"Dux Bellorum arrives!" Topic

I received my playtester's copy of DB in the mail today.

I haven't read through the rules to see how different things are between the playtest and the final version, but the first impression is: it's an Osprey.

There are several full page plates, many colour photos of painted miniatures, and line drawings to illustrate the rules.

You can read more about the rules at the author's blog:

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If you like what you read and especially if you already own a Dark Age army or two, you can easily use your figures for a game of DB since basing is flexible and distances are measured in base widths.

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Approximately how many figures would one use for an average army in this game?

Let's see…

Under the sample army section, a Late period Saxon Army is given as:

1 Shieldwall Companion
5 Ordinary Shieldwall
2 Irish Warriors Allies
2 Foot Skimrishers

If you are using 15mm, DBX basing, this translates to:

6 x Sp = 24 figures
2 x Wb = 6 figures
2 x Ps = 4 figures

total = 34 figures, or about a DBA army.

If you go 4 bases to a unit, then it becomes 136 figures, which is I believe fewer than a DBM/DBMM/FOG army?

In 25mm/28mm the recommendation is to use a 6cm frontage, so if you are using WAB basing you are looking at fewer than 60 figures?

If using Impetus just use 1 Impetus base per unit.

They look interesting and also I don't think it would be that hard to use later Dark Age Armies with them. Just might have to pick up a set.

Me too.