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Friday, October 19, 2012

When Rifles Just Aren't Good Enough (Winter US)....

Posted by Scott Labels: HMG Platoon, Weapons Platoon, Winter

Here's some quick snapshots of two of the new U.S. winter support blisters - Weapons Platoon Winter (US706) and HMG Platoon Winter (US755). There's not a whole lot to say about these figures - a lot of the figures were duplicated in the Armored Rifle Platoon and Combat Engineer Platoon reviews I did earlier. I did take some loose step-by-step pictures of the Weapons Platoon in progress so you can see how they progressed.

I started by gluing the figures in the slotted bases (which are awesome btw!) and laying a simple layer of my usual basing material. Its not essential to 100% cover the bases since we'll be adding snow flock later.

On the Road Episode 2! Southern Front

Posted by Steven Labels: Flames of War, On the Road, Podcast

Luke and Dirty Jon are joined by Eric Turner on their trip to Southern Front 2012! They talk about their lists and their games. Have a listen, won't ya?

Enjoy the Halloween edition of the American Minute by Jeff Hewitt!

Click here to Download!

BREAKING: I am visiting BF HQ in Nov- help me with questions!

Posted by Steven

Dudes of WWPD- I have been given the opportunity to join Battlefront at their Studio in NZ for one week in the last part of November. I will be given unprecedented access to their design process, studio, and personnel with the intention of creating some media to give fans an inside look at the company! This is part of a larger Battlefront initiative coming down the pike that I am extremely excited about- but that is for another day.

SO, what I need from you guys are questions you'd love to see answered! Keep them clean and on topic and post them here. The WWPD team and I will sift through them and come up with a mammoth list to bring with me to BF HQ. This is a great opportunity for me to act as your proxy to Battlefront- so let's make this happen!

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BEF Highlanders from Forged in Battle

Posted by Unknown Labels: Early War, Flames of War, Forged in Battle, Painting

This is another great guest post by Bob 696!

Continuing my theme of odd company types, I decided on a company to represent the last time that highlanders wore the kilt in battle, France 1940.

Forged in Battle had released just the pack I needed. So I bought two.

Bolt Action - Review: M4 Sherman VS Type 97 Chi-Ha

Posted by Steven Labels: BA Review, Bolt Action, Book Review, Osprey Publishing

Last night I read "M4 Sherman VS Type 97 Chi-Ha", by Steven J. Zaloga, and published by Osprey Publishing. I couldn't resist checking it out, because in my limited experience, all I had ever heard about Japanese armor was negative.

M4 Sherman VS Type 97 Chi-Ha, written by Steven Zaloga, illustrated by Richard Chasemore, and published by Osprey Publishing.

The Weird and Wonderful World of Soviet Tankovy

Posted by Steven Labels: Flames of War, USSR

Denis Kosta sent us a great article on Soviet tanks, their history and unit composition. This is a great read and hope you find this piece as interesting as I did. -Luke

Weird and Wonderful World of Soviet Tankovy

By Denis Kosta

The virtual annihilation of the Soviet armoured forces in 1941 led to drastic changes to the Soviet armoured forces. With only small numbers of tanks left in the inventory, the Soviets did away with their tank divisions and replaced them with tank brigades with ever smaller numbers of machines assigned to them. Even the new tank corps were actually closer to the size of a standard division than a traditional corps.

KG Peiper vs US 2ID in Hold the Line

Posted by Steven Labels: Batrep, Flames of War, Germany, Late War, USA

Luke was eager to try out his 2nd ID build, so I set up a table and rolled randomly on my list of German lists. I was a bit dismayed to come up with the KG Peiper- I am not known for running German armor well at Fearless Trained (by contrast, Sean has become a pro!). But I was eager to try them out, and get some King Tigers on the board!

We rolled for mission and got "Hold the Line". Ouch!

Luke's army list is approximate- I don't remember it 100%. But it's close.

Bolt Action - Bolt Action Radio Episode 2

Posted by Steven Labels: 28mm, Bolt Action, Bolt Action Radio

In episode two (Click to Download), Dano and Judson dive into list building in Bolt Action. The topics are covered as follows:

00:00 - Intro, Making a List

05:30 - Platoon Breakdown

08:00 - HQ

14:34 - Infantry Squads

24:23 - Break

25:29 - Support

28:41 - Captain or Major

31:55 - Medic

38:08 - Forward Observer

47:20 - Machine Guns

55:50 - Mortars

62:00 - Snipers

68:00 - Flamethrowers

72:22 - Anti-Tank Team

76:21 - Big Guns

82:37 - Break

82:58 - Armored Cars

84:13 - Tanks

88:28 - Transports

95:30 - List Closeout

96:35 - Listers

99:20 - Fall-In

Star Wars X-Wing - Battle Report: The Last Transport is Away!

Posted by Steven Labels: Battle Report, Star Wars, X-Wing

I made a quick scenario to use the new CR90 Blockade Runner I picked up on Amazon to play with Fantasy Flight's excellent X-Wing series. Today's post will show the scenario as well as our first battle report using the scenario. NOTE: The forces below are recommended. If you don't use them, we recommend using roughly 90-100 points for the Rebels and 120 or so for the Imperials. Feel free to experiment and let us know. The Blockade Runner is pretty powerful, but the TIEs being constantly recycled acts as a balancing factor.

Dropzone Commander Three-Player Free for All!

Posted by Steven Labels: Dropzone Commander

Got a three-way game of Dropzone Commander in today with George and another Scott, with Matt taking over for the other Scott when he had to bang out early.

We set up a pretty cool board, using a felt mat that other Scott painted up, and a bunch of really cheap N-Scale cars from Japan, along with the cardboard buildings and some random FoW terrain pieces.

We played a pretty generic mission with two focal points between the two players. The focal points were the fountain. It ended with a Zel'Naga victory as he was the only one that actually stayed on the objective, but really, we were just driving around smashing each other, and sometimes, the cars!