DBA Clustering - the 'Germans'

 

                                                             GC9 Goth EHC Command

Unable to photograph my new recruits as Storm Babet requires house lights to be on.  Maybe at sometime in the future?

One of the main reasons that Ian and I have accumulated so many DBA armies over the past few years is the phenomenum I shall call 'clustering'.  My first German army was the 2.47e Marcomanni - so a solid base of 4Wb plus Cv.

Even more Wb were sitting on my painting tray so expanding into the rest of 2.47 seemed possible (even likely).  Given that 6 elements of the Wb are actually Visigoths I looked at possible morphs.  

For the later armies I needed Knights rather than Cv. So I put in an order with Alternative Armies (ex-TTG figures).

So that was that huh!  Well....not quite.  I realised that my top-up order wasn't very big so the p&p would be a disproportinate element [another slippery slope].  Then I thought about a Hun army.

List 2.80 (a-d): my stocks can provide the Lh (from my Tatars/Tartars) and the 4Bw. Somehow I added in a Hun command element and an artillery piece to my order. (I severely lack non-Chinese artillery).

Nevertheless I can now field the following (later) DBA forces:

2.65a - Gothic Army at Adrianople 378
2.65b - Tervingi or Early Visigothic 200-407
2.65c - Alaric & successors 408-419
2.66 -  Early Vandal
2.67a - Radagaisus 401-406
2.67b - Other Steppe armies
2.70a - Burgundi 250-534
2.70b - Limigantes 334-359
2.71  - Gepid
2.72a - Quadi 250-406
2.72b - Alamanni 250-506
2.72c - Suevi 250-584
2.72d - Other Early Framkish, Rugian or Turcillingi
2.80a - Attila 433-453
2.80b - Sabir Hunnic 515-558
2.80c - Chionite or Hepthalite Hunnic in Bactria & India [can find a suitable 'eastern' Kn but not the El]
2.80d - Other Hunnic 374-558

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DBA @ Gt.Houghton - Sat 14th October 2023

(a) 2.65c Alaric          v 2.81c British                 4:2 win
(b) 2.80b Sabir Hunnic    v 2.83b Later Visigothic        4:3 win
(c) 2.47e Marcomanni      v 2.64a Western Roman           0:5 loss
(d) 1.24b Later Hittite   v 1.22a New Kingdom Egyptian    4:6 loss*

* using my 20mm plastics v 25mm metals.  A crazy game with a whole picnic of sandwiches.
  On 3:3 for ages then a sudden and spectacular failure on my part.