Art De La Guerre

[Mad Max]

Friends or future friends,

It’s not spring yet but it’s the season of renewal already : the Chtis Stratège tournament is back !
After this dark period of pandemic and restrictions, we now have the permission and the hall available to relaunch our activity.
On the 9th and 10th of September 2023, we will orgazine the ADLG double tournament of the Chtis Stratège in Vendin-le-Vieil.
The tournament will be held in François Miterrand hall, in Vendin-le-Vieil (Pas de Calais, Northern France), right across the town hall. Travel and hotel informations will follow soon.

Date :
Saturday, September 9th : 08:00 players welcoming ; 09:30 : 1st game ; 14:00 : 2nd game
Sunday, September 10th : 08:00 3rd game ; 12:15 : 4th game ; 15 :45 : end of games ; 16:00 : results and prizes
Venue : Salle François Mitterand, 62880 Vendin-le-Vieil

Maximum number of teams : 20 (so 40 players)

Rules : L’Art de la Guerre, 4th edition

Army size : 300 points double tournament

Number of games & game length : 4 games of 3hr30’ (end of the game at the umpire’s call)

Figure scale : 15mm. The miniatures must correctly represent the type of troop and the army must be fully painted

List specifications : lists 1 to 123. 2 allied commands are allowed but they must be different from each other and both must be amongst the allowed lists.

List checker & umpire : Patrick Tahon tahon-patrick@wanadoo.fr
Dice and terrain elements : dice will be supplied ; players should bring their own conform terrain elements (in shape and size). Tables will be 100x150cm

Entrance fee : €20,- per player, including breakfast, lunch (sandwich) and gourmet coffee on both Saturday and Sunday.
We will also organize diner on Saturday evening in the same venue (€12,- for players TBC, €15,- for external TBC), possibly followed by games (like some tournaments used to do pre-covid).


Theme : at the Chtis stratèges, antique is not faked.
Lists 1 to 123 can be played, with a limit of 2 teams with the same list number.
There will be scenarios, challenges, event cards and bonuses (based on AdlG army stats). All these details are already available on the French part of the forum. Translation in English is in progress.
Stay tuned !

[Mad Max]

BONUSES :

Re-roll bonus : Armies are sorted in 5 groups, based on the number of games they have been played (as per the stats on the AdlG website on 12th of February).

1st group : armies played less than 30 competitive games will be allowed 4 re-rolls perr game
3 Amorite Highlanders
5 Old Assyrian and Babylonian
6 Kassite Babylonian
11 Nubian
13 Hyksos
18 Syrian City States
26 Aramaean and Neo-Hittite
27 Urartu
29 Phrygian
31 Geometric Greek
34 Indus Valley
36 Erlitou Shang Chinese
38 Early Macedonian
49 Tullian Roman
62 Illyrian
66 Lycian
67 Bithynian
69 Cappadocian
81 Qiang Di
82 Yayoi Japanese
94 Vandal Franks, Alemanni, Burgundi, Suevi
96 Gepid, Herul, Taifali and Sciri
100 Saxon, Anglo-Saxon, Frisian, Jutes
101 Britto-Roman
113 Moors
117 Xianbei
122 Kofun-Nara Japanese
123 Emishi

2nd group : armies played between 31 and 60 times will be allowed 3 re-rolls per game.
2 Sumerian Successor
4 Elamite
10 Old and Middle Kingdom Egyptian
16 Kushite Egyptian
21 Hurri-Mitanni
25 Philistine
47 Italian Tribes
52 Camillan Roman
78 Vietnamese
93 Visigoth
108 Alan
114 Kingdom of Axum
115 Xiongnu

3rd group : armies played between 61 and 90 times are allowed 2 re-rolls per game
12 Libyan
19 Oman and Gulf States
22 Syria, Canaan and Ugarit
24 Sea Peoples
32 Phoenicians of Cyprus
33 Celts
45 Later Macedonian
51 Campanian, Lucanian, Apulian Bruttian
57 Saitic Egyptian
58 Kyrenean Greek
59 Meroitic Kushite
65 Lydian
99 Caledonian, Scots-Irish and Pictish
112 Blemmyes and Nobatae
121 , Three Kingdoms Korean

4th group : armies played between 91 and 120 times in tournament are allowed 1 re-roll per game
1 Sumer and Akkad
28 Medes
35 Vedic Indian
50 Syracusan
61 Hellenistic Greek
71 Armenian
84 Slave Revolts
98 Ancient British

5th group : all armies played more than 120 times do not have any re-roll.
They are all the remaining armies that are not in any of the 4 previous groups !


Budget point bonus : armies are also sorted in 5 other groups, based on their efficacity (as per the stats on the AdlG website on 12th of February). The least victorious armies will have up to 40 bonus points (so up to 340 army points) whereas the most successfull armies with have no bonus.

1st group : armies under 22% efficacity are allowed an extra 40 points to buid their list (so a 340 point-army).
29 Phrygian
62 Illyrian
100 Saxon, Anglo-Saxon, Frisian, Jutes
101 Britto-Roman
117 Xianbei

2nd group : armies between 22 and 32% efficacity will be allowed an extra 30 points for the budget (so 330 point-army)
69 Cappadocian
82 Yayoi Japanese

3rd group : armies between 32 and 42% efficacity are allowed an extra 20 points for the budget (so 320-point army)
6 Kassite Babylonian
10 Old and Middle Kingdom Egyptian
27 Urartu
45 Later Macedonian
50 Syracusan
52 Camillan Roman
54 Early Carthaginian
60 Classical Greek
65 Lydian
67 Bithynian
83 Triumvirate Roman
84 Slave Revolts
85 Early Imperial Roman
92 Dacian and Carpi
99 Caledonian, Scots-Irish and Pictish

4th group : armies between 42 and 50% efficacity are allowed an extra 10 points (so 310-point army)
8 Neo-Babylonian
13 Hyksos
15 Libyan Egyptian
20 Hittite
25 Philistine
26 Aramaean and Neo-Hittite
28 Medes
30 Mycenaean
31 Geometric Greek
32 Phoenicians of Cyprus
36 Erlitou Shang Chinese
38 Early Macedonian
39 Alexandrian Macedonian
43 Ptolemaic
45 Later Macedonian
46 Graeco-Bactrian and Graeco-Indian
48 Etruscan
53 Republican Roman
55 Carthaginian
57 Saitic Egyptian
59 Meroitic Kushite
61 Hellenistic Greek
63 Thracian
70 Bosporan Kingdom
71 Armenian
86 Middle Imperial Roman
87 Late Imperial Roman
89 Gallic
91 German
93 Visigoth
96 Gepid, Herul, Taifali and Sciri
102 Parthian
103 Judaean Jewish
104 Commagene
105 Mithridatic
106 Palmyran
108 Alan
114 Kingdom of Axum
115 Xiongnu
121 Three Kingdoms Korean

5th group : armies above 50% efficacity are not allowed bons army point (so 300-point army).
They are all the remaining armies that are not in any of the 4 previous groups !


So altogether and as exemples : the Britto-romans get 4 re-rolls per game and a 340-point budget whereas Huns have no re-roll at all and stay on a 300-point budget.


If you see a mistake, please let me know so i can correct it !
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Maxime, Ch'tis Stratège de l'Artois
pas vraiment ch'ti, pas vraiment stratège, pas vraiment amateur d'art non plus

[Mad Max]

EVENT CARDS
Each team will get 4 random (and secret) event cards. Only one card can be played per game. These event cards will bring some tactical advantage but will not win you the game. They spice things up a little bit more.



SCENARIOS
1st game « And there in the midst Achilles stood like the god of war », Homer, Iliad.
Achilles was renown as a warrior by both his friends and foes. Basically, his reputation scared the shit out of all his enemies.
In this scenario, everytime one of your general (attached to a unit or included) kill an enemy unit in combat (not in shooting) while being the main unit in melee (not as support, flank or rear support), you inflict one additionnal point of cohesion loss the opponents’ army. These points add up and will help to rout the opponents’army more quickly.

2nd game « Hannibal ad portas ».
When Hannibal invaded Italy, rumors of his approching galvanized the Romans who knew they could not expect any pity. So cities fortified and raised troops to try and resist Hannibal.
In this scenario, the lowest-ELO team will see :
- its baggage upgraded to a fortified baggage (for free). So the cohesion point of the army will be raised but if the baggage are taken, the loss of cohesoin point will be for a fortified baggage.
- its weakest general will be upgraded 1 rank (for free). But if this general is killed, the loss of cohesion point will be for the upgraded rank.

3rd game « C’est le Nooord », Welcome to the Sticks
Both armies arrived late in the evening and set camp not far from each other, waiting for sunrise to get at each other. But in the morning a thick fog has fallen in the area.
In this scenrio, both armies use hidden deployment (embushes and flank marches must be written on the deployment sheet). Fog also has an effect on visibility : it is limited to 1UD for shooting. Each turn, before rolling for command pips, the active team must test for visibility. On the 1st turn, a 6 will clear up the fog (for the beginning of the opponent turn). On the 2nd turn, a 5+ will clear up the fog (for the beginning of the opponent turn). On the 3rd turn, a 4+. On the 4th turn and after, a 3+.

4th game « Show no mercy ».
Both armies use hidden deplyment, but no fog this time (embushes and flank marches must be written on the deployment sheet). Teams from the same club may play together.
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Maxime, Ch'tis Stratège de l'Artois
pas vraiment ch'ti, pas vraiment stratège, pas vraiment amateur d'art non plus

[Mad Max]

Challenges : as well as your standard tournament results, here we love our challenges (individual or by team) :
- the Achilles Challenge will reward the player who has killed the most generals (precision for Irish, Belgian and Corsican players : opponent generals that is !)
- the Pyrrhic Challenge will reward the player who has lost the most (of its own) generals
- the Attila Challenge will reward the player who has taken the most baggage (again : opponent’s baggage !)
- the Dagobert Challenge will reward the team who has lost the most baggage
- the Picasso Challenge will reward the team with the nicest army (jury is Gilbert Montagné)
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Maxime, Ch'tis Stratège de l'Artois
pas vraiment ch'ti, pas vraiment stratège, pas vraiment amateur d'art non plus

[Mad Max]

R&R available on the French thread
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Maxime, Ch'tis Stratège de l'Artois
pas vraiment ch'ti, pas vraiment stratège, pas vraiment amateur d'art non plus

[Mad Max]

quick message from Patrick, who organised the tournament with the other chtis strateges and was the referee.
some comments might be mine

Allright, the tournament is now finished : everything went well, under a bright sun (thankfully the fridges were full of drinks and beers), with a warm and friendly atmosphere
The umpire did not have much work to do (so he spent most of his days cheering on his clubmates and friends, so all players really)
All the chtis strateges hope that all player came back home safely.

Top 3 teams :
1st: Fredric Bohm & Fredrik Bodin - Sweden
2nd: Jean-Christophe Pollet & Maxime Pichot - France (chtis strateges) (ueah, we could not believe it either !!!)
3rd : Thomas & Jean-Louis Maistriaux - Belgium

Thank you all for your participation and see you next year.
Full results will follow, as well as the results of the challenges
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Maxime, Ch'tis Stratège de l'Artois
pas vraiment ch'ti, pas vraiment stratège, pas vraiment amateur d'art non plus

[daveallen]

Congratulations to the Freds! Couldn't have happened* to two nicer chaps.

Dave

* "happened"
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Putting the ink into incompetence

[Mad Max]

They are very nice people indeed (altought they kept refusing my offer for a beer).
TBH, there were only very nice people this weekend. So i guess this means the Freds are both nice people and good players
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Maxime, Ch'tis Stratège de l'Artois
pas vraiment ch'ti, pas vraiment stratège, pas vraiment amateur d'art non plus

[Mad Max]

Oh and the Freds are good painters too
They won the Picasso challenge for the best painted army
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Maxime, Ch'tis Stratège de l'Artois
pas vraiment ch'ti, pas vraiment stratège, pas vraiment amateur d'art non plus

[Mad Max]

winner of the Achilles challenge (player who killed the most generals) is Hugo Tate (can't remember what the reward was...)
winner of the Attila challenge (player who raided the most camps) is Jean-Christophe Pollet (can't remember what the reward was...)
winners of the Picasso challenge (best painted army) are Fredric Bohm & Fredrik Bodin (can't remember what the reward was...)
winner of the Pyrrhic challenge (player who lost the most generals) is Patrice Vachala, he got a med kit as a reward (funny as he is a doc')
winners of the Dagobert challenge (team who lost the most camps) are Jean-Christophe Pollet and me, we got a book as a reward (sort of "fortifications for dummies")

Congrats to all
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Maxime, Ch'tis Stratège de l'Artois
pas vraiment ch'ti, pas vraiment stratège, pas vraiment amateur d'art non plus

[Mad Max]

full results :

Fredic Bohm Fredrik Bodin ......................................... Xianbei 281 points
Maxime Pichot Jean-Christophe Pollet................. ..........Britto-Roman 271 Points
Thomas Maistriaux Jean-Louis Maistriaux ......................Later Macedonian 265 points
Hugo Tate Etienne Misson ..........................................Gepid 238 points
Jean-Michel Lestage François Scherrer ........................ Xianbei 237 points
Hubert Bretagne Kevin Olier .......................................Carthaginian 219 points
Philippe Bonne Emmanuel Surin ..................................Philistine 187 points
Didier Rohas Philippe Diduch ......................................Patrician Roman 159 points
Alain Bacqueville Thierry Dupont..................................Camillan Roman 120 points
Patrice Vachala Christophe Petit ..................................Three Kingdoms Korean 99 points

(so some fairly unusual armies, which was the goal of the bonuses we could get for this year tournament)
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Maxime, Ch'tis Stratège de l'Artois
pas vraiment ch'ti, pas vraiment stratège, pas vraiment amateur d'art non plus