On Saturday, we enjoyed a fabulous day of gaming at this years To the Strongest! World Championships, hosted by the South Oxfordshire Generals, in Chalgrove. This year we had 41 players who played an incredible total of 80 games between them, most are in the group photo, above. That's Steve Dover in the front who organised it, with help from myself, Tim Thompson and the South Oxfordshire Generals.
Here are some photos of the games, in no particular order, that have kindly been sent to me by Jason Collis, Jimmy Carter and Tim Thompson (along with a few of my own). All photos will enlarge if clicked. Apologies if I missed your name or got it wrong!
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| Lunchtme- the weather was glorious! |
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| A pensive Andrew Brentnall, who went on, with great good humour, to win the Dead Elephant award. |
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| That's me in the subtle shirt, attacking Gary Chapman's Swiss. Frontally. With knights. It could have gone worse than it did... |
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| Shaun Jewitt- 100 Years War English. What a neatly laid out table! |
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| John Sharman and Khan Baz scanning the rules! |
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Rachel Winter- beat me last year, I gather she did well this year, too, but have no details yet.
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| This is a Civil War between two Later Italian Condotta Venetian armies. Small World! Must be Jan de Neve, and Colin Hoare. There were three Italian Condotta armies, including mine; this year knights are the new nomads! |
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Parthians, perhaps Peter Ryding's, vs. Romano British, perhaps Nick Abbott's?
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That's all for now. Tomorrow I'll post the balance of the photos- lots more in-action shots! The rules used were, of course,
To the Strongest v1.1a rules, with the
Even Stronger v.7c amendments and 130 point armies. Later this week, we'll post a list of the armies..
Congrats to one and all. Looks like a fantastic event.
ReplyDeleteGreat looking event Simon 🙂
ReplyDeleteLook like a great day for every one!
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Echoing the previous comments and compliments. Looks like an excellent and photogenic day of battle gaming :)
ReplyDeleteLooking forward to reading/seeing about who took gold, silver and bronze in the annual event.
Might readers of Slingshot (The Journal of the Society of Ancients - plug) be treated to some kind of narrative account in a future issue?
Based on what I have seen and read, TtS! events or tournaments appear similar to the DBA tournaments wherein multiple games are played and playable in the course of a single day.
Very well done indeed!
Chris
Hi Chris,
ReplyDeleteYes we'll have a results post at some point.
I'd imagine it's not dissimilar to a DBA day- the format is not unlike a HoTT event i used to play in. Yes should write something for Slingshot...
Best,
Simon
Looks interesting, 28mm is an odd size, all my WRG based armies are 22mm, mostly "Minipigs". Anyone play TtS around Reading?.
ReplyDeleteLots and lots- some Reading club chaps, and the South Oxfordshire generals. Practically the epicentre of TtS! gaming. :-)
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