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to change armies throughout the evening this allowed historical opponents to be fielded or alternatetively players to field one of their own armies further there were no defined rounds players simply moving between opponents as they became free with seven players attending there were three tables in play throughout so what were the armies deployed there were nine army lists in use though some armies were duplicated those marked with an asterisk denoting more than one army of the same type was in play simultaneously ii 5d thessalian 448 278 bc ii 19c seleucid 204 167 bc ii 27a pyrrhic 300 281 bc ii 33 polybian roman 275 202 bc ii 78b late imperial roman eastern 307 408 ad ii 83 later visogoths 419 720 ad iv 43c hungarian 1397 1526 ad iv 62c english 1415 1422 ad iv 83a wars of the roses 1455 1485 ad below a few photos of the games being played with photos taken intermittently as time permitted click on the photos to display a larger image polybian romans engaged against pyrrhius of epirus above one of the early games found richard using polybian romans against pyrrhus of epirus no doubt after the army had landed to provide assisantance to tarentum details of this battle are unclear with ancient historians failing to record details of the determined struggle in southern italia thessalian greeks engaged against late imperial romans above colin s thessalian greeks engaged against jim s late imperial romans eastern who among other things deployed two stands of cataphracts no disastrous follow ups for them the greeks were designated as the defender while the plough was sodden after recent rains the terrain seems relatively open though i suspect the hill on the left is classed as difficult going who will be king a wars of the roses battle underway there were at least three wars of the roses battles in part becasue keith a was fielding a new matched pair above his lancastrians are engaged against my own yorkists foreground the yorkists are of course veterans of many campaigns with reference to the photo above the troops on the right were generally unengaged while those in the centre were heavily engaged indeed the archers forming the lancastrian centre were decimated while the lancastrian levy 7hd struggled to deploy hundred years war english clash with hungarians in the above photo the colin s hundred years war english can be seen engaged against robin s hungarians the large field in the top left was again classed as rough due to recent rain this was colin s second game as a defender when his fields had become sodden the game was also notable as the first outing of the hungarians who included two stands of massed german cavalry deployed in deep formations 6kn a defining moment of the battle was however when the english men at arms 3kn were caught by hungarian horse archers lh romans foreground engage the seleucids above my polybian romans engage the seleucids commanded by jim the seleucid left was withdrawn and the main clash occured in the centre and on the roman left as was expected the dense ranks of the phalngites pressed the roman infantry of the centre with each side gaining momentum only to be pushed back with little gain below another view of the battle the seleucid pike phalanx prior to its commitment the cunning plan by the roman commander to counter the enemy elephants and schythed chariot unravelled soon the velites were driven in by seleucid light infantry allowing seleucid heavy cavalry to engage roman heavy infantry and cavalry alas another roman army was defeated no doubt resulting in outrage in rome so ended an excellent evening of dba which seemed well recieved by all involved with comments indicating a few more such evenings are needed view all 2 comments an evening of dba may 18 2025 competitions game days dba game reports twr a little over a week ago six players ventured out on what can only be described as a cold autumn evening here in new zealand for a selection of dba games in all eight games were played using a range of armies some of which had not graced a table before the armies taking the field were as follows ii 5b later hoplite greek athenian ii 5d later hoplite greek thessalian ii 7 achaemenid persian ii 19c later seleucid ii 33 polybian roman iii 40a norse viking iii 24b anglo saxon games were generally against historical opponents or those of relatively adjacent periods for those familiar with the dba army lists may recognise that two of the above armies include or have an option to include scythed chariots specifically the persians and seleucids while i didn t witness these games having my hands full with my own encounters i understand that the scythed chariots had some success especially in one game perhaps they will grace the table in future action at which time i capture them on film i did however manage a few photos of a nearby game between the romans and the thessalian greeks here richard and colin were locked in deadly combat across two games a general view of the thessalians romans during their first battle the above photo captures a more general view of the first game with the greek horse massed on the left opposite the less numerous roman and italian cavalry in contrast the photo below captures a portion of the line with a focus on the thessalian shields which are i feel rather striking the thessalian shields on display for my part i managed two games the first running well over time i was commanding robin s anglo saxons against his recently completed vikings these two armies i found to be remarkably balanced historical pair a general view as the anglo saxons vikings clash the early vikings generally use foot rated as 3bd to represent their hird fast moving and lethal the hird provide a lethal combination the viking general and huscarls are represented by a single 4bd slower but more resilent they provide an interesting variation in contrast the anglo saxons foot is rated either as hird 4bd of select fyrd 4sp an option but not one that was available was the great fyrd 7hd which represented by troops of less quality but more numerous unsurprisingly the solid vs fast interactions produced an interesting dynamic with the lines breaking up in both games i massed the anglo saxon hird in the centre with the select fyrd divided between each flank in both a small reserve proved valuable though in the second it was less numerous due to the viking moves against the flanks a view from the perspective of the anglo saxons the result was a two hard fought victories for the anglo saxons the first in particular being particularly hard fought in a subsequent game viking ascendency was reclaimed with victory to the norsemen no doubt this will only encourage future viking raiders of course that s all for another day view all 5 comments campaigns in iberia april 27 2025 battles in hispania campaigns dba game reports ii 11 gallic ii 32a later carthaginian ii 33 polybian roman ii 39a iberian twr in a recent series of battles the peaceful peoples of iberia would be subjected to a series of invasions by not one but three peoples specifically the gauls carthaginians and romans all of which were commanded by one player with the battles fought in sequence alas only scattered fragments of the various battles survive the invasion of the gauls the first significant incursion happened in the spring of 229 bce when the volcae arecomici a confederation of tribes who inhabited the area between the rhône and the hérault rivers crossed the mountains that acted as a natural barrier to iberia the gauls under vitalstatistix were eventually confronted by the iberians commanded by indibilus who drew up his army on a generally open battlefield though the gallic left would be disrupted by a series of steep and rocky hills the gauls divided their cavalry between both wings with a higher number deployed on their left around noon soon after both armies were fully deployed a number of iberian caetrati were thrown forward to disrupt the gallic left securing a portion of the high ground the caetrati now threatened the gallic infantry and hampered the deployment of the gallic mounted soon iberian cavalry reinforced the iberian right further slowing the celtic advance before falling back in what some sources claim was a ruse as the iberian mounted retired the gallic cavalry and chariots advanced and began to expand yet now the iberian horse advanced again simultaneously a number of caetrati moved from the high ground to support the iberian attack the iberian attack with iberian cavalry reinforced by caetrati only the determination of the gallic mounted overcame indibilus cunning ploys and forced the iberians back slowly the gallic commander gained the advantage until eventually the iberian right was in disarray with it the iberian centre was unhinged finally with casualties mounting the iberians were forced to retire the following year that the gauls invaded yet again no doubt encouraged by their previous success the resourceful indibilus having rebuilt his iberian army deployed in echelon his right and centre forward his left withdrawn the iberian right centre with the left withdrawn in the distance again the gallic left was disrupted by a series of rocky hills however this time the gallic commander secured the high ground with infantry before advancing his mounted through a narrow defile and expanding on the open plain beyond the advance of the gallic foot in the centre and right was however delayed due to the broken ground when battle was joined on the iberian right the scutarii fought with considerable determination particularly against the gallic mounted indeed on several occasions the gallic mounted were forced back the gallic line is disjointed and is already under pressure from the iberians slowly the iberians gained the advantage and as they did gallic casualties mounted eventually the vitalstatistix at the head of a number of chariots was overcome once news of his loss was known the fragile gallic host broke in rout this tragic defeat ended gallic incursions at least for several years carthaginian expansion to the west the carthaginians held a portion of the iberian coastal areas on several occasions they expanded their influence in to the interior now in 227 bce the carthaginians pressed north once again determined to increase their control of the iberian hinterland the punic force comprised a significant number of libyan and african forces supplemented by various iberian and gallic mercenaries of note was the use some 40 elephants with which the punic commander hasdrubal the fair intended to dislodge the iberian line some sources indicate he was more concerned that with a greater mounted component the iberians would avoid the open plain the iberian right centre was open with rocky hills on the left and left centre while a large wooded area dominated the punic right with the punic pachyderms deployed in the open centre the iberian commander intended to draw these forward while fighting defensively on the left soon a number of caetrati were thrown forward soon a proportion of punic elephants were drawn forward the general situation with the iberians in the foreground a surprise punic attack against the iberian left gained some advantage however the timely commitment of iberian reserves stabilised the situation instead fighting now moved to the wooded forest that marked the punic left here gallic mercenaries were heavily engaged the battle against the punic left as iberian scutarii initially attack the iberian attacks here continued despite the commitments of punic reserves until the scutarii finally gained success with his left flank collapsing hasdrubal the fair was forced to retire his hopes of punic hegemony in disarray the romans arrive in 226 bce rome and carthage agreed the ebro treaty despite this roman interest in iberia was growing in 220 bce a roman expedition under lucius veturius philo was dispatched to operate north of the ebro commanding the iberians was none other than indibilus who it will be recalled had been engaged against the gauls a few years prior two battles desperate battles would be fought the iberian centre comprising the bulk of the scutarii the first was in the summer when philo deployed his legions bolstered by spanish mercenaries against the iberians the field selected by indibilus was broken by rocky hills and woods the iberian left was anchored by a rocky hill his right by a large wood the general situation viewed from the roman perspective but on the extreme iberian right the battlefield was open and it was here that lucius veturius philo decided to advance indibilus was soon on the defensive and reacting to the consul s advance it was not long before the iberian right was under significant pressure unable to reinforce the struggling iberian lines indibilus army began to disintegrated rome it seemed was victorious fortunately indibilus was able to make good his losses and by late summer of 220 bce once again took the field to oppose the romans alas lucius veturius philo outmanoeuvred indibilus whose army faced the romans in the open with only one large wood on his centre right the situation seemed hopeless with the iberian centre particularly vulnerable clearly indibilus needed to press the roman left or risk imminent defeat the battle of cissa summer of 220 bce with the iberians advancing from the top left the iberian right advanced with boldly and began to press the roman left with the iberian right advancing and the left withdrawn the roman line was stretched as such what roman reserves available had been committed expecting his centre to collapse at any moment indibilus attacks were desperate yet reports arrived that the scutarii while giving ground were holding indeed the fighting was so desperate that the scutarii were being forced back almost to their camp yet so overstretched were the romans that a final push against the roman left caused it to buckle news that the roman left was breaking now rippled through the roman lines like panic among a gaggle of geese lucius veturius philo accepting defeat fled the field what excuse he would present for the failures was unknown summary so ended a series of battles in iberia in what had become a fascinating series of five engagements the iberians had suffered two defeats while securing three narrow victories one can t but wonder if the romans especially will be contemplating further expeditions in the coming months only time will tell view all 6 comments posts navigation older posts those who know how to win are much more numerous than those who know how to make proper use of their victories polybius recent posts holiday gaming lincoln dba spring 25 an evening of dba campaigns in iberia engaging the phalanx tun perak in sumatra battle of ludford heath punic expansion iberian resolve 235 bc defending iberia 236 bc hittites to seleucids rebellion in hispania ancient iberians in dba follow ancient medieval 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