The Companions (~C~)		Gore Odin
		versus
		Arch Mages of the Tower (AMotT)		GoldChocobo | Perrin Ruekilla | StormSeeker

AMotT forfeited the first game due to repeated OOS errors on their team.

AMotT basically lost this game early on when one of their wights was detonated by one of C's ghols in the middle of their thrall+archers. Their south warrior flank fell upon a mixed force from C and was gravely wounded, then obliterated by a warrior onslaught from the center. Meanwhile AMotT pushed hard in the center and defeated C's center army, suffering heavy casualties. Although it would appear that they had won the field, in fact C still had over twenty warriors remaining in the south, which came north and easily eliminated the handful of archers and thrall belonging to AMotT. C won with all six flags.

AMotT were slow off the mark, starting SE, and lost their south flag to a nimble zerk from C's SW position. Both teams quickly fortified the middle, C having four flags and AMotT only three (lacking the west center and the NW). Odin took one of C's trow against the NE defense and lost it, while Gore engaged the numerically superior AMotT defense in the middle and won, due to AMotT's three trow standing idly by while their support melee troops were destroyed. An embarassing defeat for AMotT.

AMotT fell prey to repeated OOS errors in the first game (six times, I'm told) and had to forfeit. Meanwhile C pulled off some solid play despite several minor blunders to win the second and third games.

- Butcher