"Biggest Ancient Tournament games in NE USA?" Topic

In terms if ancient tournaments and their size and participation, for HMGS East / Northeast what are the biggest ancient games, especially at the recent Historicon:

- DBA 3.0?
- DBM of some kind?
- Triumph?
- AdlG?
- Armati?
- Tactica?

Something else?

A couple buddies asked about it, and I didn't really have an answer for them. They're wondering what to prepare if they can make Cold Wars in November 2022.

Thanks for your thoughts!

ADLG

+1 ADLG

It was definitely ADLG.

Cold Wars will have a good representation for Triumph and AdLG. Not sure about the others.

At Historicon, Triumph was averaging 10-12 for the tournament games, and had some nice looking fantasy triumph games and open sessions where you could learn the game fighting ancient battles of history. I expect there will be similar schedules for Cold Wars.

Were there any DBA games going on?

Back in the day, I did a lot of DBA, including the 15mm tournement and midnight madness. It was a lot of fun.

Haven't played in ages tho.

Besides Triumph! and ADLG there were tournaments for DBA and Warrior. There was also something for Morten et Gloriam, but not sure on the specifics.

ADLG had the biggest tournament event after that it would be Triumph!. I think they had at least 20+ players.

I was working the Triumph! events. We had a series of large 6 player participation battles, daily demos in the morning for new players and four evening tournaments. Also a 60mm floor war event. Basically there was a Triumph event every playable hour except a break for lunch and dinner. The Wednesday fantasy 28mm tournament had 8 players, the historical 15mm events had 12-14 each.

Warrior had events, I did not see how many were playing, but it looked like the usual crowd.

The DBA events were 2-3 people, 2 of them being the organizers from Florida. The main activity for DBA in the US is really in Florida.

There were some people playing MEG.

There were no DBM events that I saw unless someone was playing a pick up game.

Tony Aguilar came up from Florida to run a schedule of DBA games at Historicon, but said in his videos that he was disappointed with the turn-out and doesn't plan to return. Not sure if anyone else is planning to step up to organize DBA at Cold Wars.

What about Age of Hannibal, that seems like a US based set of ancient rules. How popular are those rules.

I don't think AoH is a tournament based game. And the time frame for the rules is much narrower than ADLG or DBA.