeks.

[nigelemsen]

Going to be fun... Be interesting to see how people have interpeted the lists, espicially where there are two list choices the same, but combos are diverse.

[quackstheking]

Well as one of the two Scottish players a quick look at the dates will tell you that mine is the Flodden Scottish list with armoured pike and I'm guessing Steve will have Unarmoured pike but with a French ally so he can squeeze in up to 4 BG's of French Gendarmes to give some cavalry punch!

As regards the two Later Imperial Austrian and German, who can predict what madness and obscure composition that Dave Allen will concoct! I'm sure Brian will be normal but Dave's army will be "off the wall"!!

However here's to a great weekend

Don

[daveallen]

Not that off the wall, more or less a rerun of their last outing (Warfare) - think Swiss, but without the elan or the inspiring leadership.

As to our doppelgangers, who can guess?

BTW, assuming we'll be having another wacky 'historical' first round, who the heck will the Adal face?

Dave

[kevinj]

I don't control the draw, but the usual BHGS method is to have a random first round, but keeping people from the same club apart.

[alasdair2204]

I don't control the draw, but the usual BHGS method is to have a random first round, but keeping people from the same club apart.

Hi Kevin

don't let them, take over arrange some excellent historical first round battles and who evers left gets to travel to India, Indonesia, Japan or Adal on a tourist visa, last year my Tatars were affronted and insulted as they were left with the indignaty of being invaded by the Irish, how embarrassing is that,

See you soon

Alasdair

[quackstheking]

last year my Tatars were affronted and insulted as they were left with the indignaty of being invaded by the Irish, how embarrassing is that,

Alasdair

Lol - so embarrassed and indignant that the Tatars smacked the Irish down 24-1 only for the Irish to bob back up to 2nd overall behind the Tatars!!!

Don

[youngr]

Not that off the wall, more or less a rerun of their last outing (Warfare) - think Swiss, but without the elan or the inspiring leadership.

As to our doppelgangers, who can guess?

BTW, assuming we'll be having another wacky 'historical' first round, who the heck will the Adal face?

Dave

Hopefully, no-one with any armour or artillery - fat chance

[kevinj]

To be honest there's such a variety of armies that there isn't much scope for historical matchups, it would end up something like:

Poles v Hungarians (not sure if they ever fought but they're the same date and not too far apart)
Swiss v Venetian (probably reasonable)
Japanese v Indonesian (starting to stretch the credibility a bit now)
Flanders Carolines v Danish (recreating the infamous Cheese and Bacon war)
Adal v Mughal (For the title of best army ending in "AL")
2 Austrians v Irish and Spanish (No idea what that would be)
Which leaves the 2 Scottish armies to fight amonst themselves, which is their default option in the absence of other opponents

[alasdair2204]

To be honest there's such a variety of armies that there isn't much scope for historical matchups, it would end up something like:

Poles v Hungarians (not sure if they ever fought but they're the same date and not too far apart)
Swiss v Venetian (probably reasonable)
Japanese v Indonesian (starting to stretch the credibility a bit now)
Flanders Carolines v Danish (recreating the infamous Cheese and Bacon war)
Adal v Mughal (For the title of best army ending in "AL")
2 Austrians v Irish and Spanish (No idea what that would be)
Which leaves the 2 Scottish armies to fight amonst themselves, which is their default option in the absence of other opponents

Difficult I know, but it would all be worth it to know who finally won the Cheese & Bacon war, The irish could fight the spanish who kept landing their by accident when they missed England, or the scots who kept sending settlers over their as well, to be fair we'll all wait with bated breath till the draw, and to be fair who hasn't invaded Poland so I could play anyone

see you soon

Alasdair

[nigelemsen]

To be honest there's such a variety of armies that there isn't much scope for historical matchups, it would end up something like:

Poles v Hungarians (not sure if they ever fought but they're the same date and not too far apart)
Swiss v Venetian (probably reasonable)
Japanese v Indonesian (starting to stretch the credibility a bit now)
Flanders Carolines v Danish (recreating the infamous Cheese and Bacon war)
Adal v Mughal (For the title of best army ending in "AL")
2 Austrians v Irish and Spanish (No idea what that would be)
Which leaves the 2 Scottish armies to fight amonst themselves, which is their default option in the absence of other opponents

Difficult I know, but it would all be worth it to know who finally won the Cheese & Bacon war, The irish could fight the spanish who kept landing their by accident when they missed England, or the scots who kept sending settlers over their as well, to be fair we'll all wait with bated breath till the draw, and to be fair who hasn't invaded Poland so I could play anyone

see you soon

Alasdair

I'm happy to play Japanese, thinking of takeda 1560s list... Maybe even in 25mm for the gush factor at farn borough... Although its tight one against 17bgs of scot covenanter at 650pts

[grahambriggs]

Interesting set of armies. Time for some strategy for the Swiss.

Plan A. Attack like madmen.

Plan B. Chase chaps on horses around the table ineffectually.

Right, that's that done. Let's see if we can improve on "four marginal wins" from last year. Having said that, all were enjoyable games. Hmm. maybe target getting 60-65 points? Three big winds and a big loss when I muck it up perhaps

[kevinj]

Three big winds

I hope I'm not sitting behind you...

[Vespasian28]

Three big winds

Subconsciously maybe he is worrying about the Japanese kamikaze?

[Vespasian28]

Three big winds

Or is he talking about the Swiss cuckoo clocks?

[daveallen]

To be honest there's such a variety of armies that there isn't much scope for historical matchups, it would end up something like:

Poles v Hungarians (not sure if they ever fought but they're the same date and not too far apart)
Swiss v Venetian (probably reasonable)
Japanese v Indonesian (starting to stretch the credibility a bit now)
Flanders Carolines v Danish (recreating the infamous Cheese and Bacon war)
Adal v Mughal (For the title of best army ending in "AL")
2 Austrians v Irish and Spanish (No idea what that would be)
Which leaves the 2 Scottish armies to fight amonst themselves, which is their default option in the absence of other opponents

I'd be inclined to put the Austrians up against the Poles/Hungarians and have the Irish and Spanish play each other or face off against the Scotch.

Given that would mean a 50:50 chance of facing Alasdair in the first round I'm more than happy with a random draw...