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January 23rd, 2011I started my first competition at Cancon 2011 on Saturday and finished the DBMM v2.0 competition today. I didn’t win. However, that is not important. I had a really good time playing wargames with people who were friendly and helpful to me, the newbie.
I have played four games over the last two days. Each game lasted about 3 hours 45 minutes and I will post after action reports later on each of the games.
In the meantime, I would like to thank Dave Turned, Zac Russell, Dave Quilty and Rod Somerville for being helpful and friendly as opponents.
My results over the two days were:
| Opponent | Army | Result | Comment |
| Dave Turner | Book II, List 73 Old Saxon, Frisian, Bavarian, Thuringian | 23:2 Win | Dave was a true gentleman and was a little unlucky with some of the results. I learned that Kn(F) are tough |
| Zac Russell | Book II, List 80 Hunnic | 6:19 Loss | Zac helped with me learning some of the mechanics of moving Irregular mounted knights. |
| Dave Quilty | Book I, List 22 New Kingdome Egyptian | 19:6 Win | Dave suffered from some good dice rolling on my side – I managed to roll 4 sixes in a row in the centre where it mattered |
| Rod Somerville | Book II, List 32 Later Carthaginian | 1:24 Loss | A game where we each expected to do well and did badly and where we expected to do badly, did well! |
Overall, it was a great two days and I thank each of my opponents for the pleasant games (and in Dave Quilty’s case, the coffee).
I should note that there were 21 competitors and I finished 11th – behind 10 and in front of 10. My opponents included the eventual second place winner and the eventual fourth place getter. My final score was 49/100 – the same score that Dave Turned finished on – so as you can see, I was not hiding behind weak players.
If I can arrange it, I will be back next year, but before that, I have a DBA competition of six games later today.
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Well done that man, with an army basically unused, and with a new set of rules that's a sterling effort..
After Action Reports still to come – when I can find a neat simple little way of doing a deployment map.
Almost a year later and we are still waiting for games 2-4 AAR, and we hope to see you there in 2012. Michael Stone is a newbie who aslo hopes to get there in 2012 with Western Franks, (Normans) – I am hoping your experience will encourage him to come along and beat a few people up!