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The Washington Area DBA Gamers will be holding their annual De Bellis Vasingtonium DBA tournament on Saturday, 9 October 2010, in Rockville, MD. There'll be a beginners' tutorial, a tournament, and an as-yet-undetermined evening event (in the past these have included themed "bring your own" tournaments and historical campaigns with scenarios, special rules, and purpose-built boards. More information available here. Possibilities mooted for his year's evening event have included more DBA, HOTT (the fantasy/sci-fi version of DBA), and Wings of War (a popular, simple WWI air combat miniature game).

I'll be there, and I will bring extra armies (and WOW planes) to loan to friends who might be interested in trying out the game but have no kit of their own. DBA is a fun little game, and the local crew are by and large a very nice bunch of gamers, so I'd encourage people to give it a try.

if only I spoke German!

German reenacting magazine launches website

a blessing on your head...

Thank goodness for friends! Bryan came by this evening and helped me get my new bookshelf together and upright, which I would really *not* have been able to go by myself. It took a bit of effort (and taking two bits off and putting them back again the right way after I got it wrong), but it is assembled and providing great entertainment for cats (until all the books get put back in). He was also nice enough to take away my old desktop, so I don't have to go through wiping the HD and trying to find someone on Craigslist who will carry it off. Still need to reformat the drive on my old laptop before I dump it, but I found a CD that came with my new laptop that has a nifty sounding "shredder" program on it...