Weekend Update

The post COLD BARRAGE post as it were... 

Well, Friday and Saturday it was "The Big Game", an ADLG Team Tournament at COLD BARRAGE in Harve de Grace, Maryland. Four of us comprising Team Full Monty (all of us residing in Montgomery County, PA) took on The Peach State Platoon, The Birmingham Bunnies, The Balrogs (another Pennsylvania based team), The Cellar Rats (some Allentown-Scranton area folk), and finally, The Jersey Boys. 

My band of time was the Medieval Period, with my Golden Horde Mongols, and I can say that I managed a perfect record in this competition.....a record of 0 - 5! 

That's right. Not a single win. The Golden Horde was more like the Iron Pyrite Mob. But we did slap a few elephants around and we did sack one camp. I learned a lot about playing ADLG and I had a tremendous amount of fun. 

Paul came all the way from Gee-orgee-ah with his Medieval Spanish and an auto de fe, I wasn't expecting the Spanish Inquisition though... 

Bill from Birmingham (the one in Alabamia, not the one in the UK) and his Siamese, if you please. A close-run match that made me hopeful, only to be trampled underneath and turned into elephant poop. 

Kornell and his Medieval Hungarians. I really enjoyed playing against this gentleman, we had a great conversation and he was very helpful in showing me some aspects of the rules...not that it stopped him from schwacking my pony boys like a bad, bad bunch of donkey riders. 

Thomas and his Medieval Teutonic army was another up armored collection of Knights and Crossbowmen that defied my ability to find a flank and were impossible to play bowfire games against. My loss against him was the worst one, points wise, that I suffered. 

Kevin from Joisy, wid his Tech Support Army of Ellies and Ellie poop scoopers. Unfortunately, he was able to outlast my (sort of) brilliant tactical maneuvers... And that's my story...It was a close game, though. The flipping pooper scoopers were all "Impact" or "Bow-somethings" which made it annoying.

I did NOT need to rent a van to carry all this stuff. Includes the official Team Full Monty uniform shirt...

Bill's camp that I sacked and looted the fruit. I love this camp marker... 

Overall, this was a great show. Made some new friends. Saw some old ones. And I played five games! I almost never get to play that many games in a show. 

Were there cons to this, er, con? Sure. The short time between games meant that it was a speed trip through the folks selling stuff and seeing other games that were not in the tournament area. With COLD BARRAGE there are not a lot of options for food, so I usually bring my own. 

And I really, really, really got tired of fighting Up Armored Pony Boys. I'd rather see the elephants. 

But the pros well outweigh those cons. 

Can't wait for the next chance to run my Mongols. For now, there are some other things to paint. I will probably download some top down paper miniatures to make some training aids and refine my game. 

And I see I have completely forgotten to take pictures of the loot I brought home as well... ah, well. 

Next time.