A Campaign For The Balkans 1370 AD

Last Sunday I was due to play in a one day, six player campaign devised by John Davies.  Needless to say it didn’t happen.  A week before we had seven players and by the the time I turned up at the club we had three.  Flu had accounted for two of the seven leaving us with an odd number and so a couple more dropped out.

The scenario and system is really rather elegant and applicable to more than just DBMM as you can see from John’s original design:

• Original player briefing (pdf).

With John’s permission, I’ve hacked it around a bit to fit better as a web page and posted it below together with a print version:

• Alternative player briefing (pdf).

If you want to see how the campaign plays a detailed report has now been posted.  This includes an alternative set of teams.  There’s now a also deck of terrain cards to add further variety.

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The Balkans 1370 AD – A DBMM Mini-Campaign

Introduction:

This is a six player, one day campaign using three tables with fixed terrain layouts.  There are two teams of three players and each team has a captain as follows:

Team 1 - The Catalan Vengeance:

1. The Catalan Company (Team Captain).
   
2. Lusignan Cypriot (with John Hawkwood’s White Company).
   
3. Serbian Empire.

Team 2 - The Ottoman Expansion:

1. Late Ottoman (Team Captain).
   
2. Anatolian Turcoman
   
3. Wallachian

Rules & Armies:

• Rules - DBMM 1.0
  
• Army lists - DBM Book 4; 2nd Ed.
  
• Army size - 450 AP per army.

Starting the Campaign:

• The opposing captains each roll a d6; the winner becomes the defending team.
  
• Each captain records who is to play on each of the three tables.
  
• The opposing captains declare their assignment creating the first pairings.

Starting, Playing & Finishing Games:

• Each player rolls a d6. The defending player adds one to their score.
  
• The winner chooses their preferred side of the table.
  
• Players record their deployment and dice for deployment & weather as standard.
  
• All games take place in summer in a warm climate.
  
• Time limit - 2 ½ hours from the first bound.
  
• On victory, or time expiring, VPs are calculated for both sides as in DBMM v1.0.

Starting the Second Game:

• Captains rank their players based on the VPs gained in the first game, resolving any draws.
  
• The highest ranking players from opposing teams play on table 1; the middle on table 2 and the lowest on table 3.
  
• Choice of table side is determined as above.

Campaign Results:

• Each team's VP score for all six games is calculated.
  
• The team with the highest overall VP are the winners.

Tables:

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Credits:

• © John Davies 2009