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Push of Pike 2023
Renaissance Wargaming Tournament

PoP XVIII is a 15mm DBR tournament.
Date: 23-24 September 2023
Venue: Mairangi Bay Scout Hall, 20 Hastings Road, Mairangi Bay, Auckland.

The theme is Suleiman the Magnificent: Armies and enemies of the Ottoman Empire from 1520 to 1566.

Armies and results (Wins/Draws/Losses)

Most Magnificent Army - Brett Preston-Thomas' Safavid Persians
Most Magnificent Player - Malcolm Dale

1st place - Philip Abela - Spanish Imperial (WWWW)
2nd place - Richard Foster - Austrian Imperial (WWWL)
3rd place - John Way - Ottoman Turk (WWDL)
Robert Sadler - Ottoman Turk (WWDL)
Shaun Robinson - Hungarian (WWLL)
Mike Haycock - Austrian Imperial (WDDL)
Mark Caunter - Ottoman Turk (WLLL)
Steve Eyles - Low Countries Spanis (W, played 1 game only)
Grant Brown - Don Cossacks (DDDL)
Malcolm Dale - Ottoman Turk (DDL)
Kit Goldsbury - Maghrebi (DLL)
Brett Preston-Thomas (LLL)

Armies and lists Armies and enemies of the Ottoman Empire 1520-1566.
15mm scale, 400 AP, Kiwi AP.

These lists are included in the theme. All options must be from the years 1520-1566.
List numbers are from the one-volume edition, and from the original three volumes in brackets.
5 (I, 5) Spanish Imperial. Venetian allies may be used. German and English allies may not be used.
12 (I, 12) Ottoman Turk
15 (I, 15) Hungarian
16 (I, 16) Knights of St John
17 (I, 17) Venetian Colonial
19 (I, 19) Safavid Persian
20 (I, 20) Wallachian, Moldavian, Transylvanian
21 (I, 21) Austrian Imperial
44 (I, 47) Low Countries Spanish
52 (II, 4) Russian Traditional
53 (II, 5) Jagiellonian Polish and Lithuanian
54 (II, 6) Tartar
57 (II, 9) Free Cossack
58 (II, 10) Georgian or Circassian
78 (III, 1) Portuguese Colonial in Morocco or East Africa
80 (III, 3) Maghrebi
79 (III, 4) Tuareg
86 (III, 9) Arab
87 (III, 10) Zanj
88 (III, 11) Somali
89 (III, 12) Abyssinian

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

• Allied baggage is added to their own command, as per the rules.
• Other baggage is grouped together but not part of any command. It adds its ME to the overall army total. If mobile, it may be moved with the C-in-C's PIPS.

Terrain

• If a road is compulsory, that is 1-2 pieces not 1-2 FE. (See page 12, paragraph 8)

Deployment and starting the game

• Both sides must deploy no closer than 200 paces from the centre line, unless in a fortified BUA. (See page 15, paragraph 6)
• Defender takes the first move. The weather score is based on the defender's first bound PIP dice, not the attacker's. (See page 12, paragraph 3)

Overhead shooting

• To be a valid target for overhead shooting, an enemy element must be at least a base width beyond any part of an intervening friendly element. (See page 19, paragraph 3)

Shot

• Troops classified in the WRG lists as Sh (I) and armed with musket may be chosen as Mkt (I) for 5AP. Range 200p, outcomes as Sh (I).
• Troops classified in the WRG lists as Sh (F) and armed with musket may be chosen as Mkt (F) for 6AP. Range 200p, outcomes as Sh (F).
• Summary of Shot reclassified as Arq and Msk.

AP: Push of Pike will use "Kiwi points"

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 9 October 2023

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