Easily Distracted

I ended last week with a trip to Phalanx at St Helens.  The show was a bit of a treat as I spent  a large part of last week decorating the kitchen.  I say decorating it was mainly renovation and repainting.  I took  my camera but it stayed in my bag.  If you want some photos of the show Will McNally's blog has a few. 

My haul was relatively modest: six 15 mm figures for my Islamic Persian army, Gush's "Renaissance Armies 1480-1650" (1982 edition), and a 38 year old UK war comic for £1.00.  You'd think this wouldn't offer much by way of distractions but it did.  Let me explain.

DBMM Competition Gallery

No I haven't returned to the dark side!   I arrived at MAWS on Sunday to find a mini DBMM competition well under way.  Organised by John Fletcher there were six players engrossed in their games.  Whilst taking a few photos for a post about my new battle mat I took a few shots of the competition not least because they featured the ever popular Bill Skinner:

Down At The Club

It's been ages since I posted music here.  I couldn't resist posting this as a preface to a photo post about Sunday's game at MAWS:

The main reason is to show our latest table set-up:

Field of Glory V2 - Too Many Draws?

On Friday I posted Phil Steele's worrying comment that "V2 continues to disappoint in this respect [producing too few decisive results in 3.5 hrs] and I am losing interest I think."  I said I'd do some digging and report back so here's my findings plus some comments direct from Phil.

The scoring system for FOG is simple with players sharing 20 or 25 points depending on whether the game was drawn or decisive.  This means the average score per round in the Northern League can be used to measure the proportion of decisive games: the closer the average score is to 25 the more decisive games have been. Looking at FOG V1 in the 2012 Northern League Ancient & Medieval competition:

• The average score, for two games, for all players was 22.1 points.
• This only varied by 1.0 across all 5 rounds (23.1, 21.0, 23.1, 21.8 and 21.4).

This shows that about half the 2012 games were decisive: the average is close to half way between that expected if all games were drawn (20) and that expected if all games were decisive (25).