Art De La Guerre

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Madaxeman.com is delighted to bring you the second edition of the The Kegworth Codgers Midweek Challenge L'Art de la Guerre Competition.

Buy tickets here: https://buytickets.at/madaxemancom/1501126

Following the success of 2024's open-armed embrace of the ongoing demographic shifts sweeping gently through the world of Ancient Wargaming, the idea of running a competition during the week for retirees, part-timers, and those with far too much holiday allowance on their hands is now a proven concept, and last year allowed over 30 brave souls to play some ADLG without having to eat into any more of their weekends (which of course are better spent with loved ones / watching sport) (delete as appropriate).

The venue for 2025 will again be The Kegworth Hotel & Conference Centre, is perfectly located just moments from the M1 Junction 24 in a quaint and historic Leicestershire village with at least 2 decent boozers and a great Indian restaurant where we will hopefully all be going again on the middle night of the event fora slap up feast.

For any newcomers, The Kegworth Hotel & Conference Centre is a little more "East Midlands-based Underlay Wholesaler's quarterly sales meeting venue" rather than "Where the Leaders of the G7 Nations choose to stay when attending Davos.." making it an absolutely perfectly priced and located hotel venue for a wargames "non-weekend" event in location, facilities, and cost.

Having deeply researched the extensive history of Kegworth using Wikipedia and at least one other website means each year we will look to again precariously hang a theme on one of the abundance of hooks relating to the history of Kegworth.

2025 Theme:

With loads of Kegworthian history to choose from the 2025 event will go all ecclesiastical and take its theme from Kegworth's Grade II listed CofE Parish Church of St Andrew's, the oldest surviving part of which Wikipedia assures us was started in the 13th Century around the time of the Crusades.

That leads neatly onto a theme of "armies of Christianity and Islam valid in the period 1200-1299", with the following armies allowed:

135 Arab Indian
140 Central Asian Turkish
156 Irish
158 Slav
166 Christian Nubian
167 Beja
182 Feudal French
183 Feudal English
184 Feudal Scots
185 Feudal Welsh
186 Feudal Anglo-Irish
187 Scots Isles and Highlanders
188 Kingdom of Sicily
189 Communal Italian
190 Feudal Spanish
191 Feudal German
193 Komnenan Byzantine
194 Cilician Armenian
196 Later Crusader
197 Frankish Cyprus
198 Eastern Latin Empire
203 Seljuk Turks
205 Syrian
206 Ghurid
207 Ayyubid Egyptian
208 Khwarazmian
209 Sahelian Empire
210 Tuareg
211 Berber
213 Feudal Polish
214 Feudal Hungarian
215 Georgian
216 Feudal Russian
217 Cuman
218 Feudal Scandinavian
219 Prussian and Estonian
220 Teutonic Knights
230 Granadine
231 Swiss
243 Low Countries
248 Lithuanian
250 Muscovite Russian
251 Medieval Scandinavian
256 Serbian Empire
257 Second Bulgarian Empire
258 Later Byzantine
259 Mamluk
260 Turkoman
261 Ottoman Turkish
269 Islamic Persian
270 Ilkhanid Mongol
275 Delhi Sultanate

All lists must be valid from 1200-1299 inclusive, and allies can be drawn from any list.

The event will be played in 15mm with all the usual standard rules, any FAQ extant at the time and that general sort of malarkey. Lists to lists@madaxeman.com by the 26th September please.

Timings:

The format will be civilized and sympathetic to those of advancing years, or put another way the timings will be a bt later than usual:
Tuesday:
09:15-11:45
12:45-15:15
15:30-18:00

Evening - curry in the same place as last year

Wednesday
10:00-12:30
13:30-16:00

We will again be looking to sort out some sort of lunch deal with the hotel for both days of the event, and with the benefit of hindsight will hopefully manage to pick slightly better options from their menu this year too.

Onsite Accommodation Deal:

You are politely encouraged to book rooms in the venue hotel, on the basis that they have offered us some really great rates, the more of us stay there the happier they will be to welcome us back in future, and also as it just makes it easier for us to round up anyone who might have spent too long in the onsite bar on Monday or Tuesday night.

The booking code to use on the Kegworth Hotel and Conference Centre website is: "BHGS"

If you use this code then you will be able to secure room rates for Monday and Tuesday evenings of just:

Single person £60 room only / £70 bed and breakfast
2 people double or twin / £75 room only / £85 bed and breakfast.

Venue Address:
The Kegworth Hotel & Conference Centre
Packington Hill, Kegworth, DE74 2DF
Tel: +44 (0) 1509 672 427

Location

The Kegworth Hotel & Conference Centre, DE74 2DF

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[Mark G Fry]

I'm in & looking forward to it
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'He could have lived a risk-free, moneyed life, but he preferred to whittle away his fortune on warfare.' Xenophon, The Anabasis

[navigator]

Chaps. Ive decided to seamlessly transfer from the codgers comp (on the Tues/weds )down to Avignon for their comp on 11/12 oct - just 200quid on the train return from London. Therefore if someone is heading back down south after the codgers comp, id be really grateful for a lift. I have a hotel booked for the weds evening next to kings cross station so just need to get into London weds evening as my train leaves London Thursday afternoon. Many thanks in advance Paul

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Early Bird Codgers so far:

Andy Gilbert
Mark Fry
Robert Middlemist
Ian Sewell
Colin Whittaker
Mike Bennett
Charles Masefield
Richard Young
NiK Sharp
David Roberts
Philip Ashworth
David Lowrie
Paul Frith
Tim Porter
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