Picture Gallery of the 1st FWC, 2006


Dennis Kelsey as "Friedrich".

Dennis and his opponents Robert Hafemeister and Tilo Kuner.

Robert Hafemeister is playing Austria and the Imperial Army.

Tilo Kuner is having combat with Dennis Kelsey.

Robert Hafemeister's Austrians and Dennis Kelsey's Prussians are lurking in Silesia.

But suddenly, the Austrians close the trap, but Dennis is victorious in the spades battle.

Another game Alexei Gartinski as sorrowful "Friedrich".

At the end of the game, Alexei holds exactly 2 Tactical Cards.

Another game and another "Friedrich": Anton Telle.
(gg. Herman Baeten, Torsten Hennig, Robert Hafemeister)

Anton's TC-deck grows and grows . . .

End of game position: Victroy by Nico Maly's Sweden !!
(vs. the Friedrich-designer Richard Sivél)

Sometimes the French general Soubise shows up voluntarily in East Saxony.

Alex Hoffmann as Friedrich ...

... has to mull over a lot of things, too.
(He is playing againgst Torsten Hennig, André Spiegel and Steffen Schröder.)

André Spiegel ponders,
Torsten Hennig receives new cards
(Does he receive new luck, also?)

The smile after the pondering.

But not for too long.

A Friedrich lampshade hanging above every table.

Alex Hofmann has not too many spades for the spades-battle against Russia.

Russia is played by Steffen Schröder.

Now, Alex seems to be under a lot of pressure . . .

Another game:
Birte Wolmeyer is the Tsarina and Fortuna-Düsseldorf-Fan (german football club).
(And isn't good "fortuna" soemthing very necessary for the Tsarina?)

Her allies Herman Baeten and Nico Maly . . .

. . . are trying to crack the defense of Bernd Preiß.

But, a solid defense must be planned carefully.

Finally, Bernd defeats all generals of Herman in one turn: The Austrian retreat ends at the edge of the map.

Another game:
Dennis Kelsey, Steffen Schröder and Franziska Gilbert.

Oh Lord! Freddy is encircled.

Franziska Gilbert as "Friederike".

Sometimes "Friederike" has to play on her knees.

Franziska Gilbert and Anton Telle in the mental fight about the situation in Hannover.

The game on the razor's edge?

No! — "Friederike" Franziska rescues herself ...

... and keeps on fighting.

Josef Gundel and Anton Telle are the attackers (as Austria and France).

Anton Telle checks his army numbers
(For the FWC, small cubes and matchboxes had been introduced.)

Some key postions are pointed out to Tilo Kuner.

Taken from the Final Game:
Josef Gundel (Prussia), Bernd Preiß (Russia),
Anton Telle (Austria), André Spiegel (France)
and Richard Sivél (in the background).