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PoP is a 15mm DBR tournament.
Date: 27-28 September 2025
Venue: Mairangi Bay Scout Hall, 20 Hastings Road, Mairangi Bay, Auckland 0630.
Registration: To register for the event, email your army list to the organiser before 20 September. Email: pabela@xtra.co.nz
Entry fee: $20. Pay on arrival at the venue.
Timetable:
Saturday
8.30am Hall opens
8.50am Briefing and first round draw
9am-1pm First game
2-6pm Second game
7pm Tournament dinner
Sunday
8.45am Hall opens
9am-1pm Third game
2-6pm Fourth game
6pm Prizegiving
Prizes: Medals for 1st, 2nd and 3rd place, and a Players' Choice award voted on by all participants.
Scoring: Tournament placings will be ranked by the number of wins (breaking the opposing army without being broken yourself), followed by number of draws.
Victory Points (defined under Victory & Defeat in the rules) will be used to rank players with the same number of wins or draws or losses.
The theme is Armies of Asia.
Armies and lists
15mm scale, 400 AP, Kiwi AP.
These lists are included in the theme.
Allied contingents are only allowed from these lists.
List numbers are from the one-volume edition, and from the original three volumes in brackets.
12 (I, 12) Ottoman Turk
13 (I, 13) Anatolian Turkoman
14 (I, 14) Mamluk Egyptian - Only before 1517
18 (I, 18) White Sheep Turkoman
19 (I, 19) Safavid Persian
22 (I, 22) Ming Chinese
23 (I, 23) Mongolian
24 (I, 24) Jurchen
25 (I, 25) Korean
26 (I, 26) Japanese
27 (I, 27) Manchu and Ch'ing Chinese
28 (I, 28) Tibetan
54 (II, 6) Tartar - Golden Horde or Sibir only
59 (II, 11) Siberian Tribes
74 (II, 26) Moghul
75 (II, 27) Muslim Indian
76 (II, 28) Hindu Indian
77 (II, 29) Maratha
86 (III, 9) Arab
94 (III, 17) Indonesian or Malay
95 (III, 18) Vietnamese
96 (III, 19) Siamese, Burmese, Laotian or Cambodian/Khmer
98 (III, 21) Sinhalese
113 (III, 36) Later Ottoman Turk
Rules
We will use DBR version 2.0 rules with some modifications:
(Page references are to the 2004 edition. Later reprints might have different page numbers.)
Baggage
Terrain
Deployment and starting the game
Overhead shooting
Shot
Separating from a group (See page 16)
AP: Push of Pike will use "Kiwi points"
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(S) |
(O) |
(I) |
(F) |
(X) |
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Lancers |
12 |
10 |
7 |
10 |
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Pistols |
12 |
10 |
8 |
10 |
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Sipahis |
10 |
7 |
5 |
7 |
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Light Horse |
7 |
4 |
4 |
4 |
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Camelry |
9 |
6 |
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7 |
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Dragoons |
8 |
7 |
6 |
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Pikes |
5 |
4 |
3 |
4 |
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Shot |
8 |
6 |
4 |
5 |
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Arquebus |
7 |
5 |
3 |
5 |
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Musket |
8 |
6 |
5 |
6 |
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Blades |
5 |
4 |
3 |
6 |
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Bows |
7 |
5 |
3 |
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Skirmishers |
4 |
3 |
2 |
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4 |
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Warband |
5 |
4 |
3 |
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Hordes |
2 |
1 |
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1 |
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Artillery |
15 |
10 |
6 |
10 |
10 |
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Pontooneers |
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5 |
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Warwagons |
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10 |
3 |
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Elephants |
24 |
20 |
16 |
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Baggage |
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5 |
5 |
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Ships |
6 |
5 |
3 |
4 |
4 |
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Galleys |
5 |
4 |
2 |
3 |
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Boats |
3 |
2 |
1 |
2 |
3 |
Previous PoPs
2004 Open list competition
2005 ECW and TYW
2006 Early Wars
2007 Armies of Africa and Asia
2008 The Wars of Religion
2009 The Turkish Wars
2010 Open list competition
2011 ECW and TYW
2012 Armies 1650-1700
2013 European armies 1540-1600
2014 Non-European armies 1494-1700
2015 Armies and Enemies of Charles V 1516-1556
2016 European Armies 1618 to 1665
2018 Open list competition
2019 Armies in Europe 1494-1600
2020 Armies of Africa and Asia
2022 European armies 1660-1700
2023 Suleiman the Magnificent 1520-1566
2024 Thirty Years War and English Civil War
This page last updated 2 June 2025