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25mm DBM Medieval/Ancient Doubles

25mm DBM Medieval/Ancient Doubles

In 2006 BattleCry and http://awc.wargaming.info/">The Auckland Wargaming Club proudly presented 25mm DBM Medieval/Ancient Doubles, sponsored by http://www.urbanwarfare.co.nz/">Urban Warfare.

The 25mm DBM Doubles was run over the course of the weekend, using DBM 3.1 edition. The competition format was Swiss Chess.

For space reasons, entries were restricted to 10 teams of 2 players. Pre-registrations filled this tournament way before the weekend of BattleCry.

Results

Results saw the Te Atatu Mafia of Glen Tibbles and Nick Buckby at last managing to get their hands on the coveted 'Heavy Metal' trophy, closely followed by the ever consistent pairing of Ivan Truong and Richard Foster. Third place went to North Shore's Andrew Hunter and Philip Abela. At the other end of the results, last years winning team of Andrew Bennetts and Wayne 'Roundie' Steward managed, in a spectacular reversal of form, to find themselves propping up the bottom of the table - no mean feat given the weight of all the lead above them!

  • 35 Nick Buckby and Glen Tibbles - Alexandrian Macedonian
  • 29 Ivan Truong and Richard Foster - Anglo Norman
  • 28 Philip Abela and Andrew Hunter - Early Crusader
  • 20 John Calnan and Lance Knighton - Late Imperial Roman
  • 20 Brett Preston-Thomas and Nick Armiger - Later Hungarian
  • 19 Craig Love and Paul Cunningham - Patrician Roman
  • 13 John Moher and Ben Hill - Middle Imperial Roman
  • 13 Stu Todd & Ian Candy - Later Swiss
  • 12 Wayne and Brett Watts - Medieval Germans
  • 11 Andrew Bennetts & Wayne Steward - Later Carthaginians

    • Here is a http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/drrugg/detail?.dir=4776&.dnm=6cbascd.jpg&....">photo of the winning team, the runner-up team and Andrew, the super organiser of the 25mm tournament.

    Rules for Tournament

    Army lists must be submitted allocating all elements including baggage to a command. They must specify the number of element equivalents and demorilisation levels for each command and for the whole army. If more than one ally is used the list must also specify which general is guaranteed reliable, The total army size must not exceed 500 AP and the list must indicate the climate, aggression factor, year, geographical regions, general where relevant and all double based elements..

    Games will be played on tables of either 8 feet by 5 feet (preferred) or 8 feet by 6 feet subject to availability at the venue. Players must supply their own terrain.

    Games will be of 4 hours duration. After this time, games will cease at the end of their current bound, regardless of whether this is an Attack or Defender bound.

    Umpiring will be by player peers.