Quote from: toxicpixie on 11 December 2016, 02:05:43 PM
I like your cunning "table edge" corner markers! Nice idea

The idea was 'borrowed' from someone else on the forum

Quote from: d_Guy on 11 December 2016, 02:41:58 PM
Ditto!

I don't know DBA at all. I was trying to decide if in the last picture was a range/movement stick done up like the corner markers.
But since there a four ("elements" is it?) placed with it, it must be a close up of the corner? Anyway this has giving me an idea! I love this forum.

It is indeed a close up of the corner, the four elements are the Armenian dead, just off the battlefield

You can see part of my range/movement stick on the left in the second picture, it also has the combat factors on one side

Note that 2.2+ is an unofficial derivative that has caused some tension with the author

I have put together a two page quick reference sheet for 3.0 if any are interested, there are also a couple of others on the DBA Yahoo group.

2.2+  may well have caused some tension with the author, but had he written the rules in understandable English in the first place then they would not have been necessary. I have a copy of DBA3 which I have never looked at! (it was an unwanted gift).

What Andy said!

When you need a document about five times longer than the rules to explain the rules then you're doing it wrong.

That isn't to say I don't like DBA, it's one of my all time favourites Still on version 1 here, tbh - never felt the ened to go further, the extra chrome wasn't necessary IMO. A simple rewrite in understandable English, yes.

QuoteWhen you need a document about five times longer than the rules to explain the rules then you're doing it wrong.

Oh so true. That's why I gave up on 2.2. I prefer Sword & Spear which, dare I say it, feels DBA-ish but much, much easier to understand and way more fun to play.

Quote from: Steve J on 12 December 2016, 12:02:37 PM
I prefer Sword & Spear which, dare I say it, feels DBA-ish

I have to completely disagree with that. Sword and Spear is a great game.

Sporadic internet connection at the moment, so while I can I'll add - great game & report.

1) What ruleset do you use in your last game? FogR
2) What armies were confronted? - Polish vs Ottoman Turks
3) Did you feel comfortable with the ruleset? - very
4) and... was the first time do you use the ruleset? - no, but was for my friend Gareth's
5) How many players were in the game? - two

I played Poles and lost

1. Contemptible Little Armies

2, Russia v Germany 1916

3. Very comfortable very quickly. After the clunkiness of ITLSU these proved to be much smoother flowing, and despite not having any cards were exciting and fun to play. Hordes of mainly pooresr quality Russians poured across the board towards four companies of lightly entrenched Germans , who were also holding a small village. The German artillery proved immensely effective, whereas the poorer quality Russian artillery took several moves to have even a slight impact on the Germans. However, once the Russians were able to set up some machine guns the Germans had no option but to commit their reserves. The Russian company of death however, proved less effective than the two companies of guards. As night fell the Germans were driven from one of their light entrenchments but had managed to hold the village whilst their right flank was hardly touched at all. Minor tactical victory to the Germans.

4. This was the first time we had used these rules and we were very impressed. Although devised for 28mm figures we did the old three 10mm figures on a base represent one 28mm figure and it gave a good game, but next time we intend to play it as each base is a three figure squad, and use millimetres instead of inches and casualty figures to show losses and see how it plays that way. So much fun, the Russians even deploying air support, which was a laugh when the dice were rolled for movement and it came up mainly 2s and 1s. "What's he playing at?" "Showing off by looping the loop."

5. Two players.

1) What ruleset do you use in your last game? - Sowrd & Spear II
2) What armies were confronted? - Sort of Viking civil war.
3) Did you feel comfortable with the ruleset? - Sort of.
4) and... was the first time do you use the ruleset? - No.
5) How many players were in the game? - Solo.

A couple of very simple trial games to get a handle on the basic rules mechanics, which certainly helped. It will make a few things clearer tonight when I read through the rules, fingers crossed.

1) What ruleset do you use in your last game? - Art de la Guere
2) What armies were confronted? - Mordor, Harad and The East v Gondor and Rohan
3) Did you feel comfortable with the ruleset? - No - but we made it up as we went along
4) and... was the first time do you use the ruleset? - Yes - witnessed a few games but first time I've actually played
5) How many players were in the game? - It varied - between 4 and 8 depending on time of day.

Club Christmas game, started at 9:00 this morning, just got back, 15mm ADLG but using my massed Impetus armies, so an 80mm unit frontage. Several thousand figures fielded, not sure how many but we managed 40 elephants/mumakil (20 units) by way of example. We used 28mm LotR characters as commanders - highlights included Théoden killing the Witch King (we say phooey to poxy prophecies )

That said the trolls (we had rather too many trolls we later decided - 40 odd units) held up the Rohirrim and allowed the Haradrim to form a formidable line. But meanwhile Gondor destroyed all the siege towers, defeated the wall assault and held the gate assault so were able to sorty en masse, which really pincered the massed orc lines. Elite Gondorian heavy knights with Gandalf at the head punched a fairly big hole that the massed spearmen reinforced and exploited.

Then the army of the dead arrived and in a single turn of immaculate dice rolling killed some 4' of wargs on the left flank (the entire front line bar 1 unit) before getting stuck into the hordes of Haradrim camels.

In the end a narrow victory for Gondor

Great fun and a barrel of laughs - can't say it was a played entirely according to the rules as writ but we had fun. (That said it'd have been a better game n Impetus but you gotta go with the majority for club games  )

Got two games in last night

1) What ruleset do you use in your last game? - Frostgrave
2) What armies were confronted? - My awesome Necromancer and some wandering monsters. Oh, and a much duffer necromancer and his targets, sorry, warband
3) Did you feel comfortable with the ruleset? - Haven't played for a couple of months, so bit rusty but picked up pretty much straight off.
4) and... was the first time do you use the ruleset? - No, we're now 18 months (?) into play, half way thru the Thaw of the Liche Lord campaign and done a whole bunch of other scenarios to boot.
5) How many players were in the game? - Two, plus two antagonistic wandering monster groups

Scenario was "Run of the Rangifer" where the rising Liche Lord sends his Wraith Knight minions to go execute the reindeer men who have been picking off his undead hordes; the players just happen to be doing a bit of tomb robbing nearby and get caught up in the scrap. My opponent was hideously outclassed, so I mostly left him alone whilst I dodged the reindeer folk (you get XP if they survive, but they're just as antagonistic to the players as they are to the undead!) and tried to job the Wraith Knight.

I got the Wraith Knight, but too late to stop it killing two Rangifers (although they nearly had it, only a vicious crit killing one of them kept it alive when they mobbed it!), and my opponent accidentally killed two of them as well (couldn't dodge one aggravated reindeer man, and the other he accidentally slotted by magic missile-ling into combat to try and finish the Wraith!), so we only got limited XP for keeping them alive. But I got four treasures, three levels and a shed load of gear and cash, and neither of us lost anyone permanently so it was a success all told!

1) What ruleset do you use in your last game? - DBA
2) What armies were confronted? - Ottoman Imperial vs Later Imperialist
3) Did you feel comfortable with the ruleset? - Yes, although I did have a wobble. My opponent hadn't played before at all.
4) and... was the first time do you use the ruleset? - Not for me, but yes for the opponent
5) How many players were in the game? - Two

Opponent deployed badly, I got cocky, didn't stick with the plan, managed to expose both flanks of my main force (landsknecte pike & arquebusiers with x-bow/psiloi support), screened off my own knights by locking them up in front of a wood occupied by one Ottoman psiloi, but managed a lucky win by impaling enough siphahi's on pikes and a lucky round of shooting versus his light horse with my flanking arquebusier before he could reorganise and get his own flank attack/overlaps going effectively or unscreen his guns and bows to shoot back!

Close, very close.

We're hoping to do a campaign in January, have to make sure we've enough but not too many players and we have an army for everyone... they won't match exactly historically but "general classical-ish Al the Mac to Pyrrhus across the entire Med to Persia" will be close enough

1) What ruleset do you use in your last game? - Epic 40k 6mm 3000pts a side.
2) What armies were confronted? - Ultramarines (Graham) vs Emperor's Pointy Sticks (Me)
3) Did you feel comfortable with the ruleset? - actually, yes, after we got going.
4) and... was the first time do you use the ruleset? - first time since 1st edition (1989-90)?
5) How many players were in the game? - two

Some how the EPS actually managed a win!
I had units over the halfway line, he didn't. I held all my objectives, Graham did too, so 2-1 to me!!!


FRREEEEM!
Took on and broke his predators turn one.
Those are my terminators in the far corner, who 'ported in, then legged it, having lost a firefight vs Grahams who were backed up by Land Raiders. His tactical squad on the nearest hill was blown away by my devastators, then chomped by my rather beaten up assault squad. There had been a squad of land speeders there too,  it they had lost to the devastators too.
I lost a tactical squad to a bike assault, but my whirlwinds caused massive damage to three of his squads.
Victory party

Would I play again?
Definitely!

1) What ruleset do you use in your last game? - Basic Impetus 2
2) What armies were confronted? - Early Crusaders v Later Fatimids
3) Did you feel comfortable with the ruleset? - Yes - although the new version has it's quirks to say the least
4) and... was the first time do you use the ruleset? - Played lots and lots of Impetus but first time with BI-2
5) How many players were in the game? - 2 players, 1 narrator

For the most part very slick, a couple of events that sent us scurrying through the rules (only 8 pages, so not that hard) whch is hardly surprising and mostly to check that things were/weren't the same as we would expect. Only one thing made us frown in a WTF moment as we realised the ZOC rules meant that once light horse got into the flank of the knights, there was literally nothing the knights could do to turn and face them. So we overruled the rules at that point.

In the end a hard earned win for the Fatimids - the Mamelukes were extremely effective but spent most of the game shooting martyrs err I mean pilgrims, whilst the Frankish foot sergeants ground the abid-al-shira and berber foot into the ground killing the Fatimid general in the process. Still they did enough damage that when the Mamelukes stormed around the left flank the Franks broke and ran.

Good quick fun, good for an evening weeknight game - still waiting for the full Impetus Ii though, this iis just a quick play interim solution to fill the void 

But for £4 well worth the download time

Quote from: toxicpixie on 22 December 2016, 11:27:55 PM
Got two games in last night
...

1) What ruleset do you use in your last game? - DBA
2) What armies were confronted? - Ottoman Imperial vs Later Imperialist
3) Did you feel comfortable with the ruleset? - Yes, although I did have a wobble. My opponent hadn't played before at all.
4) and... was the first time do you use the ruleset? - Not for me, but yes for the opponent
5) How many players were in the game? - Two

Opponent deployed badly, I got cocky, didn't stick with the plan, managed to expose both flanks of my main force (landsknecte pike & arquebusiers with x-bow/psiloi support), screened off my own knights by locking them up in front of a wood occupied by one Ottoman psiloi, but managed a lucky win by impaling enough siphahi's on pikes and a lucky round of shooting versus his light horse with my flanking arquebusier before he could reorganise and get his own flank attack/overlaps going effectively or unscreen his guns and bows to shoot back!

Close, very close.

We're hoping to do a campaign in January, have to make sure we've enough but not too many players and we have an army for everyone... they won't match exactly historically but "general classical-ish Al the Mac to Pyrrhus across the entire Med to Persia" will be close enough

Sounds like a lot of fun, which version of DBA?

Got my first Basic Impetus 2 game on Tuesday.