Friday, January 17, 2025

Return to the Renaisance with DBR

I've always loved renaissance wargaming, and have two armies suitably configured/based for the DBR rules: Royalist (ECW), and Ottoman. The problem is that I play the game so rarely that every time I do it's like starting from scratch, learning a totally new set of rules. As a consequence I'm simply not very good at the game, and probably don't offer much in the way of a challenge to any opponent. However that's no reason not to try, as long as opponents have patience with me.

Keith and I had a small (130 point) game as a refresher, fielding our respective 15mm armies. I used the Ottomans, and Keith brought a small New Model army to the table... perhaps replicating some Cromwellian overseas adventures.

It was a fabulous learning game.







Modelling village sectors in Great War Spearhead, and Volley and Bayonet.

With plans in train to play another Great War Spearhead game in 20mm set amongst the highest mountain tops of the Carpathians, I was setting...