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GODENDAG 2011



15mm ANCIENT/MEDIEVAL/RENAISSANCE DOUBLES COMPETITIONS

22nd & 23rd JANUARY 2011
Venue: Glen-yr-Afon Hotel, Usk, Monmouthshire, UK, NP15 1SY

Glen-yr-Afon Hotel

Field of Glory Competitions:

1) Field of Glory: Ancient/Medieval

Any army dating before 1040 AD. (No Knights permitted).

Not to exceed 900 points

http://www.byzant.demon.co.uk/Godendag_FoG_Rules.htm

2) Field of Glory: Renaissance

Any army from any published Field of Glory: Renaissance Army List book.

Not to exceed 900 points

http://www.byzant.demon.co.uk/Godendag_FoGR_Rules.htm

Cost: £50.00 per team of 2. (This includes lunch on both days – see example menu below).

CONTACT: Richard Bodley Scott, 28 Priory Gardens, Usk, Monmouthshire, NP5 1AJ (rbs@byzant.demon.co.uk)

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GODENDAG 2011
VENUE: Glen-yr-Afon Hotel, Pontypool Rd, Usk, Monmouthshire, NP15 1SY

TIME: 8.30 - 9.00 - Registration time on Saturday

Games will be:

Saturday: 9.30 - 1.00 and 2.00 - 5.30

Sunday: 9.00 - 12.30 and 1.30 - 5.00

ENTRANCE: £50.00 per team of 2. This includes Lunch on Saturday and Sunday.

SAMPLE BAR LUNCH MENU

Chicken curry ½ rice ½ chips
Lasagne and chips
Breaded plaice and chips
Filled baguettes: chicken tikka, BLT, ham and cranberry, beef and horseradish, cheese and tomato - all served with chips and coleslaw
Door-step sandwiches: ham and cranberry, ham salad, cheese salad, tuna mayonnaise, chicken, sweet corn and mayonnaise - all served with chips and coleslaw
Jacket potatoes: cheese and onion, baked beans, tuna and sweet corn, chicken curry, prawn mayonnaise - all served with side salad and coleslaw
Hot baps - bacon or sausage, bacon and egg, beef and onion - all serve with chips
Chilli and rice or ½ rice ½ chips
Scampi, chips and peas

CATERING & ACCOMMODATION:
The hotel will provide refreshments at competitive rates. No food or drink purchased elsewhere is to be brought into the hotel. Accommodation is available in the Glen-yr-Afon Hotel. Please make your own bookings with the hotel. If you intend to stay on Friday and Saturday nights, please book as soon as possible. Telephone 01291 672302/673202 (Fax 01291 672597).

LOCAL ATTRACTIONS:

If you are able to make a long weekend of it, there are numerous local historical attractions relevant to our period. These include the Roman Legionary Fortress and Museum at Caerleon and the Roman walled city of Caerwent. Among the many local castles, the best are Chepstow, Raglan, White Castle (at Llantilio Croesenny) and Caerphilly. Caerphilly castle has a permanent exhibition of full size working medieval siege engines including ballista, mangonel, trebuchet and perrier. The Welsh Folk Museum at St. Fagans is worth a visit. The Brecon Beacons National Park and the picturesque Wye Valley are also nearby.

CHEQUES: Payable to R. Bodley Scott

QUERIES: Richard Bodley Scott, 28, Priory Gardens, Usk, Gwent, NP5 1AJ. (rbs@byzant.demon.co.uk)

See also: http://www.byzant.demon.co.uk/godendag.htm

Okey first to ask is anyone thinking of going and looking for a below average player as a partner whos played only eight FOG R games.

I might attend Dave.

What you thinking of using?

MARVIN_THE_ARVN wrote:I might attend Dave.

What you thinking of using?

Later Protostant 30 years war

I now know what this means as I have the lists.

You still looking at going?

MARVIN_THE_ARVN wrote:I now know what this means as I have the lists.

You still looking at going?

Yes still going do you feel like joining us.

Yeah, im going to check dates and confirm leave.

MARVIN_THE_ARVN wrote:Yeah, im going to check dates and confirm leave.

It'll be good to play with you again.

"Any army from any published Field of Glory: Renaissance Army List book. "

So aside from wars of religion, any offers on which books will have been published by then?

azrael86 wrote:"Any army from any published Field of Glory: Renaissance Army List book. "

So aside from wars of religion, any offers on which books will have been published by then?

Definitely Trade & Treachery.

Possibly Clash of Empires.

Dave, I should be okay to go.

I will speak to you next monday about it.

MARVIN_THE_ARVN wrote:Dave, I should be okay to go.

I will speak to you next monday about it.

Good see you and the Cornish foot then

Im afraid ive changed that option, I couldnt live with myself knowing I supported the king

MARVIN_THE_ARVN wrote:Im afraid ive changed that option, I couldnt live with myself knowing I supported the king

Good you'll like my nice mercenary German bunch then fight for anyone as long as they pay.

/bump

I hear Hugenots and German Catholics carried the day. Any reports and such?