Thanks to all the gamers who came out and played DBA the last weekend in March at Adepticon in Schaumburg, Illinois outside of Chicago. This was our second year and it was great to see players from last year along with new players just learning the game.
We started out on Friday night with a 25mm Giant DBA Game with Greeks vs.Trojans for 10 players and lots of chariots. That was followed Saturday AM with an open tournament (10 players) won by Dave Rutter with a Classical Indian Army. In the PM there was a Book I Chariot Wars Tournament with custom terrain boards. Jim Luenz took the honors with 3 wins at the Chariot Tournament using his Philistine army (kind of unusual when there were 3 armies led by a David in the tournament). We saw a number of newly painted armies fighting in their first battles and sharp looking they were. Mike Horton took home first prize for best painted with his Early Mycenaean army. Tournament winners got the big Adepticon medal and also a Thistle & Rose 15mm starter set of Viking Heroes.
Special thanks to Bob Beattie and Charlie Z from Michigan for their help and expertise with the event and helping to get things going last year.
The following shows the results of the tournaments. The DBA good news is, everybody managed to win at least 1 game over the course of 6 games in 2 tournaments.
Saturday Night, Book I, Chariot Wars Tournament
1- Jim Luenz; I/29 Phillistine 1000BC; 49 points; 3-0-0 (wins, loses, ties)
2- Mike Colmen; I/1b Early Sumerian; 31 points; 2-1-0
3- Enrique; I/22a New Kingdom Egyptian; 30 points; 2-1-0
3- Dave Moore; I/22a New Kingdom Egyptian; 30 points; 2-1-0
5- Dave Rutter; I/22b New Kingdom Egyptian; 29 points; 2-1-0
5- David Shepps; I/45 Neo-Assyrian Empire; 29 points; 2-1-0
7- Andrew Kirby; I/51 Later Sc. Assyrians; 23 points; 1-2-0
8- Robert Schreztman; I/60 Early Achaemenid Persian; 19 points; 1-2-0
9- Damian ; I/22a New Kingdom Egyptian; 16 points; 1-2-0
10-Nick Klapper; 124a Early Hittite Empire; 15 1-1-1
11-Pete Contos; I/23b Later Vedic Indian; 14 points; 1-2-0
12-Darrell ; I/24a Early Hittite Empire; 12 points; 0-1-2
13-Charlie Z; I/22a New Kingdom Egyptian; 5 points; 0-2-1
14-Mike Horton; I/18 Early Mycenaean; 2 points; 0-3-0
Saturday Morning, Open Tournament
1- Dave Rutter; II/3b Classical Indian; 44 points; 3 wins
2- Dave Moore; II/3a Classical Indian; 41 points; 2 wins
3- Andrew Kirby; I/51 Assyrian; 22 points; 1 win
3- Mike Horton; II/5c Late Hoplite Theban; 22 points 1 win
5- Jim Luenz; II/56 Early Imperial Roman; 18 points 1 win
6- Bill Hupp; IV/17 Later Crusader; 17 points 1 win
6- David Shepps; I/45 Neo Assyrian; 17 points 1 win
8- Matt Adami; II/81a Sub-Roman British ; 16 points 1 win
9- Mike Colmen; II/56 Early Imperial Roman; 5 points 0 wins
10-Charlie Z; II/67b Ostrogoth; No Score
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Bill Hupp
begins his series on how to paint a 15mm DBA army well, in a reasonable time frame.
