Slitherine

G’day,

Time to talk themes for next year,

challenge 2018 will be held again at the Birminham NEC on the 1-3 June.

It’s not sure if we can play all three days as of yet (currently in negotiations)

Does anyone have a suggestion for a theme?

We haven’t seen an elephant or Eastern European theme for a while.

How many elephants did you use at Britcon!!!

We had an elephant theme at Derby this year. Personally I think it's better suited to an event like that as not everyone has elephant based armies.

I only had 10 elephants

Not including generals...



Stephen had more than me though

Challenge will be a 2 day event, but the question is then 3+2 games or 2+2.

3+2 would mean an 830-9pm finish on Saturday, which may well not be to everyone (anyones..?) liking.

Or play 650 points if you want 5 games and a normal finish time?

From a personal perspective I need an ordinary finish time, as am already committed on the evening!

5 games at 650 is interesting, we haven’t done that yet. Do we need a smaller playing area?

spedders wrote:From a personal perspective I need an ordinary finish time, as am already committed on the evening!

5 games at 650 is interesting, we haven’t done that yet. Do we need a smaller playing area?

5' x 3' works at 650 - played some a few years ago, went well. 3 games of 2.5 hours fit into a normal day more or less. 5 games would mean day 2 was quite relaxed, or run 2 800 point games on day 2 to make it real variety.

Actually, come to think of it 650 would be like playing a 25mm event with 15mm miniatures.

If the table was 4x3 it would also all be scaled down 50%.

madaxeman wrote:Actually, come to think of it 650 would be like playing a 25mm event with 15mm miniatures.

If the table was 4x3 it would also all be scaled down 50%.

Certainly an opportunity for a different format whatever is chosen which is nice.

However, I cannot make this so any preference I have is rather moot

So,

what about a theme, or shall we go for an open comp?

I like the idea of a smaller game, will shake a few things up, plus I don't have to carry as much.

Also give me more chance to go buy things!

G'day everyone,

Current thoughts for The Challenge 2018 is

650 points, open competition
table size 5x3
using all current amendments

5 games over the weekend, three on Saturday, two on Sunday. 2.5 hours per game, plus D10 extra time
Game will finish when time is called, you complete the phase you are in.

I'm going to be doing some practice this week on deployment zone.

Who would be interested?

As FoGR didn't run last year, I've been asked to gauge interest in the comp as The UK Games Expo doesn't want to run a comp that may be cancelled.

I'll be there, already paid for my hotel
Keith S has said he's in.

Ideally, we'd get a minimum of 12 people.

The venue is quite nice, I was there last year for the ADLG comp, we had space and there is a pub on site.

Folks

With no track record of a viable number of entries in recent years, and only 2 expressions of interest on the forum I think we will give FoGR a miss this year from Challenge.

Sorry!

Tim

Co*k!

Cork? I thought it was in Birmingham....?