3.0 Due date

[dicemanrick]

Phil posted on the DBMM list:

Posted by: "Phil Barker" pc.barker@blueyonder.co.uk damnbarkeragain
Tue Nov 15, 2011 4:41 am (PST)


About 6 weeks after the army lists are done, of which I am now up to 200
BC...

Phil

-----Original Message-----
From: Les
Sent: Friday, November 11, 2011 11:57 AM
To: DBMMlist@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [DBMMlist] Re: Brian Boru 2011

--- In DBMMlist@yahoogroups.com, "Phil Barker" wrote:
DBMM is the only set as yet
> published by new WRG, with DBA 3.0 and HFG following shortly.
>
Any date for DBA 3.0 yet?

LES

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[david kuijt]

It is against the policy rules for the DBMM yahoo list to discuss DBA there. Yet the only news we ever get from the horse's mouth is over there, where we cannot ask go (due to their policy rules) to ask questions. Does this feel like Catch 22 to anyone else?

[Xavi]

Considering that DBA has been talked there extensively, I would say that the restriction was floated quite a long time ago. Still, if you want to get offended at it and keep beating a dead horse 89and maybe dead rulebook), go ahead

[david kuijt]

Originally Posted by Xavi

Considering that DBA has been talked there extensively, I would say that the restriction was floated quite a long time ago. Still, if you want to get offended at it and keep beating a dead horse 89and maybe dead rulebook), go ahead

If one quarter the people on this forum who have questions go over to the DBMM list and start to ask their DBA questions there, you can bet they'd start enforcing the restriction, Xavi.

[Xavi]

Heh, I would bet that most of those people have already reached a state of "wait and see" or "to hell with 3.0" already, so not many people will go there and ask right now.

[david kuijt]

Originally Posted by Xavi

Heh, I would bet that most of those people have already reached a state of "wait and see" or "to hell with 3.0" already, so not many people will go there and ask right now.

Probably. Like if we stop distracting the dentist, he'll finish the root canal? (The Novocaine wore off some time ago, and I just want it to be over...)

[sue@wrg.me.uk]

I cannot tell you what the expected date for DBA 3.0 is. Currently Phil is working his way through the lists, checking them and adding extra references and information. Then I expect a final revison of the rules and the addition of diagrams. Once the rules are finsihed and sent to the printers, it will be about 6 weeks before they are on sale.

Once we reach that position, I will come back to this group and tell you. My "Start Ancient Wargaming" cannot be completed until I know what DBA 3.0 looks like. Two chapters are on my website (www.wrg.me.uk) and I have removed the 3rd chapter, the sample game, because it was pointed out to me that it is so out-of-date that it is misleading. It was written at a time when I intended the book to include 2.2 DBA rules and lists and I was persuaded to wait and revise it for 3.0. I needed some mechanism to explain what was going on and I chose a teenage brother and sister telling each other what to do. If you have a better idea, let me know and I'll consider it.

I find the delay very frustrating. I tolerate it because the end result is so much better. In addition to DBA, I am halfway through writing a 300-page book on family history, so I'll concentrate on that until Phil has finished the army lists. I notice he works faster when he's left alone to get on with it.

See you later.
Sue

[Alan Lauder]

Originally Posted by sue@wrg.me.uk

I cannot tell you what the expected date for DBA 3.0 is. Currently Phil is working his way through the lists, checking them and adding extra references and information. Then I expect a final revison of the rules and the addition of diagrams. Once the rules are finsihed and sent to the printers, it will be about 6 weeks before they are on sale.

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See you later.
Sue

Thanks for the update and clarifications, Sue. We eagerly await the results.

Alan

[David Brown]

Thanks for the info.

For some reason the sample chapters won't load up for me, i guess the problem is my dodgy old tech.

db