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DBA Ancients Campaign Rules for the Mediterranean at ‘Rise of Rome’

BACKGROUND

These campaign rules can be adapted to any period or location. Clearly where large bodies of water are not present then the idea of Ships and Trade may be altered and changed (e.g. caravans replace ships for the purposes of Trade).

The Campaign is based around the Mediterranean at the time of the Rise of Rome – where Carthage and the Successors fight for domination with the Romans.

via THE WARGAMING SITE: DBA Campaign Rules.

We had a 'dry run' of the DBA Ancients campaign last night. It didn't start well as the memory stick I had the rules on 'died' so I had to do it all from memory. But we got some great battles in including Ian taking Mauretania against overwhelming odds and Russ and Mark suffering defeats. Russ was called for hiding his general all the way through his battle. Mark's taunting finally got Russ to commit his leader - and promptly killed him to win!

To keep everyone interested the idea is that if a player invades a territory, the other players take the opposing army. After all, they have the incentive to win!

Each player is provided with 100 Gold and Food at the start, together with notebooks to keep track of their armies and territories (as what the costs of each are so they can manage their resources ...

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POLE POSITION by Mattias Larsson

The honeymoon had been brief for Major General John Hodge’s Twenty-fourth Corps—hardly more than a weekend.

 

The day after Love Day, the Twenty-fourth’s spearheads raced across the island, Seventh Division on the left, Ninety-sixth on the right, turning to their right (or south) the next day for the anticipated rapid down-island advance. Their progress seemed as bloodless as the Marine drive in the north.

 

But on April 4 1945 they found resistance “stiffening.”

 

It grew stiffer daily until, on April 8, “greatly increased resistance” was reported. They had come into the outerworks of Ushijima’s Naha-Shuri-Yonabaru Line, and probably its most formidable position: Kakazu Ridge.

At first glance, Kakazu (pronounced “Cock-a-zoo”) did not seem especially difficult: neither unusually high nor uncommonly steep. Three-quarters of a mile south the Urasoe-Mura Escarpment seemed a much more difficult natural barrier. That was what Colonel Eddy ...

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18 June 1815

Forces Engaged

Anglo-Dutch: 50,000 infantry, 12,500 cavalry, and 156 guns. Commander: Field Marshal Arthur Wellesley, the duke of Wellington.

Prussian: 61,000 men. Commander: Field Marshal Prince Gebhard von Blücher.

French: 49,000 infantry, 15,570 cavalry, and 246 guns. Commander: Napoleon Bonaparte.

During Ney’s cavalry assaults on the British squares, across to the east, the Prussians were advancing in force, and by 5.30 p.m. von Bülow’s front two brigades (the 15th and 16th) were heavily engaged in trying to capture the château of Frischermont from General Lobau, whom Napoleon had ordered to hold up the Prussians for as long as possible while he tried to break Wellington’s line. Von Gneisenau adopted a manoeuvre for arriving on the battlefield that passed the rear corps to the east through the others, which rested by the roadside. This meant that although the ...

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La Bataille de Raszyn Explores Major Battle of Polish-Austrian War of 1809

Marshal Enterprises has now released its second free game in less than 90 days. La Bataille de Raszyn, which pits the Poles of the Grand Duchy of Warsaw against the Austrians on April 19, 1809, in a tight, tense battle for the survival of the Polish nation in Napoleonic Europe, is the second release in Marshal Enterprise’s Recession Series Games---a series which is free to the wargaming public because “everyone needs to save a buck”.

Released on Martin Luther King Day, January 16, 2012 as a follow-up to La Bataille d’Halle, released on Veterans Day in 2011, La Bataille de Raszyn can be accessed and downloaded by anyone by going to the Marshal Enterprises webpage, Labataille.me.

The webpage has easy to access instructions for all the color counters, color maps and charts and rules for ...

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Hexon Terrain Features can be found in Hexon Scenics

 

Available in Black(original), Light Brown and ready Flocked in;
Green (Noch 50210), Green/Earth, Two Tone Green/Earth,
Desert flocked, Desert Transition
and now Blue

  



Each box contains:
21 Hexon II boards (including clips).
Cover an area of 3ft x 4ft, (90cm x 120cm) approx.

(WWII Beach Landing layout above uses 2 Boxes of Hexon, 6ft x 4ft approx)

Hexon II provides a modular, versatile and cost effective terrain system. The boards are precision moulded in High Impact Polystyrene, making them strong, tough and durable, at the same time light-weight. They are stackable, leaving enough space between for surface details, flocking and low level terrain features. Each tile interlocks with the next. Clips are provided, to enable tiles to be locked securely together (from the underside) into the desired terrain configuration. Hexon II Terrain System is quick and easy to ...

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Curtis Szmania checks out a mod that covers a rare aspect of the Victorian Age: The Anglo-Zulu War and Mahdist War.

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The British Air Force fails at holding back the Luftwaffe and the Germans launch the next step in their plan to conquer Britain: Operation Sealion. Can the initial landing zones be repulsed?

Sealion - Mission 1

Late September 1940.  British Fighter Command, battered by concerted waves of assaults, has been driven back from its front line airfields.  Sensing a collapse, the German High Command launches its greatest gamble - Operation Sealion. - the invasion of Britain.

 

It is dawn on the morning of the invasion.  Church bells ring out as the radar stations detect the waves of JU-52 transports and gliders approaching the south coast.  At this Fighter Command Airfield, glider borne troops have quickly overwhelmed the defenders.  They are looking to hold this area so that reinforcements can be flown in and the airhead expanded.

The airfield must be retaken before it can be reinforced.  Only a small number of regular ...

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Dominance - The American War

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