Slitherine

Weekly round-up
There are still 4 players in with a chance of winning the championship in this section. Geffalrus (Byzantine) still leads by 5 points, but he will need to win his last match against XLegione (Frankish) to set a reasonable target for the others to chase. harveylh (Ummayyad) has 4 wins from 5 starts and Nosy_Rat has started with 3 straight wins. Also still in the chase is LuciusSulla (Viking) who has 3 wins and a draw from his first 5 matches. Not much to report from Division B this week, but in Division C MorkinTheFree (Scots-Irish) has completed a blistering whitewash to win automatic promotion ahead of tyronec (Ummayyad) who has 6 wins from 7 starts. There is still plenty to play for in the division where 6 players still need points to move away from the relegation zone. General Shapur (Anglo-Danish) is playing very confidently in Division D and has secured his fifth successive win this season to lead Garokan (Spanish) by 2 points. Blagrot (Andalusian) has also started well with 3 wins from 4 matches. Division E is building up into an exciting contest with MadMaxBot (Byzantine) the new leader, just ahead of BobGanoush (Fatimid) and Morat (Georgian). Spacemonkey76's challenge faltered this week after suffering 2 defeats. And in Division F another win for Delbruck (Byzantine) has consolidated his position at the top of the table. His main challenger now looks to be Malabar26 (Rajput) after second-placed telesien (Anglo-Danish) suffered 2 defeats this week.

Unbeaten runs of 3 matches or more
ericdoman1 (Division A) 4 matches and finished
LuciusSulla (Division A) 3 matches
Nosy_Rat (Division A) 3 matches
MorkinTheFree (Division C) 9 matches and finished
Garokan (Division D) 4 matches
General Shapur (Division D) 5 matches
Badger73 (Division E) 3 matches and finished
MadMaxBot (Division E) 3 matches
Delbruck (Division F) 7 matches
Malabar26 (Division F) 3 matches

Match completion rate (45 matches in total to be played in each division)
Division A - 26 out of 45 matches completed
Division B - 17 out of 45 matches completed
Division C - 27 out of 45 matches completed
Division D - 18 out of 45 matches completed
Division E - 27 out of 45 matches completed
Division F - 28 out of 45 matches completed

These are generally good match completion rates. Divisions B and D are a bit slow.

Player of the Week: MorkinTheFree (Division C) again, who has completed a clean sweep to win automatic promotion.

MorkinThe Free and his Scots-Irish army has completed a clean sweep in Early Middle Ages Division C to win all 9 matches and gain automatic promotion. Well played MorkinTheFree.

Weekly round-up
Aetius39 (Assyrian) is the new leader in Division A with 4 wins from 6 starts. His main challengers are likely to be pantherboy (Achaemenid) who has started with 2 wins and reserve ruskicanuk (Phoenician) who has yet to post a result. Plenty of action in Division B where DzonVejn (Median) is the leader after completing his matches. His stay at the top is likely to be a short one as lydianed (Egyptian), BishUK (Achaemenid) and kraff (Skythian) all have a number of games in hand. A very close struggle is developing in Division C where 3 wins for tmac11 (Egyptian) has put him on top of the table just ahead of Rob123 (Achaemenid) and SpeedyCM (Median). random27 (Median) is romping away with Division D with 6 wins from 7 starts and looks increasingly unlikely to be caught. SawyerK (Lydian) increased his lead in Division E with his fifth win this week leaving pursuers Geoffrey.P.Smith (Egyptian) and sarmation (Saka) with a difficult task to catch him now. Division F is nearly complete now with dim30 (Thracian) having won promotion last week. A seventh defeat for imatson2527 (Kushite) means he will get the wooden spoon for this section this season.

Unbeaten runs of 3 matches or more
kraff (Division B) 3 matches
lydianed (Division B) 4 matches
tmac11 (Division C) 5 matches
Geoffrey.P.Smith (Division E) 3 matches
Delbruck (Division F) 5 matches

Match completion rate (30 matches in total to be played in each division)
Division A - 14 out of 30 matches completed
Division B - 22 out of 30 matches completed
Division C - 17 out of 30 matches completed
Division D - 10 out of 30 matches completed
Division E - 14 out of 30 matches completed
Division F - 28 out of 30 matches completed

These are generally good match completion rates. Division D is slow.

Player of the Week: tmac11 (Division C) with 3 wins this week to top the table.

Division F

Delbruck (Kushite Egyptian) defeated imatson2527 (Cypriot) 57-32.

Division F

Delbruck (Byzantines) defeats wellsonian (Spanish) 49-7.

Weekly round-up
harveylh's (German) strange whack-a-mole ceremony seems to have ended in Division A now and there were wins for Nosy_Rat (Hungarian) and Snugglebunnies (Polish) this week. There is a cracking contest in Division B where ericdoman1 (Mongol) narrowly leads from oscarius (Scots Isles), Sennacherib (Lithuanian) and Geffalrus (German) with all of them having just 2 matches left. In Division C Questar17 (Scots) and Jagger2002 (Bohemian) moved closer to leader desertedfox (Russian) after posting their third wins apiece. Captainwaltersavage (Bohemian) has blasted his way to the top of Division D with 6 straight wins, while his closest challenger olin0111 suffered his first defeat this week. Nothing to report from Division E while in division F 3 players are stating to pull away from the rest. Marvin_the_Arvn (Danish) currently leads from CyberHetman (Polish) and the unbeaten Kroche (Irish). Brenmusik (Scots) also won his first match of the season.

Unbeaten runs of 3 matches or more
harveylh (Division A) 4 matches
Jagger2002 (Division C) 3 matches
Questar17 (Division C) 4 matches
Captainwaltersavage (Division D) 6 matches
General Shapur (Division D) 3 matches
CyberHetman (Division F) 3 matches
Kroche (Division F) 4 matches

Match completion rate (45 matches in total to be played in each division)
Division A - 6 out of 45 matches completed
Division B - 26 out of 45 matches completed
Division C - 23 out of 45 matches completed
Division D - 27 out of 45 matches completed
Division E - 5 out of 45 matches completed
Division F - 24 out of 45 matches completed

These are generally good match completion rates. Division A and E are very, very slow.

Player of the Week: Brenmusik (Division F) he won!

Semi-Final line-up

These are mirror matches using the Seleucid 205-167BC v Ptolemaic 217-167BC match-up.

Pool A
1) hidde v nyczar
2) Cunningcairn v Lucius Sulla

Pool B
1) ray552 v MarcoCato75
2) deeter v dim30

Matches to be completed by Sunday 28th March.

Division D

Kerait (Hebrew) defeats Tratmot (Urartian) 64-47.

Tough match. GG!



toska (Hebrew) defeats Kerait (Lydian) 62-45.

toska (Lydian) defeats Kerait (Hebrew) 56-26.

Strong opponent!

Division C
lunecastle - Pictish 210-476 AD with Scots Irish 50 BC to 476 AD allies

challenges:-

BishUK - Roman 197-284 AD with Arab 312 BC-299 AD allies

Morat - Ostrogoth 493-561 AD with German Foot Tribe 260-599 AD allies

password fortriu
All the best, Lunecastle

Division A

lunecastle - Seleucid 166-125 BC with Parthian 250 BC-225 AD allies

challenges:-

Challenge1 - Roman 199-106 BC with Pergamene 262-191 BC allies

LuciusSulla - Achaemenid Persian 480-461 BC with Greek 680-461 BC allies
password antioch
all the best, Lunecastle

Division E

wellsonian (Carthaginian, Hannibal in Africa, 202 BC) beat gamercb (Greek 227-146 BC with Roman 280-220 BC allies) 60-55.

As the score suggests, a very close game that could have gone either way. Given the huge amount of rough terrain, we both maxed out our medium troops. The rough terrain plateau was closer to my side, so I was able to defend up hill. The battle between heavy troops was won handily by gamercb, while I took the medium battle. It was barely enough.

(3-1)

Division C

BishUK - Roman 197-284 AD with Arab 312 BC-299 AD allies beat Doyley50 - Palmyran 258-273 AD 63-43

Thanks for the game

Division F

phlewis (Arab with Andalusian allies) draws with wellsonian (Spanish with Andalusian allies) 65-61.

A back and forth heart stopping affair. The majority of the credit goes to phlewis for mounting an impressive and tenacious comeback. I only (and barely) crossed the 60% threshold by breaking a light unit on the last turn. Well played and fun game.

(2-2)

Division F

angel42052 - Anglo-Norman 1072-1154 AD with French 1050-1154 AD allies has the honour of holding the field of battle vs. wmpryor - English 1155-1271 AD 56-52

A battle that see-sawed back and forth. Fear his knights. They are close to unstoppable.

(2-2)