DBM/DBA Terrain

Built Up Areas

Built Up Areas (BUA) represents a town, city or large village. Subsequent revisions of DBM have made the appearances of BUA's less frequent and less practical as a way of narrowing down the board. A defender who places a BUA can have six EE counted against his/her army demoralisation if captured by an opponent.  The minimum size for any BUA in 15mm scale is 50mm (2").

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Middle Eastern/Medditerrain style buildings by Hovel (UK). These have been painted and based with added accessories; boxes, wagons, sacks.........		 BUA4.jpg (56044 bytes)
This Acropolis started out life as an anabasis lamp! It was rescued from the souvenir store (in Greece) and painted up.
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Dark Ages buildings from an unidentified manufacturer.		 BUA8.jpg (49089 bytes)
Probably not suitable for pre-medieval period, but these cheap souvenir ornamental buildings have been pressed into service as a BUA, all mounted on a single base.