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Alan Neill Cuchulainn Trophy 2012
Friday, 14 October 2011 22:33
Initial Announcement. Details TBD
Location: QUB, Belfast
Organiser; David Houston
Read more: http://www.iworg.com/node/231
Strongbow's Shield 2012
Friday, 14 October 2011 22:18
*** Date to be Confirmed ***
Location: Dublin (probably the Teachers Club)
Organiser: Rob Brennan
Format:
Once again there will be two parallel events. It is proposed that this year these consist of a 200AP Open competition and a 1-day Campaign based on the Later Successors to Alexander's empire.
Read more: http://www.iworg.com/node/230
Finn MacCool Cup 2012
Friday, 14 October 2011 22:14
***NB Provisional Date***
Location: Gamers World shop, Dublin
Organiser: Mick Hessian
Read more: http://www.iworg.com/node/229
Celtic Championship 2012
Friday, 14 October 2011 22:03
****NB Provisional Date*****
Location: Belfast
Local organiser: David Houston
Read more: http://www.iworg.com/node/228
RINIWA DBMM League 2011 - Results of Pool Stages
Friday, 14 October 2011 21:54
Ulster
Pos. Name Army Score
1 David Houston Paliologan Byzantine 1342 AD 81
2 Seamus McKenna Later Swiss 1477 AD 76
3 Mark Gibson Teutonic Order 1391 AD 67
4 Gary Barr Teutonic Order 1391 AD 48
5 Brian Bull Feudal Spanish 1338 AD 42
(Stephen B omitted since he played no games)
Leinster
Pos. Name Army Score
1 Mick Hession WOTR English 1490 AD 112
Read more: http://www.iworg.com/node/227
DGG Campaign Night - The Lamian War
Sunday, 11 September 2011 14:41
Player Briefing
It is 323BC, news has reached Greece that Alexander has died in the
far east. Athens has mobilised a coalition of mercenaries, Aiotolians,
Thessalians and minor Greek states to fight for Greek freedom from
Macedonian rule. They have occupied the pass at Thermopolae.
Alexander's regent in Macedon, Antipater, has mobilised his
outnumbered forces and marched south to quell the rebellion. At the
last minute his Thessalian allies defected to the Greek cause making
the operation extremely risky. However Macedonia's Boiotean allies
Read more: http://www.iworg.com/node/226
Campaign Rules Resources
Saturday, 10 September 2011 14:57
For the last couple of years I have been researching wargames campaigns. To a certain extent they seem much talked about but little pursued by most wargamers. However there are a number of places on the web where I found inspiration or at least information about setting up wargames campaigns. This page documents some of those.
Balagan - Campaigns
Lots of different campaign approaches and systems. Not limited to Ancients campaigns.
Read more: http://www.iworg.com/node/225
Munster Open 2012
Sunday, 28 August 2011 19:59
Once again this will run in conjunction with Warpcon in Cork.
Full details will appear here: http://www.corkgaming.com/ in due course.
Read more: http://www.iworg.com/node/222
DGG Winter League
Sunday, 28 August 2011 19:56
Once again this will be a form of campaign this year, however it will be much less ambitious than last year and use a highly abstract system. Players will be expected to fight 4 battles - 1 each in Oct, Nov, Jan and Feb.
There will be an "After the Seljuks" theme.
Player List
Team A
1. Jan van Embden - 4/24 Khwarazmians
2. Brian Roynane - 4/6 Syrian (Abbasid Khalifate)
3. Dave Lederer - 4/35 Mongol Conquest (No European/Chinese options)
4. Tony Bergin - 3/74 Seljuks (Rum)
5. Rob Brennan - 4/8 Ghurid
6. Mike Whelan - 4/2 Cilician Armenian
Read more: http://www.iworg.com/node/221
RINIWA League Finals + Fun Doubles
Sunday, 28 August 2011 19:50
Update: 9th Oct: Dates + details confirmed
Location: Gamers World shop, Jervis Street, Dublin 1.
Contact: Rob Brennan
Cost: 10 euro per player (12 euro non-members)
List-checking deadline: 20th Nov, 2011 list-checker: Rob Brennan
2 events will run in parallel:
* RINIWA DBMM league finals (invitational, based on league pool positions)
* 500AP Doubles using league 2011 armies
Both will be 2x games in the day on 6x4 tables.
Timetable:
Registration: 9.30-9.45
Round 1: 9.45 - 1.15
Read more: http://www.iworg.com/node/220
Brian Boru Trophy 2011
Monday, 25 April 2011 12:05
This event has now been confirmed to take place on Sat/Sunday 22-23rd October 2011.
This will be a 2-day, 4 round, themed event. This year's theme is Armies and Enemies of the Roman Republic. A provisional list of permitted armies is given below with further details to follow.
Army size for the competition is 395AP.
The main organiser for this event is Jan van Embden, who can be contacted by emailing: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
The approximate list of theme armies is as follows:
Villanovan Italian
Italian Hill Tribes
Early Hoplite Greek
Latin, Early Roman etc
Kyrenean Greek
Read more: http://www.iworg.com/node/214
Brian Boru Trophy 2010
Friday, 18 March 2011 09:38
The final results where:
#Position Name Total Score Army List Club
1 McKenna Seamus 77 Palymran TTN
2 Brennan Rob 66 LAP DGG
3 Madeley Tim 64 LIR MWG
4 Gibson Mark 59 Neo-Assyrian UWS
5 Mann Greg 56 Arabo-Aramean England
6 Bergin Tony 54 Seleucid MWG
6 Worden Tom 54 Seleucid MWG
8 Coughlan Willie 53 Kyrenean Greek MWG
9 Darby Richard 50 Early Egyptian Denmark
Read more: http://www.iworg.com/node/213
Alan Neill Cuchulainn Trophy 2011
Wednesday, 16 March 2011 18:07
Contact: David Houston
Details to be announced, probably 2-day FOG + 1-day DBMM
Read more: http://www.iworg.com/node/212
RINIWA League 2011
Sunday, 13 March 2011 16:21
This year's event will have a high medieval theme.
Once again there will be parallel FOG and DBMM leagues with the same theme.
Richard Aynsley will run the DBMM league and David Taylor will run the FOG league.
The list of armies for the RINIWA League DBMM pool is as follows. The full DBMM league rules are included in a document attached below.
Armies and Enemies of Medieval Europe 1300 AD - 1515 AD
2/58 Alan. 1300 AD - 1500 AD.
3/19 Welsh 1300 AD – 1420 AD
3/35 Feudal Spanish 1300AD – 1340 AD
3/63 Early Polish 1300 AD – 1335 AD
Read more: http://www.iworg.com/node/211
UWS Open 2011
Sunday, 13 March 2011 15:40
This will be a 400 or 650AP FOG event.
The theme will be "Swifter than Eagles", the FOG Biblical period.
More details to follow closer to the event.
Jeremy Dowd is the local UWS contact.
Read more: http://www.iworg.com/node/210
Current version of DBMM Commentary
Friday, 11 March 2011 09:11
This page contains the current version of the DBMM Commentary and Army List Clarifications documents. There are 2 formats for the Commentary available: condensed (which uses the minimum number of pages) and paginated (which has a separate page of rulings for each page of the DBMM rulesbook).
All of these documents are available on the links below.
Read more: http://www.iworg.com/DBMM_Commentary
Strongbow's Shield 2011
Friday, 11 March 2011 09:01
Once again we will host 2 parallel competitions: a DBMM 200AP Open and a narrow historical 320AP theme (The Barbarian Conspiracy to the Fall of Rome 368AD-410AD) on 200AP-sized tables.
List checking/pre-registration deadline: 20th July
List checker: Rob Brennan (brennanr at iworg.com)
Cost: 15 euro for RINIWA members or overseas visitors, 17 euro for non-members.
Schedule:
09.30 Registration
09.45 - 12.15 Game 1
12.15 - 1.00 Lunch
1.00 - 3.30 Game 2
3.40 - 6.10 Game 3
6.20 Prizegiving
General Rules
Read more: http://www.iworg.com/strongbow/2011
Celtic Championship 2011
Thursday, 25 November 2010 22:29
Updates:
25 Nov 2010 Initial details confirmed. Accommodation/Flights/Maps information published.
Date: 21st-22nd May 2011. Player Registration on 21st May begins at 10.30am.
Location: The Boat Club,Belfast Boat Club, Lockview Rd, Stranmillis Rd., Belfast, Northern Ireland (map link here: http://www.multimap.com/map/browse.cgi?lat=54.5725&lon=-5.9289&scale=100...)
Contact: David Houston (D.Houston at qub.ac.uk)
Read more: http://www.iworg.com/celtic2011
RINIWA League Finals/RINIWA Challenge
Monday, 22 November 2010 20:59
400AP, 2-round invitational Finals for the RINIWA DBMM League.
In parallel there will be a new 2-round event called the RINWA Challenge that is open to all.
6 Nov Update - the venue has changed to the Teachers Club
List checker: Mike Whelan (mykill0007 at gmail.com)
Lists due by: 25th November 2010 (NB late lists are not eligible for the door prize of a painted allied command)
Location: The Teachers Club, 36 Parnell Square, Dublin 1 (see map below)
Read more: http://www.iworg.com/node/197
New web-page supporting DBMM
Sunday, 22 August 2010 11:56
Lorenzo Mele, expert DBM and DBMM player, has created a new website to support DBMM players with photos of armies, tactical advice, campaigns, etc. Well worth a visit: www.tagmata.it
Read more: http://www.iworg.com/node/201
Mick Hessian, DGG Winter League Winner
Sunday, 22 August 2010 11:52
Read more: http://www.iworg.com/node/200
Finn McCool Cup 2011
Sunday, 22 August 2010 09:28
This competition will be held in 27/03/2011 - times tbc.
Location: Gamers World Shop, Jervis St, Dublin 1 (For map see http://gamersworlddublin.com/ )
Format will be 315AP on 200AP-sized boards with open army lists. 3 rounds in 1 day on preset terrain.
List Checker & Umpire - Mick Hession
All lists received by midnight on 13/03/2011 will qualify for the door prize of a DBMM100 Southern Dynasties Chinese army
Read more: http://www.iworg.com/node/198
Munster Open 2011
Sunday, 22 August 2010 08:35
2-day, 400AP DBMM Event hosted by Munster Wargames Group
See http://www.corkgaming.com/ for full details (soon).
Read more: http://www.iworg.com/node/196
DGG 100AP Campaign Night to Celebrate Launch of DBMM v2
Friday, 13 August 2010 14:59
We supplied a pretty wide range of W.European armies for people to choose from,
ending up with two teams as follows:
French Ordonnance (Tony Farrell), Ottoman Turks (Brian Ronayne), Anglo-Irish
(Rob Brennan) and Late Swiss (Alan Condron, making his DBMM debut)
V
WotR English - Henry VIII (Mike Whelan), Late Hungarians (Dave Lederer),
Medieval German - Territorial states (Jan Van Embden) and Italian Condotta -
Florentines (Me).
So more of a Tudor/Valois war really. We used preset terrain boards of variable
Read more: http://www.iworg.com/node/195
Strongbows Shield 2010 Results
Wednesday, 04 August 2010 20:05
A. Tibetan Empire Theme (325AP on 120x80cm boards)
Position, Name, Score, Army, Club
1, Aynsley, Richard, 60, Hindu Indian, MWG
2, McTurk, Alec, 53,Tibetan, DGG
3, Houston, David, 42,CAT, TTN
4, Murphy, Richard, 34, CACS, Merc
5, Arnfelt, Thomas, 33,Tibetan, DGG
6, Bracken, Padraig, 29, Early Tang, MWG
7, van Embden, Jan, 26, Umayyads, DGG
8, Worden, Tom, 23, Abbasid, MWG
B. 200AP Open (on 120x80cm boards)
1, Brittain, Stephen, 75, LIR, Merc
2, Farrell, Tony, 50, Konst Byz, DGG
3, Coughlan, Willie, 41, Dailami, MWG
Read more: http://www.iworg.com/node/194
Sample Catalog for Strongbow's Shield X Bring and Buy
Tuesday, 27 July 2010 08:10
The following items are listed already, more is expected on the day.
Complete 450AP Islamic Berber Army - €500
3 elements of Reg Cv(O) Generals
1 elements of Irr Kn(F) General
3 elements of Irr Kn(F)
9 elements of Reg LH(O)
5 elements of Irr LH(O)
20 elements of Reg Sp(O)
24 elements of Reg Sp(I)
24 elements of Reg Ps(O)
8 elements of Irr Bge(O)
Early T'ang Chinese Elite Cavalry - €66
3 elements of Reg Cv(S) Generals
8 elements of Reg Cv(S) Cavalry
Early T'ang Chinese Line and Light Cavalry - €52
4 elements of Reg Cv(O) Cavalry
Read more: http://www.iworg.com/node/193
New wargames club in Kildare
Monday, 19 July 2010 10:37
Piers Brand brings news of a new club Green Machine Gamers (GMG) based in Kildare. They play mainly historicals with the occasional GW game once a year!
Forum is here...
www.guildwargamers.com
They have been added to our Irish Wargames Directory page.
Read more: http://www.iworg.com/node/192