IWorg.Com The Irish Wargaming Homepage

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

DBMM is well established at DGG and you will find a few games being played each and every meeting (generally we are in the basement playing area of Models Inc). It is not generally necessary to pre-book the tables with Martin, the Models Inc shop owner. However to be sure of getting a game it pays to set up an opponent the week beforehand. To make this easier there is now an online booking system for DBMM games on our web page here.

What is DBMM?

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.

Following Rob's Brian Boru Report, here's another account charting my
progress at what was a very enjoyable event. Having previously
fielded a massive but low quality Zanj army in competition, on this
occasion I decided to go to the opposite extreme by fielding a tiny
but high quality Early Tang Chinese army as follows:

Command 1 (12 ME)
Reg Cv (S) Sub-general
3 x Reg Cv (S)
1 x Reg LH (F)

Command 2 (14.5 ME)
Reg Cv (S) SC-in-C
4 x DBEs of Reg Bw (X/O)
2 x Reg Bw (O)
1 x Reg Ps (O)
2 x Irr LH (S)
1 x Irr Bg (I)

Command 3 (12 ME)
Reg Cv (S) Sub-general
3 x Reg Cv (S)

this was a 200AP, 3 round comp in Dublin.
My list was:
C1: 1xRCvS CnC, 7xIAxS, 1xIPsO, 2xRPsO, 2xRBwO, 1xIBgI - 16.5ME
C2: 1xRCvS SG, 5xRBdF, 4xRPsO, 2xRBwO, 1xIBgI - 15.5ME
C3: 1xRCvS SG, 1xRCvO, 8xRPkF, 1xIBgI - 15ME
Feigned Flight stratagem

Not a great army but it is what I'm painting at the moment so I was
determined to use it. Armies like this with many minima/troop types
tend to be scrappy at 200AP as you have a mix n match of troops
hence I maximised the foot to make the army more homogeneous.
The Irr foot version of this army is probably better but I haven't had