Royal Air Force Wargaming Associations Championship Weekend 2011 by Pete Gill The Royal Air Force Association was formed in October 1986 and is now is looking to celebrate its 25th Anniversary later this year. Membership of the association is open to all serving or ex-UK Armed Forces and MOD civilians.

The championship weekend was held again in Coventry and had several different competitions running in succession and for the last three years Flames Of War has been used to determine the winner of the Association's Modern Land Trophy.

This year we had twelve members ear marked to play the Mid-war, 1500 point competition. The competition consisted of four rounds with a random draw used to determine opponents for the first three rounds. The rankings after these rounds were then used to determine the final round draw. The scenarios were taken from Das Book and each player only played an opponent once and each game where possible was played on a different table for each round.  The same random draw was also used to decide the scenario for each round. This kept the players on their toes, as the scenario was only announced just prior to each game.

We lost one player prior to starting on the Friday morning that had been taken ill, therefore we had the players competed in a game where the results didn’t count towards the final standings. These games were spread over the three games that were played on Saturday with a final seeded game being played after the evening meal. Below: The event participates.

To give the bottom of the table something to fight over, each player contributed £1 which was awarded as the Wooden Spoon prize to the player who won the game deciding the bottom rankings. All other players fought against the opponent either below or above them in the final rankings in Free-For-All. The final results are listed below: Final Placing Name Nation & Force 1st Bruce "BJ" Heasman US Light Tank 2nd Pete Gill US Armoured Rifles 3rd Neil "Nelly" Mancer British 8th Army Motorised 4th Simon "Slimes" Campbell-Smith British Motorised 5th Jon Smith British Tunisian Infantry 6th Marytn "Jevo" Jeavons British 11th Huzzars 7th Dave Kerr US Infantry 8th Mick "Howling Mad" Cowley Russian Tanks 9th Steve Reeve German Panzergrenadiers 10th Graham Donavan German Panzergrenadier (Wooden Spoon winner) 11th Wayne Reece British 8th Army Rifle Infantry

Above: (From left to right) 3rd Place: Neil Mancer, 1st Place: BJ Heasman, 2nd Place: Pete Gill and Wooden Spoon Graham Donavan. Also if we can be cheeky and ask for anyone interested in joining the Association should contact: [email protected] ~ Pete.