Southern League FOGR 2016 at Southampton

[spedders]

Minor point...I am not in the draw and Jerry appears twice! Keith

[spedders]

Sorry it's Tom Elsworth that appears twice

[quackstheking]

And the first round matches. Looking forward to seeing you all here in the New Forest

• Brendan Morrissey (Wessex) Early Henrican English 1513 Vs Paddy Bray (Oxford) Scottish 1513
• John Philp (Wessex) Maximillian Imperial 1501 Vs Tom Elsworth (Oxford) Italian Wars French 1500
• Mark Littleton Grey (Wessex) German States post 1513 Vs Bob Medcraft (Oxford) Caroline Imperialist 1530
• John Watson (Wessex) Milanese Vs Jerry Bray (Oxford) Italian wars Venetian
• Dave Edwards (Wessex) Trastamara Spanish 1513 Vs Bruce Rolett Italian Wars French 1550
• Paul Marsh (Wessex) Italian Wars French 1552 Vs Ray Boyles (October) Caroline Imperialist 1535
• David Hewkin (Wessex) Milanese 1499 Vs Tom Elsworth (Oxford) Italian Wars French 1500
• Brian Hooker (Wessex) Italian Wars French 1512 Vs Dene Green Scottish 1513

Poor Tom Elsworth - he has to play 2 opponents simultaneously whilst Keith Spedding gets a bye! Don't seem fair really!



Don

[viking123]

Tom is really looking forward to playing two games at once. He feels it will just be like playing at the Oxford Cub where he keeps being asked questions while he tries to play.
All he wants is to take his best score to round 2.

Bob

[quackstheking]

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All he wants is to take his best score to round 2.

Bob

With "NULL POINTS" Keith will be taking his best score to Round 2

Don

[Vespasian28]

Oops!

Amended above. Now you know why I didn't do the list checking.

That said it gives rise to the idea of speed wargaming where, like chess, one player( of vast competence) zips around a hall of lesser mortals taking them all on.

[viking123]

Dene and Paddy's armies worry me. These are the Scots at the battle of Flodden Field. There is no wet under foot conditions, muddy ditch/stream at the bottom of a gentle slope and no slight incline after the ditch/stream to stand on to count uphill to them. The scots artillery will not have just been redeployed so shots over your army while you blow them away in counter battery.

I played against Dene's 25mm version at Roll call - it just walked through my army.

Bob

[madaxeman]

http://www.madaxeman.com/reports/Roll_Call_2013_2.php should help if you are worried ...

(I think this was also one of the first ever recorded army-breaks for Mr McAvis if I remember correctly...)

[RonanTheLibrarian]

I played against Dene's 25mm version at Roll call - it just walked through my army.

And your dice, Bob - don't forget your dice!

[Vespasian28]

Dene and Paddy's armies worry me.

Everyones armies worry me!!

[viking123]

Mr McAvis was just completely wrong. I expect more guns and pike blocks.

[Vespasian28]

Results for the Southampton round of the Southern League are as follows:

1 Tom Elsworth Italian Wars French 1500(Oxford) 54 pts
2 Paddy Bray Scottish 1513 (Oxford) 46pts
3 Dene Green Scottish 1513 42pts
3 Bob Medcraft Caroline Imperialist 1530(Oxford) 42pts
3 Ray Boyles Caroline Imperialist 1535(October) 42pts
4 Keith Spedding Maximillian Imperial 1499(October) 37pts
5 Bruce Rolett Italian Wars French 1550 35pts
5 Jon Philp Maximillian Imperial 1501(Wessex) 35pts
6 David Hewkin Milanese 1499(Wessex) 31pts
7 Paul Marsh Italian Wars French 1552(Wessex) 30pts
8 Mark Littleton-Gray German States post 1513(Wessex) 28pts
9 Brian Hooker Italian Wars French 1512(Wessex) 27pts
10 John Watson Milanese(Wessex) 21pts
11 Jerry Bray Italian Wars Venetian(Oxford) 20pts
11 Brendan Morrissey Early Henrician English(Wessex) 20pts
12 Dave Edwards Transtamaran Spanish(Wessex) 10pts

Thank you to everybody who took part. The Wessex chaps for getting behind the competition with their support especially the competition and Italian Wars novices and everyone else who made the effort to get here and make such an enjoyable day of it.
Particular thanks from me for Alasdair and his list checking; David Hewkin for painting the prizes and Brendan and Bob for all their advice toward organizing the day.

[RonanTheLibrarian]

Well done, Paul. And bad luck Dave Edwards, having to use the Taramasalata/Trustafarian Spanish - we'll let you have your Ottomans back for next year!

To all who took part - and any who wanted to, but couldn't - any feedback would be useful, especially in terms of the date (sorry, we can't help with defective GPS/Tom-Toms, but will provide more explicit directions in future). For my own part, I'd like to keep Italian Wars and maybe narrow the dates a little more, but include armies from other books.

[viking123]

On behalf of all the Oxford Club players we would like to thank the Wessex club (especially Paul) for a great day wargaming.
It was very well organised, the venue was great once we managed to find it (SatNavs are useless - telling us it was the middle of a bridge!!!) and our opponents were very friendly.
I have already been asked for the date for next year as we want to come back.
Bob

[nigelemsen]

On behalf of all the Oxford Club players we would like to thank the Wessex club (especially Paul) for a great day wargaming.
It was very well organised, the venue was great once we managed to find it (SatNavs are useless - telling us it was the middle of a bridge!!!) and our opponents were very friendly.
I have already been asked for the date for next year as we want to come back.
Bob

ill try to get there next year.. i feel the competition was incomplete without the Reivers

[Vespasian28]

Just to let you know in light of the positive response we had to this years competition and the possibilty of doing the same next year we will be looking into this, as we are keen to host again in 2017.

[nigelemsen]

Just to let you know in light of the positive response we had to this years competition and the possibilty of doing the same next year we will be looking into this, as we are keen to host again in 2017.

What's the date please so I can ensure available

[Vespasian28]

Very keen Nigel but no date yet I'm afraid. Availability of the hall is one of the things we will be looking into alongside a couple of other issues. As soon as we have any confirmed details they will be posted under a fresh thread for Southampton 2017.