And the winners in the Kriegspiel Tournament of 2018...

Tim in 1st Place (72 points)



Bruce in 2nd Place (60 points)

Luke in 3rd Place (58 points)

Kriegspiel Tournament Scores of 2018

                  J    F    M    A    M    J    JY    A    S    O    N    D    TOT
BOB..........1....10...8....8....8....0....8.....0....6....1.....1....8        57
TIM..........6....2....10..10...10...6....0.....8....8....1....10...4        72
BRUCE.....4...4.....4....2....10...10...8....6.....2....1.....1...10      60
JO-SH.......2...8....1.....6.....6.....0....6....0....10..10...1....6       54
ERIC........10...0....6....4.....0.....0...10...4....0....0....1....0        30
LUKE........8....6....2....1.....4.....8....4....10...4...10...1....2        58

Back out two lowest scores; An absence is not a score. December game night will certify all scores.

And the winner is...

The Kriegspiel Tournament of 2018 is coming to a close very soon. It would appear that Tim has now clinched the First Place finish in this tournament. Congratulations to Tim, sigh, once again! However, the Second and Third Place finishers have yet to be determined. Luke is in a very strong second place and Josh, Bob and myself are very closely tied in Third Place. There will be some surprises I'm sure going into the last game night of 2018. Also, I'm very excited to hand out the medals this year for the first time in the Kriegspiel Tournament. These medals are to be kept by the winners. Pictures will be posted once the points are all added up. Good luck to all participants.

Next year for the Tournament, there will be two rule changes. (1) The two lowest scores will not be tossed out and (2) all points earned will be kept by each player regardless of the number of absences.  So, all points will be kept by everyone and only 10 games will be calculated for a total average for the year. Thus, if you are absent twice then you are not penalized and if you are present every game night then you get to keep your points.

See y'all on December 2nd for the exciting conclusion of the Kriegspiel Tournament of 2018.

Twilight Imperium 4th Edition Review

Check out this hilarious review of TI4:

https://youtu.be/PLybps39ZwM?t=1s

Wargame Night 2017

 

Well, it looks like Bezeel-Bob is the winner of the Kriegsspiel Kup for 2017! Both Bob and Tim played better this year than last year with Bob at 84 points this year versus 80 points in 2016. Tim got 80 points this year versus 74 points last year. In fact, Bob did so well this year he actually took the trophy home in November! However, it was still possible for Tim to snatch victory from Bob's jaws of defeat were it not for the timely outburst of Andy last December game night! A game night first? I believe so. I'll call it a Black Swan Event in the Kriegsspiel universe! I had to stop game night because of his antics and the scores were sealed as they were forever! Great job again to Bob for an excellent year of Twilight Imperium.

I had previously discussed with the wargame group that I was going to change things up for 2018. I was going to rename game night to some other name but after thinking about it for some time I decided against it and will keep the German name with the slight twist of returning to Nacht (night) from Tag (day) for official purposes. I did however, change up the blog to reflect more of a space theme since we are always playing Twilight Imperium as the "flagship" game of Kriegsspiel Nacht.

The Tournament will still go on as usual with the same scoring method for 2018 as it was in 2017. We will throw out the two lowest scores out of the twelve for the year and see where we all stand. We will still have the Kup but this year I am going to introduce a first, second and third place medal award to encourage more active participation by other less competitive (and competent) players in the Tournament. So the first place tournament player will get the Kriegsspiel Kup to add his name to plus a first-place medal to keep. The second and third place finisher will just receive a medal (still cool) to keep as well. Of course, the Kriegsspiel Kup can be taken by another champion the following year and will have to be relinquished to the victor.

Again, this Klub of wargamers is open to new initiates and guests are still welcome to come over. The more the merrier as Robin Hood once said (I could be wrong on that).

Good luck and good hunting in 2018!

Wargame Day 12/16

Well, another year and another Kriegspiel Tournament come and gone! 2016 went fast and furious with the new tournament scoring that kept things simple and sweet. If you showed up for game-day then you got points. If you didn't show up then you got no points. If you got first in a game then you got 10 points. Second got you 8 points and so on. Sixth place and lower got an automatic one point. If you were a no-show for game-day then you got zero points. At the end of the tournament we decided to adjust for missed days as well and decided to throw out from the scores the lowest two monthly totals to round out the year. Thus, the final score had Bob in First Place at 80 points and Tim in Second Place at 74 points. Everyone else was somewhere in the 40's!

There was a sudden dash for Third Place by Luke who was trying to overtake me at the end of the Tournament but alas he just couldn't quite pull it out and I did come in third but barely. I came in with 42 points with Luke at 40 points. Eric did end up with a score of 36 points after adjusting for missed days. Thus, Third Place could have gone to either one of us. Joey and Josh were added together as either one would show up for game day depending on their schedules. Thus, one would play for the other and their final score came to 28 points after adjusting for missed days.

Bob had an exceptional year in 2016 as nearly every game night ended up with him in First in Twilight Imperium. Tim also had a good year and he was gracious enough to insist that we throw out the two lowest scores to reflect a more true Tournament which favored Bob in the end.

Eric and Luke had a great year as well and their scores reflected as much. Luke is getting better and better each season and it is only a matter of time when he too will clutch the trophy in his hands. Joey and Josh are formidable players and someday their invasive strategies will pay off for them as well as the younger generation begins to learn that victory points are more important than destroying your opponent in space! However, how to destroy fleets is a lesson well learned from the more cynical and crustier Gen-Xers. Let's hear it for the X-Men! When will Generation Z claim the title of Kriegspiel Champion?

As an added bonus this year we decided to mix it up a bit by including "House Rules" and tweaking the game for added fun in Twilight Imperium. Each race would start off with their Flagship included with the initial set-up at the beginning of the game. Also, each race could also start with a Racial Tech of their choice included for free in their tech-tree at the beginning as well. Everyone was in agreement that this was a good idea. Finally, we included the "Gamma Quadrant" to the game which was another area of the game board that could only be entered by going through a wormhole, Wormhole - A to be exact. The Malice system does have two wormholes and it would serve as a chokepoint if no other "A" wormholes were found on the starting game-board. I included the second Mecatol Rex planetary system for added fun and included an ancient artifact as well as a domain counter that either would be a Lazax Survivor, a hostile native PDS unit, or a Settler faction depending on a random drawing of these three domain counters at the initial setup. This Mecatol Rex system was considered the "Founders" home world in this quadrant of our make believe universe.  All rules that applied to Mecatol Rex would only apply to the original map board and would not affect the "Gamma Quadrant". The MR in the GQ is actually more productive and influential in that this planet has a production number of 3 and an influence number of 6! Thus, getting to the GQ and onto the Founders Homeworld was a prize worth fighting for and Tim naturally was the first to get over there. He in fact scored so well that in addition to a most valuable planet and probably THE most valuable planet in our Twilight Universe he also reconned the Lazax Survivor domain counter and found an active Ancient Artifact - a trifecta of Lazax proportions! Luck of the Irish? Perhaps.

Great job to everyone for another fun year in the "Tag"!

Wargame Day 12/15

Well, that was quick wasn't it? The year just jammed by and before I knew it 2015 ended quite suddenly with Tim winning the Kriegspiel Trophy yet once again. Congratulations to Tim for another stellar year of Twilight Imperium.

Interestingly, the year had Tim in the lead with Bob in second and myself in third for almost the entire year. This is the third year in a row we have seen this "phenomenon". The final Kriegspiel Tournament scores were recorded with averages accounted in addition to placing and attendance:


Tim.......... 96.5....First
Bob.........108.0... Second
Joe.......... 158.1....Third
Bruce...... 168.8....Fourth
Luke........181.5....Fifth
Eric..........194.7....Sixth

Also, this was the first year of the Tournament where we played Twilight Imperium every month for the whole year. The reason for this was that the number of players that show up on any given game day determines the type of game we play. We have had a really good year where we have seen at least 5 to 6 people playing each game day. Thus, Twilight Imperium was the chosen game because it can handle up to 8 players easily.

Next year, scoring for the tournament will be made more simple with no averaging taken into account nor any punishing 10-point attendance scores for those who can't make it. If you get 1st place in a game then you get a simple 10 points. If second, then 8 points, if third then 6 points and so on. If you can't make it that month then you get a zero. Therefore, all points are merely added up at the end of the year and voila! - you have a winner. Should be pretty easy to keep track.

Overall, even though I got in fourth for the Tournament, I had a great time with everyone and look forward to 2016.