Roll Call Theme announced

[madaxeman]

As well as the by-now traditional 25mm competition at Roll Call, the 15mm theme has been announced

15mm FoGR Roll Call 2016 – 1494-1550
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Armies and the options chosen must be within the specified dates (inclusive. Allies may be included from lists not specified but the overall army must still conform to all restrictions.

Permitted Armies
Trade and Treachery – any except Irish, Anglo-Irish, Swiss and Later Venetian (P86) or any that follow.
Clash of Empires – any except Knights of St John and Later Imperial Austrian (P75) or any that follow.
Colonies and Conquest – any except Ikko Ikki, Mongol, Ethiopian, Zanj, Maori, Hawaiian, Wokou Pirates and Jurchen etc (P92) or any that follow.
Cities of Gold – ONLY Colonial Spanish, West Sudanese, Central Sudanese, Funj/Fur, Tuareg

Armies must contain:
At least 4 BGs of Foot Battle Troops.
At least 16 Bases of Mounted Battle Troops or Elephants. Elephant bases count double for this calculation.
At least as many BGs of Average or Poor battle troops as there are Superior or Elite BGs for both Foot and Mounted/Elephant categories.
GBGs count as 2 BGs for the purposes of both 3 and 4 above. Artillery are not included for the purposes of these calculations.
At least 6 bases of Foot Battle troops per base of Medium or Heavy Artillery.
​​Medium & Heavy artillery cannot be deployed so they could fire into the flank zones.

[madlemmey]

Sounds good!
Interesting cut off dates, have to see what I can field!

[madlemmey]

How many points?

[kevinj]

It will be 800.

[madlemmey]

Thank you

[Paulkit0]

Is the 28mm an open theme?

[kevinj]

Yes, 25mm will be open, I believe that it will be the same as this year (700 points, 40mm MUs for Movement, Command Distances and Shooting, 1 inch MUs for Terrain, Deployment and Threatened Flank Sectors).

[madaxeman]

full details and how to book:

http://www.bhgs.org.uk/field-of-glory-r ... -call.html

[madlemmey]

Ohh... A few of 'legal' lists are really difficult to do due to the cavalry restrictions (Early Henrician and Scottish to name two), and the cut off date removed some interesting lists too (Danish and Elizabethan for instance).
Wot no Aztecs?

[kevinj]

Who said it was meant to be easy? Admittedly, the Henricians can only get enough mounted by using everything in the list. The Scots have more options. Some of the other armies might require an ally.

As for the Aztecs, unless you can convince the the authors of the existence of the legendary Llama Lancieros or Alpaca Arquebusiers, you're stuck with an all pedestrian army. Personally I'd love to do a South American theme, but I just don't think enough people have the armies. It's something that needs to be in a tournament like Campaign or Derby where only one third of the players need to provide something so obscure.

[madlemmey]

Pack my alpacas skipper; I'll be back for breakfast!

[madlemmey]

I'm entered for 15mm, Pete Simpson is in for 25mm.

[nigelemsen]

I'm in the 25mm...

[steads]

I will be waiting until after the weekend to see if I am making 1 entry or 2. If Isabel has a good time at Warfare then it will be two entries. Fingers crossed!

[madlemmey]

Promise if I play her that I'll lose graciously!

[steads]

Thanks Will.
Exactly what I would have expected from you anyway.

[madlemmey]

And at Warfare.

[madaxeman]

Roll Call is now almost 50% sold out, with FoGR 15mm currently the sixth most popular period (led by Bolt Action and our newest theme, Blucher), and FoGR 25mm being neck and nevk with DBMM for the largest 25mm period.

The rate of bookings and the venue capacity means that the maximum number of players in any given period will probably end up being limited to somewhere between 12-18, with early-booking periods being larger than later booking ones, so please sign up soon to guarantee a decent pool of players in your chosen theme.

[spotteddog]

I will be waiting until after the weekend to see if I am making 1 entry or 2. If Isabel has a good time at Warfare then it will be two entries. Fingers crossed!

Pardon?

[steads]

I will be waiting until after the weekend to see if I am making 1 entry or 2. If Isabel has a good time at Warfare then it will be two entries. Fingers crossed!

Pardon?

Isabel had a good time and came joint 22nd of 24 at Warfare so two tickets have been purchased for Rollcall.