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Brian Boru Trophy 2009

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This will be a 1-day, 3-round, 200AP themed event Dates/Location now Confirmed

Umpire/List-checker: Mick Hessian (mickhession (at) yahoo.co.uk)
Date: Sunday, 18th October, 2009 (confirmed)
Format: 3 x round 200AP themed DBMM competition.
Theme: Fury of the Northmen: Vikings, Normans & the Northern Crusades 790AD – 1267AD
Prizes: 1st and 2nd place, a special prize for the highest placing "Northmen" army (*'d in theme list below) that is not on the podium, top dog prize, painted allied command lottery for players who get their lists in on time.
List checking/pre-registration deadline: 9th October 2009
Cost: 15euro for RINIWA members or overseas visitors, 17euro for non-members.

Outline Schedule:
10.00 Registration
10.15 - 12.15 Round 1
12.15 - 1.00 Lunch
1.00 - 3.00 Round 2
3.15 - 5.15 Round 3
5.30 Prizegiving

DBMM Rules

  • The rules used will be DBMM v1.0 plus the 31st of March version of the DBMM Commentary.
  • Armies must be 200AP or less.
  • Armies can be from the Theme below using DBMM Lists Bk1-3 and the draft Bk4 army lists.
  • Tables will be 120cm x 80cm.
  • Basemats will be provided, players must supply their own terrain.
  • The decisions of the umpire are final.
  • Games will be 2 hours +/- 7 minutes in duration. The exact time will be secretly determined by the umpire.
  • Games will end immediately (whistle stop) when the umpire calls time. Roll no more dice, move no more troops and proceed to the end of the bound evaluation of commands breaking/disheartening etc and then calculate the scores,
  • There will be a non-playing umpire who will only play against the bottom of the draw if there is an uneven number of players.

    Theme
    Fury of the Northmen: Vikings, Normans & the Northern Crusades 790AD – 1267AD

    * = eligible for highest placed "Northman" army

    List Army Start Date End Date Restrictions
    2/54 Scots Irish 790 841
    2/68 Pictish 790 842
    2/73 Old Saxon, Frisian, Bavarian,
    Thuringian and Early
    Anglo-Saxon 790 804 Old Saxon only
    2/81 Sub-Roman British 790 1034
    3/1 Early Slav 790 1218 Wends & Northern Slavs only
    3/14 Early Bulgar 860 1018
    3/16 Khazar 860 1054
    3/18 Breton 790 1072
    3/19 Welsh 790 1267
    3/21 Italian Lombard 1018 1072
    3/24 Middle Anglo-Saxon 790 1016
    3/26 Early Serbian and Croatian 860 1054 Croatian only
    3/28 Carolingian Frankish 790 888
    3/29 Thematic Byzantine 860 963 Only in Thrace
    3/30 Magyar 896 1003
    3/32 Volga Bulgar 860 1054
    3/33 Early Muslim North Africa and
    Sicily 1060 1072
    3/34 Andalusian 844 968
    3/35 Feudal Spanish 844 1016
    *3/40 Norse Viking and Leidang 790 1267
    3/45 Pre Feudal Scots 842 1124
    3/46 Norse Irish 842 1267 note these had been incorrectly
    starred as "Northmen"
    3/47 Pecheneg 860 1054
    *3/48 Rus 860 1054
    *3/52 West Frankish or Norman 888 1075 Only Normans are eligible for Northmen prize
    3/53 East Frankish 888 1106
    3/58 Buyid or other Dailami dynasties 945 945 Musafirid only
    3/63 Early Polish 960 1267
    3/65 Nikephorian Byzantine 963 1042 Only in Thrace or Italy
    3/66 Fatimid Egyptian 969 972
    3/68 Early Hungarian 997 1054
    3/72 Anglo-Danish 1016 1075
    3/73 Communal Italian 1029 1072
    3/76 Konstantinian Byzantine 1042 1072 Not in Anatolia
    3/77 Papal Italian 1049 1072
    *3/78 Scots Isles and Highlands 1050 1267
    3/79 Early Russian 1054 1246
    4/3 Anglo-Norman 1072 1181
    4/9 Eastern Forest American 1100 1267
    4/13 Medieval German 1106 1267 Only Clerical or City C-in-C
    4/16 Scots Common Army 1124 1267
    4/18 Lithuanian or Samogitian 1132 1267
    4/21 Anglo-Irish 1172 1267
    4/23 Feudal English 1181 1267
    4/27 Estonian 1200 1227
    4/28 Prussian 1200 1267
    4/30 Teutonic Orders 1201 1267
    4/44 Post-Mongol Russian 1244 1267