Last Modified 01/20/07

Jeff's Links
A number of cool pages devoted to Ancient history and gaming

Generally in order from most recent to older.

Not wargaming, but just for fun, check out the Historic Tale Construction Kit which lets you use pieces of the Bayeux Tapestry to construct your own historic tale.

Mike Monaco's wargaming webpage, features conversions of 1/72 plastics and some home casting using Prince August moulds.

Manor House Workshop in Italy.

The Crusades (Word Doc) developed by Kv0 and published at the joint website for Wargame Clubs Bylandt and Red Barons in Ghent, Belgium.

Peter Clarke's King of Kings Chariot Age campaign for DBA.

OniCrusher's Clan War: DBA.

Steven Thomas's DBA variations for the War of Spanish Succession and New Zealand Colonial Wars.

De Bellis Societatis Antiquorum, the two page set of rules developed by Phil Barker to playtest the DBx rule concepts at the 1989 Society of Ancients convention. The rules are reproduced here by the St. Endas Eagles gaming club.

A&A Miniatures are now distributed through North Star Figures

StoneHouse Miniatures's Stonehenge model isjust the right size for an Ancient British BUA.

New Fanatici Jake Thornton adapts Warhammer for DBA.

Coritani, featuring Trevor Holland's painting service and sole source of the Ian Weekley range of ancient/medieval scenics available painted or unpainted.

Chris Lake has formatted the DBA 2.1 amendments in a neat page that you can print and insert into the back of your DBA rules.

DLD Productions'10mm Dunhaven Castle .

Leaders and Battles Database .

BAUEDA.

Mike Demana's Roman Dreams website

Ix Nichols Age of Arthur DBA rules for a 2-9 player campaign set in post Roman Britain which uses special cards to generate battles and campaign situations.

David Crowell offers up a review of Roma Victrix: The Roman Army in Miniature by Andrea Press.

Alternative Armies Florida.

The Obsidian Throne DBA fantasy campaign.

The Tabulae Novae Exercituum Yahoo group has been formed for the purposes of developing and improving DBM army lists.

The Miniatures Atlas.

Surprise Encounter scenario.

The Eurogamer Comic.

Simon Bargery's Speed Painted Numidians

A historical site on Ancient Mexico.

Vegetius' De Re Militari

De Bellus Toyus, by Roger Cooper.

Mike Stelzer's on the Battle of the Standard.

Francis Small's C'est la Guerre website featuring DBM and the Medieval French.

In Search of El Bravado featured at the Art of War website.

Bob McDonald's variant rules on Amphibious Invasions for DBA campaigns.

Ruin and Conquest of Britain (450-600 AD), including maps and color illustrations.

Fortress Figures Pile of Skulls.

Matthew Haywood's Wargaming and Warfare in Eastern Europe (1350-1500 AD).

Thane Maxwell's De Bellis Middle Earth DBM variant rules.

Legion game settings: Foundation of Rome, The Gallic War, Rome in Southern Britannia, and Northern Britannia.

Paul Dobbins' The Ground Cloth From Hell.

The variant Paphlagonian army list.

King lists at both Osidian's Lair and Liber Patrum.

Mr. Tin's Workshop, a good source for painting tips.

Chris Jones' Attila's Hunnic Army

Vis Bellica rules has a website.

David Kuijt's "It's Broke, Fix-It".

The Hellenistic World on the Web

Elephants in Warfare in Old Ceylon

Jonathan Lim's honors thesis work on 3rd Century (AD) Roman Shield colors.

Theban Mapping Project.

The Plastic Soldier Review.

Best of History Websites website.

From David Kuijt: "Temple of Ramses and Parthenon

Ziterdes is a German firm offering wargaming terrain including medieval buildings, step pyramids, and other scenics.

Sampson of SampsonShips offers up a Napoleonic DBA variant.

Patrick Crusiau's Cardboard Figures.

Roman-Britain.Org

25mm Grendel historical scenics.

Parry's Mini Moulds.

Greek city states

Proposed DBA 2.0 variant army list for the Mordvin of the central Russian highlands.

Daniel Duffy's DBA review with proposals for fine-tuning the classification of certain troop types.

Bob Beattie's Commentaries on DBA 2.0.

Orion Miniatures

Luis Fernandez Camelot Miniatures Viking range gallery.

George Gouveia's Seleucids

Mirliton USA .

Scottish heraldry site

Nils Kullinger revised DBA Combat Table.

Andy Cumming's new Tradestands website

Colin Hagreen's visual reference or "Bodgers Guide" for painting horses.

Colours in Antiquity and Dye and Textile History.

The DBA Literati.

Martin Costa's Fleets of the Things naval adaptation for HOTTs.

Oceanus Strategoi by Jeff Koppe.

David Smith's Miniwars website.

NASAMW Deep South Section

Dark Age Designs.

HOTTS/DBA Middle Earth campaign map.

Great Castles of Wales.

Nathan Robinson's Historic Weapons Collection.

Trick or Treat!

Kipchak (Cuman).

Arthurian DBA Campaign by Jeff Herbert, dubbed The Round Table.

Alan's 15mm Gallery features some pretty impressive shots of a walled Hittite city, Egyptian camp scene and a Middle Eastern town.

Cold Siberia is a "Fan Site" of sorts for the Mongols published by Per Inge Oestmoen of Norway.

Philip Woutat points us to Maps of Antiquity, offering a great collection of historical maps for the period 300-580 AD, including tribal areas and cities en Francaise.

From Philip Woutat: "If you've been following the point system thread on the Rants & Raves section of the forum, you'll know I've been promising an Excel file. I hope it proves useful to some people. It certainly helps highlight the "killer" and "loser" armies, I think, although it is interesting to see that the "killer" armies are frequently Knight-heavy, which if you're the defender needn't be so bad if you've a fair number of bad going troops. But anyway -- I'll leave the analysis for everyone to do themselves." (Note to downloaders: this is a 940+Kb MS Excel file).

RomanArmy.Com and Roman Historical Gaming and Modelling

Onomastikon.

The Samurai Archives Japanese history page has a new, permanent URL.

Trajan's Column

John E. Muter's Battles on British Soil covering the period 55 BC to 1797 AD.

Horse, Foot and Guns playtest rules and mailing list.

Prof. Stephen Bloch's collection of period illustrations of medieval tents/pavillions.

Mark Siggin's new Czapska website.

Ghenghis' TinyWars website

Andy Brozyna's Red Rampant site is targeted at history enthusiasts and wargamers with an interest in Roman Legions.

The Heroic Age, a journal of early medieval northwestern Europe history.

Hordes of the Things (HOTT) fantasy rules revision.

Mats Elzinga sends along the following:

I discovered a great European heraldry site. It's in French, but when you click "armoriaux" you have access to 4 great rolls of arms, including the famous 14th century "Armorial de Gelre" by Claes Heinen. Another rich heraldry source contains a facsimile of the Zurich roll of arms from about 1340. The main reference site for my own DBA 2.0 Medieval German army can be found here, containing a facsimile of the famous "Codex Manesse" from the early 14th century.

Robert Bracy's Rough Guide to Kushan History.

Paper Walled City BUA for DBA.

Roy Beers' link to Kilmartin Valley (museum), in Argyll, the heart of Dalriada.

The Ancient History Bulletin.

Battle of DBA Gela, 405 BC scenario.

I actually created this one a year ago just for laughs and then promptly forgot to publish it. With a new Prez being sworn in this weekend, and a new attorney-general awaiting Senate confirmation, it is almost out of date.

In a second installment, Jason Ehlers forwards URLs for the following historical websites of potential interest to the Fanatici:

• Russian History at Bucknell
• Turkish History
• Ancient Near East Electronic Compendium (slow loading)

Kruno Kovacic invites you to take a look at HistoricalWeapons.Com, which offers antique and replica arms and armor from the Roman times to modern day.

In the first of a two part installment, Jason Ehlers forwards URLs for the following historical websites of potential interest to the Fanatici:

• The Fall of the Medieval Kingdom of Hungary (Mohacs 1526 - Buda 1541)
• Ireland's History in Maps (beware the popups)
• Regnal Chronologies (The name and date of reign of every monarch who ever lived; also includes some heraldry)

Powys Digital History Project

The Historical Wargamers Forum is now open for business.

Historical Modellers Forum

Brush up on your painting skills with these tips from professional miniature painter Martin Blow on Getting Good, featured at the British Wargames website. As proof of his credentials, today's eye candy Greek Hoplites are a sample of Martin's work:

DBA Player

By Bob McDonald

(Sung to the tune of "Paperback Writer," by that obscure little British rock band)

This is DBA version two point oh
It took Phil years to write, now we'll have a go
It's a new release of the very same game
I liked one point one, but I want to be a DBA player
DBA player

It ain't complicated, or that's what they say
Just the Puppet Masters of the BUA
It has pretzel grammar, and it's way too terse
I don't understand, but I want to be a DBA player
DBA player

It's a dozen pages, give or take a few
And a zillion army lists are mostly new
Phil has asked for comments; boy have I got some
But I'll buy it soon, 'cause I want to be a DBA player
DBA player

New Fanatici Colin Haygreen poses the following "Totally Useless Fact" for your consideration: "If I have done the maths correctly, there are 17 different elements in the DBA book (Bd, Sp, Wb, Ax, Pk, Ps, Kn, Cv, LH, HCh, LCh, Ele, Art, WWg, SCh and Cattle). This would mean that there are 30,421,755 possible different armies (different meaning that 6Bd, 6Sp is the same as 6Sp, 6Bd or any other combination). Now somebody can count how many there are in the rulebook!"

From Tony Stapells: "Found a webpage of a rather obscure, but interesting nonetheless, battle between Timur and Bayezit (Mongols & Turks). The author even included some very nice 3D graphics of the battlefield, since the Timurid engineering helped decide the battle."

Jeff Young provides us with a down-loadable DBX Combat Outcomes Calculator (500Kb executable file) along with this note of explanation: "NEVER tell me the odds!" For those of us who do not agree with Han Solo's famous line, I have written a small windows C++ program which will calculate the odds of achieving various outcomes based on troop factor matchups. It was designed for DBM 3.0 and takes into account troop grades, but can be used equally well with DBA if the grades are simply left at ordinary."

The Nunawading Wargames Association has published useful pictorial essays on DBM/DBA Terrain and Impressive Baggage Camps.

For those of you who like to dabble with graphic/web design as part of your wargaming hobby, take a peek at the Heraldric Clipart page for links to a variety of useful images.

Kurtis Brown, keeper of the DBA Mail List, has also published some new DBA campaign material, including suggested campaigns for Rome and the Successors (c. 218-167 BC), Rome and Macedon (c. 215-208 BC, with new army lists for the Atolians and Achaians), and the 2nd Punic War (Eastern Mediterraean). Also two new Conquest Campaigns for Antiochus the Great and Philip V. of Macedon.

Mark Drury has a useful site for wargamers dedicated to Ancient Persia, or more particularly, the Persia of the Achaemenids.

If you are into those highly colorful foot soldiers of the later Medieval and Renaissance period referred to as Landsknechts, then Landsknechts.Com is the place for you. Or you can take a tour of the Landsknecht Web Ring.

Mount Holyoke College has collected a long list of links to public domain resources on International Relations prior to 1914, including such treasures as the Egyptian accounts of the battles of Megiddo and Kadesh.

The The 1/72 Scale Plastic Figures and Low Cost Wargaming Site.

Courtesy of David King, an Excel 97 format workbook programmed to calculate combat comparisons.

Courtesy of the Somerset Irregulars, a printable 15mm Movement Gauge.

Tom Ryan points us to this small, but handy collection of Historical Atlas Pages, whose content is geared toward Britain/England from the Dark through Middle Ages.

ModelNet, a website for 1/72 & 1/76 scale military modelling enthusiasts, has this helpful guide to Making Humpback Stone Bridges.

One World Journeys in association with the Washington Post is currently featuring a web site on Georgia, it's history and culture, which offers some inspiration for the fans of those "Christians of the Caucasus" who stood astride the Silk Road to China and in the path of Islam triumphant and Tamerlane's Mongols.

Apart from some wild and crazy fantasy figures (e.g., squidmen, elephantmen, etc.), David Brown at Evil Gong Miniatures also sells various 15mm historical baggage items, such as heads on stakes, resin tents on 40mm x 40mm bases, and fortification sets.

The fraud is unveiled. Paul Dobbins notes: "Veteran gamers will recognize the mock-up game pieces as foot, horse and catapults from Milton Bradley's late and lamented Conquest of the Empire, a very good vehicle in itself for generating DBA campaigns."

Jeff Allison, Rick Wright and other gamers at the Game Preserve in Indianapolis have a pseudo-historical DBA campaign on-going featuring Marian and Middle Imperial Romans, Later Samurai, 100 Years War English, Kights of St. John on Malta, and Vikings. You can follow the action on-line at their Sub Verbis DBA Campaign website.

Konstantine also asks the Fanatici for help with the following query:

Towards the end of the 10th century, two nomadic Arab tribes were relocated by the Fatimids (then in control of most of the Arab peninsula) to Upper Egupt. From there they spilled westwards, defeated the Zairid emir in the field and occupied the Libyan coast. Those tribes were the Beni Sulayim and the Beni Hilal. Does anyone have any idea about the composition of their army? This is my take at it, based upon the spare figures that I can conjure: 3 Cav, 2 LH or Cm, 3 Ax, 2 Wb, 2 Ps. Could anyone add to this? Contact Konstantine Trtiambelis. Thanks.

David Schlanger surfed-up the attached webpage on Russian Medieval Arms and Armour by the Xenophon military history group. Bob Beattie also did some on-line exploring and came across Nikolas Lloyd's webspace, which includes these excellent Trojan War game/miniature photos (including this layout of Illium, complete with Trojan horse) and tips on painting dark skinned figures.

Dark Age Design is a new mom and pop web based decal company specializing in waterslide decal transfers for ancient and medieval wargaming figures.

Dominic Heutelbeck has launched Miniature-Painting.Net, a webpage "dedicated to the hobby of painting miniatures made of pewter, resin or other casting materials." It offers "how-to" guides, reviews and photo galleries.

Tony Stapells has been having Heretical Thoughts again, the latest concerning variant rules for Differentiating Warband (fast vs. heavy) and Closing the Door from overlap to flank.

David Manley writes: "I was wondering if I could enlist the help of the Fanatici. I was watching a certain British movie last week that covered the story of Arthur, King of the Britons ("King of the who?") and was struck by the thought that an interesting and slightly less than serious DBA army could be raised. I've knocked up my first special element (there will be more conventional elements, but one or two need scratch building and converting) - I've attached a JPG of the finished article - and I'm wondering how I should represent it in the game. Any suggestions would be most welcome, as would decent miniatures to represent a team of minstrels, knights seeking a shrubbery and an eclesiastical weapons training team (although I fear the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch may itself be too small to be represented!)." (Fanatici feedback to David Manley encouraged.)

Scots Common fans will appreciate this website flagged by Allen Hansen dubbed A Scottish Trilogy, which features some interesting accounts of the battles of Sterling Bridge, Bannockburn, and Culloden.

For those interested in De Bellis Americanus, George Smithson has authored an essay on Mapuche (Araucanian) Armies of Chile, including DBM/DBR army lists on the Society of Ancients website.

Don't ask what possessed me to do this (it certainly wasn't any artistic talent), but here for your amusement is the publication debut of Fanaticus (The Cartoon).

Kevin Schwebel (Signifer/Southern New Mexico Irregular Gamers), has published pictures of Foundry Imperial Romans, Gripping Beast Vikings, and assorted Old Glory miniatures.

Rich Norton and the Greater San Diego Warhammer Society have an interesting web page, which features a collection of scanned miniature pictures (whose links don't work with Netscape because he uses blank spaces in the URL. Netscape users, if you copy the URL and add "%20" in each blank space, you can retrieve the images) and a colorful report of a recent Warhammer Ancient Battles game between Imperial Romans and Antigonid Macedonians. Here is a shot of the crunch as legions meet the pike phalanx.

Created by Jeff Jonas 09/00