Americon - 200AP competition in Canberra

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Welcome to Canberra's second DBMM mini-con.

This time the theme is Americon - armies of America (and the Pacific) up to 1535 (that is, including the Spanish invasions).

Americon is a one-day three-round DBMM200 15mm competition to re-create the battles of that time, featuring the following armies: Maya; Chichimec and Pueblo Cultures; Toltec; Eastern Forest American; Mound Builder American; North-Western American; Tarascan, Toltec-Chichimec or Chinantec; Tupi; Mixtec or Zapotec; Aztec; Chanca; Chimu; Amazonian; Inca; Mapuche; Polynesian and Melanesian.

When: Sunday 28 April, 10am - 5pm

Where: Jolt Games, 56 Hoskins Street, Mitchell (joltgames.com.au)

What: DBMM v2.1 15mm, 200AP (using the DBMM200 rules), armies to be chosen from the seventeen armies above. Games to be 1 hour 45 minutes +/- 5 minutes (please bring your own terrain). Loaner armies will be available.

How much: Entry is $10, payable on the day

Organiser: Peter Barrett (peter DOT barritus AT yahoo DOT com DOT au)

Please contact the organiser to confirm your interest, or for any questions about the comp.

Cheers

Barritus

[Barritus]

Results of Americon:

Tim Montgomery (Mixtec): 49
Nick Rogers (Maya + Spanish): 41
Dave Turner (Chimu): 37 (CB)
Anton Verster (Maori): 37 (CB)
John Garvey (Inca): 35
Peter Barrett (North-Western American): 26

Thanks to Jolt Games for hosting our second DBMM200 event, and thanks to the players who took part.

Having cut the points back from 240AP to 200AP but keeping games the same length, I expected more games to be played to a conclusion. This was the case, but not to a great extent. Out of the nine games played, only three resulted in an army breaking.

The main issue again, I think, was the lack of quick-kill match-ups - four of the armies had a decent number of Ax, which neither provide nor suffer from QKs against the troops they encountered. In this vein, the strength of the Mixtec was in having plenty of Ax (S) who benefited from quite a few grading bonuses. Likewise, the success of the Maya was largely due to the Holkan Ax (S) rather than the Spanish - the Kn after all could only kill one element a bound.

Anyway, the success of the format means we'll be looking at a similar event, with who knows what theme, in October.