Brent Senior-Partridge Trophy - posted by Paul Graham, 3 October 2023

Call to Arms 2023 DBMM competition

Even if you weren't there last weekend, you're probably aware that the Call to Arms convention was cancelled at the last minute. The Wellington Warlords committee is planning to re-run the convention at a later date in October or November.

Meanwhile, those DBMM players who had already made it to Wellington hurriedly organised a replacement venue and ended up with a closely contested competition. Despite a couple of last minute withdrawals, we ended up with 12 players and 6 of the 8 original table maps (Poitiers, Carrhae, Quatre Bras, Hattin, Tewkesbury and Magnesia). Lots of good, tight games, even with pre-set terrain most of the games lasted 3 - 3 1/2 hours. Three visitors managed to find us to have a look around the games.

The overall winner and new BSP trophy holder was Peter Williamson, using his Khmer army and totalling 76/100. The rest of the field was:

1st Peter Williamson (Khmer), 76pts

2nd Richard Foster (Burgundian), 65pts

3rd Keith Trye (Medieval French), 60pts

Highly commended (in alphabetical order)

Alastair Donald (WOTR English), 41pts

Alastair Duncan (Middle Saxon), 55pts

Bruce Ferguson (Hungarian), 57pts

David Kinzett (Palmyran), 51pts

Gary Lewis (Early Imperial Roman), 52pts

Graham Starkey (Seleucid), 50pts

Tilman Walk (Seleucid), 53pts

Wayne Watts (Romanian Frank), 20pts

Neil Williamson (Tuareg), 20pts.

We had an award this year for the Most Cunning Player, the player who used the most flank marches, stratagems, looted the most baggage and slew the most (opposing) generals. This easily went to Tilman Walk who seemed to use every trick in the book, even out-scheming his Seleucid compatriot Graham Starkey in their civil war game.

Finally, the Wellington Warlords committee is looking at two or three weekends later this year for a replacement Call to Arms convention, at the usual venue of St Patrick's College hall. The dates will be announced shortly, and we are likely to have a DBMM competition as part of the event. 

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Setting up in the replacement venue

Swarms of Neil's Tuaregs vs Keith's Medieval French

Peter Williamson (Khmer), eventual winner, vs Alastair Donald (Henry VII)

Tilman trying something cunning.

Adrian Jarvis

Is he receiving advice via the ear buds? Maybe he has a spy in the enemy camp?

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• Bruce Ferguson

  Adrian Jarvis If there was a strategm for that he'd definately use it

Alastair Duncan deploys a few of his Saxons against Wayne

• John Way

  Jeepers thats the whole population if Mercia at 1-1

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• W.J. Watts

  It was a bit daunting to see but what the hell, we charged in anyway expecting to just blow up but it turned into a great battle!!

  In the end though the Saxons held out for the victory 4-21

Oh dear thinks Wayne, I may not have brought enough Romanian Franks

The Romanian Franks - notice how the infantry are pinned to the ground to stop them running away

Hungarian war wagons advance on Richard Foster's Burgundians

• Vincent Cholewa

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  Well done Peter Williamson, a great result, and good on everyone who played. Paul Graham deserves a special mention in Dispatches for scrambling so well and finding a mew venue in less than a day!

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• John van den Hoeven

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  I'm probably keen on playing at the 'new' Call to Arms

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  • Bruce Ferguson

    John van den Hoeven Just when you thought it was safe to go back in to the hall... Call to Arms 2