backwards view :: 2005 De Bellis Antiquitatis TOURNAMENT

 I was feeling despondent that my 15mm Rise of Rome game system was either going to have to get sold off or given away, as I could not see them getting onto the tabletop any time soon.  

Rather than sell it all in a huff, I decided to run one more tournament, as I had in the late 1990s, and give away an army and a camp, then see if that could generate some interest in doing more.

it was a full 6 player setup

making full use of my 1'x1' terrain tiles
in the tournament mode

my best Roman Army ended up in the championship game

though I do not recall if it won or not

DBA did get played a few more times, the boards and armies were eventually sold off, though not for 7-8 years.

more NEW game books (okay new to me)

 a fast trip to Vancouver recently allowed me the time to pick up two rules books I had meant to acquire for a while now, and also a new version of one I have had the older one of for many decades

first the new one:

version 3.0 from 2014

 

I have been doing DBA since the early 1990s, introduced to it by gamers in Winnipeg and Minnesota.

I have had versions 1.1, 2.1 and now 3.0.  Giving the quick glance at it, I think I will need to make a new measuring 'fork', otherwise all my minis will still work with the system - neat part is that DBMM stuff is also covered in this rules set (it looks like - I haven't read it all the way yet).

 

hardback Brigade Fire & Fury

 I have been playing this rules set, using others books most of the time and have been busy building my own game set of the full armies for Bull Run 1861 and Shiloh 1862; now started on the battle of Gettysburg 1863 armies, with the aim of having a full campaign set for 1863 (with all of the cavalry for both sides) and the intent to use games like Bobby Lee and Sam Grant for the strategic setup, then transition to an operational system (of my own devising), then to the tabletop - most likely with BF&F, thus the need to finally have my own copy.

softcover P&S

While "Black Powder" might have worked out as well, I chose to pick up Pike and Shotte, as Rob has been using these rules for many of the English Civil War games that we have run and many of the minis I have are from the Warlords set, it was time to have the rules set to go with them all.