{"id":687,"date":"2014-10-24T17:45:07","date_gmt":"2014-10-24T17:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/badwargamers.com\/bad\/?p=687"},"modified":"2014-10-24T17:46:02","modified_gmt":"2014-10-24T17:46:02","slug":"dba-v3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/badwargamers.com\/bad\/dba-v3\/","title":{"rendered":"DBA v3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today my copy of DBA v3 arrived, in the continuing struggle to find rules that accommodate by collection of ancients that seem to be gathering dust. So here is a quick review based in a 10 minute flick through.<a href=\"http:\/\/lurkio.co.uk\/blog\/archives\/2280\/image\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2277\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wap-image-2277\" src=\"http:\/\/lurkio.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/image.jpg\" alt=\"image\" width=\"200\" height=\"266\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>First thing to note is the format. A4 and hardback. Definitely a move up from the A5 paper bound 2.2 rules. There are also 142 pages. So what do we get for our \u00a320?<\/p>\n<p>The rules themselves still come in 14 pages and have added what looks to be a lot of chrome. The mechanics are the same with a few more troop types with more interaction. Gladly not the brain straining my bound your bound of DBMM. There looks to be a lot of expansion in the terrain section too.FINALLY moving to an all metric measuring system \u2013 hurrah! Welcome to the 20th century!<\/p>\n<p>The next section are 15 pages of diagrams. The fact that you need 15 pages of diagrams illustrates the legendary prose Mr Barker is capable of.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lurkio.co.uk\/blog\/archives\/2280\/image-3\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2279\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2279\" src=\"http:\/\/lurkio.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/image2.jpg\" alt=\"image\" width=\"1328\" height=\"1997\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I notice the comment about being understood by a dull 9 year old is now removed. Useful though to avoid argument<\/p>\n<p>The last and most weighty section is the army lists. There are now nearly 300 lists. Expanding form the 3 or 4 line from the old rules, each list now has a DBM style paragraph with background and notes on the army. Most worthy as I like reading these! Especially the pithy comments \u2026 \u201cfit only to kill chickens\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lurkio.co.uk\/blog\/archives\/2280\/image-2\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2278\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2278\" src=\"http:\/\/lurkio.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/image1.jpg\" alt=\"image\" width=\"1457\" height=\"831\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As I understand it great attention has been paid to the clarification and simplification of the writing style. Only time will tell on that front. Overall a nice product , looking to be worthy of the title of magnum opus, as folk are already saying<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today my copy of DBA v3 arrived, in the continuing struggle to find rules that accommodate by collection of ancients that seem to be gathering dust. So here is a quick review based in a 10 minute flick through. First thing to note is the format. A4 and hardback. Definitely a move up from the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/badwargamers.com\/bad\/dba-v3\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">DBA v3<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ancients"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/badwargamers.com\/bad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/badwargamers.com\/bad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/badwargamers.com\/bad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/badwargamers.com\/bad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/badwargamers.com\/bad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=687"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/badwargamers.com\/bad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":689,"href":"http:\/\/badwargamers.com\/bad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687\/revisions\/689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/badwargamers.com\/bad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/badwargamers.com\/bad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/badwargamers.com\/bad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}