tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-71837360925152175962024-03-14T09:35:24.513+00:00Sam's BlogMostly Wargaming and some general opinions from the Author.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18042642433051989073noreply@blogger.comBlogger108125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7183736092515217596.post-64971569291574211902017-05-27T10:47:00.001+01:002017-05-27T10:48:12.526+01:00Alpha Legion Progress<span style="color: red;">Hello again,</span><br />
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<span style="color: red;">I have been making progress on my Alpha Legion force for Shadow War and Warhammer 40000 (well, 30000). I have found a metallic blue that matches near enough to my planned designs and have begun to apply it to an old Rhino, Marine and Terminator.</span><br />
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<span style="color: red;">There is still more detail work and finishing touches to be done yet, as well as a lot more marines and vehicles. Stay tuned for more info....</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18042642433051989073noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7183736092515217596.post-20931381975135427162017-05-21T19:59:00.002+01:002017-05-27T10:48:24.576+01:00Warhammer 40k/30k Restart for Me!<span style="color: red;">Hello folks, long time no post,</span><br />
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<span style="color: red;">But anyhoo, I am looking with hope at the new Warhammer 40k 8th Edition rumours and playing in a campaign of Shadow War: Armageddon - an update of Warhammer 40000: Kill Team. </span><br />
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<span style="color: red;">I have got my hands on some new 40k models, which will go towards a force of Space Marines for both Shadow War and 8th Edition 40k. However, 40k technically is incorrect for these guys, as they fit more into the 30k/Horus Heresy era of the 40k fluff. They are Alpha Legion, with currently models being plastic Mk4 Maximus armour marines and some Tartarus Terminators.</span><br />
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<span style="color: red;">The above image shows a rough idea of what colour scheme that I intend to use on my own Alpha Legion, a mix of metallic blue, black and silver. I'm using the Forgeworld Horus Heresy books colour illustrations as shown above as inspiration. Here's some more:</span><br />
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<span style="color: red;">Additionally, I have been given an Ork Kommando belonging to a friend that I have the chance to tidy up, base and paint as my Kill Team "captured" him in the campaign before he was eventually rescued. So I am painting him with a hydra tatoo of the Alpha Legion, more on that soon....</span><br /><span style="color: red;"><br /></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18042642433051989073noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7183736092515217596.post-42724362850130816332016-08-17T20:50:00.001+01:002016-08-17T20:51:56.796+01:00First weeks of August 2016<span style="color: red;">Hello again folks,</span><br />
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<span style="color: red;">I have been working away at my WW2 models, starting with my Stuh 42, which whilst has been virtually finished in terms of painting, I have decided after opinions from friends that my WW2 German vehicles look too "new" and "factory fresh". To solve this I have decided to add in some details such as camouflage nets and dirt washes to make the vehicles look dirty and used out in the battlefields of WW2.</span><br />
<span style="color: red;">Thus is my now completed Stuh 42 - much more battle-ready!</span><br />
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<span style="color: red;">I have also been painting some more of early WW2 British forces, including my Matilda II. The work on it so far is shown below:</span><br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18042642433051989073noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7183736092515217596.post-74680999481012879272016-08-01T20:32:00.002+01:002016-08-01T20:33:33.098+01:00July 2016 - New WW2 Bits<span style="color: red;">Hello again folks,</span><br />
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<span style="color: red;">I have been busy lately painting and assembling more models, I have painted a new Waffen SS soldier in Pea Dot camouflage, this is due to a good performance during a game of Muzzle Flash. Here is a picture of the nearly finished model: </span><br />
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<span style="color: red;">Additionally I have been painting more of my Germans as they are seeing more games at the moment.</span><br />
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<span style="color: red;">My latest major model is a Stuh 42 for my WW2 German forces, a 105mm howitzer mounted on a Stug III chassis. I am very pleased with how this vehicle has turned out, but I don't think of it as fully completed yet. I intend to add some camouflage netting to the gun and hull in small amounts to add some extra detail, the tank is shown in the picture above along with a painted squad of Germans.</span><br />
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<span style="color: red;">As a friend commented during a game, my tanks look too "clean" and straight out off the production line for front-line vehicles.So I may start experimenting on some camouflage nets to help add a more gritty feel to the tanks and vehicles.</span><br />
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<span style="color: red;"> </span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18042642433051989073noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7183736092515217596.post-20623122586999644442016-06-22T08:51:00.001+01:002016-06-22T08:53:39.031+01:00New game, new forces and more fun<span style="color: red;">Hello again folks, as you may or may not have spotted their is a new page on here about a game called Muzzle Flash, which is being developed by a good friend of mine. I'm very keen on it. It is for any post 1870 setting, and features action based gameplay. The page on this blog gives more information.</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18042642433051989073noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7183736092515217596.post-33688064850996581352016-02-07T20:31:00.003+00:002016-06-22T08:52:54.062+01:00Into the new year<span style="color: red;">Hello again folks,</span><br />
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<span style="color: red;">Well, things have been busy on the modelling front. </span></div>
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<span style="color: red;">I've been busy painting a model for the annual Dice and Decks Gaming Club Christmas Miniature Swap.</span></div>
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<span style="color: red;">In other news my 10mm Napoleonic Miniatures arrived last week and I have started to assemble these ready to paint, they are very chrisp and detailed. I have 2 cannons, a howitzer, two mounted officers, 12 dragons, 4 line battalions and a highlander battalion. Some of these are shown in work in progress pictures below.</span></div>
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<span style="color: red;">Due to a challenge on Saturday 19th December, I was forced to speed up my assembling of a warband for Frostgrave, I'm using the Silence model from Guildball as my Necromancer, his apprentice is a Pandora model from Malifaux. As for Soldiers; a variety of already owned models fulfilled this role, including some Arthurian soldiers and a dog from Kings of War. As well as a Tenderiser from Guildball who is standing in my warband as an infantryman. The whole of Frostgrave reminds me slightly of the video game The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, probably due to the wintry area and the magic mixed with medieval weapons. I enjoyed two games of this, with the rules for random encounters being a source of great amusement to all.</span></div>
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<span style="color: red;">I also as my birthday has recently passed got my hands on a squad of 5 automated British infantry from Clockwork Goblin Miniatures. These are 28mm scale but stand around 40mm tall, they carry either a Vickers or a .50 cal heavy machine gun, I intend to use them to supplement my Bolt Action army and this has been helped by finding the company has written appropriate rules to include these in games of Bolt Action. I also received a pre-done version of one of these automated infantry as part of the annual Dice and Decks Christmas Miniature Swap. I painted a Khornate flesh hound in black with red scales, which I was rather pleased with. A picture from the Dive and Decks Facebook page is shown below:</span></div>
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<span style="color: red;">Over Christmas I received a box of Dreamforge Games' Eisenkern Stormtroopers, as well as their support weapons. I am intending to use these in near future games and so have painted them to look as though they are wearing camouflage armour. </span></div>
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<span style="color: red;">I have also been introduced to some new rules, Black Ops by Osprey Publishing, which is a great game, especially for infiltration style missions. I've played 3 games of this type so far, the first was a a World War 2 era game with a group go British Paratroops infiltrating a German held hamlet in order to eliminate a German officer. Whilst my opponent succeeded in killing the officer, luck wasn't on his side and the noise counters added up to the alarm being raised and a German reinforcements poured in, resulting in only one man making it back off the table. </span><br />
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My second game was set in Afghanistan using ISAF special forces rescuing an informant held in a ruined factory complex by a group of Fanatics, I played the team rather than the guards for this game, and made it to the informant and rescued him without any losses. <br />
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<span style="color: red;"> I'll be updating the pages section of this blog soon with a more recent major project I'm involved in. So keep watch folks!</span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18042642433051989073noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7183736092515217596.post-56076744998841870192015-11-28T17:32:00.001+00:002015-11-28T17:32:50.618+00:00End of November/Start of December 2015<span style="color: red;">Hello again folks,</span><br />
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<span style="color: red;">This Friday just passed (27th November) I played another game of Bolt Action against one of my regular opponents. My German army vs his British army, this time, the forces were a standard selection of both infantry and armoured vehicles. Highlights from this game included, my Officer unit once again destroying more than their fair share of enemy infantry, and my heavy howitzer, which was critical in stopping the enemy advance on the right flank, destroying half an infantry squad in the first turn, and then blowing up an enemy tank in the third turn. Although as seems to be a regular occurrence, my Tiger tank was destroyed by a Cromwell tank, but this was then destroyed by a 5-man SS unit which assaulted it in retaliation! Photos showing my force and parts of the battle are shown below:</span><br />
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<span style="color: red;">I have also finally bought myself my first units for my brand new 10mm Napoleonic army, all courtesy of Magister Militarum. I have ordered a set of 4 Line Infantry battalions, 1 General and an artillery battery, in addition to this, I have also added a battalion of Highlanders, for an infantry unit with a bit more of a kick to it, and a unit of Dragoons for my Cavalry element so far. This in my opinion is a great starter to my force, and gives me 7 battalions already, 5 infantry, 1 cavalry and 1 artillery. This is a project I am looking forward to greatly as mentioned in my last post as it is something I have been trying to do for some time now, and it'll be an interesting challenge for my painting skills.</span><br />
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<span style="color: red;">For the 10mm Napoleonics, my potential opponent has suggested we use Black Powder by Warlord Games, a ruleset I have owned for some time and never used. So this is no issue for me, although common sense now suggests I add their supplement for the Peninsular War of 1808-14 to my collection as well, as this is the area of the Napoleonic Wars which interests me most. </span><br />
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<span style="color: red;">I have also bought a new model to stand as my Necromancer for my Frostgrave warband - I'm using the Silence miniature from the Guildball Mortician's Guild, as he looks like just what I'm imagining for my Necromancer as well as being a great centrepiece miniature, I was hoping to try and get my Vampire from Empire of the Dead into the warband - he may have to take the role of the apprentice for gaming purposes. I'll come up with some background so that things for this band are more complicated then things would first appear. The Necromancer is now based and ready to be painted, with some warband members already to join him - a couple of spare Arthurian era soldiers will suit as mercenaries in the Necromancer's employ!</span><br />
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<span style="color: red;">And that's all I have to say for now folks..... until next time! </span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18042642433051989073noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7183736092515217596.post-5310416700451422812015-11-24T19:01:00.002+00:002015-11-24T19:02:56.383+00:00November 2015 - 2nd Post<span style="color: red;">Hello again folks,</span><br />
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<span style="color: red;">I've been painting a mixture of different models this week. I've been continuing to paint a Colonial Marine from Prodos Games' Alien vs Predator game. I've modelled the base to look like a vent in the floor of a spaceship, as this is where the game is based. I've also attempted some graffiti on his armour. I've been rather sparing with the graffiti but might attempt more on the next few colonial marines.</span><br />
<span style="color: red;">I've also prepared and started assembling one of the three Predators that come in the boxed set. This one has been based in an attempt to look like the Predators have forced their way onto the spaceship, so debris as well as metal flooring litters the base. I have started painting the first, poised to be throwing the smart disc.</span><br />
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<span style="color: red;">As another game of Bolt Action loomed for Friday (20th November), I spent alot of the week painting more of my German army, including two of my troops in winter uniform. I've always been rather pleased with the conversions of the winter uniform troops. I'm tempted to convert at least one of my German troopers to be in full winter uniform, all this involves apart from a specific paint scheme is a conversion of the tunic to include a hood so that it represents the winter jacket worn by some German soldiers during the Second World War. </span><br />
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<span style="color: red;">This week has also led to a future project coming more into possibility - I've wanted to play Napoleonic games for ages, but 28mm is really too big for any games of any real size with the force sizes common to the Napoleonic Wars. So following the footsteps of a friend and fellow wargamer, I've opted for 10mm British for Napoleonic era warfare, as this can then come up against my friend's French force. Before anything else I need to work out what rule set we're using and thus what basing needs to be used for the miniatures.</span><br />
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<span style="color: red;">I've also assembled and started to paint one of my Eisenkern Stormtroopers, in the styling of the Brotherhood of Steel from the Fallout video game series. So metal coloured armour with red or white details. Although if I like the colour scheme on these troopers, I will assemble a sci-fi force using it, but with my own insignia for units.</span><br />
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<span style="color: red;">I played another game of Bolt Action this past Friday (20th November) , and resoundly defeated my opponent. We decided on a mainly Infantry game, with a few non-vehicle support units, so I found my 150mm Howitzer, which as luck would have it, failed to provide the support it should have. However, my unlucky opponent's own artillery strike scattered and hit more of his own units (and more destructively). Which turned the battle much in my favour, and my opponent's best paratrooper unit being pinned until it fled the table finished the job as the second unit of paratroopers lost nearly half it's men to machine gun fire from my SS unit that had reached the maximum range to assist the units already blocking the enemy advance across the table. In-game pictures below show how this game looked.</span><br />
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<span style="color: red;">My final point for these post is a slight annoyance I have for some Bolt Action players/tournaments which state "The main rulebook plus all FAQs and Theatre books are allowed" and then further down state "No vehicle flamethrowers and No tank platoons". This annoys me as a keen Bolt Action player for two reasons. As a player this annoys me as it limits what can be taken, purely because it is quite a powerful unit/platoon which isn't the fault of people who may like a particular style in their force, additionally this annoys me again in that it cannot follow all rules, theatre books and FAQs if it disallows certain things. Let me give an example, Tank platoons are a main feature of the Tank War theatre book, so if disallowed, you are effectively disallowing an entire theatre book in one fell swoop!</span><br />
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<span style="color: red;">Anyway, that's all for this time folks! Hopefully more news to come soon.... </span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18042642433051989073noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7183736092515217596.post-18064947640946541252015-11-08T20:30:00.001+00:002015-11-08T20:31:45.937+00:00November 2015 - Week 1 - Colonial Marines and Some Corner of a Foreign Field<span style="color: red;">Hello again folks,</span><br />
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<span style="color: red;">Well, I have started to attack the contents of Aliens vs Predator: The Miniatures Game. It contains a board game, which seems so far to be very similar in style to Space Hulk (which, in turn, has always reminded me of the film Aliens, so the circle just keeps going).</span><br />
<span style="color: red;">In the box you get a spaceship layout, featuring several air-vents, corridors, rooms and doors. Additionally, you get 5 colonial marines (3 with Pulse rifles, 1 with a flamethrower and 1 with a smart gun), 3 Predators (armed with a variety of their equipment from the film series) and 15 Aliens (5 being Stalkers, which are like the dog-spawned variety from Alien 3) and 10 Infant Warriors, which are the traditional smooth headed creatures from the majority of the films.</span><br />
<span style="color: red;">Although Prodos Games are adding to this range, with a Queen Alien, Powerloader, Predator Hounds and Warrior Aliens (ridge-headed variety from the Aliens film) already available to pre-order from their online store.</span><br />
<span style="color: red;">I have already assembled the Colonial Marines, and even started to paint them - I intend to add graffiti to their armour to add a bit of individuality to them. At the moment, I've built the Smart Gunner, a marine with tracker and a marine with an incinerator, plus one alien warrior. I'll add pictures of these once some more progress has been done on them.</span><br />
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<span style="color: red;">Last night at Dice and Decks Gaming Club, I played a game of Some Corner of a Foreign Field, which is now under the name of Danger Close and is owned by Empress Miniatures. The game was 8 British soldiers vs 12 Taliban insurgents. At first, this went well for the Brits, who have extra actions and activitations due to being better in terms of "skills and drills", which we quickly found was a ridicolously high advantage. However, a bad dice roll for throwing a grenade meant it scattered and blew up 5 of my own soldiers, leading to some slightly unorthodox rescuing by the remaining 3 of my troops. My opponent and me decided whilst the rules are not bad, they are missing rules for reloading rocket launchers, as nothing stops you firing three shots a turn with a British soldier, and serious injuries unless the casualty falls unconcious, have little impairment bar some slow moving. It didn't seem to affect the injured man's ability to fire in any way. The action system was also built on upon the "skills and drills" with a British Soldier being given 3 actions, and the British player was able to move 3 men per turn due to Skills and Drills 3, whilst the insurgents were Skills and Drills 2, meaning 2 insurgents per turn could act, and do up to 2 actions. This proved to be a problem when moving and spotting soldiers, as this used up all their actions and thus stopped them firing as well. These shortcomings seem to be a part of the rules or lack thereof in some elements, although they could be misinterpretation, but given the rules were 2 sides of A4, this is unlikely.</span><br />
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<span style="color: red;">Prepare for more posts soon folks.....</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18042642433051989073noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7183736092515217596.post-87675077723267237862015-10-29T22:31:00.002+00:002015-10-31T16:29:21.329+00:00November 2015<span style="color: red;">My apologies for a long hiatus from blogging. Been a busy few months with many changes, which I'm not going to go into, I'll just add in content that's new.</span><br />
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<span style="color: red;">The end of November 2015 marks the release of Team Yankee - a cold war gone hot game from Flames of War - using 15mm models. I already have 15mm Americans and Chinese from an aborted run at the end of last year at modern wargames in that scale. So I am painting my T72 battle tank, M1 Abrams tank and building and assembling T54/55 tanks and M113s in readiness for the Team Yankee release at the end of the month. I now have Flames of War bases to enable me to use previews to attempt to build the teams of Americans ready for the game as well!</span><br />
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<span style="color: red;">I have also bought the Flames of War main rulebook in the time since my last post and now, and today I also got the Fate of a Nation book and Tour of Duty book - both add-ons for Vietnam and the Arab-Israeli conflict in the early 1960s for Flames of War. </span><br />
<span style="color: red;">This evening I also played a World War 1 Flames of War at Pegasus Hobbies and Games in Monmouth. This is the first time I've ever played Flames of War properly - and I enjoyed it greatly - I can't wait to see what vehicles do to the gameplay - as this WW1 game was infantry only, supported by machine gun teams and artillery.</span><br />
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<span style="color: red;">In Airsoft news I have a new loadout; Soviet Russian from 1980s Afghanistan, using the video game Metal Gear Solid V as a reference, due to the variations in uniform, which enable a more interesting choice of equipment. This also means a new airsoft rifle - an ICS AK74, due to arrive shortly.</span><br />
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<span style="color: red;">Lastly, I have the Aliens vs Predator game from Prodos Games, and am thoroughly pleased with the quality and detail I have seen so far - a gameplay review will be posted next weekend.</span><br />
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<span style="color: red;">Bear with me readers, I'm back again, and need to work out what to post once more.</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18042642433051989073noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7183736092515217596.post-14710455530351251732015-01-31T17:02:00.001+00:002015-09-17T18:56:52.853+01:00December 2014 and January 2015<span style="color: red;">Hello again folks,</span><br />
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<span style="color: red;">I hope everyone has had a good Christmas (if you celebrate said holiday).I offer apologies for such a long wait since my last post.</span><br />
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<span style="color: red;">I have been doing a mixture of painting some of my 15mm modern Americans, and assembling and painting my Warzone Resurrection Imperials, which I am enjoying, except for a broken banner on one of my officers and a broken bayonet on one of the rifles for the Trenchers. Which is annoying as I will have to try and remove the remaining part of the bayonet from the rifle without causing further damage, for the officer, I will have to smooth the flag and hand area and make a pin to replace the broken top half of the flag-pole. However, I can show you my results so far on one of the Officers and also on one of the Trenchers.</span><br />
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<span style="color: red;">I have also purchased and painted an Orc Banner Bearer for Kings of War to be the model I use for the Dice and Decks Gaming Club Christmas Miniatures Swap, a sort of secret style event where you fill out a form with a few armies and games you collect, what force you collect for the game, and in what colours you roughly paint them in, then this is swapped and you go out and have a £12 budget to purchase a model for that person. The results of the Orc Banner Bearer are shown below.</span><br />
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<span style="color: red;">I also have been given two models kits by my work, an Airfix 1/72 scale Harrier Jet, and a Revel 1/1200 of a Nimitz Class Aircraft Carrier.</span> <span style="color: red;">I have started assembling the carrier, and it seems to be relatively straight-forward.</span><br />
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<span style="color: red;">For Christmas I got an addition to my 15mm Americans for the currently test stage game of 3rd Generation Warfare, an Abrams tank from Quick Reaction Force miniatures, the thing is enormous in comparison to the other vehicles I have so far! Dwarfing the M113A3s and the Stryker APC that it will be supporting! I also got a T-80 for the Russians, but for now until I get some Russian Infantry to support the vehicle, I will be using it as part of my Chinese force. On a related note, I have finished my Medical M113A3 Armoured Personnel Carrier. The pictures shown below show these vehicles and the finished Medical APC:</span><br />
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<span style="color: red;">I have also painted a 15mm US miniature as a US Army trooper in ACU camouflage, well, as near as I could manage given the size of the miniature. Results shown below:</span><br />
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<span style="color: red;">In Airsoft news, I'm re-designing the kit I take with me, so it matches the USMC uniform I wear (as in the UK, it's not a particularly common camouflage scheme), which means I need to find webbing etc and a plate carrier in Cayote Brown and not the Olive Green I have started off with for the last few months. I chose a suitable plate carrier, a Cayote Brown Condor Exo Plate Carrier, which arrived in the wrong colour, but this was negotiated so I would get the right colour delivered and the incorrect one picked up, and a free pouch would also be delivered as an apology for the mistake. I also bought more Condor pouches, which has all had a test run a few weeks ago, and other than the need for one extra pouch and a re-sort of where they are, all is well.</span><br />
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<span style="color: red;">I am also having a big Bolt Action sort out now, at the end of January, having been given a bag o 4Ground scenery for Dice and Decks Gaming Club, which I have been asked to build. So I have started on the Cookhouse, whilst repairing my own 4Ground house, which has slowly been getting damage from travelling to and from my club. I also painted the front door and window sills blue to stand out away from club scenery.</span><br />
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<span style="color: red;">I have a new army for Bolt Action - Italians. As they are quite a characterful force, and I had a relative that was part of the British force that landed in Italy in WW2. So these provide a nice addition to my collection, I have the 500 point stater force - two squads of 10, an officer and his attendent, a forward artillery observer and attendent, medium mortar team, medium machine gun team, and as an addition, a Semovente 75/18 assault gun.</span><br />
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<span style="color: red;">I also, due to a visit from Square Orange Games visit to Dice and Decks in late January, now own a copy of Star Wars Imperial Assault. </span><br />
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<span style="color: red;">My final game before posting this was last night (Friday 30th January), and was a game of Bolt Action, my British vs a German Panzergrenadier company. I won, I'm thankful to say, as some lucky rolls of the dice at the start of the game put my opponent on the back foot before we got really into the game. </span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18042642433051989073noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7183736092515217596.post-50078411431369643632014-11-29T22:02:00.001+00:002014-11-29T22:02:59.341+00:00November 2014<span style="color: red;">Hello again folks,</span><br />
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<span style="color: red;">I have been working on my 15mm modern miniatures, which arrived at the start of the month.</span><br />
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<span style="color: red;">I have also got some bases, 15mm diameter and 3mm thick from Sarissa Precision in order to base these models. These arrived on the 6th November, so I quickly set to getting the models glued to the bases in order to try and get them ready for a game on the 7th November. Starting with one of my American packs, which was done within the night and ready for painting. Now I have based all the American Infantry, but want to label the underside of the bases so I can see without having to examine them in detail what country they are from before I start assembling the Chinese Infantry as well.</span><br />
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<span style="color: red;">I had assembled both the Stryker IFV for the Americans and the Type 63 APC for the Chinese, with plans to stick these to 60mm square bases, which are big enough to hold them, but not big enough to take the eye away from the actual models. I debated using 40mm square bases, but these are not big enough and look odd. My bases for the vehicles are also from Sarissa Precision, and are the same thickness as my infantry bases, for the M113A3, I cut a 60 x 60mm base in half and used it to base the vehicle, otherwise the base took the eye away from the miniature.</span><br />
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<span style="color: red;">I have also assembled and converted one of my four M113s from Flames of War Arab-Israeli War range into a current American M113A3, with plans to make it look like a medical vehicle, as it's my first attempt at converting a 15mm M113, so might not be the best looking, the other three will be a platoon transport section, with the lead and rear vehicles having variant weapon systems (an excuse to use the alternative gunner stations on the roof of the APC, so I have an Minigun in one turret, a .50cal on the Medical M113A3, probably another .50cal on the second transport, and I'm tempted to use the MK19 Grenade launcher on the last transport - the Flames of War Sets have alot of options in them). I have used the article in the October article of Wargames Illustrated to accomplish this - adding the rear fuel tanks - a combination of card templates for the sides and green stuff as filler, with a bit of metal rod as the rear lights. I also added some 1cm by 90mm rectangles as big red cross badges onto the sides of the vehicle, rather than just painting them on, as the sides looked rather plain - and I have nothing with which to make (and a lack of ability to do so) the rails on the sides of the M113s. </span><br />
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<span style="color: red;">On Friday 14th November I played a game of Bolt Action, my Late War Germans vs another force of Late War Germans, and although the game finished prematurely, I felt that things were going my way. My Tiger, having managed to corner around the house in the centre of the field, then rolled two 6s to hit and penetrate the armour of the opposing Panzer IV, and then a 4 to knock it out! My opponent rolled a Sdk Fz 251 with a squad of five "tank hunters" - Veterans armed with SMGs and anti-tank grenades to attack the Tiger, and these failed to do much to it, leading to them being pinned between their own transport, the Tiger and the house. Meanwhile, the Lieutenant of the enemy force, was also in the same transport, and stayed in it, meaning when a squad of 8 of my Veterans attacked it, he dismounted and fought them alone, leading to his quick demise! My medic saved my Officer, and one of my Infra-red sight armed Veterans, so he actually accomplished something. My ultimate success was the 150mm heavy howitzer, sighting and hitting a squad of 10 veterans with 12 hits, that cleared a squad off the board with no problems to my force! I felt it was a well balanced game, although as is mentioned quite often at Dice and Decks amongst us Bolt Action players, recce is a weird rule, a free reverse away from danger pretty much regardless of anything else! I have also tried a new and amusing way of writing these Bolt Action reports up, as "newspaper reports" of the battles, written from a British newspaper style of writing. I hope that the style is right. I shall continue to write them in a real world style as shown above as well, as these "newspaper reports" miss some details. Feel free to make comments and constructive criticism, here is number 1 (dated to suit the time news would filter home and dated for the war years), featuring Friday 14th November's game:</span><br />
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<span style="color: red;">However, during the course of packing and unpacking my Germans for the night's game, I noticed some damage to my plastic Warlord Games WW2 British , much to my great annoyance. So I am debating on reinforcing them with some more metal miniatures to try and reduce the potential for snapped rifles and missing pieces! I have ordered some 16 metal Late War British from Artizan Designs, and the British Expeditionary Force metal boxed set from Warlord Games (this is to see size differences, and an excuse to get some more Brits! And I prefer Warlord at the moment for WW2 models, so was hoping to hide the BEF models in amongst the Late War Brits), hopefully this will lessen the amount of damaged models in my collection. I have also somehow suffered the great annoyance of my German artillery is warped, which in itselft sounds minor, except I have no idea how it happened as the metal is so thick I can't bend it back into shape. </span><br />
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<span style="color: red;"> I have also started converting some British in short sleeved shirts or with sleeves rolled up on khaki shirts, as found in Osprey Publishing's The British Army (2): Middle East & Mediterranean. As I found a relative who served in the Cheshire regiment in WW2 was in Italy during the invasion in 1943/4, so my British are being converted to suit this theatre. I played a Bolt Action game using the British on Friday 21st November, which featured two British players against a Russian army. We won this game, using a Sherman Firefly to knock out the main Russian tank threat, a feat that apparently no-one else has managed to do before.</span><br />
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<span style="color: red;">Last night, Friday 28th November, I played a German force using my Brits in a Bolt Action game, and lost profoundly, the dice were not on my side. My only successes were immobilising a Panzer IV and taking out a German sniper with my own. </span><br />
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<span style="color: red;">I have also as a finale for the month, been assembling my Imperial Starter force for Prodos Games' Warzone Resurrection, which I am enjoying assembling and painting as they are incredible models, 32mm resin, crisp and solid.</span><br />
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<span style="color: red;"> And that sums up the month folks! Hopefully some painted Warzone Resurrection models will grace my next post...</span> Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18042642433051989073noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7183736092515217596.post-19717066638076047412014-11-02T21:20:00.003+00:002014-11-02T21:21:00.586+00:00October 2014 - Mars Attacks! Star Trek, and 15mm Modern<span style="color: red;">Hello again folks,</span><br />
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<span style="color: red;">I have finally got my hands on my Attack on Greenville Mars Attacks set from Mantic Games, and have started preparing this for games, undercoating and starting to paint the US troops as Marines in MARPAT camouflage.</span><br />
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<span style="color: red;">I will say that the models are not made out of 'traditional' wargaming miniatures plastic, but a more boardgame style plastic, although the US troopers seem to be better than the rest in terms of feel. The two Martian commanders that came in my box both have extremely flexing weapons, capable of being bent in both directions and returning to shape, which is also an issue of some of the normal Martian's weapons. Which means if bent before unboxing they will return to their bent position if moved to a straighter shape.</span><br />
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<span style="color: red;">I've played two small games, on Friday 10th October, and enjoyed it, the game playing very similiarly to Deadzone. A visit from Square Orange Games on the same day also led to me purchasing some more bits and pieces for Deadzone, including a Strider for my Enforcers (being built solely for them as I haven't the skills at present to assemble it so it can be changed out for Enforcers, Rebels or Plague), and a starter box for The Marauders, which rather than being the disorganised Orks of Warhammer 40k, these are greenskins, but organised, well armed mercenaries, and so I intend to paint them to resemble such, although I might use various camoufalge patterns to give them a more mercenary appearance rather than a true army. </span><br />
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<span style="color: red;">On Friday 17th October, I played a quick game of Star Trek Attack wing, using my "currently repainting" ships from the starter set, and enjoyed it. So a week later I ordered another ship to add to this growing collection - a Nova Class starship - small and quick.</span><br />
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<span style="color: red;">I have also received the beta rules to 3rd Generation Warfare, a set of modern wargame rules I am keen to try out. And having had a nose through the rules, I ordered some 15mm Moderns in order to play it, as the rules utilise large numbers of troops and vehicles, such as a tank company etc, so a smaller scale from 28mm has been chosen by myself as 28mm is too expensive and large for multi-vehicle games. I have found Quick Reaction Force, a 15mm modern miniatures retailer, and ordered my two first 15mm forces. I have based my introduction to this set of rules and 15mm moderns on the video game Battlefield 4, using the fictional War of 2020 between the USA, Russia and China as my background, although I will end up slightly altering to fiction to suit the purpose. So to that end I have so far ordered 40 US Army infantrymen, 1 Stryker IFV, 40 Chinese PLA Infantry and 1 Type 63 APC for these. These arrived yesterday morning (Saturday 1st November) and I have built the Stryker:</span><br />
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<span style="color: red;">In a trip to Hereford, I also bought a boxed set of 4 plastic M113 Armoured Carriers, intended for the Arab-Israeli War period of Flames of War 15mm miniatures range. I have decided these will suit my modern war collection of 15mm models, as extra transport and some specialist vehicles - I intend to use the first of the 4 models as a medical vehicle. First I intend to use the instructions in the October 2014 issue of Wargames Illustrated to upgrade the M113s to M113A3s - the modern upgraded version of the original APC. Pictures of some elements of progress are going well:</span><br />
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<span style="color: red;">Two days ago, on Friday 31st October, I tried the 3rd Generation Warfare rules, using the Scenario 2 - A scenario based on Wireless ridge during the Falklands War in 1982. It features an Infantry platoon of Argentinians versus an Infantry platoon of British with a support element of a Scorpion and Scimitar. We used a mixture of Assault Group 28mm Moderns and Bolt Action miniatures to play the game, we didn't get very far, but started to get an idea of the rules, but the firing system is a bit complicated at the moment, with reference to various pages in the rules. I'll post how well gaming with these rules goes.</span><br />
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<span style="color: red;">I also entered my Deadzone Plague Stage 1A as an entry to Dice and Decks Gaming Club Iron Painter competition.</span><br />
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<span style="color: red;">So, what have I been up to since my last post?</span><br />
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<span style="color: red;">I've built, labelled and used my Afrika Korps for Bolt Action, bar about 5/6 models. All squads are assembled, so perhaps I can make a small unit of Veterans to accompany the regulars.</span><br />
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<span style="color: red;">The game was last Friday (Friday 19th September), and was played on my Desert board, and resulted in me losing! A slight disaster of a game, starting with a Dingo ramming my 20mm AA Gun and destroying it, bad dice rolls cost me this, and my Panzer III, which had failed to take out an enemy Sherman II. My Major and his accompanying officer were both killed by a small unit of British Veterans in a Bren Carrier, and my other Lieutenant and a squad were killed by a large unit of British regular soldiers, although they had taken out 60% of the Brits before their eventual demise!</span><br />
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<span style="color: red;">In Airsoft related news, I also have new American early style replica MICH helmet, more like a PASGT and not so high on the sides than on some models. I also have a MARPAT cover, but it is a slightly different version of the pattern compared to that on the fatigues I wear, but this will have to be tolerated for now. I have a game this Saturday and another Sunday!</span><br />
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<span style="color: red;">I have also been painting some Deadzone stuff, as I've neglected this stuff for far too long - and I'm really enjoying painting the Plague Stage 1A. On a related note, also from Mantic Games, I have also ordered the Mars Attacks: Attack on Greenville set, which contains the boxed set, and a few extras! I really like the heavy narrative theme, but still enough space for random skirmishes and games of my own design.</span><br />
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<span style="color: red;">I have plans for colour schemes on the US troops included in the game - USMC MARPAT camouflage, the same as my airsoft outfit. As this is a) approriate (if you allow a slight alteration in narrative from army to USMC) and b) it's an incredible painting challenge for me to try.</span><br />
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<span style="color: red;">This Friday just passed, which I have no pictures for due to no battery on my phone, so apologies, I played two games of Deadzone, by Mantic Games. Partially because of Mars Attacks and also because I've gone on a bit of painting spree with the Deadzone kit and nearly painted my Stage 1 Plague and another Enforcer. These do have pictures (well, the plague does anyway) and are shown below: </span><br />
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<span style="color: red;">So there we have it for now folks, until next time...</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18042642433051989073noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7183736092515217596.post-44214835192355868582014-09-16T11:08:00.005+01:002014-09-16T11:09:58.207+01:00Early September 2014<span style="color: red;">Hello again Folks,</span><br />
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<span style="color: red;">I've been working on a variety of different things.</span><br />
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<span style="color: red;">Starting with Dystopian Legions, where I have finished my Captain, wearing a slight variation of my Desert uniform so he stands out as an officer. I am also working on my machine gun.</span><br />
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<span style="color: red;">I have painted a Vampire from Westwind Productions Empire of the Dead range, ready for Dice and Decks Halloween Painting Competition (more of a whilst I remember thing than a need to get it done).</span><br />
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<span style="color: red;">My third thing is building my Penisular Regiment of Napoleonic British Infantry from Warlord Games I mentioned in my last post. I have cut the regiment from large unit of 36 to a slightly larger than normal standard sized unit of 32 for Black Powder.</span><br />
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<span style="color: red;">I also have built a few more British for Bolt Action. As I have neglected this army compared to my German forces, which isn't very patriotic of me!</span><br />
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<span style="color: red;">I had a game last Friday, Germans versus Airborne British, which was finished early, but was a close game that I enjoyed much more than I sometimes do - my tanks did something creative and took out a Sherman through combined fire! The Tiger immobilised it, and the next shot from my Panzer IV destroyed it, ending any threat to my heavy vehicles. Pictures below:</span><br />
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<span style="color: red;">This coming Friday I will be playing a game on my desert board against British 8th Army using my Afrika Korps force, which should be an entertaining game, if I get my last squad built. So until next time folks.....</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18042642433051989073noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7183736092515217596.post-29684481764258346992014-09-08T12:08:00.001+01:002014-09-08T12:10:14.814+01:00Mid-August 2014 - Storming ahead into the Gates of Antares!<span style="color: red;">Hello again folks,</span><br />
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<span style="color: red;">I have some interesting stuff to mention!</span><br />
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<span style="color: red;">I didn't manage to have a game last week at Dice and Decks Gaming Club, much to my dissappointment, as my new Bolt Action book, the Tank War supplement, which I ordered earlier in the week arrived, along with, my playtester exclusive Algoryn AI Squad for Beyond the Gates of Antares, which is also currently in production and development by Warlord Games, it consists of 5 models, a squad leader, two troopers with different weapons and two regular armed troops. They are fairly big, much bigger than any Infantry seen in Bolt Action, and are very well cast.</span><br />
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<span style="color: red;">I have also been working on 1 of 3 Cromwell tanks for Bolt Action: Tank War, which combined with my Sherman Firefly will form my basic platoon for any Tank War games in Bolt Action.</span><br />
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<span style="color: red;">However, after another day of Airsoft at C3 Tactical, I have had a game of Hail Caesar organised at Pegasus Hobbies and Games in Monmouth, using my Caesar's Legions Roman Army, which I spent a few days between Sunday and Thursday building as many extra troops as I could manage in time for the game. The invitation for a game of Hail Caesar came as a pleasant surprise as I've been waiting for a chance to throw my in progress legion onto a table and have a game! It plays in quite a similar fashion to Kings of War, I managed to play through 2 games, losing both! I didn't have enough infantry to hold off flank and rear charges, although I got my charging hits in first in the 1st game, before waiting for an advance in the 2nd game.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red;">My first game of Hail Caesar - Romans vs Romans, this shows the battle lines meeting each other.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="color: red;">During my time at Pegasus Hobbies and Games in Monmouth for the Hail Caesar game, I also got myself a box of Warlord Games Napoleonic Penisular War British Line Infantry, so I'm assembling these for the future, as Black Powder, if anywhere near Hail Caesar, will be something I fancy playing! Although in both Hail Caesar and Black Powder, I use whole boxed sets for 1 unit (well, I decided to use 32 men for a standard unit in Black Powder), so it'll be some time before my force is useable for this, unless I motivate myself to assemble them.</span><br />
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<span style="color: red;">I have also assembled and painted a Sergeant made from the Eisenkern Stormtroopers I bought off Ebay, made by Dreamforge Games, this was for a Dice and Decks Painting Competition, and is painted as an Imperial Stormtrooper Sandtrooper Sergeant from Star Wars, the below pictures show work from assembly through to fully painted (fully painted picture in my next post):</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red;">2 of my other Stormtroopers, an officer and another Sergeant, this picture shows up the armour plates well</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red;">Nearly finished, as each plate was blacklined this process of painting each armour plate white took its time!</span></td></tr>
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<span style="color: red;">I have also had another game of Bolt Action last Friday (29th August), which ended with three models on my opponent's side left, and me with two, a 20mm AA gun and 1 Panzer IV. So it was a very brutal and very close run game! Germans vs Germans, most of my infantry was lost in close combat with enemy infantry squads attacking my transports, which forces the transported unit to disembark and fight, which meant they were attacked by my opponent first, so I lost attacks, which combined with bad dice rolls led to me barely landing a hit back. This led to me losing the combats, which lost the squad. This meant my only successes were by unusual combats, my favourites being a Hanomag belonging to the enemy being assaulted by my two-man sniper team, only to find a single Lieutenant in it, who was promptly killed! Even more amusing was the 5 man assault-rifle armed squad that was in the same transport but had disembarked previously, assaulted my 5 man heavy howitzer crew, and somehow lost, without scoring a hit on the crew! All in all, one of my more memorable games of Bolt Action.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red;">Panzer IV, Spotter for the Howitzer and 20mm AA Gun. The squad behind is a destroyed unit, due to an assault on their Hanomag transport.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red;">Middle of the table, a sort of No-Man's Land, where any unit that entered was destroyed by its opposition</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red;">My Artillery, and Sniper Team, next to an enemy Hanomag, which was carrying an Assault Rifle armed 5-man squad, and an SMG Lieutenant, both destroyed by the crew and the sniper team respectively</span></td></tr>
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<span style="color: red;">This Friday just passed, I played another game of Bolt Action, but we only succeeded in getting through around two turns, but it was a large points scale game. Germans vs British. We still managed to have some great moments, which the game allows, a Dingo Scout Car tried to ram my Howitzer, but we interpreted the rules to allow a reaction shot from said Artillery piece, which fired a direct shot which landed a huge number of hits and destroyed the vehicle just shy of hitting the artillery unit!</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red;">My Left flank, a 150mm Howitzer, Tiger I and 20mm AA Gun.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red;">Tanks take aim at each other, the destroyed Churchill took a direct massive damage hit off my Tiger I, which is just to the left of the picture!</span></td></tr>
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<span style="color: red;">In Airsoft news, my new boots arrived, but I'm not sure they fit or not, I can wear them, but they aren't at present, the most comfortable things around. I have also got a rubber bayonet knife for my loadout, and a new M16A3 from G+P, which was tested yesterday at C3 tactical airsoft. Here's some pictures of my new kit before I leave you till next time!</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red;">My new Airsoft M16A3 - I like this one, although it did seem a bit iffy at first test, although this was with one of my grey 20 round BB magazines, not the metal 130 round magazine that came with the Airsoft gun. </span></td></tr>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18042642433051989073noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7183736092515217596.post-81651238948137462732014-08-16T21:48:00.000+01:002014-08-16T23:19:30.728+01:00Early August 2014 - There's no business like snow business!<span style="color: red;">Hello again folks!</span><br />
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<span style="color: red;">So I've had a game of Batman; The Miniatures Games, me using Ra's Al Ghul and the League of Shadows, my opponent used Batman from the Arkham video games, Catwoman and two police. We only really had a basic go, but Ra's Al Ghul got an early charge on Catwoman, but spent almost the entire game dealing with her, eventually critically injuring her, before being engaged by Batman for 2 turns, and then was virtually defeated. The Ninjas tried to melee and shoot Batman (Lotus, who was then engaged by Police and Yang) but failed and both were knocked out! Ying tried to take on the cops, but also was knocked out! So a technical fail, losing the Ninjas and nearly Ra's Al Ghul himself. But killing Catwoman was 66 reputation, compared to only 61 yielded by the defeated ninjas, so I technically won, but lost more of the crew. I also apologise as I was playing I forgot to take any pictures for this particular game!</span><br />
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<span style="color: red;">My reinforcements for my Bolt Action Late War German army have also arrived, a 150mm Heavy Howitzer with crew, ready to add some serious indirect fire support, I have also made a spotter so that targets the Howitzer cannot see can be targeted by the weapon. I have been waiting for the late war 150mm Howitzer model to be released by Warlord Games, as it is a superb sounding weapon in the rules for the game, and this is compounded by the Forward Artillery Observer using the 3D6 High Explosive Howitzer shots when it hits a unit, and it has worked well for me! Hopefully on the board artillery will prove more useful.</span><br />
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<span style="color: red;">In big news, my rebasing of the German Bolt Action force is progressing - I have started adding Gale Force 9 snow to my originally finished models and have finished a few more, as well as sculpted more hoods to the jackets of some of the plastic models. I decided to change this to suit a more Eastern front, but will also work for winter/spring 44/45 on the Western as well as Eastern front. So it's normal uniforms, mixed with winter jackets and outfits. although so far lacking in great coat equipped troops. The snow is being used to try and get a tundra/thawing look, but some have got more on the base than others.</span><br />
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<span style="color: red;">My Tiger 1 is also done now. Below is some pictures from a game of Bolt Action I had on the 8th August, using my Germans with some of the pictures showing the rebasing in progress on some figures and the Tiger 1 in it's now finished state (well, except the turret as by the time I took the pictures it was mid-game and the Tiger had suffered a minor mishap fighting the Russians).</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red;">The Tiger, post taking a hit off a Russian tank and so destroyed in-game, represented by this fire token in place of the turret temporarily, but this is the finished tank, the base is representing thawing snow, rather than deep winter snow.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red;">My Nachtjager squad with Infra-red Assault Rifles, one of these, as shown, is now finished, and with one of the more dense covered bases, these guys count as veteran grenadiers with assault rifles during normal Bolt Action games.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="color: red;">I also have a slightly random project I have just started, I bought a box of 20 Dreamforge Eisenkern Stormtroopers, and the accompanying accessory sprue. I am using these to make an sci-fi army for any system at the moment, as they are to look as close to Star Wars Imperial Stormtroopers as possible, which isn't too far off, bar a few details and the helmets. I decided to accept the deviations and leave the troopers as they are rather than convert the models and risk mucking them up or ending up with an even more obscure look to them. So look out fir these in future posts as I love the models and will probably end up with more of them.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red;">My first Stormtrooper NCO, these are likely to see use during Beyong the Gates of Antares playtesting, I'm unsure if I want to on future models change the magazine on the SMG to look more like a Star Wars blaster. This model has been undercoated and I have started on the white armour plates since this picture.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="color: red;">I also had a game of X-Wing The Miniatures Game this evening (15th August), a full game using all rules (although there were no points spare on either side for modifications). I was going to use 4 of my TIE Fighters and a Lambda Class Shuttle, but this changed once my opponent showed up with alot more choices, so I ended up with 4 TIE Fighters (Howl-Runner, , and an Obsidian Squadron Pilot) and a TIE Defender. These pictures were taken during the squad building/altering before the game started, but as stated above, the squadron changed from my original plan to a completely different fighters only squadron by the time we started!</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red;">My second idea for the squadron I wanted to field, since the game, I've taken a real liking to the TIE Defender, which is top right in this picture.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="color: red;">And in Airsoft news, I have some Vietnam era US Jungle boots for my next game, well, they're on their way, somewhere, and I have played my 6th game of Airsoft. Slowly , I am getting the right kit for a Vietnam loadout, for something a bit different. Here's a preview of the boots in question:</span><br />
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<span style="color: red;">And that's all for now folks, so until next time, have fun...</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18042642433051989073noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7183736092515217596.post-42267823622030646412014-07-29T20:45:00.002+01:002014-07-29T20:54:43.118+01:00June and July 2014<span style="color: red;">Hello again Folks,</span><br />
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<span style="color: red;">I've been busy rolling along with more Bolt Action related stuff, a few more Germans have been assembled or painted, and the Church mentioned in my last post has also been assembled more completely, but it is not finished yet and so has not been completely glued, but the front is looking more stone coloured than before.</span><br />
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<span style="color: red;"> I have also played three more Bolt Action Games since my May post was written (I apologise it was alot later published than planned, so these two posts are very close together). The first game was my Late War germans vs Late War British, and was a great game, my church was the centre piece of the game, and really changed the way the game was played, as the forces split around it and so two battles took place on the same board! Plus despite being an eventual loss, it was a game with a decidingly amusing circumstance, my troops are awful when it comes to rolling hits and wounds on a dice, so I was shocked when my Lieutenant and his bodyguard blasted away 4 enemies in one round of shooting (they both have SMGs, so 2 shots each, both hit and both wounded!), then even more so (not as much as my opponent, whose shocked expression was priceless at this next bit), my Colonel and his bodyguard, who are similarly armed with SMGs, rolled 2 hits out of 2 shots each, and wounded on all 4 as well! 8 kills for 8 shots from my officer units was an amusing and defiant way to end a game full of bad luck.</span><br />
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<span style="color: red;">The second game was my Late War British and US force vs a Late War German Panzergrenadier force, I lost, but some great moments were had. My highlight was a squad of Commandos, all armed with SMGs and 1 with an LMG, assaulted a Half-track carrying the German commander, and destroyed it. leaving the officer to walk, although he was stuck there until the Commandos were killed. I realised after the game he should have jumped out and defended the half-track according to the rules, but this wasn't realistic anyway as he was alone and would have been outnumbered 8 to 1!</span><br />
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<span style="color: red;">My third game (two days ago) and is pictureless, was my Late War Germans vs the Russians, who won without a second thought about it. My dice rolls were a disgrace to wargaming, misses and failed morale rolls all around! The Tiger was destroyed before it could do anything, and the Panzer IV was destroyed shortly after in Turn 2 before it could destory the Russian tank that terrorised my army for the rest of the game.</span><br />
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<span style="color: red;">In other news, the main British player at Dice and Decks made an interesting suggestion - as I have a desert coloured Realm of Battle gameboard - of which 4' by 4' of it is finished, why not collect another new Bolt Action force each for the Desert campaign! I agreed, and we've decided to be a bit more organised as these forces will be specific for a board and opponent, which means we won't be going overboard straight off the bat! He chose the British 8th Army, and I will be collecting the Afrika Korps. I have ordered the Perry Miniatures Afrika Korps set (these arrived last week), and am also using a few extra men from the Early War German sprues I ordered to make up correct sized units (I was intending to use Late War models, but they are big when compared to the Perry Miniatures Afrika Korps models). This force will represent my Late War German army from earlier in the war, so I have already built some models - a representation of the Lieutenant from my 1st platoon, in the Desert, so the pose is similar, but with a slight alteration , his MP40 is being held down and he is using binoculars rather than holding an MP40 in one hand as he points with the other. Another is a Artillery/Air observer with a radio, who looks good so far. I am very excited about this force as it is such a different kettle of fish from the Late War. Although I intend to get one British thing for the desert - the M3 Grant, as this is my favourite WW2 tank due to a book I read when I was 11. We between us, stated the end of July as the original date for our first desert game, but due to the fact we've both flown through the buying stage and are now building our armies, we've decided to try and get a game on the desert board this Friday!!! So I have got some vehicles on the way as my opponent has been sneaky and got his already! A Sherman II and a Dingo scout car are the enemy's big toys! I have a Hanomag and Sdk Fz 7 for transport, and a Panzer III Ausf L for my big puncher!</span><br />
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<span style="color: red;">In more good news, my Flak 2.0cm 38 on wheeled trailor has finally arrived over 4 weeks later than planned, but it is also swapping into the Afrika Korps force as it came with free crew! One of whom is wearing shorts, so can only be Afrika Korps, one is now my Major for the Afrika Korps force (a slight error, as the seated 3rd crewman doesn't fit so I need to make a new 3rd crewman for the weapon). It is assembled as shown below and I am very chuffed so far (if a bit weary of the thin barrel of the gun!). Also shown is the Major, with his conversion - an MP40 slung over the right soldier, the sling is comprised of pieces of sling taken from other rifle slings on varous sprues.</span><br />
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<span style="color: red;">I've also had a proper game of Bolt Action using this Afrika Korps force against a British 8th Army force on my Games Workshop Realm of Battle Desert Board, the game went well, being a game of attrition with an additional objective to take and hold on the top of the hill to the right of the board in the pictures shown below.</span> <span style="color: red;">All of my DAK infantry squads carry anti-tank grenades and this was used to great effect on the enemy Sherman (and destroying it that same turn) that had taken out my Panzer Ausf III Ausf L early in the game, my troops also fought to the last man on top of the hill holding the objective, as large numbers of British troopers assaulted it, althought the British Command Squad was obliterated by my Forward Observer landing a heavy howitzer direct hit on it, doing huge amounts of damage to the three man squad.</span><br />
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<span style="color: red;">Since these occurences I have also been back Airsofting, and now have my own gun and gear for this, after a bit of time spent thinking, and using my Digital Woodland pattern USMC uniform, I have decided to try and go down the route of a US Vietnam War loadout, so my airsoft gun is an M16 from the start of the Vietnam War, with three-pronged flash suppressor and no forward assist device on the receiver. I also have soem new webbing and a helmet on the way as well. Thus why I haven't been doing many wargaming things this last month.</span><br />
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<span style="color: red;">I have also tried using Bolt Action for the Vietnam War, shown in the pictures above, however, this isn't a massive change, using squads of around 7 men and still using assault rifles as 2 shot 24" range weapons, but using alot of cover. However, more men and equipment/vehicles might alter the way it plays.</span><br />
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<span style="color: red;"> This last game was a British and American force against my German Late War force (which is expecting a new toy) boosted by the Anti-tank rifle team, forward observer, Hanomag and Panzer III. A great game, although it didn't finish, it did get going, and my Tiger I actually did something and destroyed a Universal Carrier first shot of the game, and had a crack at a Churchill, but only stalled it at game's end. Bad dice rolling once again cost my infantry dearly, few casualties by my shooting dice rolls, and good dice rolling by my opponents saw my infantry dissappear.</span><br />
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<span style="color: red;">This week I am going to be playing Batman: The Miniatures Game, so I've been painting miniatures for this as well. I am very pleased with how my Batman from The Dark Knight Rises film, he has the right colour on the armour and the cape is a suitably different shade from the rest of the model.</span><br />
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<span style="color: red;">I'll give a report of how this game played next week hopefully!</span><span style="color: red;"> I'm also starting yet again to paint my Late War Germans, including some variant colour schemes, and the Afrika Korps, with reinforcements coming as well.</span><br />
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<span style="color: red;">So until next time folks!</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18042642433051989073noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7183736092515217596.post-370313746481952792014-06-15T09:35:00.003+01:002014-06-15T09:35:28.109+01:00May 2014.<span style="color: red;">This is a mixture of wargaming and a little bit of information on a major event in my life.</span><br />
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<span style="color: red;">As of 23rd April I was taken into hospital with severe abdominal pain, which once an ambulance dropped me off at A+E full of painkiller, for which I bless the person who invented liquid IV paracetamol, as this was all that could stop me being in agony for the trip, as morphine was useless in my case. It was discovered that I had appendicitis, and so at quarter to one in the morning on Thursday 24th April, I was in theatre having my appendix removed, except, it wasn't that simple - the appendix wasn't there any more, it had died, having already burst, and was just a rotten black thing floating in my abdomen filling me with poisonous pus and endangering my life, which according to the doctor was a couple of days at most at this point, but luckily it was removed along with the majority of the pus. So then I spent 10 days in hospital on intravenous anti-biotics and suffering with a wound infection, which was sorted by the return of the surgeon who spotted it within seconds and involved him re-opening a few centi-metres of the wound to drain the infection. So now I am at home recovering off work for a few weeks. Which means I have had a few weeks in which to do nothing but play video-games, and assemble and paint my wargaming miniatures! Which leads us on to the rest of this post....</span><br />
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<span style="color: red;"><br />I have started assembling the remaining half of my Bolt Action German late war infantry, which are my veteran grenadier squads, who are the more heavily armed part of my force. I have also painted and finished the spotter for my sniper team, whose wearing splinter camouflage just like the sniper himself. </span><br />
<span style="color: red;">I have also carried on painting my Tiger, and assembling and priming my two Sdk.fz 251/1 Ausf Cs. Which I regretted trying to do having already assembled one as I am having trouble getting paint under the lip of the armour by the driver's seat. Although this is extrememly difficult to spot if your looking at the vehicle, and will be further hidden when the MG42 gunner is glued in position at the front. </span><br />
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<span style="color: red;">I have also thanks to the Warlord Games forums, found out after years of postulating, what the 20mm autocannon used by the German forces at the end of Saving Private Ryan is. It is a 2.0cm Flak 38 anti-aircraft gun on its wheeled trailer just on a low elevation so it can hit ground targets, in honour of the film, which is one my favourite WW2 films, I have ordered a Flak 38 for my German forces in Bolt Action, ordered from The Wargames Command Store and it is made by the modelling manufacturer Company B. This will arrive next week (well, it was due to arrive last week but has been delayed due to stock problems) and will be a small but welcome addition to my force, as it is small enough to be potentially ignored by an opponent in favour of my tank/s and so it can be used to take out infantry all the way up to lightly armoured vehicles, and any future aircraft my opponents may get (as that is what it is really for, but I'll ignore it in favour of attacking infantry with it like in the film).</span><br />
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<span style="color: red;">Anyhoo, last night (16th May), after a 3 week gap I returned to Dice and Decks, and took part in a massive game of Bolt Action, and did some shopping for my X-Wing miniatures game collection thanks to a visit from Square Orange Games. In terms of X-Wing, I expanded my Imperial force with a Lambda class shuttle, whilst the Rebel Alliance gained the transport used to evacuate Hoth at the start of The Empire Strikes Back.</span><br />
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The Bolt Action game was a 2 v 2 game, consisting of me and another German player vs British and Russians combined. We never really got going, we managed one and a half full turns, but plenty of action occured with so many models on the table, which I have realised I didn't manage to photograph at any point during the night (Doh!). I can say that we had 3 tanks, 2 Panzer IV Ausf H and a Tiger 1, and 4 Sdk Fz 251/1s, along with around 60 men, and most importantly, my newly finished German Medic, converted from the basic plastics and whom I'm very happy with how it looks. He managed to survive the battle (our Russian player likes to take shots at Medics in game to prevent them saving casualties), much to an opponents annoyance. However, the enemy had 3 MMG teams, around 80+ infantry, a 17pdr Anti-tank gun, a Churchill Tank and a Josef Stalin 2 tank, which managed to take the Tiger out (so now 2 games into it being my army it still hasn't managed to do anything but blow up). </span><br />
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<span style="color: red;">Some pictures of my new additions to my Bolt Action Germans are below as well as pictures of my assembled force so far;</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red;">My heavy-hitters, well, "hitters" is a bit of an exaggeration as the Tiger never does alot, misses every shot and dies very quickly in most games.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red;">My most complete squad so far - with an NCO and a Grenadier both finished, with another two well on the way.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red;">The Sniper team, as mentioned above, both are now finished, and wearing splinter camouflage tunics and the spotter's helmet is also in the same camouflage scheme.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red;">My converted medic - a tempting target for the Russian Snipers (my Russian opponent hates Medics and prioritises them as targets for his snipers, so a bright white helmet might not have been the best choice on my part!).</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red;">My half-painted MMG Team</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red;">My completed force so far, there is another half to put on the table yet so it will be even more formidable yet!</span></td></tr>
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<span style="color: red;">Which leads onto another game at Dice and Decks on the 23rd May, another Bolt Action game, a 3 player game (due to the adsence of our fourth Bolt Action gamer). So it was my Germans vs Russians vs another army of Germans. As seems to becoming worringly often, the Tiger failed again to do anything useful, but at least wasn't destroyed this time. The other German force took out one of my Half-tracks, with a Panzerfaust, which is a first in our club. But this didn't end well, it set the Half-track on fire, resulting in it being destroyed, and the squad of Veteran Grenadiers bailing the vehicle, and losing only one man in the process. This led to a tense wait for the next turn's order dice, which I got, and so the surviving squad from the Half-track fired and caused four deaths on the squad that took out their transport. The Russians, as usual, were virtually invincible to all fire directed at them. A problem that needs to be sorted, some artillery might be needed in the future.</span><br />
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<span style="color: red;">However, Warlord Games has had a half price sale on their individual sprues of plastic troops, so I ordered 3 sprues of Late War Germans and 3 sprues of Early War Germans (adding 30 more men to my force, the early war Germans will add variety to my force) and some extra weapons, and finally a squad of newly released Late War Germans with Stg44s equipped with early Infra-red night sights on them, which look interesting and so were ordered, giving me a unique looking squad of Veterans in my now company sized force, since I have 2 platoons now with these additions, 2 officers to lead them and an overall Officer in charge. </span><br />
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<span style="color: red;">My latest game of Bolt Action on the 30th May didn't give me a chance to field my new German reinforcements however. My regular opponent had also taken advantage of the Warlord sprue sale and managed to get a decent sized Japanese army! In the interests of a slightly more historical match-up, I decided to use my USMC, and lost resoundly, although I have a suspicion that the national rules may have been over-exaggerated. Next week, June 6th (70th anniversary of the D-day landings) I am having another game of Bolt Action using my Germans against another member of Dice and Decks Gaming Club member's British force. This will be a more close-run thing (I hope!), as our forces are more balanced and both of us are aware of each others special rules for the two forces.</span><br />
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<span style="color: red;">I have also bought a new terrain piece of terrain for Bolt Action games, a 28mm scale church, which I have started assembling and have termporarily fitted together for use in games whilst I'm painting it, as I find it easier to paint it in pieces rather than glue it together and try to paint it all at once.</span><br />
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<span style="color: red;">And that's all for now folks!</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18042642433051989073noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7183736092515217596.post-63387713227402015172014-04-21T17:02:00.004+01:002014-04-21T20:24:42.597+01:00April 2014 - Been a while.<span style="color: red;">My apologies for such a long gap between now and my last post, but events have kept me busy. However, I have some more wargaming news to share, especially to do with Bolt Action and my German force.</span><br />
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<span style="color: red;">So what's new? I hear you ask. </span><br />
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<span style="color: red;">Well, I have played a few quick test games of Empire of the Dead by Westwind Productions, and I think it was quite fun, although we only had a few games involving basic grunts, with no crazy gear or special powers to confuse us. So displayed below this paragraph are some pictures of the games I played during February/Early March;</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red;">The layout of the board for our first Empire of the Dead game, the house did have another floor and a roof that are removed here for gaming purposes.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red;">Another victim of Victorian gang warfare....... and a good jab with a shank from behind.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red;">"Ross Kemp" - a rather portly Victorian gent with a bold head, despite being unarmed, this guy proved to be the game maker, taking out people with a good swing of his fists! His name goes down in glory amongst those of us that played the first Empire of the Dead game.</span> <span style="color: red;">I owe him a good paint job now!</span></td></tr>
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<span style="color: red;">Since then, however, I've been playing Bolt Action again, using both my British/US force and my rather under-used German force. It was decided last week that the German force was a tad under-strength, due to some lack of building on my part, and so I'm building more infantry that had't been built before now, and in the process I decided in discussion with some of the other players at my local games club that I ought to equip them as rather well equipped Grenadier Veterans, armed with the STG 44 assault rifle. The only problem with this is that the plastic boxes only come with a few on the sprues, 3 at most per box. So as I have had to order more bases,( I use 25mm round ones from Games Workshop), I have also ordered metal STG 44s from Warlord Games, along with 20 black order dice for Bolt Action, so my D6s can be used in game rather than as order dice. Some pictures from previous weeks games:</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red;">My Brits/US from Europe Late War take on a Russian horde.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red;">My Late War European theatre British and USA force.</span> <span style="color: red;">Some of the men were made up using US Marines from the pacific I am still assembling for a seperate force, this includes a painted officer seen kneeling in the middle of the picture.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red;">My low strength German force deployed for battle and being outflanked by British on the right of the ruined building.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red;">Russians advance on the left and my Germans take a battering from a artillery strike called by an Artillery Observer.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red;">Outflanking British get shot up by one of German squads in a rare moment of success!</span></td></tr>
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<span style="color: red;">I have decided to turn my force from a reinforced platoon into a full Grenadier / Panzergrenadier company (the difference is mainly to do with mobility/transport related). </span><br />
<span style="color: red;">Another rather more obvious addition to my German force is an extremely unsubtle method of adding to the force's strength, my Panzer IV Ausf H, has a new friend to help it, a Tiger I, which is being painted at the moment, along with most of the rest of my Bolt Action forces. I have however, finished my first German NCO armed with a assault rifle. The Tiger is having a base, as each time I pick it up I rub a bit of paint off the tracks at the moment, this is made from a Games Workshop movement tray, filled with old bases and gree stuff to flatten it, and then I plan to make track marks and rocks to make it look like a dirty old track worn in the grass for the Tiger to move along. In progress pictures shown below:</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red;">First basecoat of paint before I begin applying a camouflage colour scheme I have found online to it.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red;">The base I made for the Tiger tank before any paint is applied or any more flock, this layer is to be painted before more flock and static grass is used to make a field that the Tiger is tearing its way through.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red;">The base with pins to hold the tank, the first layers of paint, a basic green and two tracks for the tank, made using Games Workshop Agrellan Earth texture paint, the flock and static grass will cover the green areas with flattened patches being stuck to the track areas to simulate flattened areas the tank has torn up.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="color: red;">The Tiger also saw it's first game on the 18th April, but it suffered from Tiger fear and was instantly destroyed by the first shot from the enemy during the game (unfortunately, this was the first shot of the game full stop) - a shot from a 17 pounder anti-tank gun. I lost the game, despite a few good rolls and a valiant defence of the farm by my German force.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red;">My German force I used on the 18th April, not even half of what I will have when everything is assembled.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="color: red;">However, this morning, the 19th April, I got some more reinforcements for the force, with the addition of two SDKFZ 251/1s or "Hanomags" to help my Germans get more mobile on the field, and hopefully save the infantry from being shot before they have a chance to act. I haven't fully decided how, but I want to make these look slightly different with some field conversions. One of the Hanomags is already being constructed. Work in progress pics below as usual;</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red;">Purchases from Pegasus Hobbies and Games, Monmouth, on its opening day.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="color: red;">These goodies were purchased from a new store run by a former Dice and Decks club attendee.The shop is found in Monmouth and is called Pegasus Hobbies and Games.</span><br />
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<span style="color: red;">I have also painted a few more German infantry, with a variety being added into the uniforms, the Sniper now has his spotter in a splinter camouflage pattern as well, on both his tunic and his helmet. I have tried to make sure there is a bit of variety as this adds realism to a sligtly unrealistic force (the Germans by the late war weren't very well equipped when compared to what they were expected to be armed and carried around in, the ideal was Stg 44s and half-tracks, when rifles and trucks were more likely as the war drew to a close). </span><br />
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<span style="color: red;">I have also got my hands on a copy of Star Trek Attack Wing to have a go with, but a game hasn't happended yet...</span><br />
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<span style="color: red;">So for now that concludes news from me. Till next time folks.....</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18042642433051989073noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7183736092515217596.post-1571847915851356732014-01-28T17:02:00.000+00:002014-01-28T17:02:57.267+00:00January 2014 - Odds and Ends<span style="color: red;">Hello again Folks,</span><br />
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<span style="color: red;">More wargaming related news awaits...</span><br />
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<span style="color: red;">I have been painting of my Romans I showed in my last post, and now the first Scorpion is nearing completion, shown in the pictures below;</span><br />
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<span style="color: red;">I have also been painting a General Conveyor for Dystopian Legions, my favourite element of which so far is the floor of the transport bay, which I have painted rather plain, a metal corrugated floor, with brownish colour details, and my best piece so far; a british flag painted on the floor cover in the centre, which has been slightly weathered to look like the transport is well used by Dystopian Legions force in North Africa.</span><br />
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<span style="color: red;">My justification for this decoration on the transport bay floor is for friendly unit identification by the various aircraft used in the Dystopian Wars and Legions universe (which is, oddly enough, the same in both games, as one is a small scale of the other).</span><br />
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<span style="color: red;">In other news, a month or so ago, I got the Osprey Wargame; In Her Majesty's Name, and it's companion; Heroes, Villains and Fiends. I have finally got around to preparing some models for it, a few I can mix if needs be from Westwind Productions Empire of the Dead range, which I also own, however the company I want is going to be made from Warlord Game's Anglo-Zulu War British Infantry. I currently have built one soldier, the company being comprised of different regiments from the British Army (giving me some more uniform colour options), this man is wearing a non-standard hat, instead of the field service helmet (or Pith Helmet, as seen in Zulu!), he also has a beard, giving him the name; "Bearded Tim" in honour of a previous model I nicknamed "Bearded Jim" in my Imperial Guard from a few years ago. Here's one of the figures I'm using in this force, not the one mentioned previously, but still a possible addition;</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red;">I've altered this model by joining his "mutton chops" into a full beard with a little work involving green stuff</span> <span style="color: red;">modelling putty.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="color: red;">I also have some Americans for Bolt Action, and have played yet another game of this using a combination of USA and British forces, which didn't go well, espeically in the random draw for who goes first, with me being the last on average to use any units. I intend to expand this force with some half-tracks and additional infantry before adding more vehicles to my forces, British, Germans and USA.Here's some pics from the week before last (January 17th), a good game, although two small British forces (me and another player at Dice and Decks) took on a Russian force, the owner of which surprised me and another player by having grown his force by over 100 men in a week or so (some sneaky assembling I think was going on for a while beforehand!)....</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red;">My rather dimly sized survivors after I was last to get any order dice from the pot for turn 1!</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red;">My Sherman Firefly overlooks the British Infantry squads to see the Russian horde advancing at them...</span></td></tr>
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<span style="color: red;">I also, on the principle that someone at my club may possibly be getting Japanese forces for Bolt Action, have ordered and recieved the new US Marines from Warlord Games for Bolt Action - ending up with a 1000pt starter force I'm playing around with the options for. I want the M3 half-track from this set for my European theatre force. This half-track was assembled in time to take part in a Brits vs Brits + US allies game on the 24th, which was a victory for me (Yay!). I was very pleased with me and my fellow players scenery effort - a farm in Normandy (not based on anything real, but certainly could be with a little imagination):</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red;">The board with my force deployed across the one side, we always have a "corn-field" in our games, although this is the first time we forced ourselves to enter it. Didn't really work though, we'll have to try again, as it occupies a big area, but is a real hazard for advancing infantry as it's open and with little to no cover!</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red;">My Sherman Firefly scores one for my side - popping the enemy Churchill, and securing a distinct advantage, my Americans are by the Half-track to the right by the Blacksmith, with a British Infantry Squad on their left.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red;">The Americans and their Half-track with some British allies take on the enemy paratroops! The fight went on for a few turns before the combined fire took it's toll and the paratroops fell!</span></td></tr>
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<span style="color: red;">Also, here's a picture of my first Marine (an NCO for my first squad) mid-way through painting, and below that, some of my other Marines in progress on my painting desk;</span><br />
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<span style="color: red;">And that's it for now folks! Hopefully more to show next week!</span><br />
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18042642433051989073noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7183736092515217596.post-16550723526220339212013-12-31T15:16:00.001+00:002013-12-31T15:17:52.570+00:00Part 3 end of 2013: My Romans and Historical Wargaming News<br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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<br /><span style="color: red;">I've had a month or two of Dropzone Commander and future based wargaming - but I'm know back building more Romans, with even more to do now Christmas has passed, hopefully in time for my first game of Warlord Games' Hail Caesar</span>.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="color: red;">My army will hopefully consist of 8 units of Legionaries, with a two small units of archers, and a couple of Scorpion artillery pieces, with my opponent planning to use Ancient British Celts</span>.<br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="color: red;"><br />My birthday has recently passed and I have another Games Workshop Realm of Battle Gameboard - which I'm going to use as a grass board for the game. Although my brain is still trying to work out how to lengthen the game so that it doesn't consist of a first turn charge, second turn, fight, third turn win/lose scenario, as 6 foot by 4 foot might be a bit small for game when infantry can potentially move a mighty 18 inches per turn, as they can get 3 x 6 inch moves per turn on a good order dice roll</span>.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="color: red;">I've been assembling more Legionaries, with nearly three units now assembled, I have been painting more of them as well, finishing one with injuries that looks like a grizzled veteran, although he just stands in the back of a pilum armed unit. I also have been painting a Scorpio, given to me as part of Dice and Decks Miniature swap - a secret santa style event of painting a miniature for someone else and then giving it to them at a set date</span></div>
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<span style="color: red;"> </span><br /><span style="color: red;">The army is being painted as the famed 10th Legion, Julius Caesar's favourites from the campaign in Gaul (59bc) to the end of the Civil War and his murder in 44bc. My 1st Century with Eagle Bearer is modelled to contain Warlord Games' Pullo and Vorenus miniatures, and the rest have helmet crests which the rest of my force doesn't (unless I go even more nuts and build an entire legion plus, which even by my mad collecting standards, is alot of troops).</span></div>
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<span style="color: red;">I've also got a box of Mantic Games; Deadzone, a game of Sci-fi Skirmish, but I also have extra scenery for the game, as well as a partially assembled box of Enforcers, so Mantic's bigger Sci-fi game of Warpath could be next on the cards with Enforcers being my force, so farI have nearly finished one Enforcer in a green colour scheme, where I painted each armour plate seperately. </span></div>
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<span style="color: red;">So there we are folks, back on track with updates up to the present moment, Happy New Year and I shall try to keep more up to date, as three months of catch-up isn;t great </span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18042642433051989073noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7183736092515217596.post-83692778334372403902013-12-31T15:04:00.003+00:002013-12-31T15:05:24.116+00:00Part 2 end of 2013 - Resurgence of playing Dropzone Commander - End of October/Early November 2013.<span style="color: red;">Hello again folks, time for part 2 of the end of 2013, the last 3 months of it at least....</span><br />
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<span style="color: red;">In the period of the end of October and November, I started playing alot more of Dropzone Commander, and added some Praetorians and Raven dropships to my UCM force in order to help take more objectives quickly and get them off the board without risk of the units transporting them being taken out by enemy forces. Additionally, I managed to get a copy of the Dropzone Commander starter set for myself, and played a couple of big games;</span><br />
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<span style="color: red;">I've also played a few games of Flesh Wounds - a zombie RPG wargame, using Zombies I got in a bulk box from Mantic Games, and the survivors I mentioned last post from Wargames Factory. The game is based on random numbers of patrols of Zombies attracted to survivors by the noise they make as they roam the board looking for aid and resources </span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18042642433051989073noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7183736092515217596.post-15822702860232041482013-12-31T14:49:00.002+00:002013-12-31T14:50:48.845+00:00Part 1 end of 2013 - update for October 2013<span style="color: red;">Hello again folks, this is part 1 of a 3 part end of 2013 update, since I kept meaning to update each month but didn't.</span><br />
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<span style="color: red;">I've was busy this month, making up for my slow work in the previous month - I played another game of the World War 2 28mm game from Warlord Games; Bolt Action, and expanded my German Army force for the aforementioned game by adding another infantry box and a Panzer IV Ausf H tank to the force, neither of which is ready for action just yet, but when they are, my force will be 51 men and 1 tank.</span><br />
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<span style="color: red;">The game on the first Friday this month, (4th October) was with my usual opponents, with one ally, the force being Germans + British vs British. It went exceedingly well, and my team won with very few casualties.</span><br />
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<span style="color: red;">My second game, however, didn't go quite as smoothly, it was a 4 player free for all game. Two sets of British, Russians and Germans. Me and my fellow Bolt Action players have been experiencing some issues with the rules, especially around the orders per turn and the random player selection.</span><br />
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<span style="color: red;">I played my second game of Dropzone Commander by Hawk Wargames, and thoroughly enjoyed it. We used the terrain found in the two player starter set, and played a three player game, two of us using a UCM starter set each, and the third used the Scourge starter force.</span><br />
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<span style="color: red;">I was assembling some Zombie Apocalypse Survivors from Wargames Factory in preparation for Dice and Decks Gaming Club's Halloween themed club night on the 1st November. These in comparison to the Caesarian Romans I purchased a while back from Wargames Factory are much better and I am very impressed with the casting, and the quantity of stuff you can use; guns of all types, chainsaws, ten different bodies (of which there are 3 sprues, and a weapon sprue). You can see the set in the pictures below:</span><br />
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<span style="color: red;">I've also purchased a copy of Dust Warfare, a weird World War 2 game, set in 1947 where the discovery of advanced technology has bought on a new scale of war, with armoured walkers fighting alongside new weapons. I intend to have a practice as reviews on the models are varied, although the game seems solid enough to play for fun. I am building more of my Secrets of the Third Reich British Steel Suits to potentially smuggle into Dust as a unit of something.</span><br />
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<span style="color: red;">I am also still building Ogres and Basilean Paladins, which are to be used as allies in the case of the Basileans and a seperate army in the case of the Ogres for Kings of War. The Paladins come from an angelic army, so I am painting them in white robes with gold or yellow trim and gold trim on their armour to show this is the "good" side of the armies available.</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18042642433051989073noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7183736092515217596.post-55058939572120193572013-10-03T20:26:00.002+01:002013-10-03T20:26:57.814+01:00September 2013<span style="color: red;">Hello again folks,</span><br />
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<span style="color: red;">I've beavered away over the last few weekends, athough this week has been a bit slower and so will most weeks now as I am now employed from around 8.30am till 4, and tend to be a bit tired when I come back. This unfortunately impacts on my speed of posting on here. </span><br />
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<span style="color: red;">Anyway, Dice and Decks has said it's goodbyes to Neal, who has moved to Australia, he will be missed. As a Mantic pathfinder, Neal introduced Kings of War and Dreadball to the club, as well as Privateer Press' Warmachine and Hordes. Kings of War is a major part of this week's update here on my blog.</span><br />
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<span style="color: red;">A visit from Square Orange Games on the last friday of august has resulted in me spending money, as always, on more new stuff, including; what was meant to be a single 6-man box of Kings of War Ogres, but turned into the box of 6 Ogres and 25 more in an army deal box, giving me a roughly 1000pt Ogre army for Kings of War as well as my Dwarves. I have constructed three of these; two basic melee Ogres and the Captain, which are shown as always with my blog posts in the pictures below:</span><br />
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<span style="color: red;">On the 6th Sept I played another game of Kings of War using my Dwarves, but also including two Ogres I had managed to assemble in time for the game. I managed to draw with my opponent, but on the higher number of points killed, just not enough for a outright win. This was despite several times during the game where things most definately were not in my favour, such as unit of "counts as" Werewolves tearing through my flanks, and were only stopped by the game's end. </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red;">Dwarves with Ogre backup go all out to clear some wraiths, only to find themselves attacked by the Werewolves, which tore up my right hand flank!</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red;">My Dwarf Bulwarkers, with phalanx, block the route of advance for a unit of Goblin Spearmen, who also have the phalanx special rule, so it was unit quality which won this part of the battle, in my favour....</span></td></tr>
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<span style="color: red;">In addition to this, I also got a General Conveyor APC and a new Sergeant and Officer for my Dystopian Legions Kingdom of Brittania force. This makes my Dystopian Legions force a very respectable size and I'm hoping to get a few of these painted and into action in the near future. Having won the two games I played a while back, i'm interested to see how the addition of tougher vehicle units changes the way the games play.</span><br />
<span style="color: red;">So I have been beavering away on my Dystopian Legions - the new officer is nearly completed, along with some more work being done on a few of the basic infantry, my HMG team and the General Conveyor, which is being built and painted in sections before being fully assembled as I find painting some areas of vehicles beyond difficult after assembly. </span><br />
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<span style="color: red;">In other news, I've been painting a SWAT police team member from The Assault Group that I have had on my desk for a while. He is part of a pack of 4 that I've left for far too long, along with most of my painting table. </span><br />
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<span style="color: red;">Last Friday (20th September) I had a 4 player light-hearted game of Bolt Action, with me using my Commandos and the other players scrabbling together some small forces from British Infantry. The game was played on a 6'x4' table, with each player starting in a 12" curve from each corner of the board. The game didn't last long once combat began as each player had very few actual models on the table, although some interesting dice rolls led to some great war stories. </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red;">The table at the start of the game, my force is closest, I advanced to the right, basically causing a pair of small skirmishes on one table.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red;">My main squad of Commandos prepares to advance.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red;">My British regulars, used by another player, they guarded this small farmhouse until the end of the game, taking on a patrol that tried to take it with little effort.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red;">My main enemy in the battle, a small British force, inlcuding a PIAT, Vickers Medium Machine Gun and Sniper!</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red;">Another of the four players in the game, this force stayed out of the way until the more adventurous had finished each other off, before swooping in.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red;">The Commandos which survived the advance begin to take revenge on the entrenched enemy force.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red;">The terrain my Commando force advanced through to attack the enemy, as SMGs in Bolt Action only have a 12" range.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red;">My British sniper team, so far they've succeeded in being worth their weight in my box, taking kills in every game I've used them in.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red;">My lone Commando captain advances, showing the grit of british soldiers in the face of a rubbish set of enemy shooting rolls!</span></td></tr>
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<span style="color: red;">This Friday just gone, I deployed my forces back onto the (model) battlefields of World War 2, having started assembling my WW2 late war Germans. I took the Germans and my Sherman Firefly (which I've now named Cecil, after the character in the new World War 1 comedy show, Chickens), the Germans were a small Grenadier squad, and two different ranked officers with SMGs - one being a model of Oberststurmfuhrer Otto Skorzeny, the free metal model you get from Warlord Games when you order the Armies of Germany army book directly from them, whom I am using as a Colonel (which in terms of actual Bolt Action counts as a Veteran Major) armed with an SMG. Josh, another member of Dice and Decks Gaming Club, was on my side with my British under his command allied with my Germans against another British force (thus why I am quickly getting my Germans done - stops us having to use British against British). He had two officers, a Lieutenant (for my Veteran Infantry) and a Captain (made from a Commando, for use with my soon to be assembled Commando platoon, of which five and the Captain are built so far), oddly only two pin markers resulted during the game on the Captain, and led to 2 Fubar! results on a morale test, meaning the Captain spent the game running along the table edge furthest from the action as cowardice took over! (highly comical for a Commando Captain to do compared with a Lieutenant - who charged into combat with revolver in hand, again! Despite last time he did so ending badly). </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red;">My Germans as of last Friday (27th Sept, a Lieutenant on the left, a squad at the sandbags and my Colonel, using Veteran Major's stats from the rulebook supervises them!</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red;">My force ready for the off, you can see my Sherman VC Firefly in the centre, with Germans in the foreground and supporting British infantry around the tank and in the background woodland.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red;">The right flank, you can see part of a Churchill tank that was the main worry in this game, the infantry were shredded due to lucky shooting dice rolling.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red;">The left flank was guarded by this small platoon, with Bren Carrier support, my Sherman destroyed the Carrier having shot and disabled a Churchill on the right flank the previous turn.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="color: red;"> My Colonel for my Germans has been painted, and I have assembled more Germans for Bolt Action since that battle. I have also been painting my British Sniper. Below are a few work in progress shot from this last week;</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red;">My German Colonel, the model is actually a named character from WW2 which is provided free to people who order Bolt Action: The Armies of Germany directly from Warlord Games. They also provide free characters for other nations if the army book for that nation is bought direct from them.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red;">My Colonel with some of my other German soldiers mid-way through their own painting. The one to the left of the Colonel is my Lieutenant, to the right is an NCO with cap and STG44 Assault Rifle, with an MG42 Light Machine Gunner to the far right.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red;">A few of my Brits, including my Sniper (centre, painted, kneeling whilst aiming soldier), and also my Germans so far.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="color: red;">Thanks for the patience if you've been waiting for a new post, I've spent far too long with this one and will try to update more frequently (at least one post per weekend) if I can. Until next time, folks!.....</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18042642433051989073noreply@blogger.com0