GM Phil Barcafer checks out the treasure chest of Jim Shaw. I thought Pirate's Cove was in the Marietta room.	Counter storage problems have always given birth to innovative solutions, but here's a guy who really loves his game.

Commands and Colors with magic and monsters. It combines one of the most popular new game systems with a subject that made many of us gamers in the
first place. In order to assure that as much magic and monsters played a big part in the tournament, the GM put together three Call to Arms scenarios for the three opening Swiss rounds. While all played on the same map, different armies, some of which included monsters, goblins and dwarves, were used for each round. In addition, players set up full Lore Councils, so they could add any monster they wished. Those players with expansion sets could play any special units that they had. Among LoreMasters, the Commander was the most often chosen, to get the extra command cards. The Cleric and Wizard were also popular, with the Cleric being the one most likely to be picked a Level 3 Master. The Warrior was fairly popular, while the Rogue was the least likely to be picked.

Adding Specialists allowed players to really customize their forces. In the Swiss rounds, not every player had the expansions, so some games just used the standard forces. When players had the expansions, the favorite additions were by far the Long Bows. Second favorite were the Mounted Knights and their strong punch.

The Swiss rounds cut the field to four players. The elimination rounds saw each player get a card set from Call to Arms and set up their own army. Chris Ellis played Steven Sheddon, while Michael Shea played the GM, Phil Barcafer. Now in this game, there are some card combinations that can be game changers, if not game enders. One of these is Long Bow with Darken the Sky. Michael Shea took the Long Bows, played Darken the Sky and had his Cleric use Eagle Eye. Thus, all his Bowmen had two shots, hitting on shields and having an extra die. The results were similar to Agincourt, with Barcafer's Mounted Knights dying before they could move. Despite this setback, Barcafer, who also had a Cleric, played Ball Lightning on Shea's densely packed infantry. Unfortunately for him, he missed, wasting most of his Lore and effectively ending the game. While Ellis and Sheddon had a slightly closer game, Ellis won to enter the Final without a loss.

The Final allowed each player to pick their own Call To Arms deck and use all the expansion sets, since the GM was done using his. Ellis picked Mounted Knights and Long Bows as his specialists, while Shea took Mounted Knights and Halberdiers. The latter are very dangerous to mounted units, so it was expected this might slow down Ellis' Knights. However, another of the dangerous card combinations appeared. Ellis played Enhanced Mass Might with Mounted Charge and killed two crossbow units. He then played an Ambush and Eliminated Shea's Mounted Knights to take a four to zero lead. What followed was a slow game of attrition, which Ellis won due to his big lead. Ellis won his first WBC wood ever, until later in the week, when he added a second for Stone Age.

Steve Lollis and the GM cross swords and sorcery in the swiss rounds.	Chris Ellis gains his first title with Enhanced Mass Might against Mike Shea in the Final.