MyHeritage: Celebrity Collage – Roots

Celebrity lookalike?? Somehow I don’t think I look as good as Gillian! (And those who know my lovely wife will understand the SPECIAL relationship she has with the X-Files!) Why didn’t Alec Guinness come up—especially when he played Hitler in Hitler: The Last Ten Days (1973)? At least Rabi won a Nobel in literature…. And what’s up with Jesse????

I returned Sunday from ATC slightly ahead of Hurricane Ike. Four Pittsburghers made the trip (Howard West, Tim Hladon, Larry Chaban , and the Diceman) and we all agreed we had a great time. Pics can be found here.

Friday nite was a Double-size DBA event with 24 elements on a 24″ x 48″ board i three rounds. I christened my new DBA mats purchased from theterrainguy.com, and they are real nice and well worth the investment. I decided to use my Cheater Slimy Anglo-Normans with two war-wagons. Unfortunately for me,  pip dice were horrible and I finished third out of a large field.  Howard West finished second..not bad for a DBM player <G>.The events at ATC are in a DBA hotbed, so 20 people would seem a small event! The “Wing Joint” down the street was a good site for “drowning our sorrows” though, so the nite wasn’t a total loss!

War wagons advance

Saturday featured the 4-round Open Tournament and I used Italian Condotta. I did better here, but didn’t win the title. The most fun was putting a bounty on Larry C’s head to young shark Jason Stelzer, who ended up collecting! Hah! This nite was beer at the hotel across the street while we watched OSU get demolished. Tim (just turned 21— bought the first round legally!)

Sunday was the ” fun” event–Emperor of the Great Lakes. In a campaign-type system, players conquer other players to make them “subjects” (or b….) who they can use to conquer other players or defend aginst attackers. THIRTY players showed! The best dig was when Mike Demana (noted OSU fan), asked me what army I was playing and I replied “Trojans, USC variety”. Ooooooo, sorry, Mike. Mike used a “rolling thunder” play rate where ypu matched up with an opponent as soon as you finished a battle. I got 5 battles in before we had to leave as the wind was getting real bad from Hurricane Ike. At the point we left, I had only lost 1 battle and was a loyal subject of Mike Stelzer.

I’ll update the post with the winners when they are announced by our GLADBAG (Great Lakes Area DBA Gamers) host. I also made the plunge and actually joined GLADBAG, so now I have to try to earn the coveted Drinking Society button!

This is a great DBA con and I recommend it to all. See you there next year! And thanks to all the players and GMs from GL for making it all possible.

Winner of Emperor of the Great Lakes: Paul Potter, Late Imperial Eastern Roman (8 vassals)

Winner of Early Bracket, DBA Open: Keith Finn, Gauls (3-1 record)

Winner of Late Bracket DBA open: Greg Crane, Late Tang Chinese (4-0 record)

Congrats, all!