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Post by berkeley on May 31, 2022 10:50:40 GMT
Berkeley vale presents … One day 15mm v3 competition. 26th June. Venue is Tudor Arms ,Slimbridge,Gloucestershire. Entry 5£ proceeds to Mnd Contact Keith McGlynn. krmcglynn59@gmail.com
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Post by martin on Jun 1, 2022 8:41:53 GMT
I’m hoping to attend, Keith…
Martin S.
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Post by pawsbill on Jun 3, 2022 15:55:45 GMT
Any details on theme or eligible armies?
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Post by Les1964 on Jun 3, 2022 16:46:16 GMT
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Post by martin on Jun 21, 2022 8:26:06 GMT
Just to remind anyone who hasn’t seen this - next Sunday in Gloucestershire….
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Post by gonatas on Jun 21, 2022 13:41:35 GMT
I am expecting to be there :-)
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Post by arnopov on Jun 23, 2022 9:21:24 GMT
I unfortunately cannot make it.
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Post by martin on Jun 27, 2022 8:45:42 GMT
Slimbridge DBA yesterday, run by Keith McGlynn at the Tudor Arms, an old pub by the Gloucester and Sharpness Canal in deepest Gloucestershire. Eight players, and we all played each other, so seven games each…bit of a record for me at a tournament (between 09:45 and 16:45).
Winner Richard Pulley (6 wins), second Smiff M. (6 wins), best painted army prize Colin O’Shea (also 6 wins….verrrry tight tournament).
I took Shang Chinese I/13b, one of the earliest Chinese armies 1300-1100 BC, just because I’d never run it out and it was a bit quirky. General rode a heavy chariot, while the foot sloggers included dagger-axe men, archers, javelinmen and a unit of desperate convicts (5Hd).
Games:- 1. Invading v Nick Pope’s Classical Indians. Chinese archers and Indian chariots and cavalry duelled it out on my left, but the bowmen came off worst. Then the main Indian line closed in, and a Chinese attack took out a chunk of enemy elements on my right. Stars of the show were the desperate convicts, who shrugged off all attacks and nobbled an Indian archer unit, for a 4-2 Chinese win.
2. Invading v Stephen Finn’s Macedonian Successor (Antigonas) army. Most fighting took place in the narrow space between a big waterway and river. Chinese archers shot from the other side of the river, phalanx rumbled forward, Shang HCh general trampled some Galatians and the gallant desperate convicts held up the phalanx for a while. Close game, but a Shang win by 4 to 2+Hd.
3. Invading yet again, on the steppe against Colin Evans’ Parthians. The Shang nabbed a central hill, shot up some horse archers and routed a cataphract unit, for a 4-1 win.
4. Invading (why change now…?) via a time machine v Colin O’Shea’s Southern Dynasty Chinese. A Chinese army was definitely going to win this one…….😊. The convicts served well again, and overran some enemy crossbowmen, while my Shang were generally losing the shooting match against Colin’s war wagons and crossbows. Fortunes of war turned when my dagger-axe men destroyed a war wagon, and were then extremely lucky to rout the counter-attacking enemy cataphract general, ending the game. 3g-2+Hd win for the Shang.
5. Invading againnnnnn v Steve Cottle’s Early German/Batavian, Civilis’ Revolt army, one I’ve never played against before. The Batavian-Roman auxiliaries landed into a village from a wide river on my left, but then ran out of steam. The Shang advanced and attacked with heavy chariots on the Chinese right, while the archers shot down Civilis and friends (cavalry) in a lucky (for me) 6-1 dice off. German warbands routed some archers, but the chariots were lethal, giving the Shang a 3g-1 win.
6. I defended for a change, against Brian Shipp’s Carolingian Franks, who deployed deep, hemmed in by a large village and some enclosed fields. Two Frankish elements were lost when deep columns were unable to recoil from shooting, a Frankish archer unit was routed by dagger-axe men in fields in the centre, and then on the Shang right a sweeping flank attack by Carolingian heavy horse against Chinese archers was stopped in its tracks. Shang win, 4 kills for the loss of only the desperate convict horde.
7. Last game, short and sudden. My Shang invaded v Richard Pulley’s Medieval Spanish, accompanied by a Venetian Condottieri ally. I mis-deployed against the Venetian landing, and suffered for it, losing the convicts, two archer units and the intervening Shang general for a resounding 0-3g+Hd defeat. .
Great games, lovely venue…thanks to Keith McGlynn for organising 👍🏼👍🏼.
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Post by menacussecundus on Jul 14, 2022 6:29:57 GMT
Is there a full list of participants and placings?
Edit:- Found the answer to my own question in the DBA Facebook group. Details repeated here in case anyone else is interested.
1st Richard Pulley - Medieval Spanish 51pts
2nd Martin Smith - Shang Chinese 49pts
3rd Colin O’Shea - Southern dynasty Chinese 48pts
4th Nic Pope - Classical Indian 36pts
5th Colin Evans - Parthian 35pts
6th Brian Shipp - Carolingian 30pts
7th Stephen Finn - Antigonid 29 pts
8th Stephen Cottle - Batavian 24pts
The competition raised £150 for the Motor Neurone Disease Association.
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