Courier Dispatch

Cold Wars '92 Ancients Report

by Scott Holder

What a turnout! What a wide variety of events, tournaments and non-tournament! What hyperbole! Actually we had 115 players involved in the tournament gaming which consisted of an Open, a Punic Era, and the National Team Championship. Tack on another 32 players in the Sunday morning DBA games, about 24 of which had not already played in the 7th tourneys, and we had our biggest Cold War sever.

In addition Arty Conliffe ran two Tactica battles of Zama in conjunction with our Punic Theme which attracted about a dozen players in each session. I alsosaw Cy Taylor running a Hastings skirmish game after he finished his Punic work. (Bob Beattie also ran a duplicate bridge style DBA competition - Ed). We had about 10 players in a Punic Demo game in 7th for begi4qners Saturday night. Many thanks for Glen Boise and Jim Kasper far walking player through an introductory game of 7th. Dan Burkley and Frank Gilson helped out as usual with umpiring and Rod Burr, Paul Georgian, and Kruse Smith did a great job running and administering the Open.

Simtac was the sole sponsor for the DBA tournament and Wargames for the National Team Championship Tournament (NTCT). The following provided additional prizes for the other tournaments: Arty Conliffe, Soldier & Sword, Armory, Viking Forge, Thistle and Rose, Wargames Foundry, Irregular Miniatures, Ral Partha, and Falcon. I would like to apologize to Jim Parcella of Falcoln Miniatures since he provided something for the Open which I mistakenly gave to the Sportsman winner. A slip in communications on my part and I am really sorry.

TOURNEY RESULTS

NTCT Championship Derek Downs and Joe Serafini, Selucid
NTCT Runner-up Dave Stier and Fred Grossman, Tibetan
NTCT 3rd Place Pete Reese and Steve Payne, Tibetan
Sportsman Howard Adams and Bo Register
25mm Punic War Winner Rich Novak, Pyrric
25mm Punic Runner-up Walt Leach, Gauls
15mm Punic Winner Larry Essick, early Carthegenians
15mm Punic Runner-up Rob White, Spanish
25mm Open Winner Kruse Smith. Ottoman Turk
25mm Runner-up Tom Hamilton, Japanese
15mm Open Winner Mike Mallamaci, Sassanid
25mm Best Painted Kevin Kelly. Late Hoplite Greek
15mm Best Painted Stan Berry, Camillan Roman
DBA Winners Vic Fitzpatrick, Bruce Palmer, Robert Burnham,Stan Berry

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