De Bellis Multitudinis
| De Bellis Multitudinis (DBM) | |
|---|---|
| Game data | |
| author | Phil Barker, Richard Bodley Scott, Sue Laflin Barker |
| publishing company | Wargames Research Group |
| Publishing year | 1993 |
| Art | Tabletop |
| Teammates | 2 |
| Duration | approx. 3.5 hours |
| Age | k. A. |
De Bellis Multitudinis (DBM) ( lat .: Of battles with a large number of (figures)) is a tabletop game system for the simulation of historical battles (ancient and medieval) with the help of tin figures. The game system by the authors Phil Barker, Richard Bodley Scott and Sue Laflin Barker, published in 1993, is a morphed system of the war game rules from WRG (Wargames Research Group) and the simpler rules system DBA ( De Bellis Antiquitatis ) and is currently in version 3.1 (Dec. 2005 ) the international standard for playing and simulating historical tin figure battles.
A typical DBM army consists of several hundred tin figures. The most common scales are 25 mm (1:72) and 15 mm (1: 100), but in principle all scales are possible (e.g. 2 mm, 6 mm, 10 mm etc.). Between one and six tin figures are glued to bases 4 cm wide and of different depths (the size of the base plates varies with the scale), so that a historical army usually consists of 60–100 "game pieces" and several hundred tin figures. The game is played on 1.20 × 1.80 m long plates. The terrain is either given historically or the terrain structure is determined by rolling the dice at the beginning of the game and represented by individual terrain components that are similar to the terrain of a model railway. A game takes about 3.5 hours.
There is an international, interlinked DBM community, particularly in Great Britain and North America, but also in Italy, the Netherlands and Germany. The World Cup takes place in Ghent once a year .
See also
- De Bellis Antiquitatis (DBA) , the little brother with fixed 12 game pieces (approx. 25–45 pewter figures)
- De Bellis Magistrorum Militum , the successor product of the author Phil Barker