Ancients Fest 2008

17th May 2008 saw the annual reoccurrence of the Portbury Knights Ancients Fest. On the day 13 Warmaster Ancients players attended and 4 Warhammer ancients players. These numbers included 5 hardy souls (Non Knights) who made a special journey on the day just to play. - Thank you!

Owens stunning Spartans

Doors opened at 9am and with coffee in hand the games began. Chris Roberts kindly dropped out to keep the numbers even and then took on the roll of score master and timekeeper. 8 tables were set out with terrain as varied as Egyptian desert, Italian Alps and at least 3 tables with rivers!

Persians and Macedonians clash!

There were some great match ups! Normans Vs Romans, Egyptians Vs Indians, Greeks and Spartans, Sarmatians Vs more Romans. For a full list see below. The atmosphere remains great all day long. The bar was briskly raided during the lunch break and battles recommenced. Throughout the day there was a greatly atmosphere, no arguments and only a couple of minor rules queries. The players were a credit to the game systems and hobby!

Winner on the day and according to all who played him a great opponent was Jim Brown with his Arab conquest army. (Pictures below). Best painted army went to Martin Gossage' Macedonian 10mm. Well done to both.

Once again thanks to all who attended and made this such a successful event.

Results

			Tournament Points Scored			VPs Scored			VPs Conceded
Position	Name	Army	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Total victory points	Tie breaker	Total VPs Scored	Total VPs Conceded
1	Jim Brown	Arabian	3	3	3	500	320	435	110	280	240	9	625	1,255	630
2	Martin Brown	Macedonian	3	3	3	191	560	1162	108	0	576	9	615	957	342
3	Dave Ley	Imperial Roman	3	0	3	1197	0	1291	0	560	289	6	820	1,244	425
4	Gareth Harding	Sarmatians	3	0	3	450	280	435	115	320	180	6	550	1,165	615
5	Tim Twells	Norman	3	0	3	310	405	520	90	418	285	6	442	1,235	793
6	Stefan Madgwick	Mycenean	3	0	3	370	22	395	175	260	163	6	189	787	598
7	Ian Davies	Visigoth	3	3	0	330	260	240	200	22	435	6	173	830	657
8	Alan Vowles	New Kingdom	3	3	0	270	418	180	60	405	435	6	-32	868	900
9	Owen Thomas	Spartan	0	0	3	175	50	335	370	65	185	3	-60	560	620
10	David Madgwick	Indian	0	3	0	60	345	285	270	0	520	3	-100	690	790
11	Vince	Imperial Roman	0	3	0	200	65	220	330	50	250	3	-145	485	630
12	Jo Cole	Imperial Roman	0	3	0	115	515	163	450	168	395	3	-220	793	1,013
13	Andrew Elia	Macedonian	0	3	0	0	575	576	1197	375	1162	3	-792	576	1,367
14	Ralph Elia	Persians	0	0	0	108	375	289	191	575	1291	0	-643	386	1,029
15	Martyn Gossage	Macedonian	0	0	0	110	168	250	500	515	220	0	-707	528	1,235
16	Ryan Madgwick	Imperial Roman	0	0	0	90	0	185	310	345	335	0	-715	275	990

Pictures