Society of Ancients Championship

petergarnett · Post by **petergarnett** » Thu Feb 18, 2010 9:21 pm

Are there are any FoG players out there who are also members of SoA?

If so would you like to play a matched pair of games against me that we can enter into the Society championship too!

Cheers

Geordietaf · Post by **Geordietaf** » Fri Feb 19, 2010 10:32 am

Hi,

I've just joined the SoA so I would be happy to provide you with opposition. PM me if you want, your choice of game.

Paul Morgan

CharlesRobinson · Post by **CharlesRobinson** » Fri Feb 19, 2010 12:00 pm

Can you tell me more about it? I might join.

Geordietaf · Post by **Geordietaf** » Fri Feb 19, 2010 12:08 pm

Here's the URL for the SoA. I've meant to join for years, but only did so last month following my addiction to FoG

http://www.soa.org.uk/

Triarii · Post by **Triarii** » Fri Feb 19, 2010 12:12 pm

I was a member from about 1972 to 1982 - your post and this game has prompted me to rejoin.
Unfortumately url seems broken today - can only find a (very interesting) blog through google as well.
Is this just temporary?

Geordietaf · Post by **Geordietaf** » Fri Feb 19, 2010 12:17 pm

Just rried myself and server seems to be down. Certainly hope this is temporary.

Post by **IainMcNeil** » Fri Feb 19, 2010 12:44 pm

I'm sure it is temporary - there are lots of members of the SOA over in the main tabletop forum so feel free to ask questions there.

petergarnett · Post by **petergarnett** » Fri Feb 19, 2010 1:55 pm

Or contact me as I'm also the membership secretary for SoA. I've reported the site being down.

I didn't mean to promote the society within this forum but in brief we are a friendly group of people from around the world who share an interest in ancient and medieval military history and many members are also TT wargamers, or use map & counters or the PC (many are like me & use all 3). Society was formed in 1965 & we produce 6 magazines a year for members called Slingshot & it's full of military topics of the appropriate period & gaming talk. We also attend wargame shows & have an annual games day we we fight the same battle in as many formats as possible (I think it's Zama this year).

The reason for the post was that we have a league table of games members play against each other - but I don't get out much for FtF gaming & so wanted opponents using this excellant PC system we are all enjoying.

CharlesRobinson · Post by **CharlesRobinson** » Fri Feb 19, 2010 3:54 pm

Don't worry - I am sure Slitherine would love to have their game associated with SoA - it would probably boost sales.

Triarii · Post by **Triarii** » Fri Feb 19, 2010 8:23 pm

petergarnett wrote:Or contact me as I'm also the membership secretary for SoA. I've reported the site being down.

Didn't know I had had a game against sch an august personage!
Congratulations and I for one am very glad that you did mention it as 30 years on I had never even considered googling either SoA or Slingshot.

jdm · Post by **jdm** » Wed Mar 03, 2010 12:42 am

Peter

No need to worry about promoting SOA, both Iain and I have supported SOA for many years and in fact I am still a member

Regards
JDM

TomBombadil711 · Post by **TomBombadil711** » Thu Mar 04, 2010 12:09 pm

The server is still down. Any idea for how long?

Post by **IainMcNeil** » Thu Mar 04, 2010 12:12 pm

Works fine for me

petergarnett · Post by **petergarnett** » Thu Mar 04, 2010 2:20 pm

SoA website is back up today.

petergarnett · Post by **petergarnett** » Tue Mar 09, 2010 5:15 pm

So far we have 4 or 5 players looking to play & post results in the Society Championship.

Society rules are no more than 2 games against the same opponent.

There must be a few more members out there - so fight the shyness & then our armies!

And if you're not a member of SoA visit www.soa.org.uk & see what you are missing.

Cheers

shady · Post by **shady** » Thu Mar 11, 2010 4:39 pm

Hi - given the website has been down (and is now back up), it might be worth pointing out that you can post championship results here:

http://www.soa.org.uk/about_the_society ... ubmission/

... and the current standings for 2010 are available here (the results are manually validated so won't appear immediately). They're also sent out with Slingshot:

http://www.soa.org.uk/about_the_society ... ndings.php

We do track the systems used. For 2009 tabletop FoG was the most popular system (the championship only relaunched in the latter part of 2009, hence the low number of games)

http://www.soa.org.uk/about_the_society ... ystems.php

Best wishes
Mark Watson

ahuyton · Post by **ahuyton** » Tue Mar 16, 2010 8:36 pm

I'm an SOA member, and I'm already playing against Peter. If anyone else is interested in a game then let me know.

I'm also happy to organise a little SOA tournament if you're interested.

Alan

rbodleyscott · Post by **rbodleyscott** » Tue Mar 16, 2010 8:41 pm

I am also a SOA member (or I will be when I remember to pay my 2010 subscription) and have been since 1971.

I would be interested in paired 400 point games.

batesmotel · Post by **batesmotel** » Tue Mar 16, 2010 8:47 pm

rbodleyscott wrote:I am also a SOA member (or I will be when I remember to pay my 2010 subscription) and have been since 1971.

I would be interested in paired 400 point games.

How do you want to do paired 400 point DAG games? Two games with the same armies, two games with different armies, two games with each player generating a list for a nationality, e.g. my Bosporan list versus your Parthian list and then your Bosporan list versus my Parthian one?

Chris

batesmotel · Post by **batesmotel** » Tue Mar 16, 2010 9:01 pm

petergarnett wrote:Or contact me as I'm also the membership secretary for SoA. I've reported the site being down.

I didn't mean to promote the society within this forum but in brief we are a friendly group of people from around the world who share an interest in ancient and medieval military history and many members are also TT wargamers, or use map & counters or the PC (many are like me & use all 3). Society was formed in 1965 & we produce 6 magazines a year for members called Slingshot & it's full of military topics of the appropriate period & gaming talk. We also attend wargame shows & have an annual games day we we fight the same battle in as many formats as possible (I think it's Zama this year).

The reason for the post was that we have a league table of games members play against each other - but I don't get out much for FtF gaming & so wanted opponents using this excellant PC system we are all enjoying.

While I sent a comment on the web site, I figured I would also mention to you that it would be nice if there was an obvious link to join on the home page. I eventually found it under Store but it wasn't the obvious place to me to look for it.

Chris

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