Gulf Coast Monthly
GCC Newsletter - June 2020
Coordinator's Corner
Bayou Wars has now been moved to November 6-8, 2020. Same location. Details for the ADLG Tournament are below. The 2019-2020 GCC season will continue through until the end of the ADLG Tournament at Bayou Wars. Any tournament that makes between now and then will count towards this year's GCC points.
BAYOU WARS 28 ADLG Tournament, November 6-8, 2020
Bayou Wars 28 will host a 200 point ADLG Open Tournament with 1 round Friday, 3 rounds Saturday and 1 round Sunday.
Tournament Rules and Format
Rule book and current ADLG rule interpretations will be used.
All judge’s rulings are final.
Referee will be Christopher Anders. Send lists and questions to shadypage@att.net. Lists will be due by October 30, 2020. Late lists give opponent choice of terrain before initiative is rolled.
Five rounds. 2.5 hours with 1d6 minutes of random time per round. When time is called, players will finish the CURRENT phase.
- Round 1 - Friday at 6:30 PM
- Round 2 - Saturday at 8 AM
- Round 3 - Saturday at 11 AM
- Round 4 - Saturday at 3 PM
- Round 5 - Sunday at 8AM
Venue is D'Iberville Civic Center, 10395 Automall Parkway, D'Iberville, Mississippi 39540
Convention fee is $40 for the weekend but Dwaine Balius has indicated there will be a $25 ADLG Tournament rate at the door. $5 fee for the ADLG Tournament paid to referee at tournament.
Trophies for 1st-3rd place will be provided.
HUBCON 2020 - Maybe - Field of Glory Average Joe Tournament
On September 12-13, 2020, the Gulf Coast Championship series will return to HUBCON in Hattiesburg, MS, with another round of the FOG Average Joe Tournament.
Tournament Rules and Format
- Table size will be 4x6.
- Each round will be 3 hours plus 1d6 of random time. When time is called, players will finish the current phase.
- Round 1 will start at 9 AM on Sep 12 or shortly thereafter
- V3 rules and current FAQ from BHGS website will be used.
- We will use the 100 point ADLG scoring method for round by round results.
- 1 list, 800 points.
- Any list from the list below is allowed but only the "Average Joes" may participate, i.e., no Superior, Elite or Poor troops are allowed. Highest ranking general allowed is an FC. (No Inspired Commanders allowed).
Book 1 Lists
- Later Sumerian or Akkadian
- Syro-Canaanite
- Later Minoan or Early Mycenaean
- Later Hebrew
- Urartian before 750 BC only
- Kimmerian, Skythian or Saka
- Etruscan League, Early Roman or Latin
- Thracian
- Classical Greek
- Early Carthaginian
- Classical Indian
- Later Achaemenid Persian
- Warring States to Western Han Chinese from 209 BC only
- Bosporan from 108 BC
- Early to Middle Republican Roman
- Seleucid
- Ptolemaic
- Later Pre-Islamic Bedouin
- Graeco-Bactrian
- Attalid Pergamene
- Ancient Spanish
- Numidians or Moorish
- Later Jewish
- Early German
- Later Republican Roman
- Ancient British or Caledonian
Book 2 Lists
- Principate Roman
- Eastern Han Chinese
- Pictish
- Later German (Western)
- Palmyran
- Later German (Eastern)
- Kofun-Nara Japanese Pre-400 Only
- Hunnic (Non-Hepthalite Hun options only)
- Post-Roman British
- Foederate Roman
- Later Hindu Indian (Non Sinhalese options only)
- Early Byzantine
- Merovingian Frankish
- Western Wei to Early Tang Chinese
- Christian Nubian after 800 AD
- Thematic byzantine
- Early Spanish
- Khmer or Champa
- Khurasanian Dynasties
- Later Abbasid, Tulunid, Ikhshidid
- Bedouin Dynasties
- Dailami Dynasties
- Nikeforian Byzantine
- Seljuk Turk
- Early Hungarian
- Taifa Andalusian
- Medieval Spanish & Portuguese
- Norman
- Italo-Norman
- Medieval French
- Medieval German
- Scots Isles & Highlanders
- Medieval Scots
- Komnenan Byzantine (No Varangians allowed)
- Anglo-Norman & Early Plantagenet English
- Crusader
- Medieval Welsh
- Medieval Burmese
- Ghurid Afghan
- Jurchen-Jin
- Medieval Irish
- Ayyubid Egyptian
- Anglo-Irish
- Moslem Indian Sultanates
- Medieval Indonesian or Malay
- Middle Plantagenet English
- Ottoman Turks before 1362 only
- Later Serbian from 1345 only
- Later Poles before 1455 only
- Later Low Countries
- Medieval Scandinavian
- Catalan Company
- Condotta Italian
- Later Plantagenet English (Continental)
- Ming Chinese
- Timurid, Black Sheep or White Sheep Turcoman
- Tupi
- Medieval Scots (in France)
- Hussite
- Mapuche
- Santa Hermanidad Neuve Castilian
- Christopher Anders will referee. Lists are due to shadypage@att.net no later than September 3, 2020. Late lists give your opponent choice of terrain before initiative is rolled.
- Tournament fee is $5 paid to the referee.
- Prizes will be offered for top 3 finishers.
The University of Southern Mississippi is scheduled for a home football game that weekend so hotel rooms may go fast. There is no hotel associated with the Con but there are 15 hotels located at the Hardy Street exit of I-59 within a short drive to the Con site.
Tournament and convention will be held in the Forrest County Multi-Purpose Center Annex, 962 Sullivan Dr, Hattiesburg, MS 39401.
GCC Sportsman of the Year 2020
The following GCC players are currently eligible for the award in 2020:
- Scott Allen
- Christopher Anders
- Walt Burgoyne
- Christopher Johnston
- Hilton McManus
- Joey Miller
- Bill Sierichs
- Hab Seitz
- Chris Swearingen
The following GCC players will become eligible if they participate in one more tournament that counts for GCC Points:
- Simone Fraternali
- Derek Hannan
- Steve Payne
- Steven Roper
- Jaime Setz
- Brett Stiefel
- Vince Solfronk
Broken Rays of the Sun Campaign
As I take a break, I am working on a Biblical Campaign to keep the juices flowing. Mark Kernan of One Tree Painting Service is working on some of those new Museum Miniatures Sumerians for me and they should be done in time for HUBCON if not before the summer is over. The first map has been finished is now up on the blog.
GCC Calendar of Events for 2019-2020
- Sep 11-13, 2020 - Hubcon 2020 (Tentative) - Field of Glory Average Joe Tournament
- Oct 2020 - Walt's Witchy Weekend (Tentative) - ?
- Nov 6-8, 2020 - Bayou Wars 28 GCC Championship/US Open Championship (ADLG) - D'Irberville, MS - 5 rounds (1 on Friday, 3 on Saturday, 1 on Sunday)
Projected GCC Calendar of Events for 2020-21
- December 2020 - Hilton's Biblical Holiday ADLG Tournament - Kenner, LA area
- February 2021 - Cold Iron VI - FOG Open Tournament, Fultondale, AL
- April/May 2021 - Brewer-Sailors ADLG Open Tournament - Birmingham, AL
- June 2021 - Bayou Wars 28 GCC Championship/US Open Championship (ADLG) - D'Irberville, MS - 5 rounds (1 on Friday, 3 on Saturday, 1 on Sunday)
2019-2020 GCC Championship Points
- Johnston, Christopher - 17 points
- Swearingen, Chris - 12
- Payne, Steve - 10
- Setz, Jaime - 9
- Miller, Joey - 8
- Burgoyne, Walt - 7
- McManus, Hilton - 6
- Roper, Steven - 6
- Setz, Hab - 5
- Allen, Scott - 4
- Anders, Christopher - 3
- Fraternalli, Simone - 3
- Hannan, Derek - 2
- Sierichs, Bill - 1
3 tournaments played - averaging 8.67 players per tournament
- HUBCON Late Medieval ADLG Tournament - 8 qualifying players
- HUBCON FOG Average Joe Tournament - 6 qualifying players
- Hilton's Holiday Biblical ADLG Tournament - 12 qualifying players
50 tournament games: 42 to resolution, 8 draws = 84% completion rate
Tournaments not making the cut:
- Walt's Witchy Weekend does not count as complete final round by round results were not provided.
- Cold Iron V does not count as it did not have 6 qualifying players.
Updated GCC Guidelines
GCC Coordinator
Email: shadypage@att.net
Website: https://bloodsandsteel.blogspot.com
Location: 512 Fultonbrook Drive, Fultondale, AL, USA
Phone: 205-612-1066
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/GCCseries/