Warfare 2010

[TimChild]

Hi guys,

We have been contacted by a number of potential entrants who have heard rumours that Warfare is already full. This is not true! Please send your entries in, and tell your friends and travelling companions to do the same!!

Entries sent before 4th October need only pay £12, but entries after that date must pay £18.

The three competitions this year are:-

Field of Glory 650 pts 25mm (Oath of Fealty, Eternal Empire, Storm of Arrows).

Field of Glory 800 pts 15mm (Rome - Rise of Rome, Legions Triumphant, Immortal Fire).

Field of Glory 800 pts 15mm (Empires of the Dragon)

Where relevant, armies indicated in the list-book Appendices and Lost Scrolls will also be permitted.

The deadline for submission of FOG lists is 31 October, and these should be sent to me at t_and_e.child@tiscali.co.uk.

Thanks in advance!

Tim Child

[TimChild]

Hi chaps,

Another reminder about Warfare. We have had lots of entries to date, but there is still plenty of space for FOG. Entry cost is £12 for entries received before 4 October (which is very soon...) and £18 thereafter. Please get your entries to Ian Colby a.s.a.p. (if not sooner!) as I would personally rather have lots of happy gamers spending the extra £6 on the trade stands. )

Lists do not have to come until the end of October (they come to me for checking, as usual), but entries need to get to Ian Colby by 4 October if you are to take advantage of the £12 price. His address is on the WAR website: http://www.readingwargames.co.uk/news.asp?id=74

Please pass the message on to all your friends and clubmates thinking of coming, as I don't want anyone to think I haven't been reminding you of the dates!

Tim Child

[TimChild]

The rules for the FOG competitions at Warfare are now up. See:-

http://www.readingwargames.co.uk/news.asp?id=81

They are the same as last year, in essence, just the lists for the themes having changed. I apologise for the delay in getting them up, caused by personal incompetence on my part, and holidays/family illness on the part of the WAR web-sters at just the wrong moment from my perspective!

Still lots of room for FOG (as of the information I have most recently, the DBMMers are pushing FOG for entry-numbers, so pride is at stake ) ) and for FOW, so please send your entries a.s.a.p. FOG (but not FOW) lists to come to me please by the end of October.

Cheers,

Tim Child

[TimChild]

I spoke to Ian Colby last night. All Warfare competition periods are now FULL.

There are one or two people who have sent me lists but seem not to have sent cheques to Ian. I am trying to sort those out to see whether we can squeeze an extra table in somewhere, but will be contacting those people direct.

In the meantime, I am waiting for lists from:-

Peter Cross
*Dave Fairbrother
Keith Pullen
*David Bannister
Richard Collins
Chris Proudfoot
Dave Finnegan
Ian Stewart
Graham Evans
*Peter Townsend
Nik Gaukroger
Richard Bodley-Scott (but Richard and Nik are player umpiring, and Nik's volunteered to float between all three comp.s, so some excuses allowed there)

I have e-mailed most of these direct, but if anyone has an e-mail address for the *ed names, please could they send it to me. Of course, if any of the above have not sent their lists because they can't make it after all, please could you let me know a.s.a.p., as we may well be able to fill the space.

Cheers,

Tim Child

[TimChild]

Thanks to everyone who has sent their lists to me - down to the final few now, and then I can get R & R published so that you can all start planning and plotting (and sweating and cursing your own terrible choice.

So, if anyone is able to put me in touch with, or themselves to poke the following, it would be much appreciated:-

Dave Fairbrother
David Bannister
Richard Collins (I have e-mailed Richard, but no reply so I don't know whether my addy for him is up to date)
Peter Townshend (I have been given an e-mail for Peter, but he has not replied)

We are over-subscribed and therefore I have at least three guys in reserve at the moment. There are often drop-outs in the last week (life gets in the way of gaming, sadly) - if any of the above (or anyone else) are not coming, could you please let me know urgently. (This is not a call for volunteers not to play!!)

Tim Child

[TimChild]

Thanks to everyone for getting their lists to me. Good luck to everyone!

Tim Child


15mm Classical - Rise/Legions/Immortal Fire

Rich Love Solent Late Republican Roman
Andy Kitcher High Wycombe Dominate Roman
Tim Porter Central London Dominate Roman
Allan Saull Wycombe Warband Late Republican Roman
Jim Simpson Central London Alexandrian Macedonian
Ian MacKay Central London Palmyran
Ian Hayward Wessex Ancient British
Keith Pullen Mercenary 1 Principate Roman
Pete Reilly Khoregate EF Ancient British
Martyn Simpson Wessex Later Carthaginian
David Bannister Wessex Later Jewish
Robert Taylor Halifax Dominate Roman
Simon Clarke Burton Palmyran
David Saunders Central London Dominate Roman
Keith Martin-Smith Pinner Hellenistic Greek
Wayne Dare Pinner Later Seleucid
Matt Standen Southsea Principate Roman
Richard Collins MKWS Late Dynastic Egyptian
Duncan Thompson Independent 1 Later Carthaginian
Phil Powell MAWS Western Hunnic
Paul Johnston York Early Achaemenid Persian
Stephen Stead Reigate Late Republican Roman
Jeremy Hill Independent 2 Early Achaemenid Persian
Graham Briggs Reigate Early Achaemenid Persian
Dave Ruddock MAWS Bosporan
Dave Redhead MAWS Palmyran
Charles Masefield Ledbury Principate Roman
Simon LeRay-Meyer Central London Palmyran
Darrell Pearce MKWS LaterSeleucid
Chris Proudfoot Durham Sassanid Persian
Dave Finnegan Durham Later Ptolomeic
Ian Stewart MKWS Bosporan
Rob Horn High Wycombe Gallic

Nik Gaukroger Reigate Foederate Roman Umpire/floater
Richard Smith Independent Western Hun

15mm Oriental - Empire of the Dragon

Martin Van Tol Central London Koryo Korean
John Patrick Gloucester Timurid
David Fairhurst Oxford Medieval Indonesian or Malay
Lynda Fairhurst Oxford Warring States to Western Han Chinese
Steve Murton Reigate Kofun-Nara Japanese
David Morrison Gloucester Xi Xia
Roger Greenwood Halifax Liao
Graham Evans Pinner Warring States to Western Han Chinese
Nick Standen Southsea Mongol Conquest
Gordon Jamieson Central London Central Asian City States
Jon Akers Plymouth Kofun-Nara Japanese
Lance Flint Farnborough Abbasid Arab
Peter Townshend Oxford Kofun-Nara Japanese
Dave Allen Clevedon Ghurid Afghan
Richard Bodley-Scott Newport Later Horse Nomad Umpire
Harrison Pearce MKWS Central Asian City States

Nik Gaukroger Reigate Moslem Indian Sultanates Umpire/Floater
Richard Smith Independent Mongol Conquest Floater

25mm Medieval - Oath of Fealty/Eternal Empire/Storm of Arrows

Roger Draper Mercenary Italo-Normans
Ian Carbutt Solent War of the Roses English
Don McHugh Clevedon War of the Roses English
Colin Betts MAWS Medieval German City Leagues
Steve Hacker Clevedon Santa Hermandad Nueva Castillian
Tom Elsworth Oxford French Ordonnance
Richard Jeffrey-Cook Farnborough Wars of the Roses English
Andy Claxton Clevedon Mongol Invasion
Graham Fordham SoA War of the Roses English
Martin Hays Condotierri Italian Condotta
Simon Elliott Central London Medieval Crown of Aragon
Peter Cross Ilford Imperial German
Richard Smith Independent Later Ottoman Turkish
Dino Monticoli Medieval French

[TimChild]

As in the last few years, sadly parking at the Rivermead is not free, although we have been able to bargain it down to half price. You have to buy your parking for both days, so bring plenty of £1 coins! Each day (and you must do it same day) you then go to reception with the "receipt" half of your parking ticket (leaving the "parking" part in the car on display) and reception will refund half your parking fee.

Cheers,

Tim Child

[philqw78]

Or, even better, walk there having drunk lots of beer the night before and stayed in a local hostelry.

[TimChild]

Sounds like a plan - one that I know that the Irish DBMM contingent has got down to a T. )

[azrael86]

As in the last few years, sadly parking at the Rivermead is not free, although we have been able to bargain it down to half price. You have to buy your parking for both days, so bring plenty of £1 coins! Each day (and you must do it same day) you then go to reception with the "receipt" half of your parking ticket (leaving the "parking" part in the car on display) and reception will refund half your parking fee.

Cheers,

Tim Child

Thanks Tim. Some of us are still bitter over gettting a ticket when they introduced charges at Dunstable and no one warned us!

[azrael86]

No observations? OK then.

15mm Classical - Rise/Legions/Immortal Fire

Wow that was dull.

15mm Oriental - Empire of the Dragon
Timurid, Abbasid Arab

Even in a restricted period not looking good is it. Thirteen different choices but two armies not in the actual book.

Ghurid Afghan

Good on the defensive I guess.

25mm Medieval - Oath of Fealty/Eternal Empire/Storm of Arrows

Roger Draper Mercenary Italo-Normans
Ian Carbutt Solent War of the Roses English
Don McHugh Clevedon War of the Roses English
Colin Betts MAWS Medieval German City Leagues
Steve Hacker Clevedon Santa Hermandad Nueva Castillian
Tom Elsworth Oxford French Ordonnance
Richard Jeffrey-Cook Farnborough Wars of the Roses English
Andy Claxton Clevedon Mongol Invasion
Graham Fordham SoA War of the Roses English
Martin Hays Condotierri Italian Condotta
Simon Elliott Central London Medieval Crown of Aragon
Peter Cross Ilford Imperial German
Richard Smith Independent Later Ottoman Turkish
Dino Monticoli Medieval French

Looks like some people are taking part of the name rather literally ? Seems to be a Swiss/Free company shortage to me.

[TimChild]

OT - last time I got a parking ticket I managed to persuade the local authority to let me off. I suspect that they thought I'd get the sympathy vote from the Adjudicator once they heard that my ticket had run out because I had been stuck in front of an over-running bench of Magistrates while prosecuting someone who had been mis-treating her dog, on behalf of a well-known national animal charity.

[azrael86]

OT - last time I got a parking ticket I managed to persuade the local authority to let me off. I suspect that they thought I'd get the sympathy vote from the Adjudicator once they heard that my ticket had run out because I had been stuck in front of an over-running bench of Magistrates while prosecuting someone who had been mis-treating her dog, on behalf of a well-known national animal charity.

Not because you are a lawyer then?

[TimChild]

OT - last time I got a parking ticket I managed to persuade the local authority to let me off. I suspect that they thought I'd get the sympathy vote from the Adjudicator once they heard that my ticket had run out because I had been stuck in front of an over-running bench of Magistrates while prosecuting someone who had been mis-treating her dog, on behalf of a well-known national animal charity.

Not because you are a lawyer then?

Not a feature I like to emphasise while trying to persuade someone that it's unfair for me to have to pay £50. Whatever the reality of life at the high-street end of the UK legal profession may be, people only ever hear about the Hollywood-style lawyering and City bonuses, and therefore to make assumptions about BMWs and swimming-pools and such-like...

[azrael86]

OT - last time I got a parking ticket I managed to persuade the local authority to let me off. I suspect that they thought I'd get the sympathy vote from the Adjudicator once they heard that my ticket had run out because I had been stuck in front of an over-running bench of Magistrates while prosecuting someone who had been mis-treating her dog, on behalf of a well-known national animal charity.

In preparing your case, I suggest a better wording would have been

"while prosecuting , on behalf of a well-known national animal charity, someone who had been mis-treating her dog"

Although I do like the image.

[nikgaukroger]

15mm Oriental - Empire of the Dragon
Timurid, Abbasid Arab

Even in a restricted period not looking good is it. Thirteen different choices but two armies not in the actual book.

13 different armies from 16 players seems good to me - why the fact 2 are from other books is a bad thing is beyond me. Strange view IMO.

Ghurid Afghan

Good on the defensive I guess.

Only if you want to be. Plenty of troops to use aggressively in the list. It would have been my choice if my figures weren't so tatty and in need of much TLC

[azrael86]

13 different armies from 16 players seems good to me - why the fact 2 are from other books is a bad thing is beyond me. Strange view IMO.

Its not so much that there isn't variety - though I make it 13 from 18, but that there are so many missing altogether, including a lot of armies that were reasonably common in DBM (so the figures are out there).

Ghurid Afghan
Good on the defensive I guess.

Only if you want to be. Plenty of troops to use aggressively in the list. It would have been my choice if my figures weren't so tatty and in need of much TLC

Quite a lot of defensive spear though, which I assume is the USP. Also, its another example of the Christian Nubian/Valentinian III syndrome where a fairly mediocre army that never did very much somehow ends up with top billing.

[grahambriggs]

13 different armies from 16 players seems good to me - why the fact 2 are from other books is a bad thing is beyond me. Strange view IMO.

Its not so much that there isn't variety - though I make it 13 from 18, but that there are so many missing altogether, including a lot of armies that were reasonably common in DBM (so the figures are out there). Quite a lot of defensive spear though, which I assume is the USP. Also, its another example of the Christian Nubian/Valentinian III syndrome where a fairly mediocre army that never did very much somehow ends up with top billing.

I don't see that it has top billing - who is saying that?

Don't misread defensive spear as being a defensive troop type - I used 40 bases of them in my Akkadian at roll call and they pretty much pressed forwards continuously!

[madaxeman]

Nice range of army styles and periods from the MAWS contingent

[philqw78]

Nice range of army styles and periods from the MAWS contingent

A much bigger variation than your last three years Tim. Roman, Roman, Roman.

I have Bactrian, Urartian, Hun.

The Dave's have cough,ahem, cough.