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Well I hope that Santa was good to all of you and that 2009 will be another year of good wargaming for all of us!

Coming up soon is the Munster Open DBMM competition in Cork (http://www.corkgaming.com/munster09.htm) ...see you there.

Donal has calculated the final standings as follows:

ULSTER (DBM v3.1)
Position Name Score
1. David Houston 47
2. Brian Bull 34
3. David Taylor 32
4. Daniel Taylor 27
5. Tom Sheeran 24
=5. John Lavery 24
7. David Brown 20
8. Paul 12
9. Richard Murphy 10

LEINSTER (DBMM v1.0)
Position Name Score
1. Jan van Embden 101
2. Michael Hession 84
3. Donal Coghlan 74
4. Brian Ronayne 69
5. Rob Brennan 65
6. Tony Farrell 55
7. Philip Waldron 54
8. Rory Meehan 51
9. Thomas Årnfelt 40

On 24th to the 25th January 2009, the Munster Wargames Group will be holding a 400 AP DBMM competition in Cork.

The competition is held as part of the University College Cork, Warpcon convention and more details can be found on www.warpcon.com on the convention in general. This includes some suggestions regarding travel and accomodation. However if anyone wants other advice please feel free to contact us.

Hi all,

the December round of the DGG winter league is as follows:

#Player Number, Last Name, First Name(current score), Last Game Score, Rating, Army List Date, Army List, Club, Country
#--- Game 1, Table 101 -------------
11, Farrell, Tony( 25), NoScoreYet , 1, 1450, French Odonnance, DGG, IRL
8, Coghlan, Donal( 23), NoScoreYet , 4, 744, Thematic Byzantine (Anatolia), DGG, IRL
#--- Game 2, Table 102 -------------
4, Arnfelt, Thomas( 22), NoScoreYet , 8, -300, Samnite, DGG, IRL
7, Waldron, Phil( 22), NoScoreYet , 5, 980, Chola, DGG, IRL
#--- Game 3, Table 103 -------------

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.