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Post by jdesmond on Apr 24, 2020 12:02:47 GMT
Good morning from New Jersey, everyone !
As I mentioned a while back, have scanned my copy of DBA 1.0, and should anyone want copy, let me know eddress to zap it to (There may be a way to attach .pdf files to messages sent thru ProBoards, but I haven't figured it out.)
Hope y'all are staying healthy, happy, and hydrated.
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Post by Roland on Apr 24, 2020 13:12:11 GMT
Looking down at my original copy ( I notice too its held together with scotch tape by now) Perhaps one of the interesting aspects of first run DBA is found on page 19 with 3 sub-header: "Games with unequal armies", "Games with Larger Armies", " Variation in Troop Quality". The last one is particularly relevant to the discussion thread over on the DBA 3.0 rules tab.
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Post by arnopov on Apr 24, 2020 13:25:43 GMT
DBA1.0 is also available from the Barker's WRG website. The pdf hasn't been OCR'ed though, but it's still very nice.
Peeps might also be interested in DBM3.2. This is very nicely done, searchable, etc...
Link to the download page, as there are other good stuff there, and the history of WRG is quite interesting.
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Post by Roland on Apr 24, 2020 13:28:36 GMT
Many thanks for that PDF link to DBM 3.2 ( I had totally lost my copy )
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Post by jdesmond on Apr 24, 2020 17:23:24 GMT
Salutations, Arnopov !
If I'd've known that I'd have saved myself some trouble :-(
Thanks, regardless
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Post by paddy649 on Apr 24, 2020 22:23:08 GMT
DBA1.0 is still one of the most influential rule sets of my life - right up there with the original Dungeons & Dragons Basic Set (TSR, 1977) and Empire III by Jim Getz & Scotty Bowden.
Sure it has its flaws and has been improved by later versions but it introduced new concepts that changed everything in the hobby. I still remember fondly the games of DBA 1.0 Punic Wars that I played in 6mm at the South East Scotland Wargames Club! A memorable set of rules! Thanks Phil Barker!
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Post by nangwaya on Apr 26, 2020 13:08:57 GMT
DBA1.0 is still one of the most influential rule sets of my life - right up there with the original Dungeons & Dragons Basic Set (TSR, 1977) and Empire III by Jim Getz & Scotty Bowden. Sure it has its flaws and has been improved by later versions but it introduced new concepts that changed everything in the hobby. I still remember fondly the games of DBA 1.0 Punic Wars that I played in 6mm at the South East Scotland Wargames Club! A memorable set of rules! Thanks Phil Barker! Oh the boxed set of D&D!
I am right there with you... I had no idea that those types of games existed, and what I got the boxed set of D&D (the one with the blue book), as a Christmas gift way back when, my life changed forever  |
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Post by Roland on Apr 26, 2020 13:27:49 GMT
The basic D&D box set ( white box with 3 tan 5x7 booklets) and the first edition of TSR's Chainmail happened to be my gateway into the hobby.
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Post by medievalthomas on Apr 27, 2020 17:31:10 GMT
My first game of Chainmail we used Airfix Robin Hood figures as archers and Sheriff of Nottingham figures as the men at arms. Played on the floor of college union hall. Those were the days.
TomT
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Post by paddy649 on Apr 27, 2020 18:59:07 GMT
DBA1.0 is still one of the most influential rule sets of my life - right up there with the original Dungeons & Dragons Basic Set (TSR, 1977) and Empire III by Jim Getz & Scotty Bowden. Sure it has its flaws and has been improved by later versions but it introduced new concepts that changed everything in the hobby. I still remember fondly the games of DBA 1.0 Punic Wars that I played in 6mm at the South East Scotland Wargames Club! A memorable set of rules! Thanks Phil Barker! Oh the boxed set of D&D!
I am right there with you... I had no idea that those types of games existed, and what I got the boxed set of D&D (the one with the blue book), as a Christmas gift way back when, my life changed forever Yes it was that Blue Book boxed set! Wonderful! I still have that low quality pink d6 with numerals and the white d20. No idea where the other polyhedrals went. Only thing that has come close in recent years is Frostgrave. |
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Post by paulhannah on May 6, 2020 0:49:16 GMT
And one of the best things of DBA 1.0...
It had GHUZZ! --Surely, one of the best wargame army names ever.
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Post by macbeth on May 6, 2020 4:22:41 GMT
I have long been wanting to see the old DBA1 army lists to determine what my ORIGINAL Campaign set armies looked like
I made up a 1066 set from my 7th edition armies (later on the Anglo Danes and the Vikings were dedicated armies painted by more talented friends)
Norman, Anglo-Danish, Norse Irish, Viking, Scots Isles and Welsh
Then I set up a 1400 AD set with
Knights of St John (Rhodes), Ottoman Turks, Berber, Mamluks, Italian Condotta and Theodoran Byzantine - these were perhaps the first specific DBA Armies that I made up mostly from spare figures and I generally made up only the 12 elements that were to be used for the campaign.
Cheers
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