the napoleonic wars two-player [Updated October 2008]  

	2007 WBC Report     2008 Status: pending December Membership Trial Vote
Richard Beyma, MD 2007 Champion Offsite links:	Event History 2003    Roy Gibson     26 2004    Scott Moll     16 2005     Geoff Allbutt     17 2006     Bruce Young     16 2007    Richard Beyma     15 WAM Event History 2003    Don Greenwood     12 Waterloo Event History 2003    John Emery     14 2004    John Emery      8 2005    Ken Gutermuth     12 2006    Kevin Sudy     32 2007    Kevin Sudy     28 2008    John Emery     24 PBeM Event History 2005    Steve Pleva     64	Laurels Rank Name From Last Total 1. Kevin Sudy VA 08 189 2. John Emery SC 08 160 3. Ken Gutermuth TX 08 123 4. Scott Moll VA 07 84 5. Bruce Young SC 08 78 6. Richard Beyma MD 07 60 7. Steve Pleva CT 05 60 8. Rich Shipley MD 08 54 9. Don Greenwood MD 05 53 10. Roy Gibson MD 03 46 11. Ed Rothenheber MD 07 42 12. Tasos Tsoufis Greece 05 36 13. Rob Beyma MD 07 31 14. Geoff Allbutt ON 05 30 15. Chris Byrd CT 04 30 16. Pete Reese VA 05 24 17. Ben Knight MD 04 24 18. Alan Sudy VA 07 21 19. Lane Hess PA 05 18 20. Seth Fine WA 05 18 21. Fred Schachter NC 07 12 22. Henry Russell PA 06 12 23. Scott Pfeiffer SC 06 12 24. Scott Fenn MD 05 12 25. Ken Schultz IN 05 12 26. Ken Richards SC 05 12 27. Rob Beyma MD 05 9 28. Keith Hunsinger OH 04 9 29. Nick Frydas UK 03 9 30. Melvin Casselberry PA 08 6 31. Dave Gantt SC 06 6 32. Michael Isgur NY 05 6 33. Phil Bradley IL 03 6 34. Marvin Birnbaum NJ 03 4 35. Ralph Gleaton SC 06 3 36. Jim Lawler NY 05 3 37. Jesse Boomer KS 04 3 38. Jason White VA 03 3
2007 Laurelists John Emery, SC 2nd Bruce Young, SC 3rd Scott Moll, VA 4th Ed Rothenheber, SC 5th Rob Beyma, MD 6th Past Winners Roy Gibson, MD 2003 Scott Moll, VA 2004 Geoff Allbutt, ON 2005 Bruce Young, SC 2006 "We drove 600 miles to play each other?" An old joke often repeated in the Up Front Final year after year as John Emery and Bruce Young draw each other in Semi-final action. John Emery's French gets a rare pasting at the hands of Richard Beyma in the Final. Around Turn 3 he was regretting ending Bruce's title defense. a pox on multi-player ... 15 familiar faces gathered at 6pm for the fifth NW2 tournament. Given the ideal of a 2-player Final and completing the event in three rounds required six first round games split into three 3-player games and three 2-player games. This would give us two 3-player semi-finals assuming everyone soldiered on. While not everyone is happy to be playing in a 3 player game it does allow your GM flexibility in coping with the number of entrants and accommodating late arrivals or no shows. So on to the games. In the first round matchups between members of the same team, relatives etc. are avoided and after a bit of juggling everyone settles down to play. NW2 is a joy to GM with the players being very agreeable and knowledgeable about the game allowing yours truly to play in the event. The first round 2-player games split the honors with two going to the French and one to the Coalition. The 3-player games were evenly split with a win for each of the three sides. This seems to confirm the impression from previous years that no single nation dominates the game. After the first round we had two of the Greenville Mafia, John Emery and defending champ Bruce Young, still standing along with the father/son duo of Richard and Rob Beyma, previous champion Scott Moll and the always dangerous Ed Rothenheber. Round 2 began Thursday morning and with the dropping out of Rob Beyma saw the Mafia drawn against each other in a 2-player game with the other three dueling it out in a 3-player semi-final for the honor of taking on the Mafia representative. Iohn took the Coalition and proceeded to grind Bruce's French to defeat by combining the famous "good cards AND good dice rolls" strategy favored by all NW2 players. The second game showed that although Richard has been away from the game for a while he hasn't forgotten the skills which got him to the Final in previous years. The Final was a chance for John who has more or less owned the Waterloo mini-con 2-player honors to extend his hedgemony of Napoleonic Wars NW2 events to WBC and for Richard to finally win after coming close several times. Richard took the Allies and quickly dominated the game by taking control of the Prussians and pressuring the French at every turn. When I asked John what were the high spots of the game for him he replied in a good natured tone that he couldn't think of any. With the Prussians taking Paris and only thrown out with great difficulty it's easy to see why John might feel that way. In the end, John conceded at the beginning of Turn 4 after seeing his cards. After being on the dealing side of that hand many times, John knew when to fold 'em and call it a day. 2005 PBeM Tournament After 34 games and 64 players, the ACTS tourney of 3-player Nappy is now complete. In the last game the France of Steve Pleva continued her sweep of all the semifinal games into the Final by beating the Coalition (Pete Reese as Britain and Tasos Tsoufis as Austria/Russia. The final score after Turn 4 was: France +6 = Dublin + Lisbon + Naples + Salzburg + Venice + SPAIN + TURKEY - Budapest; Britain -2 = SWEDEN - Dublin - Lisbon - Naples; Austria/Russia 0 = +KEY + Budapest - Salzburg - Venice".
GM      Roy Gibson  [3rd Year]   NA    triumphtrophy@comcast.net   NA