the napoleonic wars five-player   

Updated Nov. 23, 2013

2013 WBC Report  

 2014 Status: pending 2014 GM commitment

Francis Czawlytko, MD

2013 Champion

 

Event History
2003    Forrest Speck     67
2004    David Gantt     64
2005     Ed Rothenheber     50
2006    Melvin Casselberry     55
2007    Scott Fenn     52
2008    Lane Hess     46
2009     Henry Russell     45
2010    Mike Casselberry     45
2011    Bruce Young     54
2012     John Emery     48
2013    Francis Czawlytko     50

Waterloo Event History
2003    BruceYoung     24
2004    Scott Moll     14
2005    Mark Hodgkinson     24
2006    Kevin Sudy     32
2007    Kevin Sudy     28
2008    John Emery     24

 Laurels

Rank  Name              From  Last  Total
  1.  Bruce Young        SC    11    206
  2.  John Emery         SC    13    198
  3.  Lane Hess          PA    13    157
  4.  Ed Rothenheber     MD    12    111
  5.  Francis Czawlytko  MD    13    104
  6.  Henry Russell      PA    10    102
  7.  Melvin Casselberry PA    11     99
  8.  Scott Moll         VA    05     80
  9.  Mike Casselberry   PA    10     60
 10.  David Gantt        SC    04     60
 11.  Forrest Speck      MD    03     60
 12.  Scott Fenn         MD    07     50
 13.  Mark Hodgkinson    au    05     50
 14.  Scott Pfeiffer     SC    08     48
 15.  Bryan Collars      SC    04     38
 16.  Tom Eskey          MD    11     36
 17.  John Haas          PA    03     36
 18.  Pat Duffy          VA    08     32
 19.  Frank Morehouse    PA    13     30
 20.  Brian Sutton       MD    12     30
 21.  Jim Savarick       PA    11     30
 22.  Kevin Sudy         VA    12     25
 23.  Harry Theodore     NY    09     24
 24.  Jesse Boomer       KS    09     24
 25.  Jason White        VA    04     24
 26.  Mark McCandless    CT    03     24
 27.  Nick Frydas        uk    11     18
 28.  Daniel Broh-Kahn   MD    10     18
 29.  Joe Burch          MD    06     18
 30.  Josh Githens       SC    04     18
 31.  Charley Hickok     PA    04     17
 32.  Richard Beyma      MD    08     16
 33.  Keith Wixson       NJ    04     16
 34.  Chris Greenfield   NY    13     15
 35.  Brian Sutton       MD    07     15
 36.  James Eaton        LA    03     15
 37.  William Burch      MD    04     14
 38.  Lance Roberts      AK    06     12
 39.  Steve Jansen       MD    05     12
 40.  George Young       UT    03     12
 41.  Al Hurda           on    12     10
 42.  Alan Sudy          VA    07     10
 43.  Fred Schachter     NY    05     10
 44.  Kevin Emery        SC    10      6
 45.  Robert Vollman     ab    06      6
 46.  Edward Kendrick    uk    03      6
 47.  Daniel Blumentritt TX    13      5

2013 Laurelists                                              Repeating Laurelists:

Frank Morehouse, PA
2nd

Lane Hess, PA
3rd

Chris Greenfield, NY
4th

John Emery, SC
5th

Daniel Blumentritt, TX
6th

Past Winners

Forrest Speck, MD
2003

David Gantt, SC
2004

Ed Rothenheber, MD
2005

Melvin Casselberry, PA
2006

Scott Fenn, MD
2007

Lane Hess, PA
2008

Henry Russell, PA
2009

Mike Casselberry, PA
2010

Bruce Young, SC
2011

John Emery, SC
2012

 Patrick Duffy, defending champ John Emery and Ed Rothenheber

Henry Russell, Joe Burch and Jim Savarick

Calling out the Guard against the Brits ...

Go directly to St Helena, do not pass Elba, do not collect 100 days ...

It was not a good year to be French. Even when uttered by an Englishman that seemed to be true.

Monday night certainly belonged to the Tsar, with his men picking up four victories, Justin Morgan leading the way with eight VP. No would be Emperor finished better than fourth with defending champion John Emery coming in dead last among the 30 players on hand with his -7 night.

Tuesday night attendance picked up, with the the British logging three victories, the French two and Austria and Prussia splitting the last two. Lane Hess scored best with a reported +8 whilst John Emery bounced back with a decidedly better night for the French win in the sole 4-player game. Four others tied for the wooden spoon with -2 nights. Three new players participated in the demo, in which the Hapsburg-Romanov Axis of Autocracy claimed a narrow win.

Thursday continued a strong recovery on last year's numbers which were depressed by the great AC Failure/Ice Cream conspiracy of 2012. There was no thunderstorm. Rather, it was Fouche behind the curtain rattling a sheet of aluminium. Anyway, the Prussian's had their day and scored three victories while the British and French managed one each. Chris Greenfield, Melvin Casselberry and Wade Hyatt all scored eight VP for the evening's top honors. Al Hurda's French brought up the rear with a -7 long night.

20 players appeared for the semifinals and the consensus was overwhelming for four 5-player games rather than five 4's. While 2012 saw most people fond of Britain as first choice and witnessed a France win, this year proved different. Again, Britain was the popular pick, but it was Prussia that would prevail. True to their form so far, France was everyone's third pick.

Three winners and two runners-up would advance. Daniel Blumentritt scored a win as Prussia with the fifth pick but was unable to continue. The reigning champion had first draft rights and again chose France, no doubt envisioning another one-turn blitz such as brought him the crown in 2012. Frank Morehouse then selected Britain and Lane Hess opted for Russia. Of the qualifying runners-up, Francis Czawlytko chose Austria, leaving Prussia to Chris Greenfield.

Unlike last year's drought stricken Final, this one went four rounds, and at the end of it France lay broken. Austria just pipped Britain to the victory, enabling Francis to claim the both the win and the vial of earth from Waterloo. This makes Nappy the one game where you get sand for coming first.

Stats (5-player games only)

Wins: Prussia 7, Britain 6, Russia 4, France 3, Austria 2

Best Winning Score/Worst Results:

France: John Emery +10 / John Emery ­ "Lots" (Final)

Britain: Chris Greenfield +8 (Semi) / Phil Rodrigues (Semi) & Justin Morgan -1

Austria: Francis Czawlytko +11 (Final) / Noah Engelmann -5

Russia: Justin Morgan +8 / Rob Olsson -2

Prussia: Wade Hyatt +8 / Dale Long -1

Bill Banks, Llew Bardecki, Nick Benedict and Mark Hodgkinson march to the guns.

Al Hurda, Francis Czawlytko, Bruce Young, Scott Pfeiffer and Kevin Emery

 Poor Daniel Blumentritt is outnumbered by Mafia 3-1.

 The finalists before the blood lettin'
 GM      Gareth Williams  [2nd Year]   NA
    wilphe@gmail.com    NA 

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