Past Winners
Forrest Speck, MD 2003 David Gantt, SC 2004 Ed Rothenheber, MD 2005 Melvin Casselberry, PA 2006 Scott Fenn, MD 2007

Its buckets of dice time as Bruce Young and Edward Kendrick refight Trafalgar in the preliminaries.	AJ Sudy, who will forever be known in Nappy lore as the kid who took Gibraltar with four dice, has designs on Hanover.

England was invaded many, many times in this year's tournament. Some invasions, like the one led by Bruce Young in the semi, didn't work out so well the first time. Undaunted, Bruce invaded again, managing to get Napoleon and everyone who came with him killed for a second time. Despite that dual disaster, Bruce actually managed to pull out a victory on a peace die roll, edging out Henry Russell's Russia (which managed to bring Denmark into its pact) by a single point.

There were very few "runaway" games this year -- most came down to a difference of a point or three and a die roll. There were two French automatic victories and the usual assortment of strange and bizarre occurrences. As Kevin Klemme summed up one such experience: "any game where Kutuzov takes Lyon, Marseilles and Toulouse is a FUN game." (Any guesses who played the Russians?)

Despite that romp over the Rhone, Kevin came in second --in a game where Alan "Four dice, four sixes and Gibraltar is mine" Sudy gained Austria's only win of the convention.

Of the other 18 games played, the French won nine, the English and Russians three each and the Prussians two.

Although the tourney officially used first edition rules as the default, any table where all players agreed to try the newly-released second edition was allowed. On one such table, Chris Striker wrote that "Version 2 is much better in my opinion. System is faster, more aggressive play early is encouraged -- passing with reserve options opens a whole new threat against both sides, especially since most draw additional cards now. It is possible that France can abuse the rout = resource mechanic for an easy Turn 1 win, but this is not assured. Overall great play and much faster!" Herein ends product endorsement and advertisement for 2nd edition which rolls into default status in 2009.

Most of the 19 games, however, were first edition, as players relied on tried and true strategies of the past five years.

In the Final game, Lane Hess pulled out a victory as England, narrowly edging out his allies at a table manned by three members of the Greenville Mafia to claim the honors for saving Europe from Scott Pfeiffer's Napoleon.

Lane Hess and Pat Duffy have their work cut out for them while facing three Mafia members in the Final.	The Bobbsey twins they ain't. Bruce Young and Scott Pfeiffer are all business as 2/3 of the Greenville Mafia representatives in the Final.