I played three
games of DBA last night.
David Hewkin and I
have a long history of playing DBA together, but neither of us have played much
for a while. For old times’ sake he brought two of his hardy perennial armies:
Late Roman and 100YW English. I brought some recently painted biblical
sort-of-Syrians and a bunch of identikit High Medievals.
Our first game was
therefore Syro-Caananite against Late Imperial Roman. The Canaanites invaded
and found (not at all to their surprise) a steep hill in the middle of the
board, two good-sized woods in opposite corners, and a compulsory road exiled
to the very edge of the board. They attacked with one wood in their right rear
and the other in their left front. The Romans put a single psiloi in the wood
on their right, their infantry (mostly Auxilia and another Psiloi) in the
centre and their mounted (mixed Knights, LH and Cav) on their right.
