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Post by allnewstevie on Nov 5, 2023 18:00:28 GMT
Brilliant day thanks to Diades and his assistant. As usual I was robbed, but smiled whilst being so.
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timr
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Post by timr on Nov 5, 2023 20:16:40 GMT
Yes thanks Diades great day managed to break my record for loosing 50/50 dice throws! Hopefully this one will last sometime (but won’t bet on it!)
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Post by diades on Nov 5, 2023 20:17:26 GMT
Well today, switches have been switched, plants planted and tennis played, amongst other things…
Now, it is time for some results…
Players by position, army they brought and points. Ties were determined by sum of opponents’ scores
1, Paul Hodson (III/33 EMNAS with III/70 Tuareg allies), 14 points 2, Tom Whitehead (II/2 Mountain Indian), 14 points 3, Pete Duckworth (I/20b Trojan), 12 points 4, Connor Truby (II/45c Spartacus'), 12 points 5, Paddy Myers (IV/85a Burgundian Ordnance), 12 points 6, Martin Smith (I/33a Early Villanovan Italian), 11 points 7, Richard Pulley (I/3 Nubian w I/2b Early Egyptian allies), 10 points 8, Stephen Finn (II/28b Early Other Armenian), 10 points 9, Martin Myers (II/17b Lysamachid), 10 points 10, Alan Davison (I/24a Early Imperial Hittite), 9 points 11, Paul Murgatroyd (II/31f Achaian Greek), 9 points 12, Ken Gordon (I/3 Nubian w I/2a Early Egyptian allies), 8 points 13, Peter Ellis (IV/17 Later Crusader), 7 points 14, Colin O'Shea (IV/71a Chimu), 7 points 15, Matthew Bennet (IV/50 Palaiologan Byzantine), 7 points 16, Lindon Paxton (II/37 Parthian), 6 points 17, Matthew Davison (II/56 Early Imperial Roman), 6 points 18, Stephen Etheridge (IV/47 Golden Horde), 5 points 19, Mark Johnson (III/9b Burmese), 5 points 20, Ian Pain (I/23b Later Vedic Indian), 3 points 21, Paul Clair (III/66 Fatimid Egyptian), 3 points 22, Tim Rogers (III/58c Dailami), 3 points
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Post by diades on Nov 5, 2023 20:19:13 GMT
And armies by position, who brought them and points. Again ties resolved by sum of opponents’ scores.
1, III/9b Burmese (Mark Johnson), 15 points 2, II/56 Early Imperial Roman (Matthew Davison), 13 points 3, IV/47 Golden Horde (Stephen Etheridge), 12 points 4, II/37 Parthian (Lindon Paxton), 12 points 5, IV/85a Burgundian Ordnance (Paddy Myers), 12 points 6, III/33 EMNAS with III/70 Tuareg allies (Paul Hodson), 12 points 7, II/17b Lysamachid (Martin Myers), 11 points 8, II/45c Spartacus' (Connor Truby), 10 points 9, IV/71a Chimu (Colin O'Shea), 10 points 10, II/2 Mountain Indian (Tom Whitehead), 9 points 11, I/23b Later Vedic Indian (Ian Pain), 8 points 12, III/66 Fatimid Egyptian (Paul Clair), 8 points 13, I/3 Nubian w I/2a Early Egyptian allies (Ken Gordon), 7 points 14, I/24a Early Imperial Hittite (Alan Davison), 7 points 15, I/20b Trojan (Pete Duckworth), 7 points 16, II/28b Early Other Armenian (Stephen Finn), 7 points 17, II/31f Achaian Greek (Paul Murgatroyd), 7 points 18, IV/50 Palaiologan Byzantine (Matthew Bennet), 7 points 19, III/58c Dailami (Tim Rogers), 6 points 20, I/3 Nubian w I/2b Early Egyptian allies (Richard Pulley), 3 points 21, IV/17 Later Crusader (Peter Ellis), 0 points 22, I/33a Early Villanovan Italian (Martin Smith), 0 points
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Post by diades on Nov 5, 2023 20:23:07 GMT
…and Ian Pain won both the Slayer prize, having seen 42 elements destroyed in his 6 games, and ( by popular vote) the Best Presented Army, Later Vedic Indians.
Thank you all for making it such a convivial event to run…and thank you for all the help clearing up…we were praised for the cleanliness of the hall!
And sorry…I had not realised the coffee was decaffeinated!
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Post by menacussecundus on Nov 5, 2023 20:36:24 GMT
Brilliant day thanks to Diades and his assistant. As usual I was robbed, but smiled whilst being so. We heard you the first time (07:41 GMT).
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Post by martin on Nov 6, 2023 8:14:20 GMT
> Thank you all for making it such a convivial event to run…and thank you for all the help clearing up…we were praised for the cleanliness of the hall! And sorry…I had not realised the coffee was decaffeinated! You ran the event really well, as ever, Diades…an example to us all. Nice to leave the hall tidy (helps with next year’s booking, I’d imagine!).
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Post by peteduckworth on Nov 6, 2023 9:51:52 GMT
…and Ian Pain won both the Slayer prize, having seen 42 elements destroyed in his 6 games, and ( by popular vote) the Best Presented Army, Later Vedic Indians. Thank you all for making it such a convivial event to run…and thank you for all the help clearing up…we were praised for the cleanliness of the hall! And sorry…I had not realised the coffee was decaffeinated! Thanks for all your hard work making it such a god day.
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Post by hodsopa on Nov 6, 2023 12:55:02 GMT
Dear Diades, dear all, it was a pleasure to see all friends again on Saturday. This was my first "scramble". I think it is a great format, though hard work for the organiser (thanks!). I liked being presented with two armies and having to work out strategy and tactics with no time to think. I liked how your own army goes off and has its own adventures of which you occasionally hear good or bad rumours. Like being the parent of a teenager.
In the first round each of us fought against our own army. I invaded with Ken Gordon's Nubians (+Egyptian allies) against Ken with my early Muslims (+Tuareg allies). I did some damage with my 6 bow elements at the beginning, before he came out of the dunes and starting killing me hand to hand. We drew 3-3 and learned the lesson that you need to get on with it.
In the second round I invaded (with Matthew Bennet's Palaiologan Byzantines: mostly mounted; 7 troop types) against Alan Davison (with Martin Smith's Early Villanova Italians: 11 fast warband and a cavalry general). I won 5-1. Material to this was that the warband had only 4 elements they could double up against and, worse, only one they could quick kill. That element, a solid blade, hid resolutely behind the Palaiologan lines.
In the third round I defended, with Stephen Etheridge's Golden Horde (7 LH, 4 Cv, 1 solid crossbow), against Matthew Bennet (with Paddy Myers' Burgundian Ordonnance - 2 art, 3 mounted longbow, which are a nasty type of troop to fight against, 3 Kn, solid blade, solid crossbow, 2 solid pike, all depicted with snow on their boots). I was lucky to get a decent amount of terrain on the table, and to get movement dice that allowed me to stream round and quickly attack Matthew's left flank. For his part, low movement dice and the slowness of many of his troops stopped him getting back on terms. Neither the Kt that he brought into the flank combat, nor the artillery that could shoot into that zone, had the luck they needed. Having lost three LH, and brought my Cv into the same flank fight, I eventually won 4-3.
In the fourth round I had the pleasure to play with Ian Pain's award-winning Best Presented Army, the later Vedic Indians, against Peter Ellis who had Alan Davison's early Imperial Hittites. Both of us had numerous light chariots, both sets of which charged from one flank to the other, trying to gain an advantage, then stared at each other surlily for most of the rest of the game. On the opposite flank my numerous bow elements had the better of Peter's fast pike and auxiliaries. Just after Diades blew "last bound" I got the fourth kill I needed; then in the last combat of the game Peter 6-1'd my general; but I'd held on to win 4-3.
In the fifth round I defended (with Richard Pulley's Nubians: mostly CF 2 against foot, including 5 bow elements, though I did have an allied Egyptian blade element) against Tom Whitehead. Tom fought with Tim Rogers' Dailami (8 solid auxiliaries, 4 psiloi). We found it hard to lay a finger on each other. Tom's slow auxilia would shuffle forward in a line; I would shoot them into a checkerboard formation; sometimes he would make contact, but I would often have an overlap on one flank and could push him back. My blade element, which might have broken the deadlock, allowed itself to get distracted by an oft-fleeing, ever-returning psiloi. We both felt we played fast, but still timed out to draw (3-2 to me, though the score didn't matter).
In the last round each of us played with the army we brought. My early Muslims + Tuareg allies defended against Martin Smith with his early Villanova Italians. My camels, coming out of a dune, broke through the warband line on one flank while his double ranked warband had no luck, turn after turn, against my bow element in the centre. When he hard flanked one of the camels his warbands bounced off. The 4-1 score flattered me.
In the overall results, as posted by Diades, I narrowly beat Tom. I won the first DBA tournament I ever entered (the Northern cup, in 2012); eleven years later, this is the second. I'm pleased, of course, but of course it could easily have gone another way. I was lucky to fight the "most challenging" Villanovan army not once but twice and in general felt I had the run of the dice, not always in movement but often in combat.
It is interesting that the strongest army (Burmese) scored more points than the highest-ranked players (15 vs 14) and the weakest armies (Villanovans and Crusaders) scored less than the lowest-ranked players (0 vs 3).
I wonder what the best strategy is in choosing an army to bring.
I noticed that a lot of people are bringing mats to serve as boards. I think this is a good development - makes our games look even better.
I can't come this weekend, but am looking forward to more battles soon. The question is whether to go cold camel.
Yours,
Paul H
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Post by Baldie on Nov 6, 2023 14:15:53 GMT
Congrats Paul, a new honorific "Master of Camels" should be granted.
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Post by WhitefieldTom on Nov 19, 2023 1:21:38 GMT
I would like to add my (somewhat belated) thanks to Martin for a wonderfully well organised tournament. It was a brilliant day and great to play with such a variety of armies
I had outrageously good luck all through the day, which is the main reason for finsishing second. The sheer number of 6s I rolled verged on embarrassing. Even the sequecing of dice rolls was in my favour. I rolled a 1 for a hoarde (losing it but I didn't care - I had a reserve element) and then rolled a 6 against the enemy general, killing it.
The fifth game against Paul H was fascinating. We both played quickly and had a most enjoyable draw. Again I had favourable luck and my auxilia survived what felt like hundreds of of bow shots, but when I eventually got into close combat with the bows, I could not quite kill them.
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Post by Baldie on Nov 19, 2023 20:29:53 GMT
I would like to add my (somewhat belated) thanks to Martin for a wonderfully well organised tournament. It was a brilliant day and great to play with such a variety of armies I had outrageously good luck all through the day, which is the main reason for finsishing second. The sheer number of 6s I rolled verged on embarrassing. Even the sequecing of dice rolls was in my favour. I rolled a 1 for a hoarde (losing it but I didn't care - I had a reserve element) and then rolled a 6 against the enemy general, killing it. The fifth game against Paul H was fascinating. We both played quickly and had a most enjoyable draw. Again I had favourable luck and my auxilia survived what felt like hundreds of of bow shots, but when I eventually got into close combat with the bows, I could not quite kill them. Glad you got a great run of good luck out of your system, try to roll those 1's when we next meet across tat great 2 x 2 battlefield. Coming 2nd among a great field, well done sir.
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