BattleCry 2008 - 25mm DBMM Doubles Tournament

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Conclusion: Results & Aftermath

It had been a hard weekend, with all the games being fairly challenging and the last 2 having been particularly hard fought battles. Our final result was 64 VPs, and 2nd Place - probably not bad for a team made up of a first time DBMM'er (Campbell) and a notorious over-aggressive under-achiever (Me)! Ivan & Andrew did magnificently to win, although I think the huge Warband force (69 German and 14 Gallic Wb(O) ) may have overawed some people (see our Round 1 Report)! John & Lance with their Sassanids and Brett & Lawrence with the Medieval Germans also did well and it was a constant tussle each round with two of these 4 teams in first and second place after each of the rounds (Ivan and Andrew managing to be first in the third round and stay there, being 1st after the most critical one, the last)!

Kushite Egyptians (with flank march left-foreground) engage the Sassanid Persians.

Philip & Andrew get a special mention in dispatches, for both having the "most ancient" army present, and giving the Sassanids (with all their Elephants, Knights, and (S) Cavalry) a real run for their money (7-18), and then giving the Medieval Navarrese a jolly good taste of Egyptian Steel (21-4), or should that be Egyptian Bronze?! The remaining teams all fought well, especially since 2 of them were (as I understand) composed of DBMM initiates; but I'll leave Wayne the Navarrese CinC, probably the player most experienced with DBMM to date in the competition, to explain the Navarrese performance, elsewhere!

Needless to say BattleCry and the 25mm Doubles are always a good experience and well worth the entry fee - and there is always plenty of loot to take away too! So its an event well worth attending and the first year using DBMM was a great success (and hopefully the first of many).

Gallic Tigurini & German Cimbri Warbands advancing 102BC.

All the games were a challenge in various ways and really reinforced the fact that I like DBMM and it definitely seems a good evolutionary step from DBM that creates battles that to me look and feel how we understand ancient battles to, and also generally behave how we believe they probably behaved. Reserves are important, if not downright vital, as is having a simple plan and avoiding unrealistic complicated manoeuvres – which are both strong positives for any historical simulation.

Cimbri & Tigurini Warbands break into the heart of the Medieval Scandinavian Army at night.

Final 2008 DBMM Doubles Tournament Rankings & Results

Points: Total Score out of a possible 100 (i.e. 25 VP for each of the 4 games).

Opponent Difficulty (OD): A Buchholz challenge ranking based on the final competition scores of the 4 opponents each team played. The higher the score the tougher the opponents faced (in theory), for breaking ties if needed.

Round Scores (R1, R2, R3, R4): The individual Victory Point Scores for each team's game in each round. Scores of 10-15 are draws, everything above is a win, everything below a loss. The winning team achieved 3 wins; the next 5 placed teams had 1 win apiece - total for the entire competition was 8 Wins & 8 Draws from 16 Games.

  
Armenians: Horse Archers in the Foreground and Cataphracts in the distance.

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