On Saturday, we enjoyed a fabulous day of gaming at this years To the Strongest! World Championships, hosted by the South Oxfordshire Generals, in Chalgrove. This year we had 41 players who played an incredible total of 80 games between them, most are in the group photo, above. That’s Steve Dover in the front who organised it, with help from myself, Tim Thompson and the South Oxfordshire Generals.

Here are some photos of the games, in no particular order, that have kindly been sent to me by Jason Collis, Jimmy Carter and Tim Thompson (along with a few of my own). All photos will enlarge if clicked. Apologies if I missed your name or got it wrong!

Lunchtme- the weather was glorious!

A pensive Andrew Brentnall, who went on, with great good humour, to win the Dead Elephant award.

That’s me in the subtle shirt, attacking Gary Chapman’s Swiss. Frontally. With knights. It could have gone worse than it did…

Shaun Jewitt- 100 Years War English. What a neatly laid out table!

John Sharman and Khan Baz scanning the rules!

Rachel Winter- beat me last year, I gather she did well this year, too, but have no details yet. This is a Civil War between two Later Italian Condotta Venetian armies. Small World! Must be Jan de Neve, and Colin Hoare. There were three Italian Condotta armies, including mine; this year knights are the new nomads! Parthians, perhaps Peter Ryding’s, vs. Romano British, perhaps Nick Abbotts? That’s all for now. Tomorrow I’ll post the balance of the photos- lots more in-action shots! The rules used were, of course, To the Strongest v1.1a rules, with the Even Stronger v7c amendments and 130 point armies. Later this week we’ll post a list of the armies.