De Bellis Multitudinis

De Bellis Multitudinis is a tabletop gaming system for the simulation of historical battles ( Antiquity and the Middle Ages) with the help of tin figures. The game system is a system of morphed WRG ( Wargames Research Group) and DBA ( De Bellis Antiquitatis ) and is currently in version 3.1 (December 2005) international standard for playing and simulating historical battles tin figures.

A typical DBM army consists of several hundred tin soldiers. The most common standards are 25 mm ( 1:72 ) and 15 mm (1:100 ), but in principle all scales possible (eg 2 mm, 6 mm, 10 mm, etc.). Between one and six pewter figures (the size of the base plates varies with the scale ) are glued onto bases of 4 cm width and different depths, so that there is a historical army of usually 60-100 " tiles " and several hundred tin soldiers. The game is played on plates of 1.20 x 1.80 m length. Here, the terrain is either historically given, or the site structure is fixed at the beginning of the game by throwing dice and represented by individual site components that are similar to the site of a model railway. A game takes about 3.5 hours

There is an international, networked with each other DBM community, especially in Britain and North America, but also in Italy, the Netherlands and Germany. Once a year in the Ghent World Cup takes place.