28mm Impetus Competition York Sunday 5th February 2017

The traditional start to the Impetus Competition calendar in the UK is York in February

I'll be running a competition at the Vapnartak show in York on 5th February 2017. "Vappa" is a superb venue - held at the Racecourse the facilities are excellent. York Wargames Club are both friendly and well organised and we usually have a great day
gaming.

Running Order (provisional)
Doors open 09:00 & Registration
Game 1 09:30-11:30
Lunch \ shopping 11:30-12:30
Game 2 12:30-14:30
Game 3 14:30-16:30

This will be a 400 pt 28mm competition over the usual 3 rounds.

Army Selections

Armies should be selected from the Ancients category - - sub periods 1, 2 & 3, so no Dark age, Medieval or Renaissance armies, and to concentrate the theme a little more excluding Ancient Chinese, so allowable armies from Volumes 1 through to 9.

Please check the errata here http://dadiepiombo.it/pdf/exerrae.pdf

Army composition

Armies must contain 2 to 4 Commands. Cowardly Generals cannot be used in this competition.

The larger Command must not exceed 60% of VDT. Halve minimums on the army list

All armies should be painted and should include a camp if appropriate.

Army Lists should be submitted for peer review either on the Facebook Event Page or the Impetus Forum thread for this event – details below, no later than Friday 27th January 2017

Terrain and Rules amendments

The competition will be run using the Impetus Rules published by Dadi & Piombo with the amendments from the most recent edition of Advanced Impetus, a free copy of which can be obtained here http://dadiepiombo.it/pdf/advancedeng2015.pdf

Some basic terrain will be provided however to minimise the transport load on the organisers we would appreciate it if players bring some terrain, particularly those items they intend to use as we cannot guarantee availability of everything.

Competition Entry

Entry fee is £10 per player. Payment for entries needs to be made directly to York Wargames Club via their PayPal Account paypal@yorkwargames.org

Please tag your payment Vapnartak - Impetus and give your name not your forum id. Could I also ask you put it down as a payment to a friend - it helps them avoid too many fees.

Please get your entry fees paid in asap as it helps sooth my nerves :-)

We have confirmation of TEN tables - so a maximum of 20 entries which will make this our biggest competition in quite a while

1. Shaun Rimmer (PAID) Mid Republican Roman
2. Andy Walls (PAID) 2nd Punic Wars Carthaginian
3. Fred Taylor (PAID) Thessalian
4. Ken Natt (PAID) Thracian
5. James Irvin (PAID) Goth
6. Chris Coles (PAID) Ancient Briton
7. Steven Johnson (PAID) Early Imperial Roman
8. Jon Webb (PAID) Samnite
9. Frazer Watson (PAID) Middle Republican Roman
10. Tony Denis (PAID) Sargonid Assyrian
11. Paul Davison (PAID) Alexandrian Macedonian
12 John Ryan (PAID) Ancient Briton
13. Leigh Brewster (PAID) Ancient Briton
14. Paul Harrison (PAID) Thracian
15. The Mysterious Jamie White (PAID) Early Imperial Roman
16. Pete (Memnon) Anderson (PAID) 2nd Punic Carthaginian
17. Mark Hadman (PAID) Magna Graecian
18. David (Dax) Robertson (PAID) Numidian
19.
20

Organiser \ sub (Ken Natt)

Facebook page for the event is:
https://www.facebook.com/events/1110925469024382/1111434128973516/?notif_t=like&notif_id=1480674185451269

in case you do that sort of thing, and the Impetus Forum page can be found here:

http://impetus.ativiforum.com/t907-28mm-impetus-competition-york-sunday-5th-february-2017

Prizes
We are very fortunate this year in having a number of sponsors who have generously offered to support us with prizes. This will allow us to award prizes for places AND there will be a special award on the day for Best Camp. I would wholeheartedly endorse their products
Our sponsors (in no particular order)
Old Glory http://www.oldgloryuk.com/
Coritani http://www.magneticdisplays.co.uk/
Bad Squiddo Games https://thedicebaglady.net/
Asgard Wargames http://www.asgardwargames.co.uk/
Warbases http://war-bases.co.uk/

Thank You and Good luck!

I'm in mate, just not sure what I'm going to play yet, hopefully Paul H and another friend of mine will be up for it too
Cheers
Shaun R

That's a start :-)

Hi Ken,

Please add me to the list. Love the York competition. There - that's the bottom of the table sorted already!!

The only ancients I have is a half-painted Ancient Britons army so I even know what I am bringing!

Cheers

John

Will do - if you need any I have plenty of ABs spare you can loan

I'll throw my Hät into the ring, i.e. my Hät Sargonid Assyrians, if you are OK with beta lists...



Tony

Please count me in. I am 'the mate' that Shaun R has been talking about.

Two more added - looking good

hi Ken

stick me down as well please

cheers

will do

Two places left - then I'll have to try and get an extension :-)

Chris Coles and myself (Ste) are planning to attend as well!

err we appear to be full - I'll see if we can extend

Hi Ken

Sorry to mess you around but I know my friend Paul H (who was at Donnington) is very keen to join also. He will contact you shortly

Cheers

Were going to need more tables :-)

I'll contact the organisers

Hey Jez,
I'd like to bring my Thracians along again, as Shaun said - hope there's still space.

Paul H

BIG UPDATE - we have confirmed up to ten tables so if there are anyone else wishing to take part let me know. Can I ask you make your entry payments to York Wargames themselves using the details in the main post.

This is looking like it could be a great opener to 2017

First sponsor confirmed - Asgard Games will donate "stuff" as a prize

Count me in please Ken.

How will we recognise you on the day - will there ne a mask?

Cyrus The Adequate wrote:How will we recognise you on the day - will there ne a mask?

oh yeah - I forgot I didn't sign up with my name -

I'll be easily recognisable , I'll be rolling worse than Fred

Jamie

Just to let you know we have another sponsor - Magnetic Displays \ Coritani. They are great for magnetic displays (doh!) but they also carry a really useful line of scenery items great for making Camps for your armies

http://www.magneticdisplays.co.uk/

And another sponsor update -

Old Glory UK will be providing a prize too - cant be specific yet but in the past they have been particularly generous so fingers crossed.

http://www.oldgloryuk.com/

And Annie (The Dice Bag Lady) will also be sponsoring us

https://thedicebaglady.net/

And Lorenzo is providing 2 copies of BI2

Hi Cyrus, I have now paid my money to York Wargames, so expect to see some Samnites arriving in York. Look forward to seeing you all then. Jon.

OK general update

First GET YOUR HANDS IN YOUR POCKET and pay the entry fee please! I've updated the initial list to show who has been a responsible person. Joking aside I would appreciate it if you got paid up so we are square with the organisers.

Secondly this is starting to look like one of the best sponsored events we've had. So far due to begging and blagging we have

Warbases - who will be providing some event only measuring sets
Old Glory -
Coritani -
Bad Squiddo -
Lorenzo -
Asgard WarGames