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Post by scottrussell on Feb 8, 2022 8:20:05 GMT
Pete,
Was planning to attend, but have just produced a positive lateral flow test. Asymptomatic and totally out of the blue. But I am afraid it rules me out. Have a good one!
Scott
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Post by martin on Feb 8, 2022 15:42:20 GMT
Pete, Was planning to attend, but have just produced a positive lateral flow test. Asymptomatic and totally out of the blue. But I am afraid it rules me out. Have a good one! Scott Tough one, Scott…hope you stay asymptomatic, and swift return to ‘officially recognised’ health.
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Post by peteduckworth on Feb 8, 2022 20:18:45 GMT
Hi Pete, Have you got a slot for me? Cheers Simon Of course. You;ve been on my list for q while
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Post by peteduckworth on Feb 8, 2022 20:23:12 GMT
Pete, Was planning to attend, but have just produced a positive lateral flow test. Asymptomatic and totally out of the blue. But I am afraid it rules me out. Have a good one! Scott Bummer. And we are only down the road for you. It would have been great to have you, especially as I've not seen you in far too long a time... Get well soon (can you get well if you don't have symptoms? if not stay asymptomatic!),
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Post by sheffmark on Feb 9, 2022 8:40:52 GMT
Pete, Was planning to attend, but have just produced a positive lateral flow test. Asymptomatic and totally out of the blue. But I am afraid it rules me out. Have a good one! Scott Sorry you can't be there. Just done a LFT myself and clear, but will do another on Friday as a precaution.
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Post by sheffmark on Feb 9, 2022 10:43:56 GMT
Hi Pete Will you have space for a Bring and Buy?
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Post by menacussecundus on Feb 12, 2022 8:21:18 GMT
Good luck, chaps. Look forward to reading the reports.
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Post by colinthehittite on Feb 13, 2022 13:01:36 GMT
Great venue, theme and organisation and everyone went home with a little something from the prize table.
Apart from a couple of Early Imperial Roman armies all were from book III and IV with nothing later than Feudal English; so, lots of cries of “SHIELD WALL!” I took III/40a Vikings with the berserker option. My terrain choices were: compulsory waterway, with a hamlet and two medium sized marshes. This combination was placed once by me and was reasonably useful and once by an opponent which caused me some deployment issues as all my elements were close formation foot.
My cunning warband plan worked against me in that I was expecting some horde elements which are quick killed by warband, but the only time my warband element attacked and killed a horde element was when I fought against my own army!
In my first game my III/40a Vikings fought against another III/40a Viking. This could easily have been a draw, but the game ended with much work for the Valkyries. In one game I played Feudal English and quickly sent my knights in against the fast blade Vikings – my general died on a draw and the rest of the knights were swiftly hacked down. In the next game, this time using my Vikings, I did the same to some Sarmatian ally knights. In fact, my Vikings were rarely troubled by any knight contact all day – the one element Vikings fear. I didn’t once make a useful littoral landing, but the fast blades enabled me to dance around in front of several opponents causing some satisfying mayhem. Slightly shorter game time in the morning was frustrating, but it was a great day of DBA against mainly skilled and experienced opponents. Thank you everyone, especially Pete (organiser).
Colin
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Post by peteduckworth on Feb 13, 2022 16:03:29 GMT
Great venue, theme and organisation and everyone went home with a little something from the prize table. Apart from a couple of Early Imperial Roman armies all were from book III and IV with nothing later than Feudal English; so, lots of cries of “SHIELD WALL!” I took III/40a Vikings with the berserker option. My terrain choices were: compulsory waterway, with a hamlet and two medium sized marshes. This combination was placed once by me and was reasonably useful and once by an opponent which caused me some deployment issues as all my elements were close formation foot. My cunning warband plan worked against me in that I was expecting some horde elements which are quick killed by warband, but the only time my warband element attacked and killed a horde element was when I fought against my own army! In my first game my III/40a Vikings fought against another III/40a Viking. This could easily have been a draw, but the game ended with much work for the Valkyries. In one game I played Feudal English and quickly sent my knights in against the fast blade Vikings – my general died on a draw and the rest of the knights were swiftly hacked down. In the next game, this time using my Vikings, I did the same to some Sarmatian ally knights. In fact, my Vikings were rarely troubled by any knight contact all day – the one element Vikings fear. I didn’t once make a useful littoral landing, but the fast blades enabled me to dance around in front of several opponents causing some satisfying mayhem. Slightly shorter game time in the morning was frustrating, but it was a great day of DBA against mainly skilled and experienced opponents. Thank you everyone, especially Pete (organiser). Colin Thanks for the kind words. i will apply the extended timing next year.
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Post by peteduckworth on Feb 13, 2022 16:10:33 GMT
Thanks to everyone who came and made it such a delightful event.
Final scores look like:
Ian Pain III/72 + III/40 ally 24 Neil Mason IV/23 21 Arnau Marmier II/56 18 John Saunders IV/3 17 Colin O’Shea III/40a 16 Mark Johnson IV/3 16 John Irwin III/40a 13 Philip Donald II/56 10 Bruce Williams III/19c 6 Martin Smith IV/23 5
Pleasingly Ian's army was also (IMHO) the best painted beautiful work with very special terrain.
You can check out a few snaps on the List site.
Next year's theme will be " It's all Greek to me" with Greek speaking armies
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Post by martin on Feb 13, 2022 16:45:13 GMT
Great day of games. Much fun, despite the score I ‘achieved’ …🙃⚔️⚔️⚔️⚔️.
Well worth travelling for.
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Post by martin on Feb 13, 2022 16:45:43 GMT
PS…any SoA Championship games, Pete?
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Post by sheffmark on Feb 14, 2022 19:43:11 GMT
Thanks for the kind words. i will apply the extended timing next year. Thanks for organising Pete and nice to see everyone getting a prize. Great fun as usual, some challenging games but all played in a good spirit and a nice and airy venue with good heating (when required!) The only minor gripe would be that time did seem very tight, so a slightly earlier start and later finish giving a more time for the games next year would be great. However getting the 6 rounds in makes it well worth the trip. Looking forward to next year.
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Post by peteduckworth on Feb 15, 2022 8:15:36 GMT
Thanks for the kind words. i will apply the extended timing next year. Thanks for organising Pete and nice to see everyone getting a prize. Great fun as usual, some challenging games but all played in a good spirit and a nice and airy venue with good heating (when required!) The only minor gripe would be that time did seem very tight, so a slightly earlier start and later finish giving a more time for the games next year would be great. However getting the 6 rounds in makes it well worth the trip. Looking forward to next year. Thanks for the feedback. Timing for the opening games was tighter as I got sucked into playing. Interestingly it's the same timescale I've used in previous years but it clearly was an issue this year, so I will fix it. It's difficult to be flexible when playing as organiser! An earlier start would make it challenging for those travelling long distances, but I'm happy to be flexible about the end time.
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Post by davidjconstable on Feb 18, 2022 22:34:22 GMT
Thanks to everyone who came and made it such a delightful event. ~~~ Removed ~~~ You can check out a few snaps on the List site. Next year's theme will be " It's all Greek to me" with Greek speaking armies You have probably already realized this, so I apologize in advance. Probably the only Greek speaking armies will be those in Greece before the Roman invasion. Even then you might have to limit allies. If you are not going to be absolutely strict over Greek speaking then you can include Alexander in Asia and Persian armies employing Greek mercenaries. Then of course you have a Late Roman army in the East and the Byzantines. Just for starters. Oddities not involving Greek would include Roman blades fighting for the Chinese and 100 years war French, who I believe spoke two versions of French, court and commoner. Good luck, I shall keep an eye on this with interest. David Constable
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