The DBA Gamer

A De Bellis Antiquitatis Weblog.

Recent Posts

  • Rome goes to War!

    Caesar has promised his veterans land in Hispania after settling in as governor (61 B.C.E.), so the army has packed up and headed out to spill Spanish blood tonight. The renegade Cantabrian general (A.K.A Philistine Jim) will be hosting the festivities: DBA, pizza, etc.

    Tonight will be my first real game of DBA with my own army. I have played only twice before in demo games (Rome vs Carthage both times, always lost to Carthage). As of yesterday my army was not complete, but after settling things with Jim I stayed up till about midnight to finish them up. I said in my previous post that I was unhappy with the paint job. However, I have changed my mind and feel pleased. As far as camps go, I got a Buaeda Roman Tent on the work bench, tonight I am taking the camp I initially made for the Romans but will be using with my Early Crusaders instead. I did forget to bring camp followers…oops.

    I forgot my camera so I can’t take pictures tonight, but I will post a battle report to the best of my ability. I have also decided to start keeping a win/loss record for each army on the site. Look for it soon.

  • Marian Romans

    I’m almost done with these guys (AB Miniatures Romans). I hate the paint job-I’ll explain more later.

    *Update: Here’s a closeup of the Non-Metallic Metal painting Idid.  I will not do it again-way too time consuming.

  • First Post

    This is the first post of many, I hope.  Work on my Marian Romans (II. 49) is almost complete, with 50% painting to be finished on my last four elements of blade.  As a distraction I modeled my first camp.  It was constructed using a little wooden fort set I bought at Pat Catans for about a dollar.  Pics will be posted tomorrow.  I am planning on ordering my next army (II. 23 Later Pre-Islamic Arab [Nomad]) this week.  They are useful as enemies for my Marians and as BBDBA allied commands.  I will probably finish up my Republic bloc of armies with Later Judean (II. 51).