DBA - A case for less is more?

[Bishop Lord]

I will give those a look

Jason.

[sunjester]

I've always preferred HOTT to DBA, even for historical armies. With DBA it always felt that just as the game was starting to get interesting, someone had won!

[Leman]

Not half useful when you're pushed for time and there's that awkward bugger, work, tomorrow.

[Steve J]

Picked up the 're-released' 2.2 rulebook at the table top sale yesterday. Very nicely produced though out, although I thought the paper a little on the thin side, but nothing to worry about. Well worth the money IMHO. The only downside is the sheer number of armies that are available and that I would love to game .

Note to self, must finish Dux Bellorum armies first!

[SV52]

Picked up the 're-released' 2.2 rulebook at the table top sale yesterday. Very nicely produced though out, although I thought the paper a little on the thin side, but nothing to worry about. Well worth the money IMHO. The only downside is the sheer number of armies that are available and that I would love to game .

Note to self, must finish Dux Bellorum armies first!

Yup, that's a significant problem and a rock I more or less perished on   I Built up too many armies without historical match-ups.  Best plan is to collect the armies in pairs of opposing contemporary factions..

[Luddite]

But with each army being 12 elements, its easy to collect many of them!!!!   

[Steve J]

Best plan is to collect the armies in pairs of opposing contemporary factions..

That's definitely my plan . The idea of say an Assyrian army fighting a Polish one of around 1450 somehow doesn't do it for me...

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

In v1, the army lists used to have historical opponents listed, are they still there? 
77a - Later Imperial Roman West vs 77b Later Imperial Roman East was always a good scrap! 

[SV52]

In v1, the army lists used to have historical opponents listed, are they still there? 
77a - Later Imperial Roman West vs 77b Later Imperial Roman East was always a good scrap! 

Certainly in 2.2 as lists of E (enemies) and A (allies) against each entry in the army lists.  Don't know what rev 3 will have, likely the same though.

[Steve J]

Yep, still has Enemies and Allies listed which is cool, especially for Big DBA battles, which look great for multi-player action.

[Fenton]

I looked at the new rules, and struggled through the text and remembered why I gave them up in the first place..To paraphrase the film Amadeus "Too many words"

[Steve J]

That's where the WADBAG guide to DBA 2.2 is a God send, as you don't have to struggle with Barkerese .

[Fenton]

Now thats handy

[Steve J]

Very handy indeed.

http://www.wadbag.com/DBAGuide/TheUnofficialGuideToDBA_single.pdf

[FierceKitty]

Barkerese will be a boon to linguistics Ph.D. students some day. In the original Klingon.