C&C:N Tournament in Paris 29 september 2019 Borodino@OPJH 2019

Tournament rules in french and english (it's quite the same as the last edition) are available.

We have decided to increase the game duration for player's comfort hoping that games will go to their end.

@hawkmoon - the rules say matches will go 75 or 90 mins, is that correct and is that scenario dependent or something else?

Mark

Hi Mark.
You're right. It dépends of the scenario : 75 minutes for Village of Borodino and 90 minutes for Raevski Redoubt. The maximum total playing time will be 5 hours and a half. 2,5 hours for Village and 3 for Raevski.
I remind you that the printed maps will be proposed for selling (including the last year tournaments ones).
Day - 20 !!!

Hi Francois
As I said in a previous response, I will be in Paris this year. However, I'm not gonna enter the C&C this time. I do wish you all very well for the tournament, but last year I found the scoring system rather bizarre. When the time is up, a player winning 7-1 is no better off than a player losing 7-8. Yet, one has clearly 'won', the other has 'lost'. No-one has reached the magic winning total, but it still seems to me scoring more banners than your opponent has to be the #1 objective if the winning total can't be reached.
I recall I had two excellent battles with Miguel (I think that was his name) where, in the first battle we were at 3-3 after almost an hour (I think). It was an excellent game which we both really enjoyed. The follow up, he was winning 1-0 at the end. Two extremely tight games, both of which might have finished quickly since most units were 'exhausted' by the finish, yet he was penalised for scoring only 4 banners instead of winning 1 game and tieing the other. Clearly we misunderstood the scoring system beforehand, but in reality a system that encourages players to be willing to just throw their units into battle simply to score banners quickly without regard to how many they lose is rather unrealistic.
I still enjoyed playing on both days last year. The opponents I played against, and the other players from what I could see, all played the games in superb, I improved my French gaming vocabulary and had a great time. But this year, with full awareness of the scoring system, I don't think I can participate in something where winning the battle is replaced by a series of banner races against time.
I hope you get plenty of folks in the tournament, and I shall pop across to say hello and watch some of the action when I can.

I understand your position but we have to make a choice. We have increased the games duration. Hope we can play together maybe in Le Mans or Tours with Guillaume and some Prétoriens on a Big game. See you in Paris.

one more question - Is the tournament using the full 90 command card deck?

Hi Mark,
As written in the tournament guide, players will use 90 command cards deck (green back) and 50 tactician cards deck (red back). Present members of the Prétoriens will take their own material to Paris. We have 3 or 4 decks of each.
D - 17 !!!

You have 10 days left to register for the fighting at Borodino.

Hello, I'll see you again this year in Borodino.
David

Craterus wrote: Hello, I'll see you again this year in Borodino.
David

Don't forget to register David