It is sometimes fun to go back and look at things in the past, and often what is going on now makes us nostalgic for what we had then.
It looks like a local mini-convention is coming back to the Dayton Ohio area after being gone for six year - the Legendary Game Faire! And we are celebrating by bringing back one of the oldest Kings of War tournaments in Ohio.
So I thought it would be fun to go back and revisit it - and it was a bit more challenging than I expected. I thought I'd just dig up the old blog post - but there wasn't one! LGF II was four months before I started this blog, as a place to consolidate everything. I copied over a lot of old posts from other forums (for dwarfs, undead, orcs & goblins, and the old mantic forums) - but still nothing.
Luckily I did find some pictures on my old web site, and I still have the warscore file with the tournament results from way back then.
This was a wild time for Kings of War, waaaayyy back in FIRST edition. It was a very, very small community back then. I had just started trying to run events. I tried to run tournaments at Origins and Gencon in 2013, but only had 1 and 2 people show up for them respectively. At Adepticon that year, the grand prize for Kings of War was $1000 - and I think there were only four people in the tournament (I was (very sadly) NOT able to play as I had a conflicting tournament - and I still kick myself for not doing it).
I took over running the Adepticon tournament then in 2014 and we had 10 players! (I continued to run it through 2018, and while Shannon Shoemaker took it over in 2019 I still help with scoring).
The second Legendary Game Faire was held October 3-5 2014, and we again had 10 players at our tournament on Friday night before the big WFB tournament - as many as we had at Adepticon six months before.
Since it was in the evening, it was only 1000 pts. Still, fun was had by all!
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| Andrew Sherman v Travis Huff |
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| Chris Carmichael v Amy Stamper |
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| Jon Carter v Mark Zelinski |
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| Josh Mann (out of frame) v Colin Zelinski |
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| Kara Brown's Basilean army v my Dwarf army |
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| (back row) Chris Carmichael, Travis Huff, Amy Stamper, Kara Brown, Jon Carter. (front row) Joss Mann, Andrew Sherman, Colin Zelinski, Mark Zelinski |
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| Jon Carter - Best Overall |
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| Andrew Sherman - 2nd Place |
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| Josh Man - Best Appearance |
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| Travis Huff - Wooden Spoon |
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| My Dwarfs (I was the ringer) |
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| Chris Carmichael's Undead |
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| Josh Mann's Elves (an unfortunate blurry picture of the best painted army :-( ). |
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| Colin Zelinski's Undead |
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| Travis Huff's Elves |
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| Andrew Sherman's Kingdoms of Men |
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| Mark Zelinski's Kingdoms of Men (yes, in 1st edition the Ogres were part of the KoM list) |
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| Amy Stamper's Dwarfs |
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| Kara Brown's Basileans |
The final results
| Place |
Name |
Opponents |
Army |
Total |
Awards |
| 1 |
Jon Carter |
Mark Zelinski, Joshua Mann, Kara Brown |
Undead |
117 |
1st Place |
| 2 |
Andrew Sherman |
Travis Huff, Kara Brown, Amy Stamper |
Kingdoms of Men |
88 |
2nd Place |
| 3 |
Kara Brown |
Mike Carter (Ringer), Andrew Sherman, Jon Carter |
Basileans |
87 |
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| 4 |
Mike Carter (Ringer) |
Kara Brown, Mark Zelinski, Travis Huff |
Dwarfs |
87 |
Ringer |
| 5 |
Amy Stamper |
Chris Carmichael, Collin Zelinski, Andrew Sherman |
Dwarfs |
85 |
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| 6 |
Chris Carmichael |
Amy Stamper, Travis Huff, Collin Zelinski |
Undead |
84 |
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| 7 |
Collin Zelinski |
Joshua Mann, Amy Stamper, Chris Carmichael |
Undead |
59 |
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| 8 |
Mark Zelinski |
Jon Carter, Mike Carter (Ringer), Joshua Mann |
Kingdoms of Men |
38 |
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| 9 |
Joshua Mann |
Collin Zelinski, Jon Carter, Mark Zelinski |
Elves |
36 |
Best Appearance |
| 10 |
Travis Huff |
Andrew Sherman, Chris Carmichael, Mike Carter (Ringer) |
Elves |
20 |
Wooden Spoon |
Looking back now - several of the players have moved on to other games (Andrew, Chris and Travis no longer play at all, and while Mark likes to talk about the game, I haven't seen him or Colin play in quite a while either) (Amy still plays occasionally), a couple of them are currently preparing to go play at the Masters Championship in July (Jon and Kara) and one is no longer with us (Josh passed on a couple of years ago). And I keep running events.
Because it is all fun and games . . .
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