the napoleonic wars two-player [Updated October 2003]  

2003 WBC Report  

 2004 Status: pending 2004 GM commitment

Roy Gibson

2003 Champion

2nd: Chris Byrd, CT

3rd: Richard Beyma, MD

4th: Mick Frydas, UK

5th: Phil Bradley, IL

6th: Jason White, VA

Event History
2003    Roy Gibson     26

WAM Event History
2003    Don Greenwood     12

Waterloo Event History
2003    John Emery     14
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 Laurels
Rank Name

From

Last
Total
 1. Roy Gibson

MD

03
46
 2. John Emery

SC

03
40
 3. Don Greenwood

MD

03
32
 4. Kevin Sudy

VA

03
24
 5. Chris Byrd

CT

03
18
 6. Rob Beyma

MD

03
16
 7. Ben Knight

MD

03
12
 8. Richard Beyma

MD

03
12
 9. Nick Frydas

UK

03
  9
10. Phil Bradley

IL

03
  6
11. Marvin Birnbaum

NJ

03
  4
12. Jason White

VA

03
  3

a pox on multi-player ...

Twenty-six would be rulers of Europe showed up at Salon CD Wednesday afternoon for the first two-player NW2 tournament. This translated into 13 games of the 1812 scenario. Sadly we had not allowed enough time for setting up the game so completing the preliminary rounds in two hours apiece was to prove to be challenging. Something to change for next year, however once random seating was established and the games set up the play began. The 1812 scenario came as a surprise to many players but all the comments were favorable including suggestions that this is the most balanced of all the scenarios available for any of the card driven games.

The first round left 12 players (one player deciding not to continue) and we decided to play 1812 again in order to reduce setup time. The original plan was to move onto the 1813 scenario. Play of the last two games ran late (apologies to the arriving Lost Cities players) but the game situations were very tight and this rookie GM (coward that he is) didn't want to call a game as close as these were.

The six players who qualified for the semi-finals now had a choice to make. Should they play three two player semi-finals and a three-player final or vice versa? All games would be campaign games. One factor pushing for the three-player final was the award level for the tournament allowed for three plaques. so the players decided on the two-player semi-final option. The pairings were then made randomly with Richard Beyma vs Jason White, Chris Byrd vs Phil Bradley and Nick Frydas vs Roy
Gibson.

The semi-finals illustrated the difficulty of playing the Campaign Game in a tournament setting with Richard winning in one turn, Chris taking two turns and Roy three turns and 6 hours to qualify for the final. Most pairings were decided by player choice with little bidding required to decide sides.

In the three-way final sides were randomly decided with Roy playing the French, Chris Austria/Russia and Richard the British. The final fought out Saturday afternoon was a wild three-turn game that had a Danish invasion of Russia, Britain conquered on turn 2 and the remaining Coalition battling it out with a powerful France on turn 3. In the end however the French prevailed. Had the game gone a fourth turn the outcome may well have been different.

I hope everyone enjoyed the contest and is looking forward to another go next year.

Roy Gibson is the master of all he surveys: a new NW2 crowm and deluxe Napoleonic Wars mounted amd enlarged map.
 GM      Roy Gibson  [1st Year]   NA
   triumphtrophy@comcast.net   NA

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