We have had a good year so far, with support from the Buckeye Soldier Shop. The shop has provided numerous prizes and gift certificates. Special thanks to Mark Richie, Jeff Koppe and Jeff Fletcher for working with us to provide a place to hold our tournaments. Let's not forget the others who have helped us too, namely (in no certain order): The Soldiery; The staff at CAPCON; The staff at Advance the Colors. I encourage you to say "thanks" to these people behind the scenes, because without them we would not have any tournaments. Please support your local hobby shops, as well, because they provide us with our toys.

Just a few administrative notes: We will be using only 2nd Edition army lists from this now on. We will be using 3rd edition DBM until the next version comes out. Our next tournament will be Winter Sword at the Buckeye Soldier Shop at 11 am Saturday, Dec. 8. Winter Sword is a mini tournament (see rules below). The 8th Annual DBM tournament at Capcon will be held Saturday, April 13, starting at 10 am. Two lists, 400 AP, same year and geographic area. The Hoplite trophy will be awarded at the end of the tournament.

The following are the results of the DBM Tournament held at ATC 2001 in Springfield on September 15th.

1 Steve Phallen Graeco Bactrian
2 Jeff Fletcher New Kngdom Egyptian
3 Rich Hartley Classical Indian
4 Glen Boise 100 Years War English
5 David Perry Early Byzantine
6 Jeremy Starkey Galatian
7 Douglas Anderson Central Asian Turkish
8 Michael Ohtonen Tupi
9 Dennis Roeder Later Carthaginian
10 Fred Daniel Early Imperial Roman
11 Ron Holtz Hittites
12 Patrick Pursley Later Polish

Here are the results of Summer Sword 2001, held at the Buckeye Soldier Shop in Grove City, OH, on Aug. 18.

1 Rich Hartley Early Armenian
2 Ron Holtz Hittite
3 Dave Perry Early Byzantine
4 Fred Daniel Early Imperial Roman
5 Jeff Fletcher Early Ostrogothic
6 Patrick Pursley French Ordonnance
7 Douglas Anderson Sicilian
8 Jarod Armstrong Late Imperial Roman (East)
9 Brian Bailey Pyrrhic
10 Dennis Roeder Syracusan

Rules for DBM Mini 200 AP Tournaments (Summer and Winter Sword)

1. All armies are to be 200 AP, two versions of one list, same year and same area.

2. Rules are DBM v3.0, 2nd Ed Army Books 1 - 4 plus Errata.

3. Army Points are according to DBM lists EXCEPT that the command costs for generals are halved, rounding up: Reg CinC or Sub= 10 AP + cost in AP of the element; Irreg CinC or Sub, or Reg Ally=5 AP + cost in AP of the element-, Irreg Ally=3 AP + cost in AP of the element.

4. All maxima and minima in the lists are halved, including generals, and rounded up, e.g., "Norman LH(O) 0-3 " is halved and then rounded up to "0-2. There are 3 special cases: a) In the case of Allies with maxima limits, the 2 baggage elements are deducted first and then the maxima are halved. b) In the case of lists with compulsory Double Based Elements (DBEs), the halved minima and maxima are rounded up to the closest number of complete DBEs. c) In the case of lists with compulsory TF that have to be used to guard the camp/baggage, multiply maxima and minima for those TF by 2/3 instead of 1/2.

5. Only one sub-general is allowed, even if after halving and rounding up the list would allow two subs to be fielded. Any other general must be an ally. If, and only if, the army fielded has no allies in the list then you may field the third of the Sub-Generals as an ethnic ally (with the 1/4 of compulsory troops, etc.) so long as the original army list allows 3+ Sub Generals before halving. Also, after halving, any mandatory ally generals must be fielded.

6. Two elements of baggage are still required per command, and will count as per normal for demoralization.

7. Terrain will be setup by the players as normal. All terrain min and max dimensions are reduced by 1/3 and rounded to the nearest 50p increment: Min WW = 200p; Max WW = 600p; 0.5 TE area pieces = 50p - 350p; 1.0 TE area pieces = 351p - 500p; 1.5 TE area pieces = 501p - 650p; Max River width 150p.

8. Table Size for 15mm will be 48" wide by 30" deep. Forward deployment zones cannot be within 250p of the table center line. Flanks will continue to be at 300p from table edge. Invader ambushes cannot be within 250p of the table center line. Defender ambushes only on his side of the table.

9. Table Size for 25mm should be 6' wide by 4 deep. Forward deployment cannot be within 250p of the table center line. Flanks will continue to be at 300p from table edge. Invader ambushes cannot be within 250p of the table center line. Defender ambushes only on his side of the table,

10. Time of Day and Weather will be played.

11. Game times will be 2 hours per game.