the napoleonic wars

Updated April 25, 2014

2013 WBC Report
2014 Status: pending 2014 GM commitment

Francis Czawlytko, MD
2013 Champion

Event History
2003 |  | Forrest Speck |  | 67
2004 |  | David Gantt |  | 64
2005 |  | Ed Rothenheber |  | 50
2006 |  | Melvin Casselberry |  | 55
2007 |  | Scott Fenn |  | 52
2008 |  | Lane Hess |  | 46
2009 |  | Henry Russell |  | 45
2010 |  | Mike Casselberry |  | 45
2011 |  | Bruce Young |  | 54
2012 |  | John Emery |  | 48
2013 |  | Francis Czawlytko |  | 50

Waterloo Event History
2003 |  | BruceYoung |  | 24
2004 |  | Scott Moll |  | 14
2005 |  | Mark Hodgkinson |  | 24
2006 |  | Kevin Sudy |  | 32
2007 |  | Kevin Sudy |  | 28
2008 |  | John Emery |  | 24

PBeM Event History
2014 |  | Rob Mull |  | 34

Laurels

    Rank  Name              From  Last  Total
      1.  Bruce Young        SC    11    206
      2.  John Emery         SC    13    198
      3.  Lane Hess          PA    13    157
      4.  Ed Rothenheber     MD    12    111
      5.  Francis Czawlytko  MD    13    104
      6.  Henry Russell      PA    10    102
      7.  Melvin Casselberry PA    11     99
      8.  Scott Moll         VA    05     80
      9.  Mike Casselberry   PA    10     60
     10.  David Gantt        SC    04     60
     11.  Forrest Speck      MD    03     60
     12.  Scott Fenn         MD    14     55
     13.  Rob Mull           CO    14     50
     14.  Mark Hodgkinson    au    05     50
     15.  Scott Pfeiffer     SC    08     48
     16.  Lance Roberts      AK    14     42
     17.  Bryan Collars      SC    04     38
     18.  Tom Eskey          MD    11     36
     19.  John Haas          PA    03     36
     20.  Pat Duffy          VA    08     32
     21.  Frank Morehouse    PA    13     30
     22.  Brian Sutton       MD    12     30
     23.  Jim Savarick       PA    11     30
     24.  Kevin Sudy         VA    12     25
     25.  Harry Theodore     NY    09     24
     26.  Jesse Boomer       KS    09     24
     27.  Jason White        VA    04     24
     28.  Mark McCandless    CT    03     24
     29.  Rich Shipley       MD    14     20
     30.  Nick Frydas        uk    11     18
     31.  Daniel Broh-Kahn   MD    10     18
     32.  Joe Burch          MD    06     18
     33.  Josh Githens       SC    04     18
     34.  Charley Hickok     PA    04     17
     35.  Richard Beyma      MD    08     16
     36.  Keith Wixson       NJ    04     16
     37.  Michael Day        AZ    14     15
     38.  Chris Greenfield   NY    13     15
     39.  Brian Sutton       MD    07     15
     40.  James Eaton        LA    03     15
     41.  William Burch      MD    04     14
     42.  Steve Jansen       MD    05     12
     43.  George Young       UT    03     12
     44.  Rachael Day        AZ    14     10
     45.  Al Hurda           on    12     10
     46.  Alan Sudy          VA    07     10
     47.  Fred Schachter     NY    05     10
     48.  Kevin Emery        SC    10      6
     49.  Robert Vollman     ab    06      6
     50.  Edward Kendrick    uk    03      6
     51.  Daniel Blumentritt TX    13      5

2013 Laurelists Repeating Laurelists:

Frank Morehouse, PA 2nd | Lane Hess, PA 3rd | Chris Greenfield, NY 4th | John Emery, SC 5th | Daniel Blumentritt, TX 6th

Past Winners

Forrest Speck, MD 2003 | David Gantt, SC 2004 | Ed Rothenheber, MD 2005 | Melvin Casselberry, PA 2006 | Scott Fenn, MD 2007
Lane Hess, PA 2008 | Henry Russell, PA 2009 | Mike Casselberry, PA 2010 | Bruce Young, SC 2011 | John Emery, SC 2012

Patrick Duffy, defending champ John Emery and Ed Rothenheber

Henry Russell, Joe Burch and Jim Savarick | Calling out the Guard against the Brits ...

Go directly to St Helena, do not pass Elba, do not collect 100 days ...

It was not a good year to be French. Even when uttered by an Englishman that seemed to be true.

Monday night certainly belonged to the Tsar, with his men picking up four victories, Justin Morgan leading the way with eight VP. No would be Emperor finished better than fourth with defending champion John Emery coming in dead last among the 30 players on hand with his -7 night.

Tuesday night attendance picked up, with the the British logging three victories, the French two and Austria and Prussia splitting the last two. Lane Hess scored best with a reported +8 whilst John Emery bounced back with a decidedly better night for the French win in the sole 4-player game. Four others tied for the wooden spoon with -2 nights. Three new players participated in the demo, in which the Hapsburg-Romanov Axis of Autocracy claimed a narrow win.

Thursday continued a strong recovery on last year's numbers which were depressed by the great AC Failure/Ice Cream conspiracy of 2012. There was no thunderstorm. Rather, it was Fouche behind the curtain rattling a sheet of aluminium. Anyway, the Prussian's had their day and scored three victories while the British and French managed one each. Chris Greenfield, Melvin Casselberry and Wade Hyatt all scored eight VP for the evening's top honors. Al Hurda's French brought up the rear with a -7 long night.

20 players appeared for the semifinals and the consensus was overwhelming for four 5-player games rather than five 4's. While 2012 saw most people fond of Britain as first choice and witnessed a France win, this year proved different. Again, Britain was the popular pick, but it was Prussia that would prevail. True to their form so far, France was everyone's third pick.

Three winners and two runners-up would advance. Daniel Blumentritt scored a win as Prussia with the fifth pick but was unable to continue. The reigning champion had first draft rights and again chose France, no doubt envisioning another one-turn blitz such as brought him the crown in 2012. Frank Morehouse then selected Britain and Lane Hess opted for Russia. Of the qualifying runners-up, Francis Czawlytko chose Austria, leaving Prussia to Chris Greenfield.

Unlike last year's drought stricken Final, this one went four rounds, and at the end of it France lay broken. Austria just pipped Britain to the victory, enabling Francis to claim the both the win and the vial of earth from Waterloo. This makes Nappy the one game where you get sand for coming first.

Stats (5-player games only)

Wins: Prussia 7, Britain 6, Russia 4, France 3, Austria 2

Best Winning Score/Worst Results:

France: John Emery +10 / John Emery "Lots" (Final)

Britain: Chris Greenfield +8 (Semi) / Phil Rodrigues (Semi) & Justin Morgan -1

Austria: Francis Czawlytko +11 (Final) / Noah Engelmann -5

Russia: Justin Morgan +8 / Rob Olsson -2

Prussia: Wade Hyatt +8 / Dale Long -1

Bill Banks, Llew Bardecki, Nick Benedict and Mark Hodgkinson march to the guns. | Al Hurda, Francis Czawlytko, Bruce Young, Scott Pfeiffer and Kevin Emery
Poor Daniel Blumentritt is outnumbered by Mafia 3-1. | The finalists before the blood lettin'

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A rather ambitious hybrid format consisting of three 3-player games with each player playing a different side once followed by the top six engaging in 2-player elimination rounds has ended with Rob Mull triumphant over Lance Roberts with a French +10 VP win following a Turn 3 Peace die roll. The field of 34 also provided laurels for Rich Shipley, Michael Day, Rachael Day and Scott Fenn respectively finishing third through sixth.

GM | Gareth Williams [2nd Year] | NA
wilphe@gmail.com | NA

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