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Wargames: The Sumerians Posted by: ThomoTheLost on Saturday, October 25, 2003 - 09:31 AM DBM
| | This is a discussion of one of my wargame armies, namely, the Sumerians. This paper is divided into a number of sections. First there is a history of the Sumerians (albeit a brief one). Then there are details of the wargame armies I have followed by painting details for the Sumerians. There are a number of links in the article as well to books about the Sumerians as well as wargame figures that can be used (note that the figure manufacturers will be linked in the Review section of Thomo's Hole).
So, these are the notes about the DBM army I finished working on in Norway (which, interestingly enough, produces 9 DBA armies as well). It was completed in late 1998. As at May 1999 it had still not marched in anger on the tabletop, although I expected to remedy that soon. By June 1999 the Sumerians had had three outings on the table against moderately historical opponents and as expected, they have performed miserably (well, rather I have performed miserably, the Sumerians have simply reflected this). I will include more details later. Suffice it to say that their record at the moment is 0-10, 3-7, 0-10. The one high spot so far was the commander of a broken command engaging an element of the command that broke his command, then breaking their command!
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Wargames: De Bellis Multitudinis Posted by: ThomoTheLost on Thursday, April 03, 2003 - 06:21 AM DBM
| | De Bellis Multitudinis (DBM) is a set of wargames rules. It is a set of wargame rules written by the Wargames Research Group in England. They function by abstracting the tactics of individual soldiers (or small tactical groups) into a larger series of events. The basic unit of manoeuvre is the element and a number of elements forms a group. There is no real reference to cohorts, regiments and such. Elements fight each other and combat outcomes are against the element.
There is a good introduction to DBM on Richard Bodley Scott's Games Page. He is one of the authors of DBM, Hordes of the Things (HotT) and De Bellis Antiquitatis (DBA). His website has some introductory tactics plus essays on a couple of armies he finds particularly appealing. It is also the home of any official amendments to the rules. These tend to occur a little too frequently but, to be fair, they are not a product of the rules as such but more a result of the rules being used for the major number of ancients tournaments worldwide (and therefore receiving more visible play than most other rule sets) coupled with an extremely active and vocal Internet News Group. Follow the link below to subscribe to this list but please note that there is an awful lot of traffic generated off this site. There can be upwards of 200 messages a day received from this group. DBM List.
Note: Since originally writing this, I have started adding figures to the stock collection to allow the making of an Axumite force. I have decided to add another couple of armies to the list so that I can have a wide selection of differing tactical troop types, for example, a warband army, a Light Horse Army, a Knight Heavy army and so on.
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