Field of Glory Rules for
the Northern Doubles League 2015
The competition is
open for single players, but will allow novice teams to enter as a
pair. Permitted armies will vary through each round see on.
The rules to be used are Field of Glory V2.00 with the Umpires
Clarifications (www.bhgs.org.uk).
The organisers reserve the right to issue sanctioned amendments at their
own discretion.
Also official errata, which can be found at:
www.fieldofglory.com/errata.html
The valid armies OB lists are to be from the published Field of Glory
army lists books as defined by the list of rounds below.
As with other competition of this nature, players are required to supply
their own terrain in accordance with their chosen army
Admission to the Northern Doubles League is at the sole discretion of
the organisers and their decision on all matters is final. An
application to enter the Northern Double League denotes acceptance of
these rules.
Also by playing in the Northern Doubles League you give the organisers
the right to keep information about you, (this will not be passed on to
anybody outside the N.D.L), except for the end of the year results which
are passed on to the BHGS for adding to the ranking points.
Each player must use one of each of the 3 classes of armies over the 5
rounds.
Also each player must play in 3 round of the N.D.L to qualify for BHGS
ranking points.
Games will be played to 3 ½ hours long depending on the venue at
the time of the round
Games not finished by the allotted time will be ended by the use of the
WHISTLE STOP RULES see below.
"Whistle Stop": "Time" is called at a semi-random time, within 5 to 10
minutes either side of the published finish time. When "Time" is called,
the game stops IMMEDIATELY and the result at that point is calculated,
except that if in any bound combat has started (ONLY shooting or
hand-to-hand) that bounds combats are all resolved
ARMIES LISTS OBs MUST INDICATE
1. The Players Name
2. Which army class it is, which book it is from, it's list number (if
it has one) and its date and variant used.
3. Battle group details - Number of elements and attributes of each
element.
4. Army Order of Battle
All army list and entry fees must be submitted 15 days before each round
of the competition date and may be sent by post or by e-mail, Submission
of inaccurate, incomplete or poorly laid out and late lists will be
penalised. Lists must be in Microsoft Excel or Microsoft word documents
only but not Word 2007 or Excel 2007 unless saved in 2003 format.
This year the only the 4 highest scores of the 5 rounds will count for
the final league score.
Armies will be split into three classes:-
Class 1 - 17 BG's or over
Class 2 - 13-16 BG's
Class 3 - 12 BG's or less
SCORING SYSTEM
BHGS 25-0 system
BONUS VICTORY POINTS (BVP)
Winning players of all three rules systems who have
broken there enemies army and are of a lower class army than the enemy
will receive bonus victory points as follows
A Class 3 beats a class 1 army it will gets 5 bonus victory points (BVP),
A Class 2 beats a class 1 army it gets only 2 bonus victory point (BVP).
A Class 3 beats a class 2 it gets only 2 bonus victory point (BVP).
Only by breaking an opponents army does a player gain Bonus Points,
games ended by time being called do not.
The 5 rounds will each have a theme which restricts
the armies eligible for that round. The rounds and armies are:
Round 1 Sunday February 15th at
MAWS club Manchester
Classical 825 points
Immortal Fire any army
Round 2 Medieval 850 points
Any European army after 1049
Including Ottoman Turks
Round 3 Rise and Glory of Rome 825 points
Rise of Rome
Legions Triumphant
Round 4 Dark Ages 825 points
Wolves from the Sea
Oath of Fealty
Round 5 The East 775 points
Any army from Asia including Turks but excluding
Ottomans.
We HOPE that round 2 will be at the Sheffield
Triples on Sunday 17th May. Other dates to be decided.
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