Slitherine

ruskicanuk - Arab (City) 300-633 AD challenges harveylh - Sassanid Persian 591-628 AD, password is "ruskicanuk". PM sent.
ruskicanuk - Arab (City) 300-633 AD challenges markwatson360 - Byzantine 551-578 AD, password is "ruskicanuk". PM sent.
ruskicanuk - Arab (City) 300-633 AD challenges NikiforosFokas - Romano-British 407-599 AD , password is "ruskicanuk". PM sent.

ruskicanuk - Indo-Greeks 175-10 BC challenges Cunningcairn - Carthaginians (Hannibal in Africa) 202 BC, password is "ruskicanuk". PM sent.
ruskicanuk - Indo-Greeks 175-10 BC challenges dkalenda - Seleucids 166-125 BC, password is "ruskicanuk". PM sent.
ruskicanuk - Indo-Greeks 175-10 BC challenges harveylh - Romans 105-25 BC, password is "ruskicanuk". PM sent.

ruskicanuk - Ptolemaic 55-30 BC challenges Breogan - Spanish (Sertorius) 80-70 BC, password is "ruskicanuk". PM sent.
ruskicanuk - Ptolemaic 55-30 BC challenges dkalenda - Roman 285-378 AD, password is "ruskicanuk". PM sent.
ruskicanuk - Ptolemaic 55-30 BC challenges harveylh - Jewish Revolt 66-135 AD, password is "ruskicanuk". PM sent.

Division D
sunnyboy (Spanish 300-10 BC) beat phoyle3290 (Macedonians 320-261 BC) 44-17
With an unexpectedly deep stream halting the advance of the powerful Macedonian centre, attention quickly switched to both flanks. On the Spaniards left the fast charging Macedonian horse was thwarted in their attempts to force a crossing by some heroic shepherds armed with javelins and slings. As the Macedonian horse fought on, increasingly hampered by assorted shepherds and the slippery banks of the stream. The Spanish horse, having started the fight hiding behind a large rock to the rear eventually arrived and crashed into the disordered Macedonians turning the flank. On the Spanish right, weight of numbers was enough to turn the flank despite the heroic charge of the Macedonian’s close order warband.
Despite several Lazarus-like comebacks with multiple routers rallying. The Macedonian eventually lost interest in the fight and quit the battlefield.
Thanks for the game Patrick!

Division B

devoncop (Hannibal in Africa) beat IMC (Jewish 167BC) 63% to 58%

Jewish Zealots once again performed heroics and almost pulled a win round for IMC but the unwillingness of several units of Jewish rabble to do anything other than picnic at the rear helped me squeak home. Thanks for an epic match to my my opponent.

(3-1)

Division A

stockwellpete (Carthaginian) beat paulmcneil (Syracusan) 45-12

Today is the first Time Control check. I will shortly go through all the league tables and identify players who have not yet posted a result in each division. I will then send you a PM asking if you have matches in progress and if everything is OK. I think the overall situation is very, very good and I am hoping we will not lose anybody at this stage. We have only lost one player so far from the 70+ players who started the tournament, which is certainly the best performance so far in four seasons of the FOG2DL.

The Group stage of the Themed Event will conclude by the end of Thursday February 28th. Already the qualifiers are known from three of the four groups are known so the quarter-final line up is almost complete . . .

1. dkalenda v Nosy_Rat
2. IMC v iandavidsmith
3. stockwellpete v rexhurley
4. schmolywar v hidde

These matches will start on Friday 1st March.

Division B

rexhurley (Moors) defeats ggarynorman (Byzantines) 59/28. A telling start by the armoured cav hoards but once split and divided the swarms of screaming javelin armed crazies turned the christian tide

Group 1

Vouille


dkalenda (Visigoths) beat phoyle3290 (Franks) : 50 - 22

I have now sent out the PM's to 7 players who have not yet registered a result in a division. They are all regular players in the FOG2DL and they all have posted results in other sections already this season, so I am not expecting to lose anyone at this Time Control.

Division B

XLegione - Romano-British 407-599 AD defeated Morbio - Bosporans 84-11 BC 40% - 13%

Division B

SpeedyCM (Sarmatian 350 BC - 24 AD) defeated IMC (Galatian 280-63 BC) 44-15.

Div A

dkalenda - Roman 285-378 AD challenges Nijis - Palmyran 258-273 AD password is "dkalenda". PM sent.

Division C
cromlechi - Pontic 110-85 BC defeats Zardoz02 - Sassanid Persian 477-590 AD 48-9

Div C

SLancaster (Macedonians 320-261 BC) defeated cromlechi (Seleucids 166-125 B) 60-26.

My main line held together and managed to push the Seleucids off the small hill and then I got some good breaks! Thanks for the game.