Peter Stone's DBM and Flames of War Page

Peter Stone's

DBM &

Flames of War Page

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The above picture, The Last of the 300 Spartans, was 10ft x 4ft, and took a whole year to draw.

You'll find at this site some photos of 15mm historical miniatures of various armies that I've painted, for using in a historical wargame called DBM (De Bellis Multitudinis - Mass Ancient & Medieval Combat Miniatures Rules), and also for 15mm Flames of War.

Here's me in Japan in Eigamura, in Kyoto. This is where they filmed Seven Samurai.

15mm Flames of War Miniatures

15mm Flames of War US Airborne click here New Photos Added Dec'06 (Sold)

15mm Flames of War US Infantry Rifle Platoon click here

What is DBM?

DBM

It stands for DE BELLIS MULTITUDINIS (the big battles), and are Mass Ancient & Medieval Combat Minaitures Rules, published by Wargames Research Group in the UK.

The rules have been designed to allow history buffs and gamers to re-fight ancient and medieval battles, using painted toy soldiers. The rules are designed for 2mm, 6mm, 10mm, 15mm or 25mm figures, and recreate combat with no record keeping and a minimum of dice rolls. All units are rated according to how they fought, not according to how they were armed and armored. Shock cavalry are knights, skirmishing horse are cavalry or light horse, infantry are bow, blades, spears, pikes, warband, auxilia, or skirmishers. All units are on identical width bases containing 2 to 4 figures, and square off to fight each other. Each unit has a basic combat factor versus foot or mounted, and these factors are effected by terrain, supporting ranks if applicable, and whether your flanks and rear are secure. Certain troop types destroy others if they score higher, such as knights fighting spears or warband fighting blades, but normally you need to double the enemy element's score to kill it. A brilliant command system makes you wrack your brain as you try to out-manoeuvre your opponent. Regular armies are easy to maneuver, irregular armies less so, and morale is simple but effective - if a command loses 1/3rd of its elements, it is broken, and the army breaks at ½ casualties.

The rules are a lot of fun, and are a great excuse to paint up endless armies of toy soldiers, which you can then actually use like chess pieces, hence the effort in painting them being justified.

I've painted far too many armies over the past fifteen years, and keep painting more, as well as painting the odd army by request. Below is an index of some of the armies I've painted.

Minoan & Early Mycenaean click here SOLD

Ancient Sea Peoples click here SOLD

Ancient New Kingdom Epyptians click here SOLD

Ancient Assyrians click here SOLD

Ancient Greece: Sparta & Thebes click here Not for sale