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Final Placings
The positions of the 200AP DBMM Competition were:
Position Name Total Score Army List Date Army List Club
1 Brittain Stephen 58 617 Early Tang 3 20 UWS
2 van Embden Jan 55 869 Zanj Revolt 3 50 DGG
3 Brittain John 50 221BC Ch'in Chinese Mercenary
4 Gibson Mark 49 325BC Alexandrian Imperial 2 15 UWS
5 Hessian Mick 36 1110 Sung Chinese (in South China) 3 62 DGG

Full Results
Posn Name Total Score Army List Club
1 Gibson, Mark 57 Sciri UWS
2 Whelan, Mike 56 Ilkhanid DGG
3 van Embden, Jan 54 Early Tang DGG
4 Coughlan, Willie 52 Tuareg MWG
5 Aynsley, Richard 50 Numidian MWG
6 MacGearailt, Antaine 49 Zanji Revolt DGG

There is a treasure trove of DBMM material on the web. The selection of links below is only a small sampling to get you started.

Irish DBMM and General Wargaming Web Resources

* The Irish Wargaming Homepage
The Irish Wargaming directory, events calendar, news and a number of hosted sites.
* Irish Wargames Mailing List

Wargamers usually split history into periods where similar types of armies existed and hence similar rules mechanisms can be used. The "Ancients" period is usually taken as 3000BC-1500AD, so from the first Sumerian city states until firearms start to come into widespread use. This is a very colourful period with a huge variety of armies and cultures potentially appearing on the tabletop.

So why should wargames be accused of training soldiers or warmongers?*

Last night I participated in a panel discussing the impact of wargames and
war play on popular culture hosted on the radio station Newstalk FM's show, Culture Shock (to be broadcast this Saturday night between 7-9pm).

This event held in Dublin on the 24th of April 2004 was designed to link-in with the main Society of Ancients (SoA) Battle-Day which took place on the 3rd of April in England and another satellite event which took place in Australia on the 17th of April.

The battle: Gaugamela, 331BC – the decisive battle between Alexander the Great's Macedonians and the assembled might of the King of Kings, Darius III of Persia.

The RINIWA Committee has adopted (4 Nov-08) the following rules for FOG400AP Competitions.

RINIWA FOG 400 rules
Version 1.3

1. Armies are chosen to a points limit of 400 points.
2. The minimum and maximum number of available bases in the army lists are halved but the size of battle groups remains the same.

Here is the 1st round pairings for the league.

Note that the seedings (ranked by player number) are based on glicko ratings calculated for strongbow and the brian boru (I don't have all the riniwa league results yet). They are a bit random but in the end I went with them as the only thing I could do better (given events at the BB) was totally random and theres not much difference :-)

#Player Number, Last Name, First Name(current score), Last Game Score, Rating, Army List Date, Army List, Club, Country
#--- Game 1, Table 101 -------------

*****The registration deadline is 31st Oct, please get your entries to me *****
You need to send your name, army name, year and region.

so far I have the following names for the DGG Winter League this year:

1. Rob Brennan
2. Mick Hessian
3. Jan van Embden
4. Thomas Arnfelt
5. Mike Whelan
6. Donal Coghlan
7. Anthony Fitzgerald
8. Brian Roynane
9. Phil Waldron