Anyone interested in a 25mm 1 day FOG-R competition

[MarcP]

There are a lot of 15mm FOG-R competitions this year. However there are not many 25mm ones

Would anybody be interested in a one day 25mm Competition if I ran one at Farnborough

Venue - EllesHall, Farnborough

Date - To be decided if I get any interest - possibly July ?

Options
4, 500 point games with 40mm Movement Units - worked well at last years Farnborough Shot

3 650 point games with either 25mm or 40 mm MUs

Anyome interested ?

Any preference for dates and format ?

[madaxeman]

Yes!

Devizes is the weekend of the 20th, and I can;t make the weekend of the 13th for non-gaming reasons but other than that..

[MarcP]

Got 2 other Farnborough players expressing an interest. Need about 10 to make it worthwhile - so nearly half way already

Dates should be not too close to existing events and post April 15th

[donm]

The Bovington show is the weekend of 6th & 7th

Don

[daveallen]

OR...

3 x 700AP with preset terrain?

Count me in whatever the format.

Dave A

[rbodleyscott]

I am painting a 28mm army but I doubt if it will be finished by July

[quackstheking]

I could be interested in a one day 25mm comp in July.

Richard - I have an army you could borrow.

Don

[rbodleyscott]

I could be interested in a one day 25mm comp in July.

Richard - I have an army you could borrow.

Don

Thanks Don. If it is a TYW/ECW army I could use whatever is completed of my army along with some of yours.

Richard

[daveallen]

The most important thing for me is to know the theme.

Easiest would be ECW/30YW. Otherwise lots and lots if painting....

Dave

[quackstheking]

No probs Richard - I've got loads of ECW/TYW

Don

[timmy1]

Dave what if 'not painting'?

[MarcP]

Having looked at various Wargames Calendars, I'm now planning this for one of
Sunday 8th September
Sunday 6th October
Sunday 13th October

I'll check availability with the venue in the next week or so.

As to theme - at the moment I have only 1 army (Early or Late Russians) with a possibility of expanding to Poles by September by painting Winged Hussars. Therefore I suggest a Europe 1600-1660 or so theme. I'm happy to make it broader if that limits the entries too much.

[daveallen]

Dates and theme sound good to me.

Must pay a visit to Sainsbury's and order some Swedes.

How about the format?

I'd prefer the 650pt games with 40mm movement. Things could be speeded up if we had preset terrain.

Dave

[MarcP]

Provisionally 650 AP and 3 rounds it is then.

I can probably cope with 18-20 players if I book one room , 20-28 if I book 2.

I'll organise teas, coffees and biscuits and sort out a date and price.

And I've justfinished 4 elements of currasiers - be prepared to be terrified by true 25mm plastics

[quackstheking]

Had hoped it might include later C17th armies as I'm currently painting and basing an Anglo Dutch - is there any scope for including all C17th armies?!

I agree 650pts is the right size army but what would the movement MU's be - 1" or 40mm?

Don

[MarcP]

Hello Don,
My only criterion is that the period has to include Late Russians - as that is the army I've got. I'm happy to go for 1630-1700 and allow non Europeans on the grounds that Europe was interrfering everywhere by then

[MarcP]

And 40 mm MUs - speeds things up if w ewant to play 3 games. I'm also tempted to rule that Heavy and Medium Guns must deploy first . Any thoughts on that ?

[daveallen]

And 40 mm MUs - speeds things up if w ewant to play 3 games. I'm also tempted to rule that Heavy and Medium Guns must deploy first . Any thoughts on that ?

Mixed feelings about this, but I wouldn't mind trying it to see what effect it has on the game.

I'm assuming both sides would deploy their guns after camps and before the first 25%(+) of their remaining BGs. Or would guns simply have to be deployed in the first tranche?

Dave

[MarcP]

First tranche. Richard used this for the 4 500 AP games competition he ran at farnborough last year.

Not that worried about this, but id does seem resaonable that in the period, guns were not that manouverable.

[rbodleyscott]

First tranche. Richard used this for the 4 500 AP games competition he ran at farnborough last year.

Not that worried about this, but id does seem resaonable that in the period, guns were not that manouverable.

Nor were armies. If artillery must deploy first, then the enemy can deploy their whole army out of the arc of fire of the artillery, which is certainly not historically realistic. Army deployments were usually decided the night before the battle, before the enemy artillery dispositions were known.

Hence the situation in the rules, while counterintuitive, gets a more historical result than the suggested alternative. (Do you think it likely that it escaped our attention that Renaissance artillery was unmanoeuvrable? Of course, we started with them deploying in the first tranche, but play-testing soon showed the fatal flaw with that idea.)