DBMM 100 interclub, my four games - posted by Vince Cholewa, 1 April 2026

Thank you so much to Neil Williamson for running his annual DBMM 100 competition at the Hutt Valley Wargaming Club on Saturday. We were teams of four from Horowhenua, Masterton Marauders, Wellington Warlords and the Hutt Club.

Team Horowhenua was: me (Mitanni), Chris Blackler (Late Imperial Roman), Samuel Taylor (100 Years War English), and David Taylor as our non-playing Sensei.

Big thank yous to my four opponents, gentlemen all: Graham Starkey (Kimmerian), Steven de Jager (Early Achaemenid Persian), Alastair Duncan (Sea Peoples) and Craig Mabon (Kushan). More about each game in the captions. The fourth round is the ‘crossover’. In the first three rounds our opponents are from the same army list book, in my case, book 1. In the fourth round book 1 armies played book 2 armies.

I won three and lost one, Team Horowhenua finished third and Neil posted results here 

https://www.facebook.com/groups/1361723981419383/posts/1994858128105962/

The back story of my army. I do one of these for each of my armies.

vs Graham Starkey (Kimmerian), initial deployment. I massed my Mitanni chariots on the left, the Hittite allies just inside them, and held back on my right. My plan worked in no small part because for the first few bounds we rolled ones and twos for our PIP dice, Graham getting it worse than me. The Hittites hit hard (ho ho), the Mitanni rolled up LH(F), combat dice were kind, 23-2

Typical of the first few bounds’ PIP dice

vs Steven de Jager (Early Achaemenid Persian), after my first bound. You can see my plan on the left. Unfortunately, shooting armies are the rock to my scissors and I lost eight elements to shooting. Ouch! 0-25

vs Alastair Duncan (Sea Peoples), after two bounds each. This was a case of subtly be f—ked! I just threw the Hittite chariots at the Sea Peoples’ left, they beat the first line and the Mitanni chariots followed up. 25-0
Alastair Duncan

Vince has no shame in gloating. Did he teach Pete Hesgeth all he knew????

vs Craig Mabon (Kushan), deployment. You can see Craig’s conundrum, his army is fierce but small. He was able to redeploy his left flank light horse to the right but the time that took gave the Mitanni chariots the opportunity to seize the high ground and then sweep down off it. 23-2