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Post by martin on Oct 17, 2019 7:41:01 GMT
Can def make it. Need to have a think about a force only a total fool would take to a tourney. Oh wait I have literally loads of those. ....the perfect army is the imperfect army (or vice versa...)
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Post by martin on Oct 28, 2019 10:17:39 GMT
Martin I’ve posted on the Society of Ancients Forum..... Want me to put it on FaceSpace as well?
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Post by Baldie on Oct 28, 2019 11:27:23 GMT
You need money up front or do we pay on the day?
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Post by diades on Oct 30, 2019 17:32:09 GMT
Baldie, glad you can make it. Cash on arrival!
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Post by diades on Oct 30, 2019 17:33:03 GMT
Martin I’ve posted on the Society of Ancients Forum..... Want me to put it on FaceSpace as well? Post away. The more, the merrier. Thanks Martin.
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Post by diades on Oct 31, 2019 15:47:42 GMT
Currently expected:
allnewstevie antigonusoneeye arnopov atillathenun baldie cgothicus colinthehitite gonatas martin paulisper peteduckworth
philsteele scottrussell shelfmark sicadi
Any others or changes to the above?
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Post by paulisper on Oct 31, 2019 19:13:06 GMT
Sorry to say that I won’t be there now... another spanner in the works preventing me from being there. I will make it along again one day 😱😭
P
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Post by diades on Nov 1, 2019 17:19:06 GMT
Sorry to say that I won’t be there now... another spanner in the works preventing me from being there. I will make it along again one day 😱😭 P Shame...look forward to then! In the meantime aldavion + 1 also confirmed. ...and trophies completed 👍🏻
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Post by martin on Nov 2, 2019 6:59:51 GMT
Martin I’ve posted on the Society of Ancients Forum..... Want me to put it on FaceSpace as well? Post away. The more, the merrier. Thanks Martin. Done.....
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Post by diades on Nov 2, 2019 18:05:43 GMT
Post away. The more, the merrier. Thanks Martin. Done..... Muchas gracias mi amigo.
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Post by diades on Nov 7, 2019 22:09:11 GMT
Hi All,
1. Please aim to arrive early enough for us to start playing at 10 so we can have decent length games. We usually have 50 minutes.
2. Please bring a spare board or two if you can....and remember you can specify the board size for the army you bring to defend, but if that is not 600x600, you must provide the board itself.
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Post by allnewstevie on Nov 7, 2019 22:11:44 GMT
Currently expected: allnewstevie antigonusoneeye arnopov atillathenun baldie cgothicus colinthehitite gonatas martin paulisper peteduckworth philsteele scottrussell shelfmark sicadi Any others or changes to the above? Sadly my Dad is now having a pacemaker fitted tomorrow, so while I will be in the vicinity, I will be doing family stuff. Sorry about that.
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Post by Baldie on Nov 9, 2019 20:06:39 GMT
Great to see peeps old and new. Really had to think in some games, surprised me and Phil even started a game. I could have stared at table for half an hour, got beaten up eventually.
Thanks to Martin for orgaising. Opponents who let me kill them. Opponents who found new and inventive ways to kill me. Special thanks to Petes Pip dice, three ones for command made game much easier and was appreciated.
3 wins and 3 crushing defeats, whats not to love.
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Post by colinthehittite on Nov 10, 2019 7:04:51 GMT
Tarrington Tourney never disappoints – the format, the games, the setting and the management of the day. And, positioned fairly centrally in the UK it attracts players from north and south.
For the first time that I can remember I took a balanced force of knights, spears, crossbows and psiloi; Papal Italian. Part of my reasoning was that as players are becoming adept at constructing armies that are difficult to win with (after all you only use your army once in the tournament) a fairly tough, balanced army should easily beat some of the strange concoctions sure to turn up – confounding even the most competent players. In the event it won the strongest army trophy and I actually won with my own army in the last round!
My first game was with Khazars against my Papal Italians. How do you beat a knight, crossbow and spear line snuggled up against a wood with light horse and cavalry – and a single psiloi? The answer, of course, is that whatever you do, be lucky. My single bad going element rushed for the wood whilst light horse went around it and cavalry came up in support. Almost every die roll went in my favour, just, allowing me to steal the wood and chip away at the knight line. What a great start – winning against the odds. In the next game I drew and in the third I lost...
How do you defend a city with a Numidian army without a blade? How do you attack when your strongest units are a command post and a command wagon? Trying to win with armies that are specifically constructed to thwart you at every move is perhaps the greatest challenge of the UK DBA circuit. I came across the fiendishly cunning Norse Irish with its ally three times, drawing against it, then losing with it and finally sweeping it away with my Italians. If I had won the terrain all the bad going that I had to place would have aided the Norse Irish, instead the Irish open terrain did what it was designed to do - scupper its own army! Once again, I struggled with a number of rules issues, in particular moving into contact and in the use of command wagons and posts. This tournament forces players to consider all troop types, terrain types and areas of the rules. I don’t think I have seen so many camels before.
Congratulations to Phil and thanks to Diades who also provided a collection of interesting books for us all to choose from. If you didn’t make it yesterday you gotta be there next year!!
Up at 5.30am, table top mayhem all day and then on the drive home in the rain and dark my companions taunt me with tales of Indian takeaways and kebabs. What a day!
Colin
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Post by diades on Nov 10, 2019 15:20:01 GMT
Position Points Player Army Army Points Army Position Slayer Points 1 18 Phil Steele Early Lombard 7 13 33 2 12 Patrick Myers Dacian w Sarmatian 13 4 34 3 11 Craig Allen Later Carthaginian w Spanish 9 10 27 4 11 Colin O’Shea Papal Italian 16 1 30 5 11 Stephen Finn Medieval Irish 14 2 31 6 10 Richard Pulley Khazar 10 8 33 7 9 Baldie EAPc w Lykian 10 9 30 8 9 Alan Davison Later Hyksos 7 11 37 9 9 Pete Duckworth Norse Irish w AngloNorman 4 15 34 10 9 Scott Russell TuaregS 13 3 36 11 9 Neil Midianite 11 5 35 12 7 Mark Johnson TuaregM 3 16 30 13 6 Mark Skelton Numidian 7 12 30 14 6 Martin Smith Makkan 10 6 33 15 3 Matthew Davison EIR 10 7 34 16 0 Pete James Vortigern 6 14 33
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