Cold Iron VIII - February 24-25, 2024

 Cold Iron VIII - The Roaring 1000’s FOG Tournament - Fultondale, Alabama - 15mm

Tournament Rules and Format

• Three rounds on February 24 and 1 on February 25.

• Table size will be 4x6.

• Each round will be 3 hours plus 1d6 minutes of random time. When time is called, players will finish the current phase.

• Round 1 will start at 9 AM on Feb 24 or shortly thereafter

• V3.1 rules and current FAQ will be used.

• We will use the 100 point ADLG scoring method for round by round results.

• 1 list, 825 points. 

• Any list from the lists below with options available from 1000 AD to 1099 AD.  i.e. From 1000 is allowed and before 1100 is allowed.  Before 1000 and from 1100 are not allowed.  All allies must also meet these conditions.

Book 2 Lists 

• Classical and Post-Classical Mayan 

• Post-Roman British

• Later Hindu Indian

• Early Eastern Steppe Horse Cultures

• Christian Nubian

• Anglo-Saxon and Anglo-Danish

• Tibetan

• Nanzhao

• Early Spanish

• Andalusian

• Muslim North African and Sicily

• Viking

• Early Heian Japanese

• Khmer or Champa

• Khurasanian Dynasties

• Pagan Burmese

• Early Scots

• Rus

• Norse Irish

• Early Medieval European

• Bedouin Dynasties

• Dailami Dynasties

• Laio

• Tuareg

• Song Chinese

• Nikeforian Byzantine

• Fatimid Egyptian

• Georgian

• Seljuk Turk

Book 3 Lists 

• Koryo Korean

• Early Hungarian

• Taifa Andalusian

• Medieval Spanish & Portuguese

• Later Heian to Muromachi Japanese

• Norman

• Italo-Norman & Sicilian

• Medieval French

• Medieval German

• Communal Italian

• Scots Isles & Highlanders

• Medieval Scots

• Komnenan Byzantine

• Anglo-Norman & Early Plantagenet English

• Crusader

• Medieval Welsh

Christopher Anders will referee. Lists are due to ishades@yahoo.com no later than midnight, February 19. Late lists give your opponent choice of terrain before initiative is rolled.

Venue will be the Casa de Anders Basement in Fultondale, AL.  Note - venue may change if numbers require more tables.

Tournament fee is $5 paid to the referee.

Prizes will be offered for top 3 finishers.

There are multiple hotels at the Fultondale-Walker's Chapel Road exit to choose from and if flying in a shuttle from the airport can be arranged with notice.

The Emirate of Aleppo by Suheil Zakkar

 Way back in 2017 when I started developing the campaign "A War Like No Other,"  one of the sources I looked for high and low was the one by Suheil Zakkar.  At one point, there was a hardcopy on Amazon for approximately $150.

One random day in June 2023, I stumbled on a copy of the draft of the manuscript submitted in 1969 for Dr. Zakkar's PHD.  The pdf is available through the SOAS eprint website.  The link for the full 298 page thesis is available here. There are an additional 16 pages that appear to be short biographies of other Islamic writers from antiquity.  These pages are obviously not part of the original thesis judging by the print quality and font.