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June 5 2000
by George Smithson [asiaticu@cosmoaccess.net]
Many people have suggested that DBR is well suited to late Medieval warfare and it may better capture it than DBM.
I am amd not decided on that last point yet but I do like the way DBR plays. Converting DBM lists to DBR terms
is fairly easy. However, adapting DBR to the Medieval era requires modifications to the standard DBR rules.
New troop types have been added to better capture the nature of certain troops of the era. This includes the
addition of one of these to the types getting rear support tactical modifiers. Rules for exchanging mounted for
dismounted troops ( or vise versa ) have been added, as this was a typical feature in later Medieval warfare in many
lands. Lastly, a rule for Unreliable Allies because this behavior featured prominently in many battles in the period
( although this includes a provision to limit the possibilities of such backstabing by list to certain allies if they
did so historically. )
Rule Modifications
These list cover the period of warfare when gunpowder weapons began to have decernable influence on warfare and regular national armies began to appear in Europe. I have covered all the forces in Europe to the Urals and, also those of Africa and the Middle East to Kazakistan and Persia that clashed with European powers or the Ottoman Turks. Most of the DBR lists for the rest of the world will do to cover contemporary armies of Asia or Africa in this period with little or no modifications so I have omitted them.
I have divided the lists into four groups who were generally involved in wars with each other in the period. There are of course some crossovers.
First is the Turkish Wars group all of whom were directly involved in wars against the Ottoman state in its wars of expansion. It is a large list.
Second the Northern Wars list covering the clashes that created Muskovy, the wars of the states around the Baltic Sea, and those wars with and within the Holy Roman Empire, including the Hussites, and Swiss.
Thirdly the Wars in Northwestern Europe, the last of the 100 Years War and those that saw the establishment of strong monarchies in England and France and the failed attempt of Burgundy to do the same and the quarrels over its corpse.
The last list is of the wars for control of the Mediterranean Sea, those in Italy, and in Spain including my adaptations of the Medieval Spanish list to cover the war against Grenada that started this project to begin with. Hope you enjoy these and let me ( and others ) know how they work.
George Smithson.
