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29 July 2006:
Full details for this year's theme ("The Franks") and competition are now online.
Competition Date: 21st - 22nd October 2006
List Deadline: 1st of October. (Only lists allowed in the theme are permitted.)
Location: The Teachers Club, 36 Parnell Square, Dublin 1. Here is a map of the venue location and a link to a local hotel.
Cost: 27 euro (25 euro for RINIWA members or overseas attendees), for under 18s, full-time students or the unwaged 13.50 euro.
List Checker: Rob Brennan who can be contacted at: brennanr@iworg.com .
Prizes will be awarded for 1st, 2nd and 3rd place. The will be a door prize for the players that get their lists in on time. RINIWA will provide a Top Dog prize for the non-placing player with the best Top Dog score. There is a special prize for the non-placing player with the highest score who uses a Frankish army (shown with an ** in the Theme list below).
Timetable:
Sat
10.00-1.30 Game 1
1.30-2.00 Lunch
2.00-5.30 Game 2
Sun
10.00-1.30 Game 3
1.30-2.00 Lunch
2.00-5.30 Game 4
Competition Rules are as follows:

The competition will be played with DBM version 3.1 and the current IWF DBM 3.1 clarifications.
Armies will be a maximum of 350AP.
Only lists from the website theme can be used (2nd Edition DBM Army List Books 1-4 and the authors' official should be used.)
Scoring will be 0-10VP as per the rule book with +100VP for a player who demoralises an opponent's army and does not have their own army demoralised i.e. who wins the game.
Players must bring their own terrain, basemats will be provided.
Players must send their army list for checking before entering the competition, the list-checker is Rob Brennan. Players submitting late lists will not be eligible for the door prize.
Late lists may be penalised with a deduction from your total victory points at the end of the competition. Please help us by submitting on time.
The competition will have 4 rounds, two on both Saturday and Sunday.
The DBM weather and time of day rules must be played if at least one of the players in a game wishes to do so.
There will be a non-playing umpire who will only play against the lowest scoring player if there is an odd number players for the current round.
The competition will use accelerated pairings for the first two rounds and FIDE pairings after that. As far as possible, no player will be paired against another of the same region/club for the first two rounds.
All rulings by the umpire are final.
By entering the competition a player agrees to abide by all rules of the competition organisers.
If a player arrives late for a competition game without an exceptional reason (discuss with the umpire) they will be subject to the following cumulative penalties:

More than 10 minutes late: Their opponent may elect to be attacker or defender (roll dice normally to determine time of day/weather)
More than 20 minutes late: After writing deployment orders they must deploy their entire army before their opponent deploys any commands.
More than 30 minutes late: They must forfeit the game 110-0.

If two players are on the same final score at the end of the competition then a countback mechanism will be used to separate them if it is for a prize-winning position otherwise they will place equally. The countback used will be:

If the two players on equal score played each other then the one with the higher score from that game places higher otherwise it is based on the sum of opponents scores and if still tied then the player who has the most 10-0 results.

Games will be 3.5 hours +/- 15 minutes in duration. When time is called:

if 12 full bounds have already been played no further moves (other than as combat outcomes) can be performed and the current round's combat phase must be completed. Please note that this means there is no guaranteed last bound for a defender.
if less than 12 full bounds have been played then finish the current player bound normally and then the game goes into "blitz" mode. Call an umpire (or their nominee) to adjudicate time, rules and perform spontanious/flee moves. Now play sufficient bounds under blitz so that 12 full bounds are completed. Players have 1 minute to throw their dice and to perform all voluntary moves during their turn. The umpire will perform all spontanious advances/flee moves.

If after 2.5 hours players have not completed at least 8 bounds then they will be put on "Early Blitz" and the players should time each other to limit the time for spending PIPs (making moves) to 5 minutes.

Theme: The Franks - from the Roman frontier to the emergence of France and Germany (250AD - 1096AD)
This year's event will have a theme of "The Franks", (previously we've done "The Byzantines and "The Mongols"). All armies must obey the theme rules below:
Special Rules:
1. Only armies listed below can be used and they must be within the dates listed and comply with any other restrictions listed. No army may be outside the theme dates of 250AD to 1096AD.
2. There will be a special prize for the highest scoring Frankish army (marked with an ** in the list) that does not place on the podium (1st-3rd) .
3. There are armies available for loan, please contact the umpire ASAP if you need one. Players fielding massively unsuitable figures (eg Romans for Chinese) may have points deducted from their final score at the discretion of the umpire.
Armies allowed:

Book List Name Dates (Other Restrictions)

II/54 Scots Irish 406AD - 428AD II/58 Alan 406AD - 580AD II/64 Middle Imperial Roman (Western) 250AD - 324AD II/65 Early Visigothic. 410AD - 419AD II/66 Early Vandal. 250AD - 427AD II/70 Burgundi or Limigantes. 250AD - 534AD Not Limigantes *II/72 Early Frankish, Alamanni, Quadi, Suevi, Rugian or Turcilingi. 250AD to 506AD, only Franks qualify for Frankish prize II/73 Old Saxon, Frisian, Bavarian, Thuringian or Early Anglo-Saxon. 250AD - 804AD II/78 Late Imperial Roman 307AD - 425AD (Western) II/80 Hunnic. 356AD - 496AD Not Sabir or Hephthalites II/81 Sub-Roman British 411AD-580AD Amoricans only, No Saxons allowed II/82 Later Visigothic 419AD-720AD II/83 Patrician Roman 425AD - 496AD Western only, must be outside Africa III/1 Early Slav. 476AD - 985AD Not Wends or Bohemians, Bohemians 830AD - 1003AD, Wends 650AD-1096AD. No Pecheneg allies. III/2 Early Lombard 489AD-584AD III/3 Italian Ostrogothic 493AD-561AD III/4 Early Byzantine 493AD - 578AD No Later Pre-Islamic Arab allies *III/5 Middle Frankish. 496AD - 639AD III/13 Avar 553AD- 558AD and 631AD - 826AD III/17 Maurikian Byzantine 575AD-639AD No external allies or Khazars allowed. III/18 Breton. 580AD - 1071AD III/21 Italian Lombard 584AD-1076AD III/26 Early Serbian or Croatian 639AD - 888AD Croatian only *III/28 Carolingian Frankish 639AD - 888AD III/29 Thematic Byzantine 650AD-997AD No Moorish allies, Crimean Goths, Armenians or Georgians III/30 Magyar. 896AD - 997AD III/33 Early Muslim North Africa and Sicily 696AD-1096AD Only Aghlabids in Sicily III/34 Andalusian 710AD-1071AD III/35 Feudal Spanish 718AD - 1071AD III/40 Norse Viking and Leidang 790AD-1096AD No English, Scots, Irish or Finns allowed. *III/51 West Frankish or Norman 964AD-1071AD only West Frankish counts for Franks prize, No Normans in 1066AD *III/52 East Frankish 650AD-1096AD III/62 Early Polish 960AD - 1096AD No Rus allies. III/64 Nikephorian Byzantine 964AD-1042AD No allies allowed. III/67 Early Hungarian 964AD-1096AD III/72 Communal Italian 1029AD - 1096AD III/75 Konstantinian Byzantine 1042AD-1071AD No Georgians allowed. III/76 Papal Italian. 1049AD - 1096AD IV/1 Komnenan Byzantine 1071AD-1096AD No Seljuq allies allowed. IV/4 Feudal French 1072AD - 1096AD