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Registrations open for, Levin DBMM Competition, July 29-30 - posted by Vince Cholewa, 31 March 2023

Registrations open for, Levin DBMM Competition,
Levin Cosmopolitan Club, 29-30 July 2023. Theme: Early and classical Greeks and their enemies.
$40 registration fee. Please email me at toysoldiers111@gmail.com or use messenger, stating your army and its date. Wayne and I will reply with payment details.
So far 10 people have said they are keen to play - there is room for more. Comments on this group are most welcome.
Competition details:
To provide something a little different, we will run the Levin DBMM Competition with a theme. The challenge with a theme is to have something that will have a “vibe” but not be so restrictive that there are too few players with armies that fit the theme.
After some thought and discussion, thank you Wayne and Barry, the theme is early and classical Greeks and their enemies.
The Greeks are:
• Minoan and Early Mycenaean 1/18
• Later Mycenaean and Trojan War 1/26
• Dark-Age and Geometric Greek 1/30
• Early Hoplite Greece 1/52
• Later Hoplite Greece 2/5
• Hellenistic Greek 2/31
Enemies of the Greeks are:
The enemies are those armies named as enemies in the Greek lists above. Where it is known from either the army list or what we know of history which part of a list fought Greeks, then players are encouraged to use those options. Some examples: Celts are most “welcome” (though that might not have been what the Greeks said!) but could not use the options for Galatians in Asia Minor. Alexander can use his army from before he began his Persian campaign. Polybian Romans, who are the latest Romans that would be allowed, could not use lines described as, e.g., only in North Africa.
A spiel, encouragement and morphing is okay:
Spartans, Persians and Trojans are keenly sought – how could we possibly run this theme without them? Also most definitely in are Macedonians like Philip the Dad, Alex the Boy, and some of the Successors, plus Sea People, lllyrians, Thracians, various kingdoms from Asia Minor, and there are lots more listed in the Greek army lists. Apparently, in his history of the Peloponnesian war, Thucydides described Epirots as barbarians, not Greek. Epirus qualifies for the theme as an enemy.
Morphing figures is certainly allowed (Ancient British can become a Celtic migration through northern Greece) and there are likely to be loan armies available.
Rules of engagement:
• 400AP or other points when players mutually agree.
• 3.5 hours per game.
• Two games a day, 8.45am to 12.15pm and 1pm to 4.30pm.
• Normal rules for terrain, deployment, weather etc.
• First round to be historical opponents where possible, otherwise near as possible contemporary armies; then Swiss chess.
• Umpires, Vince Cholewa and Wayne Watts, will play if needed to avoid byes.
Logistics:
Catering will be at the cosie club – bar snacks and the restaurant for lunch and dinner. We will buy a special licence so the bar will be open to all. There is lots of off street parking at the club.
We are looking at inviting other gamers to also take part. Possibles include 25mm multiplayer (17th century or Napoleonic), board games, GW – more on this to come.
Contact:
Vince Cholewa, discussion and posts on DBMM New Zealand Facebook, toysoldiers111@gmail.com, 027 344 1073
If you have any questions or suggestions, please do not hesitate to get in touch.
Quotes (of glorification and then the opposite) just for the vibe:
Go tell the Spartans, stranger passing by, that here obedient to their laws we lie.”
– Simonides of Ceos
“Though all else shall be taken, Zeus, the all-seeing, grants that the wooden wall only shall not fail.” – the Oracle at Delphi (or did Herodotus make it up?)
“I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion.”
– attributed to Alexander the Great
RAGE: Sing, Goddess, Achilles' rage,
Black and murderous, that cost the Greeks
Incalculable pain, pitched countless souls
Of heroes into Hades' dark,
And left their bodies to rot as feasts
For dogs and birds, as Zeus' will was done.

– Homer, the first lines of the Iliad 

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