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Had a blast at Historicon 2021
the convention center - was overall not a bad venue - way better than the LandDumpster PA.

Triumph gang had a great area for games - with lots of room

We saw some brand new people to Triumph

Congratulations on your victory. Meanwhile I achieve a nearly perfect score, destroying only 1 unit in 3 games with my Viking army.

Very impressive Roger. Way to thread the needle

RogerCooper wrote: ↑

Sat Nov 20, 2021 12:42 am

...I achieve a nearly perfect score, destroying only 1 unit in 3 games with my Viking army.

Wow, that's a rough record. With the battle cards available to Vikings, I've found them to be pretty competitive and fun. What were you matched up against?

I faced 3 late medieval armies and did not have any battle cards. I also had some bad die-rolling.

RogerCooper wrote: ↑

Mon Nov 22, 2021 3:41 am

I faced 3 late medieval armies and did not have any battle cards. I also had some bad die-rolling.

Without the battle cards, those are rough match-ups. Prepared Defenses and Mobile Infantry really help out against that type of army. Of course, if the dice were rooting for your opponents, it probably wouldn't have mattered...

Roger to be fair you were just borrowing a demo army straight up Viking list in an open where there were a lot of armies with mounted forces.

Vikings do much better in period.

Rod wrote: ↑

Mon Nov 22, 2021 1:29 pm

Roger to be fair you were just borrowing a demo army straight up Viking list in an open where there were a lot of armies with mounted forces.

Vikings do much better in period.

As Rod says. I might say it even stronger -- Vikings are one of the dominant armies in their period. There is a rock-scissors-paper aspect for Open tournaments -- any army with heavy Archers/Bow Levy gets dominated by heavy foot armies; any army with heavy foot gets dominated by Knight armies; any army with Knights gets dominated by Archer/Bow Levy. If you don't want to have a major vulnerability, take a combined-arms army. If you take a combined-arms army, though, be prepared to have to deal with a very complicated tactical problem.

I should have taken the New Kingdom Egyptians for a very weird battle.

RogerCooper wrote: ↑

Tue Nov 23, 2021 12:07 am

I should have taken the New Kingdom Egyptians for a very weird battle.

They're a good army in an Open tournament.