Cold Wars '91 Report

Courier Dispatch News

by Scott Holder

We had another all time high as far as participants at this year's convention. I had about 94 people involved in the three tournaments, Teams, Bronze Age, and DBA. For once, we had enough room at the Penn Harris, only because of the lower table requirements when playing Teams. Still, it was snug. The Bronze Age tourney was much more popularthan I expected. We actually had as many people playing in 25mm as in 15mm, the first time that has ever happened in recent years. I guess people showed up using all those New Assyrian armies that have been gathering dust since the days of 5th Edition.

I would like to thank Frank Gibson for helping out with the umpiring chores. Dan Burkley filled in for me on Saturday so I could actually play a game. Alan Spencer organized and ran the DBA event, something he plans on doing in the foreseeable future.

The following sponsors kicked in for about $500 in prizes, again a new high: Ral Partha, Antiquitus Miniatures, Modelers Mart, Falcon Miniatures, Wargames, Soldier World USA, Simtac, and Matchlock Miniatures. I would especially like to thank Doug Ray of Eagle and Empire Hobby Shop here in Northern Virginia for providing the very nice terrain for the DBA tournament. It was light years ahead of my masking tape effort last year. The various tournament results are as follows:

    25mm Team: Brad Bode and Lenny Herrman - Seleucids
    15mm Team: Mark Stone and Dave Stiers - Tibetans
    25mm Bronze Age: Chris Damour - Early Hebrews
    15mm Bronze Age: Craig Tyrell - New Assyrians
    DBA Tourney: Scott McDonald - Free Company
    Best Painted 15mm: Wait Leach - New Assyrians
    Best Painted 25mm: Dan Burkley - New Kingdom Egyptians
    Sportsman: Holly Hinrichs

We continue to break the gender barrier with each convention. Last year we had the first women playing; this year we had the first father/daughter team, Tom and Holly Hinrichs. She is 12 and when I last saw her Sunday morning, she was holding her own in a singles pick up game running Germans.

Tentative HISTORICON tourney info will include singles games in both scales in the standard all three book 1500 point format as well as the NCT. However, because of foreseeable space limitations, we don't have a schedule yet. That will be in one of the next couple of Spearpoints and any other newsletter I remember to mail a schedule.

The following is a breakdown of the tournament results in order of placement. I've only listed players or teams that finished the entire tournament. Several players and teams dropped out early.

25mm Teams, 12 entered, 10 finished
1. Bode and Herrman - Seleucid
2. Boise and Novak - Late Romans
3. Essick and Dickson - Carthagenians
4. Downs and Grossman - Sicilian Hohenstaufen
5. Garret and Scott - Japanese
6. Serafini and Scarci - Seleucid
7. Hissam and Hess - Alexandrian Imperial
8. Black and McDonald - Seleucid
9. Kroupa and Burke - Seleucid
10. Stapleton and Stapleton - Mongols

15mm Teams, 18 entered, 16 finished
1. Stone and Stiers - Tibetans
2. Miller and Pfanenstiel - Sultan of Lodi
3. Wright and Gonzales - Bulgarians
4. Reese and Payne - Lysimachid
5. Chamis and Marra - Sicilian Norman
6. Dziatko and Georgian - Blemye
7. Raief and Chaoin - Marian Roman
8. Barry and Turner - Later Romans
9. Wilkinson and Carter - Seleucids
10. Gardocki and Ecleiken - Late Romans
11 . Hinrichs and Hinrichs - Teutonic Knights
12. McGinnis and Whittaker - Alexandrian Imperial
13. Torok and Zachowski - Magyar
14. Bowser and Turner - Late Romans
15. Foller and Promutico - Kushite Egyptian
16. Bowler and Nedwich - Marian Roman

25mm Bronze Age, 14 entered, 8 finished
1. Chris Damour - Early Hebrew
2. Paul Serio - New Assyrian
3. Dan Burkely - New Kingdom Egyptian
4. Tom McMillen - New Kingdom Egyptian
5. John Metcalf - Neo Babylonian
6. Dick Hurchanils - New Assyrian
7. Larry Daum - New Assyrian
8. Jim Kasper - Phillistine

15mm Bronze Age, 14 entered, 10 finished
1. Craig Tyrell - New Assyrian
2. Mike Butler - Elamites
3. Walt Leach - New Assyrian
4. Bill Low - Early Assyrian
5. Mark Lepore - Neo Babylonian
6. Jack Smith - Sumerian
7. Charles Jackson - Zhou Chinese
8. Dave Ray - New Babylonian
9. Danny Weitz - Late Hebrew
10. Carl Steffenelli - New Assyrian

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