Saturday, April 23, 2011

DBA at Natcon 2011

A few assorted photos of my games in the one day 6 round DBA tournament at the New Zealand Natcon 2011. The camera batteries failed on me so just a few photos from early in the day. I was using my II/39(b) Celtiberian army.

These first few were from my first game against Stan's Carthaginians.






I managed one photo from my game against Jim's Ptolomaics ...


And then the camera batteries died. I managed 3 wins, 2 losses and adraw for the day, and was happy with that. Those Spanish are hard to use, and we spent a lot of time working hard on steep hills and in woods. The tournament was organised by Keith, and the results can be found here on his Blog.

6 comments:

  1. Jolly good. I was finishing painting some 20mm WW2 Germans for Crossfire. No wonder the Germans lost the war, there uniforms are way more fiddly to paint than the Allies!

    I see that Stan got one point more than you in the competition - 34 to 35. Who one your game with him? You didn't say...

    Nick

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  2. Nick.. you should have been there and played (someone oculd have found a 15mm loan army for you).

    My game with Stan was a draw, 5-3 to Stan.. he had taken 2 caualties and inflicted 3 when we ran out of time.

    Robin

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  3. Great to see some photos of the event Robin. Another fine day gaming based on peoples feedback.

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  4. Keith

    It certainly was, I had a real blast!!!! .. thanks to you for organising the day. Hopefully the DBR is going well?
    R

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  5. I'm very glad you enjoyed it.

    As to DBR everyone is enjoying their games as well. For me that is the most important thing.

    I see competitions as a useful oppurtunity to play people I don't normally play. Having enjoyable games and friendly opponents is very important for me. I am fortunate with both DBA and DBR from this perspective.

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  6. Very interesting report. Against successors and Carthaginians I reckon the Spanish are quite well matched. It's really only the odd knight that would make them nervous!

    Having said that, I forgot that you went Celtiberian, didn't you!

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