NICon 2015 (Thames NZ)

[Philip]

Saturday 30 and Sunday 31 May 2015 (Queen’s Birthday weekend)
http://www.eventfinder.co.nz/2015/minds ... val/thames

Venue: Thames War Memorial Civic Centre, 200 Mary St, Thames.
Rules: Field of Glory Napoleonics, with any official amendments and errata released before the tournament.
Figure scale: 15mm. All figures must be accurate representations of the troops they depict.
Table size: 6' x 4' Please supply your own terrain pieces.
Armies:
• One 800 point list selected from Triumph of Nations or Emperors & Eagles, with any official amendments and errata released before the tournament. The lists in the rule book cannot be used. Please use the Army Builder excel spreadsheet.
• Rule and army list amendments and errata and the Army Builder are available at http://www.fieldofglory.com/fog_nap
• Army lists to be emailed to the umpire by 9pm Monday 18th May 2015 pabela@xtra.co.nz
Games:
• Two games per day, four games in total. Each game is 4 hours.
• The draw for the first round will be determined randomly, and then following Swiss chess for other rounds.
• In the event of there being an uneven number of players, the lowest scoring player will be awarded a bye and will be given his average score for the tournament for that round. No player will get more than one bye. If necessary the umpire will take a first round bye.

[Philip]

Nicon is coming up in a month, so time to complete your registrations.

Army lists are due by the 18th. Because of the plague of lateness last time I was a list checker, I will be penalising players who don't send a correct list on time.

I don’t want to deduct competition points (because we don’t want the competition being decided by someone’s paperwork being late), but do want to have some incentive to get lists in on time.

Basically it will work like this – someone with a correct list sent on time is allowed to re-roll one dice in the terrain placing sequence against anyone with a late list. Anyone with a late list gets a terrain re-roll against someone with an even later list, so there’s still an incentive for late lists not to be the last one in. Of course, none of this will apply if all lists are on time!

[Philip]

There are ten registrations for the tournament next week.

Rich Hornell French Allied Contingents 1805-1807
Brett Preston-Thomas Army of the Tyrolean Revolt 1809
Al Donald Anglo-Portuguese 1809-10
Steve Eyles French Army in Spain 1810-12
Kieran Mahoney Russian Infantry Corps, Army of the West 1812
Lawrence Antill Allied Army in Spain and France 1812-14
Kendall Blue Prussian Army Corps Spring 1813
Philip Abela German Confederation 2nd Corps 1814
Mike Haycock French Corps D’Armée 1814
Kit Goldsbury Anglo-Netherlands Army in Belgium 1815

There's a good variety of armies. But no Revolutionary period armies!

[Philip]

We had a tremendously good tournament last weekend. Brett achieved the remarkable result or scoring 100 points in four games.

1 Brett Preston-Thomas Army of the Tyrolean Revolt 1809 (100 points)
2 Kit Goldsbury Anglo-Netherlands Army in Belgium 1815 (64)
3 Kendall Blue Prussian Army Corps Spring 1813 (64)
4 Mike Haycock French Corps D’Armée 1814 (53)
5 Al Donald Anglo-Portuguese 1809-10 (49)
6 Steve Eyles French Army in Spain 1810-12 (45)
7 Lawrence Antill Allied Army in Spain and France 1812-14 (43)
8 Kieran Mahoney Russian Infantry Corps, Army of the West 1812 (40)
9 Philip Abela German Confederation 2nd Corps 1814 (25)
10 Rich Hornell French Allied Contingents 1805-1807 (17)

The award for the best painted army was decided by the votes of all players. It was a difficult choice with so many well-painted armies on display.

Best Painted Army
1st Lawrence Antill Allied Army in Spain and France 1812-14
2nd Brett Preston-Thomas Army of the Tyrolean Revolt 1809
3rd Rich Hornell French Allied Contingents 1805-1807

[KendallB]

Stuffed by the countback again...

[KeefM]

What Kendal ? A count back ? Never !

Obviously you had thrashed Kit and clearly were ahead at the end !!