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Birmingham Cold Iron 2009 Field of Glory Tournament – Homage to Ganesh Elephant Theme

The Birmingham Wargamers are proud to announce the 2nd Cold Iron Field of Glory Tournament for November 14, 2009. The tournament will be held at the La Quinta Inn in Fultondale, Alabama, which is less than 5 miles from the Birmingham airport.

Entry fee is $20.00.

3 rounds, 1 list, 800 points, 3.5 hours per round plus 2d6 minutes of random time, finish the phase when time called. Lists are due by November 7 and should be sent to Christopher Anders at shadypage@charter.net.

Check-in will begin at 8:00 AM
Round 1: 8:30 AM – 12:15 PM
Lunch
Round 2: 1:30 PM – 5:15 PM
Dinner
Round 3: 6:30 PM – 10:15 PM

Only lists from the armies below with Elephants will be allowed and the submitted list must include a minimum of one BG of Elephants:

Alexandrian Macedonian - Only from 326 BC
Attalid Pergamene
Classical Indians
Dailami Dynasties - Buwayhid Options Only
Early Successor - See list as restrictions apply depending on Successor in question
Ghaznavid
Ghurid Afghan
Graeco-Bactrian
Hephthalite Hunnic - in India 475 to 560 AD Only
Indo-Greek
Khmer or Champa
Khurasanian Dynasties - Samanid or Saffarid Options Only
Khwarazmian - 1215 to 1220 Only
Kushan or Indo-Skythian
Late Tang to Five Dynasties Chinese - Only Southern Han
Later Achaemenid Persians - Darius III 331 BC Options Only
Later Carthaginian
Later Hindu Northern Indian
Later Hindu Southern Indian
Later Ptolemaic
Later Republican Roman
Later Seleucid
Liao - Qara Khitai in 1210 Only
Medieval Burmese
Medieval Indonesian or Malay - Only Singosari-Majapahit before 1406, Malay or Sumatran
Middle Republican Roman
Muslim Indian Sultanates
Nanzhao
Numidian or Early Moorish
Pagan Burmese
Parthian - Suren Indo-Parthian Kingdom 95 BC to 75 AD Only
Pyrric
Sassanid Persian
Seljuk Turks - Only Eastern Seljuk Turks
Three Kingdoms, Western Jin and Southern Dynsties Chinese - Southern Dynasties (Liang) in 554 Only
Timurid, Black Sheep Turcoman or White Sheep Turcoman - Timurid Options Only

Special trophy will be presented to the winner and maybe some special gifts for all participants. Wargames, Inc. has also come on board to provide prize support.

This is a new venue and the hotel is less than 5 years old. Rooms are currently $89 for 2 queen- sized bed rooms.

Multiple eateries within a short walk or drive include Outback, O’Charley’s, Chili’s, Styx, 2 Mexican restaurants, Arby’s, Xaxby’s, Mcdonalds, Burger King, Full Moon BBQ, Waffle House, plus a few more.

Army lists updated to include Empires of the Dragon.

We are currently in the planning stage of a get together Friday night with spouses and/or significant others. If are planning on attending and would like to participate in Friday night's festivities, drop me a line here or to shadypage@charter.net and we will add you to the list and get venue info out when it is finalized.

Besides myself (wife and 2 year-old included), John Martin and Wende, Steve Payne and Sandy, Gino Agnelly and Marlene and Ricky and his current non-Waffle House appendage we have possibles from another SMAC-master Rich Olier (not sure if his wife will attend). Could make for quite an interesting evening.

So you can bring the wife & the significant other ? Should provide some fireworks

Scrumpy wrote:So you can bring the wife & the significant other ? Should provide some fireworks

With Elvis in attendance, one can never tell.

For those who missed the pre-tournament SMACARAMA/Dinner, a great time was had by all.

Steve Payne collected the bounty on Ricky Jones that John Martin set last year of a painted battlegroup for the first person to break Ricky Jones' army in GCC tournament play. A very nicely painted battlegroup of mounted crossbowmen was the bounty.

We had 8 (plus 5 wives, Ricky's date and 2 kids) of the 12 pledged participants. Evryone seemed to enjoy themselves and Sandy (Steve's wife) passed around a few more Hawaiian shirts to help the wargaming wardrobes.

Thanks to all who attended.

Christopher Anders

Three cheers for Chris for organizing such a wonderful event, and get together. Thoroughly enjoyed the weekend, and as I said, the Friday proved the 3 things I had been told abut the South.

1) The food tastes better
2) The people are friendlier
3) The girls are prettier...on a par with the Mid-west ladies !

And a big thank you for all the players for making me feel so welcome too. One question though, was Gino's dice necklace blessed by a voodoo queen, or an old queen with vd ?

Results suggest the latter......

Scrumpy wrote: One question though, was Gino's dice necklace blessed by a voodoo queen, or an old queen with vd ?

Results suggest the latter......

Those of us who know Gino, would support that hypothesis