Which brings us almost up to date ... August saw Britcon again ...
For me these days no longer the exhausting long weekend of DBM, Armati or FoG but a quick-fire day of DBA. Saturday only ... five games.
Britcon is generally a themed competition and this year Simon was moved by the one thousandth anniversary of the battle of Cannae (the later one between the Byzantines and Lombards) and offered a list of Armies and enemies of 1018.
This actually fitted quite well with my tidying up programme as I have been working my way through an old Byzantine (generic) collection and it would be a useful spur to the process. I got the new (8Bw) infantry finished and completed the army with Anatolian cavalry etc. and the previously refurbished camp. It is all coming together ...
Now I said 5 games ... well in this case not for me ... like thousands of others that Saturday morning I fell victim to roadworks and sat on the M6 for 2 hours missing games 1 and 2. They are building a smart motorway by means of running a thoroughly dumb one.
Fortunately the Umpire was able to stand in for those 2 games so no byes ensued and I was able to take my place for the afternoon session. I got to play against East Franks, Early Muslim North African and Early Bulgar ...
I achieved a timed-out draw and 2 wins ... and a 4th equal finish. Not bad for the only Byzantine in a Frank fight! Of course I had set out to shoot my way to victory and the results were predictably random. Against the Franks I couldn't hit anything. Against the North Africans I probably had the right army ...
... and against the Bulgars I hit everything. I think my averages were about on par but the 6s came all at the end against the benighted Bulgars.
Results ...
1. Mark Johnson, III/52 West Frankish; 2. Colin O'Shea, III/52 West Frankish; 3. Tim Rogers, Fatimid Egyptian; plus ...
4= Baldie Storey, III/53 East Frankish and Phil Steele, III/65 Nikephorian Byzantine; 6. Richard Pulley, III/52 West Frankish; 7= Arnaud Marmier, III/33 Early Muslim North Africa with Tuareg Allies and Malcolm Hogg, III/52 West Frankish; 9. Tamara Fordham, III/71 Georgian; 10. Chris Rigby, III/14 Early Bulgar.
Aggression 4, I attacked in all games.
It was the last day of the heat wave and it rained stair rods in the evening. Yeah, yeah ... I know ... it rained in Manchester (big news story ... !) and I bashed my car in the car park. Eventful day.
Hoping to do it all again next year. Partizan in a week!
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