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What's New for Aug. 23-26

The current minipoll asks what the longest (from start to finish) it has taken you to paint, base and flock a DBA army.

First of a three part series featuring the armies of Peter Wort.  Part one has a Roman theme and includes both Polybian Romans and Early Imperial Romans, plus the Roman signal tower and this inspired "Golden Arches" camps.

Captured Neldoreth's Burning Tower camp, featuring pillaging Vikings introducing some Irish monks to the concept of a barbeque.

Bjorn Floderus has updated his Normans of Stockholm blogsite with galleries featuring his new Tlinglit (Northwestern Indians) and Greco-Bactrians.  Bjorn is also asking for Fanatici input on what army he should paint next.

Paul Farrow has a battle report up featuring a slug-fest between the Teutonic Knights and the Post-Mongol Russians.

For the calendar, Blake Radzetsky sends news that he'll be running two DBA and a HOTT tournament on Sept. 13 at ProtoCon 10 in College Park, Texas.

New titles from Osprey available in the De Bellis Bookstore include the Alexander the Great at War, Rome and her Enemies, Syracuse 415-413 BC (Campaign 195), Samurai Invasion of Korea (Campaign 198), Philippi 42 BC (Campaign 199), The Forts of Judaea 168 BC - AD 73 (Fortifications 65),  The Walls of Rome (Fortifications 71), Hittite Fortifications c1650-700 BC (Fortifications 73), Saracen Strongholds AD 630-1050 (Fortifications 76)

Previous Highlights

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Previous Highlights

Aug. 18-22: Mike Johnson's latest update features his new Medieval Germans, Leidang and Early Russians...and it you look closely in the background of the Early Russian shots, you will see Patrick Patterson's extraordinary Mighty Gates of Novgorod camp.

Andrew McLaren's latest features his Dark Age/Geometric Greeks.

Michael Lech's blogsite features his Middle Assyrians, which are up for sale on Ebay plus his recent DBA-doings.

Jeff Franz' latest gallery features his Lybians and a nice looking camp with a Lybian tent pitched next to a toppled statute of Nefertiti.

Stephane Fontaine's latest are Hussites, featuring Essex figures.

The jumbos are loosed in Jack Farrow's latest battle report pitting Seleucids and Ptolemaics.

If you are looking for some literary inspiration, check out In Parenthesis, a site with translations of tales from the Old Norse, the Arthurian Cycle, China and Japan, the Medieval Period (country-specific) and even Malayan.

Aug. 11-17:P  Andrew McLaren's lastest gallery featuring morphable Sea Peoples and Philistines done with HaT figures and some conversions.

Neldoreth has done some masterly brushwork on shields for his new Early Russian army.

Barry Scarlett's latest BUA/Camp masterpiece is this Motte and Bailey.

And as if you needed more inspiration, here at YouTube, the third in a series of DBA Camp inspiration videos featuring the work of various Fanatici contributors:

George Wyllie (aka Antigonos) has launched his "Only a Wargame" blogsite, which currently features his Polybian Romans.

Paul Potter asked after my Wends, so here is a new gallery.

Sergio Perez sends word from Spain:  "The El Ultimo Tercio Wargames Club will organize a open DBA tournament in Madrid (Spain) on 13th September. It is called the Tartessos Tournament, with six rounds. This year there has been a DBA championship running in Madrid involving many of the wargames clubs and this is the final. The participants are from all over the country, foreign participants will be well received. For the next day, Sunday 14th September, we'll prepare a open Super BBDBA Giant Battle for all, participants and visitants, everyone wants to play. It will be the battle of Cannas, and depending of the number of players, the table can measured 6 meters. For more information in Spanish you can visit our website,  or community or English-speakers can contact me."

Aug. 7-10:  Andrew McLaren does a doubletake on the Early and Later Hebrews, featuring 1/72 plastics.

I was staring at a deck of cards and wondering how I could use them in DBA, which prompted this "just for fun" variant rule - DBA Fate Cards.

Keith McNelly sends word of a DBA tourney being held at TagCon in Timaru, New Zealand on 23-24 August.

Around the blogsphere, Mike Johnson has a great Medieval German Camp featuring a Baeuda pavillion and a few ladies chatting up a guard.  Mike Porter has part 3 of his Historicon Update.  Tony Aguilar has a nice-looking new Early Armenian army made up with 15mm Old Glory figs. Jack Farrow has a gallery up featuring his Classical Indians.  Elsewhere, David Schlanger has posted results and highlights from the Historicon Tony Bath Big Battle Tourney.

Aug. 3-6:   Lots of DBA coming up on the calendar including the 8th Annual HMGS-GL Big Battle Tournament (16 Aug.), the Southern Battle Gamer's Historical Competition (17 Aug.), Advance the Colors (12-14 Sept.), De Bellis Vasingtonium (20 Sept.), Mother of all Battles (MOAB) (4-6 Oct.) and VikingCon in Copenhagen (11 Oct), plus planning is underway for Fall'In (7-9 Nov.). 

The eyecandy starts with the latest 1/72 armies from Andrew McLaren and Reinhard Sabel.  Andrew's is New Kingdom Egyptian featuring Atlantic figures.  Reinhard did his Picts with Redbox, Italeri, and Airfix.

Greg Kelleher and Mark Baker collaborated on this well-executed Medieval Village BUA.

Mike Demana's latest commission camp project was this nicely conceived General's Visit to the Elephant pens done for Rob Runnels.

Fillipo at DBA Italia sends news of two new DBA army galleries from the master Marco Boetti.  First up is Marco's Early Muslim N. Africa and Sicily followed by his Galatians, including this R-rated mini-masterpiece:

Stephane Fontaine's latest gallery features Sylvain Desharbes' Mongol Conquest.

More Historicon highlights from Tony Aguilar's great montage video and blog reports by DiceManRick and Mike Porter.  Inspired by Tony's use of Animoto, I created these short videos featuring DBA camps.   Blame the fuzziness on my original photos, not the service.  With Animoto, you can do a 30 second video for free and publish it directly to your Myspace or YouTube.   If you've got a digital camera, this is a great free tool for highlighting your events or showing off your latest project.

Martin Stephenson passed on the following exciting news:  "Vexillia are pleased to announced the release of the first packs in our brand new range of 15 mm miniatures covering the nations of medieval Eastern Europe in the 15th century. The range has been sculpted by Clibinarium to match both Mirliton and Essex Miniatures and marks a major commitment by Vexillia to this oft neglected, but fascinating, period.  The first releases (available Sept. 1) are period infantry suitable for many nations of Eastern Europe." 

At TMP, Khurasan offers a sneak peak of their Bosporan Greek Heavy Foot.  Also lots of new product news in 25/28mm featured recently at TMP, including Artizan's Ancient World personality figs, a Roman Testudo, Ballista and Scorpion from Warlord Games, the sale of Kingmaker Miniatures to Curtey's, new Mayans from Bears Dean Miniatures, a new Anglo-Saxon range from Foundry, plus a set of 28mm Beowulf and Companions miniatures from Eureka that I saw at Historicon and would make an outstanding addition to most period armies.

July 27-Aug. 2:  I'll start out the eyecandy with this shot of Paul Hannah's Middle-eastern (Ottoman Turk) Pavilion camp, with simulated campfire.

The balance of this update features these pictoral highlights and eyecandy shots of camps taken at Historicon 2008, with special thanks to Robert Hanks and Don Ray who traveled great distances with their prize camps to participate. 

As a pre-Feudal Scots fan, I was drooling over Robert Hanks take on Dunsinane Castle, featuring the hard-hearted Lady MacBeth as camp follower.  The "home camp" is accompanied by an "away camp" featuring sheep grazing atop a hill.  Robert added this Birnam Wood Barker Marker to complete the Shakespearean theme.

Don Ray brought his Spartacan Revolt army to compete in the Spartacus event, along with this dominating Spartacus on Vesuvius camp, which doubles as a BUA.

Don also displayed his excellent Tsimshian (NW Indian) plank house camp/BUA complete with totem poll and integral littoral waterway.

I don't usually endorse a product here at Fanaticus unless I really like it.  At Historicon, I saw these DBA-sized hills by War Torn Worlds. 

July 20-26: Speaking of Historicon, this may be the last update I can squeeze in this week before departing for Lancaster.  Fortunately, I have lots of goodies to hold you over, starting off with Paul Potter's Wends, along with a Wendish Idol Wagon camp and a Baltic Wilderness Barker-Marker.

Neldoreth has army notes featuring the Early Russians to accompany his latest gallery.

Andrew McLaren's third gallery features his Hyksos.

Simon Bargery returns after long absence with a new gallery featuring 25mm Nubians by Newline Designs.

Ed Zwilling and daughter put together this Stonehenge BUA to go with his forthcoming Arthurians and Saxons from Splintered Light.

I was able to blow up a copy of Steve Parillo's Viking Monastery Raid camp for the gallery.

Harris at HaT figures has a gallery up featuring their forthcoming El Cid Almoravid infantry painted up and based by Garner Beggs for DBA.

Around the blogsphere, Stéphane Fontaine has finished his Camillan Romans, Michael Lech has a number of featured projects, including an Ottoman Turkish camp that shows what happens to captured Wallachians, Mike Porter has started an Anglo-Norman project, Jeff Franz demonstrates various layered felt terrain pieces, and Paul Farrow pits Later Macedonians vs. Polybians in an illustrated battle report,

July 16-20:  Andrew McLaren's second gallery features his Old and Middle Kingdom Hittites.

Barry Scarlett's scratchbuilding eyecandy continues with this beaucolic Dark Ages/Medieval village BUA.

The Diceman Rich Baier invites visitors to check out Steve Parillo's scratch-built Viking camp on his blogsite.  I'd love to get some close-ups of this camp, which features Viking raiders sacking a monastery, for the Fanaticus gallery,

Peter Wort offers up an illustrated guide to painting Early Germans, plus links to pictures of an inspired Roman camp, Celtic henge and Hillfort BUA.

Contemplating Canute lead me to put together this set of notes for the Anglo-Danes.

I'll have a new army gallery from Simon Bargery in the next update...for now, just a note to let you know that Simon's "Confused General" figure in 25mm is still available, through Bolt Action Miniatures.

Baueda has released its long awaited (by me) Viking tent scenic;.here's hoping a good supply are available at Historicon.  Also, courtesy of Splintered Light, there will be new Khurasan miniatures and some DBA army packs available at Historicon as well.

July 11-15: Two quick items for this update.  First Nicholas Wright contributes his first gallery, which features his Ituraeans, an Arabo-Aramaean group whom the Romans found revolting.

Peter Wort unveils his Ancient British and a scratch-built Roman signal tower, which doubles as a Barker-Marker.

Queries about Carolingian figures in the Forum prompted this quick and dirty army essay for the Carolingian Franks.

From the blogosphere, Jeff Franz has a new Apulian army and Paul Farrow's latest are Classical Indians.

July 7-10:  A. McLaren submits his first gallery featuring Early Egyptians of the Old and Middle Kingdom period and 1/72 Atlantic figures.

Reinhard Sabel's latest features Gepids done with 1/72 HaT figures.

Doug Hamm forwards some notes on his DBA-Seven Years War project, along with eye candy shots from a recent playtest battle.

Prompted by a posting by Andy Hooper, I put together this scenario for the battle of Fyrisvellir (circa 984 AD), featuring Jomsvikings and the Swedish Leidang of Eric the Victorious.  Guess who won.

Bill McGillivray has posted the list of theme armies for the PAWS Autumn DBA tourney, set for 27 Sept.

July 1-6:  Highlights are coming in from all the great DBA and HoTT held this past weekend at Origins.

Thanks to Phil Steele who pointed me toward these highlights of Martin Charlesworthy's "Dirty DBA" tourney held at Phalanx.

David Lawrence has illustrated highlights of the Go to Hellas tournament held by the Canberra Kriegspielers on May 27.

Just for fun, Terry Griner fielded this Anti-War Wagon element at Enfilade with a nod to Hollywood.

Bob Mcleish has forwarded this illustrated guide to creating earthworks, designed for the Age of Gunpowder, but with techniques easily adapted to DBA camp and BUA building.

Stéphane Fontaine has created a new blogsite dubbed De Bellis Antiquitatis featuring his DBA armies.   Stéphane's regular blog features his latest work, including a Macedonian phalanx and a DBA Hindu camp.

Other highlights from around the blogsphere, Michael Lech has been working on Late Romans and Medieval Germans, Mike Porter has Origins' highlights, Jeff Franz has a gallery featuring his colorful Hindu Indians, David Crenshaw unveils his morphable Hundred Years War English, and Paul Farrow unveils his Mountain Indian and Later Ottomans,

From TMP, comes news that Splintered Light's Romano-British were named best new Historical Miniatures line for 2008 and photo updates to the Magister Militum ancients catalog.

June 9-30:  Francesco Scarpignato submits his first gallery, featuring Polybian Romans made up with 15mm MiniatureWars figures.

Doug Hamm's recent foray to Enfilade inspired two DBA-themed Larry Leadhead strips celebrating the Bowl of Shame for discarded dice that tend to roll 1s and the geekiness of fielding home and away camps for your DBA armies.

Barry Scarlett offers up two Barker Markers.  The first features The Confused General figure by Bend Sinister.  The second was inspired by Neldereth's Viking Rune marker and features a Celtic Cross.

Bob Mcleish offers up a well-executed Ottoman Turk army, which is also up for auction on Ebay.

Pietro Bello has returned to the web with his Petrus Pulcher's Miniatures site.  According to Pietro: "The website is dedicated to historical miniatures wargamers and collectors.  There are two main sections, one containing galleries of miniatures I painted for some customers and in my own collection, and one with photographic references in a walk-around style. There are also photos of my work in progress and a growing up list of useful links. It is not complete yet, I will upload lots of pictures in the next few weeks, especially those dedicated to the DBx armies I painted in the last few years."

A trip around the blogosphere finds Michael Lech's Big Base DBA and Pictish army at his Delauppror site, a battle report by Mike Porter, a neat videoclip by Steve Kinkaid featuring step-by-step shots of painting a Greek hoplite, Scott McPhee's Early Imperial Romans for WAB, and a Welsh vs. Scots battle report by Jack Farrow from his Battle of Britain campaign.

At TMP, Khurasan Miniatures has greens up of archers from its forthcoming 15mm Late Roman range.

Other TMP Tidbytes include news of a select range of 28mm Gauls from Blaze Away Miniatures, previews of Wargames Factory's 28mm plastic Imperial Romans, 40mm Spartans and Persians from First Legion, and a summer sale at Newline Designs.

May 31-June 8:  David Crenshaw has pictures of Terry Webb's Tlaxcallans in larger size at his blogsite, including two close-ups of the Eagle and Jaguar society warriors that I grabbed to supplement Terry's Tlaxcallan gallery.

Michael Lech has his latest army, the Polybian Romans featured at his "Dalauppror" blogsite.  Featuring Xyston figures, Michael makes creative use of the Baueda "flaming pigs" as a camp element.

Doug Hamm sends along more eyecandy from his DBA French and Indian War project.

Over at the DBA Gamer, Mike Porter is creating galleries for his DBA armies, starting with his Spartans and Classical Indians.

May 24-30: Roger Pawlak's second gallery features King Richard the Lion-Heart's Later Crusaders.

Terry Webb offers his first gallery, featuring a Conquest-period variant of the colorful Tlaxcallans.   Along with the army, Terry offers a Tlaxcallan village camp.

At TMP is news of a new  Eureka 300 Club listing for Huaxtecs, the Mayan refugees with pointy hats and filed teeth who were mortal enemies of the Aztecs, but who for some reason didn't garner their own DBA army list.  I'd really like to add this army to my Mesoamerican collection, even if unofficial, and so invite Fanatici feedback on what would constitute an appropriate Huaxtec variant list.

At his Photobucket site, Sparrowhawk has pictures up of his nicely executed Late Romans, featuring Splintered Light's super range of Romano-British figures.

In the Forum, Khurasan Miniatures has details on a forthcoming 15mm Sarmatian range, including a teaser green of an Alan lancer, which is likely to increase the popularity of that underrepresented army.

Around the blogosphere, Mike Porter has been busy on a miscellany of projects, David Crenshaw has shots of the nicely executed Sarmatians he painted on deadline for NashCon, Jack Farrow has his own take on Later Crusaders, and Stephane Fontaine has started a Macedonian phalanx project.

May 17-23: Roger Pawlak submits his first gallery with an interesting take on early Marian Romans.

Paul Potter's Arthurians reflect a Britain united against the Saxon invasions, and includes a Stonehenge camp.

Jeffrey Franz sends along along a great World Conquest Barker marker, which is also featured with additional pictures at his Little Hordes blogsite.

At his Dalauppror blogsite, Michael Lech has a gallery featuring his Later Carthaginians and Syracusans, which are up for sale on Ebay.

Here is a quick guide to creating game boards using artist canvases with pictures by Stephen Webb.

From the blogosphere, Tony Aguilar has pictures and highlights from the Wimp Wars tourney held May 2nd at Recon.

May 11-16:  nspired by his explorations of Morroco, Bob Munson offers up these notes on Tingitania, from its Roman occupation through the Dark Ages, including variant army lists for the Roman forces circa 405 AD and a Chellah list circa 7th Century.

Added links from the Armies of the Fanatici page to Paul Farrow's galleries of DBA armies, featuring 24 armies from Books II-IV, ranging from Later Rhoxolani Sarmatians to War of the Roses English.

Paul Potter's latest features his colorful take on the Abyssinians.

Reinhard Sabel adds the classic Gallic in 1/72 to his galleries.

Dominique Latteur reports: "The "Compagnies d'Ordonnance" (Leernes - Belgium) will be holding their annual DBA Tournament on Sunday May 18th.  Contact me more info."

Peter Pig has released 15mm Samurai as their new range for 2008.  Outpost's latests are 25mm Inca, compete with Sapa Inca and seated Incan mummy  Baueda's latest scenic is a Tibetan Maikhan tent .

Tidbytes from TMP include the addition of figure photos to the Viking Forge catalog, complete of the Artizan 28mm Spartan range carved by Steve Saleh, 25mm Romans in metal from Warlord Games to complement their new plastic range, along with LBMS shield transfers, some free 25mm flagsheets for the Scots Common from Chris Parker, Hinds Figures Ltd. will be putting 25mm Hinchcliffe figures back in circulation, and news of the upcoming DBA tourney at Enfilade on May 25.

For those exploring Fields of Glory, the latest army book, Swords and Scimitars (Crusades-period lists), is scheduled for release on May 20 and is available from Amazon for pre-order at a nice discount.

May 1-10:  Paul Potter contributes a colorful Scots Irish army complete with scratch-built Curragh camp.

Eric Buyck has two neat eyecandy contributions to the Camp gallery..the first for his Myceneans eaturing Jason and his crew facing off against Cyclops, following by Galatians sacking a Delphic temple.

Neldoreth has published a gallery featuring shots of his DBA terrain, including a very cool Viking BUA featuring a fortified long house with removable roof.  There is a new tutorial on making very realistic rivers and waterways.  Also new is this collection of illustrated battle reports for his on-going DBA Viking campaign, dubbed "Raid, Pillage, Loot!"

Paul Farrow has highlights from his BBDBA refight of the 2d battle of Bedriacum/Cremona (69 AD), featuring the Vespasians and Vitellians wrestling for control of the Roman empire.

Michael Lech has results and highlights from the "Conquest of the New World" Themed DBA Tournament, along with shots of his new Toltec/Chichimec army.

David Crenshaw's Miniature Minions blogsite has an update on his Sarmatians project.

The event calendar includes highlights of the recent DBA tourney at Leviathan plus news of a High Medieval Tournament set for May 10 in Winnipeg, Canada.

April 24-30: A quck update to hold you while I'm away again. I've been pondering the MY Miniatures and Donnington ranges of Villanovan Italians for some time and Richard Lee was kind enough to send along this gallery of Villanovans, featuring both.

From Richard Speedman comes this Knight and Priests camp used with his Norman army.

Yozhik has news of a High Medieval Tournament set for 10 May in  Winnipeg, Canada.

Samurai fans may want to try their hand at this Japanese Torii gateway project by Paul Lesack as a possible camp subject.

Alas, Bryan Lunney is looking for someone to take over At 50 Paces.  Bryan has been a great supporter of DBA and Fanaticus.

Other TMP tidbytes include special deals on Vendel 28mm ancients and Warlord Games is taking pre-orders on their 25mm plastic Imperial Romans and Celts.

Khurasan Miniatures has turned a sculptor lose on a proposed range for the Kalmar Union, aka medieval swedes

April 20-23:  It's a flag kind of update for Fanaticus, starting with Martin Stephenson's latest sets and updates of 15th Century French and English heraldric flags, available for download on Vexillia's News page.

Paul Farrow has put together some colorful staff banners for the Sassanids, along with the current Burgundian-Hussite Big Battle bang-up featured at his blogsite.

And Nelderoth's Anadusians, featuring a sharp flag based on a tile design from al-Andalus, inspired this experiment in Flags of Al-Andalus, also based on various tile designs.

Captured Mike Porter's Peneconter littoral camp for the eye candy gallery.

Patrick Laffey reports "There is an open book DBA tournament at Cangames on Saturday evening of the long weekend in May 16-18 in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada."

Scott Driscoll reports "I've posted a Battle report and review of a new Big Battle DBA Variant (called BBDBA-Expanded) at the Wargames Society Forum, in the "Classic World" section."

Great turnout Saturday for the Post Tax Day BBDBA Tourney with 20 players.  Kudos to organizer John Loy and congrats to the bracket winners.

Also from around the blogosphere, Michael Lech has highlights from his first game of "Big Base DBA" and Alan Spencer has a battle report for a Viking invasion of Wales,

Xyston's latest releases included four packs of 15mm Liby-Phoenecian, Carthaginian Citizen, Phoenecian Veteran and Sacred Band spearmen.

TMP Newsbytes include new 28mm Ghulams from Musketeer Miniatures, new 10mm Medievals/Crusaders from Magister Militum, the first foot - foot archers -- from Khurasan Miniatures, new 28mm Incas from Bear Den Miniatures, and previews of Wargames Factory's new range of 25mm plastic Celts.

April 12-19:  Over at his An Hour of Wolves & Shattered Shields webpage, Neldoreth has an essay on the Andalusians, which compliments his shots of his DBA Andalusian horse and spear.

Marc Dodinot (aka Baldrick 33) contributes a great Gallic Barker Marker to our eyecandy galleries.

Alex King returns with a gallery featuring his Later Achaemenid Persians.

Highlights here and pictures here from StoogeCon, this weekend in Pittsburgh.  Congrats to Open tourney champ Mike Demana and Book IV tourney champ RIch Baier.

Congrats to Michael Leck (ala Dalauppror) who managed to win the Bloodcon DBA tournament in Uppsala for the second year running. Here are the tournament results and Michael's after action report, along with shots of Jesper Olsson's' Italian Ostrogoths.

The Stockholm Krigspelklubb has a gallery up featuring a DBA "Libyan Challenge" as well as a neat basing variant called "Big Base DBA".

Around the blogs, Mike Johnson (Armies Obscura) has started a Corvus Belli Gallic army, DBA Hispano has a feature on Al Mansour, Rich Baier has a gallery up featuing his Mirliton Italian Condotta. Jeff Franz (Little Hordes) has some shots up of his Marian Romans, Paul Farrow has a BBDA contest featuring Arab Conquest and Sassanids,  Björn Floderus (Normans of Stockholm) has tips on painting skin, and  Stéphane Fontaine is doing Thracians.

Check the calendar for an updated listing of events, including DBA at Leviathian down-under this coming weekend.

April 4-11:  Eyecandy features include Marc Lauterbach's first gallery (in PDF format) featuring his Carolingian Franks.

Greg Kelleher's latest are his Arthurians (Sub-Roman British) featuring Pass o' the North figures and his Ynys Wydryn
(Glastonbury Tor) BUA.

Doug Hamm has been waiting patiently for me to get his Anglo-Norman keep into the Camp gallery.

From the blogosphere, David Crenshaw has started a Donnington Sarmatian project, including scratch-built shields, Paul Farrow is dabbling in Big Battle Renaissance, Björn Floderus is painting up some Spanish scutarii, and at the ILoveWargaming forum, Terry Webb has a DBN-AWI battle report with pictures.

Calendar additions include the Alcobendas (Madrid) DBA Tournament (April 26), a full slate of DBA at Origins '08 (June 26-28) and the ACT/NSW DBA Championship (June 29).

Check out the previews of Baueda's new Tibetan and Viking tents and reworked medieval straw building.

TMP Tidbytes include new 25mm Arab infantry from Essex, new 28mm Parthians from Bear's Dean Miniatures, previews of Warlord Games 28mm plastic Imperial Romans and Celts, and 28mm banners from LBMS for the 100HY English.

March 29-April 3:  Eyecandy catch-ups here first with Brian Girard's Early Imperial Romans, featuring Corvus Belli figures.

Jim Kasper's Sea Peoples also get a Forum gallery.

From around the blogsphere, Michael Lech's latest are these Feudal Spanish.  And Stéphane Fontaine has shots from a Big Battle game featuring Hindus versus Muslim Indians.  If you are into Assyrians, check out the six part series at DBA Hispano.

March 20-28:  The eyecandy starts with Reinhard Sabel's Big Battle Hittite Empire army, including a large Qadesh BUA.

Tony Aguilar's Figure-atively Speaking blogsite features Mark Antony's Marian Romans.

More from Filippo Simoncini at DBAItalia, including Filippo's Mithridatic and Syracusans, including this high-tech take on Archimedes "Solar" artillery, plus Marco Boetti's Polybian Romans

Andreas Johansson sends his second gallery, which features Later Carthaginians.

Paul Potter's HoTT Arthurians are Malory-inspired.

TMP Tidbytes include new Eastern European banners from FreezyWater, Feudal Castings catalog pics from LKM Direct, 28mm Spanish and Carthaginian shield transfers for Crusader Minis from LBMS, and more Khurasanian/Ghaznavids from Khurasan Miniatures.

Recent Osprey releases available through the De Bellis Bookstore include The Walls of Rome (Fortress 71), , Poitiers: AD 732: Charles Martel Turns the Islamic Tide (Campaign 190), Medieval Polish Armies 966–1500 (Men-at-Arms 445), , and Hittite Fortifications 1650-700 BC (Fortress 73), plus general military histories on the Knight: Noble Warrior of England 1200–1600, The Vikings and Rome and Her Enemies.

March 15-20:  Paul Potter adds two galleries.  The first features his Blemmye along with a Hippo Barker Marker

Then up are Paul's Navarrese Company in Greece, a nice polyglot force of Navarrese knights, mercenaries, Greeks and Turks.

Filippo Simoncini at DBAItalia sends DBA news including Marco Boetti's latest galleries featuring his Numidians (along with camp and BUA) plus his Ancient British (check out those shield patterns).  The Italian DBA calendar has been updated along with the player rankings after three events.

Lance Gamble suggests a variant rule for Pike Rear Support, which lets you effectively adjust the depth and frontage of your pike block.

David Crenshaw has completed his Mayan project.

For the calendar, Stephen Etheridge sends word that the Bath Wargames Club will be holding a 15mm DBA Open Tourney at Legion 2008 on 26 April.

Outpost Wargames Services has most of their new 15mm Crusades-period Byzantines range available; just missing the mounted Command pack.

March 11-14: Alan Spencer's Post Mongol Samurai lead by the redoubtable Warlord Itcysama starts off the current update.  Also added a link to Alan's Itchysama webblog, which features his Cold Wars highlights.

Apologies to Richard Speedman whose Normans almost got lost in my in-box.

Added a link to Giovanni Allari's new blogspot, dubbed the Owl Bear's Lair, which currently features his Athenians, Numidians, Libyans, Samnites, Achaemenid Persians and Marian Romans.

Also, around the blogsphere, Paul Farrow has been busy, adding a BBDBA refight between his EIR and Dacians, plus pictures of his Dacian, Teutonic Orders, Early Germans and Later Rhoxolani Sarmatians to his DBA Page   Also David Crenshaw has started a Mayan project.

Over at Vexillia, Martin Stephenson has added a great set of free 15mm and 25mm heraldric flags for Medieval English (circa 1453-1509 AD) done by David Raynor.

Rudy Scott Nelson's new range of 15mm Sahel (Western Sudanese) figures are now available...check his forum post for details.

Also thanks to Mike Stelzer for sending word of the new website for Alaine Touller 15mm figures, en francaise.

So as not to leave you in the dark, the Forum also has highlights from Cold Wars, including links to pictures, and news of the Team Cup, Big Battle Doubles, and HordeWars events, plus general observations.

March 6-10:  Ricardo Ponz (aka Prich) offers up the Condotta of Florence and Venice along with his "Burn the Witches" Barker Marker, a Carrioccio wagon camp, and a BUA.

Michal Ciemniewski's new East Franks provide a foe for his early Poles.

Paul Potter shares pictures of his recent HOTT Battle of Pelennor Fields extravaganza.

For the calendar, Paul Hannah has news of upcoming DBA doings at NHMG's Enfilade Convention on 23-25 May in Olympia, Washington.  The Alvechurch Templars Wargames Club is holding a DBA Midlands Open tourney on 18 May in Alvechurch.

TMP Newsbytes include the re-release of 1st Corps 25mm Caesarian Romans and Magister Militum's continuing to flesh out its on-line catalog with photos of its 28mm Saracens, Samnites and Celts,

March 1-5:  Getting myself sorted for a day trip to Cold Wars next weekend, where I hope to conquer Mesoamerica, join my WADBAG Victrix teammates in a march to Team Cup glory, and buy lead for a new Early Armenian army.  Not bad for a (theoretical) day's work.

Leaping right into March, our first update features Paul Potter's Khazars, including a War Wagon camp; Paul's first eye candy gallery.

From Eric Buyck in France, we have two takes on camps with a Buddhist theme.  The first features a Moghul supply column passing a Buddha shrine. I enjoyed the various angles in Eric's photographs.  The second is a Khmer supply column receiving a helpful homily as it passes a Buddhist carving.

Greg Kelleher's Sultanate of Rum join the fold, featuring a mix of Essex, Old Glory and Outpost figures.

From Harris at HaT comes this link to a nicely executed Classical Indian army by Garner Beggs, featuring 1/72 HaT figures.

Michael Lech reports that Black Hat Miniatures is sponsoring the upcoming "Conquest of the New Work" Tournament in Stockholm on April 26, providing a DBA army as a prize for the winner.

A quick trip around the blogosphere reveals Michael Lech's Alexandrian Macedonians (check out the shepard defending his flock from a wolf camp) and his nostalgic first DBA army of Gauls, a teaser for Mike Porter's forthcoming Mike's Model's Spartans, DiceManRick's Southern Dynasty Chinese, David Crenshaw's Later Achaemenid Persians BBDBA army in 28mm, Jack Farrow's Big Battle Mongul vs. Mamluk battle report, Declan Breen's Selecuid Phalanx, and the start of Stephane Fontaine's Alexander the Great army featuring Xyston Miniatures.

Over at Vexillia, Martin Stephenson has posted his simple set of rules for a DBA War of the Roses campaign circa 1460 AD, created with pal Mike Parsons.

Eureka has released the full range of their excellent new 28mm Sumerians, along with a revamp of their 28mm Elamites.  Also Eureka 300 Club orders for a 15mm Sumerian range based on the 28mm range has reached the 400+ level.  Still need a couple hundred more figures ordered by a half dozen buyers to get the new range started.

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