Gulf Coast Monthly

GCC Newsletter - September 2020

Coordinator's Corner

HUBCON CANCELLED for 2020. Cold Iron VI will be Average Joe this year. If anyone is interested in a FOG game day at the Casa de Anders on September 13 send me an email and I can open up the basement for some round robin FOG play.

Bayou Wars will be November 6-8, 2020. Same location. Details for the ADLG Tournament are below. The 2019-2020 GCC season will continue through until the end of the ADLG Tournament at Bayou Wars. Any tournament that makes between now and then will count towards this year's GCC points.

Cold Iron VI FOG Tournament dates have been set for February 27-28, 2021, in the Casa de Anders basement gaming facility (Please note the date change). See the announcement below.

Please make sure to send your announcements and tournament results to me at shadypage@att.net for inclusion in the GCC circuit. If you have anything you would like to see added/included in the newsletter send me an email and I will see what I can do. Otherwise, you guys are at my mercy and whims. Until next month.

Cold Iron VI - Field of Glory Average Joe Tournament

Cold Iron VI will take up where the cancelled HUBCON left off on February 27-28, 2021 in the Casa de Anders Basement with the Field of Glory Average Joe Tournament.

Tournament Rules and Format

Table size will be 4x6.
Each round will be 3 hours plus 1d6 of random time. When time is called, players will finish the current phase.

Round 1 will start at 9 AM on Feb 27 or shortly thereafter

V3 rules and current FAQ from BHGS website will be used.
We will use the 100 point ADLG scoring method for round by round results.
1 list, 800 points.
Any list from the list below is allowed but only the "Average Joes" may participate, i.e., no Superior, Elite or Poor troops are allowed. Highest ranking general allowed is an FC. (No Inspired Commanders allowed).

Book 1 Lists

Later Sumerian or Akkadian
Syro-Canaanite
Later Minoan or Early Mycenaean
Later Hebrew
Urartian before 750 BC only
Kimmerian, Skythian or Saka
Etruscan League, Early Roman or Latin
Thracian
Classical Greek
Early Carthaginian
Classical Indian
Later Achaemenid Persian
Warring States to Western Han Chinese from 209 BC only
Bosporan from 108 BC
Early to Middle Republican Roman
Seleucid
Ptolemaic
Later Pre-Islamic Bedouin
Graeco-Bactrian
Attalid Pergamene
Ancient Spanish
Numidians or Moorish
Later Jewish
Early German
Later Republican Roman
Ancient British or Caledonian

Book 2 Lists

Principate Roman
Eastern Han Chinese
Pictish
Later German (Western)
Palmyran
Later German (Eastern)
Kofun-Nara Japanese Pre-400 Only
Hunnic (Non-Hepthalite Hun options only)
Post-Roman British
Foederate Roman
Later Hindu Indian (Non Sinhalese options only)
Early Byzantine
Merovingian Frankish
Western Wei to Early Tang Chinese
Christian Nubian after 800 AD
Thematic byzantine
Early Spanish
Khmer or Champa
Khurasanian Dynasties
Later Abbasid, Tulunid, Ikhshidid
Bedouin Dynasties
Dailami Dynasties
Nikeforian Byzantine
Seljuk Turk

Book 3 Lists

Early Hungarian
Taifa Andalusian
Medieval Spanish & Portuguese
Norman
Italo-Norman
Medieval French
Medieval German
Scots Isles & Highlanders
Medieval Scots
Komnenan Byzantine (No Varangians allowed)
Anglo-Norman & Early Plantagenet English
Crusader
Medieval Welsh
Medieval Burmese
Ghurid Afghan
Jurchen-Jin
Medieval Irish
Ayyubid Egyptian
Anglo-Irish
Moslem Indian Sultanates
Medieval Indonesian or Malay
Middle Plantagenet English
Ottoman Turks before 1362 only
Later Serbian from 1345 only
Later Poles before 1455 only
Later Low Countries
Medieval Scandinavian
Catalan Company
Condotta Italian
Later Plantagenet English (Continental)
Ming Chinese
Timurid, Black Sheep or White Sheep Turcoman
Tupi
Medieval Scots (in France)
Hussite
Mapuche
Santa Hermanidad Neuve Castilian

Christopher Anders will referee. Lists are due to shadypage@att.net no later than February 21. Late lists give your opponent choice of terrain before initiative is rolled.
Tournament fee is $5 paid to the referee.
Prizes will be offered for top 3 finishers.

There are multiple hotels at the Fultondale-Walker's Chapel Road exit to chose from and if flying in a shuttle from the airport can be arranged with notice.

BAYOU WARS 28 ADLG Tournament, November 6-8, 2020

Bayou Wars 28 will host a 200 point ADLG Open Tournament with 1 round Friday, 3 rounds Saturday and 1 round Sunday.

Tournament Rules and Format

This will be an Open Tournament and lists may not have more than 200 points.

Rule book and current ADLG rule interpretations will be used.

All judge’s rulings are final.

Referee will be Christopher Anders. Send lists and questions to shadypage@att.net. Lists will be due by October 30, 2020. Late lists give opponent choice of terrain before initiative is rolled.

Five rounds. 2.5 hours with 1d6 minutes of random time per round. When time is called, players will finish the CURRENT phase.

Round 1 - Friday at 6:30 PM
Round 2 - Saturday at 8 AM
Round 3 - Saturday at 11 AM
Round 4 - Saturday at 3 PM
Round 5 - Sunday at 8AM

We will use the French 100 point scoring system.

Venue is D'Iberville Civic Center, 10395 Automall Parkway, D'Iberville, Mississippi 39540

Convention fee is $40 for the weekend but Dwaine Balius has indicated there will be a $25 ADLG Tournament rate at the door. $5 fee for the ADLG Tournament paid to referee at tournament.

Trophies for 1st-3rd place will be provided.

GCC Sportsman of the Year 2020

To be eligible for the GCC Sportsman of the Year Award, a player must have participated in a minimum of two GCC Tournaments over the course of the season. The purpose of this award is to recognize an individual who has demonstrated exemplary conduct, dedication to the gaming spirit, the growth of the hobby and who represents the model of the gentleman wargamer. 2017 was the first year of this award. Jamie Setz was the recipient in 2017. It was vacant in 2018 and Christopher Anders received it in 2019.

The following GCC players are currently eligible for the award in 2020:

Scott Allen
Christopher Anders
Walt Burgoyne
Christopher Johnston
Hilton McManus
Joey Miller
Bill Sierichs
Hab Seitz
Chris Swearingen

The following GCC players will become eligible if they participate in one more tournament that counts for GCC Points:

Simone Fraternali
Derek Hannan
Steve Payne
Steven Roper
Jaime Setz
Brett Stiefel
Vince Solfronk

GCC Calendar of Events for 2019-2020

CANCELLED - Sep 11-13, 2020 - Hubcon 2020
Oct 2020 - Walt's Witchy Weekend (Tentative) - ?
Nov 6-8, 2020 - Bayou Wars 28 GCC Championship/US Open Championship (ADLG) - D'Irberville, MS - 5 rounds (1 on Friday, 3 on Saturday, 1 on Sunday)

Projected GCC Calendar of Events for 2020-21

December 2020 - Hilton's Biblical Holiday ADLG Tournament - Kenner, LA area
February 27-28, 2021 - Cold Iron VI - FOG Average Joe Tournament, Casa de Anders basement, Fultondale, AL
April/May 2021 - Brewer-Sailors ADLG Open Tournament - Birmingham, AL
June 2021 - Bayou Wars 29 GCC Championship/US Open Championship (ADLG) - D'Irberville, MS - 5 rounds (1 on Friday, 3 on Saturday, 1 on Sunday)

2019-2020 GCC Championship Points

Johnston, Christopher - 17 points
Swearingen, Chris - 12
Payne, Steve - 10
Setz, Jaime - 9
Miller, Joey - 8
Burgoyne, Walt - 7
McManus, Hilton - 6
Roper, Steven - 6
Setz, Hab - 5
Allen, Scott - 4
Anders, Christopher - 3
Fraternalli, Simone - 3
Hannan, Derek - 2
Sierichs, Bill - 1

3 tournaments played - averaging 8.67 players per tournament

HUBCON Late Medieval ADLG Tournament - 8 qualifying players
HUBCON FOG Average Joe Tournament - 6 qualifying players
Hilton's Holiday Biblical ADLG Tournament - 12 qualifying players

50 tournament games: 42 to resolution, 8 draws = 84% completion rate

Tournaments not making the cut:

Walt's Witchy Weekend does not count as complete final round by round results were not provided.
Cold Iron V does not count as it did not have 6 qualifying players.