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A call to Call to Arms Wellington August 20 - 21, New Zealand

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Started 11 months ago by Prinny
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Mycenius
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Damn - I was looking forwards to meeting you in person (and seeing your nice Hundred Days British). Remember that JetStar flights can be quite cheap...

Actually if I had come down I was hoping to bring my 1815 Nassauers (with a few Dutch/Belgians making up the numbers) as they are just about ready to see action! ;-)

Remember that JetStar flights can be quite cheap...

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I was gonna drive down - and I wouldn't take the army on the plane - too much risk (both damage and/or not getting it in the cabin). Especially the Brits with the high numbers of fragile plastic infantry, etc...

...And I still haven't figured out a decent storage system - as my planned Eastlight/Colorado Foolscap File Boxes (with self adhesive steel in the bottom) are a no go due to the height of the Infantry standards & Cavalry with raised swords, standards, etc...

When are you Auckland guys going to put on a Lasalle tourney?

Might be a chance of something at BattleCry in February if someone like Cam & I or such get organised and arrange things with the organisers... But AFAIK Auckland Lasalle Players are fairly evenly split between 15mm & 28mm so might make having minimum numbers (before out of town visitors) a bit problematic...

:-)

Posted 9 months ago #
Ratisbon
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Couple of questions for CTA on Saturday.

The Commander can only command units from the same core or support choice in the
Reaction, Combat and Activity Phases.

Does this mean in the same turn he can command different forces from the Core and Support? So say command a Core force in the Reaction phase, then command a Support force in the Combat phase, then command a Core force in the Activity phase?

So it is only that he cannot command BOTH Core and Support troops in the same PHASE?

In the Take By Force scenario, can objectives only be placed in the open or anywhere on the centre line? If yes, then if due to terrain and previous objective placement, an objective cannot be placed, what happens?

both the Attacker and the Defender get the bonus battalions and the extra General. These extra troops count as a separate Brigade for the Deployment phase.

Does this mean the bonus troops and officer must form a separate Brigade (with no other troops), or that the Core + Bonus must be in two brigades (but can be mixed as the player wants).

So if I have a core of 6 battalions + artillery, and an attacking bonus of 2 battalions, do I have to have two brigades consisting of an Officer/6 inf/artillery and Officer/2 inf? Or can I mix and match as long as I have two brigades? I presume the 2nd - but it reads like the first.

In a draw the army that has lost the most amount of units is the loser.

This rule is just being mean to big bad armies - an army losing a lower % of their army can end up losing. OK, using early Prussians I may be a tad biased on this rule.

Main thing I worry about with the objective focus on the comp is that bloody horse artillery will be doing cheesy moves to ride up limbered to contest objectives late in the game. This is particularly easy for horse artillery because of their very long move and since they are mostly only 1 base when limbered. An attacker in the normal scenario loses 2-5 if they don't contest the objective, but could turn that to 2-2 or 3-2 draw if they can get a single artillery base within 4BW of the objective.

Looking forward to Saturday - except I still have the officers to paint, 2 units to put on bases, all the bases to be flocked ...

Cam

Posted 9 months ago #
Mycenius
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Looking forward to Saturday - except I still have the officers to paint, 2 units to put on bases, all the bases to be flocked ...

Why have you left everything to the last minute...?! ;-p

Posted 9 months ago #
Prinny
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Hi Cam,

Heres some answers to your questions.

1, Nope.... he is locked into the same command for the whole turn.

2, You read it right, but it must be at least the size of the extra troops

3, We will see how it all works out. Sorry not the best answer but I don't think it will be that bad.

Its a wargaming comp you are suppose to leave things to the last moment :)

Cheers

Tim

Posted 9 months ago #
Ratisbon
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I had planned everything perfectly to finish exactly 5mins before the comp kicked off. Any earlier would be bad form.

Then we had a power cut (on Auckland's coldest day ever - only 8C!). That forced me to do some painting under torchlight. Somewhat depressingly I could see no difference between my normal painting standard and my torchlight standard. Which does not say much for my ability. But maybe I could win a "painted by candlelight" painting award?

Cam

Posted 9 months ago #
thilder
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how did it all go fellas?

:P

Posted 9 months ago #
paulus
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looking forward to some reports ana few pics..........Paul

Posted 9 months ago #
LintMan
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http://lintmanswarblog.blogspot.com/

Has some updates on the event.

Posted 9 months ago #
thilder
Member

Hey guys,

Any tips or short cuts on organising a Lasalle comp? Anything to be wary of?

Thanks
Tom

Posted 8 months ago #
Mycenius
Member

Just FWIW - link to post with Cam and My AAR of our practice game of the CTA Scenario a couple of weeks before the Tournament - Lasalle: The Trouble With Tribbles:
http://www.sammustafa.com/honour/forum/topic/lasalle-the-trouble-with-tribbles

Posted 8 months ago #
Mycenius
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BTW - Any chance of getting a summary of everyone's armies - what options they took/forces...?

LintMan's posted his (1815 Prussians) on his blog, and gives an indication of Bryan's Young Guard (YG + YG Inf Support), Paul's Peninsula French (with Dragoon Brigade Support), and Simon's British Guard (with Brunswick Brigade Support) - so what was the make up of the other 2 armies?

1806 Prussians (Cam)
British Light Division

I'm guessing Cam had a Prussian Infantry with a Prussian Heavy Dragoon Brigade in support? Did the British Light Division go with a Light Cavalry Brigade in support?

Posted 8 months ago #
Ratisbon
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I had 1806 Prussian Infantry + Reserve cavalry (2 Cuirassiers + 2 Dragoons).

I could not whine about Organic cavalry being overpowered and then take them to a comp!

Cam

Posted 8 months ago #
Mycenius
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Guys - what tournament scoring system did you use for CTA 2011?

Posted 6 months ago #

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