Tuesday 30 September 2014

DBM Armies I Can Field With A Little Morphing In Some Cases

Just Checked The DBM Army List Books To Check Possible Armies I Can Field




Book 1 – 3 possibilities
18. Minoan and Early Mycenaean. 1600 BC- 1250 BC. [Building]
43. Kimmerian, Skythian or Early Hu. 750 BC - 50 AD.
51. Later Assyrian Neo-Sargonid. 680 BC - 609 BC.

Book 2:- 13 possibilities
23. Later Pre-Islamic Arab. 312 BC - 633 AD.
28. Early Armenian and Gordyene. 300 BC - 627 AD.
33. Polybian Roman. 275 BC - 105 BC.
34. Attalid Pergamene 263 BC - 129 BC.
36. Graeco-Bactrian 250 BC - 130 BC and Graeco-Indian. 170 BC - 55 BC. [with some fudging only Graeco-Indian]
37. Parthian. 250 BC - 225 AD.
40. Numidian or Early Moorish. 215 BC - 25 AD.
46. Kushan. 135 BC - 477 AD.
48. Mithradatic. 110 BC - 47 BC.
49. Marian Roman. 105 BC - 25 BC.
57. Later Moorish. 25 AD - 696 AD. [Numidian morph?]
63. Three Kingdoms and Western Ts'in Chinese. 189 AD - 316 AD.
79. Chinese N. and S. Dynasties. 317 AD - 589 AD. 

Book 3:- 37 possibilities
1.   Early Slav. 476 AD - 1218 AD.
11. Central Asian Turkish. 550 AD - 1330 AD.
18. Breton 580 AD - 1072 AD.
19. Welsh 580 AD - 1420 AD.
20. Sui and Early T'ang Chinese. 581 AD - 755 AD. 
21. Italian Lombard. 584 AD - 1076 AD. [from my Normans]
25. Arab Conquest. 622 AD - 660 AD.
28. Carolingian Frankish. 639 AD - 888 AD.[from my Normans only Charlemagne]
31. Umayyad Arab. 661 AD - 750 AD.
33. Early Muslim North Africa and Sicily. 696 AD - 1160 AD.
34. Andalusian 710 AD - 1172 AD.
35. Feudal Spanish 718 AD - 1340 AD.
37. Abbasid Arab. 747 AD - 945 AD.
38. Arab Indian. 751 AD - 1206 AD.
39. Late T'ang and Five Dynasties Chinese. 755 AD - 979 AD. 
40. Norse Viking and Leidang. 790 AD - 1280 AD.
42. Sha-t'o Turkish. 808 AD - 951 AD. [morphed arabs]
43. Khurasanian. 821 AD - 1003 AD.
46. Norse Irish. 846 AD - 1300 AD.
49. Tulunid or Iqshidid Egyptian. 868 AD - 905 AD and 935 AD - 969 AD.
50. Bagratid Armenian. 885 AD - 1045 AD.
51. West Frankish or Norman. 888 AD - 1072 AD.
52. East Frankish. 888 AD - 1106 AD.
53. Dynastic Bedouin. 890 AD - 1150 AD.
57. Buyid or other Dailami Dynasties. 927 AD - 1090 AD.
60. Dynastic Kurdish. 950 AD - 1085 AD.
61. Sung Chinese. 960 AD - 1279 AD. 
62. Early Polish. 960 AD - 1335 AD.
65. Fatimid Egyptian. 969 AD - 1171 AD.
67. Early Hungarian. 997 AD - 1245 AD.
69. Tuareg. 1000 AD - 1880 AD.
71. Anglo-Danish. 1014 AD - 1065 AD.
72. Communal Italian. 1029 AD - 1320 AD.
73. Seljuq Turk. 1037 AD - 1276 AD.
74. Fanatic Berber. 1039 AD - 1529 AD.
76. Papal Italian. 1049 AD - 1320 AD.
78. Early Russian. 1054 AD - 1246 AD

Book 4:- 34 possibilities
2. Cilician Armenian. 1071 AD - 1375 AD.
3. Anglo-Norman. 1072 AD - 1181 AD.
4. Feudal French. 1072 AD - 1330 AD.
5. Sicilian. 1072 AD - 1442 AD. 1251 AD- 1556 AD.
6. Syrian. 1092 AD - 1286 AD.
7. Early Crusader. 1096 AD - 1128 AD.
13. Medieval German. 1106 AD - 1519 AD.
17. Later Crusader. 1128 AD - 1303 AD.
20. Ayyubid Egyptian. 1171 AD - 1250 AD.
21. Anglo-Irish. 1172 AD - 1489 AD. .
22. Serbian Empire. 1180 AD - 1459 AD.
23. Feudal English. 1181 AD - 1322 AD.
24. Khwarizmian. 1186 AD - 1246 AD.
36. Later Muslim Indian. 1206 AD -1526 AD.
41. Early Swiss. 1240 AD - 1400 AD.
42. Islamic Persian. 1245 AD - 1393 AD and 1499 AD - 1520 AD.
43. Later Hungarian. 1245 AD - 1526 AD.
45. Mamluk Egyptian. 1250 AD - 1517 AD.
48. Yuan Chinese. 1260 AD - 1368 AD.
49. Anatolian Turkoman. 1260 AD - 1515 AD.
54. Medieval Scandinavian. 1280 AD - 1523 AD.
60. Catalan Company. 1302 AD - 1388 AD.
61. Italian Condotta. 1320 AD - 1495 AD.
62. 100 Years War English. 1322 AD - 1455 AD.
64. Medieval French. 1330 AD - 1445 AD
65. Wallachian or Moldavian. 1330 AD - 1504 AD.
66. Later Polish. 1335 AD - 1510 AD
74. Free Company or Armagnac. 1357 AD - 1410 AD and 1444 AD.
75. Timurid. 1360 AD - 1506 AD. [?? not sure]
76. Early Burgundian. 1363 AD - 1471 AD.
77. Black Sheep and White Sheep Turkoman. 1378 AD - 1469 AD and 1387 AD - 1504 AD.
79. Later Swiss. 1400 AD - 1522 AD.
82. French Ordonnance. 1445 AD - 1503 AD.
83. Wars of the Roses English. 1455 AD - 1487 AD.

I know the list looks like a lot but in reality most of them are morphs of core armies by just adding a few missing elements. Theres probably a couple more morphs in there that I haven't considered too.
To recap: 3 Book 1, 13 Book 2, 37 Book 3 and 34 Book 4 armies.

When this is compared to the DBMM Tournament six period theme it means I can field the following number of armies by theme, with overlaps because of the date range allows some armies to be used in more than one theme.
Period 1 – 3000BC to 500BC (The Chariot Era) - 3 armies
Period 2 – 500BC to 25BC (High Classical) - 10 armies
Period 3 – 25BC to 476AD (Imperial Rome) - 9 armies
Period 4 – 476AD to 1071AD (The Dark Ages) - 42 armies

Period 5 – 1071AD to 1321AD (Feudal Era) - 50 armies
Period 6 – 1321AD to 1515AD (High Medieval) - 33 armies

1 comment:

  1. This list is due some revision when I finish my planned Chinese additions which will be Three Kingdoms, Sung, Sui, Tang and Yuan

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