The Daylami were from the mountainous areas in northern Iran and emerged as a dynasty in the 900's until they succumbed to the Seljuk Turks in the 11th Century. Initially resisting the Arab conquest of Iran, they came to progressively adopt Islam.
The core DBMM army list itself is quite simple with only three main types of infantry, being bow, auxiliary troops with spears and axes, and skirmishers. This is why I thought I'd present the army in one post rather than a series of posts of essentially the same thing as I worked my way through the project:
The Daylami infantry are described as having painted or leather-covered shields and wielding two pointed spears and battle axes. Unfortunately none of the two-pointed spears or axes are represented in the Forged in Battle Daylami foot, but they look sufficiently tribal enough to do the job:
One interesting variation is the option to field up to six elements of Indian 'fast blade' mercenaries which may be useful against some opponents (I did eight plus an element of skirmishers to use up all the figures in the pack):
This is the fourth army completed in 2025 and I'm quite pleased I managed to finish it this side of Christmas. All up it is comprised of 316 infantry and command figures and 6 horses:
They are off for their first outing this morning against some Carolingian Franks. I'm not overly hopeful as the Carolingians are a knight-based army and in DBMM all they have to do is score higher on a D6 (after adding and deducting factors) to 'quick kill' the Daylami infantry, whereas the Daylami need to double the knights' score to kill them. I do plan to annoy my opponents however with constant chants of 'Daylami Army, Daylami Army', styled after the 'Barmy Army' English cricket supporters who are following the English cricket team on their current Ashes tour of Australia.
Next up, an Arab Conquest army which will complete my Arab spring, or summer as it is now.
