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Post by Ken Gordon on Jun 29, 2024 17:38:12 GMT
Agree, a great days gaming with the finest bunch of gentlemen you could wish to meet.
Well except for the blade that killed my KnG and those bloody elephants!😉.
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Post by paulisper on Jun 29, 2024 17:42:46 GMT
Well except for the blade that killed my KnG and those bloody elephants!😉. Second that… 🤬 P
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Post by Baldie on Jun 29, 2024 17:50:04 GMT
Awesome day as ever, fab yo game with chums and eat brownie. Those who arranged to roll multiple 1's have a special place in my heart.
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Post by hodsopa on Jun 29, 2024 18:13:06 GMT
what was bizarre about it Paul?
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Post by martin on Jun 29, 2024 19:02:41 GMT
Great day of games…thanks, Simon, for setting it up and running it.
Only two wins out of six…I may have to have a word with the elves at Chessex about some latent faults in their cuboid offerings 😁.
Pics will get put on fb and groups.io in due course, and I’ll advise here when done.
Cheers all. 🎲🎲🎲🎲🎲🎲🎲🎲🎲🎲🎲🎲🎲🎲🎲🎲🎲🎲🎲🫣😶😯
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Post by wheely on Jun 29, 2024 19:37:04 GMT
Thank you all for a lovely day, and especially to Simon for looking after us all so wonderfully! Perfect as ever.
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Post by timr on Jun 29, 2024 21:47:01 GMT
Yes thanks all for a great day especially Simon for putting up with the naughty children
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Post by diades on Jun 30, 2024 11:21:07 GMT
A huge thanks to Simon and all fellow gamers: a grand day out. My trauma..my blade general being the meat in an elephant sandwich!
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Post by paulisper on Jun 30, 2024 13:25:13 GMT
what was bizarre about it Paul? Taking out his El Gen with a Ps against the odds and then losing the game on the classic Kn v Bd tie… P
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Post by Simon on Jun 30, 2024 13:28:52 GMT
Here are the rankings and armies. In the case of ties, total number of lost elements was used.
1 Peter Davis Hindu Indian 2 Martin Myers Feudal Spanish 3 Paul Murgatroyd Feudal French 4 Pete Duckworth Post-Mongol Samurai 5 Keith Murphy Post-Mongol Samurai 6 Baldie Early Imperial Roman 7 Paddy Myers Burgundian Ordonnance 8 Colin Alcock Early Crusader 9 Tim Rogers Commagene 10 Paul Hodson Early Achaemenid Persian 11 Mark Johnson Chinese Northern Dynasty 12 Tom Whitehead Later Carthagenian 13 Andy Wheeldon Carolingian 14 Martin Smith Norman 15 Terry Mahon Carolingian 16 Rob Rush Rajput 17 Ken Gordon Medieval German 18 Andrew Avery Later Polish 19 Neil Mason Later Sargonid Assyrian 20 John Saunders Burmese
Cheers Simon
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Post by menacussecundus on Jun 30, 2024 13:49:08 GMT
what was bizarre about it Paul? Taking out his El Gen with a Ps against the odds and then losing the game on the classic Kn v Bd tie… P Yup! That's bizarre right enough.
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Post by martin on Jun 30, 2024 17:28:43 GMT
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Post by Ken Gordon on Jun 30, 2024 17:59:07 GMT
What a good looking bunch of male specimens!
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Post by gonatas on Jun 30, 2024 20:29:52 GMT
Just looked at the team photo. Baldie, are you sporting a mullet under that tree?
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Post by hodsopa on Jun 30, 2024 21:46:31 GMT
Well that was a great way to spend a day in Derbyshire. Inspired by Colin O'Shea's accounts, here's a summary of the day:
In my first game my Achaemenids (who are mostly Cv, Bw and Hd) fought Martin Myers’ Feudal Spanish. Though I attacked, he outmaneouvred me. My Bw got chewed up by his Sp. I lost 4-0.
It was only at the end of my second game, against Ken Gordon’s Medieval Germans, that I worked out the consequences of Simon’s points system (6 points for a win; losers and drawers get one point per element they kill, up to 3; the desirable consequence is that even if you think you will lose you should attack). With a terrain heavy board we each set up in column, pranced about looking for each other’s weak points, and could do no better than draw (2-1 to me) when the bell rang. Sorry Ken, let’s go for it next time!
In my third game I fought Paddy Myer’s Burgundian Ordonnance army. My cavalry and his mounted longbows did nothing but stare at each other. My Bw (at a distance) and Ax (in combat) hoped in vain for lucky results against his two artillery pieces. His Pk and Kn killed off my Bw. 4-1 to him.
In my fourth I fought Neil Mason’s Assyrians. Again his Sp made problems for my Bw; but on my left my Cv got a breakthrough against his Cv and heavy chariots, and I won a hard game 3G-2.
In my fifth I fought John Saunders’ Burmese, with three elephants in the centre which didn’t get the dice they needed to charge home. My cavalry got round his left flank, had some lucky dice and I won 5-0 (!). We had a laugh.
In my last I fought Rob Rush’s Rajputs. We carefully lined our Bw up against each other; in two or three even shooting matches I got a kill result; I then had the movement dice to roll up that flank before he could roll up – as he surely would have done – the other. A lucky win.
End result: a) mid table mediocrity, 10th out of 20; b) delighted with a lovely day’s games out in the country – thanks, Simon.
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