The Renaissance is a hugely interesting and colourful period to wargame, but as an outsider or beginner, it can be a somewhat dazzlingly and confusing era in which to dabble.
Also many Gamers like to purchase small quantities of minis, to test their ability to paint the models successfully.
Which is DBA-RRR (Renaissance, Reformation and Restoration) Starter Armies come in, based on a variant of the veteran rule set DBA, the game uses very small numbers of miniatures to enact battles of the period, 1500 -1700. DBA-RRR, which can be read here, pits tiny numbers of scale minis, never more than 48, in games that seldom last more than 30 minutes or so.
The Rules, adapted by Tony Aguilar, come with a full set of Army List, covering; the Italian Wars, the Turkish Wars and the Reformation in Book I, and the Northern Wars (Russia/Poland/Sweden), the Thirty Years War and the British Civil Wars, in Book II, so gamers can pick a period that suits their taste, and start small.
This is the full list of the Armies we have for the rules;
Book I
Italian Wars
- DBA-RRR-SA-I/1(a) Italian Condotta Combined 1494-1553
- DBA-RRR-SA-I/1(e) Papacy 1496-1503
- DBA-RRR-SA-I/1(f) Florence 1507-1521
- DBA-RRR-SA I/2(e & f)Italian Wars French. 1536-1554 ADÂ Â
- DBA-RRR-SA-I/4(a) Neapolitan Spanish 1495-1502
- DBA-RRR-SA-I/4(b) Neapolitan Spanish 1503-1511 and 1513-1518
- DBA-RRR-SA-I/5(a) Spanish Imperial 1519-1533
- DBA-RRR-SA-I/6(a) Venetian Italian 1494-1503 and 1507-1559
- DBA-RRR-SA-I/6(b) Venetian Italian 1504-1506
Tudor/Valois
Turkish Wars
- DBA-RRR-SA-I/12(a) Ottoman Turk 1494-1594
- DBA-RRR-SA-I/12(b) Ottoman Turk. 1595 -1700
- DBA-RRR-SA-I/17(a) Venetian Colonial 1494 – 1559
New World
- DBA-RRR-SA-I/29(a) Aztec 1494 -1521
- DBA-RRR-SA-I/30(a) Tlaxcalan 1494-1518
- DBA-RRR-SA-I/30(b) Tlaxcalan 1519-1521
- DBA-RRR-SA-I/41(a) Spanish Colonial 1524-1534
Reformation
Book II
Northern Wars
- DBA-RRR-SA-II/3(d) Early Vasa Swedish 1601-1605
- DBA-RRR-SA-II/3(e) Early Vasa Swedish 1606-1617
- DBA-RRR-SA-II/4(b) Russian Traditional 1553-1629
- DBA-RRR-SA-II/4(c) Russian Traditional 1630-1647
- DBA-RRR-SA-II/6(a) Tartar (Generic) 1494 – 1700
- DBA-RRR-SA-II/7(a) Polish-Lithuanian Rzeczpospolita 1576-1618
- DBA-RRR-SA-II/7(b) Polish-Lithuanian Rzeczpospolita 1619 – 1631
- DBA-RRR-SA-II/8(a) Early Gustavian Swedish 1618-1629
- DBA-RRR-SA-II/9(a) Cossack (Generic) 1550-1700
Thirty Years War
- DBA-RRR-SA-II/12(a) Bavarian-led Catholic League 1609-1616
- DBA-RRR-SA-II/12(b) Bavarian-led Catholic League 1617-1632
- DBA-RRR-SA-II/12(c) Bavarian-led Catholic League 1633-1648
- DBA-RRR-SA-II/12(g) Imperial 1609-1616
- DBA-RRR-SA-II/12(h) Imperial 1617-1632
- DBA-RRR-SA-II/12(i) Imperial 1633-1648
- DBA-RRR-SA-II/13(a) Baden and Saxony 1609-1631
- DBA-RRR-SA-II/13(c) Bohemian Revolt 1618-1623
- DBA-RRR-SA-II/13(d) Hesse-Kassel 1631-1648
- DBA-RRR-SA-II/14(a) Christian IV Danish 1588-1614
- DBA-RRR-SA-II/14(b) Christian IV Danish 1615-1648
- DBA-RRR-SA-II/15(a) Swedish Thirty Years War 1630-1634
- DBA-RRR-SA-II/15(b) Swedish Thirty Years War 1635-1648
British Civil Wars
- DBA-RRR-SA-II/17(a) Bishop’s War English 1639-1640
- DBA-RRR-SA-II/18(a) Bishop’s War Scots Royalist 1639
- DBA-RRR-SA-II/19(a) Scots Covenanter, 1st Bishops War in 1639
- DBA-RRR-SA-II/19(b) Scots Covenanter 1640-1649
- DBA-RRR-SA-II/19(c) Scots Covenanter 1650-1651
- DBA-RRR-SA-II/21(a) English Civil War Royalist 1641-1643
- DBA-RRR-SA-II/22(a) English Civil War Parliamentarian 1642-1644
Plenty to choose from, and to incentivize you, to get you up and playing for the next 7 days (until 3rd February 2018), all Renaissance Starter Armies are, Buy One Get One Half Price!
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