"Paper DBA Armies" Topic

Hi

Years ago I found a web site with lots of DBA armies to print and play with. They were top down views of the bases.

I can't find it again, anyone any idea where such a resource might be found? I'm interested in Saxons, Norman and Early medieval Scots and English

ta

Actually weirdly enough a TMP search turned up a thread on this, including the usual sniffy comments from the usual suspects.

Paper figs (side flats or top down flats) are a great way to try rule sets out to see if you like the rules or peiod before splashing the cash

and that is my excuse

try the junior general page.

juniorgeneral.org/index.html

I use some of these as a way to visualize how my units should be assembled and such (sometimes as a painting reference)

Fun resource

I received some samples at my stores over a decade ago. I was not interested but I could see how someone in South Africa or Australia where shipping costs are high for minis would like them.

That is such a cool site

OK some are better than others, but that polish armoured train is, to coin a phrase, "sweet"

There's some top-down paper armies on Wargame Vault. Try this; link

Steve Smith
Wargame Vault

The Paper General makes a lot of different stuff.

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Junior general is always a favourite site, the wargames vault i wasn't aware of their armies.

Not what I am after at the moment but I think the Romans and Gauls need to be bought

Were you thinking of Mogworld?

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Here's a previous TMP thread:

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It's often struck me that DBA, with its restricted playing area and limitation of twelve units a side, was virtually a board game. Nothing wrong with using the 2D armies as suggested, but that takes it nearer still to chess.

Try Will's Games, too.

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Will's games were the ones I was originally thinking of, which are his adaptations of Mogworld bases.

Cheers guys.

I not only have a change to try out a rule set for the Wars of Independence (13th-14th Century Scotland/Northern England) but with the Wargames vault ones I think I'll have a shot at getting back into real ancients again.

If you want to make your own, I recently did some for my Vassal Engine project.

johnshouse.org/asample.png

There are some links to paper armies from this page on the Fanaticus site:

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These are the best paper armies I have ever seen
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Some years ago, I made myself up a set of counters for playing DBA with. Rather than try to represent actual soldiers, I marked the troop types with symbols of much the same kind as used in SPI's old PRESTAGS series of boardgames. By varying the number of symbols on each counter, and having some of them shaded, it was possible to mark the combat strenghts of each troop type against horse and foot in an unobstrusive way. Add in a measuring-stick with movement distances on one side and shooting ranges on the other, using the troop type symbols to show the maximum move distance or range respectively, and it was hardly necessary to consult the rules during play. With a rulebook, a few dice, and some strips and shapes of coloured card to represent terrain, the whole lot packed into next to no space, even though I made sufficient counters to represent any army in the DBA lists.

This set offered me considerable portable amusement while I was condemned to living in luxury hotels in Saudi Arabia for five months, and once I moved into a compound I used it to introduce a couple of friends to the pleasures of wargaming.

All the best,

John.

Very nice Acarhj, did you ever do any others?