Warrior Ancient and Medieval Rules

[joncleaves]

In a message dated 2/9/2003 00:47:01 Central Standard Time,
edgdp@... writes:

> Dear Jon,
>
> Just a quick update on Warrior from down here in Australia.


Greg, I hope you don't mind, but I am replying this to the group so everyone
can hear about your good news story.

>
> We had the Oz championships down here late last month, and despite some
> fire scares, they were successful.
>
>
> I think you will be pleased to hear the following.
>
> 1. The "fast Warrior" demo went well. Dave Lawrence set up some great
> eye-catching maps and Dave, Gerry Hearn, Dale Dobie, and Myself (I was
> umpiring the TOG comp) were able to convince many people to have
> pick-up games and the rule set was well received. We had a good time.

Fast Warrior has been a big success in getting new players into the game.
Our local FW tourneys continue to grow and are the 'goal' many of our
recruits use to help motivate themselves to get the beginnings of an army
together. One of our new guys is painting a gorgeous Spartan army out of
those nice Xyston figs and another has just settled on Italian Condotta and
is shopping around for the figs....

>
> 2. There were 16 players playing TOG. After some "gentle" encouragement
> from myself and Murray Evans over the last 12 months we have (as a
> group) opted to use Warrior for all our competition gaming from now on.
> Just about all the guys who attended had been involved in our
> "play-test" program and spoke very encouragingly about the Warrior rule
> set.
> All the Australian competitions (local, state and National) which used
> to be TOG comps will now be Warrior comps. We have 52 rated players (ie
> they have played in a comp in the last three years). Our first comp day
> is the 26th-27 of April and we have selected armies from the "Dark Age
> Warrior" list book as the theme. (It looks like I'm going to be umpire
> again- bummer)

That is fantastic news.

>
> One of the things which has really allowed the change to be fairly
> smooth (to date) has been the prompt replies to questions about rules
> you have given on the E-group. Just a quick thanks for a normally
> thankless task ;)

Oh, I get thanked enough...lol This mail alone will last me for months....

>
> BTW: we have a rating/ranking system that has been in place for a
> number of years here on a national level- if you want details on how we
> work it let me know.

It's a controversial thing here. If we *do* decide to do something like
that, I'll give a holler for advice and maybe we can integrate things into
some kind of 'international set up. We have not made a decision yet.

>
>
> Cheers,
>
> Greg Preston
>

Thanks, Greg.


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