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Post by diades on Feb 1, 2024 19:18:03 GMT
Announcing a new DBA Event to be held on Saturday 18th May 2024 at the appropriately named Victory Room, Bucklebury Village, Reading, Berkshire RG7 6PS. It is 10 minutes from Cold Ash or the A34/M4 junction. We will have the hall 1000 to 1730. (Note it is not the same place as nearby Upper Bucklebury!) In the current, hopefully temporary, absence of themed PAWS events, it will be themed.
The previous winner chooses an historic battle and provides a matched pair of armies to re-fight that battle, including appropriate terrain for each army, should they defend. The pair will be used to play the final. Previous rounds will be Group-based with some quarter/semi finals and play-offs depending on the number of players. Players bring a single eligible army. Eligible armies are allies and enemies of the two armies from the preceding 50 year period (hence sometimes predecessor armies, their allies and enemies may have to be included). As organiser, I will choose the first theme. We will start with Hastings, 1066. Hence Anglo-Danish and Norman and any ally or enemy of either between 1016 and 1066. I reckon there are just short of 20 eligible armies: list to follow.
Expressions of interest and/or £6 to secure a place welcomed.
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Post by diades on Jan 30, 2024 23:43:05 GMT
Pencil me in as a possible contender all the way from Oz Diades - I have the green light from the women in my life and a boost to my travel funds. Now that I know when I can start the long term planning. BTW - I noticed that last year there was another event nearby within a week of the Cold Ash Clash. What are the chances I can take an extended break and get to two DBA competitions this year? Cheers I think the other event was at the Warfare show. Provisionally that will be 16/17 November in 2024…
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Post by diades on Jan 27, 2024 22:58:57 GMT
Advance notice...details to follow.
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Post by diades on Jan 14, 2024 20:24:11 GMT
Just got to convince the wife this is an ideal holiday location….. Thessaloniki is Greece’s second largest city. It has many historic buildings, much shopping and is arguably the foodie capital! And it’s warm and on the Coast. Just saying…
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Post by diades on Jan 8, 2024 12:44:32 GMT
Further ruling from the Vexillum Minimus Boundary Commission as at 8/1/2024. 2/52 Dacian with Sarmatian ally accepted (following hefty tribute paid by owner.........) Can it safely be assumed that other already confirmed eligible armies may also therefore bring Sarmatian allies where listed?
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Post by diades on Jan 2, 2024 18:03:18 GMT
Ok guys ,see you Saturday First time to Slimbridge event. Parking in Pub car park? Do we rely on the Pub for all catering including e.g. coffee? Thanks
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Post by diades on Dec 31, 2023 11:16:40 GMT
Didnt have time to make a video battle report this time, but heres a link to a blog post about my latest 6mm Big Base DBA game, this time with a custom Samnite+Gaul list inspired by the Battle of Sentinum in 295BC Heres the link: shrimplyamazing.blogspot.com/2023/12/dba-6mm-samnites-and-gauls-vs-polybian.htmlI used the +1 CF vs Foot for 4Ax and it felt a lot better for the samnite infantry. Have a great day! Please talk us through your playing surface… All looks very pretty.
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Post by diades on Dec 31, 2023 11:13:26 GMT
Just finished David C Douglas’ 1964 “William the Conqueror”. A product of its time, but very erudite and informative. It made me appreciate how accurate and well done David Churchill’s fictional trilogy on the subject is….
Now on to Adrian Goldsworthy’s “The Wall”. Ferox back in home territory 😀
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Post by diades on Dec 1, 2023 19:18:14 GMT
Ok ,so far Brian O Dea, KRM , Jimmy Walton ,Dave Cox ,Colin O Shea ,Martin Smith ,Mike Lane , John Gallagher,, Mike Baldwin ,Russel King , ..and please add me as a strong possibility.
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Post by diades on Nov 25, 2023 17:59:40 GMT
For my pennorth, yes, the city or camp, and hence any elements within, are affected by an external enemy’s threat zone. Effectively the enemy are at the gates, or close enough, so the occupants shut themselves in and May no longer flee… After all if the city is in the enemy deployment zone, enemy cannot start within a base width, so a swift flee could be performed…
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Post by diades on Nov 25, 2023 17:37:02 GMT
Query from a recent game… BUA rules, page 7:- 1 ) If the garrison is destroyed, any one of the assaulting enemy elements… occupies the city and sacks it, until PIP score of 5 or 6’ … + ……’ Prior to that the sacking element does not get a garrison tactical factor…’. 2 ) Three lines later…’If the denizens…are destroyed and it is left unoccupied or vacated, either side can move into it or through it without combat’… + …’An appropriate enemy element immediately becomes a garrison on moving into it.’ Query - Side A attacks side B’s city, kills the defending denizens, captures it and sends in an element, who commences sacking the city. Side B sends an element which then attacks the sacking element, and destroys it. DOES IT MOVE IN? ie like an assaulting element which has destroyed a defending ‘garrison or denizens’, effectively getting a free move into the city? Per wording/R.A.W. the sacking defender in this case was neither ‘garrison’ nor ‘denizens’, so technically no. Perhaps the wording might have been intended to let the secondary attacker leap the walls in the same way? Otherwise, an attacker who destroys a sacking defender might be told he a) has to enter or leave the city via a gateway (as suggested in the FAQs)? and b) has to wait til his next turn before he does so [and in the meantime another opponent might occupy that empty city, per point 2.] Answers in a postcard………… I might argue that the sacking element is garrisoning, it just does not get the tactical factor until it has finished sacking, so side B having destroyed the sacking element moves in…
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Post by diades on Nov 10, 2023 17:25:20 GMT
Hi razgor, I run the Cold Ash Clash. I am also keen to attend an event in Ulm. I have messaged you… hopefully we can coordinate dates next year…
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Post by diades on Nov 5, 2023 20:23:07 GMT
…and Ian Pain won both the Slayer prize, having seen 42 elements destroyed in his 6 games, and ( by popular vote) the Best Presented Army, Later Vedic Indians.
Thank you all for making it such a convivial event to run…and thank you for all the help clearing up…we were praised for the cleanliness of the hall!
And sorry…I had not realised the coffee was decaffeinated!
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Post by diades on Nov 5, 2023 20:19:13 GMT
And armies by position, who brought them and points. Again ties resolved by sum of opponents’ scores.
1, III/9b Burmese (Mark Johnson), 15 points 2, II/56 Early Imperial Roman (Matthew Davison), 13 points 3, IV/47 Golden Horde (Stephen Etheridge), 12 points 4, II/37 Parthian (Lindon Paxton), 12 points 5, IV/85a Burgundian Ordnance (Paddy Myers), 12 points 6, III/33 EMNAS with III/70 Tuareg allies (Paul Hodson), 12 points 7, II/17b Lysamachid (Martin Myers), 11 points 8, II/45c Spartacus' (Connor Truby), 10 points 9, IV/71a Chimu (Colin O'Shea), 10 points 10, II/2 Mountain Indian (Tom Whitehead), 9 points 11, I/23b Later Vedic Indian (Ian Pain), 8 points 12, III/66 Fatimid Egyptian (Paul Clair), 8 points 13, I/3 Nubian w I/2a Early Egyptian allies (Ken Gordon), 7 points 14, I/24a Early Imperial Hittite (Alan Davison), 7 points 15, I/20b Trojan (Pete Duckworth), 7 points 16, II/28b Early Other Armenian (Stephen Finn), 7 points 17, II/31f Achaian Greek (Paul Murgatroyd), 7 points 18, IV/50 Palaiologan Byzantine (Matthew Bennet), 7 points 19, III/58c Dailami (Tim Rogers), 6 points 20, I/3 Nubian w I/2b Early Egyptian allies (Richard Pulley), 3 points 21, IV/17 Later Crusader (Peter Ellis), 0 points 22, I/33a Early Villanovan Italian (Martin Smith), 0 points
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Post by diades on Nov 5, 2023 20:17:26 GMT
Well today, switches have been switched, plants planted and tennis played, amongst other things…
Now, it is time for some results…
Players by position, army they brought and points. Ties were determined by sum of opponents’ scores
1, Paul Hodson (III/33 EMNAS with III/70 Tuareg allies), 14 points 2, Tom Whitehead (II/2 Mountain Indian), 14 points 3, Pete Duckworth (I/20b Trojan), 12 points 4, Connor Truby (II/45c Spartacus'), 12 points 5, Paddy Myers (IV/85a Burgundian Ordnance), 12 points 6, Martin Smith (I/33a Early Villanovan Italian), 11 points 7, Richard Pulley (I/3 Nubian w I/2b Early Egyptian allies), 10 points 8, Stephen Finn (II/28b Early Other Armenian), 10 points 9, Martin Myers (II/17b Lysamachid), 10 points 10, Alan Davison (I/24a Early Imperial Hittite), 9 points 11, Paul Murgatroyd (II/31f Achaian Greek), 9 points 12, Ken Gordon (I/3 Nubian w I/2a Early Egyptian allies), 8 points 13, Peter Ellis (IV/17 Later Crusader), 7 points 14, Colin O'Shea (IV/71a Chimu), 7 points 15, Matthew Bennet (IV/50 Palaiologan Byzantine), 7 points 16, Lindon Paxton (II/37 Parthian), 6 points 17, Matthew Davison (II/56 Early Imperial Roman), 6 points 18, Stephen Etheridge (IV/47 Golden Horde), 5 points 19, Mark Johnson (III/9b Burmese), 5 points 20, Ian Pain (I/23b Later Vedic Indian), 3 points 21, Paul Clair (III/66 Fatimid Egyptian), 3 points 22, Tim Rogers (III/58c Dailami), 3 points
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