Campaign Scenarios
and Resources

Historical Campaign Scenarios

Chariot Period

• Kahmose's Rebellion (1537 BCE) (Kyle Burley)
• "King of Kings" Chariot Age DBA Campaign (Peter Clarke)
• Decent and Darkness (1100 BC) (Nicholas Wright)

Hellenistic Period

• A Year of Battles: Persian Civil War (522 BCE) (Andrew Fisher)
• Persiašs First Invasion of Greece (490 BCE) (Matthew Kirkhart)
• The Founder: The Rise of the Persian Empire under Cyrus the Great (550-529 BCE) (Mark Kyriss)
• The Great Persian War (481-478 BCE) (Paul Pecena)
• Near Eastern Campaign (550 BCE) (Robert Runnels)
• The Age of Persian Empire (550-478 BCE)
• Athens vs. Sparta (John McLennan)
• Alexander the Great's Conquests (355-330 BC)
• Alexandrian Successor Mini Campaign (c. 300 BC) (Steve Burt)
• Height of Hellenism (c. 300 BC) (Nicholas Wright)
• Antiochus vs. Ptolemy (Ix Nichols)

Rome:  Republic and Empire

• Dueling Republics (The Punic Wars) (Ix Nichols)
• 1st Punic War (264 BC) (Stephen Montague/Martin Schmidt)
• 2nd Punic War (238 BC) (Stephen Montague/Chris Brantley)
• King of Numidia (Bill Sumruld)
• Roman Civil War 49-45 BC (Mark Fastoso)
• Friends, Romans, Countrymen: Roman Republic (Mike Demana)
• Caesar's Ashes (44 BC) (Rory Naismith)
• Vectis Vanquished: Roman Conquest of Isle of Wight (45 AD) (Simon Bargery)
• The Year of the Four Emperors (AD 69) (Julian Donohoe)
• Ave Imperator: Roman Republic (235 AD) (Mark Cardone)
• Carausian Britian (296 AD) (J.D. Ehlers)
• Enemy at the Gates: Rome vs. the Barbarians (301 AD) (Jeff Caruso)
• Divided Empire (394 AD) (J.D. Ehlers)
• Fall of Rome (451 AD) (WADBAG)
• The Fall of Rome (476 AD) (Chris Brantley)
• Fall of the Roman Empire (5th C. AD) (Russell Strachan)

Dark Ages/Feudal Period

• The Age of Arthur (Ix Nichols)
• The Round Table Arthurian DBM Campaign (Jeff Herbert)
• Arthurian Britain (480 AD) (Richard Denning)
• Britannica (480 AD) (Nicholas Wright)
• Justinian's Wars (c. 530 AD) (Mike Demana)
• Justinian's Revival (533 AD) (J.D. Ehlers)
• Britain (c.600 AD) (Chris Brantley)
• Kings of North - N. Britain (600 AD) (Chris Brantley)
• Allahu Akbar (640 AD) (Chris Brantley)
• Charlemagne's Conquest (770 AD) (J.D. Ehlers)

Medieval Period

• The Sudan (1000 AD) (Anu Aurora)
• England on Her Knees (1002 AD) (Rory Naismith)
• The Normans in Italy (1043 AD) (Marco Ponzi)
• Britain (1066 AD) (Chris Brantley)
• 1066 and all that (The Norman Conquest of Britain)
• The Cross and the Crescent: The Crusades (1100 AD) (The Perfect Captain)
• Medieval Campaign System (c. 1200-1500 AD) (Ix Nichols)
• Franks in Greece, 1205 AD (Andy Hooper)
• Edward Bruce's Invasion of Ireland (1316-1318 AD) (Roy Beers)
• 100 Years War (1369 AD) (Ix Nichols)
• Balkan Campaign -- Ottoman Expansion in the 1400s (Darren Buxbaum)
• War of the Roses Mini-Campaign (John Hill)
• The Calamatious 14th Century: Med. Europe (1330-1450 AD) (John Graham-Leigh)
• War of the Roses (1460 AD) (also available here). (Martin Stephenson)
• War of the Roses (Paul Potter)
• Inca Conquest (Jim Fasnacht)

Table-Top Campaigns

Table-top campaigns are not true campaigns, but are more akin to a multiplayer DBA Big Battle game where each player represents a nation or army and the campaign map doubles as the gameboard. They provide an alternative with a campaign flavor but better suited for single-session gaming in a convention or clubnight format.

• TikiWars (Polynesian civil war)

Alternative Campaign Formats

• Ancient Empires (shareware campaign game with conversion rules for DBA battles)
• Battlemaker
• Conquest
• Crusader Conquest
• Defenders of the Empire campaign system (John Gillson)
• First Man in Rome

Ahistorical or Achronistic Campaigns

• Obsidian Throne Campaign (WADBAG)
• DBA Settlers of Catan Campaign Rules

Campaign Rules and Tools

Campaign Rules Variants and Additions

• Alternative Campaign Objectives -- Alternatives to geographical conquest as a campaign victory condition suggested by Jason Ehlers.
• Amphibious Invasions campaign variant rule by Bob McDonald
• Berthier Campaign Moderator, developed by Tony De Lyall. Designed as a freeware moderator for miniature wargames campaigns, Berthier is a DOS program with a mouse and/or keyboard interface that runs in a DOS window under Windows & Windows 9x operating systems.
• DBA Campaign Variant Rules by David Lawrence.
• DBA Campaigns Using Action Points --Campaign variant rules developed for the Keel University Wargames and Boardgames Society.
• "Civilized" DBA Campaigns -- Campaign variant rules adapted from Sid Meier's Civilization 2 Game for DBA by Jason Ehlers.
• Diplomacy Rules for Campaigns an aide for solo or regular campaigns by Stephen Montaguer variant for DBA .
• Optional Resource Rules for Campaigns -- Optional rules provide for use of natural resources in recruiting/maintaining your armies. Developed by Jason Ehlers.
• Programmed Leaders for Ancient Campaigns by Keith McNelly allows for participation by non-player countries/armies in DBA campaigns.
• Programmed Leaders in DBA Campaigns, an adaption of the original by P.J. Raper.
• Mountainous Routes, a variant rule by Stephen Montague was designed with Hannibal and the Alps in mind.
• Naval Rules for Campaigns by John Meunier to better integrate naval and land operations in DBA campaign games.
• Relics for DBA Campaigns by Jim Wright offer both a means of livening up your campaign game and providing an alternative victory object.
• Hex Grid Campaign Maps, an alternative approach to traditional campaign.
• Variant Campaign Rules by David Lawrence.

Generic Campaign Maps

Vincent Tsao has created the following set of generic campaign maps for 3-6 players (in .jpg format) with both contiguous and non-contiguous layouts:

The following generic campaign maps have been rendered in ASCII and can be utilized to construct campaign games with varying numbers of players.

• 3 Player Campaign Map
• 4 Player Campaign Map
• 6 Player Campaign Map (Standard DBA)
• 6 Player Campaign Map (Variation)
• 6 Player Campaign Map (Sea-Based)
• 8 Player Campaign Map
• 10 Player Campaign Map
• 12 Player Campaign Map
• Grid Based DBA Campaigns

The following regional maps are "blank" representations of geographical boundaries, but with no terrain features or political divisions. A large (800 pixel) and small (570 pixel) version is provided. They can be modified to create campaign maps suitable for various historical periods.

• Baltics (small)
• Iberian Peninsula (small)
• Italia (small)

Here is a Middle Earth campaign map for a Lord of the Rings campaign.

Submitting Your Campaign Scenario

If you have a write-up of a special DBA campaign scenario that you'd like to submit to the DBA Resource Page, just drop it in an e-mail to Chris Brantley at brant@erols.com.