How it all started...

I was introduced to DBA by a friend who is a Napoleonics advocate in 1993. I figured if these rules could drag my Napoleonics loving gamer into the ancients period they must be pretty good. Being a poor student, I liked the small armies, made even smaller by my choice of 6mm as the preferred scale. There was a long hiatus after I graduated--in the mean time the rules went from 1.0 to 2.0, now 2.2, but I like it just as much as I did over ten years ago. I was only slightly sad that my Viking warband army became a blade army through the rules changes...

I started playing this year.
I am one of those Warhammer players that came upset with the continual price increse by GW and suddenly DBA appeared. I saw some Corvus Bellis miniatures at 2004 and I liked those romans a lot, but there were no gamers in my city, so I began to talk about it to my friends; a few months later there were two DBA gameres and it was time for me to join with my first hellenistic army.
Actually we are around 5 gamers in our city, which has 95.789 inhabitants, but we would like to promote the game among all those upset WH gamers here.

Actually I got a hellenistic "multi-army", a roman "multy-army" and a carthagian army. It is around one army per month since I started playing (as long as I got 10 WHFB/WH40K painted armies painting a DBA army is a piece of cheese [img]smile.gif[/img] ) which scares me a bit.

At least my grandma preffers my DBA armies to my WH armies, considering when see look into my miniatures she starts talking about all Roman and Iberians heroes she learnt at school, specially Viriatus, who seems to be her hero ^^

Little ceasar

Someone suggested maybe we can start painting and play DBA with our early efforts while we finish painting the rest of our DBM armies. Well, long story short, now we play DBA and I have two 400 point DBM armies that are collecting dust.

I was just curious if there were any similar stories, or if anyone else 'backed' into DBA the way we did.

My story followed a similar path. The WRG 7th ed. armies I had used, in the early 90s were frequently used for DBA demonstrations or games. None of my opponents had the time to paint the larger collections but did like the appeal of the smaller army and shorter game time. So, I moved with the tide and created a variety of armies based on my larger collection of Goths and Late Romans and since then I have added collections centered on a particular period of time; armies of 1000AD (from Spain to the Hindu Kush), The Baltic Crusades, The Fall of Rome, and now the Biblical period. This is now fast approaching 60 plus complete armies.

Cheers,

Originally posted by <Little Caesar>:
Someone suggested maybe we can start painting and play DBA with our early efforts while we finish painting the rest of our DBM armies. Well, long story short, now we play DBA and I have two 400 point DBM armies that are collecting dust.

It also sounds like those armies collecting dust can find there way out again in some BBDBA.

Or, perhaps as Ebay DBA armies...

In my case, it's all Sarduri IIs fault.

He must have been needing new opponents; he even painted my first DBA army for me in exchange for a bottle of vodka and a pizza, I recall! Little did I realise the subtlety of the snare: that was about 15 (?) years ago, and I have been hooked ever since. (And had to do my own painting.) I (still) look forward to the day I beat him.

Originally posted by JamesLDIII:

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It also sounds like those armies collecting dust can find there way out again in some BBDBA.

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Only too true. My Fanatic Berbers square off against Early Crusaders tonight in BBDBA. As for ebay, I don't think I could part with the little fellas even if I knew I wouldn't be using them. I told my wife that they are my insurance policy. I spend about an hour painting per figure and told her to sell them off when I die to pay for burying me.

Wow, that's kinda morbid.
Steve

[ December 22, 2005, 08:57: Message edited by: Little Caesar ]

I drifted into DBA as a historical version of my favorite game - Hordes. I've now got 5 DBA armies with two more on the way [yeah, I answered "as long as a year" on the poll] but I'm still mostly a Hordes player.

Before coming out to Taiwan, I'd never heard of DBx ...... once here I started teaching D&D and RISK to my English students to get them away from computer games. The problem is/was that kids here spend about 60+ hours a week in school, so they didn't have time for long games/campaigns.

I had to find a shorter gaming system and found DBAOL accidentally. I got hooked, became a member, bought the 2.0 rulebook and some figures (first armies were Marian Roman and Thracians)...... sat down, moved elements around the table to see how 2.0 played differently from DBAOL..... started teaching DBA to my students

Took me years to find another foreigner in Taiwan who played DBX ...... he taught me DBM and I taught him DBA

Some of my students love the game.......at an hour or so per game, they have time to have fun.

Lee in Taiwan

My story is similar to most; I drifted away from wargaming during 6/7th editions, then had a resurgance of interest when DBM came out. One eveing my regualr opponent didn't have much time so we experimented with DBA - and after a couple of games we were hooked and haven't done anything else since.

I had been playing wargames since about 1988 when I was 12 - using WRG 1685-1845 and WRG 7th as well as Zulu Wars stuff using some Tabletop rules.

When DBA came out in about 1991 one of the clubs I was playing with at Haberfield in Sydney took it up on a large scale. I played it as a regular diversion from WRG 7th, and enjoyed playing a number of campaigns. I also used it to introduce a number of non-gaming friends to wargaming.

I have remained keen player of WRG 7th and have stuck with Warrior (an American rejig of WRG 7th and a most superior game!) but have played in a couple of DBA tournaments organised by Dave (Macbeth) and have enjoyed them a lot.

DBA is also my wife's preferred wargame, though she also enjoys occasional forays into Fast Warrior as well as painting figures.

Adrian Williams