Collision Course - DBA With A Twist - May 26th - In Canberra
May 26, 2019 13:34:00 GMT
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Post by macbeth on May 26, 2019 13:34:00 GMT
Collision Course V – May 2019
On Sunday May 26th 2019 we gathered for the latest of our DBA With A Twist Tournament. There was a strong showing as the entries rolled in, but game day attrition took its toll. The Austrian Australian Club in Mawson opened its doors to a field of 10 players. The Collison Course format is one of the favourites of the DBA With A Twist series. The deployment rules are modified to similuart the accidental encounter between two marching columns..
DBA was the winner with a tight and enjoyable competition, we had one player have to leave early so I stepped up to keep the numbers even and the games ticking over.
Round 1 got off to a flying start with wins going to Richard Sissons, Brenton Searle, Steve Hopkins and David Osborne. David was using a Post Mongol Samurai army that he won as a prize at a prior tournament. At the other end of the scale, a historical matchup between Guy Sheppard’s Medieval French and Mick Sellman’s Italian Condotta ground away to a nil all draw as both sides high pip rolls allowed them to counter each move by their opponent. In round 2 Brenton and Steve continued their winning streak with Guy and Mick also notching up convincing wins, moving on from their bloodless first game. Guy put down 5 kills against Tony Cotton’s Celtiberians making a claim on the Executioner Award. Round 3 was the Highlander round as Steve and Brenton – the only two who had not lost a game faced off. There could be only one. When the dust settled Brenton was the one. I saw less of the action at this point, stepping up with my Islamic Berber to fill in for Tony Cotton. My own round 3 saw Mick’s revival blunted when his army ran out of PIPs when my Berber Spears got in amongst the Italian foot. Jon Willacy also began his turnaround in this round with a convincing win over David Lucas’s Mongols. Round 4 saw Jon and Brenton continue to surge forward. Jon’s Early Tang ripped through my Berbers without raising a sweat. Steve suffered a narrow loss to relative newcomer, Richard Sisson. This gave Brenton a commanding lead as we moved to the final stretch. Brenton and Jon faced off in round 5 and Brenton fell in a shock loss to the high speed Tang army. Steve Hopkins turned his form around with a resounding win over Guy Sheppard. Mick Sellman also had a win putting the top four at start of the final round all in close proximity. Round 6 put Jon and Steve against each other and Brenton up against Mick. These two matches would decide the final podium. Jon continued his winning streak whilst Brenton had run out of steam and went down against Mick.
The final tally saw the scores fall as:
1. Jon Willacy – III/20c Early Tang Chinese – 37 points
2. Brenton Searle – III/66 Fatimid Egyptian – 36 points
3. Steve Hopkins – I/60a Early Achaemenid Persian – 35 points
4. Mick Sellman – IV/61 Italian Condotta – 35 points
5. David Osborne – IV/59b Post Mongol Samurai – 28 pts
6. Leigh Dunn – IV/20 Ayyubid Egyptian – 27 points
7. Guy Sheppard – IV/64c Medieval French – 26 points
8. Tony Cotton – II/39b Celtiberian/David Lawrence III/75 Islamic Berber – 25 points (composite position)
9. Richard Sisson – IV/13b Medieval German – 24 points
10. David Lucas – IV/35 Mongol Conquest – 18 points
The Executioner Award for the most kills in a single game went to Guy Sheppard who scored 7 kills against David Lucas’s Mongol Conquest in round 5.
The Magister Militum Prize (aka “The Maurice”) for the highest adjusted score went to Mick Sellman and Italian Condotta.
None of this would be possible without the support of a number of sponsors
• Ray Compton of Essex Miniatures Australia - www.essexminiatures.com.au/ who provided vouchers for first, second and third place
• Brian Hall from Hall of Ancient Warriors - www.hallofancientwarriors.com/ who donated the first place trophy
• Mick Sellman of Mick’s Metal Models - micksmetalmodels.com/ who donated DBA Armies for the Mithradates Trophy and the Magister Miliutm Prize
• Dean Bedlington of Olympian Games - www.olympiangames.com.au/ who donated vouchers for the Executioner Award, Mithradates Trophy and Last Placel. Dean also engraved the trophy plates.
• Barry Scarlett of Leadbear’s Tufts who donated a voucher to each entrant. Leadbear’s has a Facebook presence and so I urge you to search him up and buy tufts.
Please support these businesses that do so much to support us by ordering lots of product from them, and if you see them at a tournament – why not buy them a coffee or something.
Collision Course is part of the Magister Militum Per Capitoline Territorialis Circuit – the remaining events in the series are Wintercon DBA in July, Landwaster 2019 in November and the two days of Cancon in January. Anyone who competes in at least three of the events (Cancon is two events) could win the “Grand Maurice” which averages the best three adjusted scores across the events.
So get the lead out – paint it and play DBA
Cheers
On Sunday May 26th 2019 we gathered for the latest of our DBA With A Twist Tournament. There was a strong showing as the entries rolled in, but game day attrition took its toll. The Austrian Australian Club in Mawson opened its doors to a field of 10 players. The Collison Course format is one of the favourites of the DBA With A Twist series. The deployment rules are modified to similuart the accidental encounter between two marching columns..
DBA was the winner with a tight and enjoyable competition, we had one player have to leave early so I stepped up to keep the numbers even and the games ticking over.
Round 1 got off to a flying start with wins going to Richard Sissons, Brenton Searle, Steve Hopkins and David Osborne. David was using a Post Mongol Samurai army that he won as a prize at a prior tournament. At the other end of the scale, a historical matchup between Guy Sheppard’s Medieval French and Mick Sellman’s Italian Condotta ground away to a nil all draw as both sides high pip rolls allowed them to counter each move by their opponent. In round 2 Brenton and Steve continued their winning streak with Guy and Mick also notching up convincing wins, moving on from their bloodless first game. Guy put down 5 kills against Tony Cotton’s Celtiberians making a claim on the Executioner Award. Round 3 was the Highlander round as Steve and Brenton – the only two who had not lost a game faced off. There could be only one. When the dust settled Brenton was the one. I saw less of the action at this point, stepping up with my Islamic Berber to fill in for Tony Cotton. My own round 3 saw Mick’s revival blunted when his army ran out of PIPs when my Berber Spears got in amongst the Italian foot. Jon Willacy also began his turnaround in this round with a convincing win over David Lucas’s Mongols. Round 4 saw Jon and Brenton continue to surge forward. Jon’s Early Tang ripped through my Berbers without raising a sweat. Steve suffered a narrow loss to relative newcomer, Richard Sisson. This gave Brenton a commanding lead as we moved to the final stretch. Brenton and Jon faced off in round 5 and Brenton fell in a shock loss to the high speed Tang army. Steve Hopkins turned his form around with a resounding win over Guy Sheppard. Mick Sellman also had a win putting the top four at start of the final round all in close proximity. Round 6 put Jon and Steve against each other and Brenton up against Mick. These two matches would decide the final podium. Jon continued his winning streak whilst Brenton had run out of steam and went down against Mick.
The final tally saw the scores fall as:
1. Jon Willacy – III/20c Early Tang Chinese – 37 points
2. Brenton Searle – III/66 Fatimid Egyptian – 36 points
3. Steve Hopkins – I/60a Early Achaemenid Persian – 35 points
4. Mick Sellman – IV/61 Italian Condotta – 35 points
5. David Osborne – IV/59b Post Mongol Samurai – 28 pts
6. Leigh Dunn – IV/20 Ayyubid Egyptian – 27 points
7. Guy Sheppard – IV/64c Medieval French – 26 points
8. Tony Cotton – II/39b Celtiberian/David Lawrence III/75 Islamic Berber – 25 points (composite position)
9. Richard Sisson – IV/13b Medieval German – 24 points
10. David Lucas – IV/35 Mongol Conquest – 18 points
The Executioner Award for the most kills in a single game went to Guy Sheppard who scored 7 kills against David Lucas’s Mongol Conquest in round 5.
The Magister Militum Prize (aka “The Maurice”) for the highest adjusted score went to Mick Sellman and Italian Condotta.
None of this would be possible without the support of a number of sponsors
• Ray Compton of Essex Miniatures Australia - www.essexminiatures.com.au/ who provided vouchers for first, second and third place
• Brian Hall from Hall of Ancient Warriors - www.hallofancientwarriors.com/ who donated the first place trophy
• Mick Sellman of Mick’s Metal Models - micksmetalmodels.com/ who donated DBA Armies for the Mithradates Trophy and the Magister Miliutm Prize
• Dean Bedlington of Olympian Games - www.olympiangames.com.au/ who donated vouchers for the Executioner Award, Mithradates Trophy and Last Placel. Dean also engraved the trophy plates.
• Barry Scarlett of Leadbear’s Tufts who donated a voucher to each entrant. Leadbear’s has a Facebook presence and so I urge you to search him up and buy tufts.
Please support these businesses that do so much to support us by ordering lots of product from them, and if you see them at a tournament – why not buy them a coffee or something.
Collision Course is part of the Magister Militum Per Capitoline Territorialis Circuit – the remaining events in the series are Wintercon DBA in July, Landwaster 2019 in November and the two days of Cancon in January. Anyone who competes in at least three of the events (Cancon is two events) could win the “Grand Maurice” which averages the best three adjusted scores across the events.
So get the lead out – paint it and play DBA
Cheers