"DBA at Battlecry" Topic

A brief report of the day of DBA played at Battlecry in Auckland last month:

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Mark,
Thanks for sharing. Though not a follower of the DBA crowd, there is much to be said for the simple nature of 12-elements per side and a small square battlefield.

Aztecs versus Welsh?! Unusual and interesting . . .

In my opinion, the photos were pretty good.

Chris

Thanks, the photos were from my phone. Besides the size and number of figures needed, there's the time: we get 4-5 games in a four hour session.

There's a legend that a Welsh prince got to North America. He might have gone south!

Many people treat DBA like chess, the figures are just playing pieces, makes no difference what they represent. I have a Simpsons chess set that I sometimes play against the Napoleon chess that nobody gets too upset.

The best way to play DBA however, is to have matched historical pairs. This is a very popular format in many venues. Each player brings two armies. After all there are only 12 elements per army so it's simple to have 100 figures or less for 2 armies. Then the players alternate against opponents, picking which Army will be used. In my game against you, you provide the armies, and I pick which one I want to use.

This is the only form of the tournament that I think is appropriate for DBA, unless there is some other form of historical matchups being used.

Stack of skulls, eh? Nice folks, them Carthaginians.

The skulls were newly finished and were there for decorations. Associating them with the Carthaginians may be a bit unfair of me, especially with their camp! They were prone to crucifying people, a habit they shared with the other civilizations of the ancient world. What seemed to have horrified the Romans was that they would crucify misbehaving citizens; the Romans viewed it as a punishment for slaves and foreigners. To my mind that makes the Romans worse!

I like matched pairs too. We may try it for a day of the next competition.

Interesting looking games. Thanks for posting the link. :-)

I notice that most people (here and elsewhere) seem to use tactically positioned terrain elements. In contrast, I have always used finished terrain boards (per 1.0), varied slightly with the possibility of the Defender putting a wood or 2 on the board, and with the variation coming from dicing for starting edge.

Mark

Thanks. I've played in only one comp with preset terrain. It was fun, though the terrain was a bit wild! Some armies only really work if they're the defenders and take the right terrain.