Essex Warriors 2017 Club DBM Singles Tournament

Essex Warriors 2017 Club DBM Tournament R&R

Essex Warriors 2017 DBM Club Tournament

There are ten entrants this year which is two more than last year.

DBM v3.3 400 AP Single List using either the DBM or DBMM 2^nd edition army lists.

32-0 Scoring System

In Surname Order

Paul Brady – 0282 Patrician Roman MM

John Davis – 0443 Later Hungarian MM

Richard Gravatt – 0219 Seleucid MM

Peter Hockaday – 0443 Later Hungarian M

Drew Jarman – 0319 Welsh MM

Peter Kemp – 0435 Mongol Conquest M

Andy Leeser – 0236 Bactrian Greek MM

Bob McDermott – 0436 Later Muslim Indian MM

Tim Myall – 0264 Middle Imperial Roman MM

Steve Nutt – 0246 Kushan BC M

In List Number Order

Richard Gravatt – 0219 Seleucid MM 280 BC – 190 BC

Andy Leeser – 0236 Bactrian Greek MM 150 BC – 130 BC

Steve Nutt – 0246 Kushan 50 BC M

Tim Myall – 0264 Middle Imperial Roman MM 297 AD

Paul Brady – 0282 Patrician Roman MM 459 AD

Drew Jarman – 0319 Welsh MM 1118 AD – 1144 AD

Peter Kemp – 0435 Mongol Conquest M 1214 AD

Bob McDermott – 0436 Later Muslim Indian MM 1380 AD

John Davis – 0443 Later Hungarian MM 1444 AD

Peter Hockaday – 0443 Later Hungarian M 1491 AD

In List Date Order

Richard Gravatt – 0219 Seleucid MM 280 BC – 190 BC

Andy Leeser – 0236 Bactrian Greek MM 150 BC – 130 BC

Steve Nutt – 0246 Kushan 50 BC M

Tim Myall – 0264 Middle Imperial Roman MM 297 AD

Paul Brady – 0282 Patrician Roman MM 459 AD

Drew Jarman – 0319 Welsh MM 1118 AD – 1144 AD

Peter Kemp – 0435 Mongol Conquest M 1214 AD

Bob McDermott – 0436 Later Muslim Indian MM 1380 AD

John Davis – 0443 Later Hungarian MM 1444 AD

Peter Hockaday – 0443 Later Hungarian M 1491 AD

Armies by Books:

Bk 1 - 0

Bk 2 - 5

Bk 3 - 1

Bk 4 - 4

Armies by List Variant:

DBM Lists - 3

DBMM Lists - 7

1st Round
Player	Army	Score	Total	Position
Game 1
Peter Kemp	0435 Mongol Conquest M
V
Bob McDermott	0436 Later Muslim Indian MM
Game 2
Paul Brady	0282 Patrician Roman MM
V
Andy Leeser	0236 Bactrian Greek MM
Game 3
Richard Gravatt	0219 Seleucid MM
V
Steve Nutt	0246 Kushan M
Game 4
Drew Jarman	0319 Welsh MM
V
John Davis	0443 Later Hungarian MM
Game 5
Tim Myall	0264 Middle Imperial Roman MM
V
Peter Hockaday	0443 Later Hungarian M

15mm Ancients Baggage now on EBay

8 x 15mm Scale DBx type Baggage now on EBay

Having spent a long time getting them painted I never used them so decided that rather than just gather dust they are going. Details as follows:

FOG/DBM/DBMM/ADLG 8 x 15mm Mobile Baggage Camel Elements - Dromedary

Eight brand new Mobile Baggage Camel elements suitable for a vast number of armies across Africa, the Middle East, India and Asia where they didn't use camels with two humps [the Bactrian breed]. They are a mix of mostly Museum Miniatures with some Irregular castings added in for variety and some smaller animals and civilians whose make I cannot remember. Lots of armies would use camel trains in places where horses would not survive long enough to feed the army.

Texture based, static grassed, sprayed varnished sealed and Magnabased.

New and unused as they are surplus to requirements.
They are all undamaged and brand new on 40mm x 40mm MDF bases

So Ebay it is. http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/192058486745?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1555.l2649

Project Lead Mountain - Bit and Pieces

Project Lead Mountain - Bit and Pieces

After completing most of my major projects since 2012 I now have a limited amount of 15mm bits left over to finish.  Part of this involved my morphing my West Frank Norman army in to Eastern Franks. I have done the Feudal German commander but I needed to make up the Edward the Confessor contingent. Luckily I still have bits left over and I only needed to create four elements of Irr Bd S including King Edward.  They are a mix of Essex castings and a few unknown ones.

Being Saxons they have a Dragon Standard, axes and Edwards shield is decorated with his banner

As part of the PLM I am also rebasing odd elements and refreshing them and using up odd figures along the way. I needed to make fresh looking Frankish generals using mostly Essex castings and I have found four castings from an unknown make that made up a nice charging element. I had a spare banner left over so made the CinC element with two banners so he clearly stands out.

Having completed my Later Muslim Indian army in August I had a few left over figures which I painted up to create a few more odd element. I made two Spearmen auxilia elements and six Bow armed Psiloi archer elements. They are mostly spare and might end up on EBay but are also useful to use in a smaller command when I need different looking elements to ensure I dont get commands mixed up. The are all Essex castings.

Finally I saw a resincast model of the Acropolis on EBay. I bid and won. Unfortunately it turned up broken due to being badly packed. All of the resin columns had sheared off. I spent three hours cleaning off the resincast, removing all the remains of the columns and drilling out their centres to replace them. I put metal columns on each corner and glued the roof onto the base. I used plastirod for the other columns and flexed them into their holes and glued them into position. After two coats of undercoat and a very light grey paint with a grey wash I got what I thought was a nice stone effect. The roof is terracota tiles with orange highlights. The model is 11cm long by 7cm wide and came in two sections and is ideal to use as a Built Up Area. I based it on a 12cm x 8cm which is exactly the same size as six DBx baggage elements so will double up as typical Greek, Macedonian and Roman style building cum army baggage. The resincast has the brand name Pegasus cast onto it but I have not managed to find a supplier anywhere on line. All in all it took five hours of work to get finished but I am very pleased with how it turned out.

A 15mm Patrician Roman Commission

A Small Commission

I wa asked to paint up these 15mm scale Legio Heroica Patrician Roman Cavalry recently. Only a small batch of figures and I didn't even need to base them which is always a bonus. 

They are lovely casings even though they are a bugger to glue together even when using Boat Builders Professional Superglue.

The Skorpions are Chariot Miniatures SPQR4 Bolt Shooters

Castings ROM07 

Castings ROM09

Castings SPQR4

Caesaromagus 2016 Game Reports

Delhi Belly

Having run my Samanids in various DBM tournaments for the last three years, with other armies in between I decided that I needed to try something new. I had just completed my Later Muslim Indian Army for the Delhi Sultanate and having played one game with them and then revised the army slightly thought that I should use them at Caesaromagus 400 AP Singles DBM tournament this year. So a new army only used once before and slightly revised – what could go wrong? We did a totally random draw and my army was organised into four commands:

Command 1 20E/16.5 EE/5.5 D

Command 2 20 E/18 E/6 D

Command 3 20 E/18 EE/6 D

Command 4 1 E/1 EE/1 D [Rathor Ally]

Army 60 E/53.5 EE/27 B

Saturday Game 1 Jer Morgan with Later Crusader

Jers army was a Irr Kn F version with a Military Order command. I placed a waterway thinking to use this to protect a flank and force Jer into combat frontally. Jers army was 64 EE strong so could afford to lose a few more elements than mine before it started to sweat.

I threw my Blades forward into his Crossbowmen in the round dice were rolled lots of 1’s appeared and defeat awaited. I then threw in my cavalry to try and break his centre and yet more 1’s were thrown. Jers report confirmed how bad a morning I had crashing out to a 30-2 Defeat and 8^th place after the 1^st round.

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Saturday Game 2 Peter Hockaday with French Ordnnance

The one practice game I had managed before the tournament was against Peters French so I was happier in that I was expecting to be able to turn around the mornings defeat. Peters army was 54.5 EE so similar in size to mine but his third command was the Swiss Mercenary sub-general that this list allows.

I deployed my CinC in the centre with the mounted arms on each wing. As luck would have it one of them ended up facing the Swiss which meant I could screen the15.5 EE Swiss elements out of the game with 8 mounted elements whilst I concentrated the rest of my army against his remaining 39 EE. On my other far wing I pushed my six mounted infantry as far forward as possible opposite his three flanking mounted crossbowmen cavalry  At the same time I pushed forward the rest of my line to pin his infantry back and reduce the options for his knights to redeploy. The rest as they say was history. My blades hit his bows whilst my elephants chased down his mounted knights. I was not far away from breaking his army when time was called so I only got a 20-12 Victory. Still leaving me in 8^th place.

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Sunday Game 3 Tim Myall with Western Chou Chinese

I had already played times army in the Essex Warriors DBM Tournament this year where he managed to beat my Low Country army. So for me this was a “grudge” match – only joking.

Tims army was 65 EE strong organised into three differently sized commands. He deployed centrally and narrowly to give him time to react to my deployment. As luck would have it I also deployed centrally with only the mounted infantry to my far left to take some forward rough ground. Tim didn’t disappoint he advanced as quickly as possible forcing me to push past his open right flank with a part of one mounted command whilst my elephants were lined up nicely opposite his irregular chariots. His chariots were dropping like flies in the centre and on the far left I managed to break up and take apart his CinC’s command meaning that I only needed to break his largest command to break his army. Despite all my efforts when time was called I only managed a 24-8 Victory due to his last remaining chariot surviving three turns of combat two of which when it was tripled outflanked. This placed me on 46 VP in joint 6^th place.

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Sunday Game 4 Ian Pudney with Classical Indians

This wasn’t a game I wanted to have to play. I needed more practice and to be honest I threw the game away with bad choices and indecision. I then adopted a waiting and try and stem the tide of defeat to survive unbroken. Ians army was the huge Irregular version and was 77.5 EE in size spread over three commands. I had my blades and skirmishers shot away which broke that command and I stupidly decided that I wasn’t going to attack when I should have just thrown everything in and hoped for the best. I ended up losing 23-9 with a total of 55 VP and 8^th place. So I ended up exactly where I started the weekend.

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Congratulations to Dave Madigan on winning the tournament with Andalusians as he submarined from 4^th place in the 3^rd round. We had ten different armies taking part and I think everyone enjoyed themselves.