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Irish Wargaming News:20 Jan 2008:Happy New Year! Once again time has got the better of me and it has been a looooooog time between updates. Our picture this month shows the RINIWA league 2007 finalists before the first round.
Congratulations to: The big question that looms this year for Ancients competitions is "what rules will we play?". Internationally DBM is seeing a marked drop-off in attendances with the Australian DBM Nationals being cancelled. In Ireland we have been fairly stable in terms of player numbers, with perhaps a slight decline. The two rules-sets that are fighting it out for competition supremacy seem to be DBMM by Phil Barker and Field of Glory (FoG) by Simon Hall, Terry Shaw and Richard Bodley-Scott. So each one of the DBM authors is in a different camp! Of course there is nothing more bloddy than a civil war so be prepared for some mud-slinging on the Internet ;-) DBMM is a new DBx-based system for Ancients, whereas FoG is a unit-based game with some similarities to both WRG 7th Edition and WAB. Mind you, there is nothing that says we must change from DBM 3.1. Please let us know what you think. Anyway I've updated our 2008 calendar, but here is a summary in case you're lazy:
26-27/01/08 Munster Open, Cork - DBM3.1 (confirmed) 8-9/03/08 Finn Mac Cool, Dublin - DBM3.1 (confirmed) 11-13/04/08 Celtic Championship, Belfast - DBM3.1 (confirmed) 1/5/08 RINIWA League starts, all-Island - DBM3.1 (confirmed) 18/05/08 Quads, Dublin - DBM3.1 (date to be confirmed) NB Moved to a Sunday event, unlike the mail I sent to iwargames last December 28-29/06/08 Alan Neil Cuchulain Trophy, Belfast - DBM3.1 (date + rules to be confirmed) 26/7/08 New Cork Event, Cork - DBMM (date + rules to be confirmed) 30/08/08 Strongbows Shield, Dublin - DBM+DBMM+FoG? (date to be confirmed) NB: strongbow theme is abandoned and instead there will be both DBM + DBMM 200AP opens NB2: strongbow has shifted from its usual date to late Aug. 27/09/08 UWS Comp, Belfast - DBM3.1 (date + rules to be confirmed) 1/10/08 DGG Winter League, Dublin DBMM?/DBM? (rules to be confirmed) 1-2/11/08 Brian Boru Trophy, Dublin - DBMM?/DBM? (date + rules to be confirmed) 6/12/08 RINIWA League Finals, Dublin - DBM3.1 (date to be confirmed) 28/12/07 Xmas bash, Dublin (rules to be confirmed)Good luck in 2008 (unless you are playing me :-) 7 Oct 2007: As you can see from this month's featured picture, there is a new games/wargames shop in Dublin, Models Inc. on 65 Dorset St Upper. Dublin games guild has moved to meeting in the shop on Wed nights. I must also mention that Stephen May, of All Terrain, suppliers of fine hand-built terrain for wargames has moved to Ireland and is now offering free postage for orders over £100 in the Republic of Ireland. The provincial winners of this year's RINIWA League were as follows: ULSTER: #Pos Name Total Score Army List 1 Houston, David 546 Christian Nubian (3/12) 2 Taylor, David 441 Nikephorian Byzantine (3/64) 3 Taylor, Daniel 327 Arab Conquest (3/25) 4 Bull, Brian 222 Cilician Armenian (4/2) 5 McKenna, Seamus 222 Georgian (3/70) 6 Lavery, John 219 W. Frankish/Norman (3/51) Normans in Sicily 7 Gibson, Mark 219 Komnenan Byzantine (4/1) 8 Brown, David 114 Norse Viking (3/40) Top Dog: Daniel Taylor on 32.2 VP ahead of his expected score LEINSTER #Pos Name Total Score Army List 1 Hession, Mick 448 Sui and Early T'ang Chinese (3/20) T'ang 2 Brennan, Rob 347 Khurusanian (3/43) Saffarid 3 van Embden, Jan 340 Feudal Spanish (3/35) 4 Meehan, Rory 330 Sicilian (4/5) 5 Walsh, Tony 234 Hindu Indian (3/10) Rashtrakutas 6 Coghlan, Donal 230 Abbasid Arab (3/37)d 7 O'Callaghan, Derek 229 Sicilian (4/5) 8 Waldron, Phil 228 Christian Nubian (3/12) 9 Ronayne, Brian 120 W. Frankish/Norman (3/51) Normans in Sicily 10 Kenny, Martin 117 Khazar (3/16) 11 Clifford, Dave 112 Maurikian Byzantine (3/17) Top Dog: Jan van Embden on 13.4 VP ahead of his expected score MUNSTER #Position Name Total Score Army List 1. Aynsley,Richard 653 Later Pre-Islamic Arab (2/23) - Nomad 2. Worden,Tom 343 Fanatic Berber (3/74) Murabit 3. Coughlan,Willie 229 Ghurid (4/8) 4. Aynsley,Mikey 225 Sui and Early T'ang Chinese (3/20) T'ang =4. Aynsley,James 225 Tuareg army (3/69) 6. Bracken,Padraig 118 Feudal Spanish (3/35) 7. Bergin,Tony 27 Tuareg army (3/69) Top Dog: Tom Worden on 21.18 VP ahead of his expected score Qualification for Finals: The first choice players for the finals are: David Houston, Mick Hessian, Rob Brennan and Richard Aynsley. The finals will be 2 games in 1 day on the 1st of Dec NB The location has moved from the Teachers Club to the Models Inc games- shop which is a couple of hundred yards away. 23 Aug 2007: Oh dear, oh dear what a long break between updates. Most of my free time has been spent working the European Wargames Championships which RINIWA will host in Dublin this year. Its shaping up to be a great event with close to 120 players from all over Europe already registered. As you can see from this months "photo" there has been a very welcome development and Joe Cullen/NUI Maynooth have decided to host a wargames-specific games convention, Warcon. This will be held on the 5th-7th Oct in NUI Maynooth. RINIWA will run a 1-day DBM competition there and hopefully there will be a real mix of historical, fantasy and sci-fi wargames and wargamers. Please support this new event!
14 Mar 2007: I have been informed that UCD's Vaticon games con is on June 9th-10th this year and I've updated our calendar. Next week is the Finn Mac Cool Cup, it looks like we'll have 14-16 players. At that event I'll be taking player registrations for the Celtic Championship. The RINIWA League is going to run under a new format this year and there will be a 1-day face to face finals in Dublin on the 1st of Dec. The league will start in April so please register with me by the 21st of March if you want to play. Here's a little summary of the likely DBM calendar this year: March 24th-25th The Finn Mac Cool Cup April First round of RINIWA League May 4th-6th Celtic Championship (Scotland) June 22nd-24th Q-Con (Alan Neill Cuchulainn Trophy) August 4th Strongbow's Shield Sept 29th UWS DBM Comp (to be confirmed) Nov 2nd-4th 1st IWF European Individual Championships Dec 1st RINIWA League Finals 16 Feb 2007: The list/registration deadline (2nd March) for the Finn Mac Cool Cup is fast approaching. We have slightly less space than usual so please book early to ensure your place. BTW the event dates were confirmed for the 24th-25th of March. David Houston has provided the dates for this year's Q-Con - 22nd-24th June. As usual there will be a 400AP DBM comp on the Sat-Sun (23rd-24th), the Alan Neill Cuchulainn Trophy. This is Ireland's longest-running 400AP DBM comp and always a good one. Richard Aynsley has produced a report on the recent Munster Open competition - lots of new faces at that one, which is encouraging to see. I hear that the Munster Mafia are planning a large revenge raid on Leinster for the Finn Mac Cool Cup, hopefully to no avail :-) Strongbow's Shield date has been confirmed as the 4th of August. This years 315AP theme will be "The 100 Years War" and there will be a concurrent 200AP Open comp. Joao Diogo wrote to me from Portugal advertising the 3rd International Tournment AM - AJSP in Lisbon, Portugal. It on the 5th and 6th of May. Any questions to 3_torneio_internacional@ajsportugal.org The RINIWA DBM ratings have been updated to account for the Munster Open plus some KO 2006 games from Jan. 18 Jan 2007: Happy New Year, we weren't dead just resting, honest. Anyway now that the xmas/new year rush is over, here's the news: The next comp in our calendar is the Munster Open on the 27th-28th January 2007 and all details are on the website. Note that the list deadline is now passed but I'm sure Richard would welcome additional players. The Celtic Championship 07 has had to change date and will now be held on the 4th-6th May in Perth, Scotland. Full details of the event are on the competition's homepage. As a knock-on effect of the Celtic Championship moving, we will have to move the Finn Mac Cool Cup back to its usual March slot. However we have not yet secured a hall booking. News on this ASAP. The details of this year's theme, "Pre-Islamic Persia", for the FMCC are already on the competition webpage. Congratulations to David Taylor and Mick Hession who were named the RINIWA Player of the Year and Most Improved Player of the Year respectively. 18 Sept 2006: Ooops, another big delay between updates. Oh well, here's the news: The annual UWS DBM 200 Competition is on the 30th of September. This year's theme is "Armies and Enemies of the Roman Republic" and a list of allowed armies is here. Contact Jeremy Dowd for more info. The next comp in our calendar is the Brian Boru Trophy on the 21st-22nd October 2006 and all details are on the website. Note that I am the list checker and lists are due by the 1st of Oct. On the 1st of October a new WH40K event, 40ktoberfest, is being held in the Royal Dublin Hotel, Dublin. See the Northern Wasters forums for more info. Go to the "Other Events" forum where there is a thead about the event. The RINIWA DBM Ratings have been updated to include the results of Strongbow's Shield in August and some games in this year's KO league. The Strongbow's Shield Theme comp was won by David Taylor and the Open by your generous host. Tim Snoddy has announced a new DBM competition, "The Niall Noigiallach TTN Open", to be held on Sunday the 12th of November 2006 at the Belfast Boat Club. This will be held the day after the The Big Game VIII: The Crown of Kings which is a 1-day HOTT campaign. Contact Tim about the big game, contact David Houston about the DBM. Why not make a weekend of it and attend both events? Last must mention that our team had a hard year at the ITC (results here), but we're already looking forward to next year as teams will be picked in May. 25 July 2006: Another big delay between updates - a combination of the good weather and my favorite but ancient HTML editor finally failing. Anyway here's the news: Strongbow's Shield is the next DBM competition in our calendar, held on the 5th of August in Dublin at the Teachers Club. Lists should be sent to Eric Nolan. The RINIWA AGM will be held at 10AM in the Teachers Club (before the Strongbow's Shield DBM comp). Dublin Games Guild has moved location to the Royal Dublin Hotel (in the O'Connell room) but everything else remains the same (times, prices, etc). This will not affect a DBM competitions, just regular club meetings. The Hive games club have a new web-page and email address. Our Directory has been updated. Phill Redmon is looking for new members of a Dublin City centre club - however he has been bad about answering emails so who knows? The Military History Society of Ireland has now got a website. The results of the the placings of the Alan Neil Cuchulainn Trophy 2006 were:
1, Aynsley, Richard , Early Vietnamese , 437 , CRAP The RINIWA DBM Ratings have been updated to include the results of the Alan Neil Cuchulainn Trophy and games in this year's KO league. 31 May 2006: The RINIWA committee would like to express it’s sadness at the untimely death of the RINIWA member Alan Neill. Alan was well known by many of RINIWA’s members and an untiring promoter of joint projects between RINIWA and TTN (TableTopNorth). We offer our deepest sympathy to Alan’s family, girlfriend Cathy and his many friends. 9 May 2006: Well we didn't exactly cover ourselves with glory at the world championsips but we did supply the youngest compeditor (James Aynsley) and put in some creditable performances (not me however!). The Top 10 was:
1. Graham Evans - GB - Masagetae The RINIWA touring party final positions were:
=28th Richard Aynsley RINIWA will host the new IWF European Individual Championships in Dublin in Oct or Nov 2007. Any ideas for how to make this a memorable event would be appreciated. The RINIWA team for the International Team Challenge, Ghent in September will be:
Richard Aynsley (capt) 11 Apr 2006: QUB DragonSlayers host Q-Con on June 16th-18th (NB not the usual last weekend in June). There will be the annual Cuchulainn Trophy 400AP DBM competition there, contact David Houston for more info. We now have a local miniatures manufacturer! The One Tree Miniatures is brought to you by Mark Kernan. I have been told that ancients ranges are in the pipeline... Also on a commercial note - Polybases.com are a new Irish company supplying pre-moulded bases for wargaming. RINIWA announced "fair play" guidelines on their website to help competition players get along in their pursuit of glory. Richard Aynsley announced he'd put up a DBM 3.1 quick reference on Corkgaming.com The Finn MacCool competition passed off successfully with Andy Hart taking the top of the podium. I believe (and excel) that this is his first singles gold medal position. James Aynsley made a great debut as (I think) our youngest ever DBM player (7 yrs old) and managed to put his father in the shade on the results table. 9 Mar 2006: Glen Noonan from Oz has confirmed that he will attend the upcoming Finn Mac Cool DBM competition. List/registration deadline tomorrow! We were contacted by Martin Kenny from Models Inc. a new Irish company selling fantasy miniatures from Games Workshop, Rackham, Privateer press and Mongoose. Check out his website here. (Also added to our Directory). The Strongbow's Shield website has been updated with details of this years competitions, including a Mithraditic Wars theme. (5th August) Jeremy Dowd has been in contact to say that this year's UWS 200AP DBM competition in September will have a classical theme. Further details to be announced. João Paulo Caroço supplied me with these links (here, here and here) to DBM websites in Portugal - perhaps inspiration for a break from your usual holiday in the sun? The sites are in Portugese but there are plenty of pictures! A draft theme for this year's Brian Boru Trophy competition in October has been published. It will be "The Franks". 27 Feb 2006: A new competition report for you - from last years Finn Mac Cool Cup.The deadline for entering this year's competition is fast approaching (10th March). Tim Snoddy has also spread the word that he is happy with the custom terrain built for him by Foundations of War. We re-fought Issos/Issus 333BC at Leprecon yesterday - history was duely re-created but it was certainly a close thing for Alexander! 16 Feb 2006: Normal service is resumed! At last I have sorted out internet access from my new house. Anyway you don't want to hear about that - here's the wargaming news: RINIWA has updated the Finn Mac Cool Cup web-page with details of the event. It will be held on the 25th-26th of March and will use the same event rules as the 2006 IWF World Individual Championships to be held in Athens in April. RINIWA also announced new trophies for the DBM Player of the Year and Most Improved Player. The winners for 2005 were announced at the Celtic Championship/Munster Open in Cork:
- RINIWA Player of the Year 2005: David Taylor Also at the Celtic Championship the RINIWA Players presented a beautifully painted 400AP army to yours truely "for services to wargaming in Ireland". Much appreciated if a little surprising. Thanks again folks. Richard Aynsley has updated the Celtic Championship 2006 webpage with full results and some photos. I believe that if you have some interesting photos taken at the event Richard would be interested in getting his hands on them. Next year's event will be in Scotland. RINIWA subscription collections for 2006 IWF World Individual Championships to be held in Athens in April have closed. Seven players will travel from Ireland to compete there. Many apologies for the IWorg.Com service outage in January - we were victims of circumstance (i.e I didn't pay my ISP bill :-) 3 Dec: Richard Aynsley has updated the Celtic Championship 2006 webpage with full details of the event (to be held in Cork in January). The registration/list-checking deadline is the 23rd of Dec. RINIWA has announced that the 315AP theme at next year's Strongbow's Shield in August will be "Mithridatic Wars 88BC - 65BC". There will of course be a 200AP Open event held in parallel on the day. RINIWA also announced that next year's Finn Mac Cool Cup will be held on the 25th-26th of March and will use the same event rules as the 2006 IWF World Individual Championships to be held in Athens in April. 10 Nov: Double-Eek! Another record time between updates. Oh well, the good news is that the builders have finally moved out of my new house so that distraction should be over. So, what about wargaming I hear you ask. Here's the scoop: Apparently VATICON 11.31 is running as a one day fun(d) raiser for Vaticon 12. 10am til 6pm Sunday November 20th in UCD Student Center. Another upcoming event is the Big Game VII (a HOTT fantasy campaign) has been announced by for the weekend of the 19th-20th of November in the Belfast Boat Club. Contact Tim Snoddy if you're interested. David Taylor has announced that he will once again run a DBM league in 2006: "I am thinking of a Book 1 theme for next year. However, as there are fewer Book 1 armies around, so any army from Book 1, before 500 B.C. will be allowed. If you are interested in taking part next year, please contact me.Also, if there are at least 4 people in Cork or 4 in Sligo who would want to play, then there could be a group in each of those locations." [For the last couple of years the competition has run in both Dublin and Belfast with the finals in Belfast.] Eric & Rob's DBM Bash this year will be on the 27th of December. Once again we will use the excellent Middle-Earth lists for DBM by Luke Ueda-Sarson. It will be a 200AP, 3-round event. Please contact Rob if you're interested as places are very limited. I've also taken the opportunity to update our Events Calendar for 2006. If you can help provide any more details for events then I'd love to hear from you. This year's Brian Boru Trophy was held at the end of Oct, we had a 5-man contingent over from England. Hopefully this trend will continue at future events. Richard Aynsley came out on top though with a return to form. Ireland (D.Houston[capt], A.Moran, R. Brennan, R.Aynsley) came 5th at the International Team Challenge, Ghent in September. Full results on the International Team Challenge site. The RINIWA DBM Ratings have been updated to include the results of the Brian Boru Trophy, the UWS Competition and games in this year's Belfast KO league. Dave Bruce announced that he plans to organise a wargames event in Co. Leitrim. He is looking for interested parties to contact him.
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