Toy Soldiers

For the uninitiated, my explanation of What is Wargaming

This is to contain various articles & lynx for toy soldiers, primarily Ancient Wargames using the rules De Bello Multitudinous, when I have time to mark up & add these. At the moment, there's only a few articles:

Using Terrain in DBM (my thoughts)
John Shirey's DBM Rules interpretations (US nationals/Historicon '97)
Kevin Donovan's Advice on using regular Fast Knights (and on Fast troops in general)
Ethan Zorick's calculations on Knights facing Light Horse
Alan Patrick's rules adaptions for DBM 200 (Mini-DBM games)
Questions on Allies from Roger Pimlott's excellent site
Questions about Mounted Infantry & their use from Roger Pimlott's excellent site
Questions about Naval in DBM from Roger Pimlott's excellent site
DBM Glossary of Terms (from The Vortex)
What is DBM ... a brief overview (from The Vortex)
Hittite Military Relief (or why I hate Hittites part #1)

in addition, here's a series of Battle Reports from my more interesting games:

Seleucid Victory over Republican Romans at Battles of Elephant's Drop
Roman Victory over the Egyptians at the Battle of Timia
Patrician Roman Victory over the Late Imperial Romans at Drogo's End
Patrician Roman Victory over the Spartans at the Battle for Mediolanum
Patrician Roman Victory over the Early Byzantines at Aigocephalae
Khazar Loss to the Abbasid Empire at the Battle of Rhustavili
Sarmatian VIctory over the Alexandrian Macedonians at the Battle of Pig Hill
Norman Victory over the Anglo-Danes at the Holidayy Trippe
Medieval German Victory over the Early Burgundians at the Battle of Waldendreck
Medieval German Victory over the Medieval French at the Battle of St Ives
Medieval German Victory over the Burgundian Ordonnance at the Battle of Bearn
Medieval German Victory over the Early Samurai in Karls Day Out
Tibetan Victory over the Early Samurai in the Battle of Houn
Sarmatian Victory over the Nikephorian Byzantines at the Battle of DeadDogs Village
Sarmatian Victory over the Later Achaemenid Persians at the Battle of Sweet Revenge
Aztec Victory over the Spartans at the Battle of Unnumbered Spears
Siamese Victory over the Later Hebrews at the Battle of Heron River
Anglo-Irish Victory over the Hundred Years' War English at the Battle of Coughkerry
Ch'in Chinese victory over the New Kingdom Egyptians at the Battle of ZIjuan Beef
Tales of Thud and Blunder: Svein Bloodletter and the Scanians
- Leidang victory over the Medieval Germans at the Bishops Revenge
- Leidang victory over the Hittite Empire at A sea too far
- Leidang victory over the Medieval French at Wine, cheese and cheap horse steaks
- Leidang victory over the Beja at Dust and deserts
- Leidang moral victory over the Samurai at The arrowstorm
- Leidang victory over the Byzantines at Snorri and the shopping triop
- A dietary nightmare: Lo Fat and the T'ang Chinese
  - Early Tang victory over the Early Byzantines at the Battle of Silk Vale
  - Early Tang draw with the Early Samurai in Formation Dancing
  - Early Tang victory over the Patrician Romans in The Feast of Battle
  - Early Tang victory over the Sassanid Persians in Elephant Ragout
  - Early Tang victory over the Ilkhanids in 'A Takeout too Far'
  - Early Tang victory over the Patrician Romans (again) in Blood Valley
  - Early Tang victory over the Kushan peril at Bunker Sands
  - Early Tang victory over the Later Hungarians at the Battle of Gulyas
  - Early Tang victory over the Macedonian Imperial Army at the Battle of Broken Lances
  - Early Tang: 3 victories in the club DBM-mini (200AP) tourney
  - Early Tang: victory over the Hsien Pi at the Battle of Quo Hai Hill
  - Early Tang: victory over the Dynastic Bedouin at the Battle of El-Haq Mountain
  - Early Tang: victory over the Abbasids at the Battle of Tigris Plain
- The Fury of the Franks: Or, Chlodeburh joins the army.
  - Early Franks vs Hussites: Chlodeburh's FIrst Charge
  - Early Franks vs Knights of St John: The Seasick Hedgehog
  - Early Franks vs Burgundian Ordonnance: Chop up Charles
  - Early Franks vs Bactrian Greek: Beware of Greeks bearing Elephants
  - Early Franks vs Classical Indian: Beware of Elephants bearing anything
  - Early Franks vs Ottoman Turks: Turkish Delight
  - Patrician Roman victory in The Civil War
  - Patrician Roman vs Western Wei: or Who can be less reliable
  - Patrician Roman vs Libyan Egyptian: Manaed Wood
  - Patrician Roman vs Khazar: Into the Great Plains
  - Patrician Roman vs Later Carthaginian: Frozen with Fright
- Tales of Thorax: A Hoplite's story
  - Hoplite Greek Victory over the Medieval Spanish at the Battle of Ilex
  - Kyrenean Greek Victory over the Medieval Spanish at the Battle of Greenvale Village
  - Kyrenean Greek Victory over the Early Burgundians at the Battle of Aegosarrhina
  - Kyrenean Greek Victory over the Late Romans at the Battle for Bari
  - Hoplite Greek Victory over the Medieval French at the Battle of Mt Olympos
  - Hoplite Greek Victory over the Later Achaemenid Persians at Sardis Redux
- Assyriology:
  - Assyrian Victory over the Medieval Spanish at the Battle of Strongblade
  - Assyrian Victory over the Samanid Persians at the Battle of Raging Equods
  - Assyrian Defeat and Victory over the Sumerians: two battles
  - Assyrian Victory over the Libyan Egyptians at the Battle of Shell Crater
  - Assyrian Victory over the Later Hungariansat the Sign of Burning Wheels
  - Assyrian Victory over the Feudal French at the Battle of Five Hills
  - Assyrian Defeat at the hands of the Teutonic Knights at the Battle of Shemlah
  - Assyrian victory over rebel Assyrians at the Battle of Eshhar Plain
  - Assyrian Campaign at the National Championships: Six Battles
  - Sargonid Victory over the Later Muslim Indians at the Battle of Aixa
- A Year in Dacia: Memoirs
  - Dacian Victory at the Sacred Vale Games over the Republican Romans
  - Dacian Victory over the Spartans at Mt Parnassos
  - Dacian VIctory over the Abbasids at LongLances
  - Gallic Victory over the Later Hebrews at Daffodil Vale
  - Gallic Victory over the Marian Romans at Battle of Ronus
- Divium Beta Machinum: the florid follies of the Florentines:
  - Florentine victory over the Serbian Empire in part 1: In Pursuit of Perfection
  - Florentine victory over the Patrician Romans in part 2: Deviationism
  - Florentine victory over Medieval Portugese in part 3: Italia Redux
  - Florentine victory over the Burgundian Ordonnance in part 4: An impudent burgundy
- Ex Africa semper aliquid novi ... and what could be more peculiar than Christian Nubians?
  - Nubian Victory over the infidel Conquest Arabs at the Battle of the Little Sand Sea
  - Nubian Victory over the evil empire of the 'Ummayid at Battle of Broken Ankle
  - Nubian Victory over the Nikephorian Byzantines at the River of Sand
  - Nubian Victory over the Medieval Spanish at the Battle of Eden Springs
  - Nubian Victory over the Hittite Empire at the Battle of Mt Arafat
  - Nubian Victory over the Khurasanians at the Battle of Midnight Madness
  - Nubian Victory over the Il-Khanids at the Battle of the Taupe Nile
Gallery
This is a Geocities site holding pictures of most of my armies. While I'm quite proud of the paint jobs, the photography could definitely do with improvement
Other Peoples Battles
- The Saga of Fluffy (Steve O'Brien)
- Brucenkhamen Lives (Bruce Fergusson)
- How Battle Reports are Written (Monty Walls et al)
- Artorius Faces East (James Mainord & Ray Summers )
- The Saga of Snuffles (Brendan Moyle)
- The Curse of Woozo (Brendan Moyle)
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