English DBA Open 2003

This was the second year of the English DBA Open.  The event was held on Sunday 12^th October 2003 at Elles Hall Community Centre, Farnborough, Hampshire.  This year saw an increased entry, attracting 22 players in the 15mm competition and 16 players in the 25mm competition.

The event consists of a group stage and a knockout stage.  Everyone plays 3 games in the group stage and the highest placed competitors then entered the knockout stage.  For the group stage players brought their own armies and were grouped by period and geographical location.  For the knockout stage, the players had to choose from “theme” armies that were provided and defenders had a choice of six different pre-defined terrains to choose from.  The theme for the 15mm competition was “Hellenistic Armies beaten by Rome”, a list of 8 armies from Pyrrhic to Mithridatic.  The theme for the 25mm competition was “The Army and Enemies of Ramases”.

Once again we attracted an international field with Pedro Casimaro and Miguel Mendes travelling over from Portugal to take part.  A wide range of armies were used from Sargonid Assyrian to Early Burgundian.  Four Classical Indian armies entered making it the most popular choice.   Three junior competitors entered Adelais and Rory Farnell-Sharp and Alexander Cartwright.  Adelais (who is 12) did particularly well, coming 4^th overall in the group stage.

We were using 2.1 rules for the first time.  Overall, the amendments seem to be an improvement, with more Warband armies present and no problems with built up areas. 

We played one variation from the normal DBA rules due to Matt Bennett’s empassioned plea in Slingshot.  Where an army sub-list allowed options, the player could choose which elements to use before each battle.   This appeared to work without any problems, although next year I would probably revert to the system of using the same 12 elements throughout the competition.

The 25mm competition final saw Andrew Fisher using Hittites beat James Forrest with New Kingdom Egyptians.  The 15mm competition saw Phil Jelley defeat Ray Briggs.  Adelais Farnell-Sharp successfully defended her Junior Championship title.  Simon Bargery won the prize for Best Army with his Ancient British. The event was another success and we hope it will continue again next year.

 

 English DBA Open 2003

Results

 

15mm Group Stage Results

 

Player	Army	Place
Phil Jelley	Medieval French	1st
Neil Oag	Mithridatic	2nd
Nik Sharp	Anglo Norman	3rd
Mark Stevenson	Seleucid	4th
Paul Murgatroyd	Classical Indian	5th
Ray Briggs	Burgundian Ordonnance	6th
Pedro Casimaro	Early Burgundian	7th
David Edwards	Thessalian	8th
Matt Bennett	Italian Condotta
Colin Nash	Christian Nubian
Adelais Farnell-Sharp	Classical Indian
Bill MacGilivray	Celtiberian
Lindon Paxton	Medieval Portugese
Andrew Richardson	Sub Roman British
Miguel Mendes	French Ordonnance
Peter Dennis	Palmyran
Mark Cummins	Early Samurai
Alan Huyton	Serbian Empire
Lewis Cooper	Serbian Empire
Edward Sturges	Polybian Roman
Rory Farnell-Sharp	Bactrian Greek

 

15mm Knockout Stage

 

Quarter-finals	Semi-finals	Final
Phil Jelley (Pyrrhic)
vs
David Edwards (Hellenistic Greek – Achaean)	Phil Jelley
	vs
Mark Stevenson (Seleucid – 197 BC)	Mark Stevenson	Phil Jelley
vs
Paul Murgatroyd (Later Macedonian)
		vs
Neil Oag (Mithridatic)
vs
Pedro Casimaro (Hellenistic Greek - Spartan)	Pedro Casimaro	Ray Briggs
	vs
Nik Sharp (Ptolemaic 47BC)	Ray Briggs
vs
Ray Briggs (Ptolemaic 76BC)

 

 

25mm Group Stage Results

 

Player	Army	Place
James Forrest	Ostrogothic	1st
Trevor Cooper	Serbian Empire	2nd
Andrew Fisher	Later Hoplite Greek – Thessalian	3rd
Chris Ager	Classical Indian	4th
Tony Dennis	Alexandrian Imperial
Andrew Davidge	Wars of the Roses English
Graham Coates	Later Crusader
Patrick Dale	Kushan
Nick Harbud	Constantinian Byzantine
Allan Brown	Wars of the Roses English
Richard Jeffrey-Cook	Seleucid
Paul Burton	Later Achaemenid Persian
Toni Bargery	Early Imperial Roman
Simon Bargery	Ancient British
Lee Procter	Viking
Lance Flint	Anglo Norman

 

25mm Knockout Stage

 

Semi-finals	Final
James Forrest (New Kingdom Egyptian)	James Forrest
vs
Chris Ager (Mitanni)
Trevor Cooper (Ugaritic)	Andrew Fisher
vs
Andrew Fisher (Hittite)

 

 English DBA Open 2002

Results

15mm Group Stage Results 

Player	Army	Place
Lance Flint	Ghaznavid	1st
Lindon Paxton	Early Burgundian	2nd
Mike Reeves	Malay	3rd
Adelais Farnell-Sharp	Classical Indian	4th
Mark Stephenson		5th
Graham Coates	Alexandrian Imperial	6th
Nik Sharp	Kushan	7th
William MacGillivray	Early Egyptian	8th
John Cartwright	Classical Indian
Phil Jelley	Medieval French
Matthew Bennett	Italian Condotta
Andrew Richardson	Scots Irish
Paul Cummins	Alan
James Forrest	Classical Indian
Andrew Davidge	Sargonid Assyrian
Tony Dennis	Palmyran
Mike Jefferies	Mamluk Egyptian
Rory Farnell-Sharp	Graeco-Bactrian
Alexander Cartwright	Early Imperial Roman

 

15mm Knockout Stage 

Quarter-finals	Semi-finals	Final
Lance Flint (Seleucid)
vs
William MacGillivray (Antigonos Gonatos)	William MacGillivray
Adelais Farnell-Sharp (Demetrius)
vs
Mark Stephenson (Antigonos)	Mark Stephenson	Mark Stephenson
Lindon Paxton (Eumenes)
vs
Nik Sharp (Lysimachid)	Nik Sharp	Nik Sharp
Mike Reeves (Ptolemy)	Mike Reeves
vs
Graham Coates (Ptolemy Keraunos)

 

25mm Group Stage Results 

Player	Army	Place
Steve Neate	Early Armenian	1st
Nick Harbud	Konstantian Byzantine	2nd
Paul Burton	Alexandrian Imperial	3rd
Antony Morton	Wars of the Roses	4th
Alec Sharman	Norman
Phil Riley	Sargonid Assyrian
Richard Jeffrey-Cook	New Kingdom Egyptian
Karin Riley	Later Swiss

 

25mm Knockout Stage 

Semi-finals	Final
Steve Neate (Sea Peoples)	Steve Neate
vs
Antony Morton (Syro-Canaanite)
Nick Harbud (New Kingdom Egyptian)	Nick Harbud
vs
Paul Burton (Nubian)