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The current minipoll asks what kind of food you tend to eat when playing DBA.

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.

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.

Previous Highlights

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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.

Feb. 24-29:  Mike Johnson's Estonians emerge from the misty dark of a Baltic winter to do battle with the Teutons.

Mike has also uploaded galleries for his Vikings and Picts over at his Armies Obscura blogsite; look closely for the Pictish general astride a mount in mid-air leap.

Andrew Lawrence's Numidians feature 1/72 plastic figures and an experimental PDF display format.

Stéphane Fontaine has posted his DBA Hindu Indian army complete with flowery elephants at his Voyages à travers le temps blogsite.

Also in the blogosphere, Michael Lech's Medieval Scandavians (bcd versions) are the latest at his Dalauppror site, along with a set of 15mm Swedish flags created by Michael.

Prich and Sergio Laliscia of DBA Italia are looking for fellow Fanatici in Europe interested in participating in a Euro Cup DBA Tournament with national teams.  Sounds like an interesting idea.  Feedback requested here.

Lots of DBA events coming over the next two months, including new calendar additions for an Open Tournament at Wargames in Nashville (22 March), the Missouri DBA Open at Spring Recruits (29 March), and a Conquest of the New World tourney in Stockholm (26 April).  Also, the Hotlead Convention DBA events coming up in Stratford, Canada (28-30 March) have been updated to credit each of the sponsors, including NASAMW, Splintered Light Miniatures, On Military Matters, and Five Arrows figures.

Latest blogsite discovery is this Home of a Wargaming Terrain Builder currently featuring a Romano-Celtic temple project by TMPer FreddBloggs.

TMP newsbytes include the completion of Baueda's Urbis range of ancient buildings (which will be available in March), the release of Magister Militum's new 10mm Achaemenid Persian range, new Crusader Miniatures rank and file Phalangites, and new Little Big Man Studies shield transfers for 25mm Early Germans.

Xyston has released two new packs of 15mm (Polybian) Roman musicians and standard bearers (with 12 standard options), along with preview pics of new Carthaginians coming in March.

Feb. 12-24:  Brian Girard offers up his first Fanatici gallery, with useful historical notes on the Dacians.

David Lawrence returns with this take on Christian Nubians, featuring Essex Miniatures.

Andrew Lawrence submits a Greek Hero Barker Marker.

Greg Kelleher's Seljuk Fort BUA does double-duty with all his Middle-Eastern armies.

I couldn't resist capturing Barry Scarlett's Stone and Timber Fort for the BUA gallery.  Up for auction now, along with a Celtic henge camp, on Ebay.

And Jim Kaspar caps off our eye-candy feast with this Sea Peoples Ships camp.

Feb. 7-11: At Avarayr in 451 AD, Vardan Mamigonian attempted to free Armenia from Sassanid Persian rule.

Michael Leck invites the Fanatici to visit his new Dalauppror blogsite, which currently features his Middle Assyrian army.

To help encourage traffic to the various blogsites with DBA content that I've created a new link directory for the DBA blogosphere.

Captured a gallery featuring Mike Johnson's Rus

Two more shots from the Calgary DBA -9 degrees event from earlier this month...first a shot of a rosy cheeked Paul Hannah braving the cold.  Next up a picture depicting a Mammoth rider from Don Ray's "Red Mammoth" variant army (using M.Y. Miniatures Ice Age Inuit figures) in ultra realistic snowy terrain.

Dave Zecchini's Painted Armies website, featuring DBA and HOTT army galleries, has a new URL.

Mike Demana invites the Fanatici to check out his Dogmen HOTT army.

Terry Webb reports "Saturday, February 2nd, the new Wargames officially opened for business in Nashville, Tennessee. Baxter Key and Nancy Bowers held a superb grand opening for the local gamers and truly kicked things off in grand style. There was food in abundance, games of all sorts going on, and the most exciting was being able to walk in and see all those great Essex figures up close and personal (I know one gamer who went home with way too much lead to paint!!!)! In addition Baxter and Nancy had many friends come by and several showed great interest in one of the DBA games (a real slugfest between David Crenshaw's feudal English against my feudal French. The game went nearly two hours and the final victory went to David's English with a 7 to 5 win!). Hope we have recruited a few new DBAers!!!"

Feb: 1-6:  Gotta love the blogs.  First up, Paul and Jack Farrow invite the Fanatici to visit their MrFarrow2u (& Jacks!) DBA Page, which features an assortment of  DBA, DBN & DBA 1500-1900 armies ranging from Marian Romans to 6mm Austrians and 15mm Cossacks.  Currently featured -- an Italian Condotta vs. Swiss slugfest and a Later Polish BB DBA army.

And Jeff Franz invites the Fanatici to peruse his blogspot Little Hordes, which features a horde of DBA armies including Early Samurai, Later Carthaginians, 100YW English, Medieval Germans, Ancient Spanish, Hawaiians, Scots Isles and brand new Sung Chinese.  I'll be adding links from the Armies of the Fanatici directory in the near future.

Mike Porter's DBA Gamer blog features play-by-play from a DBMM100 playtest pitting Alexander the Great's Macedonians versus the Classical Indians.

Finally, you can follow Steve Kinkaid's (aka Minimus Maximus) new painting project, an Etruscan League army won as a prize at the Welsh Open, at his DBA n Stuff blogspot.

The master Barry Scarlett has a couple of items up for sale on Ebay including this plashed wood camp for those dark age raider types.

Several great tournaments were held during my hiatus.  Here are highlights from the Welsh DBA Open, The Seige of Augusta, and the quite civilized looking DBA in Brescia,

A plug from John Hovey for the DBA Open Tournament scheduled for Feb. 9 at OwlCon in Houston Texas.  John also notes they will be running a BB-DBN Russian vs. French game. For John for more info.

A plug from Paul Hannah for the upcoming DBA Open Tournament scheduled for Feb. 16 at ConQuestNW 2008 (15-18 Feb.) in Bellevue, Washington.  The tourney is hosted by Chris Ewick of The Game Matrix.

Bryan Lunney of At 50 Paces has launched his first range of figures, featuring 15mm Vikings with DBA army pack options.  One of Bryan's innovations are a pack of shield wall spearmen designed to stand with overlapping shields.  The initial figures were sculpted by Marco Campagna, although Bryan is working on some additional figures for Spring release.   Bryan also asked me to note that he is willing to customize the army packs on request.

Over at TMP, the news that Wargames Factory will be supporting the new Fields of Glory rules with 28mm ranges of multi-piece plastic figures caught my eye, along with this related notice.

Jan. 21-30:  Rich Baier (aka DiceManRick) made the trek to WADBAG.Con along with his bad dice, Larry Chaban, and the aforementioned donuts.  Rich has four new DBA armies up on his website including the Ancient Spanish, Pre-Islamic Nomands, Medieval German and Free Company.

Mike Johnson has pictures of what for my money is one of the most outrageous game days ever-- DBA outdoors in the snow at 20 below, an event put on by the Calgary Camp Followers this past weekend.   Also a nice opportunity to show off Mike's spiffy new Armies Obscura blogspot. 

Over at Khurasan Miniatures, the first batch of models are now available for purchase, with more to come soon.  Khurasan plans to cover Eastern Islamic forces, 8th-11th centuries (Khurasanians, Ghaznavids, Daylami, etc.) in 15mm.

From TMP, LKM has added 15mm later Samurai to their Freikorps range.

Jan. 11-20:  Fredrik posts pictures and results from Nyårsturneringen 2008 in Stockholm.  Congrats to Jasper Ohlsson who took honors with Anglo-Irish.  Participants are featured in the Fanaticus banner above.

With help from Alex King, new Fanatici Alex Novakov offers his first gallery featuring the Tamil Indians.

Reinhard Sabel offers up his latest gallery, and the first Fanaticus BBDBA army gallery, which features the New Kingdom Egyptians of Ramses at Qadesh.

Tony De Lyall and Stephen Montague collaborate on an army essay on the medieval Syrians, featuring shots of Tony's 1/72 plastic Syrian army.

The blogspot McPhee's Miniature Men features shots of Scott McPhee's 28mm Old Glory Marian Romans, Carthaginians and Spanish.  And Will's Little Armies wiki features 15mm Persians, Macedonians and Thracians.

Andrew Sebolt of the Dansville Wargamers painting service invites the Fanatici to peruse his recent posting at TMP.

More TMP tidbytes include Ebob's release of 28mm 13th Century English Knights, Museum Miniatures annual 25% off January sale, and news of Crusader Miniatures new 25mm Numidians.

I've initiated a 300 Club listing at Eureka Miniatures for anyone interested in a 15mm range based on Eureka's recently released 28mm Sumerian range.

Jan. 6-10:  Jason Mirosavich's next gallery features his Late Roman-West army of Julian the Apostate, along with this Rhine frontier fortress camp.

In Britannia, Steven Thomas has adapted the Britannia board game as a DBA/HOTT campaign for 2-6 player set in Britain circa 600 AD.  In addition to the campaign rules, you can also check out the galleries for each of the armies that fought in the campaign.

Filippo Simoncinci at DBA-Italia wishes the Fanatici a Happy New Year and sends along an updated 2008 Italian DBA Calendar,  the final 2007 rankings, and a link to Marco Boetti's gallery of Picts/Calendonians.  Check out the detail, e (e.g. bow strings and arrows on the archers, eyes on the horses, etc.) and especially the terrain techniques done on Marco's bases.

Also updated the link to the Australian 2008 DBA Calendar and added the DBA Northern Cup (to be held March 15 at Triples in Sheffield) to the event calendar.

From TMP comes news that Wargames, Inc. has new owners, a new Ecommerce-enabled website, and is on the move from Triadelphia, WV to Nashville.

It's not DBA, but you have to admire this gingerbread and candy depiction of Minas Tirith and the Battle of the Pelennor Fields spotlighted at MiniatureWargaming.Com.

Jan. 1-5:  We have a chance to compare different interpretations of the Palmyrans.  The first Palmyran gallery, by Mark Baker, features Essex Miniatures.  Then Jason Mirosavich offers his first Fanatici gallery, which features Palmyrans done with Old Glory figures.

Ken Eckhardt returns with a gallery featuring his brushwork on the Fatimid Egyptians.  Ken is a part-time painter for hire and welcomes inquiries.

Calendar additions include the Australian DBA and BBDBA Championships at CanCon (Jan. 25-28), the Welsh DBA Open (Jan. 26) and DBA at OwlCon (8-10 Feb.) in Houston.

Dec. 27-31:  Richard Bradley of the Nunawading Wargames Association down-under in Melbourne sends word that NWA has revamped their DBA webpage, including links to galleries featuring club member's DBA armies, from Aztecs to Syrians. Nice job guys!

Greg Kelleher's Cilician Armenians feature elements with innovative bases using what looks like pine bark to create the illusion of rough terrain.

Jeff Barnes has three camps up for auction on Ebay including new takes on his Celtic Tomb camp and a new Egyptian Tomb camp.

Alex King's third gallery features his Abbasid Arabs.

Terry Webb sends some pictures and highlights of the DBA tourney held in early December at Lord Al's in Nashville, Tennessee.

Dec. 21-26: Doug Lawrence fields this Jewish Revolt army featuring HAW and Donnington figures.  It's the kind of army that a Zealot would love.

Doug Melville offers up variants to the DBA Sassanian list based on non-Roman sources.

Alex King's second Fanatici gallery features Fanatical Berbers.  Not to be confused with Sweeney Todd, the Fanatical Barber

A feature event at Hotlead'08, Will Michael offers up notes on his campaign-style tournament dubbed the Kings of Northern Britain, 635 AD (in both six and eight player versions).

Declan Breen of the Omagh Wargames Societies invites you to peruse his The Die is Cast blogspace, which features his range of hobby interests including 1/72 plastic ancients.

For those interested, a Field of Glory website has been launched to support that new rule set.

Dec. 16-21: Mark Fastoso has put together a two player campaign game for the Roman Civil War of 49-45 BC for all you would-be Caesars and Pompeys.

George Arnold contributes his first Fanatici gallery featuring Italian Condotta.

Another first gallery, this time Alex King's Seleucids.

Don Ray is featured along with his Early Ostrogoths in this gallery shot by Doug Hamm of the gothic knights in action.

The theme continues with Greg Kelleher's Italian Ostrogoths of Theodoric, also featuring Pass o' the North figures.

Greg Kelleher's Cilician Armenian Fortress also acquires a permanent home in the Fanatici BUA gallery.

New event listings include WADBAGCon (Jan. 19), Cold Wars (7-9 March) and Dark Age DBA at Hotlead 2008 (March 28-30).

TMP tidbytes include new 28mm Numidians from Crusader Miniatures and an announcement for Khurasan Miniatures, a new company that will feature 15mm armies of central Asia, and an interesting thread by David Crowell on "Why I Keep Coming Back to DBA"

Dec. 8-15:  Björn Floderus' first 15mm DBA project are these Thracians, featured at his Normans of Stockholm blogspot.

David Johansson also has a series of galleries up featuring his Later Achaemenid Persians, Ancient British, Andalusians, and Medieval Swedes.

Gunpowder fans should check out Doug Hamm's DBA French & Indian War project.

With help from Bill Sumruld and others, here is a set of variant army lists for Robin Hood and the Sheriff of Nottingham, featuring figures by Pityak Studios.

Cold Wars is in early March next year, and the jam-packed preliminary program of DBA and HOTT events is now available.

Byzantine fans note that the New York Public Library has digitalized these illustrated plates of Byzantine uniforms through 1453

Congrats to PAWs, whose Winter DBA Tourney drew 18 players and to Bill MacGillivray and Adrian Webb for taking tournament honors.

TMP newsbytes include a Vendel 25% off discount for the Holidays, a new range of 13th Century English/Welsh longbowmen from Ebob Miniatures, and new Mirliton 15mm Turcopoles and Burgundians.

Nov. 30-Dec. 7:  Greg Kelleher fields one of my favorite forlorn hope armies, the pagan Prussians.

I think you'll like these Parthian shots, from Greg's pal Mark Baker.

Just for fun, check out this animated depiction of the Bayeux Tapestry at You-Tube.

For all you Sea People's enthusiasts, Jeff Zorn's Wargaming the Sea Peoples is a great resource for comparing figures from various makers.

Marty Schmidt has a full slate of DBA set for Seige of Augusta, set fo 25-27 January 2008 in Evans, Georgia, including the 2008 NASAMW Deep South Regional DBA Championship.

Mike Porter has a wrap-up report from Fall-In including a nice shot of the strategic map used for the Outremer campaign game.

Updated the calendar with news of DBA at Portsmouth (UK) and Nashville (TN/USA) on Dec. 8, plus upcoming events in early 2008.  Also, efforts are underway to organize a Big Battle DBA event at Farnsborough UK on Dec. 15.

Barry Scarlett has two of his DBA camp masterpieces up for auction on Ebay, featuring Alfred Burns the Cakes for you Mid-Saxon fans and a Spanish windmill con Don Quixote de la Mancha (Sancho Panza not included).

New Osprey titles in the De Bellis Bookstore include Teutonic Knight 1190-1561 (Warrior 124) and Thermopylae 480 BC (Campaign 188), and Soldier of the Pharoah, Middle Kingdom Egypt 2055–1650 BC (Warrior 121).

For anyone interested in Richard Bodley-Scott's forthcoming Field of Glory rules, they are also available through DBB at Amazon's pre-publication discounted price:  Field of Glory (rules), Immortal Fire (Greek/Macedonian/Persian lists), Rise of Rome (Republican Roman-period lists), Legions Triumphant (Imperial Roman-period lists), Swords and Scimitars (Crusades-period lists), and Storm of Arrows (late Medieval-period lists),   Although not that interested in the rules, I am interested to see how the FOG condensed version army lists compare to their DBA counterparts.

From TMP, Prince August has released 28mm moulds for Ancient Britons as part of their Roman Wars range, Rudy Scott Nelson has some details on his forthcoming 15mm Western Sahel range, Peter Berry of Baccus will be unveiling his 6mm Huns at Recon, Kallistra have added photos of their 10mm Eastern European Medievals and Society of Ancients is looking for a new Slingshot editor.

Nov. 20-29:  téphane Fontaine's Hindu Indians are currently featured at his Voyages a travers le temps blogspot, where you'll also find his other ancients projects including Vikings and New Kingdom Egyptians.

The latest addition to the camp gallery is Richard Speedman's Roman Bar scene, which conjugates a little Latin humor.

The camp is designed to go with Richard's Marian Roman army, which morphs into the Early Imperial period.

For his first gallery, Chris Huhn adds a shot of his Polybian Romans to the mix.

Paul Elkin sends word that "Siege of Augusta XVII, to be held from 25-27 Jan 2008, at the Belair Conference Center, Evans, Georgia, will be hosting a Matched Pairs and Open Tournaments. The Open is also NASMW's Deep South Regional Championship tournament. NASMW players pay a tournament fee of $5 for either or both events (in addition to convention registration)."

The theme & list of allowed armies is set for the Winter 2007 PAWS DBA Event, to be held Saturday, 8 December 2007.

David Schlanger has posted all the results from Fall-In 2007.  Congrats to the all the winner and kudos to all the gamemasters and to Roland Fricke for serving as event coordinator.

Simon Walker is hoping to drum up some support for his Eureka commission of Catalan Almughavors and Essex has a special 3 for 2 DBA army offer.

From Maerk comes word of Corvus Belli's new releases, which include 15mm HYW spearmen with pavises and armed peasants.

Nov. 10-19:  Keep an eye out for Mike Porter's after action reports from Fall-In at his The DBA Gamer blogspace.

My in-box was empty, so I broke out the trusty digital camera and took pictures of some of my favorite camps and BUAs.

First up is Mediolanum (Milan), a late Roman BUA I scratch-built for a Gothic Wars campaign game, which now resides in the collection of Jeff Caruso.

In a forum post a few days back, I mentioned my generic Middle-Eastern Bastion, which is probably the most-used camp in my collection, being pressed into service for armies ranging from Hittites to Crusaders.

For at least two years, I pondered a way to use a Great Wall of China scrapbooking accessory in a camp, and then one day Jeff Caruso suggested we enter an all-mounted Khitan-Liao army in a Big Battle tourney...and hence this Khitan-Liao camp was born.

A footnote on Moldavian warfare inspired this take on a log barricade camp done by David Kuijt to go with my Moldavian army.

Marco Campagna of MiniatureWars.Com figures is finishing up a new range of 15mm Vikings.  Bryan of At 50 Paces has posted these notes at TMP and some promo shots.

Also at TMP is news and links to pictures of the 28th semi-annual Winnipeg DBA Tournament held Nov. 3.

Nov. 6-9:  A light update featuring two army galleries.  First up is Rocardo Ponz' Mountain Indians (efaturing Xyston figures) and his Bactrian baggage camel camp.

And George Wyllie offers up the Neo-Assyrians/Later Sargonids, one of those "must have" armies of the chariot period.

Looking forward to escaping for at least one day this weekend to Fall ln, where I go to seek my fortune and adventure in Outremer.

Mike Porter will be blogging Fall-In highlights at his The DBA Gamer webpace.

TMP product news includes word that PaperTerrain will be showing off a prototype of its future ancient buildings set at Fall In and that Essex is offering a seasonal discount (buy 10 packs of 15mm figures and get one for free).

Nov. 2-5:  Michal Ciemniewski brings his second gallery of Early Poles, this time for the (b) sub-list and featuring a Bolkow Castle camp.

Ian Health did up a Zanj Revolt proposal for DBMM that has apparently been adopted in the new Book 3 army lists.  That suggests a new DBA army list come the next addition.  In the meantime, here is my attempt at a variant Zanj Revolt list.

Foundry will be doing a 28mm Robin Hood range, which prompts this Fanaticus call for Robin Hood and Sheriff of Nottingham variant DBA lists.

Browsing around, I came across Ix Nichol's beta version of a Medieval Campaign System for DBA.

Surfing also turned up David Medlock's De Bellis Jacobitis II, an update to his earlier adaptation of DBA to the time of the Jacobite Uprising and the battle of Culloden.

Also updated the Crusaders banner sheet to include a pair of Lusignan Cypriot banners crafted by David Kuijt.

Oct. 27-Nov. 1: A new Fanatici welcome to Michal Ciemniewski from Poland, who starts off with a bang by offering his Early Polish army to the Fanatici galleries, along with a Burg Wall camp and Barker Marker.

With assistance from Greg Kelleher, Mark Baker's Late Roman - East army of Julian the Apostate makes an appearance.

Paul Hannah's praises are well-Sung with this Chinese Pavilion with Koi Pond BUA.  For those of you waiting for me to issue a Koi pun, you can stop your carping now.

Menix Miniatures (aka Harold Hic) has an absolutely gorgeous 28mm  Warriors of the Ifriquiyah morphing army on display at his blogspace.

Jeff Caruso of Pass o' the North is teasing us with shots of several master figures from his future range of Mongols.  To check them all out, follow the Gallery link at the bottom of his POTN page.

New from A&A Miniatures, 28mm Palmyrans, including Queen Zenobia.  A&A also has Sarmatians in their 3-4thc Roman range, with professionally painted samples featured in their gallery.

New from Kallistra, 10mm Ottoman Turks and Eastern Medieval Europeans.

With a tip of the hat to the forthcoming All Hallows Eve, I couldn't resist revisiting the Celtic Nightmare DBA variant list.

Oct. 23-26:  Greg Kelleher visits the Northwest American coast for this Tlinglit/Haida army, featuring Eureka figures.

Tony Aguilar at Figureatively-Speaking has posted his latest gallery, featuring Polybian Romans and a simple, but nicely-executed palisade camp.

Followed Tony's links to Jeff Franz' Little Hordes blogspot, which currently features an Elephant Terror BUA.  The site also features a collection of Jeff's army galleries including Carthaginians, 100YW English, Medieval Germans, Samurai and Hawaiians.

And at the DBA Gamer, Mike Porter has added his Koryo Dynasty Koreans.

I'm a big fan of the Miracle Dip, but haven't tried the Magic Wash yet.

New Kingdom Egyptian fans may be interested in Tutankhamun's Armies: Battle and Conquest During Ancient Egypt's Late Eighteenth Dynasty, the latest addition to the De Bellis Bookstore.

Oct. 18-22: Vincent Tsao tackles Attila the Hun with Chariot figs from Magister Militum.

Filippo Simoncini sends word of new galleries at DBAItalia, including Marco Beccari's Italian Ostrogoths, plus Marco Boetti's Donnington Nobades/Blemmye (with Petra-like camp) and Carolingian Franks.

Filippo also encourages the European Fanatici to check out Dadi.Com 2007, which is set for 24-25 Nov. at the University of Crema near Milan, Italy.  On Sunday at Dadi.Com, DBAItalia will be hosting the "Coppa Italia" DBA Team Competition.

It's been a while since I've offered up a variant rule.  Here's one on Irregular vs. Regular Command & Control for you to chew on.

Jeff Caruso has announced the Potentate of the Rocky Mountains tournament, a special event for DBAers in Denver, Colorado and surrounding areas. Or is that Despotate?

Congrats to Scott Russell, winner of the 2007 English DBA Open Seniors using Classical Indians.  Also to Andrew Fisher who took the 25mm group honors and Robert Dowling, winner of the 15mm Juniors.  Some highlights here.

Just a note to confirm that Donnington Miniatures has been acquired by Ancient and Modern Army Supplies, who have announced their intention of continuing to develop the range as well as offering painted figures options.

Baueda has a teaser pic up of their new Trojan walls.  If you haven't seen them yet, also take a peek at their new Urbis range of ancient near-eastern walls and buildings.

Wargames Foundry fans note...Foundry has a 20% off sale going for on-line orders received through Nov. 5

Oct. 14-18:  Greg Kelleher adds a gallery featuring the Belisarius' Early Byzantines in Italy.

More flags for our Fall-In Outremer extravaganza...this time a set of speculative banners for the Armenian Kingdom in Cilicia.

Lloyd's Dark Age Shield Patterns are pretty amazing, even at 25mm scale.

Oct. 11-13:  Just a reminder that the English DBA Open is coming up this weekend in Southsea, hosted for the second year by the Portsmouth and Allied Gamers (PAWS).

Tim Haffner of the North Dakota DBA Gamers sends word of a DBA Early Medieval (Book III) tournament set for Nov. 3 in Winnipeg.  Check the calendar for more details including the event flyer.

Xavi has some highlights and pictures of last weekend's tourney in Bilbao, Spain.

Gave the Gaming Without Miniatures page a spruce-up and was inspired to create these paper armies for the Middle Anglo-Saxons (DBA II/24b) and Norse Vikings (DBA III/40b).

Also spruced up the Paper Flags and Banners page, adding a link to Dansk Figurspilsforening, who have downloadable flags for the Medieval/Renaissance Period, the Hundred Years War, and the Baltic Crusades.

It appears that Donnington Miniatures (and/or the exclusive right to sell them) has been acquired by Ancient & Modern Army Supplies, a relatively new web-based storefront based in the U.K.

Not DBA, but enjoy Wargamers Rock courtesy of YouTube.Com.

Oct. 6-10:  Stephen Webb sends results from the Mother of All Battles (MOAB) tournaments run by the Southern Battle Gamers in Australia last weekend.  Congrats to the winners.  They used a interesting, two day format, where results of the first day qualifying tourney were used to slot players into a Champions League and a Best of the Rest tourney on the second day.

Congrats to Tony Aguilar, who took the Rise of Rome DBA Tournament honors on Sept. 29 in Orlando.  Expect pictures soon at Tony's Figureatively Speaking blogspot.

Reinhard Sabel adds a gallery of Numidians/Early Moors featuring a mix of 1/72 plastics.

Doug Hamm makes good use of an Old Glory Franks/Later German bag of figs to create these Early Franks.

Doug also sends along a Totem Pole Barker Marker that goes with his new Eureka North-west Coastal Indians army.

Kingsford Miniatures is accepting pre-orders on its 28mm ikko ikki Japanese figures.  And Musketeer Miniatures has new packs for its 28mm Early Saxons range.

Sept. 29-Oct. 5:  October offers a full calendar of DBA tournament events, including tournaments this coming weekend at HMGS-PSW's Fall Campaign (Glendale, CA), at NowsCon (Glendale Lake, Ohio) and in Bilbao, Spain.  Then on Oct. 14, look for the English DBA Open in Southsea, followed on Oct. 20 by the Erie Day of Games in Erie, Pennsylvania.

Highlights from two Davids in the current update.   First, David Lawrence adds our first Indonesian/Malay gallery.

And David Schlanger's Feudal French easily morph to Later Crusaders.

Mike Demana reports "The GLADBAG pages covering the DBA and HOTT tournaments we held at Advance the Colors 2007 are updated, now.  We had a great time meeting all the regulars, plus new faces from out of town or in our own neighborhoods that we didn't know!"

Added some semi-historical banners for Medieval/Crusader-period Georgia.

Some new additions to Wargames Foundry's 28mm Caesarian Roman range.

Sept. 22-28: Prompted by the Forum discussion of the Spartacus/Slave Revolt army, Karl Gaarsoe offers a review of Outpost Wargames' 15mm Gladiators.

Phil Bagnall's first Fanatici gallery features his Marian Romans, made up with 10mm Chariot figures as a Warmaster crossover.

Added another sheet of paper banners for the Crusades, some historical and some that are impressionistic of the period.

Andy Hooper shares a campaign for the Franks in Greece, circa 1205 AD, which marks the beginning of the Latin Kingdoms.  The naval intercept rules add an interesting twist.

Terry Griner offers an embankment camp for the eye candy gallery.

Mike Porter recounts a solitaire game pitting Marian Romans vs. Ptolemaic.

Baccus 6mm Late Romans are now available.  Also Gripping Beast's 28mm Early Saxons and Vendel has released a range of 28mm Numidians/Ethiopians/Kush.

Sept. 17-21: AWI-DBA, Paul Potter's adaptation of DBA for the American War of Independence, leads off tonight's update.

Terry Griner's Pharoah's litter joins the Eye Candy galleries.

Filippo Simoncini at DBAItalia invites the Fanatici to check out Marco Boetti's Pyrrhic (featuring Essex minis and some extraordinary basing) and Luca Blasi's Nubians (featuring Chariot minis).

Updated details for Landwaster (25 Nov. 2007) on the calendar.

Sept. 11-16: Don Ray's Tshimshian (North West American) Indian army features the new 15mm Eureka NW Indian range, the brushstrokes of Mike Johnson, and the photography of Laurence Johnson.

David Lawrence's Syro-Canaanites join the Fanatici ranks.

Andreas Johansson shares a couple Barker Markers featuring depictions of trees.

De Bellis Vasingtonium drew 14 contestants plus a healthy crowd of interested on-lookers from the American University gaming club.  David Kuijt took tournament honors with his Ugarits.  Here are the highlights.

Mike Sanderson has posted results for the DBA tourney at Fall Recruits in the Forum, which featured a 5 Ax/Ps minimum.  Congrats to Paul Nyholm, whose Bosporans took the day.

Sept. 8-10:  Greg Kelleher offers a gallery featuring King Krum's Early Bulgars.

Vincent Tsao returns with a gallery of Patrician Western Romans.

Jason Dickie sends highlights of the recent ACT-NSW DBA Championships.  Congrats to Scott Roach and his Medieval Scandinavians.

There will be a DBA tourney at the Erie Day of Games (EDOG) on 25 Oct. in Erie, Pennsylvania, our latest calendar addition.

Soon to be added is the "Hammers of the North" DBA tourney to be held on Sept. 22 in Toronto, Canada.  The tourney theme will be Alexander the Great and the Successor States, 334 BC-280 BC.

Splintered Light Miniatures new range of 15mm Romano-British (Arthurians) are now available including a DBA army pack.  Next up this Fall are Early Saxons, followed by Picts and Irish.

Sept. 4-7: From Mike Johnson comes a beautifully executed Rus "A-Frame" camp created by Patrick Patterson.

Vincent Tsao submits the Later Swiss, featuring Mirliton figures.

David Lawrence's Early Libyans also join the ranks.

Stewbags has a photogallery up featuring his Sassanid Persians project, designed to grow from a DBA army to DBMM-size.

David Khoo (aka Saflex) has on-line highlights of DeBakle 2007, Congrats to Ptolemy CEternalus, who took tournament honors with his Ptolemaics.

John Hovey reports:  "We had a great tournament at Skirmish 07. Ian Buttridge's Alexandrian  Imperials defeated Mick Mickelsen's English War of the Roses in a hard fought final."

In the blogsphere, Mike Porter's The DBA Gamer features updated pictures of his Crusaders BUA and shots of his latest painting projects and DBA Hispano has a YouTube video featuring a Roman-style catapult.

Tony de Lyall reports "the free Berthier campaign management software has been updated (v5.17.2). See the “readme.txt” file for the changes. Of particular interest is a new utility called Army Plan that is intended to help with solo campaigns."

Peter Berry at Baccus Miniatures sends word that: "I've just updated the Baccus site, adding a shopping cart and adding new photographs of pretty well all the Ancients ranges.  One innovation is an option to 'Buy by Unit' for DBA. You can design your own army and order it straight from the site. No extra figures left over, no annoying shortages. I don't know if anyone else offers this option but it's proving pretty popular already. Late Romans coming very soon.... "

Eureka's 15mm Mississippians (Mound-Builders) are now available.  With both the Mound-Builders and Northwest American Indians now available, expect a return of the Armies of the America's theme tourney sometime next year at HMGS-East.

Other TMP tidbytes, include more on Baker Company's "Elephant Wars" SE Asian range and a new 28mm Hussite range from Kingmaker Miniatures.

Aug. 26-Sept. 3: Giovanni Allari offers a gallery featuring his Early Sumerians.   Giovanni is also part of a small but dedicated DBA community in Japan, dubbed the West Tokyo Wargamers, who welcome other interested gamers to join them.

John Loy's highlights of the HMGS-Great Lakes' Big Battle DBA tourney are available at the GLADBAG website, to which Mike Demana adds this shot of Tournament champion Jack Sheriff, showing off his regalia.

Everyone in the Washington Metro-area are invited to participate in De Bellis Vasingtonium, a DBA open tourney set for 8 Sept. as part of TriadCon at the University of Maryland-College Park.

Mother of all Battles (MOAB) set for 28 Sept. - 1 Oct. in Sylvania Heights (Sydney), will feature a number of DBA events.  Keep track of details here.

Newline Designs offers the Rapier line of 6mm figures, including Early Imperial Romans, Celts, Parthians, Indians, Persians, Greeks & Macedonians, and Seleucids.

August 20-25:  Keith Finn forwarded Phil Barker's order of battle for Alexander vs. Darius at Arbela, which prompted these Giant Battle scenario notes for Gaugamela.

David Schlanger has pictoral highlights and results of the Baltic Crusades theme tourney held at Historicon'07.

Karl Gaarsoe's Early Libyans join the ranks.

Stephen Webb sends along pictures of the dice boxes used by the Southern Battle Gamers for their DBA tourneys.  Also, here are some pictures from the Southern Battle Gamers' Aussie Revenge tournament in July.

The prolific Mike Porter not only has highlights from the HMGS-Great Lakes Big Battle Tourney, but also a new section on prepping figures for his Play DBA beginners guide, and a link to the DBA Hispano blogsite.  Congrats to John Loy and all the participants in the HMGS-GL Big Battle tourney, which drew 28 players.  With two undefeated players in each bracket, the tourney was decided on points...with Jim Kaspar taking the early bracket and Jack "The Butcher" Sheriff taking the later bracket.  See the Forum for armies and results.

TMP has two Essex newsbytes...first a special direct mail discount available in August and September and a notice that the Essex on-line catalog now has pictures of the "vast majority" of their figures.

Aug. 13-19: Mike Porter at The DBA Gamer blogspace has started a "Play DBA:  Getting Started With DBA" step-by-step guide for newbies.

Giovanni Allari's latest are Neo-Assyrian Later Sargonids, featuring HaT and Caesar miniatures.

And here is my take on Strathclyde Brits, from the later Sub-Roman British sublist, and featuring the brushwork of David Kuijt and some nifty Little Big Man shield rub-ons.

Over at his FigureativelySpeaking blogspace, Tony Aguilar has a new gallery up featuring his Tang Chinese.

Bill MacGillivray sends word that "full details and entry forms are now available for this year's English DBA Open on 14 October 2007, and we are now accepting entries. Confirmed entries so far include Phil B & Sue L-B. Details can be found here and a PDF format entry form can be downloaded from that page."

In case you missed it, Eureka has finally released their 15mm Northwest American Indians, good for Tlingit, Haida and all those other coastal tribes of the Pacific Northwest.  Look closely at the small painted sample and at the figures defending Don Ray's longhouse BUA and waterway, and you'll get an idea of how colorful this army could be.  Hopefully, their Mound-builders are not too far behind.

August 10-12: As promised, a first gallery from Andreas Johansson featuring his 15mm Mirliton Teutonic Order plus Karl Gaarsoe's first gallery, featuring Gauls comprised of just about every Gallic figure ever produced.

David Lawrence adds Timurids to his gallery line-up.

Mike Porter has new Early Crusaders on display at his DBA Gamer blogspace.   Keep your eye on Mike's website for an upcoming painting guide.

Stephen Webb has the results of the Southern Battle Gamers five round, matched pairs tourney, held earlier in August.  Congrats to tournament champ Ian White.

Terry Webb sends along pictures of Robert Carter's camps for De Bellum Napoleonica.  I incorrectly identified them as Terry's...apologies to Bob.

Floridians...its not to late to make our favorite Martian's Matched-Pairs Tourney this weekend at Rapier.Con in Jacksonville, Florida.  Lots of other new events for the calendar, including three events in Texas...DBA at Skirmish 07 in Plano (25 August), at ProtoCon in College Station (23 Sept.), and Millennium.Con near Austin (10 Nov.)

From TMP, news that Renegade has released its 28mm Saxon cavalry, and that Wargames Workshop has released a range of fantasy/historical 28mm Spartans for its Wargods game system.  Mike at Black Hat Miniatures (purveyor of former Gladiator figs) announces: "I requested, I will produce DBA packs (at 10% over individual figure price) – just let me know what the pack makeup should be.  DBA packs are on my (very long) list of things to do."

August 4-8:  Working on catching up with my inbox, starting with a series of eye candy galleries the first of which is Giovanni Allari's Alexandrian/Imperial Macedonian morph.

Greg Kelleher adds the Atabeg of Aleppo (aka Syrians) to his list of galleries.

David Lawrence continues the Islamic theme with this army of Fatimid caliphate, along with the Byzantines of Trezibond.

David also sends along a report of the About Face 2007 tournament, which drew 29 players to Canberra in early June.  Congrats to David Phillips, whose Genoese Condotta ruled the day.

On the DBA event calendar are the Matched-Pairs Tourney at RapierCon in Jacksonville on August 11, the 6th annual HMGS-Great Lakes Big Battle Tourney set for 18 August in Reynoldsburg, Ohio; a DBA Theme Tournament at Recruits 2007 in Lee's Summit, Missouri on 8 Sept., and De Bellis Vasingtonium, which will be held as part of TriadCon on 8 Sept. at the University of Maryland.

The folks at Miniature Gameworks are offering a range of "BaseIt"  DBx bases, with an innovative design that includes recesses so that figures can be mounted flush with the top of the base.  They are also planning to offer epic-scale (12mm) ancient and medieval ranges branded as Military Miniatures Collectibles. First up, the Crusades and Hundred Years War.  Here's a more detailed description of their plans re: bases.

Sometimes new product seems to come out of you from left field, like BakerCompany's new range of 15mm SE Asian Elephant wars figures.

July 31-August 3: Stephen Montague returns with this essay on the army of Mithridates VI Eupator.

Andreas Johansson (aka "The last Conformist") offers some Fanatici Feedback on Martin Charlesworth's proposed variant for DBA chariots.  And a reminder that Andreas invites the Fanatici to check out his downloadable DBA and HOTT paper armies at "De Bellis Planorum".

The banner above features winners of the Historicon Themes Tournaments held on Sunday.  From L-R, Alex Halkiadakis, Alex Bostwick, David Kuijt, Doug Mudd, Bill Fischer, and Mark Pozniak, who also took the NICT, which explains the big grin.

Also from Historicon, this shot of Jeff Caruso's Patrician Roman Fortified Tower camp, scratch-built by the master Barry Scarlett and featured as a BUA in our Gothic Wars campaign game.  Alas, the invading Alamanni put it to the torch.

As time permits, I'll create a highlights page for Historicon.  In the meantime, here are highlights of the National Invitational Championship, the Fortune's Favorates grudge match, WADBAG's Star Wars HOTT demo game, and general H-Con coverage.  Mike Porter also published several updates with pictures at his DBA Gamer blogspace.

My convention splurge was a Sub-Roman/Arthurian army put together from the new Bernard Cornwell-inspired Romano-British range by Splintered Light Miniatures.  I talked to owner David McBride, and he will be offering DBA army packs as his historical ranges expand to include Early Saxons (up next) and later Saxons and Normans of the Conquest period.

New Osprey's include Granicus 334 BC (Campaign 182) by Richard Thompson, Roman Battle Tactics 109 BC - AD 313 (Elite 155) by Ross Cowan, and Condottierre 1300-1500 AD (Warrior 115) by David Murphy.

July 26-30:  Going to try to squeeze in a quick update before I'm off to Historicon, starting with this shot of the Constantinopolis BUA I created for the Gothic Wars tabletop campaign game.

Mike Porter is going to provide Historicon highlights through his DBA Gamer blogspace this weekend, starting with his victory in the WimpyWars tourney held Thursday night.

Filippo Simoncini at DBAItalia has a DBA Summer Festival for us, featuring new galleries by Marco Boetti featuring his Gallic host along with Druidic camp, his Sassanid Persians and the Later Swiss.  Alessandro Salini's Anglo-Irish join the ranks, along with Marco Baccari's War of the Roses English.

Steve Webb has results of the "Aussie's Revenge" tournament put on by the Southern Battlegamers earlier this month.  Congrats to tournament champion Paul Collins.

Neil Hughes has highlights of the Nunawading Wargames Associations Winter DBA Tournament.  Congrats to tournament champion Peter Stone.

AllDBM.Com is "a memorial for De Bellis Multitudinis" now that DBMM has been published, but it provides lots of useful info for DBA players.  It is currently not available, but the site previously included the full set of DBM army lists, which can  help you understand what the elements in your DBA army are actually intended to represent.

Lots of new product news from TMP just in time for the big summer conventions, including new 6mm Late Romans from Baccus, new 25mm Early Saxons from NorthStar, Essex has a newly updated range of 25mm Sassanid Persians, and Oddzial Osmy has released a DBA army box its 15mm Late Medieval Polish.  Also a nice picture taken by Paul Hannah of Doug Hamm, Seth Terry and Don Ray, winners of the DBA Open Tourney at Enfilade.

July 15-25: Ricardo Ponz contributes his first gallery, featuring Classical Indians and Xyston figures. The army is complimented by a Ganesha Shrine camp.

Another first gallery, this time from Paul Pecena (aka Texas Maximus), who sends along the army of Spartacus, including a very clever portrayal of Warband.

Doug Hamm sends along two variations on a camp for his Eureka North West American Indians, one created by Don Ray and both of which illustrate the joys of scrounging.

Mike Stelzer posts results of the DBA Open Tourney at Origins.  Kudos on the turnout and congrats to Allen Sams and Jason Stelzer, the early and later bracket champs.

From Jason Dickie comes word that the Canberra Games Society and the Canberra Kreigspielers along with their sponsors are hosting their 2d ACT/NSW DBA Championship on 19 August in Canberra.

I got a real kick out of the MadAxeman's DBM Viking videos at YouTube.

From TMP, Eureka will have a new range of 28mm Sumerians at Historicon and Claymore.

June 30-July 14:  Between a crazy work schedule and an empty in-box, this update is a little on the thin side, but I can offer you two nice eye candy additions.

First up is a Universal Camp by Terry Webb, a very versatile element that will serve just about any European army from Book II to Book IV.

And Barry Scarlett has another one of his Pictish Broch masterpieces up for auction at Ebay.

On the TMP Workbench, Bill Armintrout is taking a somewhat unique approach to building a DBA Ancient British army.

News that Baueda is planning  to expand its 15mm Hoppidus range with new releases this Fall to include walls and buildings from the Bronze Age and Blblical periods. The sneak peek features a 15mm Mycenaean house and shed.

New from Osprey is Byzantine Infantry: Eastern Roman Empire 900-1204 AD, one of Angus McBride's last works.

June 24-29: With help from Paul Hannah, Don Ray sends along a gallery featuring his Museum Pecheneg War Wagons.

Vincent Tsao contributes a set of generic campaign maps for 3, 4, 5, and 6 players.

Added a DBA in the Age of Gunpowder theme page to support the new Forum, including pictures of Alex Testo's French DBN army and a typical DBN battle, for all of you who wonder what this type of period variant looks like.

From the blogosphere, Mike Porter has collected some colorful plates on the Later Swiss, Menix has some recreations of Celtic shield designs, Bjorn at Normans of Stockholm tries out the miracle dip, and Jeff Caruso updates his Alamanni gallery to show off the new LBM shield transfers for his POTN Goths.

Stewbags is putting together a Sassanid army featuring a wide variety of figures (e.g. Metal Mercenaries, Mike's Models, Minifigs, and MiniatureWars)

Camelot Miniatures (Italy) has released a range of 15mm Huns, consisting so far of heavy foot and medium cavalry. Also featured at TMP.

June 20-23:  Donald Acker sends "Here's an alternate figure option for those who want something more  than counters, but don't have time or commitment to painting: Lego DBA."

Filippo Simoncini at DBAItalia points the Fanatici to two new army galleries, featuring Marco Boetti's Ptolemiac and Marian Roman.

Andreas Johansson invites the Fanatici to check out his DBA and HOTT paper armies at "De Bellis Planorum".

HMGS-Great Lakes' schedule for WarParty2007 (30 June 2007) includes a "Rolling Thunder" DBA tourney by Eric Luczaj and a HOTT tourney by David Zecchini.

Robert Runnels has news of HMGS-Pacific Southwest's 6th Annual DBA Championship Tourney, which is set for Saturday, 14 July 2007 at Brookhurst Hobbies in Garden Grove, California.

Martin Stephenson at Vexillia has a blogspot up featuring customer submitted army galleries, including Mirliton Italian Condotta and Burgundians.

Yow-za!.  Splintered Light Miniatures, makers of interesting 15mm fantasy figures, is going historical with some promising looking Romano-Brits and Early Saxons.

June 12-19:  Michael Sims contributes a gallery featuring his 6mm Polybian Romans.

Two eyecandy ops include SvenS' Warring States Chinese and Barry Scarlett's Celtic Hillfort and stone circle.

At Delium, Boeotians dealt a decisive defeat to the Athenians, nearly making off with Socrates in the pursuit, and employing what sounds like an ancient version of the flamethrower.

Martin Stephenson at Vexillia has updated his Fanatici basing special with magnetized bases.  While supplies last, Martin is also offering Venexia's special David and Goliath pack with every order of five or more packs of Venexia figures.  Here is a great eye candy shot of the shepherd and the giant squared off.

Rattlehead Games in North Carolina is carrying Xyston DBA army packs.

June 9-11:  John Tapper contributes his first Fanatici gallery featuring Later Mycenaeans and 15mm Museum Miniatures.

Jeff Barnes does a nice job on an Irish Celtic Tomb Camp that recently found a new home via Ebay auction.

Fanatici Chris Ewick of The Game Matrix shop near Tacoma, Washington has been added to the Bazaar with this offering of a DBA Army Tray, which can be used to transport your game materials from table to table during DBA tournies.

Another Fanatici merchant, Jeff Caruso of Pass o' the North miniatures, offers a casting of Chicomecoatl, an Aztec fertility goddess, featured here as an Aztec Barker Marker.

The HaT website features Alexander Stewart's Achaemenid Persian army of Darius, plus painted images of test sprues for their upcoming Gallic Warband and Late Roman Missile Troops releases.

As I play catch-up, there are several TMP Tidbits today:  Magister Militum adds pictures of its 15mm Burmese and has updated its DBA army packs, adding all options and 70 new armies.  Vendel's new 28mm Hillmen make for good Early Germans or Northern European Barbarians. Musket Miniatures offers a peek at its new 25mm Early Saxon general. Artizan Designs miniatures will release a range of 25mm Spartans carved by Steve Saleh.

June 2-8:  Don Ray scratchbuilt this great Northwest American Longhouse BUA and NW littoral waterway terrain, with photos courtesy of Paul Hannah.

Over at the DBA Gamer, Mike Porter has finished up his Macedonian Early Successors featuring the army of Antigonos Gonatas.

John Loy announces that the 6th Annual HMGS Great Lakes Big Battle DBA Tournament will be held August 18th at New Song Community Church in Reynoldsburg, Ohio.

Roland Fricke IDs the Paper Landmarks site, which sells paper kits of landmarks such as Stonehenge, a Babylonian ziggurat or the Roman coliseum, that may have table potential or for use providing interesting photographic backgrounds for your armies.

Donnington has just announced its new 15mm Villanovan Italian range.

From TMP, Magister Militum continues to add to its 10mm ancients ranges,

May 29-June 1: In keeping with the basing theme, Jeff Zorn's basing technique features the use of latex caulk.

Terry Webb sends along pictures and highlights of two days of DBA-doings at NashCon 2007.

The Portsmouth and Allied Wargamers Summer DBA Tourney is just around the corner on June 9.  The tournament theme is Rome and her enemies in the 5th Century AD.

Also around the corner is the Nunawading Wargames Association's Autumn DBA tourney, set for June 16.

Added a feature link to Historicon 2007, forthcoming in July and already the subject of much good-natured trash-talking in the Forum.  Carpe alea!

Fans of Barry Scarlett's scratchbuilt camps take note...he has Ebay auctions going for a Pictish or Irish crannog and a Dark Age stone/timber fort.

May 25-28: If you haven't visited yet, make a point of checking out Tony Aguilar's  Figure-atively Speakin