Quote from: BHGS on July 12, 2019, 11:29:46 AM
The latest update we had from the main organiser only showed the one actual booking, so if there are teams planning on attending it would be useful if you could sign up very soon please so we can establish whether the event is viable prior to people booking accommodation.

Based on this thread I'm still only seeing maybe 4 teams currently ?   Perhaps someone who knows the nicknames better than I could do a tally-up ?

At the moment, 4 teams max.  We had 6 teams at Campaign.  Might be able to shake the tree after the holiday season.

Ray

Needs sorting by about Britcon IMO to be fair on the orgas.

The organiser (not us..) is keen that we establish viability of some sort of MeG event sooner rather than later, as there is a considerable amount of logistics involved in the wider event of which we are but part - so in the absence of more team bookings being forthcoming we should be relaunching this as a singles event fairly soon.

Stand by for further updates.... and if you'd look to enter a singles event please put your hand up !

I'd be happy with a singles comp - have the weekend booked for toy soldiers already after all 

Lee, Alasdair and Ray have paid and entered

The Blank Tossers (i.e. Paul Cummins, Stephen Steads and myself) have now entered

With what seems a limited prospect of getting the 6 teams necessary, the proposal on the table gentlemen is to flip this to a single event, and in the interests of simplicity go with the firs of the three "team" themes

This will mean a single pool, 15mm singles event with the theme of:

Period 1 Rise of Macedon 359- 323 BC – 10,000 points
 Theban (Classical Greek)
 Athenian (Classical Greek)
 Thracian Hill Tribes
 Early Macedonian
 Illyrian
 Mercenary Greek
 Later Spartan
 Alexandrian Macedonian
 Alexandrian Expeditionary
 Mountain Indian
 Classical Indian
 Later Achaemenid Persian
 Early Scythian
 Thracian Lowland

Current team member entrants would be transferred into the singles event which will be played over the usual 4 rounds of 3 hour games over the two days.

Unless there are any virulent objections we'll press the button on changing the website to enable single entries later this week.

Quote from: BHGS on July 29, 2019, 04:21:34 PM
With what seems a limited prospect of getting the 6 teams necessary, the proposal on the table gentlemen is to flip this to a single event, and in the interests of simplicity go with the firs of the three "team" themes

This will mean a single pool, 15mm singles event with the theme of:

Period 1 Rise of Macedon 359- 323 BC – 10,000 points
 Theban (Classical Greek)
 Athenian (Classical Greek)
 Thracian Hill Tribes
 Early Macedonian
 Illyrian
 Mercenary Greek
 Later Spartan
 Alexandrian Macedonian
 Alexandrian Expeditionary
 Mountain Indian
 Classical Indian
 Later Achaemenid Persian
 Early Scythian
 Thracian Lowland

Current team member entrants would be transferred into the singles event which will be played over the usual 4 rounds of 3 hour games over the two days.

Unless there are any virulent objections we'll press the button on changing teh website to enable single entries later this week.

Hi Tim,

I'll drop out if it's singles.

Ray

We would only be doing this as it does look as if a team event is not viable, as we only have an indication of 4 possible teams at this point in time.

We are also open to suggestions of a different theme that might work better.

Thats also a perfectly fine option...  as we said earlier, more than happy to take suggestions from this forum as to theme.

It's more a case that past experience shows that posting a "whaddya want?"-type open question to a bunch of wargamers on any forum will inevitably throw up more answers than there are forum members...so making a firm-ish suggestion and asking for it to be shot down is much easier all round ... 

It's also worth pointing out maybe that the theme is simply one (the first..) of the three themes which were published for the MeG team event some time ago, and it was designed and selected by Alasdair.  It's also pretty much the textbook ancients theme, which most people probably therefore have an army for..

I was interested in another team event, nice dynamic and a change up from other events.  I'm not interested in another themed event with a tiny choice of armies. It's a personal thing, can't please everyone.

Quote from: rayfredjohn on July 29, 2019, 05:28:28 PM
I was interested in another team event, nice dynamic and a change up from other events.  I'm not interested in another themed event with a tiny choice of armies. It's a personal thing, can't please everyone.

Would open singles, or indeed any other theme tempt you ?

Quote from: BHGS on July 29, 2019, 04:21:34 PM
With what seems a limited prospect of getting the 6 teams necessary, the proposal on the table gentlemen is to flip this to a single event, and in the interests of simplicity go with the firs of the three "team" themes

This will mean a single pool, 15mm singles event with the theme of:

Period 1 Rise of Macedon 359- 323 BC – 10,000 points
 Theban (Classical Greek)
 Athenian (Classical Greek)
 Thracian Hill Tribes
 Early Macedonian
 Illyrian
 Mercenary Greek
 Later Spartan
 Alexandrian Macedonian
 Alexandrian Expeditionary
 Mountain Indian
 Classical Indian
 Later Achaemenid Persian
 Early Scythian
 Thracian Lowland

Current team member entrants would be transferred into the singles event which will be played over the usual 4 rounds of 3 hour games over the two days.

Unless there are any virulent objections we'll press the button on changing the website to enable single entries later this week.

Swapping to a singles event is OK - sensible in fact given not enough teams have committed.

However, that theme is too narrow outside of a team comp.

I'd not go to that.

I'd suggest either a wider theme or an open comp for this. In fact, as there is only 1 open comp in the MeG calendar this year (as, oddly, Britcon isn't an open) I'd suggest an Open Comp 

The call is Tim's/BHGS.

Well better ask around at Britcon. As at the mo it's like hearding Snails. No get up and go. No enthusiasm IYKWIM