We had a good turn out with nine 2-player teams for the competition. This was a 3-round, 200AP, open-list competition held in Dublin. Players entered in teams of 2 and each team brought a historically matched pair of armies. During the day players had to play both their own and their opponent's armies. Scoring was 0-10 with +100VP. Everyone seemed to have a good time and the games all proceeded smoothly. If you are interested in the rules for the comp, see the announcement text here. I'm sure DGG will run it again next year.
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| The Winning Team: David Taylor (left) and David Houstan | Second Place: Stephen Bankhead (left) and Charlie Dickenson |
The final placings were as follows:
| Position | Team | Points | Historical Pair of Armies | Club |
| 1. | David Taylor & David Houstan | 548 | Polyibian Roman vs L.Carthaginian | UWS |
| 2. | Charlie Dickenson & Stephen Bankhead | 444** | EIR vs Ancient British | UWS |
| 3. | Alex Moran & Paul Dalton | 444** | E.Crusader vs Kommenean Byzantine | DGG |
| 4. | Terry Trench & Alec McTurk | 339* | Pre Feudal Scots vs AngloDanish | DGG |
| 5. | Darren Birt & Felim McTiernan | 335* | Alexandian Imperial vs Classical Indian | Sligo |
| 6. | Seamus McKenna & Tim Snoddy | 227 | EIR vs LPIA | Dragonslayers |
| 7. | Arnaud Marmier & Mathieu Bentot | 223 | Medieval German vs Feudal French | France |
| 8. | Padraigh Bracken & Eric Nolan | 220 | Han Chinese vs Kushan | DGG |
| 9. | Rob Brennan & John Lavery | 120 | Marian Roman vs Gallic | DGG/UWS |
Players on the same score were seperated by placing the team with the better result from their own games higher if they met and then by finding the average rating of their opponents. The team which played against a higher average rating was placed higher.
* These teams received a bye
** These teams were seperated on countback
Arnaud Marmier & Mathieu Bentot won the prize for best presented historical
pairing
Padraig Bracken & Eric Nolan won the prize for best terrain
Eric Nolan won the prize for best individual performance by a player rated
below 2001
Eric Nolan won the door prize of a painted Scythian Ally
Thanks again to everyone who turned up and made it a successful event. A special thanks also to Tony Walsh for umpiring on the day and Tony Walsh and Eric Nolan for helping to paint the door prize.
Below is a selection of pictures from the day.
John Lavery (left) being helped by Michael Lavery (8) to fend off Felim McTiernan's Classical Indians |
3 games on a table! Although the main advantage of DBM200 is that it allows a 3 or 4 round competition to be played in a day, the space saved by the smaller tables also makes the organisers job a bit easier. This shot shows (from left to right): Eric Nolan's head, Padraig Bracken wondering why he can't win with the Han, Tony Walsh playing a bye game, Charlie Dickenson mastering the Kushan and Stephen Bankhead trying to work out what makes a Roman army tick. One of the challenges of this competition format was to play other people's armies and still win. In this environment, troops that were based in a non-standard way can cause a lot of confusion. |
From this close-up of Stephen's Romans (inside red line) it seems that although he normally plays Ancient Brits he adapted to typical Roman DBM tactics pretty quickly. Eric's British assault finally failed in a close-run game (10-0 to Stephen). |
No wonder Alex Moran (right) looks happy in this game vs Arnaud Marmier. Despite being sleep-deprived (and late) he had a perfect day with three 10-0 wins. In the background you can see Tony Walsh (centre) adjudicating some dispute about the defender's river (the shame!) placed by Paul Dalton (hidden, but we know who he is) against Mathieu Bentot. |
This is a shot of a game between Rob Brennan (using Padraig Bracken's Han) and Padraig Bracken using his team-mate Eric Nolan's Kushan. Note the nice "spikey" TF that Padraig made to defend his Han camp. Perhaps if they were a wagon-lagger as suggested by the army list he would have more luck with them? Note the Kushan elephants despreately trying to get out of the firing line of the Han artillery on the road. The road network is fairly cheesy but this game started with fog which lifted on the first PIP die roll of the game! The Kushan went down 0-10 to the Han (my only win of the day so I have to talk about it :-). |
