Attalid Pergamene Update

Attalid Pergamene Update

Finally managed to paint virtually all the elements I needed to complete this army. I am short a couple of Reg Art S which are on order. I took the opportunity to order some other artillery pieces while I was at it and will batch paint all of them ready to sell on EBay in due course.

The Attalids and some other elements I have just texture based amount to 150 elements, comprising 441 foot, 84 mounted and 9 bolt shooters.

Not bad since I only decided to start this army 11 weeks ago. Once its all based and varnished I will take some pictures to show the figures.

Essex Warriors Wargames Club DBM Tournament 2015

Second Outing for the DBMer's at EW

Richard Gravatt kindly offered to facilitate the clubs DBM Tournament for the second year running and revised the format to reduce the workload of the participants. 

In the end 10 members entered and have used a mixed collection of armies, though it is very knight heavy. The players were split into two pools with the top players in each pool playing in the final to decide the championship for 2015.

The Armies chosen by book order are.

1/18 Mycenean M - Les Mills

2/64 Middle Imperial Roman 280 AD MM - Richard Gravatt

2/74 Palmyran M - Peter Kemp

3/8 Central Asian City States 963 AD M - Bob McDermott

3/12 Christian Nubian M - Tim Myall

3/43 Khurosanian 963 AD MM - Drew Jarman

3/51 Norman 1066 AD - Chris Dearlove

4/13 Medieval German 1440 AD M - Peter Hockaday

4/17 Later Crusader - Rafael Fonseca

4/23 Feudal English 1264 AD M - Paul Brady

I have asked for the dates of the individual armies and will update the blog in due course. I think Pool 1 is the tougher of the two pools army selection wise but since players are not time limited except that its usual for us to play to a conclusion during one of our normal Sunday club meetings from 09.30-17.00 hours if necessary.

We will be using the BHGS 32-0 score system and DBM v3.2 which hopefully avoids any problems with drawn scored in the pools.

The seeds from last year who entered were Peter K, Drew J, Bob M, and Tim M and these were split alternatively in each pool.

Pool 1 is:

2/74 Palmyran - Peter Kemp

3/8 Central Asian City States - Bob McDermott

4/13 Medieval German - Peter Hockaday

4/17 Later Crusader - Rafael Fonseca

4/23 Feudal English - Paul Brady

Pool 2 is:

1/18 Mycenean - Les Mills

2/64 Middle Imperial Roman - Richard Gravatt

3/12 Christian Nubian - Tim Myall

3/43 Khurosanian - Drew Jarman

3/51 Norman - Chris Dearlove

Samanids v Palmyrans at Essex Warriors Today

Some pictures of Peter Kemp and I's game of DBM today.

A hard fought game betwixt Palmyrans and Samanids.

My game play fell apart after I rolled four 1's in a row for combat.

After that it was just a case of seeing if I could snatch a command before I collapsed.

I killed his CinC in the same bound that he took the last two elements to break my army.

A New DBM Army One Third Done

Attalid Pergamene

Heres a quick snap of the 223 Pergamene infantry all painted awaiting basing up. Update as of 05/02/15 all 350 Pergamene infantry are now painted along with the bolt shooters so just another 41 mounted to paint to go with the ones I already had done when I made a different army for DBA years ago. [The horses are now all done, just need to do the tack and riders].

Not bad considering I only started this project just before Xmas! Once they are finished I will take some proper pictures of the completed army and update this post. I recycled a load of old bases which saved wasting them too!

Its odd that in DBM the Pergamene regular knight generals Reg Kn F dismount as either Reg Sp O or Reg Bd O and not as Reg Ax S considering there no spears or blades in the rest of the army.

I took the opportunity to raid my Roman army and will be rebasing some of their auxilia at the same time.

Decided to attack the old Roman bolt shooters I painted up back in the 1980's have washed the flesh parts and redid the shooters with wash and highlights. Once they are on new bases they will look perfect to use with both armies since the basing was looking very tired.

The Sum Total of my WW2 Naval Collection

Purchased to try out some new rules GQ3, Navwar 1/3000th scale in correct colour scheme carried during the combat against HMS Hood and HMS Prince of Wales 24th May 1941

Brabancon Flemish Mercenary Knights

After Sundays game I had a look in my Feudals collection to see if I had anything missing and found these elements I painted up back when I was using DBM v1.3 If I ever decide to redo them I shall need to paint up three new elements for pre-1200 AD as these are only really suitable for 1200 AD onwards as they wear later style armour.

First Outing as Pope in 20 Years

Papal Italians v Feudal English

Today's DBM game was a tester for both Paul and myself on new armies.

It can be summed up in one phrase "Just don't keep rolling 1's"

I went from having a good chance of winning to losing the game within 15 minutes and three turns!

The knights just couldn't equal the Inferior English heavy infantry.

My Papal Warwagon was modelled on the Sedia Gestatoria and Pope Pauls VI coronation canopy.

Instead of him being carried by monks hes on a decorated wagon