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Barritus

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Wintercon 2012 - Canberra - 9-10 June
« on: April 06, 2012, 02:46:19 PM »
From Herodotus to Horace

Sponsored by Olympian Games

The DBMM competition will be a 15mm event with the theme From Herodotus to Horace – armies and enemies of Greece and Rome, 499BC to 1BC. A list of permitted armies is available below.

Organiser: Peter Barrett (peter DOT barritus AT yahoo DOT com DOT au).

Umpire: Jon Willacy.

Competition details:

•   Rules – DBMM v 2 with latest version of the Commentary available here.
•   Armies to be selected from the list of permitted armies, with a date from 499BC to 1BC (some armies have an earlier cut-off date).
•   Army size 375AP, including stratagems.
•   4 rounds of between 3h 30m and 3h 45m, starting at 9.00am and 1.30pm on Saturday and Sunday.
•   Unfinished games will end with dribble stop (immediately stop all movement, then resolve all combat).
•   Please bring your own terrain (and tablecloth if you have one). Dice will be supplied.
•   Please submit your list to SAAW_list_checker AT yahoo DOT com DOT au by Friday 1 June 2012. Lists submitted after this date will be available for checking by your fellow players.
•   The draw in the first round will be by army date, with every attempt to prevent interstate players from playing someone else from their state. After that, the draw will use the Swiss Chess system.
•   Count-back resolution will be (1) result between players, if they played (higher scorer wins), (2) sum of opponents’ scores (higher total wins).

Barritus

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Re: Wintercon 2012 - Canberra - 9-10 June
« Reply #1 on: April 06, 2012, 02:48:26 PM »
Permitted lists for Wintercon 2012

Army date must be between 499BC and 1BC.

Greco-Romans

1/35 Cypriot and Phoenician: only Cypriots
1/52 Early Hoplite Greek
1/54 Early Macedonian
1/56 Kyrenean Greeks
1/59 Tullian Roman
2/5 Later Hoplite Greek
2/9 Syracusan
2/10 Camillan Roman
2/12 Alexandrian Macedonian
2/15 Alexandrian Imperial
2/16 Asiatic Early Successor
2/17 Lysimachid
2/18 Macedonian Early Successor
2/19 Seleucid
2/20 Ptolemaic
2/27 Pyrrhic
2/31 Hellenistic Greek
2/33 Polybian Roman
2/34 Attalid Pergamene
2/35 Later Macedonian
2/36 Greco-Bactrian and Greco-Indian
2/49 Marian Roman
2/56 Early Imperial Roman

Barbarians

1/7 Early Libyan
1/36 Italian Hill Tribes
1/43 Kimmerian, Skythian and Early Hu: only Skythians (both Europe and Asia)
1/47 Illyrian
1/48 Thracian
1/53 Saitic Egyptian
1/55 Latin, Early Roman, Early Etruscan and Umbrian Italian: not Romans
1/57 Etruscan League
1/58 Meroitic Kushite
1/60 Early Achaemenid Persian
1/61 Early Carthaginian
1/62 Lykian
1/63 Paionian
2/1 Republican Indian
2/2 Mountain Indian
2/3 Classical Indian: up to 55BC
2/6 Bithynian
2/7 Later Achaemenid Persian
2/8 Campanian, Apulian, Lucanian or Bruttian
2/11 Gallic
2/13 Samnite
2/14 Ariarathid Kappadokian
2/22 Arabo-Aramaean: not Characene
2/23 Later Pre-Islamic Arab: not Yemen or Oman
2/24 Early Rhoxolani
2/25 Bosporan
2/26 Siracae, Iazyges, Later Rhoxolani Sarmatians
2/28 Early Armenia and Gordyene
2/30 Galatian
2/32 Later Carthaginian
2/37 Parthian
2/39 Ancient Spanish
2/40 Numidian or Early Moorish
2/43 Maccabean Jewish
2/44 Commagene
2/45 Sicilian and Italian Slave Revolts
2/46 Kushan: up to 55BC
2/47 Early German
2/48 Mithridatic
2/50 Hasmonean Jewish
2/51 Later Judaean
2/52 Dacian
2/53 Ancient British
2/55 Nobades and Blemmye or Beja

Barritus

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Re: Wintercon 2012 - Canberra - 9-10 June
« Reply #2 on: April 08, 2012, 02:52:19 PM »
Just in case anyone's wondering, the Classical Indian and Kushan lists are stopped with effect from 55BC because that's when the Greco-Indian list ends, which removes the last Greco-Roman enemy for the Indians and Kushans. It has no practical effect on the Indians as there are no options which start or end between 55BC and 1BC. But it does remove a range of troops from the Kushans, including their Irr Bd (I) swordsmen and their Indian troops.

Quite a few of the list selections were a bit on the subjective side - for example how 'Greek' were the Greco-Indians? And should Sertorius's Romano-Spanish or the Pompeian Numidian armies be in the Greco-Roman category? In particular, I dithered for a long time before putting the Latins of the Latin, Early Roman, Early Etruscan and Umbrian Italian list in the Barbarian category. Even though the army is almost identical to the Camillan Roman army, it had a separate military existence and tradition from the Roman army of the time. What swayed me was that I didn't think twice about leaving Campanians in the Barbarian category, even after they were assimilated by the Romans, so figured I should apply the same rule to the Latins.

The thing is, though, that both categories provide plenty of variety (the Barbarians obviously more so), while still containing a lot of armies which will be familiar to people who only know a little about ancient warfare. These are armies led by generals that everyone's heard of: Alexander the Great, Hannibal, Julius Caesar. Hopefully a few players will rise to the occasion and field armies led by those particular personalities...