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Oct. 31st, 2007 10:46 amThe truly excellent Fanaticus website, devoted to the miniatures game De Bellis Antiquitatis (DBA), has a feature called "eye candy", showcasing various gamer's armies and scenery. Two recent entrants are very handsome work, a Chinese pavilion with koi pond and a Polish gamer's early Polish army and its camp. (Each army has a small piece of scenery to represent its camp, which many players make as specialised and distinctively appropriate to its army as possible.)
DBA is a neat little game: short rules (twelve pages, including examples), small armies (each consists of about twelve elements, or no more than 40-50 figures), quick to play (players familiar with the rules generally play a match in an hour or less). It has an international following and lots of support on the Web. It's a good deal of fun, and I would recommend it to anyone looking to try miniature wargaming but leery of spending a lot of money to start out with. One can even play with elements made from cardboard (a couple of players have made miniature armies you can download and print out). The only drawback is that the rules are a bit...oddly...written (the author has an idiosyncratic style of misusing the English language). But a group of experienced players has put together a good guide that helps one learn the rules and explicates some of the odder bits of verbiage.
DBA is a neat little game: short rules (twelve pages, including examples), small armies (each consists of about twelve elements, or no more than 40-50 figures), quick to play (players familiar with the rules generally play a match in an hour or less). It has an international following and lots of support on the Web. It's a good deal of fun, and I would recommend it to anyone looking to try miniature wargaming but leery of spending a lot of money to start out with. One can even play with elements made from cardboard (a couple of players have made miniature armies you can download and print out). The only drawback is that the rules are a bit...oddly...written (the author has an idiosyncratic style of misusing the English language). But a group of experienced players has put together a good guide that helps one learn the rules and explicates some of the odder bits of verbiage.
