Welcome to the site's observatory. Here you may gaze at other wonderous sites located off in the heavens.


DBM related Sites

DBM e-mail list
The official DBM web page
by Richard Bodley-Scott.
British Historical Gaming Society
The English tourney-centric organization. Rankings and events.
Society of Ancients
The international amateur society for ancient and medieval wargamers and for study of the military history of the period 3000 BC to 1500 AD. Publishes Slingshot bi-monthly. Extensive and well-organized section of links.
North American Society of Ancient and Medieval Wargamers
Information on the U.S./Canada tourney scene.
Nunawading Wargames Association DBx Page
De Bellis Homepagius
by Ed Allen. Part of Ed's Hobby Hovel, a very large gaming site including a massive game links page.

Parade Ground

French heraldry site
by Jean-Mark Frenea. An excellent site for French heraldry from which I obtained all of my heraldic devices except for those of my generals. Contains an extensive table of devices, as well as a map of France with devices located according to their locale. In French.
European royalty and geneology site
by Miroslav Marek. A very large proportion of my citations for who held which title at the time of my army came from this site.
The on-line version of an 1911 Encyclopedia
provided much useful additional information. Curiously, this site does not state which encyclopedia was used. The entries were created by scanning in the pages and using an optical character reader to convert the text, and there are numerous errors and glitches in the text. Nevertheless, I found my Google searches coming back here time and again, at least for those searches that ended up providing useful information.
Comprehensive list of manufacturers
by Bill Armintrout.
Photography on Jeff Zorn's Page
Jeff Zorn's DBM Hobby page, specializing in biblical armies contains much useful information and good pictures.
Nunawading's Impressive Baggage Camps
Nearly two dozen photos of excellent baggage camps.
Pete's DBM Ancient Wargaming Site
Photos of baggage camps and armies. The combination of beautifully painted figures and beautifully taken photographs is hard to beat.
Tlaxcalans
Beautifully painted tlaxcalans from Markco's DBM Page.

Scriptorium

Wir Ain Leid (Our Own Language)
An introduction to modern Scots.
The Saga of Fluffy by Steve O'Brien
The original inspiration for the Chronicles of Pepin le Bref.
Firefall's homepage
Includes links to battle reports, including the Saga of Fluffy above, as well as The Saga of Snuffles and The Curse of Woozo by Dr. Brendan Moyle.

Observatory

Dr. Brendan Moyle's Site
A Crusader era site with a good list of personal web sites.
Ed's Hobby Hovel Link Page

Illustrations are from Galileo's notebook tracking the orbits of the satellites of Jupiter. Taken from Galileo's Daughter by Dava Sobel.