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Post by martin on Apr 22, 2024 19:37:13 GMT
Spot on. Choosing order of combats, which goes first, can be vital. 👍
PS…no daft questions, only daft answers. Ask ANYTHING 😁
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Post by martin on Apr 22, 2024 7:28:41 GMT
The subtleties of DBA, skb777 . Do you take mainly Ps and hope your opponent has brought Bw, or do you take mainly LH and hope he hasn't? (Always bearing in mind that you will be using your own army for three games and your opponent's army for the other three.) I’m taking a punt there will be plenty of Bw on show I can pretty much guarantee there’ll be plenty of Ps and LH….🙃 My choice…yes, it has one lone bow element, but it’s otherwise a bit of a mixed bag.
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Post by martin on Apr 21, 2024 8:04:16 GMT
Players List, Alton DBA 2024
Pete Duckworth Kev Casey Lindon Paxton Peter Ellis Steve Etheridge Patrick Myers Colin O’Shea Richard Pulley John Saunders Mark Skelton Paddy Green Mark Kulke Bill MacGillivray Connor Truby Stephen Finn Ivan Djokic Oli Currant Peter Phipps Marc Priest Martin Myers
ie currently 20 players booked
(+ Me….if needed).
I’ll be intrigued by what the wise ones have chosen as a ‘good’ army choice. 😎. Mine (fill in only) was decided aeons ago (and without a lot of thought 🙃).
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Post by martin on Apr 20, 2024 10:16:51 GMT
I’ve contacted the seller and he’s happy for me to put his email here and people to contact him direct. john_liu141@hotmail.com Note I have no connection or affiliation to this seller but have only purchased items via eBay. K Someone on the SoA forum was asking about the quality of the metal compared to the original Outpost ones. Can you help? Mine are en route or poss on the doormat…. I’ll havva look later
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Post by martin on Apr 19, 2024 13:49:30 GMT
Hi rudi DBA is designed at such a big picture scale that javelin throwing and short range skirmish bow shooting are subsumed into the close combat factors, and are wholly inappropriate to the scale.
All you have to do is tell yourself that when a Ps is face to face with a Spear they’re NOT two paces away poking a hoplite in the eye with a hand-held javelin, they’re getting within eg 30m away and throwing their pointy stick. When the Ps flee it’s cos the hoplite growled too loud or threatened a charge or sent out some runners to scare off the skirmishers.
Once you have that in mind, it’s far easier to cope. Try playing in 2mm, for example, and then the 28mm/15mm figures being only figure height away from each other no longer makes the process seem unreal/abstract.
Otherwise you’re flying in the face of the whole design philosophy, and that makes the game far harder to rationalise.
Martin
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Post by martin on Apr 18, 2024 16:31:50 GMT
"May not post to the United States" And here I was just starting to think about a Republican Roman army. May not isn’t necessarily ‘will not’. Always worth messaging the guy, to ask the question…
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Post by martin on Apr 18, 2024 9:03:07 GMT
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Post by martin on Apr 18, 2024 8:11:53 GMT
Alternative Armies have kindly agreed to sponsor this event, and are currently in the last couple of weeks of their very generous Spring Sale (20% off 👍🏼👍🏼)
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Post by martin on Apr 18, 2024 8:08:11 GMT
If you need a Horde in hurry their 15mm Orcs and Goblins paint up very nicely. Those look really nice, Mark 👍🏼
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Post by martin on Apr 18, 2024 8:07:29 GMT
Yep, a very generous 20% off, AND many of their figures are cheaper than other manufacturers to start with ! They stock the 15mm ex-TTG Dark Ages and Medievals, which paint up very well (as menacussecundus and paddy649 have shown). Byzantines, Late Romans, Goths, Blemmye, Arab Conquest, generic European Feudal etc….. [my order went in last week 🙂]
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Post by martin on Apr 17, 2024 12:04:57 GMT
One player has unfortunately had to cancel…
Therefore ONE SPACE AVAILABLE…LET ME KNOW ASAP if you’d like the spot. 🙂
(edit…now back to even numbers….for the minute).
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Post by martin on Apr 16, 2024 7:21:04 GMT
There’s a good spread of prizes available at this year’s tournament (thanks in part to donations from Colin, Richard and Mark), plus
## A Bring & Buy* table will be provided: if you have anything you wish to bring, feel free ##
* …or Bring & And Take Back Home, as Pete D. once called it 😎😁
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Post by martin on Apr 16, 2024 7:15:10 GMT
Thanks Nick. I’ll be there 👍🏼. Will try to round up a posse.
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Post by martin on Apr 14, 2024 6:56:42 GMT
Alton DBA update
Greetings all. With Alton DBA just a couple of weeks away, here’s a few reminders…
1. PACKED LUNCH is essential. The new venue is far from any shops, and lunch break is VERY short, to maximise game time.
2. POSTCODE to arrive at Chawton Village Hall - Please use GU34 1SB, The GREYFRIAR PUB, then proceed 100 paces northeast …ie, looking at the pub, go LEFT up the road to the venue. The published postcode for the hall will lead you astray. Free parking at the venue
3. Bring your ARMY**, a written LIST for your opponent to use including terrain choice, aggression and topography, a CAMP, your FIXED LEGAL TERRAIN CHOICE items and the usual rules, dice, rulers etc. 2ft boards will be provided
4. Arrive 09:30-0950*. We hope to start ASAP after 10:00. Finish time will be around 16:45. +/-.
5. Arrival by PUBLIC TRANSPORT. Contact me if you plan to arrive by train, and provide a mobile phone number. Mark S. has volunteered to collect players from the Alton Railway Station (+ one player from the Alton House Hotel).
6. Tea, coffee and biscuits will be provided.
7. Any ‘on the day’ travel issues, contact me on 07981 221687.
Cheers…see you there ✔️✔️✔️
*late arrivals - your allocated game 1 opponent will claim a win, with 20 points. **which must contain at least SIX from the LH, Ps and/or LCm troop types. NO DISMOUNTING LITHUANIANS.
Cheers
Martin
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Post by martin on Apr 14, 2024 6:53:52 GMT
Congrats on the podium, AND a painting prize!! 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼 Great effort. ✔️
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