CANCON 2012

FOW Team Tasmania: John Mumford, Richard Taylor, Jim Gandy & Leigh Watson

With 100 FOW competitors, 550 other competitors in multiple other systems and thousands of visitors, buyers & sellers, Cancon is quite an event.  Mercifully, this year the weather was kind and conditions in the big shed were quite pleasant - not the oven we had heard of in past years.

There were 48 tables for FOW alone - for  the 40 players each of Midwar & early War and another 8 tables for a big Stalingrad campaign.
                       
There were also a heap of shop stalls selling all things wargames.

Demo games of interest included: 6mm Napoleonics (Borodino - see pic), Hail Caesar & Black Powder Pike & Shotte.

We were also given a preview of FOW V3 by Phil Yates himself - should be at A52 this week.

Flames Of War:  Team Tas Results:

John's British Armoured (EW): 4 wins, 4 losses, 31 VPs.
Leigh's Tankovy (MW): 4 wins, 4 losses, 29 VPs.
Richard's Finnish Infantry (MW): 4 wins, 4 losses, 27 VPs.
Jim's Hungarian Light Infantry (MW): 5 wins, 3 losses, 29 VPs.

In Midwar we all had a good variety of enemy armies, players and terrain.  John was a little less fortunate in Early War as his opponents were Panzer in every game.  We had opponents from Brisbane, Sydney, Albury/Wodonga, Melbourne & New Zealand.

The standard of play & table manners was generally very good and Team Tas all finished in a bunch near the middle of the field.  The Monday Knights from Melbourne and the two Kiwis were generally a class above both in the game and in drinking capacity.  One curious fact we discovered was that cm are used rather than inches only in Tasmania and Albury/Wodonga.

Detailed results for the team:

		John	Leigh	Richard	Jim
		EW	MW	MW	MW
		British Armour	Soviet Tankovy	Finnish Infantry	Hungarian Light Infantry
Round 1	Encounter	Panzer	Tiger	Strelk	Tankovy
		Win	Win	Win	Loss
		6	6	6	1
Round 2	No Retreat/HTL	Panzer	Fucilieri	Strelk	Strelk
		Win	Loss	Loss	Win
		6	1	1	4
Round 3	Breakout	Panzer	Fucilieri	Tankovy	Aust Armour
		Loss	Loss	Win	Win
		2	1	4	4
Round 4	Dust Up	Panzer	Strelk	Tankovy	Grenadiers
		Won	Loss	Loss	Loss
		6	3	2	2
Round 5	Witch's Cauldron	Panzer	US Para	Pioneer	Aust Infantry
		Loss	Win	Loss	Win
		2	5	3	5
Round 6	FFA	Panzer	Finn Armour	Grenadiers	Pioneers
		Win	Win	Win	Win
		4	6	4	6
Round 7	Breakthrough	Panzer	DAK Armour	Tankovy	Tankovy
		Loss	Loss	Loss	Loss
		2	1	1	2
Round 8	Fighting Withdrawal	Panzer	Grenadiers	Strelk	Strelk
		Loss	Win	Win	Win
		3	6	6	5
	Wins	4	4	4	5
	Vps	31	29	27	29