DBMM New Zealand : 18 registered for Levin DBMM comp - posted by Vince Cholewa, 17 June 2023

Saturday 17 June 2023

18 registered for Levin DBMM comp - posted by Vince Cholewa, 17 June 2023

Update: 18 registered so far for the Levin DBMM competition, Early and Classical Greeks and Their Enemies, July 29-30. The registration form is in Files on this FB group.

Potbelly Miniatures has printed the figures we will use for the eight trophies. Here are two of them, painted but not yet mounted on plinths: one is for the Looter of Baggage (the player who captures the most baggage) and the Harpy is coming for the dead (last place – nicer than a wooden spoon).

Registered so far, alphabetically:

1. Graham Starkey, Alexandrian Macedonians – Big Phil and Alex the Boy

2. Paul Graham, Early Achaemenid Persian – in the blue corner, the one, the only, the King of Kings! (the crowd goes wild)

3. Drew Fortune, Early Carthaginians – others sacrificed chickens and sheep …

4. Julian Hannam, Early Carthaginians – see above

5. Barry Norris, Early Carthaginians – a triumvirate, if that is not culturally inappropriate

6. Allen Yaxley – was Syracusan but Pyrrhus is taking over and Allen is keen to finish his Epirots

7. Keith Trye, Galatians – something of a musical troupe, Bad Boys, watcha gonna do when they come for you

8. Alastair Duncan – Joseph and the Coat of Many Colours, or Alastair the man with many armies

9. Richard Foster, Polybian Roman – laying the foundations for the imperialist oppressors of the free peoples of the world

10. Andrew Bennets, Sea People – see Greece, see plunder

11. Neil Williamson, Scythian – the centaurs are coming!

12. Alastair Donald, Spartan – always happy to talk, even to a stranger passing by

13. Phil Gates, Spartan (Agesilaus) – Thebans are our best friends, honest

14. David Wright, Syracusan – a mathematician, a bath and that “Eureka!” moment

15. Josh Barton, Thebans – Spartans are our best friends, honest

16. Vince Cholewa, Thracian – I will play if I am needed to prevent a bye

17. John van den Hoeven, Trojans – Homer, a princess with that face, a thousand ships, Orlando Bloom and Brad Pitt, how could we possibly have this theme without them?

18. Doug Smith, tbc

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