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De Bellis Antiquitatis or DBA (English: Of the Wars of Antiquity) is a fast play set of rules for the hobby of historical miniature wargaming, particularly ancient and medieval wargaming in the period 3000 BC to 1520 AD. These rules allow entire armies to be represented by fewer than 50 figures. The rules also include diagrams and over 600 army ...
The Wargames Research Group (WRG) is a British publisher of rules and reference material for miniature wargaming.Founded in 1969 they were the premier publisher of tabletop rules during the seventies and eighties, publishing rules for periods ranging from ancient times to modern armoured warfare, and reference books which are still considered standard works for amateur researchers and wargamers.
DBM evolved from the earlier De Bellis Antiquitatis (DBA) rule set, adapted to play larger games with more figures, comparable in size to games played using the then popular 7th Edition WRG Ancient rules. DBM expanded on DBA's definition troop types by function and level of training - defining troops as regular bladesmen rather than Roman ...
3W or World Wide Wargames – publishers of the wargaming magazine The Wargamer. A and A Game Engineering – concentrating on air and naval rules; ACIES Edizioni - publishers of wargames like Lepanto and others. Agema.org.uk – publishers of the Game of War 18th century/Napoleonic rules, Salvo WW2 naval, and Challenge & Reply WW1 naval, among ...
War Games Rules 3000 B.C - 1250 A.D (Wargames Research Group, 1976) War Games Rules 3000 BC to 1485 AD (Wargames Research Group, 1980) [1] Wargames Rules - Ancient Period (480 B.C. - A.D. 61) (Athena, 1986) Warhammer Ancient Battles (Warhammer Historical Wargames, 1998) [1] Warlord (Partizan Press, 2007)
Reprints of wargaming books (often with unpublished material provided by the original authors, or as the result of new research) Military/ professional wargames- rules used by the military e.g. used by the British, American and Canadian military such as the Fred Jane Naval Wargame from 1906 and Dunn Kempf tactical wargame from the Cold War
By 1968 he had written several sets of wargames rules – for ancient and medieval warfare, the American Civil War, the Second World War, and 1966-period wargames., [6] He then began to focus on warfare of antiquity and, in 1968, and, along with Bob O'Brien and Ed Smith, founded the Wargames Research Group. One of the basic principles of the ...
'Hordes of the Things' is a set of fast play miniatures rules for fantasy battles. It is designed to be generic and is not, therefore, tied to any particular fantasy genre, set of books, range of figures or even scale. This is achieved by the game concentrating on the effect of an action rather than precisely how it is achieved.