CALL TO ARMS 2022 wrap up and results
Thank you to all the competitors for making this a pretty cool little tournament, lots of fun and played in a good spirit.
Thanks especially to Allen, Bruce and Alastair Duncan for their loan of basecloths and trees, to Dirk and Benny for helping with the judging of the Best Army, to David Wright for stepping in to fill the 14th spot. We had 15 players at first but lost 2 in the last few days to the plague, which also prevented Vince from playing. Commiserations to Julian Hannam and Richard Fields who were prevented by the gods from joining in the fun. That left one fewer table but we set it up anyway and Richard Mason and Graham Starkey managed to play an extra game there (Parthians winning narrowly over Fatimids at Zama). Thanks too to those players who added the touches which reminded us of Brent, one of his favourite armies (the Ming), a camp from his collection (Michael's Romans), and one of his camps, and Brent himself in the form of a large Obelix figure leading the Camillan Romans.
The other seven tables were laid out to represent historical battlefields: Cannae, Pharsalus,Teutoburg, Yarmouk, Delgany (chosen for the year 1022), Hastings and Poitiers (the 1356 version). Hastings in particular provided some real stoushes as first one side then the other took control of The Hill.
The results ...
The Best Presented Army award was closely contested. There are some spectacularly beautiful armies around these days. This award takes into account the overall composition, including consistency, baggage, basing, painting of course and the little touches of humour that people sometimes add. This year the award went to Bruce Ferguson's very very nice Central Asian City States (Khwarazm). Nice horde.
More generals were killed this year than in previous competitions, but Wayne Watts was the most violent and took out the Kingslayer award with 4 kills.
Congratulations to the overall winner this year, Andrew Bennetts, edging ahead in the last round to claim the Brent Senior-Partridge trophy. Runner-up was Keith Trye, who should have had bonus points for the best French knight charge, fully across the table until they had run out of board. Third place went to Peter Williamson, master of elephants.
The full list of players, armies and final scores is:
Andrew Bennetts (Ottoman Turks), 76
Keith Trye (Medieval French), 70
Peter Williamson (Southern Indian (Chola)), 64
Wayne Watts (Marian Roman), 62
Richard Foster (Ming Chinese), 61
Allen Yaxley (Medieval Irish), 54
Bruce Ferguson (Central Asian City States), 51
Gary Lewis (Italian Condotta), 43
Michael Stonyer (Middle Imperial Roman), 43
Alastair Duncan (Camillan Carthaginian Burgundian Incas), 43
David Kinzett (Late Roman), 41
David Wright (Early Achaemenid and Patrician Roman), 38
Neil Williamson (Hun), 33
Alastair Donald (Yorkist), 21
Everyone was a winner, some just a little more than the others.
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Good on you, Paul Graham, for running the competition and to everyone for taking part. Great to see Brent's trophy being contested.
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