Birmingham Playtest 2007 Results

[toby]

The results for the Birmingham Playtest on the 24th February 2007 were:

Place	Name	Army	Points
1=	Dave Ruddock	Skythian and Early Hu	40
1=	Chris Jolley	Sicilian	40
1=	David Thompson	West Sudanese	40
4	David Mather	Hittite Empire	36
5	Stuart Whigham	Southern Hsiung-Nu/Arabo-Aramean	34
6=	Geoff Pearson	Samurai	33
6=	Mike Pickering	Biblical	33
8	Chris Hanley	Arab Conquest	32
9	Toby Partridge	Central Asian City States	28
10=	Norman Whapshott	Hunnic	25
10=	Steve Bowns	Biblical	25
12	Nial Taylor	Sung Chinese	24
13	Tony Dennis	Marian Roman	21
14	Roy Loach	Swedish Leidang	15
15	Ray Briggs	Feudal English	10
16=	Gordon Harrow	Sassanid Persian	6
16=	Sue Laflin-Barker	Ancient British	6
18	Phil Barker	Tuareg	2

Everyone had a great time and think and many thanks are due to Gordon for organising it all and to everyone who took part.

[toby]

Not sure. They were 20mm, and I think one of them was Egyptian. 

[Adrian Garbett]

Why am I not filled with confidence that the author of the rules finished last :-)

Ade

[toby]

I suppose that it does at least suggest that his integrity is such that he hasn't taken the opportunity to make his own playing style and armies unbeatable.

[Doug M.]

Phil has never been known as a playing guru..  although I would have expected him and Sue to do a bit better.  Were there any interesting comments to come out? I know Peter Barrett here has concerns over the Delayed Start strategem, and it would seem that the -2 ME broken command rule is going to be modified a little.

It would be interesting to hear what the Ladywell modifications are, as we are playing a current tournament using the 11th January version and it would be nice to know if there are any major changes before we report back our concerns.. (too late of course).

Doug M. 

[DaveMather]

Doug

There was nothing that hadn't been tabled on the DBMMList site over the last few weeks - and post Ladywood Phil has put the "final" changes on the DBMMList site - changes to 2FE (check what you could do with 2 x 2FE full sized Marshes as a defender to wreck your opponents deployement), gradings, temporary minuses/army baggage .  You will pick up most of the minor differences between 11th Jan and Ladywood by using the advanced search in the DBMM List - for posts after jan 11 2007 - author contains barker and  message body contains "try this" - you need the quotes - this should pick up most of the changes - but there is nothing major.  It was not easy for us to tell what had changed as Phil had this time round abandoned the italics. 

Regards


David Mather

[Doug M.]

Thanks Dave.

I guess we are all just waiting for the actual printing then. Given the timeframe, it hardly appears worthwhile to try and incorporate the changes into the copies we are currently using.

Hopefully, the pre-order will also arrive quickly, I would be very curious as to how mnay Caliver are doing as a first print run?

regards

Doug

[mike.pickering]

Interesting list of army's.
what was Mike Pickering Biblical list exactly?

I can send the list through to you if this is still of interest?
Cheers
Mike