Brian Boru Trophy

About the Brian Boru Trophy

An annual ancients wargames competition held in Dublin and hosted by RINIWA

Brian Boru Trophy 2008 Report

Introduction: 

On the 19th of October 2008 RINIWA organised our second 3-round, 200AP 1-day DBMM tournament. This page contains some images of the day and the final results of the competition. Mick Hessian umpired, list-checked and painted the door prize - well done Mick!

Although everyone is still learning the rules, there weren't many umpire calls on the day but there were a number of high profile upsets on the tabletop showing that the change of rules (from DBM to DBMM) has certainly opened up the podium.

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

Jan van Embden at the Brian Brou Trophy

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)

A Tang Tale at the Brian Boru Trophy 08

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

Brian Boru Trophy 08 Results

in Dublin this weekend we had our second 3-round, 200AP 1-day DBMM
tournament. The results were as follows:

#Position 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
7 Murphy Richard 42 Early Byzantine 3 4 UWS

DBMM Bk2 for Brian Boru

A draft of DBMM Bk2 Army lists have been published on the Brian Boru Trophy competition page.

Brian Boru Trophy 2008

19/10/2008 - 10:15
19/10/2008 - 18:00
Etc/GMT+1
Map of the Teachers Club

Location: The Teachers Club, 36 Parnell Square, Dublin
List deadline: 5th Oct
List checker: mickhession@yahoo.co.uk
Format: 200AP DBMM with all lists allowed (DBM Bk1, Draft DBMM Bk2 -see below, DBMM Bk3, DBM Bk4), 3 games, starting at 10.15am
Cost: 15 euro for RINIWA or overseas players (otherwise 17 euro)

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