Hi to everybody!
Long time no see around these parts of the board
Hope everybody is doing fine!!Here comes a report of my last tournament in a historical game: DBA (De Bellis Antiquitatis) in Bilbao (northern Spain, Basque COuntry) during thispast weekend. Enjoy!!!
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I just returned (reference: written on Sunday night) from the Bilbao Tournament, held in the WARGAMES store. It has been a great weekend that could have hardly been better from a hobby point of view. Well I
could have won the tournament instead of being second for 1 element difference, but hey!
It has been quite a mad experience, so I recommend it to anyone crazy enough to do it! Great experience meeting other DBA fanatics there! Special thanks to Jesus, the owner of WARGAMES for hosting this event, and giving each one of us a Confused General miniature from CB!! Wohoo!! Special
thanks also to Raul "speedy rules lawyer" Perdicas for supporting me after the event, in a mad ranting night of beer and mad sex (more on that later). xD
For me it has been quite a fruitful event. I won 4 out of 5 games with my Ancient Brits (and lost 1 due to my own overconfidence), ended up second and went home with enough minis to buiold up a BBDBA Big Al army, a diadochii morph AND a Marian/Polybian morph! WOHOO!
A great weekend. And now, the story begins....
I left Barcelona (700km away from Bilbao) in the night train. After one of those nights-that-you'd-better-not-remember I arrived at Bilbao at 7:30 AM. Coffee in a bar (reading The Warlord by Henry Treece? and that almost made me play my SRB?) for 2 hours and trip to the store
after that. Say hello and unpack my Ancient Brits. 4 LCh, 2 LH, 6 Wb.
In the end around 12-13 dudes show up for the tournament. There are several DBM players that had seen the light... but only a 60 watt light bulb. We will have to show them some more light (Gestapo light
style?) to convince them that DBA is the best thing since sliced bread. But it might take some time.
GENERAL PICTURES:
http://s180.photobucket.com/albums....argames
The tournament begins. 5 rounds: 2 in the morning and 3 in the afternoon. I defended in all my games
1st GAME: LATE CARTHOS. 2 ellies, 2 Wb. Victory: 4-0
PICTURES:
http://s180.photobucket.com/albums....carthos
It looks like a chess game. Loads of manoeuvre with no real combat. The ellies are ZOCed by Bgo Wb and neutered. There is a brawl in my right between Ps supported Spears and Wb, but with no real consequences. The real battle was in my left, where I achieved local superiority and rolled over his Wb + Ax & Ps. 4-0 to me after more than 1 hour (we finished AFTER the "last 5 minutes" call!!). A really nice DBA game.
GAME II: LATE CARTHOS (again). 2 ellies, 4 psiloi. Defeat 3-4
PICTURES:
http://s180.photobucket.com/albums....carthos
2 ellies again!! The army looked striking (won best painted) but it had 2 ellies. I hate ellies. It is the element I have the most problems against. I seemed to do OK, ZOCing one of them from BGo and destroying it after a pair of rounds of combat with a WB supported by
LH. The other ellie proved to be tougher. The real battle was in the other flank, though, with my mounted waiting for the enemy troops just outside the forest. 2 fell in short order and it looked like a 4-0 or 5-0 on the making to both of us. I even made a ru7n for the enemy camp just in case it worked.
Then I charged with double Wb against his Sp?.. AND WAS DOUBLED!! 3-2!!!
I rolled badly for PIPS in 2 rounds and he quickly recovered to kill my Wb and LH battling vs the remaining elephant.
Deserved 3-4 defeat for overconfidence and not having a B plan.
