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Post by davidjconstable on Jan 28, 2019 8:55:52 GMT
Colin
The dice gods are not happy with you, they are upsetting your karma, and getting Loki to visit.
David Constable
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Post by martin on Jan 28, 2019 9:09:31 GMT
Colin The dice gods are not happy with you, they are upsetting your karma, and getting Loki to visit. David Constable No, David....Loki is the name of my daughter’s Renault Clio. It MAY visit, but I’d need to seek permission to drive it 😊
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Post by colinthehittite on Jan 28, 2019 9:41:27 GMT
Colin The dice gods are not happy with you, they are upsetting your karma, and getting Loki to visit. David Constable It could well be Loki, David, drawing me in, making me feel all is going well and then taking it all away. He’s probably got my waterway! I hope you are improving David. Colin
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Post by martin on Jan 28, 2019 10:22:48 GMT
....and thanks from me to Alan and all the Penarth club. Great tournament, as always.
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Post by davidjconstable on Jan 28, 2019 10:36:30 GMT
Colin
Better, but my legs are awfully weak.
I live in a terraced house, 2up, 2down style. To make mug of coffee I go into the kitchen, set the water boiling and sit on a seat out there, when it has boiled I make the coffee and return to the lounge.
It will be months before my legs improve a lot.
At Bakewell I might just be able to make it from the carpark to the games hall, from there to the toilets, but I think it would be a stretch. Penarth would need wheelchair and lift access.
And I do not allow for the cost in pain of travel, pot holes etc.
Regards to all.
David Constable
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Post by menacussecundus on Jan 28, 2019 11:10:34 GMT
Colin Better, but my legs are awfully weak. ............ At Bakewell I might just be able to make it from the carpark to the games hall, from there to the toilets, but I think it would be a stretch. Penarth would need wheelchair and lift access. And I do not allow for the cost in pain of travel, pot holes etc. Regards to all. David Constable Nothing that the organizers can do about the pain of travelling, David, but the current venue for Crusade has level access and disabled toilets. The DBA competition has moved to the ground floor and in fact, one of the players on Saturday was in a wheelchair. Hope you continue to improve. Denis
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Post by davidjconstable on Jan 28, 2019 14:50:26 GMT
Wheelchairs
The problem I have found is that it is not easy to hire a motorized wheelchair for a day, to be at the venue when you arrive, and be collected when you leave.
If pushed around I think Scott would have a few words to say about that.
It is interesting the lack of wheelchair hire at venues, and most of ours are in the middle of nowhere.
I wish Tramadol could deal with the pain as well, Monday going and coming back from Malvern was hell.
David Constable
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aldavion
Munifex
Looking forward to the Welsh Open.
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Post by aldavion on Jan 29, 2019 8:58:50 GMT
DBA WELSH OPEN 2019 – FULL RESULTS YEAR OF THE TWO MARTINS Champion: Martin Myers II18c Macedonian – Kassandros Runner-Up: Arnaud Marmier I4b Zagros – Guti “Great Revolt” Third: Colin O’Shea II22c Hatra + II37 Parthian Ally Fourth: Mark Skelton IV59a Samurai 5th: Patrick Myers II37 Parthian 6th: Ollie Currant IV63b Rebel Army of Henry Tudor 7th: Richard Pulley III72 Anglo-Danish 8th: Denis Grey III8 Central Asian City States 9th: Matthew Davison II56 Early Imperial Roman 10th: Keith McGlyn III10c Hindu Indian 11th: Bill MacGillvray II23 Pre-Islamic Arab 12th: John Saunders III4a Early Byzantine 13th: Martin Smith III19c North Welsh + IV64b Medieval French Ally
PLATE RESULTS Winner: Martin Smith 2nd: Richard Pulley 3rd: Ollie Currant 4th: Bill MacGillvray 5th: Matthew Davison 6th: John Saunders 7th: Patrick Myers 8th: Denis Grey 9th: Keith McGlyn
Not quite sure why but I seemed to be rather busy this year. Anyway, the tournament was a pleasure to umpire and my thanks go to everyone for making this a pleasant atmosphere to compete in.
I don't think anyone has ever managed to retain their title but this year Arnaud came as close as anyone by being Runner-up.
Turnaround of the day belongs to Martin Smith who came bottom of the Open qualifying but rallied to win the plate. He did change armies for that, (it was allowed!). I can't remember what he went with but I think it had viking allies.
One oddity of the plate was that after two rounds we had played 8 matches and 6 of them were draws! Same playing restraints as last year, (half-hour games). Then in the final round all four games reached a conclusion. That round had 33 minutes. Surely that can't have made a difference!
Already looking forward to next year.
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aldavion
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Looking forward to the Welsh Open.
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Post by aldavion on Jan 29, 2019 9:08:24 GMT
Wheelchairs The problem I have found is that it is not easy to hire a motorized wheelchair for a day, to be at the venue when you arrive, and be collected when you leave. If pushed around I think Scott would have a few words to say about that. It is interesting the lack of wheelchair hire at venues, and most of ours are in the middle of nowhere. I wish Tramadol could deal with the pain as well, Monday going and coming back from Malvern was hell. David Constable Hi David, Sorry you couldn't be with us. As Denis has already said we are now on the ground floor with a view of the entrance. The toilets are in-between the entrance and us. If we were on the first floor there is a lift but I think all of the show is now on the ground floor. I have been asked to give a brief report to the organising committee of my experience taking part and to include any comments from the participants. So I will ask about the possibility of wheelchair availability. It is a modern school building, (3-4 years old), so they may even have some wheelchairs of their own that we could access as part of the hire. If you don't ask...
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Post by davidjconstable on Jan 29, 2019 9:46:15 GMT
Hi David,
Sorry you couldn't be with us. As Denis has already said we are now on the ground floor with a view of the entrance. The toilets are in-between the entrance and us. If we were on the first floor there is a lift but I think all of the show is now on the ground floor.
I have been asked to give a brief report to the organising committee of my experience taking part and to include any comments from the participants. So I will ask about the possibility of wheelchair availability. It is a modern school building, (3-4 years old), so they may even have some wheelchairs of their own that we could access as part of the hire.
If you don't ask...
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Thanks, it might not help me next year, painkillers are the big problem, but it could be useful for other people.
David Constable
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Post by martin on Jan 29, 2019 10:26:20 GMT
DBA WELSH OPEN 2019 > > 13th: Martin Smith III19c North Welsh + IV/64b Medieval French ally PLATE RESULTS Winner: Martin Smith > Turnaround of the day belongs to Martin Smith who came bottom of the Open qualifying but rallied to win the plate. He did change armies for that, (it was allowed!). I can't remember what he went with but I think it had viking allies. M- Certainly was a surprise, Alan! Thrashed senseless for three games, and then changed (as you suggested we could) for the Plate to that tournament favourite -III19a, early Welsh warband types, with a Viking ally. Toyally jnexpected (and at times flukey) success with that. 😵
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Post by martin on Jan 29, 2019 11:55:34 GMT
Album of pics from the day now on the Yahoo DBA Group.
Cheers all
M
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Post by arnopov on Jan 30, 2019 21:30:08 GMT
Big thanks to David, the crusade team, and Magister Militum (sponsor),
A great tourney as usual.
I wasn't sure what to take to the Welsh Open. The Tamils had done so well last year, I thought fair to retire them for a while. I also had had very good results with the sligthly less elephant heavy Classical Indians at the English open, so decided to try something different. Without time for painting, it had to be something I already had. For some reason, I anticipated a lot of elephants, so was very tempted by the Sung. In the end, I decided to revisit the Guti "Great revolt", with Elamite Ally. That army had done OK at the Book I PAWS a couple of years ago, and I recalled it had potential, with a core of fast Bd and Bw. For an open, I decided to switch the Wb to Ax, and to balance the Bd/Bw to 4 of each. Also chose to keep a single Ps, for big boss El duties. Also the little (dice-) cup bearer decided to come as well to "help", so it had to be a simple enough army to use. It worked pretty well I thought, very lively, very fast, pretty much terrain independant, and with an Agg of 3, we ended up attacking every game, often getting nice match ups, or refusing a flank. I think it's one of these armies that can cope with pretty much everything and not be too disadvantaged. I was a bit concerned by massed Kn, but didn't face any. Anyhow, a mixed Bd/Bw line can do OK vs Kn, as happened vs Colin's Hatrans. We ended up losing the final to the mighty Diades in what felt like a tight game.
I was quite surprised, but we faced many Ax. A roman army had 4x4Ax, an in the final four Attila the Nun's Late Samurai had 4x3Ax, has had Diades's Kassandros. These 3Ax are more useful than I used to think.
I was also surprised to see that Greg K. had used the same army in Oz the same day. I thought it was obscure, but I guess the lure of the 3Bd is strong!
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Post by gregorius on Jan 30, 2019 22:40:06 GMT
DBA WELSH OPEN 2019 – FULL RESULTS YEAR OF THE TWO MARTINS Champion: Martin Myers II18c Macedonian – Kassandros Runner-Up: Arnaud Marmier I4b Zagros – Guti “Great Revolt” Third: Colin O’Shea II22c Hatra + II37 Parthian Ally Fourth: Mark Skelton IV59a Samurai 5th: Patrick Myers II37 Parthian 6th: Ollie Currant IV63b Rebel Army of Henry Tudor 7th: Richard Pulley III72 Anglo-Danish 8th: Denis Grey III8 Central Asian City States 9th: Matthew Davison II56 Early Imperial Roman 10th: Keith McGlyn III10c Hindu Indian 11th: Bill MacGillvray II23 Pre-Islamic Arab 12th: John Saunders III4a Early Byzantine 13th: Martin Smith III19c North Welsh + IV64b Medieval French Ally PLATE RESULTS Winner: Martin Smith 2nd: Richard Pulley 3rd: Ollie Currant 4th: Bill MacGillvray 5th: Matthew Davison 6th: John Saunders 7th: Patrick Myers 8th: Denis Grey 9th: Keith McGlyn Not quite sure why but I seemed to be rather busy this year. Anyway, the tournament was a pleasure to umpire and my thanks go to everyone for making this a pleasant atmosphere to compete in. I don't think anyone has ever managed to retain their title but this year Arnaud came as close as anyone by being Runner-up. Turnaround of the day belongs to Martin Smith who came bottom of the Open qualifying but rallied to win the plate. He did change armies for that, (it was allowed!). I can't remember what he went with but I think it had viking allies. One oddity of the plate was that after two rounds we had played 8 matches and 6 of them were draws! Same playing restraints as last year, (half-hour games). Then in the final round all four games reached a conclusion. That round had 33 minutes. Surely that can't have made a difference! Already looking forward to next year. A great result for the Gutti! I thought that I was doing well with a 3-3 win/loss ratio. Cheers,
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Post by gregorius on Jan 30, 2019 22:45:43 GMT
Big thanks to David, the crusade team, and Magister Militum (sponsor), A great tourney as usual. I wasn't sure what to take to the Welsh Open. The Tamils had done so well last year, I thought fair to retire them for a while. I also had had very good results with the sligthly less elephant heavy Classical Indians at the English open, so decided to try something different. Without time for painting, it had to be something I already had. For some reason, I anticipated a lot of elephants, so was very tempted by the Sung. In the end, I decided to revisit the Guti "Great revolt", with Elamite Ally. That army had done OK at the Book I PAWS a couple of years ago, and I recalled it had potential, with a core of fast Bd and Bw. For an open, I decided to switch the Wb to Ax, and to balance the Bd/Bw to 4 of each. Also chose to keep a single Ps, for big boss El duties. Also the little (dice-) cup bearer decided to come as well to "help", so it had to be a simple enough army to use. It worked pretty well I thought, very lively, very fast, pretty much terrain independant, and with an Agg of 3, we ended up attacking every game, often getting nice match ups, or refusing a flank. I think it's one of these armies that can cope with pretty much everything and not be too disadvantaged. I was a bit concerned by massed Kn, but didn't face any. Anyhow, a mixed Bd/Bw line can do OK vs Kn, as happened vs Colin's Hatrans. We ended up losing the final to the mighty Diades in what felt like a tight game. I was quite surprised, but we faced many Ax. A roman army had 4x4Ax, an in the final four Attila the Nun's Late Samurai had 4x3Ax, has had Diades's Kassandros. These 3Ax are more useful than I used to think. I was also surprised to see that Greg K. had used the same army in Oz the same day. I thought it was obscure, but I guess the lure of the 3Bd is strong! The composition of my force was LCh ( Gen), 4×3Ax, 2×3Bd, 2×3Bw and 3×Ps. A challenging army to play and with its Agg of 3 I attacked all 6 games. Cheers,
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