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Post by colinthehittite on Jan 10, 2022 13:33:33 GMT
Are you sure the Zanj revolt did not reach the home counties.
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Post by colinthehittite on Jan 10, 2022 13:30:37 GMT
Can I play please?
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Post by colinthehittite on Nov 7, 2021 7:04:18 GMT
It was good to return to the excellent Tarrington venue after the pandemic break, managed as always, by the supremely efficient Diades.
We were treated to the usual mix of tough armies and armies you would never take to an open tournament; some with mocking terrain, tacked together to scupper everyone else’s chances of glory.
I had fun games and frustrating games. Threw a 6 to test a river and then lost my general to a single crossbow shot on a 6-1 before I could cross. And trying to plough through six horde elements to get at something worth destroying is both frustrating and fun. Pushing Light Horse off the rear of the board with solid pike from the final flee was a novelty. I threw most of my sixes in the first game and still lost.
Thanks everyone for making the effort under these challenging circumstances.
Colin
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Post by colinthehittite on Oct 26, 2021 8:55:24 GMT
Email sent
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Post by colinthehittite on Oct 25, 2021 16:11:26 GMT
I'm interested. In that lovely old church hall?
Colin
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Post by colinthehittite on Oct 25, 2021 14:04:17 GMT
Colin was CORRECT….the dreaded Zanj were even more awesome than I thought (the results sheet for round 4 was found to have had the armies reversed…round 4 was a ‘use your opponent’s army’ round, so Simon W won with Zanj , not Dacians, as I had recorded). Try again… Here are the armies and their game results. W = win, D = draw, L = lost, X = army arrived after start time, missed a game. Zanj Revolt - WWWWW D Neo-Elamite - WWWWW L Dacian+Sarmatian ally - WWWW LL Samurai - WWW D LL Spartacus - WWW D LL War of the Roses- WWW D LL Wu Chinese - WWW LLL Golden Horde - WWW LLL Arab Indian - WWW LLL Anglo-Norman- WW DD LL Alans - WW LLLL Timurids - WW X LLL Later Hungarian- WW LLLL Early Egyptian- WW LLLL Thracians- W LLLL (+ X, but lost fill-in game) Gallic- W LLLLL So best armies were indeed the dreaded Zanj. Neo-Elamite and then Dacian with Sarmatian Ally were best of the rest. Paper and pencil is foolproof unless some fool (sounds like me) doesn’t fill his result sheet in correctly! Al Ibn Muhammad can now rest easy. Colin
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Post by colinthehittite on Oct 25, 2021 10:58:44 GMT
Hi all. A request came in about army efficiency in Alton DBA, so I consulted the laptop spreadsheet (or rather I spread sheets on top of my lap, and consulted them, Mr Lo-Tech….). Here are the armies and their game results. W = win, D = draw, L = lost, X = army arrived after start time, missed a game. Dacian+Sarmatian ally - WWWWW L Neo-Elamite - WWWWW L Zanj Revolt - WWWW D L Samurai - WWW D LL Spartacus - WWW D LL War of the Roses- WWW D LL Wu Chinese - WWW LLL Golden Horde - WWW LLL Arab Indian - WWW LLL Anglo-Norman- WW DD LL Alans - WW LLLL Timurids - WW X LLL Later Hungarian- WW LLLL Early Egyptian- WW LLLL Thracians- W LLLL (+ X, but lost fill-in game) Gallic- W LLLLL So best armies were (possibly) ‘Dacian with Sarmatian Ally’ along side ‘Neo-Elamite’, closely followed by the dreaded Zanj.* Of the rest, the Gallic and Thracian armies had unluckiest days. * which can only be cured with penicillin I beg to differ Sir – I remember The Zanj winning against The Golden Horde, WotR, Early Egyptian, Dacian and Early Hungarians and drawing with The Samurai. The honour of Ali Ibn Muhammad is at stake here! Colin
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Post by colinthehittite on Oct 25, 2021 7:36:35 GMT
LOL! Nothing wrong with pencil & paper! I’m just intrigued that Dennis came 2nd with Thracians, which if I read his AAR correctly were 1-0-5 while Colin came forth with the mighty Zanj who seemed to go 5-1-0. Two very different ways of selecting an army for this format! Colin won all three games he played with his own army, but lost two of the games he played against it and the final game ended in a draw. I won only once with my own army, but got three wins against it. No very deep thought went into my choice of army. They were just the one I'd painted most recently. (In fact, I still have some options to finish.) You mean that was not your fiendishly cunning plan, Denis! There was I thinking you maintained colossal self-discipline, slaving away for weeks painting a beautiful army that you knew would be vulnerable at the Alton tournament in the hope of gaining easy victory after easy victory against it. What fortitude. Such stamina. All you needed was a lucky win when playing with it yourself and one out of three could be expected. This would give you four wins out of six at minimum and place you very nicely near the top of the table – even on the winner’s podium. Losing battles is OK if you win the war (did somebody say that?). Masterful strategy; makes mine seem infantile by comparison. But this was all reverie. I’m so disappointed. Deflated even. Was it just all about luck then? Colin
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Post by colinthehittite on Oct 23, 2021 21:05:13 GMT
Had some of the most interesting and unusual games I have ever played at today’s tournament – nail bitingly close... winning against the odds… losing when I had everything, EVERYTHING, going right for me. I was beginning to think my christening of ‘Colin the Consistent’ and ‘Colin the One’ on the DBA League thread had put some sort of conjoined jinx on me when I started rolling strings of ones.
I may not have been entirely victorious, but my army never lost a game – shame I wasn’t always the general in charge of it! My III/50 Zanj Revolt, all infantry version (who needs mounted?) won 3 games under my command, won 2 against me and managed a losing draw in the final game against me. Stone throwing children (psiloi) and farm hands with sickles (5Hd) can do wonders in a surprising number of situations and a fast blade general is a real threat. Aggression 0 and littoral makes for a useful combination as well. Who needs knights…? Actually, that is the only threat they worry about, however, in a tournament where players are not going to bring too strong an army, I felt the Zanj could risk an appearance – and they had a great day!
Always superbly prepared, Martin ran the day like clockwork. The prize table was a joy to behold, and it was good to catch up with players I had not seen for many months. The clever theme generated a wide range of armies many of which were beautifully presented; see the 76 photos on the DBA Facebook page just posted by Martin Smith.
Well done to everyone who attended and has helped to keep the UK DBA circuit functioning (and I know others did not manage to obtain a place) – I hope you all enjoyed the day as much as me and the Zanj did.
Colin
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Post by colinthehittite on Oct 13, 2021 5:40:29 GMT
I'll be there.
Colin
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Post by colinthehittite on Sept 26, 2021 17:15:03 GMT
Thank you, Simon, for continuing to shine a beacon of DBA tournament light in these troubled times.
Well done Tim; from DBA newbie to champion in no time and without much opportunity to play.
For those interested I took Nabataean and Late Judean - not the armies listed above. My opponents always chose the same army, I’m pleased to say...
Colin
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Post by colinthehittite on Jul 13, 2021 6:57:54 GMT
All Hail Simon! The pandemic may not be over but managing to successfully manoeuvre through the changing Covid regulations to run a DBA tournament is an achievement which we players are grateful for – it has been soooo long! Despite the gaming being on two sites and playing himself, he still left his group and checked on ours several times, even though we had our own competent leader (well done Mark and sorry for the 6-1 on your general). Where Simon leads, I hope others will feel that soon they will be able to follow. It may be that we are going to have to learn to live in a different world but one without DBA…
Colin the charioteer
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Post by colinthehittite on Oct 12, 2020 19:42:12 GMT
I'd like to join the Hampshire Chapter...
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Post by colinthehittite on Feb 18, 2020 15:01:39 GMT
An essential stop on the UK DBA calendar – sign me up!
Colin
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Post by colinthehittite on Feb 18, 2020 8:19:46 GMT
I hope you are keeping dry, Diades.
Shouldn’t you have written that last ‘uphill’ as ‘downhill’? Or am I becoming completely baffled by this thread and emails offering solutions?
You mention a ridge line (something I am used to using), but on an oval hill with a crest line and with elements beside the crest line having the contact line perpendicular to the crest line, neither one is uphill if you measure to the nearest point on the crest. The line runs straight along the contact edge. One element is uphill if there is only a centre point.
I think this is where I went wrong at Bakewell – I’m so used to using ridge line hills and this was the situation I was in. We were playing on my opponent’s huge unmarked felt hills. I am contemplating scrapping all my ridge line marked hills and making yet another set with only centre points.
I have to say I’m getting some peculiar looking uphill positions playing with two bits of MDF and a piece of felt with a dot in the centre.
Colin
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