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Post by diades on Apr 22, 2018 18:05:41 GMT
...some players have used textured material, where all they have had to do is paint on foliage growing up the side... See the thread on the Tarrington Tourney 2017!
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Post by diades on Apr 8, 2018 17:47:37 GMT
DFDG: DAMN FINE DAY'S GAMING! Huge thanks to Martin for organising and hosting one of the best events on the UK DBA calendar. And congratulations to Colin, Denis the Menace and Martin M. I took II/68b Pictish and III/24a Middle Anglo-Saxons + III/19a Welsh ally (Cv + 2x3Wb replacing Ps + 2xGreat Fyrd/Select Fyrd). All opponents close the Muddled Saxons and I was outfoxed by Richard and Denis the Menace before Ruby's dice rolling helped me to outbattle Lindon! Great to catch up with the DBA fraternity and to see the church hall at Alton packed for the day. Wunderbar! Dunc DFDG indeed. Thoroughly enjoyable. Many thanks to Martin for running a slick event whilst competing ( very well) at the same time. Thank you from all for the bounteous prize table. Further thanks to all for coming along, Twenty-four, an excellent turn out. I took the Battle of Carchemish, 605 BC. Nebuchadnezzar's Neo-Babylonians versus Pharaoh Necho's Saitic Egyptians. Heavy Chariots and Bows versus Spears. The first two opponents chose Pharoah and history repeated itself as Nebuchadnezzar showed them what for; Martin chose the Babylonians by die roll and narrowly lost. Three from three for my pairing. In the meantime, Oli gave me a good thrashing in the opening game. I chose Attila and realised my mistake mid deployment, the two solid warband would be a liability and toothless! I still had plenty of chances when it came to it, but Oli's Ostrogothic Knights had the dice...6-2. I chose Denis Grey's beautiful Ancient Brits against EIR and went hard at it, but too many drawn combats left me at 2-1 up at 'time'. I chose Scott's Mountain Indians to tackle the Classicals and had better PIP luck, going on to crush his Bow with my Pikes. Planning next year already!
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Post by diades on Mar 30, 2018 20:01:00 GMT
See Tarrington Tourney (Scramble) thread for details.
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Post by diades on Mar 30, 2018 16:22:23 GMT
DBA Tarrington Tourney 2018
Saturday 10th November 2018, 1000 until 1700
Lady Emily Community Hall Tarrington Herefordshire HR1 4EX
Tarrington is halfway between Hereford and Ledbury; approximately 11 miles from junction 2 of the M50.
Format: “Scramble”
Each player brings any valid 12-element v3.0 army on 15mm base sizes (40mm frontage), camp (camp follower element optional), and terrain for a legal battlefield as the defender, which may include provision of a specific legal board size. Note that the army will be used by other players. • Players will play AGAINST their own army only in the first round. • Players will use their own army only in the final round. • Players will be matched using Swiss chess format. • Armies will be matched as far as possible to maximise variety (of army used and fought against) for players. • The 12-element army and terrain choices may not be changed between rounds. • Players must use all terrain pieces supplied. The aim is to have 6 rounds, but may be revised on the day.
Depending upon the number of players and the time to arrange the pairings for each round, there is no guarantee of non-repetition, but priority order will be given to:
1. New opponent each round
2. New army used each round
3. New opposing army each round
Cost will be £5 per player and includes lunch!
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Post by diades on Mar 18, 2018 13:13:24 GMT
Just the one inch? You've got it easy again! 😉
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Post by diades on Feb 22, 2018 20:37:49 GMT
Home at last!
Many thanks to Pete for an excellent theme and smoothly run event.
I had not played since the last English Open, I had forgotten what a fun game DBA can be, thanks all. Six close-ish games. My Scots Isles and Highl's won three and drew one in which they were well on top. Two of the victories were against me using Welsh, where I allowed the terrain to funnel my start and ultimately expose double ranked pike flanks!
I enjoy the game, but not the time pressure to get a result. The more one puts ones opponent in a difficult spot, the more frustrating it is waiting for them to decide what to do, whereas with no time pressure, it is comfort time to plan the next move....and I do not have a poker face....sorry guys, hope to be more chilled post half-term.
See many of you at the Norhern soon.
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Post by diades on Feb 2, 2018 22:03:30 GMT
Attempt to place event in Calendar!
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Post by diades on Feb 2, 2018 22:01:07 GMT
Same venue and format as previous years
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Post by diades on Jan 31, 2018 22:39:40 GMT
The date for this year's event is set for Saturday 10th November 2018 in rural Herefordshire. Venue and details as last year, will post here soon.
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Post by diades on Jan 26, 2018 9:44:50 GMT
That’s a shame, Pete. 😳 See you at the Mercian, then. Do you think you’ll be running a Geordie Cup, when you emigrate to the Northeast? Martin Yeah Mercian up and coming 😀 I'd love to sort a Hadrian's Wall DBA but I will need to source a club and some players first. Not to mention immediate practicalities like a home! It does seem odd though that there doesn't seem to be any DBA played in the North East but maybe it's just not currently visible to me? I have to visit Durham every so often. Once you are settled, I'm sure some DBA could be arranged!
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Post by diades on Jan 26, 2018 9:42:20 GMT
Hi Everyone Due to unforeseen circumstances I've had to move the date of Mercian DBA which will now be 18th February. Time, venue theme etc are unaffected. Apologies for any inconvenience. For me that works well. I was about to post that all that snow earlier meant another event had been rearranged for 25th preventing me from attending, but 18th might just work!
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Post by diades on Jan 26, 2018 9:29:39 GMT
I will not be at Crusade this year, but the (other?) good news is that the Tarrington Tourney will run on Saturday 10th November this year!
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Post by diades on Jan 13, 2018 11:25:45 GMT
Although I'm in Australia, I use Winsor and Newton brushes. They should be available all over the UK from any good art supplies shop. The range that I use is the Cotman III series. Cannot recommend them too highly. Cheers, I am in the UK and I'm with Gregorius on this one. Cotman III do the trick.
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Post by diades on Jan 13, 2018 11:19:07 GMT
Alans? In the meantime, my apologies, for the first time since I started, I will be unable to attend Crusade this year!
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Post by diades on Dec 10, 2017 13:11:16 GMT
...and there is a full colour report in the Tarrington Tatler! 😉
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