15mm ANCIENT/MEDIEVAL/RENAISSANCE DOUBLES COMPETITIONS
21st & 22nd JANUARY 2012
Venue: Glen-yr-Afon Hotel, Usk, Monmouthshire, UK, NP15 1SY
Glen-yr-Afon Hotel
Field of Glory Competitions:
1) Field of Glory: Ancient/Medieval
Any army dating after 1040 AD.
Not to exceed 900 points
http://www.byzant.demon.co.uk/Godendag_FoG_Rules.htm
2) Field of Glory: Renaissance
Any army from any published Field of Glory: Renaissance Army List book dated before 1591 AD. Only options permitted before 1591 are allowed. (No Battle Troops with musket are permitted).
Not to exceed 900 points
http://www.byzant.demon.co.uk/Godendag_FoGR_Rules.htm
Cost: £50.00 per team of 2. (This includes lunch on both days – see example menu below).
CONTACT: Richard Bodley Scott, 28 Priory Gardens, Usk, Monmouthshire, NP5 1AJ (rbs@byzant.demon.co.uk)
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GODENDAG 2012
VENUE: Glen-yr-Afon Hotel, Pontypool Rd, Usk, Monmouthshire, NP15 1SY
TIME: 8.30 - 9.00 - Registration time on Saturday
Games will be:
Saturday: 9.30 - 1.00 and 2.00 - 5.30
Sunday: 9.00 - 12.30 and 1.30 - 5.00
ENTRANCE: £50.00 per team of 2. This includes Lunch on Saturday and Sunday.
SAMPLE BAR LUNCH MENU
Chicken curry ½ rice ½ chips
Lasagne and chips
Breaded plaice and chips
Filled baguettes: chicken tikka, BLT, ham and cranberry, beef and horseradish, cheese and tomato - all served with chips and coleslaw
Door-step sandwiches: ham and cranberry, ham salad, cheese salad, tuna mayonnaise, chicken, sweet corn and mayonnaise - all served with chips and coleslaw
Jacket potatoes: cheese and onion, baked beans, tuna and sweet corn, chicken curry, prawn mayonnaise - all served with side salad and coleslaw
Hot baps - bacon or sausage, bacon and egg, beef and onion - all serve with chips
Chilli and rice or ½ rice ½ chips
Scampi, chips and peas
CATERING & ACCOMMODATION:
The hotel will provide refreshments at competitive rates. No food or drink purchased elsewhere is to be brought into the hotel. Accommodation is available in the Glen-yr-Afon Hotel. Please make your own bookings with the hotel. If you intend to stay on Friday and Saturday nights, please book as soon as possible. Telephone 01291 672302/673202 (Fax 01291 672597).
LOCAL ATTRACTIONS:
If you are able to make a long weekend of it, there are numerous local historical attractions relevant to our period. These include the Roman Legionary Fortress and Museum at Caerleon and the Roman walled city of Caerwent. Among the many local castles, the best are Chepstow, Raglan, White Castle (at Llantilio Croesenny) and Caerphilly. Caerphilly castle has a permanent exhibition of full size working medieval siege engines including ballista, mangonel, trebuchet and perrier. The Welsh Folk Museum at St. Fagans is worth a visit. The Brecon Beacons National Park and the picturesque Wye Valley are also nearby.
CHEQUES: Payable to R. Bodley Scott
QUERIES: Richard Bodley Scott, 28, Priory Gardens, Usk, Gwent, NP5 1AJ. (rbs@byzant.demon.co.uk)
See also: http://www.byzant.demon.co.uk/godendag.htm
