The Sword and the Cross

On 22th july 2012 there will be the DBMM tournament "The Sword and the Cross" in Milan.

The theme will be about the military campaigns of Byzantine and Crusader armies from Manzikert to the fall of Costantinopolis to the 4th Crusade. The players will use these armies or their enemies.

The event will be held in

The tournament will be over four games, of 100 minutes each.

The rules used will be the DBMM200 version, using 240AP, and the only armies allowed, in the time span 1071AD - 1204AD, will be:

III/26 Early Serbian and Croatian

III/33 Early Muslim North African and Sicily

III/47 Pecheneg

III/53 East Frankish

III/54 Dynastic Bedouin

III/66 Fatimid Egyptian

III/68 Early Hungarian

III/71 Georgian

III/74 Seljuq Turks

III/80 Cuman

IV/1 Komnenan Byzantine

IV/2 Cilician Armenian

IV/5 Sicilian

IV/6 Syrian

IV/7 Early Crusaders

IV/17 Later Crusaders

IV/20 Ayyubid Egyptian

IV/26 Lusignan Cypriot

To have as much army variety as possible, the subscribing player first to pick an army will receive a bonus of +3 points to his classment score. The second to pick the same army, will have a 0 bonus score, the third -3, the fourth -6 and so on.

The subscription will open on 22th june 2012

The army pool showing the subscribed players (showed in red on this page) and armies selected will be updated in real time.

The subscription will cost between 5 and 7 Euro, depending how many players will attend.

The army lists must be sent before the 15th of july 2012 to:

dennis.peroniATsisal.it or dennis.peroniATtiscali.it (subsituing AT with @ in the email address)

Please contact the administrator to subscribe or if needing further informations.