Slitherine

Thanks to all the players for being kind to the umpire . And thanks to the Roma guys
for all the organisational work.

I've just got back home, so this is just the classification. Sometime in the next few days
I'll try to do something more complete.

1 Tim Porter 102
2 Pedro J. Sanchez 100
3 Dave Ruddock 96
4 Ivan Monedero 91
5 Guglielmo Marlia 86
6 John Fasoulas 81
7 Phil Powell 81
8 Rafa Tortosa 80
9 Carlos Garcia 79
10 Tomas Lidholm 77
11 Nicola Linguerri 77
12 Matteo Pasi 76
13 David Ruestes Virtus 76
14 C. Andrea Lo Moro 75
15 David Michael Allen 74
16 Walter Ierman 72
17 Fredrik Olausson 70
18 Christian Gomez Scheele 68
19 Brian Holmes 66
20 Javier Bueno 64
21 Andrea Rocchi 63
22 Sergio Monteleone 59
23 Roberto Ricamo 59
24 Jean-Yves Cassas 57
25 Angelo Autolino 52
26 Simon LeRay-Meyer 50
27 Stephen Hammond 48
28 Listner Bodo 47
29 Fabrizio Baratto 46
30 Martin Cullell-Young 13

Thanks to Peter for the umpiring and to others players for the relaxed atmospheare

I agrre, thanks Peter, you did a terrific job with the sun cream distribution (and the umpiring as well)!

Kreufeldt wrote:I agrre, thanks Peter, you did a terrific job with the sun cream distribution (and the umpiring as well)!

One of the more unusual umpiring duties, wandering around offering the players sun cream


I learnt a lot umpiring. You start at page 108 and go from there. Always works...

My thanks to Peter and the Roman Team. A great weekend. Thanks to all those I played and hopefully they can fogive me my social inadequacies.

I'm sure you're joking
nice playing and nice talking with you and all of the other players.
We must do more international tournament, because it's also an occasion to learn how to play better this good game.
Perhaps to go in GB one far away time and win a tournament

Nicola_GMBS wrote:We must do more international tournament, because it's also an occasion to learn how to play better this good game.
Perhaps to go in GB one far away time and win a tournament

There is always Britcon next month in Manchester. Easy to get to from the airport, six games and a pub quiz on Satruday night.

hammy wrote:

Nicola_GMBS wrote:We must do more international tournament, because it's also an occasion to learn how to play better this good game.
Perhaps to go in GB one far away time and win a tournament

There is always Britcon next month in Manchester. Easy to get to from the airport, six games and a pub quiz on Satruday night.

Six games in 2 or 3 days?
Pub quiz? how do it works?
(I've seen the date right now... I've already booked my holidays in Greece for those days...next Britcon )

Nicola_GMBS wrote:

hammy wrote:

Nicola_GMBS wrote:We must do more international tournament, because it's also an occasion to learn how to play better this good game.
Perhaps to go in GB one far away time and win a tournament

There is always Britcon next month in Manchester. Easy to get to from the airport, six games and a pub quiz on Satruday night.

Six games in 2 or 3 days?
Pub quiz? how do it works?
(I've seen the date right now... I've already booked my holidays in Greece for those days...next Britcon )

Britcon is one game on Friday night starting between 6:00pm and 9:00pm to allow for late arrivals. Three games on Saturday, then time to grab some food before the wargamers pub quiz which starts at 10:30pm, the bar closes at 1:00am or therabouts. Two more games on Sunday.

There are a decent number of trade stands and many offer deals to Britcon attendees.

If you can't make it this year I would recommend you keep your diary free for the next one.

Nicola_GMBS wrote:

hammy wrote:

Nicola_GMBS wrote:We must do more international tournament, because it's also an occasion to learn how to play better this good game.
Perhaps to go in GB one far away time and win a tournament

There is always Britcon next month in Manchester. Easy to get to from the airport, six games and a pub quiz on Satruday night.

Six games in 2 or 3 days?
Pub quiz? how do it works?
(I've seen the date right now... I've already booked my holidays in Greece for those days...next Britcon )

Me too I'd like to come to Britcon one time .................. but in August there are holidays in Italy.
Why not moving Britcon to September next year?
Sergio

sergiomonteleone wrote:Me too I'd like to come to Britcon one time .................. but in August there are holidays in Italy.
Why not moving Britcon to September next year?
Sergio

The main problem is availability of venues. Britcon is held at a University and August is a time when the Students aren't there. I think a move to September is unlikely.

There is also the problem of the calender. Everybody knows it would be suicide to put on a show in August in the UK as Britcon is so big. Therefore August is free, however when we look at September

6th Northern League Doubles
5th/6th International Team Challenge
5th/6th Colours (Show)
26th/27th SoA Doubles

Therefore fairly crowded. The organisers of above events would be exceptionally angry if their event was suddenly scuppered by moving Britcon.

...and if you moved it out of the school holidays I (and other teachers) wouldnt be able to go - which may or may not be an inducement to move it.

Ref my inadaquacies

Nicola_GMBS wrote:I'm sure you're joking

I played 6 'Foreigners', couldn't speak any of their languages, drank beer, burped, hid in the shade. And thats just the start, ask my wife.

What went wrong? How did Tim win?

What went wrong? How did Tim win?

Well, I blame Guglielmo (or Gug / Bill / Marlia as he is referred to - could somebody please give a definitive answer as to what he prefers to be called?)

I was quite happy going along slaughtering some peasants in the last game, when Guglielmo had the cheek to throw an 11 and kill one of my general's. This directly resulted in four BG's breaking... If they hadn't then......

Richard - you will have to fix the Dominate Romans

Incidentally, I played Tim and drew 10-10 so don't have a problem with the army, but to those not expecting it lot's of BG's of four of Drilled, Armoured MF can come as quite a shock...

dave_r wrote:

What went wrong? How did Tim win?

Well, I blame Guglielmo (or Gug / Bill / Marlia as he is referred to - could somebody please give a definitive answer as to what he prefers to be called?)

Gug IIRC

dave_r wrote: Incidentally, I played Tim and drew 10-10 so don't have a problem with the army, but to those not expecting it lot's of BG's of four of Drilled, Armoured MF can come as quite a shock...

Given the amount that has been written about the Dom Roms in the last 12 months those not expecting it should amount to an undiscovered small tribe in the Amazon and a stray dog just outside Novgorod

Many thanks for a very well organized tournament, a pleasant venue, excellent opposition and an all round good time from Team Sweden!

Also, a very big thanks to our Italian friends for arranging the whole thing - this was certainly one of the nicest wargaming events I've attended. Finally, I was very happy indeed to receive the award for the best painted army!

dave_r wrote:

What went wrong? How did Tim win?

Richard - you will have to fix the Dominate Romans
Incidentally, I played Tim and drew 10-10 so don't have a problem with the army, but to those not expecting it lot's of BG's of four of Drilled, Armoured MF can come as quite a shock...

6 isn't that many? OK, its one more than the number of legions, but its not 9....

thats why its MLMB Dom Roms, not MB Dom Roms