"DBA 3.0 Battle in Wargames, Soldiers, & Strategy #80" Topic
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| lkmjbc3 | 18 Aug 2015 10:04 a.m. PST |
Wargames, Soldiers, & Strategy magazine #80 features the 1st Punic War! link Included is historical write up of Bagradas and the game using DBA 3.0. Internet raconteur and general good guy Pat Lowinger is the author… I might have helped a bit with the game. (I hope he edited the part I wrote!) Anyway… you will see our thoughts on running this battle using Historical DBA 3.0 as a well as play-through with photographs… Special thanks to Cigar Box Battles for hosting! Eeekkk! 5 Elephants in one command! Yes, the North African Elephant panzer division on the table. Please check out this issue… Joe Collins |
| Rich Bliss | 18 Aug 2015 10:09 a.m. PST |
Joe- Is Historical DBA 3.0 a specific variant? |
| Mr Canuck | 18 Aug 2015 10:19 a.m. PST |
Your link is coming up "404" I think this is what you wanted?
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YogiBearMinis  | 18 Aug 2015 10:38 a.m. PST |
I think he means "Historical DBA" to differentiate playing in-period as opposed to so many of us playing our crazy "Crusaders versus Early Sumerians" games. Battle cars against Knights, yeah! |
| lkmjbc3 | 18 Aug 2015 11:07 a.m. PST |
Thanks for updating the link… strange… it worked the other two places I pasted it… Rich: Historical DBA is included in the DBA 3.0 rules. It is a variant of Big Battle DBA. You basically use historical OB and victory conditions. Some of us will be publishing a book of Historical battle scenarios for DBA 3.0 later this year. Joe Collins |
| YogiBearMinis | 18 Aug 2015 11:47 a.m. PST |
I did not pay attention enough to realize that playing scenarios had a specific title. That is kind of goofy if you think about it, in that a stranger to the hobby would think the starting point for historical war gaming rules would be scenarios, and that hypothetical match-ups using points would be the appendix. |
| Yesthatphil | 18 Aug 2015 3:38 p.m. PST |
Well put, Rwphillipsstl … but what we have inherited is indeed the goofy version  ! Phil |
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