Slitherine

Held at YottaQuest in Cincinnati, thanks to all that made the trip. Short notice and holiday weekend resulted in less than expected attendance, we still had a good time. Tony is a newbie that watched the first two games and then tried his hand at running of the Classical Indians of Ernies. He was the "winner" of a gift certificate that he used to buy another Osprey FoG army book with and is rapidly painting up a L. Cartho army, so it appears we have one convert. Several other onlookers expressed interest in the rules and several left with questions about converting DBx armies to FoG.

Here are the results...

player # - Rd 1/ Rd 2 / Rd 3 -- Score 1 / Score 2 / Score 3 -- Total
Marc Crotteau #1 -- 3 / 6 / 2 -- 22 / 6.2 / 12.4 -- 40.6
Mike Hart #2 -- 6 / 4 / 1 -- 8 / 9.7 / 7.6 -- 25.3
Dick Hurchanik #3 -- 1 / 5 / 7 -- 3 / 1.4 / 22 -- 26.4
Ernie Baker #4 -- 5 / 2 / BYE -- 1.4 / 10.3 / 11.7
Chuck Hines #5 -- 4 / 3 / 6 -- 18.6 / 23.6 / 5 --47.2
Tony Herschberger #6 -- BYE / BYE / 3 -- NA / NA / 3 -- 3
Scott Jeske #7 -- 2 / 1 / 5 -- 12 / 18.8 / 20 --50.8

Armies -
Marc - E. Byz
Mike - L. Hungarian
Dick - ottoman turk
Ernie - Classical Indian
Chuck - Kushan?
Tony - Classical Indian
Scott - Crown of Aragon

thanks again to Matt at YottaQuest who allowed us the space on a Saturday. the store is mostly CCG and RPGs with a fledgling amount of FoW/Osprey's. We hope that with the added interest shown with the walk-ups that interest will be sufficient that he can expand into the ancient/historical scene a bit more.

My highlight of the tournament had to be routing a BG of elephants from a flank charge through 2 additional BGs of nellies only to fall short in my pursuit. Because of this, they had to rout thru the same BGs during the JAP, causing them to drop from disrupted to Frag'd for one and routed for the other (was able to shoot them to frag'd)

All this b/c my worthy opponent forgot the ZoI for foot is 2 inches not 3!!!

XOXOX Chucky.

Madcam

Well done Mark.

Good to the Byzantines doing well.

Si

Mark played well...

E Byz did good enough up till they ran into the drilled knights of Santiago and the Almughavers of Catalan! Xbow do a wonderful job on double ranked Cav Armored or not... In period I would think they would perform much better. Like all feudal period western armies, they fall short when exposed to the Heavy armored knights of the latter ages...

Madcam

I am not sure that the problem with my Early Byz was running into Kn. You may recall that I set up a nice flank + front attack into one of your Kn BGs, but contrived to have both my BGs lose that impact combat (including, IIRC, my flankers scoring zero hits rolling at ++ ), followed by both BGs failing their CT. Losing that fight had an enormous impact on the game. You may also recall that your other BG of Kn was on the good side of a 1-6 split for an evade by a BG of my shooty cav.

Other than that episode, I was reasonably pleased with the performance of the Byz. The problems that arose were mostly operator error, and will--hopefully--be addressed by getting me more practice. I managed to get my Cav into some BGs of MF to great effect.

Early Byz certainly is a fun army to pay.

Marc