DBA to DBM

[Ironsides]

I don't post here often if at all and this is about like high balling out of the rail yard. You've read the title right, DBA (De Bellis Antiquitatis) to DBA (De Bellis Moderni) which if I'm correct is 'the wars of modernity'. Yes, I am making an ancients game into a modern warfare game. Am I mad? You be the judge 

The inspiration came from Mark's Game Room who made his own ACW modification of Little Wars TV's Age of Hannibal which he called Age of Lincoln. I thought his implementation of Army Corp morale, artillery and cavalry were quite clever in my opinion. I decided to up the ante by jumping from ACW to late Cold War modern warfare. It is a hybrid of DBA trait-heavy granularity coupled with brilliant abstraction of AoH with some weirdness of my own.

Concepts in mind is communications, combined arms and unique stratagems to modern warfare (what I call Combat doctrines).

Did I get anyone's attention or am I talking nonsense?

[bob48]

I'm listening 

I have played DBA quite a bit in the past, but not for many years. As I recall, the last battles we, (me and my 2 gaming buddies), did were from the Zulu Wars.

However, I'm interested in your project as a gamer, although I have to add that I personally really never play any period later than the French Indochina war, or maybe the later Vietnam war.

[bayonetbrant]

I think just the juxtaposition of those two extremes will grab some attention.  There's a couple of us that are fans of that CWGH (Cold War Goes Hot) scenarios who would be interested in seeing what you come up with.

[Ironsides]

I'm not sure if I need to vomit all the details here or it'll be more convenient to post a document link.

Here is a link to my Only office (I don't like Google doc) and if this is too much of a hassle I'll try to post the concepts in small digestible chunks. Remember this is all a WIP and have yet to create an exhaustive army list, this is just generic concepts.

https://marcuslightervpa308.onlyoffice.com/s/dTKDxPbNFF69TX7

Feedback is a must if I am to make this work!

[bayonetbrant]

might be a few days before I can go take a look, but I hope others chime in while I'm gone over the weekend

(Ardwulf & I have a field trip/pilgrimage to Noble Knight Games over the weekend)

[Ironsides]

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1kutwibxeFox7q3rONO_sTL1GM3iBlt7hcjMG0ZYrP5g/edit?usp=sharing

I figure I give a Google Doc version if people have trouble making comments and suggestions in the Only Office link and prefer something more familiar.