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POLL: What's a Small Battle?


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Dave Crowell writes:

Is DBA a "small" battle? It's 12 elements a side on a 2 foot square table in 15mm.

Compare to Age of Hannibal where an army can have 50-100 bases depending on scenario. A "big" battle game in my book.

Both games can be used to model what we would all agree were "Big" battles with thousands of combatants on both sides.

DBA is a small game, Age of Hannibal is a large game. Both can model big battles.

For me a skirmish game is tens, a small battle is hundreds to low thousands a big battle is thousands to tens of thousands. These numbers are for combatants not necessarily figures. But there is a lot of fuzzy overlap between sizes.


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VOTING RESULTS
AnswerVotes%Chart
It doesn't involve a lot of castings
38
15%
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The castings don't represent many people
13
5%
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The board was very small
17
7%
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when the number of maneuver is less than 24
4
2%
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less than 15 rounds
3
1%
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less than 5 decisions per player per turn
0
0%
 
four players or less
16
6%
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less than 200 figures on the table
27
11%
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6-12 maneuver elements per player
14
6%
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Highest command level is regiment/brigade equivalent
5
2%
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less than 6 hours to play
11
4%
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Less stuff, space or people than you normally game
25
10%
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Units have only one base
2
1%
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Individually based figures
19
8%
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Skirmish game
35
14%
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all of the above
6
2%
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other (explain)
4
2%
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none of these/no opinion
6
2%
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this is ridiculous
2
1%
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not my cup of tea
1
0%
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POLL IS CLOSED
POLL DESCRIPTION

robert piepenbrink Supporting Member of TMP writes:

When you hear or say "small battle," do you mean…

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