How to run solo 6 nations campaigns

Since DBA 1.0, the rules include a very cool six nations campaign system with provisions for sieges, alliances, reserves, detachments, hidden placement of field armies, etc. The campaign rules can be downloaded for free from the History of WARGAMES RESEARCH GROUP website. This system also appeared alongside the HOTT fantasy rules. After the following map I will list 3 solo engines that have been published for this campaign system to automatically drive the non-player nations.

* Programmed Leaders for DBA Campaigns: an article by P.J. Raper that was published in Wargames Illustrated 84. It uses personalities to automate the decisions of non-player factions.

* Programmed Nations in DBA Campaigns. An adaptation of the preceding article. It can be downloaded from HERE.

* Solo DBA Campaigning by Ian Duncan. A different system that uses a deck of cards to control non-player factions. It's the one I like most. It was published in Lone Warrior #110. It may be found with some Google-fu.

NOTE: If you do not use the DBA tabletop rules (I don't), you can still use the DBA campaign engine. Just scale proportionally the forces bearing in mind that in this system a full strength field army is a force of 12 elements.

The factions for my campaign inspired by Napoleon's Invasion of Egypt (see Map) will be:

-The French: control Lower Egypt. The faction I will manage.

-The British: control Syria. In my campaign they do not limit themselves to projecting naval power (historical) but have landed land troops there.

- A Mameluke army under Ibrahim Bey controls Middle Egypt

- A Mameluke army under Murad Bey controls Upper Egypt.

-The Ottomans under Sultan Selim III control the Ottoman Empire.

-An Ottoman army under Ghalib ibn Musa'id, Sharif of Mecca, controls Arabia.

I will fight the tabletop battles resulting from the campaign using Neil Thomas' Simplicity in Practice rules. In my campaign the French and the British can never become allies (at best they can be neutral towards each other). However the two Mameluke and the two Ottoman factions can have different interests and can be allied, neutral or at war with each other.

For another example of a similar Napoleonic 6 nations campaign, but set in Europe check this LINK

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