DBMM nationals, "Under the Mountain", July 11-12 - posted by Julian Hannam, 8 July 2026

This weekend at our Club, Taranaki Tabletop Gaming Club, is hosting 20 gamers in a tournament for a set of rules called DBMM. This will see armies from different years facing off.

Come along and check it out. Each army has 2-300 figures each so as many as 600 figures on each table!

So far the armies in round 1 of the ‘Ancients’ period are:

Neo Assyrian 722BC vs Early Hoplite greek 588BC
Syracusan 380 BC vs Macedonian Early Successor 270BC
Seleucid 190BC vs Late Roman 340AD Western
Pictish 367AD vs Marian Roman 58BC
Sassanid Empire 540ADvs Late Roman 383AD W
Early Arab 632 AD vs Central Asian city states 995 AD

We also have a Medieval Section after 1000AD

Norman 1066AD vs Norse Irish 1099 AD
Norse Irish 1169AD vs Sicilian 1390 AD
Italian Condotta 1454AD vs Swiss 1477AD
Italian Condotta 1500AD vs War of the Roses 1489AD

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John Way

Hurrah! for clarity Early Arab is Arab Conquest.

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Bruce Ferguson

The early Arab gets the Oil

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John Way

Which will hopefully not be ironic by the end of the tournament....

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Vincent Cholewa

Well done the Taranaki club. It’s great to see such a good turnout for Under the Mountain