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FoGR at STOKE CHALLENGE 2015

Sunday 5th July 2015

Venue:
Territorial Army Centre (02 Field Hospital (V))
Waterloo Road
Cobridge
Stoke on Trent
Staffordshire
ST6 3HJ

The Cobridge Old Contemptibles club no longer meets at the TA Centre venue so the Stoke Challenge show has reverted back to Jonathan Murphy, who has always been the primary force behind the show anyway. Please note that there will be no trade stands but this will allow for more competitor tables and for an earlier finish than last year.

FoG R (plus any official errata published before 15th June 2015).
15mm scale to 650pts on 5 by 3 foot tables.
Any army from any official Fog R army list book may be used.

Cost £8 per player payable at registration.

Game duration is 2 hrs 30mins per game (+/- 10 Mins), players will complete current phase on the call of time by the umpire.
The Compulsory terrain feature must be placed on the table, plus 1 to 3 pieces per player. Deployment as per the normal rules with the exception of flank zones reduced to 10 inches. Umpire: Keith Spedding.

Registration: 8:45-9:15am.

Guide timetable:

Game 1- 9:15-11.45am

Game 2- 12:00noon - 14:30pm

Game 3- 14:45 until 17:15pm

Prize giving ASAP following final game.

FOGR Lists to Ray Boyles before 21st June 2015:

ray_boyles@hotmail.com

rayd wrote:FoGR at STOKE CHALLENGE 2015

The Compulsory terrain feature must be placed on the table, plus 1 to 3 pieces per player. Deployment as per the normal rules with the exception of flank zones reduced to 10 inches.

Is this helpful:

rayd wrote:The Compulsory terrain feature must be placed on the table

If they do not fit do you:
1) Move them nearer than 4" to the other piece?
2) Have it less than 8" from the edge?

titanu wrote:

rayd wrote:The Compulsory terrain feature must be placed on the table

If they do not fit do you:
1) Move them nearer than 4" to the other piece?
2) Have it less than 8" from the edge?

Hi Bob,

Sorry for the delay but I wanted to check with Keith Spedding who will be the FoGR Umpire at Stoke. Keith says:

"move it the minimum distance nearer the other piece required to fit it in"

Ray

This is just a reminder for anyone playing at Stoke Challenge to get their lists into me ASAP.

When I posted this I forgot that I would be away at the BHGS Oxford Brookes event over the weekend. So that gives a little lee-way from the original deadline.

ray_boyles@hotmail.com

Here is the R & R for Stoke next Sunday. Ten players - nine wide-ranging different armies. It promises to be a good bash!

Graham Hutchinson MAWS Italian Wars Milanese 1500
Simon Clarke Burton Japanese 1529
Martin Stephenson MAWS Safavid Persian 1530
Keith Spedding October Western Sudanese 1590
Ray Boyles October Qing Chinese 1625
Bob Amey Impalers Qing Chinese 1625
Kevin Johnson Eastern Woodland Culture 1648
Dene Green Burton Late Louis XIV French 1669
Steve Holt Burton Late Swedish 1680
Jon Phipps Burton Habsburg Austrian 1690

rayd wrote:"move it the minimum distance nearer the other piece required to fit it in"
Ray

Is that the terrain you are talking about

There is a slight change in player list for tomorrow. Jon Phipps cannot now attend but I am pleased that Simon Green from Burton has taken up the 10th place.

Give us a Cluedo? To save you guessing – Mr Green is not using the lead pipe in the conservatory but Late Habsburg Austrian 1688 in the Stoke TAC.

So, no big change to the R & R and we should not have any byes unless there is a last minute ‘no-show’. The first round looks like 5 BAD players against the rest.

As previously you will need to bring your own lunch but please note that Jonathan Murphy’s wife has kindly 'volunteered' to run a tea and coffee stand tomorrow. She'll also be selling some flapjacks.

Winner: Dene 'I never fail cohesion tests' Green
Second: Steve Hoult
Best painted army - by some way - Martin Stephenson

Thanks to Ray for a great day's gaming and Keith for suitably arbitrary rulings

Thanks to my opponents:

Martin for his unswerving ability to throw 1s on death rolls
Dene for passing EVERY cohesion test with his battle troops (this against a Qing Chinese)
Graham doing the dance round the centre of the table - see pic: (and Yes the red dice are one of his melee throws)

titanu wrote:Thanks to my opponents:

Martin for his unswerving ability to throw 1s on death rolls

You're welcome.

Runners and Riders


Final Standings


More pics on the Burton Website


http://www.badwargamers.com

thanks
Simon

Thanks to Ray and Keith for an excellent day and to my opponents Simon, Ray and Dene.

Congratulations to Dene and to Steve who did very well with his all Average army.

list_lurker wrote:

Bob tries to explain to Dene how you fail a cohesion test - with no success

Graham's 'Who are you looking at!' shocks the cameraman

I'm having an old friend for dinner this evening

I'm having an old friend for dinner this evening

...with some fava beans and a nice chianti.

To add insult to injury when Dene refused to fail a single cohesion test on the way in when he charged I double dropped with two units and a simple fail with the third

But how we laughed

list_lurker wrote:

I'm having an old friend for dinner this evening

...with some fava beans and a nice chianti.

Just to warn you of what happens it you do not enter or do not get your list in on time next year!

Ray

kevinj wrote:Thanks to Ray and Keith for an excellent day and to my opponents Simon, Ray and Dene.

Congratulations to Dene and to Steve who did very well with his all Average army.

And congratulations to Martin Stephenson who brought a knife to a gunfight with his arquebus era Persians but who did win "Best Presented Army".

Also many thanks to Bob Medcraft and our friends at the Oxford club for the loan of 5 x 3 cloths.

Last & not least thanks to Jonathan Murphy for providing a spacious & airy venue. Also our appreciation to Mrs Murphy for manning the refreshments stall.

rayd wrote:And congratulations to Martin Stephenson who brought a knife to a gunfight with his arquebus era Persians but who did win "Best Presented Army".

That's one way of looking at my performance!

rayd wrote:Also our appreciation to Mrs Murphy for manning the refreshments stall.

Here here! When I thanked Mrs. Murphy at the end of the day her reply was something along the lines of "it's not a problem because it's been raining all day".