Partizan DBMM

These lists are intended for use with the "De Bellis Magistrorum Militum" wargames rules, more familiarly known as "DBMM". While mainly intended for competition games, they also provide a general guide to armies' troop classification and proportions for use in conjunction with more detailed sources, such as the W.R.G. army handbooks. Each list is designed to produce 300 AP to 500 AP armies that closely simulate their real life prototype, while still allowing sufficient flexibility to cover historical variations during the period and legitimate differences of opinion or personal preference. Most include about 200 AP of compulsory troops and allow greater freedom of choice for the remainder, this choice diminishing as the size of the army increases. AP are set to give armies approximately equal combat value over the full range of likely battlefield conditions and opponents. This is not an exact science!

Most lists correspond to the previous DBM lists compiled by myself and Richard Bodley Scott, but have been extensively modified; both to provide the extra information required by DBMM, and in the light of 8 years further very high quality research by many people, including the TNE internet group and members of DBMMlist@yahoogroups.com. It is invidious to name individuals, but the contribution of Duncan Head has as usual been outstanding. Although these lists have been very much a collective project and consensus has always been sought, this has not always been possible, and I alone am responsible for the final decisions. Where there is disagreement about the more obscure troop types or only minor doubt, I have sometimes chosen to specify only the interpretation I think most likely. This has been done not through hubris, but for the sake of simplicity, and to reduce the scope for tailoring of armies by over-competitive players. Where a decision has been finely balanced, I have chosen the interpretation producing the most realistic effect against the army's historical opponents.