De Bellis Antiquitatis
Pyrrhus is a wargaming classic! Famous for defeating Rome in battle but at a massive cost, coining the term Pyrrhic victory* The Pyrrhic war was the first time the Roman legion went up against the Macedonian Phalanx pitting two of the most famous infantry formations in the ancient world in head to head battle. Pyrrhus […]
Like many people getting into historical wargaming I went for the classic match up of Rome vs Carthage for my first two armies. Everyone has heard of Hannibal crossing the Alps, and you get to play a number of famous battles filled with Romans and elephants. This is not those armies! The Later Carthaginian army […]
This is my attempt to make a narrative campaign for my DBA armies, the goal to be a linked set of battles, each having some unique flavour, but not having the outcome of each battle effect the next to the point where it’s one sided. This campaign is heavily based on Super Steve’s Map-Less Wars […]