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GODENDAG 2013



15mm ANCIENT/MEDIEVAL/RENAISSANCE DOUBLES COMPETITIONS

19th & 20th JANUARY 2013
Venue: Glen-yr-Afon Hotel, Usk, Monmouthshire, UK, NP15 1SY

Glen-yr-Afon Hotel

Field of Glory Competitions:

1) Field of Glory: Ancient/Medieval

Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire
The following armies are permitted.

Lost Scrolls
Early Republican Roman
Etruscan League
(Umbrian Allies)
Italian Hill Tribes
Latin
Samnite
Campanian
Apulian, Lucanian or Bruttian

Rise of Rome
Any army except Bosporan.
(No army can use options only available before 280 BC)

Legions Triumphant
Any army except Kushan, Indo-Skythian or Hepthalite Hunnic.
(No army can use options only available after 493 BC)

Decline and Fall
Later Moorish
African Vandal.
Later Visigothic.
Italian Ostrogothic

Immortal Fire
(Only options permitted between 280 BC and 493 AD can be used)
Thracian
Syracusan
Galatian


Not to exceed 900 points

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

2) Field of Glory: Renaissance

Age of the Sun King

Any army dated after 1649.

Not to exceed 900 points

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

Cost: £ 50 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 2013
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 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

You will be pleased to learn that the entrance fee has been held at £50 per team of 2, including lunches.

Richard,

Are you going to post Runner and Riders this weekend?

Bob

viking123 wrote:Richard,

Are you going to post Runner and Riders this weekend?

Bob

If I get the rest of the lists in.

How about First round draw as well like DBM have done for usk

cheers

Alasdair

alasdair2204 wrote:How about First round draw as well like DBM have done for usk

Not a chance (and it won't be in date order, the time period is too tight to need that).

No problem

just wanted to ponder the problem my opponent offers as well as that offered by my doubles partner

look forward to seeing everyone next week

cheers

Alasdair

Runners and Riders:

Note - this is not the draw, which will be random, not in date order.

......interesting.........

Aha Late Imperial Spanish with max Caballos corazas?

Ah Richard

you know me to well

cheers

Alasdair

That said my Hasau is only one unit of being finished as well

Good stuff! What figures did you use?

Cheers

Richard

Hi Richard

Peter Pig for the tuaregs and to make them different have 2 camels and 1 foot on each base

warrior miniatures & essex for the foot (I need some blue moon foot to increase the army)

warrior miniatures, blue moon and essex for cavalry

Cheers

Alasdair

Hi Richard

is their a snow plan, a number to ring if the snow is to bad on saturday morning so you can know who is coming

cheers

Alasdair

alasdair2204 wrote:Hi Richard

is their a snow plan, a number to ring if the snow is to bad on saturday morning so you can know who is coming

cheers

Alasdair

Or on Friday too - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-21063003 - The Met Office has a "red" (do not travel) warning in place and seem to be forecasting a foot of snow on Friday around the general area of Usk, and another 1-4 inches on Saturday.

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/public/weat ... ionName=wl

Issued at: 1230 on Thu 17 Jan 2013
Valid from: 0300 on Fri 18 Jan 2013
Valid to: 2100 on Fri 18 Jan 2013

A band of snow, heavy in places, will spread northeastwards across Wales and the southwestern half of England, during Friday morning, lasting through the afternoon and evening across much of Wales, the Midlands, southern and parts of southeast England. Winds will strengthen, leading to drifting of lying snow.

Many parts of the Red Warning area are likely to have 20-30 cm of snow with strong southeasterly winds causing blizzards, severe drifting of lying snow and thus severe disruption. The public should avoid all non-essential journeys.

Elsewhere, accumulations of more than 5-10 cm of snow will occur quite widely, with 15 cm in some western parts of the Amber area, falling within 3-6 hours. The public should be prepared for disruption, including altering travel plans

OMG - just seen the weather forecast - Usk looks like lots of snow on Friday!

Drive safely guys and have a great weekend!

Don

alasdair2204 wrote:Hi Richard

Is there a snow plan, a number to ring if the snow is to bad on Saturday morning so you can know who is coming?

Well it was a bit disconcerting to discover that we are close to the epicentre of the snow. However, I think we are probably just outside the red alert area, and the snow will be worse to the west of Usk than in Usk and points east. We always get less snow here than in Abergavenny for example, as we are at a lower altitude.

People are welcome to ring me at home: 01291 672496 if you aren't going to make it. Not much point in ringing me for travel information, however, I will only see Usk itself.

I will probably start round 1 a bit later than planned, and anyone who makes it after that can have a bye for the first round.

The Met Office's red warning for snow, which is unusual and means all non-essential travel should be avoided, applies to the south-eastern side of the Brecon Beacons and Black Mountains until 21:00 GMT on Friday.

Note that this does NOT include Usk. Although it is snowing here.

M50 is closed between Jct 4 & 3 at present. Snow heavy here (20 miles north of Black Mountains) and took me an hour to go 15 miles in a 4 wheel drive.....see if it clears later...

Richard

Forecast is for rain this afternoon.

Stopped snowing here south of Bristol and main roads all OK.

Don