Call to Arms: the results - posted by the umpire, Paul Graham, 2 September 2025

Call to Arms 2025 - the results

Here is the summary of proceedings from the DBMM competition at the Wellington Warlords' annual Call to Arms tournament. We play for the Brent Senior-Partridge trophy, in memory of our friend and prolific supporter of Ancient wargaming.

18 players this year making their way around 9 tables with fixed terrain, 36 hard-fought games played in good spirits, most of which went the full 3½ hour distance, a large variety of armies from all 4 army list books, and 8 prizes.

The winners and place-getters were:

Best Presented Army - Andrew Bennetts

Best Irregular Army - Graham Starkey

Most Combative Player - Vince Cholewa

Best Book 1 Army - Vince Cholewa

Best Book 2 Army - Andrew Bennetts

Best Book 4 Army - Keith Trye

Overall Winner, and Best Book 3 Army - Neil Williamson

Runner-Up - Keith Trye

The full list of players, armies and final scores:

1st Neil Williamson - 3/13 Avar, 626 AD - 76 pts

2nd Keith Trye - 4/76 Early Burgundian, 1471 AD - 72 pts

3rd Vince Cholewa - 1/19 Mitanni, 1276 BC - 71 pts

4th Richard Foster - 4/73 Ming Dynasty, 1399 AD - 70 pts

and, in alphabetical order:

Andrew Bennetts - 2/32 Later Carthaginian, 250 BC - 63 pts

Chris Blackler - 2/78 Late Imperial Roman, 389 AD - 42 pts

Alastair Duncan - Carthaginian; Scots; Communal Italian; Yi Korean 61 pts

Richard Fields - 2/3 Classical Indian, 326 BC - 23 pts

David Kinzett - 2/82 Patrician Roman (Amorican), 468 AD - 46 pts

Gary Lewis - 1/57 Etruscan League, 357 BC - 63 pts

Richard Mason - 1/38 Libyan Egyptian, 800 BC - 13 pts

Barry Norris - 4/55 Ottoman Turk, 1520 AD - 62 pts

Raymond Pearce - 3/19 South Welsh, 1150 AD - 14 pts

Graham Starkey - 2/37 Parthian, 111 BC - 53 pts

Michael Stonyer - 2/64 Middle Imperial Roman, 300 AD - 28 pts

Peter Williamson - 4/37 Malay, 1222 AD - 44 pts

David Wright - 2/9 Syracusan, 337 BC - 48 pts

Allen Yaxley - 4/23 Feudal English, 1264 AD - 51 pts 

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Parthian auxiliaries heading for Stirling castle

A clash of elephants, Malay vs Carthaginian

A clash of elephants, Malay vs Carthaginian
Tilman Dang

Richard brought 8 guns! (to a knife-fight, clever!) mercilessly pounding at the enemy, .... without killing any..... Chinese quality shot, cheap and abundant, but break on impact.... so I've been told.