West Australian champ results- swiss, free company, seljuks

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Below are the results from the competition last weekend.

1st Place: Geoff Marshall with Later Swiss
2nd place and Rising Power award to Glen Saunders with free company
3rd place to Graham with his Seljuk Turks.

The mayhem (tooth and nail award) was won by Glen Saunders who
equalled Graham in number of bases killed due to death rolls, winning
the tie breaker on army size.

The top three army lists are:

Swiss:
(Secret Army not to be revealed)
ie I dont have the list at this time


Free Company:
4 * TC

6 * mob
6 * MF Prot Sw
4 * LF Jav LSpear

8 * MF Prot Xbow
4 * HF Sup Arm HvyW
6 * MF longbowmen

6 * MF longbowmen
4 * KN Sup Undr
4 * KN Sup Undr

4 * KN Sup Undr
8 * HF Sup Arm HvyW


Seljuk Turk:
1 * IC
3 * TC

6 * Mob
6 * LF avg bow
8 * LF avg Jav LtSp

4 * LH Bow SW(turcoman)
4 * LH Bow SW(turcoman)
4 * LH Bow SW(turcoman)

4 * Cv Bow SW Prot (turcoman)
8 * MF Impact Sw Sup (Dailami)
6 * LH Lance Sw (Bedouin)

4 * Cv Bow SW Dr Arm Sup (Ghilmen)
4 * Cv Bow SW Dr Arm Sup (Ghilmen)
6 * Cv Lance Sw Undr Arm Sup (Ex Fatimids)

For what its worth my Latin Greeks had:

3 * TC

6 * LF poor Bow
6 * MF poor Bow
4 * LH Bow SW

6 * LF Avg Bow
6 * LF Avg Bow
8 * MF Avg XBow Prot

8 * MF Avg Bow
4 * HF Avg DefSp Arm
8 * MF Avg LtSpear Prot

4 * KN Sup HArm Lance Sw (drilled)
6 * KN Sup HArm Lance Sw (undrilled)
6 * KN Sup HArm Lance Sw (undrilled)

Special mentions:
- Special mention to Glen Saunders who came 2nd despite being beaten
25-0 against Geoff in the final round. No-one else was within
striking distance. He could have sat back and played for the draw,
wasting time and running away from the Swiss for three hours. If he
has lost by 15 points he still would have won the comp. To his
credit/craziness he went for the win never entering 'tournament mode'
and unfortunately the previously rock-hard superior men at arms
turned to butter the face of the phalanx. He had played two games of
FoG before the comp.

- Special Mention to Graham's Seljuks for getting 14 shooting hits on
a single battle group in round 2.

- The Hungarian Royal banderium who spent most of the game two
running away from 4 classical indian elephants, but with their backs
to the table edge and inches from their own camp turned around and
promptly annihilated the elephants in a bound.

Thanks to:
- Dave Barker and Geoff Tindall the - one day players - who balanced
out the numbers, ensuring no byes.
- Richard and Michael from outside the club contributed significantly
to the competition. It is really great to have gamers from beyond
the club coming along to these events. They bring fresh ideas,
beautifully painted armies and fresh playing styles, adding variety
and numbers. Looking at Michael's Fatimids I was berating myself for
not including a 'best painted army' this time. Richard was looking a
little worse for wear at the end of day one so I hope the
encouragement award - a new set of 12 chessex dice - improved things
on day two.
- Essex Australia and Olympian Games, and Tactics as sources of
prizes. With Fog armies being slightly larger than dbm ones I
imagine a bit of a flurry of miniature purchases over the coming 6-12
months - myself included (all hail the szekeler Hungarians).

Amazingly the entirely random door prizes of sets of custom cohesion
markers were won by Geoff Marshal, Glen Saunders and Graham who came
first second and third - whats going on there?

Generally there was some concern that the classical period armies
would struggle against the abundance of knights and armoured foot in
the later lists. I am not sure if this was due to game imbalance
between periods or some other factor (bad dice at critical times). I
saw the poor fatimids raining missiles into the Swiss to no effect
for a few turns so perhaps the latter is true. The seljuks had to
rely on the same approach and seemed to be doing the number on the
slower moving medievals. Personally I think it is just that the
game is quite new in this region and the players of larger, poorer
quality armies are not yet into the game of flank-a-rama and evade-a-
thon.