The rules themselves include many enhancements designed to streamline play, reduce gamesmanship and to ensure dba both produces a. These lists range from the italian wars to the late 17th century and span conflict in europe, the new world, africa and asia. The rules allow armies to be chosen from published army lists in 4 books. The rules are largely based on the popular miniatures rules for. As its name implies, it is aimed primarily at simulating large battles. It was accompanied by three books of army lists describing the main armies in use during the period. It takes a little bit of concentration to read thru but with a cheat sheet in hand, it is very easy to play. Dbn napoleonic wargaming strategic wargaming at its best. The dbr rules are supported by some 125 official army lists published in three army lists books. It was first published in 1995 and later updated to version 2. The rules cover the entire 200 year plus period from 1494 to 1700. The closest would be the wadbag rules rewrite, but thats version 2.
Paperback rulebook containing 27 pages of rules followed by 7 pages of diagrams and examples. These rules have been developed to fight tactically challenging battles. In the 1970s wargames research group wrg published george gushs renaissance rules, renaissance wargaming were effectively born. Each manoeuvre piece on the table top represents a napoleonic tactical troop type, known as a unit, be it for example light infantry, heavy cavalry or horse artillery. This section aims to provide information on these published lists in the form of a. It is a set of wargame rules written by the wargames research group in england. This short description will, i hope, explain a few aspects of the rule book and.
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