The DBA Gamer

A De Bellis Antiquitatis Weblog.

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  • Extra Historicon Photos

    Greetings! I have two updates for you today: the first is the introduction to my DBA Hobby Guide, which can be found above under “Play DBA!”. I plan on adding a page a day, so please check back often-and get those paint brushes ready! The second update is some more Historicon shots.

    My Dad sent me some photos that he took at the Whimpy Wars tournament on July 25th at Historicon. I figured I’d post them for your viewing enjoyment.


    Bob Koffman calling the combats in my match vs. his Neo Hittites. Notice my dice…


    The Thracian line advances. The wood was infested with psiloi-Thracians are very good at clearing psiloi out of the woods. 😉


    A shot taken during the opening bounds of my final match vs. Steve Baier’s Alans. Those are knights on the right. Also, notice the dice scores, mine is the small dice. That’s pretty much how we rolled during the entire game.


    That’s me measuring how long my Thracians have to live…but remember the dice scores I mentioned. 🙂


    The Thracians–all tuckered out from killin’ off Alans, Phokians, and Neo Hittites for the win. Towards the foreground you’ll see one of Philistinejim’s Mike’s Models light horse drafted in for the tourney.

  • Big Update Coming

    As some of you know, I have been promising a painting guide for a little while.  While contemplating such an endeavor, it seemed to me that it would make sense to do a “Starting DBA From the Ground Up” guide.  The guide, which for the most part is finished, includes articles on starting DBA for those people who have never gamed before, including what websites to visit, how to research your army, how to buy it, what supplies are needed, and hobby/painting guides from beginner to advanced.  All I need to do is add my step by step photos and I will publish it-hopefully this week.  I’m hoping it will be a great benefit to the community.

    You’ll notice I took down a couple pages-Commission Work, and the Macedonia Campaign.  The Commission page was taken down because I don’t anticipate doing any more commissions since I simply paint too slow, I will post the finished pictures on the Gallery page though.  The campaign kind of ground to a halt, so I didn’t see any relevance anymore.  Hopefully the new content will more than make up for the loss of those two pages.

    As always, thanks for stopping by.

  • DBA Tournament 8/4/07

    This past Saturday I ran an open DBA tournament at the Northern Ohio Wargaming Society Minicon in Berea Ohio. I sceduled a Learn-to-Play session followed by 3 rounds of Swiss style play. Points were determined using the NASAMW scoring method.

    We had 7 players show up, and I jumped in as the 8th. Luckily, when one dropped out we had someone interested in playing the last round.

    I only had to teach two players out of the total that showed up (one at the beginning, and one who subbed in in the last round when one player had to drop out). The rest of the players had played DBA numerous times, and a couple were regulars at our monthly DBA game day.

    Most armies fell into the Roman Classical period, the exception being some Successor armies and my Early Crusaders, the only Medieval army.

    Results:

    1st Mike Porter – Early Crusaders 71 pts.
    2nd Joshua Bobrosky – Ptolemy Kouranos 29 pts.
    3rd Carl Scheu III – Middle Imperial Roman West 28 pts.
    4th Doug W. – Gallic (dropped out final round) 27 pts.
    5th Carl Scheu IV – Middle Imperial Roman East 26 pts.
    5th Aaron Dippong – EHG Spartan 26 pts.
    5th Robert Lohman – Antigonos Gonatas 26 pts.
    6th Joseph Dippong – Thracian 1 pt.
    7th Steven Anderson – Early German (Played only one round) 0 pts.


    Joe Dippong measuring a wheel in his game against his nephew Aaron.


    Carl Scheu III considering options for his Middle Imperial Romans.


    Carl Scheu IV goes in for the kill against Josh Bobrosky’s Successors.


    Middle Imperial Roman East vs. Gauls