Author Archives: JGL Wargames
Game Reports 2021
The complete absence of competitions, and even casual games, so far in 2021 resulted in severe withdrawal symptoms. Russ King suggested that we play solo games and exchange pictures, and so far I’ve played about 20 games, all with 350 … Continue reading
Player Rankings 2019-20
DBM RANKINGS 2019-2020 Posn Prev Name Club Comps Total 1 1 Jeremy Morgan Terrapins 4 80 2 4 Chris Smith Mercenary 3 71.3 3= 3 John Graham-Leigh Mikland 4 67.3 3= 2 Dave Madigan Reigate 3 67.3 5 7 Russell … Continue reading
Game Reports 2020
Gift of the Nile, February 2020 The theme for this year’s invitational competition was New Kingdom Egypt, featuring Bronze Age armies from Egypt and Syria. The winner was Gavin Pearson, who took over the Early Libyans as a reserve when … Continue reading
Doubles 2020
GODENDAG REPLACEMENT BUS, 11/12 January 2020 15mm 500 AP DBM Doubles Posn Team No Players Army Total Score Scores by round Opponents by round 1 2 John Graham-Leigh & Russell King Ptolemaic, 270 BC 32 7 10 10 5 … Continue reading
Army popularity and success in DBM 3.3
ARMY POPULARITY AND SUCCESS IN DBM 3.3 John Graham-Leigh This is based on analysis of over 1,100 games using DBM 3.3 between 2016 and 2019. The great majority were played in UK competitions and a few in the USA and … Continue reading
Caesaromagus 2019
CAESAROMAGUS, 26/27 NOVEMBER 2019 15mm DBM singles Posn No Name Army Total Score Score by round Opponents by round 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 1 4 Jeremy Morgan Italian Ostrogothic, 493 AD 88 29 16 30 13 … Continue reading
Doubles League 2019
THE DBM DOUBLES LEAGUE 2019 Posn Players Godendag Cardiff Venta Silurum Corntown Attack! Devizes Iceni Hoveton Vexillum Frome Best three scores 1 Jeremy Morgan & Richard Perry 30 23 36 30 32 98 2 Dave Madigan & Chris Smith 34 … Continue reading
Anderida 2000-2009
Anderida was a hugely popular themed DBM doubles competition, originated by Michael Grant and later run by Eric Cruttenden, held at Pevensey Bay in Sussex from 1998 to 2009. In its final year two parallel competitions were run, one using … Continue reading
First Competition
FIRST COMPETITION –THE OTHER SHIELDWALL, 1997 Russ King and I decided to get into competitive DBM in late 1997; for some years I’d been completely immersed in work (you know, that stuff one has to do to bring in the … Continue reading
Player Rankings 2009
DBM PLAYER RANKINGS 2009 Pos Prev Name Club Comps Score 1 1 Richard Hardy (Blackpool & Fylde) 5 57.89 2 4 John Graham-Leigh (Society of Ancients) 6 55.39 3 3 John Fletcher (Preston) 9 54.85 4 5 Russell King … Continue reading
