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Post by Simon on Jul 12, 2016 18:48:24 GMT
A quick reminder that there are some places left in the new DBA Tournament at BHGS Britcon in Manchester on Saturday 13 August. Details at www.bhgs.org.uk/britcon---dba.htmlRegards Simon |
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Post by Simon on Aug 9, 2016 17:24:28 GMT
There are now just about 22 hours remaining if anyone wants to get a ticket for the Britcon DBA tournament in Manchester this weekend! Sales are via their website.
See you there!
Simon
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Post by menacussecundus on Aug 14, 2016 7:30:26 GMT
A select band amid the other groups of players (ADLG, DBMM and Mortem et Gloriam were also on offer - and that was just the other ancients rule sets), but we seemed to enjoy ourselves.
Thanks to Simon for organising it and putting DBA back on the British Historical Games Society radar and congratulations to Mark Johnson on his run of 4 wins and a draw which took him to first place.
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Post by Simon on Aug 14, 2016 11:45:46 GMT
Thanks to all who took part yesterday and get DBA up and running at Britcon. The players, armies and rankings were as follows: 1 Mark Johnson Siamese IV/40
2 Denis Grey Rajput III/10b
3 Tom Whitehead Mongol Conquest IV/35
4 Graham Fordham Lydian I/50
5 Will Whyler Achaemenid Persian II/7
6 Jack Leech Ch'in II/4a
7 Tamara Fordham Sui III/20a
Graham only just missed out on 3rd place - the sums of opponents scores were equal and we had to decide on net kills.
.... and as for 8th place, my memory fails me - it may have been the guy organising it who brought along a Pecheneg Army III/47! The stress of all that organising obviously erased his usual tactical genius. (Well at least it is better than blaming the dice gods).
Here is a photo of the tournament getting underway. I will put some more up later and there are photos on the BHGS facebook page.
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Post by gregorius on Aug 15, 2016 0:01:11 GMT
Mongol Conquest is a surprise at third given that there are no killer elements.
Cheers,
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Post by martin on Aug 15, 2016 5:32:28 GMT
Yes, I thought that was far higher up the pecking order than would have been likely under v2.2 eg.
Denis posted on the other Fanaticus "There are a few photos in the album on the Yahoo group and rather more on the DBA and HOTT Facebook page. Feel free to add any you may have taken."
Thanks for posting the pics, Denis, and congrats on 2nd.
In the photos of your Rajputs, are the cavalry from Roundway ? (Don't see many of their figures about, but always nice ones).
Simon, good to see the new tournament went well. Well done for volunteering . How were the BHGS people with the new DBA section? Helpful, keen ?
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Post by Simon on Aug 15, 2016 7:59:14 GMT
Thanks Martin.
Tim Porter and the BHGS crew were very helpful and delivered all as promised.
As the boards were taped out on table cloths and so could not be rotated,, some people had to get used to playing left to right or right to left but everyone's spatial awareness seemed up to the challenge!
Regards
Simon
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Post by menacussecundus on Aug 15, 2016 8:45:01 GMT
Cross posting my reply on Fanaticus to Martin's question about the cavalry figures I used.
"Thank you Martin. Yes, the cavalry are Roundway figures - and the Cm are Roundway cavalry mounted on Essex camels.
The rank and file elephants for the army were Timurid armoured elephants from Donnington with spare Roundway figures in the howdah.
The general's elephant was a combination of Donnington's Timurid unarmoured elephant's body with the head of the Essex Moghul Indian general's elephant and the howdah and general figure from the latter, plus a couple more Roundway foot as escorts. (I think I may have got a bit obsessive about getting the look I wanted for this figure.)"
As far as not being able to rotate the boards was concerned, I didn't have any difficulty playing left to right (or right to left)across the board. (On reflection, I think it was always right to left in the three games where it happened.) In fact, it felt as if it gave me a new perspective on the game, metaphorically as well as literally.
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Post by Simon on Aug 16, 2016 20:40:05 GMT
Mongol Conquest is a surprise at third given that there are no killer elements. Cheers, I had a chat with Tom about his army while at the tournament He said he had found it a good army with enough light horse to envelop on the flanks and cavalry with reasonable punch in the centre. Although they are not killer elements, they in turn are not quick killed by anything. Not sure if Tom is on the forum but he may wish to add his own comments if he is. regards, Simon |
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Post by gregorius on Aug 16, 2016 23:18:58 GMT
All the more remarkable playing on a 600mmx600mm board. Not a lot of room for flanking maneuvers.
Cheers,
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Post by sheffmark on Aug 23, 2016 7:59:00 GMT
Tom borrowed the army from me and I did give him a number of other options, but he chose the Mongol Conquest.
He may have thought we were playing on the wider boards, but even so he did very well with it.
In terms of killer elements, of course his LH can double up and with a bit of luck can take out both Kn and El and aren't worried about any solid foot apart from bows.
In our game it was the lack of elements that could contest the bad going that caused him problems, two of mine being bows that he was wary of getting his LH too close to.
However overall I think it's a credit to his generalship and nice to see that even unfancied armies can do well if handled well.
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