DBM Play Aid For Deployment

A play aid that I have been using for DBM Deployment

It started out as a word document so may need adjusting to print out properly due to how Blogger changed the layout but gives you an idea what can be done with a little thought.

DBM Deployment Map – Round ____ v ________________________________

L1	L2	L3	L4					R1	R2	R3	R4
L5	L6	L7	L8					R5	R6	R7	R8
L9	L10	L11	L12					R9	R10	R11	R12
L13	L14	L15	L16					R13	R14	R15	R16

          6”        12”       18”       24”       30”       36”       30”       24”       18”        12”        6”

Ambushes only in Flank Sectors: L1 – L16 & R1 – R16 if defender & L5 – L16 & R5 – R16 if invader
A	B
C	Relative Command Deployment Positions
Flank Marches
Left	Right
Own Baggage Allocated to Command ____
Enemy Command Sizes: Enemy Bg losses ______________ EE Enemy BUA Lost = 4 EE
CinC 1 =____E/____EE/____D [25% = ____ EE]	Sub/Ally 2 = ____/E____EE/____D [25% = ___ EE]
Sub/Ally 3 =____E/____EE/____D [25% = ____ EE]	Sub/Ally 4 =____E/____EE/____D [25% = ____ EE]
Army = ____E/____ EE/____B	Result: DBM ____-____/BHGS ____-____

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