The DBA Gamer

A De Bellis Antiquitatis Weblog.

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  • Historicon Report #1

    Not a whole lot to report just yet, since the con has not yet officially begun. Dicemanrick and Lobotomy from Fanaticus ran the Whimpy Wars event for us early birds. Entrants were: Mike O’Neil, Bob Koffman, Dave Dougherty, Hank Dapalski, Mike Porter, Ron Giampapa, Jeff Caruso, Bob Spencer, Mark Bumala, Steve Baier, Jon Baldwin and Mark Stricker.

    Bob Spencer’s Hittites facing off against my Thracians.

    I went 3-0 to win (qualifying for the N.I.C.T., though I’m not sure which one); Mark Striker was an extremely close second-just 2 points behind. Also, Steve Baier should have beat me (a blind chimp could have deployed better than I did), but he had one of the worst runs of “1’s” I have ever seen.

    Special thanks to RonG. for his tips.

  • Pre-Pre-Historicon Update

    Hello there. Sorry about no updates lately-things have been busy. Final prep for Historicon has begun and I will take some pics for you before I leave. When I get back from the con I will be putting my armies on hold to finish up Andy Swingle’s commission-the poor man has waited long enough!

    Providing I can get my laptop to work with the Wi-Fi at my hotel, expect to see daily coverage of the DBA events at Historicon! If I can’t get online, I’ll have to save the pictures and content myself with playing SOCOM online on my PSP! 🙂

    More to come.

  • Spartan Invasion & Rise of the Machines

    I now own some Spartans (picture is from Ebay).

    Purchased from Ebay for a mere $45.00. Although the painting is not really up to my standards, the paint-job looks fine from a distance and makes for a good loaner army. The army consists of 12 Sp; I’m looking to pick up one element of Cv to make the army playable as both Early/Later Hoplite (Spartan).

    I haven’t gotten much painting done for some reason-I think I’ve hit some burnout…but the Early Crusaders are about 2 hours from being finished, I just have to sit down and do it.

    As a distraction, my latest BEAM robotics project is coming along. I recently purchased and assembled a Tamiya twin-motor gearbox to make a tracked Photovore, which I don’t think I have ever seen before. I went with the twin motor so I could implement obstacle avoidance. I’m still trying to figure out the power source since I went with the 207:1 gear ratio.  It’s a funny hobby for me to have, since my Math skills are bad and I have no ability to read schematics. Somehow I manage.

    We blew past 10,000 hits-Thanks!

    Only 21 more painting days until Historicon, yikes!! Better get back to the brushes!