Tuesday 28 April 2015

Beyond the Foxholes 28 - The Road to Art of War

Hi all

Welcome to Beyond the Foxholes Episode 28, we join Adam, Fez and Ben. 

In act one we join the guys in Adam's car on the way to The Art of War EW tournament. The guys talk about there armies and what they hope to get out of the weekend.

In act two Ben and Adam interview all the .different player who are going to the ETC )European Team Tournament. These include New Zealand, USA, England, Scotland, France, Northern Ireland, Wales and Finland (Check out the achtung painter blog). They also chat to the Tim and Steve who ran the event and Rich the owner of the Sanctuary Gaming Centre

In act three the guys are back in Adam's car with a full AAR of their games, a run down of the event and a few other random bits and pieces.
You can download the podcast from here.
Thanks for listening

Ben

5 comments:

  1. Hey, could you explain how the up and down part of the tournament work? It sounds like a very interesting element of the tournament but I don't quite understand the mechanics of it from listening to the podcast.

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    1. Sorry what did you mean by the up and down part? Do you mean how the draw was done each round?

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    2. I'm talking about the army list. It sounded like you could either bring a single 1550 point list, or 3 lists of 1400, 1550 and 1700. I'm assuming how the draw was done each round was also related to this.

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    3. Right I get it now. Basically you could either play 5 games with 1550pts or bring a swap out. The swap out could be up to 1700pts but if you brought a 1700pts list you had to also play with a 1400pts list for every time you used the 1700pts list. So if you used the 1700pts list once you had to use the 1400pts list once, if you used it twice then you had to use the smaller list twice.

      I choose not to do it as did most players. Fez used it to get the bigger glider army. I hope that helps

      Ben

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    4. It helps a little. Someone mention (i think it was Fez) that if they study the scenario better they would have pick a different list. This got me wondering when did you have to reveal what list you were playing with? Did you have to pick at the beginning of the tournament which list to use for each round, or did you have the option for what list round by round? Also did this affect match making any?

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