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
This mailing list is very low volume (less than 1 message a week) and is essential for keeping up with DBMM and other wargaming events in Ireland. If you are at all interested in hearing about upcoming wargaming events in Ireland it is strongly recommended that you join this list.
* Irish DBMM Discussion Mailing List
This mailing list is fairly low volume (a few messages a week) but it can occasionally get busy and is just for chatting about DBMM and wargaming events in Ireland. It is very informal and mainly about slagging off Willie Coughlan.
* RINIWA - The Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland Wargames Association
This players association acts as a representative body for wargaming in Ireland.
* The DBMM Ratings Page
Glicko ratings for DBMM players worldwide. All RINIWA sanctioned DBMM competitions in Ireland are included in this ratings. Use this to find out how you stand compared to the other DBMM players in Ireland.
* The Celtic Championship
This is a great competition which changes venue from year to year. The inaugural 2003 event was hosted in Dublin and was very successful. Since then there have been events in Scotland, Belfast and Cork. In 2009 it will be a split event with competitions for both the DBMM and FOG rules.

Retailers in Ireland
* Robert Horne Ireland. Telephone (01) 450 8900.
Magnetic basing material is best bought in bulk from suppliers of magnetic material for display signs. In Ireland, you can order it (by the metre!) from the above company. Ask for "Gloss white faced magnetic PVC, 2800gsm". This can then be cut up and super-glued onto bases. It should cost approximately �15-�25 per metre. A metre will do 2-3 DBM armies. Unlike the typical magnetic material supplied by hobby shops this stuff is off a roll just under a metre wide. When you buy a metre you are essentially buying a square metre, and not the 20mm wide strips you see in hobby stores.

* Woodies, Homebase, B&Q, your local hardware store etc
You should be able to find one of these easily enough. If you need to buy sand, glue, 2mm MDF or most of the other things you need to make your terrain and bases look good these shops have a wide range of useful bits and pieces and generally far, far cheaper than the identical stuff in a hobby shop.

* Models Inc, 65 Dorset Street, Dublin 1.
This is probably the only place in the country that you can buy the DBMM rules and Army Lists in a shop. In addition they have a wide range of wargaming/modeling supplies and this is the location of the DGG wargaming club that has a bunch of regular DBMM players.

* Marks Models, 14, Hawkins Street, Dublin 2, (01) 6715809
The Model Shop, 13 Capel Street, Dublin 1, (01) 8728134
Of course the hobby shops carry very handy items that the hardware shops don't. Like 14 different kinds of grit, two inch tall oak trees and tiny tables and chairs. The two shops above are just the most useful sources in my opinion. To find more check the golden pages under Hobby - Supply Shops. You can also look in the Irish Wargaming Directory which has an extensive list of Irish game and hobby shops as well as listings of other game clubs and organisations.

Play guides, rules debate and other information

* The Quasi-Official DBMM Home Page
Mentioned in the rulesbook but independently maintained, this site is the main portal for DBMM on the web. It includes news, very active forums where beginners can get good help, the DBMM Commentary (clarifications for competition play) and various play-aids and articles.
* The DBMM Player's Handbook
A wiki mainly consisting of information culled from the yahoo DBMM mailing list. It includes example army lists, battle reports, humor, recommended reading lists, etc.
* The DBMM mailing list
This is a high volume mailing list! It concentrates on DBMM but some other rules also get discussed. Unfortunately the transition between DBM (the old rules) and DBMM hasn't been without debate and so there is still a lot of heated discussion on various rules systems. It is a good place to ask for rules clarifications, although you might get a bunch of different answers. If you don't wish to receives 100s of emails a week you can sign up as a web subscriber which means you get no email but can read the enormous archive of posts on the web site. If you want to find opinions on obscure rules or armies chances are someone has already asked this and the answers are in the dbmm list archive.
* Phil Barker's Homepage
The rules author's homepage.
* The DBA Resource Page
This is a fantastic page which is updated frequently and although it is focused on DBA (DBMMs little brother) it has lots of stuff relevant for DBMM. See the Links/Gamers section for loads of DBM/DBMM sites. The Bazaar section has a huge list of miniature manufacturers with links to their pages and reviews of figures.
* The Society of Ancients (SOA)
This is the homepage of the SOA who publish Slingshot, a great bi-monthly magazine which contains articles on military history, DBMM and other ancient wargame rules (join now!). Their web page is free to all and includes a large links section and scans of many historical miniatures.
* The British Historical Games Society
Listings of major DBM competitions in UK, UK rankings etc.

Handy downloads located here or nearby

Most of these handy things have been found somewhere on the web. Apologies to anyone not credited or incorrectly credited. (mail me and I will make any corrections).

* The Official DBMM Quick Reference Sheet (PDF) from dbmm.org.uk
This double-sided A4 sheet contains the PIP costs, movement rates, combat factors, combat results table etc. It is the same as the one included in the main rulesbook.
* DBMM Army List generator v1.04 by Marcel Bois (XL spreadsheet) from dbmm.org.uk
Calculates army break points etc.
* DBMM Expansion Chart (PDF file, attached to this article below)
This sheet shows all the allowed element moves when expanding from column in DBMM. It also includes the measurement moved in mm. Note there one or two cases where the small amount of extra movement allowed under the imperial (inches etc) system will allow extra expansions. Created by Rob Brennan. This is based on the expansion chart produced by the Nunawading Wargames Association for DBM. Although less pretty, my one fits on an A4 page and is approx 1/3rd the file size to download (I did have to leave out LH(F) expansion though).
* DBMM Measure Stick (PDF file, attached to this article below)
When printed this file produces 6 DBM metric measuring sticks on one A4 page. Each stick is 40mm wide (good for checking gaps or pin distance/zone of control) and also includes the move distances of all troop types (good for learners or the forgetful). I mounted mine on 2mm MDF with white wood glue and they seem to be holding up well. Created by Rob Brennan.
* WEST - A Wargamers Easy Swiss Chess Tool
Swiss Chess is the system used to work out pairings in most DBMM competitions. WEST is a computer program written in Java (so it runs on both windows and linux) to perform the necessary calculations. This page also includes information on the Swiss Chess system and a link to the 1992 FIDE Swiss Chess rules.