Sorry for the last minute post, but if you live near Austin, Texas, the Austin chapter of Lone Star Historical Miniatures will be doing a Lasalle game day on Sunday, February 28. We will have some loaner armies available and plenty of commands for those interested in trying Lasalle.
Great Hall Games is on 5501 North Lamar, Suite A-135
Dave
It would almost be worth the drive. Have fun!
How did the Lasalle boot camp go, Dave?
We've had a good time with the system up here as well.....faron.
It went really well. We had 16 participants playing on 6 tables. Everyone had a good time and the rules were recieved quite favorably with the new players that were there. I took some pictures and will try to get them posted up on the LSHM website tonight. The store owner wants me to run a tournament in May. I'm open to the idea but will have to delve more deeply into how to organize and score something like that. We definately want to the greatest extent possible to have historically plausble matchups. I always did that when I ran FOW tournaments and most of the folks here around Austin seem to prefer it. Asking people to submit thier army lists prior to the event helps keep things on an even keel cause you can usually get at least a couple of folks who are willing to play either side in order to even things up and have armies to do it.
My initial thought is to suspend the rules for cavalry in determining victory level. Not because I think there is anything especially wrong with it, but it does pretty much eliminate a lot of support options in a competitive scoring environment. Falling back on my experience running Flames of War tournaments, the most desirable set of outcomes would be a draw, minor victory, and major victory for both sides. How do we define that if we aren't going to count cavalry stands after the game?
Draws are well defined, and don't require much tweeking (IMHO). So what are minor/major victories in a competitive setting?
Defender minor victory: Defender still in at least contested possesion of the objective at the end of the game and the attacker in army morale (but not yet broken) and the defender not in army morale.
Defender major victory: Attacking army breaks morale before the game ends on turns.
Attacker minor victory: Game ends on turns with the objective being contested and the defender is in army morale (but not broken) and the attacker is not in army morale.
Attacker major victory: Defending army breaks morale before the end of the game on turns or the attacker gains uncontested possession of the objective as described in the rules.
Assign point values for victory levels and I am thinking of using number/value of units a player broke during a game as a tie-breaker value.
Thats just a first pass and I haven't done an exhaustive search on the forum yet to see what other folks are doing in the way of a tournament format and I am certainly open to suggestion.
Dave
Dave,
What is the DEFINITIVE basing standard that will be used? That issue hangs over us still. In order to do this, we need agree on one way to do it and I think in Texas we can follow the lead of LSHM in Austin.
How many support brigades will be used? If just one, then I agree that cavalry is an issue. One thing we should discuss (with Sam, of course) is creating additional support 'brigades' that are smaller, or actually a mixture of cavalry and infantry.
Were there any issues with the end game rules? I've been thinking one change might be to not start the clock until the attacker shoots his artillery or comes within a certain range of the defender. This might not work for a multi-round tourney though.
I will look for the photos...
Here in Austin, we have settled on 40mm x 20mm bases for infantry, 40mm x 30mm bases for cavalry, and 40mm x 40mm bases for artillery. There are a couple of guys who are talking about doing 2 ranks of infantry and using 40 x 30mm bases but thats not a biggie. The biggie is that here in Austin, a base width is 40mm.
My initial thought is a single support option and try to keep the game as close to the rulebook as humanly possible. Set up the tables prior to the tournament in order to save time. We want to use 3 hour rounds in order to do a single-day tournament so a few shortcuts will need to be taken in setup to give players maximum playing time to resolve battles.
Dave da Happy Nappy
Are the photos up? I guess I could click on the website and check....
So you guys are basing a SINGLE rank of figures per base? If so, that is AWESOME and brings my Empire collection into play! Would that work?
Yes, mainly because we are using 40mm x 20mm bases for both 10mm and 15mm so that they can fight against each other in a tournament.
Francisco
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