ADLG: Northern League Round 5 (Manchester, 06 Nov 2022)

Introduction

Three weeks after my trip to York for "The King In The North", and three weeks closer to moving house, I ventured in to darkest Manchester for the final round of the 2022 Northern League. It was my last event before all my hobby stuff was packed away prior to the move.

A busy hall late in the day. DBMM on the left front and ADLG everywhere else.

I've played many a game at Eccles in the winter and Sunday was exactly what I expected: cold! I didn't take my padded gilet off all day. My feet got so cold I had to go for a walk between the second and final game just to warm them.

ADLG: King In The North (York, 15 - 16 Oct 2022)

This post is slightly longer than my normal competition posts so it's split into sections so you can skip any boring bits.

Background

As I noted last month we're trying to move house. Six weeks on and we're almost at the stage where we can think about dates. Please note the almost in the last sentence. In an attempt to escape the stress I decided to enter the "King in the North" ADLG competition organised by Macro Baroni ably assisted by Paul Dawson.

Marco & Paul (centre) discuss the coming day's games.

After entering I got cold feet. Why did I ever think entering my first two day competition, with no practice and little wargaming since July, was a stress free way to spend a weekend?

15 mm Arab Medium Spear (Forged in Battle & Essex)

Here's the latest addition to my Arab Conquest army for Art de la Guerre (ADLG). It is the penultimate group of infantry in my army.

ADLG: Size Matters

In my last post I looked at army performance under version 4 (V4) of Art de la Guerre (ADLG).   I made the point that, as far as the data analysis goes, size matters:

• For V3, with 40,545 records, It's easy to see the long term trend: namely that the more an army is used, the more its performance (efficacy in ADLG-speak) tends towards 50%.
• For V4, with 8,675 records, the situation is less clear and probably will be until the number of records has increased significantly.

The penny drops
Whilst writing the previous post I had cause to revisit the data sets for V3 from 2018 & 2020 and check a few things.  It then occurred to me that I might be able to provide specific examples of the "50% trend" by comparing 2018 with 2020.

If you're not a fan of chart and data posts, even if they are about wargaming, look away now.  Otherwise read on!