Slitherine

So giving away my secrets, or is the date a double bluff!

I think you'd save something that complicated for a better opponents, but I guess we'll see in the fullness of time.

Some interesting choices of armies. Not seen Irish or Anglo-Irish on the table for FOG R.

Less Scots than I expected.

Yes, the Celtic fringe is well represented. I suspect the technologically advanced Europeans with their stylish and fashionable sartorial elegance are about to be buried by a lot of unwashed hairies with sharp pointed sticks!

And as they (almost) said in Zulu Dawn "...yes, but sharp pointy sticks don't run out!"

Dave Parish has fielded the Irish before with some success as this report from Tim P illustrates!

http://www.madaxeman.com/reports/Roll_Call_2012_3.php

Don

Keith and Dene's Anglo-Irish and Irish armies will look more like Irish armies than Dave Parish's.

Fair enough, but no digging up the car park, ok?

I thought Don Avis was going to take part.

I thought Don Avis was going to take part.

I hoped so too so I wouldn't have to play!!

Presumably he couldn't make it as Alasdair had him on the list of players and was going to chase up a list from him.

So SWMBO must have changed her mind!!!
It would have been great to see Don again even with his Henry's army.

Yes, it would have been nice to have seen how an Early Henrician army should be handled.

Oh well, back to making my own mistakes. Again.

Thank you to everyone who took part in an excellent days gaming here in the New Forest and I trust all you folks who made the effort to travel some way had good journeys home.

Results are:

1. Tom Elsworth 59pts
2. Keith Spedding 56pts
3. Paddy Bray 44pts
4. Dave Edwards 41pts
5. Ben Jones 39pts
5. Dene Green 39pts
6.Bob Medcraft 35pts
7. Bruce Rollett 33pts
7. Jerry Bray 33pts
8. Ray Boyles 30pts
8.Mark Littleton-Gray 30pts
8. Paul Marsh 30pts
9. David Hewkin 29pts
10. Nigel Phillips 28pts
11. John Watson 27pts
12. Brendan Morrissey 23pts
12. David Eggleston 23pts
13. Patrick Morrissey 17pts
14.Brian Hooker 16pts
15. Steve Basting 8pts

We look forward to doing this again next year and almost certainly using the current rules with a few amendments as we did today.

Paul,

Thanks for a great well organised one day competition.

Talking to Tom and Ben on the journey home we all enjoyed the games and Tom is already planning his army for next year (He is looking for three wins in a row).

Good to see David Edwards power his way above Ben.

Bob

Thanks Bob. As always a team effort in particular regard to Mark who came up with the venue and transportable boards as we did not have access to the club ones.
Mark also came up with the legendary comment to all and sundry:

" Paul, the cups are a bit small to charge £1 for each tea or coffee. How about 50p?"
"It's a pound for the day, Mark"
"Ah... "

I'm not sure if the Schneider Trophy rules apply in case Tom wins three times in a row otherwise we have no competition!

Just out of interest (sparked by a thread on another forum), but how many games ended with one army (at least) completely broken?

[For the record, we were discussing army sizes and their impact on tournaments with >1 game per player per day.]

As far as I can tell from the score sheets, 8.

So 27% - slightly more than 1 game in 4.