Slitherine

Div A

ianiow (Visigoths) defeated paulmcneil (Franks) 64 vs 52

Half way through this game Paul was winning something like 40 vs 16 with one point for victory. I had congratulated him on a fine win. However he could not get that last point and my army gradually ground away his lead doing nothing too spectacular and eventually won. Not sure how I won this battle and Paul was very unfortunate not to get a decisive victory early on.

Weekly round-up
Another win for ruskicanuk (Romano-British) in Division A means he will finish in second place behind pantherboy (Pictish). In Division B the first agreed 0-0 draw between harveylh (Indian) and markwatson360 (Scots-Irish) means that the automatic promotion place will be decided by the outcome of the match between harveylh and dkalenda (Sassanids). Both have 7 wins from 8 matches at the moment. There is another very exciting finish to Division C where FightingPoultry (Romano-British) has finished his matches with 24 points but he can still be overtaken by 3 players. youngr (Western Huns) needs to beat Hendricus (Visigoths) to win the division, but if he doesn't manage this then either Hendricus or melm (Hepthalites) can still score more than 24 points. Crucially these two players still have to play each other as well.

Unbeaten runs of 3 matches or more
dkalenda (Division B) 7 matches
harveylh (Division B) 8 matches
melm (Division C) 4 matches
youngr (Division C) 5 matches

Match completion rate (45 matches in total to be played in each division)
Division A - 42 out of 45 matches completed
Division B - 41 out of 45 matches completed
Division C - 39 out of 45 matches completed

These are very good match completion rates.

Player of the week
melm (Division C) with 2 wins this week extending his winning run to 4 matches.

Weekly round-up
Another win for klayeckles this week means that Nijis is the only player now who can stop him from winning Division A. klayeckles' last match is against bottom of the table Breogan though so he is a very strong favourite at the moment. at the bottom of the table paulmcneil, ZygfrydDeLowe and Breogan all desperately need points. in Division B the promotion issue has already been decided, but at the bottom iandavidsmith's very narrow victory over FightingPoultry gives him a chance of avoiding the wooden spoon. He needs at least a point in his last match against batesmotel unless FightingPoultry loses his last 2 matches against batesmotel and Ulysisgrunt.

Unbeaten runs of 3 matches or more
klayeckles (Division A) 4 matches
Ludendorf (Division A) 3 matches
Nijis (Division A) 3 matches

Match completion rate (45 matches in total to be played in each divisio)
Division A - 32 out of 45 matches completed
Division B - 41 out of 45 matches completed

Division A is very, very slow and Division B is very good.

Player of the week
klayecles (Division A) with his seventh win this week which may be enough to make him the champion of this section.

Hendricus wrote: ↑Sat Dec 01, 2018 7:59 pm How are those 6 chosen ?

The 11 scenarios consist of 3 basic groups - one concerning Clovis and the rise of the Franks; one concerning the sons of Clovis and further Frankish expansion; and the other one covers Theoderic's battles against Odovacer. I will need to look at them all again but they are fairly well balanced, but it most likely that I will use the Frankish ones so "the theme" will be Frankish warbands. If we were to get 24 players, rather than just 16, it would increase the chance of me using the Theoderic scenarios because we would be having paired games at the group stage with 3 players in a group instead of 4. I shall also be calling this section the Rapid Play Themed Event in future so that all the players who enter understand they have to get a move on straight away and not wait 2 weeks to start their group matches.

These matches are now subject to adjudication . . .

Early Middle Ages

Division B (2)
GDod v XLegione ..........................match awarded to GDod (voting 3-0)
Trogilus v XLegione .......................match awarded to XLegione (voting 3-0)


From Maurya to Alaric

Division A
ianiow v ZygfrydDeLowe ..................match awarded to ianiow (voting 2-0)
Ludendorf v ZygfrydDeLowe..............match awarded to Ludendorf (voting 3-0)
paulmcneil v ZyfgrydDeLowe.............match awarded to paulmcneil (voting 3-0)

Division B
batesmotel v FightingPoultry............match awarded to FightingPoultry (voting 3-0)


I have written to all the players involved in these matches asking for the current score, number of turns played and any reasons why they feel the match was not completed. I hope to have the results of the adjudications by the end of Monday 17/12.

Division B

dkalenda (Sassanid Persian) beats harveylh (Indian) 45-19

Early Middle Ages: Division B

In the game between IMC 3.36 (Frank 496-599AD) and FlawlessCorn42 0.00 (Avars 558-631AD)


IMc 5% has beaten FlawlessCorn42 0.00 (Avars 558-631AD) 47%

Thanks for the game.

Ian

This match was already adjudicated in favour of IMC

Div C
Hendricus ( Visigoth ) beat youngr ( Western Huns ) 63-44 %
The Huns kept charging after an initial feint, the fight was fierce and keeping the formation became hard. Numbers of the foottroops made the difference after a prolonged fight. Still there could have been a different result if some Huns managed to break and exploit their individual opponent. Thanks for the entertainment youngr.

Ludendorf (Romano-British) challenges Nijis (Welsh). Password 'duellingdragons'. PM sent.
Ludendorf (Franks) challenges ZygfrydDeLowe (Visigoths). Password 'brokenlances'. PM sent.

dkalenda (Sassanids) has won automatic promotion with a decisive win today against his closest rival harveylh (Indians). Well played dkalenda!

Semi-final

Nosy_Rat (Avars) beats Ludendorf (Huns) 64-46

Nosy_Rat will play either shadowblack or pantherboy in the final.

Division C

Peterabb 2.81 (Macedonian 328-321BC) defeats Bluefin 2.11 (Pyrrhic 280-272BC) 41 - 6

Congratulations to dkalenda! He had my number this year. Now he is out of the division perhaps I can win it next season.

Harvey

Div C

MikeMUC (Germanic Horse Tribes 260-476AD) drew with Stimvosky (Rhoxolani) (42% to 53%)

Thanks Harvey,
I'm learning from you as from the best opponents.

Davide

Division B

dkalenda (Macedonian) DRAW against rbodleyscott (Lysimachid) 6-4