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The Emperor of France was surrounded. Gathered about him were the Marechals of his Empire, quietly waiting for their Great Captain to complete his study of the map and reveal his next masterful stroke. A movement of supreme genius that would lay low the Coalition rabble and establish the French dominance of Continental Europe. Weighing the location of every road, village, river and ridgeline, the mind of the masterful warrior of France iterated the endless permutations of all possible military movements. After a long moment, he reached the conclusion he was seeking. “Here”, he said pointing to a city on the map. “Have all of the columns converge on this location. Berthier, make it so.”
The name of the Saxon city is Leipzig and the Struggle of Nations begins yet again!
Gentlemen Officers of the NWC, salute!
We are currently in the process of taking the names of all officers that are interested in participating in the NWC sanctioned 2012 Struggle of Nations Tournament. The tournament will be based on the HPS Leipzig title. There will be two divisions of play, a single player division and a multi-player division.
The single player division will be divided into three categories: Junior Officers (Rank of Major or lower), Guards Officers and General Membership. Officers may choose to play in any one of the three categories depending on their desires and qualifications. All officers who are not otherwise qualified for the Junior Officer or Guards categories, or simply do not wish to play in one of these two categories, may participate in the General Membership category. The single player division of the tournament will be conducted in a number of elimination rounds until only one, definite winner emerges for each of the three categories. The total number of rounds that need be played to reach this conclusion may vary by individual category, and is directly dependent on the number of players participating. As an example, if you have eight players in a category, you would play four matches in Round 1, two matches in Round 2, and a final, single match in Round 3 to determine the winner in that category. If you have sixteen players, you would have to play 4 Rounds to complete the tournament. Thirty-two players would require 5 Rounds, etc. Since the officers will be divided into three categories from the outset, the number of players in each category should be less, so that fewer rounds will be required to complete the 2012 Tournament than were required for the 2011 Tournament. In addition, all scenarios used in this tournament will be small, custom designed affairs of only 12 to 16 turns in length. This will allow a round to be completed in roughly 30 days. The fact that these are one on one competitions will also reduce the time necessary to complete each round as there are fewer overall file exchanges than in a MP game. All of these single matches will be played ‘blind’, meaning that neither player will be able to study the custom scenario before the match begins. It will be up to the players to properly scout their opponent’s position as they move to contact.
The multi-player category of the tournament will consist of a single, medium sized engagement of about 50 turns in length. The selected battle will be a stock scenario from the Leipzig game, as such the players will have the ability to study the initial disposition of their opponent’s forces should they so choose. The battle will be played two on two, with French officers on one side and Coalition officers on the other. The battle will be scored in some manner based on the Level of Victory and (possibly) casualties inflicted on your opponent. The scores from all games will be added together to determine the overall score for the armies. The side, either French or Coalition, that scores the most points will be declared the winner and gain ‘Army Bragging Rights’ until subsequently bested in the next club sanctioned tournament.
Officers may participate in both the Single and MP Categories of the tournament concurrently should they so choose. As half of the officers will be eliminated from the Single Play portion of the tournament after the Round 1 match, this method provides that they could still be enjoying tournament play in the MP portion, and not be stuck waiting for this tournament to end and the next to begin.
I plan to have the 2012 SON Tournament Webpage completed within the next week and have all participants registered by October 15th. The tournament will begin a few days after we have all the registrations in hand and pair the various officers against their opponents. You may register for the 2012 SON Tournament by sending an email to me at mark(dot)jones(at)neel-schaffer(dot)com. Be sure to also send a copy to Todd Schmidgall at tlorens(at)hotmail(dot)com as he and I will be closely working together, along with some other dedicated and talented officers, to help make this tournament a success. I would encourage you to register as soon as you can to ensure that you are included in the tournament. We will make every attempt to allow all interested officers to participate, but the nature of single elimination rounds does dictate that we have specific numbers of players to make the rounds work. Should we be forced to limit the number of players, we will do so based on the dates that the players first registered for the tournament.
The Tournament Webpage will provide more details once completed. I would encourage you to generally withhold your questions until I can get the Tournament Webpage completed and posted. It should answer most of the outstanding questions you may have at this time.
We look forward to hearing from you. Best of luck, gentlemen. Let’s have some fun!
{Note: This message was dispatched by individual email to all officers in our system. As I cannot be sure of all deliveries due to the large number of members, this post will serve as an additional notification for anyone who may be interested in participating in the 2012 SON Tournament.}
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