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Britcon - DBA
At Britcon this year DBA will be expanding from the standard one day competition format (held on the Saturday) into a two day summer festival of DBA, making use of both Saturday (12th) and Sunday (13th) of the event, in which competitors will compete for the first ever handing-out of the Graham Fordham Memoral Trophy:
Book your place now via the Britcon Booking page
The framework for the weekend will be as follows:
The two days of gaming will run from Saturday morning through to Sunday afternoon. Players can opt to play on both or either of these two days, which gives people flexibility to just game on the one day which works for them, or aim for both days, if they really want to go 'all-in' and get the full Britcon experience!
A variety of options for people to stay overnight on the Saturday are available so that we will hopefully have a social get-together after the Saturday's gaming, adding to the weekend's fun. Accommodation options include the opportunity to stay at the University of Nottingham's student halls - see the Britcon Booking page for details.
On Saturday there will be three 'mini' tournaments of three rounds of games in each, with Sunday having two 'mini' tournaments of three rounds of games in each. Timings will aim to be:
Saturday
Sunday
..with each game lasting around 50 minutes. This will give additional flexibility for people to play as many of the 'mini' tournaments in each day. For instance if you don't want to commit to and max out on 9 games in the day it may be that you only choose to play in the first two tournaments, or if you need to be away by 5pm, or travel on Saturday morning you can play the second and third tournaments, or first and third and have a break in the middle to have a breather, browse the show and have a leisurely lunch and a chat. Lots of choice there to cater for different persuasions...
This format will allow us to put on a range of themes across the weekend and, hopefully, increase the diversity of the competition. This will also give the advantage of bringing a range of armies to play with and hopefully add to the variety of the weekend's competition. Themes have been planned so that it is possible for an army to play in more than one over the weekend, should the owner prefer, and 'loaner' armies will be available for those with limited armies of their own or for people not wanting to transport too many over the weekend.
The new Graham Fordham Trophy will be competed for over the course of the weekend and the winner will be the gamer with the highest points average, with a minimum of two mini-tournaments to count. This will also be used as the calculation method for scoring in the UK DBA league.
We will endeavour to ensure that players do not play each other more than once over the weekend, wherever possible, to increase the diversity of opponents played, and a Swiss Chess style system will operate for rounds 2 & 3 in each mini-tournament.
The themes for 2023 are as follows:
Saturday 12th August
1) Paint It Black - Rise & Fall of the Goths (7BC-720AD) (Armies and enemies of the Goths - see below for permissible armies)
2) Littoral Nightmare - Any Littoral army (Allies permissible)
3) Warbandia! - Any army with a minimum of 4 Wb (either 3Wb and/or 4Wb) elements (Allies permissible and can count to the minimum Wb allowance)
Sunday 13th August
1) Fast & Furious - All Elements are: Cv, LH, 3Ax, 3Wb, 5Hd, 3Bw/Lb/Cb and/or Ps (Allies permissible, but must also be 'fast' & no dismounting in games allowed)
2) Book 1 Open - Any army from Book 1 (Allies permissible, but must also be from Book 1)
1) Paint it Black - Rise & Fall of the Goths (7BC-720AD)
List of permissible armies (allies must be from this list too, if used)
Gothic Armies
Gothic Enemies
At Britcon this year DBA will be expanding from the standard one day competition format (held on the Saturday) into a two day summer festival of DBA, making use of both Saturday (12th) and Sunday (13th) of the event, in which competitors will compete for the first ever handing-out of the Graham Fordham Memoral Trophy:
Book your place now via the Britcon Booking page
The framework for the weekend will be as follows:
The two days of gaming will run from Saturday morning through to Sunday afternoon. Players can opt to play on both or either of these two days, which gives people flexibility to just game on the one day which works for them, or aim for both days, if they really want to go 'all-in' and get the full Britcon experience!
A variety of options for people to stay overnight on the Saturday are available so that we will hopefully have a social get-together after the Saturday's gaming, adding to the weekend's fun. Accommodation options include the opportunity to stay at the University of Nottingham's student halls - see the Britcon Booking page for details.
On Saturday there will be three 'mini' tournaments of three rounds of games in each, with Sunday having two 'mini' tournaments of three rounds of games in each. Timings will aim to be:
Saturday
- 9:30am-12:30pm,
- 1-4pm
- 4:30-7:30pm
Sunday
- 9:30am-12:30pm
- 1-4pm
..with each game lasting around 50 minutes. This will give additional flexibility for people to play as many of the 'mini' tournaments in each day. For instance if you don't want to commit to and max out on 9 games in the day it may be that you only choose to play in the first two tournaments, or if you need to be away by 5pm, or travel on Saturday morning you can play the second and third tournaments, or first and third and have a break in the middle to have a breather, browse the show and have a leisurely lunch and a chat. Lots of choice there to cater for different persuasions...
This format will allow us to put on a range of themes across the weekend and, hopefully, increase the diversity of the competition. This will also give the advantage of bringing a range of armies to play with and hopefully add to the variety of the weekend's competition. Themes have been planned so that it is possible for an army to play in more than one over the weekend, should the owner prefer, and 'loaner' armies will be available for those with limited armies of their own or for people not wanting to transport too many over the weekend.
The new Graham Fordham Trophy will be competed for over the course of the weekend and the winner will be the gamer with the highest points average, with a minimum of two mini-tournaments to count. This will also be used as the calculation method for scoring in the UK DBA league.
We will endeavour to ensure that players do not play each other more than once over the weekend, wherever possible, to increase the diversity of opponents played, and a Swiss Chess style system will operate for rounds 2 & 3 in each mini-tournament.
The themes for 2023 are as follows:
Saturday 12th August
1) Paint It Black - Rise & Fall of the Goths (7BC-720AD) (Armies and enemies of the Goths - see below for permissible armies)
2) Littoral Nightmare - Any Littoral army (Allies permissible)
3) Warbandia! - Any army with a minimum of 4 Wb (either 3Wb and/or 4Wb) elements (Allies permissible and can count to the minimum Wb allowance)
Sunday 13th August
1) Fast & Furious - All Elements are: Cv, LH, 3Ax, 3Wb, 5Hd, 3Bw/Lb/Cb and/or Ps (Allies permissible, but must also be 'fast' & no dismounting in games allowed)
2) Book 1 Open - Any army from Book 1 (Allies permissible, but must also be from Book 1)
1) Paint it Black - Rise & Fall of the Goths (7BC-720AD)
List of permissible armies (allies must be from this list too, if used)
Gothic Armies
- II/47e Marcomanni
- II/65a/b/c Tervingi & E Visigothic
- II/66 Early Vandal
- II/67a/b Early Ostrogothic
- II/83a/b Later Visigothic
- II/84 African Vandal
- III/3 Italian Ostrogothic
Gothic Enemies
- II/11 Gallic
- II/25 Bosporan
- II/26 Siracae, Iazyges & L Sarmatian
- II/47d Other Batavian
- II/47f Suevi
- II/47g Other E German
- II/57 L Moorish
- II/56 EIR
- II/58 Alan
- II/64a MIR Western
- II/64a MIR Eastern
- II/70a Burgundi
- II/71 Gepid
- II/72a Qadi
- II/72c Suevi
- II/72d Other E Frankish
- II/73 Old Saxon
- II/78b LIR Western
- II/78b LIR Eastern
- II/80a Hunnic (Attila's army)
- II/80b Sabir Hunnic
- II/80d Other Hunnic
- II/81c British or Armorican
- II/82a Patrician Western
- II/82b Patrician Eastern
- III/1c Southern Slav
- III/2 E Lombard
- III/4a/b E Byzantine
- III/5a Austrasian/Burgundian
- III/5b Neustrian/Aquitanian/Provencal
- III/17 Maurikian Byzantine
- III/28 Thematic Byzantine
- III/31 Umayyad Arab
- III/34a Andalusian