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Push of Pike XX
Renaissance Wargaming Tournament

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.
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
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

• 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.

Separating from a group (See page 16)

• The 2 extra PIPs to separate from a group apply only to elements that are specified as being able to give or receive close combat flank or rear support (See page 20); or to shoot from a rear rank or to have a rear rank shooting with it (See page 19).

Element cost

Push of Pike will use "Kiwi points"

Bryan's Mongolian army

Khan of the Mongols

The final battle between the Mamluks and Muslim Indians

The Japanese navy

Tibetans vs Marathas

Results

1 John Way - Mamluk - Win-Win-Win-Draw 29 points
2 Grant Brown - Safavid Persian - WWWL 29 points
3 Shaun Robinson - Muslim Indian - WWLL 17 points
4 Stu Todd - Japanese - WDDL 20 points
5 Bryan Orsbourne - Mongolian - WDDL 17 points
6 Kit Goldsbury - Ottoman Turks WDLL 17 points
7 Tom Caunter - Tibetan WDLL 16 points
8 Mike Haycock - Korean DDDD 19 points
9 Mark Caunter - Ming Chinese DDDL 20 points
Malcolm Dale (Japanese) and Philip Abela (Maratha) played for one day each, gathering 11 points and one win.

Players' Choice award - Bryan Orsbourne

Round One
Grant (Persians) 10 - 0 Shaun (Muslim Indian)
Stuart (Japanese) 10 - 0 Kit (Ottoman Turks)
Tom (Tibetan) 9 - 1 Philip (Maratha)
Mark (Ming Chinese) 7 - 3 Bryan (Mongolian)
John (Mamluk) 6 - 4 Mike (Korean)

Round Two
Philip (Maratha) 10 - 0 Bryan (Mongolian)
John (Mamluk) 9 - 1 Tom (Tibetan)
Grant (Persians) 9 - 1 Stu (Japanese)
Shaun (Muslim Indian) 7 - 3 Kit (Ottoman Turks)
Mark (Ming Chinese) 6 - 4 Mike (Korean)

Round Three
John (Mamluk) 10 - 0 Grant (Persians)
Kit (Ottoman Turks) 10 - 0 Malcolm (Japanese)
Shaun (Muslim Indian) 9 - 1 Mark (Ming Chinese)
Mike (Koreans) 6 - 4 Bryan (Mongolians)
Tom (Tibetan) 6 - 4 Stu (Japanese)

Round Four
Grant (Persians) 10 - 0 Tom (Tibetans)
Bryan (Mongolian) 10 - 0 Malcolm (Japanese)
John (Mamluks) 9 - 1 Shaun (Muslim Indian)
Mark (Ming Chinese) 6 - 4 Kit (Ottoman Turks)
Mike (Korean) 5 - 5 Stu (Japanese)

Other 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
2025 Armies of Asia
2026 Arquebus! Western Europe 1494-1540

This page last updated 29 September 2025

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