ALTON ST. GEORGE’S DAY DBA, 23rd APRIL 2022

I am definitely interested in this one too. Hopefully there will be a few marauding scots options and I can spend the day beating off Sassenachs ...or dying heroically under English steel!

I have a set list of armies which I’ll promulgate in a while (post TT)….but it’s already creative in patches….

😎👍🏼

Excellent news!

ENTRY NOT YET OPEN….will advise sometime this week, but here are the permitted armies for Alton St. George’s Day DBA, 2022-*

Alton St. George’s Day DBA Tournament.
Format will once again be be ‘My Own Worst Enemy’, ie use your army in three rounds, play against it in three.
Theme :- Armies from (modern day) England, and other English occupied areas of the British Isles from pre-history to the Middle Ages.
Permitted armies are any of:-

I/14abc European Bronze and Iron Age

II/49 Marian Roman
II/53 Ancient British
II/54ab Scots-Irish
II/56 Early Imperial Roman
II/60 Caledonian
II/64a Middle Imperial Roman, Western
II/68ab Pictish
II/73 Early Anglo-Saxon and Frisian
II/78a Late Imperial Roman, West
II/81abcd Sub Roman British
II/82a Patrician Roman, West

III/19abc Welsh
III/24ab Middle Anglo-Saxon
III/40ab Viking
III/45 Pre Feudal Scots
III/46 Norse Irish
III/52 Norman
III/72 Anglo-Danish
III/78 Scots Isles and Highlands

IV/3 Anglo-Norman
IV/16 Scots Common Army
IV/21abc Anglo-Irish
IV/23 Feudal English
IV/58 Medieval Irish
IV/62abcd 100 Years War English
IV/83abc Wars of the Roses and Tudor English.

and Zanj Revolt (not really 😊)

Allies are allowed only if they are a named ally for the main army and also appear in the list above,
plus IV/4b Feudal French allowed as ally for Feudal English, and IV/64b Medieval French allowed as ally to North Welsh.

* apologies if this looks remarkably similar to the Mercian allowed armies list, but pure coincidence.

Nope…some areas round here have been described as revolting, but I don’t think the Zanj are involved 🙃

Alton DBA 23rd April is now open to book-

ALTON St George’s Day DBA 2022
(a Society of Ancients UK DBA League event)

Saturday 23rd April 2022, 10:00-17:00.
Check-in from 0930, draw by 10:00 for a prompt start before 10:10, please.*

Cost will be £7.50 per player, £5 for students/16 years and under.
Can those who are interested please either pay £7.50/£5 directly by BACS (and email me to let me know that you've done this, so I can confirm your entry) to:
Account name: M J SMITH
Account Number: 35221990
Sort Code: 09-01-28
Reference- your name and DBA

Or send a cheque, along with name, email and address details, to:
Martin Smith, 26 New Barn Lane, Alton, Hants, GU34 2RU, and email me to advise this has been done. Any questions, please email me on: smiffft@yahoo.co.uk , nb three f’s and a t.

PLEASE NOTE:-
## Registration and pre-payment will be required, due to limited places ##

** There is a ceiling of 16 entries maximum, so please don't delay **


Venue ALL SAINTS CHURCH HALL, 4 QUEENS RD., ALTON, HANTS, GU34 1HU.

Format = “My Own Worst Enemy”
Each player brings a DBA army, of fixed composition, from the published list, plus camp and a FIXED SET OF TERRAIN TO MAKE A LEGAL TERRAIN FOR HIS ARMY. (eg if arable, they might bring two plough, a road and a wood). Dismounting allowed – bring dismounted elements to use if appropriate.
· On Round One the player will use their own army. The next round the player will use their opponent’s army, then we alternate each round. Whichever army is the defender will be restricted to the terrain items brought by the defending army’s owning player, and the defender MUST attempt to place all items supplied. No changing of army composition or its associated terrain all day.
· With 6 rounds planned, this will mean 3 games will be with your own army, 3 with various opponents’ armies against your own.
· Match-ups will be randomly drawn at the start of the day, not Swiss Chess or knockout.
· 2ft boards will be used and supplied. Please bring own army, its terrain, camp, rules, dice etc etc., and a packed lunch to minimise down time.

· Assortment of PRIZES including two painted DBA armies, one a ‘genuine O’Shea’.

(*Late arrivals considered to have lost first game.)