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Irish Wargaming News: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. 14 Aug: Eek! 2 months between updates - the longest ever! Anyway lots happening/happened: UWS now have a new website. This includes details of their upcoming Flower of Chivalry 200AP competition on the 24th of September in Belfast. The Big Game VII (a HOTT fantasy campaign) has been announced by Tim Snoddy for the weekend of the 19th-20th of November in the Belfast Boat Club. The date for the 2006 IWF World Championships in Athens has been set for the weekend of 28-30/04/2006. A re-enactment group called Living History was added to the wargaming directory. Strongbow's Shield was held in Dublin on the 31st of July - Seamus McKenna won the 200AP open and Richard Aynsley won the 315AP Ming theme competition. The Northern Wasters once again hosted their Bloodstorm 2-day WHFB Grand Tournament at the end of July. RINIWA now have a revised set of DBM 200 rules (for DBM3.1) in Ireland online. These will be used in upcoming RINIWA events in Ireland The RINIWA team to represent Ireland in the DBM International Team Challenge (ITC) in Ghent in September is:
David Houston (capt) - Book 4 period The RINIWA DBM Ratings have been updated to include the results of Strongbow's Shield, the Cuchulainn Trophy and games in this year's Belfast KO league. 15 June: Quick update to give you the revised version of the DBM3.1 Revisions that include Richard Bodley-Scott's official erratum of 2/6/2005. This version of 3.1 is the one that will be used in all DBM competitions in Ireland (including the Cuchulainn Trophy in 2 weeks). 3 May: Hmmm, 6 weeks passed between updates. Here's the news: The next DBM competition is - June 25th-26th The Cuchulainn Trophy @ Q-Con, Whitla Hall, QUB. Belfast. (contact: D.Houston@qub.ac.uk) The 3rd annual Celtic Championship was held in Belfast - thanks to TTN for the excellent location. The main results were as follows:
1. Ian MacKay (Scot) Winners of the Celtic Cup for highest scoring regional team: Northern Ireland (David Houston, David Taylor, Seamus McKenna) Winners of the highest scoring independent team were "ROI Team 3" (Darren Birt, Edmond Barett, Alec McTurk) Congrats to all the winners and thanks to the organisers and everyone who attended to make it the largest DBM competition so far in Ireland (41 players). This was the last DBM version 3.0 competition in Ireland, from now on we will be using DBM 3.1 and here it is The RINIWA DBM Ratings have been updated to include the results of the Celtic Championship and games in this year's Belfast KO league. The RINIWA team for the DBM International Team Challenge (ITC) in Ghent in September will be picked based on these ratings. Richard Aynsley reports that there are now pictures of his Mycenean Greeks on the Cork Gaming website. Finally John Graham-Leigh, the editor of the Society of Ancients's Slingshot magazine, has been in contact and supplied me with a report on the Munster Open 2003. Thanks John, submissions are always welcome. 16 March: A big update: Tom Landy wrote to us to update our info on the Drogheda Warhammer club, it runs on Friday evenings from 7 til 12 at DYD, Narrow west Street, Drogheda. This year's Ulster Wargames Society DBM competition will run on the 24th September and the theme is likely to be European Medieval (further details to be announced). Richard Aynsley has published a photographic record of the Munster Open DBM comp held as part of Warpcon in January. Other upcoming DBMcompetitions this year:
- 30 July, Strongbow's Shield
- 22-23 Oct, The Brian Boru Trophy
http://www.iworg.com/boru Regional teams for this year's Celtic Championship have been announced:
Republic of Ireland:
Northern Ireland:
Scotland: We also have the first entries this year from Wales and Brittany. The RINIWA DBM Ratings have been updated to include the results of the Finn Mac Cool Cup (Won by Darren Birt) and the first games in this years Belfast KO league. The RINIWA Committee have decided to use version 3.1 for all of our competitions from the 1st of May 2005. We also strongly recommend that independent DBM competitionorganisers also adopt it for any events after that date. NB The Celtic Championship will still use DBM version 3.0 27 Feb: A new official update to DBM (known as version 3.1) has been released by Richard Bodley-Scott. Here it is as a zipped MS Word document. It is only available as an electronic errata sheet and there will be no printed version. RINIWA has not yet made any announcement on when/if these rules will be introduced but the Finn Mac Cool Cup and the Celtic Championship will certainly still use DBM version 3.0.. 25 Jan 2005: Opps. Long time between updates. Here's the news: The Irish Wargames Announcements mailing list (iwargames) has now moved. The new address to post to is: iwargames@iworg.com . Update your address books now! All members of the old list have been automatically transfered. The following competitions/events have been confirmed:
- Feb 26th Granikos refight @
Leprecon in Dublin (contact:
brennanr@iworg.com) Our calendar has been updated. The RINIWA DBM Ratings have been updated to include the results of the Munster Open held in Cork last weekend. Brian Bull was the winner, Donal Coghlan second, James McKenna third from a field of 14 players. A competition report for Strongbow's Shield 2004 was published. A small (unrated) 200AP competition was held in Dublin over the Xmas to test out the new DBM 3.1 proposals (seperate from DBMM which has been delayed). These worked well and are expected to be finalised at the end of Feburary. The comp was won by Tony Walsh with a Scythian army. Note that all competitions in Ireland until (at least) after the Celtic Championship will continue to use DBM version 3.0. The draft of 3.1 is in the files area of the yahoo dbmlist. |
