Fearless Veteran, 2025

 Other Fearless Veteran tournaments are described here: 2017, 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024.  

The 2025 SAG Fearless Veteran tournament was excellent. We had six participants, so three games for each of the three rounds, and everyone played a different opponent each game. 

As always, we were playing for the trophy, the winner's name on the Fearless Veteran plaque, and club bragging rights. But this year the trophy was the One Ring, since we were playing the 2024 edition of Middle Earth Strategy Battle Game!

For the tournament we played 500 point forces with any army list allowed, including "legacy" lists. Most of us used Table Top Admiral to build our lists. Each round was a different scenario from the main rulebook, Round 1: Domination, Round 2: Reconnoiter, and Round 3: To the Death! This provided a different challenge for each scneario, holding objectives, getting the table, and destroying enemy forces. We determined final tournament standings by 1. Win/loss record, 2. Points Earned, and 3. Points given up. 

Paul Westermeyer is our Fearless Veteran 2025!

Ken Jacobson presents Paul Westermeyer the One Ring trophy
as the Fearless Veteran of 2025.

1. Paul Westermeyer, Mirkwood Spiders, 2 wins, 1 loss, Pts for/against: 34/18

2. Ken Jacobson, Dale, 2 wins, 1 loss, Pts for/against: 32/14

3. Terrance Johnstone, Ugluk's Scouts, 2 wins, 1 loss, Pts for/against: 32/17

4. James Young, Wood Elves/Rangers of Mirkwood, 2 wins, 1 loss, Pts for/against: 29/21

5. Jake Nedza, Minas Tirith, 1 wins, 2 losses, Pts for/against: 18/39

6. Robert Kendzie, Riders of Rohan, 3 losses, Pts for/against: 5/41

Paul is the first non-repeat winner since 2021. 

Fearless Veterans to date:

2016 - Ken Jacobson  (Flames of War, 3rd edition)

2017 - Wayne Wiltshire (Flames of War, 3rd edition)

2018 - Wayne Wiltshire (Flames of War, 3rd edition)

2021 - Michael Adkins (Kings of War, 2nd Edition)

2022 - Wayne Wiltshire (Bolt Action, 2nd Edition)

2023 - Ken Jacobson (Black Powder, 2nd Edition)

2024 - Michael Adkins (Knights and Terrors)

2025 - Paul Westermeyer (Middle Earth Strategy Battle Game, 2024 Edition)

Hopefully, this will be the last time Fearless Veteran is played in December. We are going to schedule the 2026 tournament for March or April hoping to get better turn out with a less busy time of year.

Fearless Veteran, 2024

Other Fearless Veteran tournaments are described here: 2017, 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024.  

The 2024 SAG Fearless Veteran tournament was a great time. Turn out was low again, but we did get 4 participants, the minimum number needed for our small, friendly, club tournaments, we could have handled 8 players total. 

This year we tried something new, the tournament game was Knights and Terrors (KATS), a fantasy miniature wargame that club member Jake Nedza is writing and developing. KATS is an army level high fantasy wargame which focuses on ease of play, tactical decision making, and broad support for your existing fantasy army. It uses armies painted and build for Warhammer or similar games and it has been reasonably popular in our club. We thought acting as a play-test tournament would help Jake out. 

As always, we were playing for the trophy, the winner's name on the Fearless Veteran plaque, and club bragging rights. 

Michael Adkins was again our Fearless Veteran!

1. Michael Adkins, 3-0

2. Paul Westermeyer, 2-1

3. Robert Kendzie, 1-2

4. Justin*/Jake Nedza, 0-3 

*Jake's friend Justin was only able to play a couple games then Jake stepped in. 

Fearless Veterans to date:

2016 - Ken Jacobson  (Flames of War, 3rd edition)

2017 - Wayne Wiltshire (Flames of War, 3rd edition)

2018 - Wayne Wiltshire (Flames of War, 3rd edition)

2021 - Michael Adkins (Kings of War, 2nd Edition)

2022 - Wayne Wiltshire (Bolt Action, 2nd Edition)

2023 - Ken Jacobson (Black Powder, 2nd Edition)

2024 - Michael Adkins (Knights and Terrors)

The 2025 Fearless Veteran tournament is this week, we will be playing Middle Earth Strategy Battle Game. 

Hopefully, this will be the last time Fearless Veteran is played in December. We are going to schedule the 2026 tournament for March or April hoping to get better turn out with a less busy time of year.