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2005
3 Dec:
Richard Aynsley has updated the Celtic Championship 2006 webpage with full details of the event (to be held in Cork in January). The registration/list-checking deadline is the 23rd of Dec.
RINIWA has announced that the 315AP theme at next year's Strongbow's Shield in August will be "Mithridatic Wars 88BC - 65BC". There will of course be a 200AP Open event held in parallel on the day.
RINIWA also announced that next year's Finn Mac Cool Cup will be held on the 25th-26th of March and will use the same event rules as the 2006 IWF World Individual Championships to be held in Athens in April.
10 Nov:
Double-Eek! Another record time between updates. Oh well, the good news is that the builders have finally moved out of my new house so that distraction should be over. So, what about wargaming I hear you ask. Here's the scoop:
Apparently VATICON 11.31 is running as a one day fun(d) raiser for Vaticon 12. 10am til 6pm Sunday November 20th in UCD Student Center.
Another upcoming event is the Big Game VII (a HOTT fantasy campaign) has been announced by for the weekend of the 19th-20th of November in the Belfast Boat Club. Contact Tim Snoddy if you're interested.
David Taylor has announced that he will once again run a DBM league in 2006: "I am thinking of a Book 1 theme for next year. However, as there are fewer Book 1 armies around, so any army from Book 1, before 500 B.C. will be allowed. If you are interested in taking part next year, please contact me.Also, if there are at least 4 people in Cork or 4 in Sligo who would want to play, then there could be a group in each of those locations." [For the last couple of years the competition has run in both Dublin and Belfast with the finals in Belfast.]
> Eric & Rob's DBM Bash this year will be on the 27th of December. Once again we will use the excellent Middle-Earth lists for DBM by Luke Ueda-Sarson. It will be a 200AP, 3-round event. Please contact Rob if you're interested as places are very limited.
> I've also taken the opportunity to update our Events Calendar for 2006. If you can help provide any more details for events then I'd love to hear from you.
This year's Brian Boru Trophy was held at the end of Oct, we had a 5-man contingent over from England. Hopefully this trend will continue at future events. Richard Aynsley came out on top though with a return to form.
> Ireland (D.Houston[capt], A.Moran, R. Brennan, R.Aynsley) came 5th at the International Team Challenge, Ghent in September. Full results on the International Team Challenge site.
The RINIWA DBM Ratings have been updated to include the results of the Brian Boru Trophy, the UWS Competition and games in this year's Belfast KO league.
Dave Bruce announced that he plans to organise a wargames event in Co. Leitrim. He is looking for interested parties to contact him.
14 Aug:
Eek! 2 months between updates - the longest ever! Anyway lots happening/happened:
UWS now have a new website. This includes details of their upcoming Flower of Chivalry 200AP competition on the 24th of September in Belfast.
The Big Game VII (a HOTT fantasy campaign) has been announced by Tim Snoddy for the weekend of the 19th-20th of November in the Belfast Boat Club.
The date for the 2006 IWF World Championships in Athens has been set for the weekend of 28-30/04/2006.
A re-enactment group called Living History was added to the wargaming directory.
Strongbow's Shield was held in Dublin on the 31st of July - Seamus McKenna won the 200AP open and Richard Aynsley won the 315AP Ming theme competition.
The Northern Wasters once again hosted their Bloodstorm 2-day WHFB Grand Tournament at the end of July.
RINIWA now have a revised set of DBM 200 rules (for DBM3.1) in Ireland online. These will be used in upcoming RINIWA events in Ireland
The RINIWA team to represent Ireland in the DBM International Team Challenge (ITC) in Ghent in September is:
David Houston (capt) - Book 4 period
Alex Moran - Book 3 period
Rob Brennan - Book 2 period
Richard Aynsley - Book 1 period
The RINIWA DBM Ratings have been updated to include the results of Strongbow's Shield, the Cuchulainn Trophy and games in this year's Belfast KO league.
15 June:
Quick update to give you the revised version of the DBM3.1 Revisions that include Richard Bodley-Scott's official erratum of 2/6/2005. This version of 3.1 is the one that will be used in all DBM competitions in Ireland (including the Cuchulainn Trophy in 2 weeks).
3 May:
Hmmm, 6 weeks passed between updates. Here's the news:
The next DBM competition is - June 25th-26th The Cuchulainn Trophy @ Q-Con, Whitla Hall, QUB. Belfast. (contact: D.Houston@qub.ac.uk)
The 3rd annual Celtic Championship was held in Belfast - thanks to TTN for the excellent location. The main results were as follows:
1. Ian MacKay (Scot)
2. David Taylor (NI)
3. Richard Aynsley (ROI)
Winners of the Celtic Cup for highest scoring regional team: Northern Ireland (David Houston, David Taylor, Seamus McKenna)
Winners of the highest scoring independent team were "ROI Team 3" (Darren Birt, Edmond Barett, Alec McTurk)
Congrats to all the winners and thanks to the organisers and everyone who attended to make it the largest DBM competition so far in Ireland (41 players).
This was the last DBM version 3.0 competition in Ireland, from now on we will be using DBM 3.1 and here it is
The RINIWA DBM Ratings have been updated to include the results of the Celtic Championship and games in this year's Belfast KO league. The RINIWA team for the DBM International Team Challenge (ITC) in Ghent in September will be picked based on these ratings.
Richard Aynsley reports that there are now pictures of his Mycenean Greeks on the Cork Gaming website.
Finally John Graham-Leigh, the editor of the Society of Ancients's Slingshot magazine, has been in contact and supplied me with a report on the Munster Open 2003. Thanks John, submissions are always welcome.
16 March:
A big update:
Tom Landy wrote to us to update our info on the Drogheda Warhammer club, it runs on Friday evenings from 7 til 12 at DYD, Narrow west Street, Drogheda.
This year's Ulster Wargames Society DBM competition will run on the 24th September and the theme is likely to be European Medieval (further details to be announced).
Richard Aynsley has published a photographic record of the Munster Open DBM comp held as part of Warpcon in January.
Other upcoming DBMcompetitions this year:
- 30 July, Strongbow's Shield
This year's event will consist of a parallel 200AP Open and a 315AP Ming
Voyages theme
- 22-23 Oct, The Brian Boru Trophy
http://www.iworg.com/boru
This year's theme will be "The Byzantines", it will be a 375AP comp
Regional teams for this year's Celtic Championship have been announced:
Republic of Ireland:
Alex Moran (Captain)
Tony Walsh
Richard Aynsley
Northern Ireland:
David Houston (Captain)
David Taylor
Seamus McKenna
Scotland:
John Munro (Captain)
Hunter Hope
Jim Copeland
We also have the first entries this year from Wales and Brittany.
The RINIWA DBM Ratings have been updated to include the results of the Finn Mac Cool Cup (Won by Darren Birt) and the first games in this years Belfast KO league.
The RINIWA Committee have decided to use version 3.1 for all of our competitions from the 1st of May 2005. We also strongly recommend that independent DBM competitionorganisers also adopt it for any events after that date.
NB The Celtic Championship will still use DBM version 3.0
27 Feb:
A new official update to DBM (known as version 3.1) has been released by Richard Bodley-Scott. Here it is as a zipped MS Word document. It is only available as an electronic errata sheet and there will be no printed version. RINIWA has not yet made any announcement on when/if these rules will be introduced but the Finn Mac Cool Cup and the Celtic Championship will certainly still use DBM version 3.0..
25 Jan 2005:
Opps. Long time between updates. Here's the news:
The Irish Wargames Announcements mailing list (iwargames) has now moved. The new address to post to is: iwargames@iworg.com . Update your address books now! All members of the old list have been automatically transfered.
The following competitions/events have been confirmed:
- Feb 26th Granikos refight @
Leprecon in Dublin (contact:
brennanr@iworg.com)
- March 5-6th Finn Mac Cool Cup
@ the Teacher's Club in Dublin (contact:
alec@mcturk.com)
- April 15th-17th The Celtic
Championship @ Belfast Boat Club (contact:
D.Houston@qub.ac.uk)- Ireland's
first 5-round DBM competition, Painted 400AP army door prize thanks to John
Lavery's Painting Service
(johnlavery21@hotmail.com)
- June 25th-26th The Cuchulainn Trophy @
Q-Con, Whitla Hall, QUB. Belfast.
(contact: D.Houston@qub.ac.uk)
Our calendar has been updated.
The RINIWA DBM Ratings have been updated to include the results of the Munster Open held in Cork last weekend. Brian Bull was the winner, Donal Coghlan second, James McKenna third from a field of 14 players.
A competition report for Strongbow's Shield 2004 was published.
A small (unrated) 200AP competition was held in Dublin over the Xmas to test out the new DBM 3.1 proposals (seperate from DBMM which has been delayed). These worked well and are expected to be finalised at the end of Feburary. The comp was won by Tony Walsh with a Scythian army. Note that all competitions in Ireland until (at least) after the Celtic Championship will continue to use DBM version 3.0. The draft of 3.1 is in the files area of the yahoo dbmlist.
The Big Game VI , a HOTT campaign, was held in Belfast with a bumper 24 participants in Belfast on the 13th-14th of Nov.
More details have been announced for next year's Celtic Championship to be held in Belfast on the 15th-17th of April. Check the website for accommodation info, list checking & player registration deadline, etc.
David Taylor announced the details for the DBM Knockout 2005 competition which will run during the year. The theme is "The Fall of Rome", contact David for more information.
Richard Aynsley announced his new site www.CorkGaming.com which also has the details for the 2005 Munster Open to be held as part of Warpcon on the 22nd and 23rd January 2005.
Saw the announcement of the Dominicon dates, March 11th-13th 2005. Several GW wargames events are planned there.
The first Brian Boru Trophy DBM competition was held in Dublin on the 23rd-24th Oct, Darren Birt won, Brian Bull in 2nd and Nicolas Duval made the trip from France worthwhile with a 3rd place finish. We had a great turn out for a 2-day event with 19 players attending.
The RINIWA DBM Ratings have been updated to include the results. The Brian Boru was the last rated tournament of 2004 and Darren Birt emerged as the winner of the 2004 Player of the Year league.
Yet another painting service emerged: Mark Kernan's The One Tree
18 Oct:
TCD School of Classics have a 9-week evening course on Travel in the Ancient World.
Richard Aynsley updated his wargames page with a report on Strongbow's Shield.
I saw this link to the NUI Maynooth Games Soc. website.
The Brian Boru Trophy is on this coming weekend (23-24th), originally planned as part of Galecon it has had to be moved to the Teachers Club, no 36 Parnell Sq due to the large demand and a shortage of space this year at Gaelcon (just around the corner in the Gresham hotel on O'Connell St).
This was a month of painting services:
Piers Brand (ROI) contacted us to let us know about his
Achtung Painting
Service.
John Lavery (NI) is also taking commisions at
johnlavery21@hotmail.com
Finally Raymond Haskins of tnk models (NI) asked us to advertise his
site.
As ever these notices come with no guarantee from us, we are just passing
on the info.
Raymond also provided a link to his club, the Western Warlords.
The RINIWA Committee announced that although DBMM is in the works that all their competitions will continue to be run under DBM3.0 until at least after the Celtic Championship 2005 in Belfast. They would like your feedback on the idea of switching to the new rules once they are released.
19 Sept:
It looks like its going to be monthly updates for the forseeable future. Oh well, it could be worse. This is what's been happening:
The first RINIWA Brian Boru Trophy (350AP DBM comp) will be held this year in conjunction with Galecon in the Gresham hotel in Dublin on the 24th-25th of October. Further ahead, dates have been announced for next year's Celtic Championship in Belfast.
The annual Ulster Wargames Society DBM competition was held yesterday. The top finishers were:
1, Bull, Brian, I/32 Western Chou etc, 223/239, TTN
2, Nolan, Eric, II/3 Classical Indian,223/231,DGG
3, Taylor, David, II/83 Patrician Roman, 221/ - , UWS
The RINIWA DBM Ratings have been updated to include the results.
Ireland had another great showing at the International Team Challenge in Ghent taking 4th place for the second year running. Some photos of the event are here.
Tim Snoddy has announced details of this year's Big Game VI fantasy (HOTT) event to be held in Belfast on Saturday the 13th and Sunday the 14th of November by TTN and RINIWA.
Piers Brand is looking for wargames opponents in the Kildare/Laois area.
18 August:
Aggh! Too long between updates again. Here's the latest:
The annual Ulster Wargames Society DBM competition has changed date. The new date is Saturday 18 September. The other details are as follows:
Theme: "Berserker!"
Start-Time: 10:30AM
AP: 200
Umpire/List checker: Jeremy Dowd
(jeremy.dowd@ntlworld.com)
List deadline: Saturday 11 September
Armies Allowed: Any army list from books 1-4 with at least 100AP of impetuous
troops (including generals where appropriate).
Scoring: 0-10 with +100 for a win
Rounds: 3
The Cuchulainn Trophy and Strongbow's Shield competitions went very well with good attendances, no doubt competion reports will feature here soon. The new picture above from Cuchulainn will have to do for now. The RINIWA DBM Ratings have been updated to include the results.
At Strongbow's Shield the theme (limited to 8 players) filled up very quickly - make sure to get your entries in early for competitions in the future.
Richard Aynsley launched a new website showcasing his armies and competition experiences.
The full results of the Celtic Championship held in May in Glasgow were released and a competition report published on the CC website. Modesty forbids revealing the winner but I am happy to say that for the second year in a row the trophy is held by one of the members of Dublin Games Guild.
The BHGS published travel service contact information for people wanting to attend the IWF Individual World Championships in Melbourne next year. They suggest you contact Michael Edwards to discuss your individual arrangements. Telephone (+44) (0)1494 463324. Cillian Cleland added that he is moving to Oz and expects to be there for the IWF next year, he wants anyone interested in attending to contact him.
19 June:
The 4th annual Cuchulainn Trophy DBM competition will be held as part of QCon XI next weekend in Belfast. Contact David Houston if you interested in a last-minute competition entry.
New reports on the RINIWA Battle Day and SoA/RINIWA Gaugamela refight are now in the competition reports section of this site. There is also a belated report on the DBM competition held as part of Leprecon in Feburary.
A new club has burst forth onto the scene in Belfast, TableTop North. Check out their website.
The Brian Boru Trophy DBM competition has now been confirmed as part of the Gaelcon schedule. Thus it will be held on the 24th-25th of October in the Gresham Hotel in Dublin. Check out the comp website.
Finally, don't forget that the pre-registration/list-checking deadline for Strongbow's Shield is Thursday the 22nd of July. Lists should be sent to Rob Brennan.
3 June: Yet another consolidated update:
Colin from the Other Realms gamestore in Cork sent this link to their shop/club website. We've added them to our Directory. Colin says "We run card gaming and Games Workshop games and tournaments every Saturday in Cork. For details call the shop number provided.[in the directory]"
RINIWA have announced the team to represent Ireland at the International Team Challenge event in September. For the first time the event is being held outside Switzerland in Ghent, Belgium.The team is
David Houston (capt)
David Taylor
Richard Aynsley
Rob Brennan
There is now a brief report on the huge Gaugamela refight at the RINIWA/SoA Battle Day. A report on the rest of the Battle Day activies is in the works.
This year's Cuchulainn Trophy will be held in association with QCon XI in QUB Belfast. Details are as follows:
Dates: Sat 26th June - Sun 27th June
Registration: 9AM Sat
Army lists: Any army from the 2nd Edition DBM army list books1-4.
AP: 400
Rounds: 4
Scoring: 0-10+100 for a win.
*** List deadline: Fri 11th June. ***
List checker: David Taylor <N.Taylor@ukgateway.net>
General Point of Contact: David Houston <D.Houston@qub.ac.uk>
Please note that there is a change of venue from previous years and the event is being held in the main student union building (directly across the road from the main QUB building).
The Celtic Championship (combined with the Scottish Open) was held in Glasgow on the 21st-23rd May. A total of 9 players from Ireland travelled over to the event. Full report to follow. The top individual placings were:
1. Rob Brennan, Later Achaemenid Persian, Rep. of Ireland
2. John Robertson, Later Achaemenid Persian, Scotland
3. Keith Martin-Smith, Patrician Roman, Scotland
The Celtic Cup national teams trophy went to Scotland. The top independent team was the "Tartan Turncoats".
RINIWA have announced an early warning of the army lists to be used at a new 350AP event this Autumn. Details here.
Piers Brand' <piersbrand@msn.com> is looking for wargaming opponents in the Killcullen area.
6 May: Lots of news, busy as usual so here goes:
The 2nd Celtic Championship is on the 21st-23rd May in Scotland. National teams have been announced by RINIWA, check their site for details.
Contact Tim Snoddy about the May meeting of DBM Forum will be held at 2pm on Saturday the 8th of May at the home of Seamus McKenna in north Belfast.
The RINIWA Battle-Day event went off well with 16 participants, a full report will follow. For now make do with our new photo above.
David Taylor has announced the details for this year's Belfast DBM League. This year's theme is the fall of Rome. Contact David if you are interested in participating.
Finally, players from Ireland had a respectible showing at the DBM World Championships in Rome. Positions and scores were as follows:
Richard Aynsley - 41st - 114pts
Rob Brennan - 41st - 114pts
Seamus McKenna - 72nd - 98pts
Dave Houston - 114th- 79pts
Tony Walsh - 114th- 79pts
Eric Nolan - 120th - 77pts
Donal Coghlan - 127th - 74pts
William Coughlan - 135th - 68pts
Nicolas Duval - 138th - 67pts
10 Mar: I heard about another big GW-based event coming up:
Battle-Cry, a 2000pt WHFB tournament in the Royal Dublin Hotel on the 16th
of May.
More info can be found on the Northern Wasters
website or by
contacting Ugo. This going to
be a big event with many plyers from outside Dublin.
Also a reminder that Dominicon is soon. WH40K, Battlefleet Gothic and "Fantasy Skirmish" events planned.
7 Mar: RINIWA have announced a major change in this year's DBM competition calendar. The DGG DBM pairs in November will be replaced by a 350/400AP competition perhaps at Galecon (details to be confirmed) at the end of October. However the DGG Pairs format will live on as a part of the Strongbow's Shield event at the end of July.
The details for the two competitions (Pairs and a Punic Wars Theme) to be held at this year's Strongbow's Shield are on the event website.
RINIWA have announced the adoption of the 2nd Edition of the IWF Clarifications for DBM. Details and a copy of the clarifications are on the RINIWA website.
The RINIWA DBM Ratings have been updated to include the results of the DBM competition at Leprecon.
I also noticed that GW will be running their Conflict: Dublin regonal tournament in the Burlington Hotel, Upper Leeson Street, Dublin on Sunday 14th March.
The RINIWA Battle-Day webpage has also been updated with more details of the games being run.
Finally Tim Snoddy announced that the next meeting of DBM Forum will be held at 2pm on Sunday the 14th of March at the home of Richard Murphy in east Belfast. Contact Tim if you want to get involved.
11 Feb: I spotted the dates for this year's Sillicon in DCU, 2nd-4th April.
RINIWA now also have a basic web-page with info on their upcoming battle-day on the 24th of April.
7 Feb: Last weekend saw the 3rd DBM Munster Open at Warpcon in Cork. Read a competition report here. The RINIWA DBM Ratings were updated. There were also a number of other wargames at Warpcon, a WH-ECW demo game (see new photo), Bloodbowl and WHFB and WH40K.
The next DBM event in the calendar is at Leprecon, contact Cillian Cleland if you're interested.
RINIWA is also planning a non-competition wargames day in Dublin on the 24th of April. There will be a selection of participation games including a monster re-fight of Gaugamala 331BC, a Sci-Fi game, a 17th Century game and perhaps a Napoleonics game. Pre-booking your place in a game will be essential. If you are interested in any of the above and a chance to meet other wargamers over a few pints please contact Tim Snoddy.
Dates have been announced for the Cuchulainn Trophy, it will be held at Q-Con in Belfast on the Sat 26th June - Sun 27th June. Contact David Houston for more info.
The Celtic Championship is filling rapidly, see the web-page for booking info or contact Hunter Hope in Scotland.
25 Jan: Happy New Year to all. Still busy so few updates
but the following news:
- Warpcon DBM comp is on next weekend, contact
Richard Aynsley
for info.
- Leprecon (Feb 28-29th) DBM is
being run by Cillian
Cleland, contact him for info.
- Full details for this year's Celtic Championship have now
been published, see the
website
- A general (non-competition)wargaming day is being planned
for April, more details later.
- Ratings were updated
- I won the LotR DBM comp in Dublin in
December (just lucky!)
22 Dec: New comp report on DGG Pairs here.
18 Dec: Quick update as I'm v.busy. Happy Xmas
to all.
- Dominicon (Maynooth) will be on 19th, 20th and 21st of March
2004
- Report on the Big Game V is online
here.
- DBM Ratings system will change slightly next year to
have a minimum of 15 games for C class reliability and the number
of games counted in the player of the year league will
rise to 11 games.
- A new version of DBM will go
into public playtest soon, final release of the rules will
be at least another 12 months off.
24 Nov: Richard Aynsley has announced details for The Munster Open 2004 organised by CRAP in association with WARPS on Jan 31st-Feb 1st 2004. This time it is being held at Warpcon. Also note Richard's new email address.
Provisional details for a DBM comp at Leprecon 2004 in Feburary: It will be 400AP, Open, 2-list. Victim (err, umpire) to be announced.
DBM Ratings were updated. There
will be a couple of slight modifications to the ratings system next
year :
- A maximum of 11 rather than 9 games will count in the player of the year
league
- The minimum number of games to achieve a "C" class rating will rise from
14 to 15, but most people take more games than this anyway so they
will be unaffected.
Tim Snoddy and Seamus McKenna are still running their DBM Forum in Belfast. Drop them a line if you're interested in trying it out.
21 Oct: A reminder that Gaelcon is on this weekend in Dublin.
Vaticon X has announced it's dates: 22nd November in the Arts block UCD, Belfield Sunday 23rd November in the Students Centre UCD, Belfield.
Also remember that the DGG DBM Pairs pre-registration/list deadline is on the 25th Oct. The event itself is on the 1st Nov.
Finally we have a competition report on the fun at the The Ulster Wargames Society DBM comp in Belfast last month.
2 Oct: We have a new photo, this time its from the UWS DBM200 competition. Full report to follow soon. The ratings have been updated.
The DGG DBM Pairs is on the 1st of November, check out the website or mail the umpire Alex Moran for more information.
Tim Snoddy has announced a re-convening of the "DBM Forum" in Belfast, this is a great way for anyone to learn DBM with armies supplied and experienced players on hand. Contact Tim for more info.
Tim Snoddy has said that there has been great interest in the Big Game V event to be held in QUB on the 22nd-23rd of November. Anyone interested in attending for 1 or 2 days should contact him soon.
Robert Horne Ltd in Dublin who sell magnetic PVC suitable for basing figures stored in toolboxes have re-structured. The place to order the material from is now called A&P Display and has a new phone no of (01) 456 5620. Our directory has been updated.
Congatulations again to our team who came 4th at the Grandson International Team Challenge, the world cup of DBM.
7 Sept: A reminder that The Ulster Wargames Society are running their annual 200AP DBM competition on the 27th of Septemeber. This year it's an Eastern theme. A list of the allowed armies has been published. Contact Jeremy Dowd if you want more information. Lists are due to him by the 20th of September.
The DGG DBM Pairs competition date has not been fixed yet but it will be either the 1st (most likely) or the 8th of November.
Next weekend sees the Grandson International Team Challenge take place in Switzerland. Ireland has a team there for the second year, good luck to all involved.
18 Aug: Tim Snoddy has announced dates for a Big Game V event to be held in QUB on the 22nd-23rd of November. He would like anyone interested in attending for 1 or 2 days to contact him.
We also have a new photo, this one from the Successor's Theme competition at Strongbow's Shield on August 2nd in Dublin. If you want to see more photos of the day, why not check out the competition report on the Strongbow's Shield website.
25 July: Jeremy Dowd of The Ulster Wargames Society has reminded me that Ulster Militare will be on on Aug 30th. There will be a change in venue though and it's now on in the Common Rooms of QUB rather than the previously advertised location. Jeremy adds "If anyone is interested in putting on a display or participation game, please contact Tony Matassa or myself as soon as you can".
Talking of things north of the border, Tony Matassa's A&A miniatures have re-vamped their website - well worth checking out for some gorgeous 25/8mm figures. Tony has sold the Freikorp 15mm lines to an English company and no longer stocks them.
I have also heard that Tim Snoddy is planning a HOTT (Hordes of the Things) "Big Game" V either this Autumn or next Spring. Give him a shout if you might be interested.
11 July: We've added a new feature to the site, Competition Reports, this page contains either links to other sites or IWorg.Com reports of competitions. The reports have photos in addition to full results and text. Most of these reports were previously held on the Dublin Games Guild site but a reorganisation there has prompted a move here. Many of the comps weren't actually held in DGG anyway.
There is a new report on the Cuchulainn Trophy comp held as part of QCon in our new section.
Finally, David Taylor of the The Ulster Wargames Society posted a list of allowed armies for this year's UWS 200AP competition with a theme of "India, the East and the Americas ". This will be held on Sept 27th in St John's Church Hall, Belfast. Contact Jeremy Dowd for more info.
2 July: Q-Con was last weekend, had a blast at the DBM competition, The Cuchulainn Trophy, which is now in it's 3rd year. We have a new photo showing some of Charlie Dickinson's Late Romans.
Next up is Strongbow's Shield in about a month's time - see you there.
The RINIWA DBM Ratings for Ireland were also updated.
5 June: Some bad news this time, Dermot Connolly has informed me that the Foyle Kreigspielers club in the North-West has had to close down. Hopefully something new will arise to take it's place. The Kreigspielers were known for their impressive demonstration games, such as this one I snapped at Ulster Militare last year.
On a more cheerful note, RINIWA have announced their first online questionnaire. Fill it in to provide feedback on what you think the association should be doing next year.
The RINIWA DBM Ratings for Ireland were also updated.
15 May: Shaun of the Northern Wasters sent me a notice regarding their upcoming GW WFB Tournament, The Bloodstorm, in Ballymena on Saturday 5th July 2003. It's now in our calendar and the Northern Wasters have ben added to the clubs section of our directory.
9 May: The RINIWA DBM Ratings have been updated to include the Munster Open and April games in the Belfast KO comp.
Our changeover of web hosting service is now complete - please let me know if you find any problems with the website.
27 April: IWorg.Com is moving hosting service so there may be some interuption of access to the web-pages over the coming days. Hopefully it'll all go smoothly though.
Also a reminder that the Munster Open 2003 is on next weekend.
17 April: Darren Birt of the Sligo Wargames Club has sent in a link to his website describing his experiences at the recent DBM Celtic Championship in Dublin.
RINIWA have announced a new website with all the details for this year's Strongbow's Shield event in August.
QUB Dragonslayers have confirmed that the Cuchulainn Trophy 400AP Open DBM comp will run as part of Q-Con in Belfast on June 28th-29th. David Houston will umpire, contact him for more info.
9 April: Richard Aynsley has announced the details for the Munster Open 2003 on the 3rd of May.
A full report (with photos) on the Celtic Championship is now available here.
The RINIWA DBM Ratings have been updated to include the Celtic Championship and the March games from this year's Belfast KO competition.
29 March: The Celtic Championships are on the 5th-6th of April. It will be the largest DBM event ever held in Ireland with many overseas visitors. Even if you're not competing, you may want to come down to cheer our teams, have a beer or purchase some wargaming supplies from Tony Matassa of Freikorp/A&A Miniatures who will be there on Saturday only.
If you'd like some chat, quick boardgames and a few pints with our overseas visitors then anyone is welcome to attend our pre-event warmup on Fri 4th April in the Teacher's Club from 5PM 'till late (free admission).
2 March: QUB DragonSlayers have confirmed that Q-Con will be on in the PostGrad Common Rooms in Queens University Belfast. The exact dates are the 27th to the 29th of June. Their website has not yet been updated. Our Calendar has been updated.
20 Feb: I noticed the Dominicon web-page recently and have updated our Calendar.
17 Feb: I was contacted by Kevin from the The Leinster Reenactment Group, who specialise in Norman, Viking and Early medieval reenactment. Have added their page to our Directory section. There certainly seems to be a lot of reenactment going on in Ireland these days!
16 Feb: GW have announced details for their upcoming Dublin tournament with WH40K, Fantasy and LotR comps. It will be held in the Burlington Hotel on March 9th. Admission is 40 euro, 10 euro if not competing. Contact your local GW store for more details. This has been added to our calendar.
4 Feb: The dates have been announced for the Conclave convention in Limerick, 21st & 22nd June.
29 Jan: We have our first new photo for 2003 showing some of the action at the Warpcon DBM competition. A report on the comp is now online on the new Cork Region Assorted DBM Players page.
28 Jan: The RINIWA DBM Ratings have been updated to include the Warpcon DBM comp.
UWS have updated their
website and announced
dates for:
Ulster Militaire at the Dundonald Ice Bowl (30 August)
The UWS DBM200 Tournament (27 September)
The UWS Annual Auction (29 November)
Finally RINIWA have announced that they are now selling nice branded polo shirts. Whew!
25 Jan: The Leprecon organisers have now updated their website with all the information on the event.
There are a series of lectures on Ancient Egypt running on Thursday nights, see their webpage.
20 Jan: Dominicon dates have changed to 21,22,23 of March 2003. Our calendar has been updated.
16 Jan: Darren Birt has setup a new webpage for the Sligo Wargames Club. Check it out.
13 Jan: RINIWA have announced that Ireland will again send a team to the International Team Challenge in 2003. The date at which the DBM ratings will be consulted is June 1st, people who wish to be considered for the team must contact RINIWA within 3 weeks of that date.
29 Dec: Happy New Year to everybody. The Middle Earth Madness DBM200 competition was held in Dublin on the 28th. A short report on the event is available on the DGG website and the RINIWA DBM Ratings have been updated to include this competition.
Congratuations to Richard Aynsley who won both Middle Earth Madness and this year's Player of the Year League.
12 Dec: RINIWA have announced a new individual DBM competition, the Celtic Championship, to be held in Dublin on April 5th-6th 2003. This is a great opportunity for Irish DBM players to play against an international crowd (Scotland have already confirmed several of their players will be there). Check out the website for details. As ever our Event Calendar has been updated to include this event.
15: Nov: Richard Anysley has announced details of a 350AP DBM comp to be held in Cork at next year's Warpcon (Jan 25-26th).
14 Nov: Yet another gaming Con for 2003, Sillicon on April 4th-6th in DCU, has been added to our calendar.
11 Nov: The RINIWA DBM Ratings have been updated.
Yet more cons for 2003 have been seen on the radar:
Icon 8, to be held in Waterford
on the 5th - 7th August next year.
UberCon, to be held in Cork on the 6th-8th June 2003.
As ever our event calendar has been updated.
5 Nov: in the aftermath of Gaelcon I've had a look at their programme and it includes dates for upcoming general games cons as follows:
Vaticon IX - UCD Student's Centre,
Dublin, Nov 22nd-24th 2002
Warpcon XIII - UCC, Cork, Jan 24th-26th
2003
Leprecon XXIV - Trinity College
Dublin, Feb 14th-16th ****NB Different to previous date****
Dominicon - NUI Maynooth, March 28-30th
These are all general games cons with RPG, boardgames and GW wargames. I believe that Warpcon may have some DBM this year. I updated our calendar to include these dates.
29 Oct: Gaelcon went off with it's usual big splash last weekend. I only dropped in for a day but everyone seemed to be enjoying themselves. There were lots of tables for wargaming in the centre of the hall rather than stuck in a corner as sometimes happens - well done to the organisers.
Don't forget that the DGG DBM Pairs competition is coming up on the 9th Nov in Dublin, army lists are due to the umpire, Eric Nolan, by Nov 1st.
12 Oct: TCD Gamers' Leprecon 2003 dates have been announced. It will be held on the 23rd-24th Febuary. Events haven't been announced yet but I'm sure there will be some GW games. There was a DBM comp last year but this is in some doubt for next year.
3 Oct: I have heard rumours that GW are once again planning a Dublin-based event/competition to be held in the Burlington Hotel next Spring. Contact their shop for more info. Let me know if you find out anything concrete.
1 Oct: The dates for Warpcon in 2003 have been finalised, it's on the 22th-26th of January. There is normally at least some GW wargaming there and last year I believe there was a DBA participation game. Our 2003 event calendar has been updated with this info. If you know about any 2003 events, let us know.
29 Sept: Cian sent me a link for Forgotten Legacy, a gaming society in Waterford who play WH40K amongst other things. I've added them to our directory, check out their site.
24 Sept: Tim Snoddy has announced "The Big Game IV" a Hordes of the Things (HOTT) extravaganza to be held on Saturday the 16th of November 2002 in the Senior Common Room at Queens University Belfast. This year's theme will be "Elves at War". Contact Tim for more information.
23 Sept: Jeremy Dowd sent a reminder that the UWS DBM Comp 2002 entitled "Some Trust in Chariots" is on the 28th Sept in Belfast. Contact Jeremy for more details.
13 Sept: The Ireland team in our first appearance at the
Granson International Team
Challenge event on the 7-8th of Sept. in Switzerland did us proud by
winning 3 of their 4 matches and ending on the top table in the final round
with an outside chance of winning outright. It wasn't meant to be however
and the worthy winners Italy wiped the floor with us. Still,an excellent
showing at our first major international outing. The scores were:
Ireland vs Spain 7-4
Ireland vs UK2 7-4
Ireland vs France2 6-4
Ireland vs Italy1 0-12
Well done again to our team of: David Houstan (capt), Tony Walsh, Alex Moran
and Richard Aynsley. Our final position in the group of 16 competing national
teams was approximately 9th but this does not reflect our overall performance
at the weekend. We also won the singing contest in the
pub on Sat night :-)
24 Aug: Tony Matassa has announced that Ulster Militare II on Oct 12th has changed location to the Maysfield Leisure Centre which is just beside Belfast Central Station. Contact Tony for more details.
Eric Nolan (the umpire) has announced the details for this years DGG Pairs DBM comp in Dublin on Nov 9th. This is a real fun comp with a relaxed atmosphere and a strong historical feeling as all compeditors play in teams of two with a historical pair of armies. If you've been thinking of giving DBM a try this is a good chance. Contact Eric about a loan of an army for the day.
21 Aug:
On Aug 16th a Friendly International
DBM match was held between Ireland and New Zealand
teams during the practice day for Britcon (the UK
Nationals). The result was very close but unfortunately
things didn't go our way (this time!). The final scores
were as follows:
Richard Aynsley vs Jer Morgan 0-10
Rick McCammon vs Angus Osbourne 5-5
David Houstan vs Dave Madigan 9-1
Rob Brennan vs Paul O'Hagan 5-5
Total Scores: Ireland 19 NZ 21
10 Aug: Last weekend the DGG hosted the Strongbow's Shield DBM200 competition, to see the results and some pictures of the day, look at the comp report on the DGG DBM page.
The Irish DBM Ratings have also been updated to include the results of this comp.
7 Aug: The RINIWA
founding AGM passed off without a hitch at
Strongbow's Shield in Dublin on the 3rd of August. The first
committee was elected:
President: Tim Snoddy
(Northern Ireland)
Vice-President: Richard
Aynsley (Republic of Ireland)
Treasurer: David
Taylor (Northern Ireland)
Secretary: Rob Brennan
(Republic of Ireland)
If you have any ideas or questions that you'd like to
share with the committee, just mail them!
I also heard that the planned GW Irish Grand Tournament for WH40K has been cancelled - if you know more, please tell me.
30 July: Jeremy Dowd of the Ulster Wargames Society has released details of this year's UWS DBM competition entitled "Some Trust in Chariots...". The comp will be held on the 28th of September in St John's Church Hall, Castlereagh Rd, Belfast. See the Irish DBM Ratings Competition Page for more details or contact Jeremy.
27 July: The Dublin Games Guild is running the Strongbow's Shield DBM competition next weekend (3rd Aug). The deadline for army lists has passed but we could still squeeze a couple of late entries in - contact the umpire if you're interested. At this comp there will also be the founding AGM for RINIWA.
I've also added a skeleton calendar for 2003 to our Irish event calendar page.
13 July: Added Vaticon IX in November to our calendar of events. This is a general games con put on by the UCD Games Soc but it has wargames on the programme (probably GW stuff).
I also heard that the Games Workshop Irish Grand Tournament for WH40K is planned for the end of August. Contact Didier in the Blanchardstown shop for more info. If anyone knows an exact date and any other details on this event, could they please let me know.
7 July: For anyone who'd like to re-live the Cuchulainn Trophy, there is now a competition report on the DGG website.
2 July: Well Q-Con is over, thanks to all the organisers for a great weekend. The Irish DBM Ratings have been updated to take into account the results of the DBM comp held there and the May-June round of the Belfast KO competition. Also at Q-Con was Replay, a well-stocked games shop from Bangor. I've added an entry for them to our Irish Wargames Directory.
I also received a note from Dermot Connolly of the Foyle Kriegspielers to say that the address of their website has changed to: http://foylekriegspielers.n2v.net and also the site for Campaign Colours has changed to: http://campaigncolours.n2v.net . Update your links, we have!
Finally I have added a "News Archive" button to this page where you can find old news items.
17 June: Yet another wargaming event, Astronomicon, has been added to our calendar. This is described as a "wargaming convention" and includes a WH40K 1,500pt tournament. It is on in Cork, July 6th-7th. I assume that you can find more information or a contact on the WARPS (UCC Games Soc) website.
9 June: The full announcement for the Cuchulain Trophy DBM competition at Q-Con has been made. This is a 4-game, 400AP, open list event using the French BB310 scoring system. Lists are due to David Taylor by Friday, June 21st. Q-Con is on 28th-30th of June. The comp will have 2 rounds on Sat and 2 on Sun. You can opt-out of up to 2 rounds to participate in other Q-Con events during the weekend. See you there!
1 June: Check out the new website for the proposed Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland Wargames Association (RINIWA). On that site you will find details about the founding AGM of the Association (Dublin, Aug 3rd) and a request for logo ideas for the Association.
Also heard about two general gaming Cons coming up with some wargames (probably GW stuff): UberCon (Cork) and Icon (Waterford).
25 May: I got a note from another new painting service in NI, this time it's from Paul Murphy who's based in Belfast. Phone 02890 659866. I have not seen any examples but he claims a "high standard of painting at good rates". I've added him to our Wargames Directory for Ireland.
20 May: Dermot Connolly has written to tell me that there is a new painting service called Campaign Colours based in Northern Ireland. Check out their website!
10 May: The full details for the Strongbow's Shield DBM competition hosted by DGG on August 3th have been announced. Check the link for more info.
The Irish DBM ratings have been updated to include the results of the first round of the Belfast KO comp and the Munster Open.
7 May: A fantastic time was had by all at the 1st Annual Munster Open DBM competition on the 4th. As you can see from the picture above, the weather was so good some people even played outside (and got sunburnt!). The winner was Eric Nolan with Alex Moran hot on his heels as the runner-up. If you'd like to see a full competition report, check out the DGG DBM page.
Also David Taylor recently sent a message to the iwargames mailing list confirming that the Q-Con DBM competition (the Cuchulainn Trophy 2002) is on despite not appearing on the Q-Con website. See you all there!
1 May: The Conclave DBA comp went off well at the weekend - even if we were a bit disorganised. It was nice to see many new faces there playing historical games. Hopefully some of you will be able to participate in the other wargames events during the year. Also a quick reminder that the Munster Open DBM comp is being held in Co. Cork this Saturday. The deadline for army list submission has passed but I'm sure that if you contact Richard ASAP he will do his best to fit you in!
17 April: The upcoming Conclave Eire games convention will include a DBA competition on Saturday the 27th of April. Contact Garry Jackson if you are interested in participating. Garry has a number of spare armies so if you'd like to give DBA a go then this is the perfect opportunity. There will also be Warhammer and Battletech events at the con.
10 April: Dermot Connolly has informed me that the Foyle Kriegspielers' webpage has moved to: www.foylekriegspielers.n2v.net
28 March: The team to represent Ireland at the
DBM International Team Challenge in Switzerland has
been announced. It is as follows:
David Houstan (captain) - 3000BC to to 501BC period
Tony Walsh - 500BC to 475AD period
Alex Moran - 476AD to 1070AD period
Richard Aynsley - 1071AD to 1500AD period
Simon Richardson of the Bad Company Wargames Society wrote to remind me that they will have a demo at the North Down Model Railway Society's annual model show in the Bangor leisure centre on the 13th/14th of April. Bad Company have also been invited by GW to run a WH40K game at Games Day in the Birmingham NIA at the end of September.
24 March: Richard Aynsley has announced that he will be running the first annual Munster Open DBM competition in Cork on the bank holiday weekend of May 4th-6th. Contact Richard for more info. Richard McClean of the North Down Warlords has also added details of an ongoing Ancients campaign to the NDW home page.
19 March: The Foyle Kriegspielers have re-vamped their homepage.
17 March: Happy St. Patrick's Day! Just back from a successful Ulster Militare - hi to everyone we met there, it was nice to put faces to those email addresses! DGG put on a DBM demo game with Selecuids vs Graeco-Bactrians. There was some bad news on the day as QUB DragonSlayers have had to cancel their planned LotR DBM200 competition in April - hopefully they will manage to re-schedule it for later in the year.
10 March: Richard McClean sent a note to the iwargames mailing list announcing new articles on the North Down Warlords website. Check it out. He also said that NDW will be putting on two 25mm participation games (WW2 and Napoleonic) at Ulster Militare on the 16th of March.
6 March: A draft constitution for an Association to represent internationally competition wargamers in both the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland has been added to the feedback section of the Irish DBM Ratings site. This is in support of ongoing discussions on the iworg mailing list.
27 Feb: Remember that Ulster Militaire will be on at the Dundonald Ice Bowl, Kings Road, Belfast on the 16th of March. Contact Antonio Matassa for more details.
26 Feb: The Leprecon DBM competition went well, read the report on the DGG DBM page. The Irish DBM Ratings have also been updated to include the results of the comp.
21 Feb: The date (3rd August) for Dublin Games Guild's DBM competition, Strongbow's Shield has been announced. See their site for details.
16 Feb: Luke Ueda-Sarson has updated and moved his LotR army lists for DBM, they are now at this location. I would recommend these lists for any fans of the books as they are extensively researched and capture the feel of Middle-Earth. In Dublin we had a small DBM comp based on these lists at xmas, see the comp report on the DGG website.
14 Feb: A few small changes to the look of the site, mainly to speed download time.
10 Feb: Site re-vamped and a basic calender of wargames events has been added. Please send us events for inclusion.
6 Jan: Site activated.
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