DBR Army List Interpretations

In order to give a greater degree of consistency and certainty to both players and Army List Checkers, the British Historical Games Society have produced the following set of interpretations which are intended for guidance when selecting army lists. They will be used by our list Checkers at our future events. We hope that they will become the basis of an internationally accepted and agreed set of army list interpretations, and are issued in response to the questions that we have been asked most frequently. These interpretations may be updated from time to time.

Where ratio’s are expressed in the form X "Troop type A" per Y "Troop type B" (where X and Y represent the numbers in the ratio) a player can choose to field any number of elements of "Troop type B". "Troop type A" can only be selected in complete multiples of X, and must be so selected for each complete Y elements of "Troop type B".
Example:
4 Pike per 7 Shot. The player can select to field any number of elements of Shot (within the constraints of list minima and maxima). Pike can only be fielded in multiples of 4 elements, and numbers will relate to shot in the following manner:
0-6 Shot = no Pike allowed
7-13 Shot = 4 Pike
14-21 Shot = 8 Pike….etc
It is accepted that a number of other interpretations of how ratio’s should be treated are possible, and this interpretation is intended primarily for UK competition play. It has been chosen to strike a reasonable balance between maximising the viability of as wide a number of competition armies as possible and maintaining the role of such ratios in enforcing historical structures in army design.

Book	List	Name	Comment
2 Only	All	All	All allied contingents drawn from army lists in Book 2 use the specific minima (1/4) & maxima (1/2 or 1 element, whichever is greater) specified in Book 2. Allies drawn from lists in other books use the minima (1/4) and maxima (1/3 or 1 element, whichever is greater) specified in their respective books.
All	All	All	The standard rules referred to above for size & composition of allies are disregarded in favour of specific instructions (eg. "all Naval") appearing in a given list.
All	All	All	Where a ratio of troops is given relative to another type in the list, generals elements of the appropriate type are included for calculating numbers of elements. (specific examples include Elizabethan English: (Book 1, list 43) where a ratio of Staves to Lancers is calculated including the General elements. Also see all Polish lists, and Russian Traditional).
All	All	All	When calculating minima in allies, (and ratios as above) all fractional values apply absolutely ie Wallachians Book 1, list 20: the number of Rich Boyars allowed is "2-5". When used as an ally this becomes a minimum of 0.5 and a maximum of 1.66. As it is of course not possible to have fractional elements, in real terms, this means the minimum number of elements allowed, is 1, and the maximum is also 1.
1	3	Swiss	For calculating total number of permitted skirmishers, ratio should read "1 per 4 Pk or Bd" for when pikemen are alternately represented as Bd(F).
1	6	Venetian Italian	From 1560 ALL LH(F) must be upgraded to LH(I).
1	7	from 1544 German Minor States	Ally general as Pi (I) costed at 18ap.
1	10	Tudor English	When this list is taken as an ally within the Spanish Imperial List, the Tudor General is reclassified as Bw(S) @ 17ap.
1 (new interp)	16	Knights of St John in Malta:	1565 version; Sicilian Allies can be drawn from the Neapolitan Spanish List despite this list ending in 1518, and such allies should use options as for an army in 1518. This represents a slightly archaic Sicilian/Spanish monarchs army
1	21	Austrian Imperial:	Line 5, Reiters are Pi(I) @8
1	22	1568-1571 Ming Chinese	Only the Ming army of general Ch'i can use War Wagons & Portable Barriers between 1568-1571, ie Wo-k'ou Pirates cannot
1	44	Old Irish:	Galloglaich are costed at 7ap, not 5 ap each
2	9	Free Cossack	When used as allies, the required minima for this list is 3-12 FO tabor OR 1-2 Chaika boats.
2	13	German Protestant	After 1632 AD "Downgrade cuirassiers or upgrade cuirassiers" should read " Downgrade cuirassiers or upgrade reiters"
2	17	Bishops War English	Line 8 - Ratio of Pk:Sh(I) for Militia or Raw levy should read "1 per Militia musketeers, whether Sh (O) or Sh (I)". Line 11 Ratio should read "4 per 6 Irish Sh (O)"
2	73	New Model Army	Number of Sailors should read "O-1 per Shp capable of carrying crew"
2	24	Irish Confederate	Ally generals are costed at 18ap
2	28	Hindu Indian	A Rajput ally general cannot be included in a non Rajput army, and vice-versa.
3	3	from 1530 Maghrebi	only crossbow/arquebus skirmishers are upgraded to Sk (S), ie Naffatun remain as Sk (X)
3	9	Arab	Coastal States. Sekhan Archer bodyguard cost 5 AP
3	11	Somali	Sipahi and Generals are Si (O), costed at 28 & 8 points each respectively
3	17	Malay	Only troops described as "Skirmishers" on line 6 of the list can be upgraded to blowpipe men. Archers converted to "Sk" are NOT "Skirmishers" for this purpose.
3	30	Williamite Anglo-Dutch	Sh(S) Sub Generals cost 27 AP
3	40	Later Saxon:	C-in-C with Croat guard cost 27 AP
3 (New Interp)	46	Later Polish	LH & Pancerni requirements remain in force from 1689-1697AD, and are calculated relative to number of re-equipped Hussars during this period including generals. From 1676 - The option to regrade "light horse" only applies to the "Wallachian or Tartar" LH(F) available after 1652. The "0-2 Lithuanian Tartars" in the main list cannot be re-graded. Note: Although Pancerni numbers are driven by the total number of Ln elements fielded (including Ln generals), any generals fielded as Si are NOT counted towards the total of Pancerni when calculating this ratio.