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Friday 13 April 2018

Sextuple DBA fun with two Marks

Two games on Monday at the Falkirk club against Mark Learmouth and four on Tuesday at the Glasgow Phoenix club against Mark Grindlay.



The picture above shows Mark L in what is the new traditional pose for a wargamer - taking a picture with his phone!

Mark brought along his Early Imperial Romans which I pitched my Ancient Spanish against and for the second game it was his Ancient Britons against my Later Carthaginians.  Neither of us had played for a while so we took a while to get back into.  I kept my tactics very simple and came out with two wins and an agreement that we would not leave it so long before playing again




On to Glasgow on Tuesday.  Our first two games were Spanish v Carthaginians.  The Carthaginians seemed to have the advantage in terms of the make up of their army which I used to good advantage in the first of the games picking off the opposing psiloi.  Mark was about to return the favour in the second game when a series of poor rolls thwarted him and I snatched a lucky victory. In fact at one stage Mark rolled 5 combat rolls of 1 in succession!

The third and fourth games were a first outing for Mark's new Wars of the Roses figures (see above).  We set up a Richard III v Henry Tudor match up.  Henry is an unusual general type, a CP. Basically blades but with a restriction on initiating combat.   Mark lined up with Henry at his centre and I opposed with Richard but the disadvantage of this inability to charge soon became apparent.  I concentrated my shooting and killed a couple of units and then took advantage of the gap in the Tudor line to roll up his Pike for a quick win.  Having swopped sides I kept Henry back as did Mark with Richard initially.  We got into a bit of a confused melee in the centre and this time it was Richard with a cavalry charge who made the decisive breakthrough.  One win each and we counted these two games towards the Society of Ancients championship.  A really good night of gaming.


As for the title - well they say that you can sell anything with sex so lets see if I can attract a new clientele to the blog!
Games 27
 Rules played 16 New 7
Places played 4 New 0
 

3 comments:

  1. Entertaining reports! Quite the coincidence that someone with the last name Knight would have two days of enjoyable gaming with DBA. The last two segments about Henry and Richard were timely, as I am just nearing the end of a book about Bosworth. Not knowing much about the decisive clash, I wonder how many will "argue" for Albion Hill on BD 2020, as well as wonder how players will arrive at their orders of battle.

    Cheers,
    Chris

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    1. Quite a coincidence. We are expecting to do Bosworth using BBDBA and will have some research to do ourselves

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