tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-49976540513899014962024-02-20T09:52:10.969+01:00Late Night PaintingAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06671958921126688104noreply@blogger.comBlogger213125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4997654051389901496.post-5527231146741108042017-10-10T22:32:00.003+02:002017-10-10T22:32:59.704+02:00Hail Caesar - Greek Javelin MenSo I've now gotten some paint on my skirmishing javelin men, they kind of painted up the same way as the unarmoured hoplites, but with the shorter javelins I didn't break a single one during painting. So that's a big plus.<br />
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This time I also tried something new for me, I based them om single, round bases so they would really look like skirmishers. I plan on using 4 to 6 in a single small unit, depending on what looks best and not too big to represent a small unit, as I only use 2 bases for a small formed unit, 4 or 5 might look the best and still have the overall same size.<br />
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I also added some very simple shield designs to this lot of figures, turned out quite ok in the end, it will do at least.<br />
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This is the second box that I got from the Victrix line, I thought that this box would be perfekt to represent the skirmishers that I need for my little Hail Caesar army.<br />
A big difference for this box is that there are som pictures on the <a href="https://www.victrixlimited.com/collections/greek-ancients/products/greek-peltasts-javelin-men-and-slingers" target="_blank">Victrix homepage</a> so that it's possible to get some inspiration on how to build them and then you could also pick up some of the excellent shield transfers that they have as well.<br />
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The box itself contains 56 miniatures, where 48 is for Peltasts/Javelin men and 8 slingers so for my purpose it's going to be more than what I need for this. The miniatures are spread out over 10 sprues, 6 of javelin men and 4 with slingers.<br />
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When you open the box you are met with a well filled box, lots of sprues, but no building instructions or other information other than what can be found on the box itself. There is not much need for it, and I prefer a lower price point to some leaflet, but I guess it could pose a problem for anyone that's all new to this miniature thing or the period as how to use them.<br />
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The sprue is more or less the same as the Unarmoured Hoplites, the thing they have done is replace about half the sprue where the hoplite shields, spears and heads is and changed the shields, replaced the spears with javelins and some heads with no helmets.<br />
This then leds to the same problem I had with the hoplites, the connection that the hands has with the arms. The plastic is the same as before, and I had the same problem getting the hands to stick. But the problem was not quite as large here as the javelins are much shorter and not as prone to get stuck in every thing.<br />
As much of the miniatures are the same, the statements I did about the hoplites still stand, the bodies are good, the clothing a bit odd in a some cases, and it's a nice assortment of parts that you get on each sprue. The unarmoured heads are nice though, there are som good variation here, and you get 9 heads a sprue, giving you some spare and there is nothing stopping you from using some of the helmeted heads. The new javelins are ok, they are on the thicker side of things, so they should hold up to gaming, but if you want more realistic sizes to things you should think of something to replace them.<br />
One thing to note when you put these together, and that is the shields, they are supposed to have the flat side out, not the one with a rim, that's the inside. I knew of this and still got one of eight wrong, so keep this in mind. Especially if you get the Little Big Men transfers, I've heard that they will not fit at all if you do it the wrong way around.<br />
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The slingers comes 2 on each sprue with a choice of a few heads and sling arms. They are nice and looks good, and the left over heads could provide with a few more choices on the rest of the miniatures.<br />
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The kit then is good for what it is, a lot of miniatures for a cheep price, I give this set a 3 out of 5 javelins. You get what you need, and you get quite a lot of variety in poses and looks. But it's not the greatest thing you have ever handled.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06671958921126688104noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4997654051389901496.post-77892616655347898372017-09-17T09:20:00.002+02:002017-09-17T09:20:20.131+02:00Hail Caesar - Greek Hoplites IVSo I've now completed a unit of the Unarmoured Hoplites that I did a review of <a href="http://latenightpainting.blogspot.com/2017/09/review-of-victrix-unarmoured-hoplites.html" target="_blank">here</a>.<br />
Apart from the problems of getting them to hold together they turned out quite fine, the cloth was a bit odd I think on a few of the sculpts, but it was well defined and took inks well.<br />
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They will make a fin addition to my second division of hoplites.<br />
I now have some Skirmishers on my painting table also from Victrix, a review of that box will come shortly.<br />
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And here is the grand total of hoplites so far, soon there will be enough to play a small game against my romans. Notice also that they have been based now!<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06671958921126688104noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4997654051389901496.post-3327059840041371062017-09-07T15:54:00.000+02:002017-09-07T15:54:26.667+02:00Review of Victrix Unarmoured Hoplites and Archers<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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After having painted all the Warlord Hoplites that I had, I got an order in for some more, but since I wanted something more than the rather simple one from Warlord, and I wanted some more variety I got myself a few different boxes from Victrix.<br />
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The first one I cracked open was the Unarmoured Hoplites and Archers, since I had a hard time finding any sort of information on them when I look into them at first, I thought that I would at least do a simple review of them if anyone else has the same problem.<br />
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So first things first, the box contains 56 miniatures and 48 of them are hoplites and 8 are archers. The hoplites comes on 6 identical sprues each having 8 different bodies and a bunch of extra parts, heads, spears and shields. There is also a trumpet, some hands with swords and helmet crests to add to some of the heads, not all crests will fit all heads, and not all heads can even have one.<br />
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There is no separate building instructions for the minis in the kit, only what you can read on the back of the box, perhaps not the greatest thing ever created, but if it gives me a few more minis for my money then I'm fine with it<br />
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Overall the hoplites are all right, the details are mostly ok, and there are not to much flash. There are some lines running down all around the miniatures, and since they show quite a lot of flesh they are very prominent if they are not removed. Same goes for the spears and heads, but here they are better placed so does not present as much of a problem.<br />
The plastic used is a bit strange, it glossier than any other Victrix kit I have handles before, and does not take as well to the plastic cement I used to put them together, perhaps I got an odd package or there have been a change in the plastic.<br />
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This presented a bit of a problem for me, since the spears are added on with the hand already on the spear and the connection point is therefor really small, and well, they have spears sticking out everywhere, so during painting of the first 12 I think I've broken of every single spear (and associated hand...) at least once. I think I'll need to pin the next batch... Not a prospect I look forward to.<br />
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Then we come to the quality of the details, they are good in most part, the cloth is a bit weird I think but the faces and everything else is top notch.<br />
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The archers are nice as well, they do have the problems with attaching the hands, but the bows are significantly smaller so should not pose the same problem with breaking of all the time. I also think the cloth is better sculpted.<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06671958921126688104noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4997654051389901496.post-15408008422520607472017-09-03T21:06:00.000+02:002017-09-03T21:06:08.978+02:00Team Yankee - Soviet infantry<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Going back to my soviets, I here have a infantry company, almost complete just lacking some of the optional heavy weapons that you are able to add to the formations.<br />
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But this is a quite hefty bunch of troops, and it you want them all in transports you need 12 of them... I'm a bit behind with my small unit of 4.<br />
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As of quality, this is the metal infantry that got released just after the launch of the main rule book and it's supposed to be replaced soon by plastics (by the time of writing this, there is some delay and they are scheduled to be released some time in november of 2017). And the quality is... so and so, the details are just fine, but a lot of the figures got deformed legs, huge flash bits and quite a few had damaged weapons, most was repairable but there are a few broken barrels and legs and feet that has been hidden by base materials.<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06671958921126688104noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4997654051389901496.post-55775999683281609482017-08-30T18:22:00.000+02:002017-08-30T22:47:48.623+02:00Hail Caesar - Greek Hoplites IISo, I had a few more of Warlord Hoplites, so I got into painting them as well. The colors are all the same, I just changed the facing on the shields.<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06671958921126688104noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4997654051389901496.post-6405387805110152932017-08-28T20:54:00.002+02:002017-08-28T20:54:39.245+02:00Hail Caesar - Greek HoplitesDuring the summer I got into looking at my Hail Caesar troops I did a few years back (<a href="http://latenightpainting.blogspot.se/2015/01/imperial-roman-army-overview.html" target="_blank">see here for that army</a>), and got to thinking that it would be fun to have two armies that could fight a bit at least.<br />
And since I've gotten some Warlord hoplites in one of their sprue sales I got into painting them.<br />
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And here is the first 12 of them, as I have 3 bases of 4 minis each for close order infantry this is what a unit will look like.<br />
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More to come!Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06671958921126688104noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4997654051389901496.post-49238076275731598322017-08-26T09:57:00.000+02:002017-08-26T09:57:58.673+02:00Team Yankee - Soviet T-64 tanks<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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To follow up on my previous Soviet Team Yankee forces I have gotten my hands on some T-64 tanks, these kits are really good, nice crisp details and not many gates to shave off. The only thing that was a bit of a problem was a mold line running down the length of the main gun, this was a bit annoying to remove since there are a bit of detail around the gun.<br />
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Next up I have some more Team Yankee stuff, this is my BMP-1 troop transports.<br />
With this I will be able to transport a platoon of infantry, so it isnt that much, but it's a start for my little force.<br />
They will probably mostly be used to sit tight on some objective or similar, I might have to play a game before I pass judgement on them.<br />
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Other than that this is some really good miniatures, the details are crisp, and it's a simple kit to get together, there aren´t even many thing you need to clean up, mold lines are more or less non-existent and only a few gates are showing on the completed model. Over all Battlefront has found a wining concept on their newer plastic kits.<br />
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About 3-4 months ago I got the opportunity to by some second hand T-72 tanks. I was at the time not that into Team Yankee (TY), having looked at it, and decided that napoleonics was more my thing then. But I got a good price on them so I picked them up.<br />
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So I got home, started reading a few books (Red Storm Rising and the book the game is based on, Team Yankee) and I was stuck...</div>
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The tanks I got had to to be repainted, all since they already had a base coat and highlights on them, but not really in any color I had, but they had been airbrushed so that was no problem and I got stuck in and this is the result of that.</div>
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Here is the whole battalion</div>
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I now have batch of Infantry in the works, a few BMP armored transports and a bunch of T-64 tanks, the later I still have most to build. I'll try to get a post going as soon as I get them done.</div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06671958921126688104noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4997654051389901496.post-79688096068383545642017-08-21T06:05:00.004+02:002017-08-21T06:05:54.278+02:00Its been a long time...Well I haven't been very active here for a very long time, for the last year I've mostly been posting stuff either to Facebook groups or sometimes to my twitter account. But not here.<br />
So, I'm going to try to do a new start of sorts.<br />
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Since my last post I've completed a few armies, played a lot of games, started a few new games and then left some of them to the wayside again and lot of other stuff. I'll try to do some posts about at least some of that stuff in the future.<br />
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But right now I'll just say that I'll try to be back again, and the next post will be about my latest project, World War 3 according to Battlefront!<br />
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So it's been quite some time since I showed something of my Japanese army, and even though there has been mostly napoleonics miniatures on my painting table for the last year, I've painted a small number of miniatures even to my IJA force. First I'm going to show of what I think is the coolest tank of WWII, the Type 2 Ka-Mi amphibious tank.<br />
This little thing was produced for the Japanese navy to accompany their marines, or Special Naval Landing Forces as they was called, on amphibious landings to provide some armored support. Something that had shown to be a necessity after a few more or less successful attempts at landing from the seas. The navy took the light Type 95 Ha-Go tank as the base and fitted pontoons on it, made it waterproof and added rudders and propellers. This made for a fairly seaworthy tank, but it was mostly hand built, complicated to do and well, built a few years too late. Less than 200 was built and they never got to do what they was built for as the Japanese was on the defense when it showed up in active service.<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06671958921126688104noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4997654051389901496.post-13243975501458022922016-08-19T21:57:00.001+02:002016-08-19T21:57:50.362+02:00Battle Report: Bolt Action - Somewhare in Europe, August 1944<span style="clear: left; float: left; font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="109" src="https://gamlegaarden.se/images/bolt_action/games/2016-08-11/DSC_0493.jpg" width="200" /></span>About a week ago we got together to play a game of Bolt Action, for my part it was quite a long time since I last played, and most of the rules was rather foggy...<br />
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We played the maximum attrition mission. I left the Greyhound and flamer in outflank reserve and the Germans left most squads and tank in reserve, with one squad outflanking.<br />
The table was beautifully set up by our game master that was mostly there to look, drink beer and hand out dice.<br />
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The first turn started quite uneventful as the Americans poured into the table as there was almost no Germans that was to enter, only our snipers go any targets, the German could not hit a thing while mine hit the one squad that entered the table, but could only manage a pin on them. My Sherman threw a few shots over at the mortar spotter that was deployed from the start, but could not hit anything.<br />
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Turn three came around and now the outflanking troops started to arrive, first some more grenadiers arrived in the German back field, and they punished one of the US squads that got to far up the right flank, killing of over half of them. The StuG continued to fire on the poor marines and they kept their heads low, still losing men and getting more pins. My Sherman tried to knock it out, but could not hit it. In answer to that the panzerschreck arrived but they weren’t able to hit the Sherman either. The German sniper started to earn his pay and knocked out a MMG team.<br />
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On turn four the luck ran out for the StuG, and a 75mm shell from the Sherman hit the fuel tank and set the whole tank on fire, the crew that was not instantly cooked, bailed out. On the left side, my mortar found its target and blew the sniper up, and arriving from outflanking was my flamethrower that burned the German mortar to a crisp. Some more scattered firefight did happen over the board, but nothing that went to the German favor. So here we called it for the Americans.<br />
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I got to control the French forces, with some support of some Spanish troops and on the other side a thin red line of British troops.<br />
On the French side I got to control two brigades of infantry, each with three battalions and one with two artillery batteries and the other had a large battalion. To this a brigade of horse, one hussar and one dragoon regiments. The British also had two brigades of infantry, each with two small and one large battalion and an attached artillery battery. To this was a horse brigade of two regiments of hussars.<br />
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Initial set up can be seen here, the aim was to take control of the buildings on the battlefield, the center cluster was worth one point as was the ruined church and large house on the flanks.<br />
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The luck of the dice gave the British the first turn. And got going on the British left flank, moving all the way up to the objective house, while things was a bit slower in the center where failed orders only resulted in a small forward movement, and the cavalry refused to move at all.<br />
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For the French it was mostly the same, on the right the infantry got moving as in the center, but not quite as long as the British, the cavalry slowly moved forward, eying the competition on the other side.<br />
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The next turn started on the British right, where they got into lines around the house with the intent on boxing the French in, but things did not quite go to plan and one unit was stuck marching into position, still in column! The French took advantage of this and sent one battalion to assault it while the rest resumed its advance straight to the house.<br />
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In the center both sides tried to get in order for an assault on the village, but both was reluctant to get anything done.<br />
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The cavalry was also a bit reluctant, both sides commander tried to get some charges in, but no one heeded their wishes.<br />
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The next turn started badly for the British, as the battalion caught in column got run down, and the victorious French got in the side of the next battalion, they did have some success in getting hits in on the other two battalions that tried to deploy in line to handle the last battalion.<br />
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The center was still and nothing much was happening on either side.<br />
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The same with the cavalry, they still was just eyeing each other, but all in all not doing a single thing.<br />
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But on the following turn things got going.<br />
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The cavalry finally stormed into a wild melee fight, where both sides took casualties, but the French was in a little better shape than the English before all regiments fell back.<br />
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In the center the British moved up in line to the village, and the French columns stormed the line, the fight was inconclusive and both sides took casualties as the fight continued.<br />
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On the right the English fell back in hand to hand, and all French formed lines and poured fire into the remaining British, destroying the artillery and mauling the infantry.<br />
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Two months ago I was at a gaming convention, and as usual I got a few more miniatures, and when I got home I thought about what I could do to lessen the mountain a bit. So I set myself this goal, paint a 100 28mm figures (or it's equivalent) before I can buy another new mini.<br />
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So said and done, on the 9th of May I announced the challenge in a local gaming group facebook page and of I went.<br />
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And now after almost 2 months I'm done, and here is the miniatures that got painted during the time (basing was not included in the challenge)<br />
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I started strong and got this gun and crew completed after just a few days<br />
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Completed the last few things on these US marines and got them based to, just as I was doing other things<br />
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Then I got into some more napoleonics, and over the next few weeks got two battalions of french, one of british line and a highlander battalion done.<br />
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Then I have to say I got a little burned out on doing napoleonics, so I got a few marines that I have laying around and just tried some different colours, just too see how they are to paint, so I did a Imperial Fist marine in yellow, and a Ultramarine in blue.<br />
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The just to continue I did some of the miniatures I had over from my last 40k army that I never got around to painting, so I completed a recon squad here first<br />
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Followed just the next night with some tactical marines<br />
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And then I painted some old, old, OLD marines, the first one in plastic that GW released, known as RTB01 or the original beekie marines. I've had this box with a few of them in storage for some thing like 20 years and not dared put paint to them, Well thats over now ...<br />
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And lastly I did a battalion of 15mm french. I counted two of them as one 28... Perhaps a bit cheating, but I needed to get done some time... =)<br />
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So thats my last few months, I hope someone else can do a challenge like this, it's a good feeling when you are done!Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06671958921126688104noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4997654051389901496.post-51591835096188338992016-05-13T11:18:00.002+02:002016-05-13T11:18:55.882+02:00Battle Report: Black Powder - Followup in Bavaria, April 1809After the last game we got another game played just after the first. This time the Austrians have begun to fall back, and as they reach their own lines, reinforcements arrive to take over and stop the persuing French army.<br />
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This game used the same basic units and brigades as the last, but added another cavalry brigade of two regiments of light cavalry to each army. These are in reserve and can be ordered in at any point on the players own table edge at the start of turn 2.<br />
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During the deployment the Austrians was in march columns to quickly get into the fields and not repeat the inability to move and get the army into the field.<br />
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As a introduction I set up two armies with just infantry and just a single austrian gun.<br />
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The Austrians got the first turn, and started to move up, well, some of the army moved up, but the left flank stood around and wasn't that interested in moving<br />
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The French responded with quite the good going of orders and started to surround the Austrian Grenadiers, making them mighty uncomfortable<br />
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Next turn got the Austrian centre moving, taking up position to fire on the advancing Frenchmen, also the grenadiers got their ranks in order and advanced onto the teeth of the French.<br />
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The French takes advantage of the hesitation in the Austrian lines, and pour enormous amounts of fire into the few men on the line, breaking one of the battalions and shaking the others, and in that the Austrian army had enough and retreats from the field with whatever is left.</div>
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In this game the Austrian could not du much right, and with only shaking two battalions in total and loosing far more, this was a resounding beating of my poor Austrians. They will have to do better next time!Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06671958921126688104noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4997654051389901496.post-30779246546311813092016-04-08T13:41:00.000+02:002016-04-08T13:41:46.120+02:00Black Powder: Austrian - Line Infantry IR 7<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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After quite a lot of WWII stuff I need to get some napoleonic miniatures in here, and what I have f you day is Austrian Infantry Regiment no 7 - Schöder.<br />
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The regiment was part of the Division FML Lusigana during the battle of Teugn-Hausen together with IR56 Colloredo and was the second half of the first attack on the lines just outside Teugn. The Austrian attack was pushed back with quite heavy casualties on both sides, but the Austrians got outflanked in the later part of the morning by the French in the form of 10ème Légère that Davout sent back after they had already passed through Teugn earlier in the day.<br />
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IR 7 was one of the largest regiments that fought around Teugn-Hausen, numbering 16 complete companies, lacking only two for the full 18 that was the papper strength for regiments at this time. This also ment that Division FML Lusigana was the largest on the field that day, as IR56 was only one company short, totaling them only lacking about 600 men, quite a feat for a Division.<br />
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This battalion can also bee seen in my last battle report, where they fought valiantly against some very hard light troops.<br />
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Until next time, play responsibly!Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06671958921126688104noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4997654051389901496.post-4461613227795287832016-04-02T23:43:00.000+02:002016-04-02T23:43:41.345+02:00Bolt Action: US Marine Corps - M5A1 StuartIt's time for some more armoured action from my Bolt Action Marines, here I have a M5A1 Stuart light tank, used a bit by the marines in the pacific theatre.<br />
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The Stuart in it's different configurations was used almost from all the pacific campaigns, from 1941 and the Philippines and forward, but later in the war most was replaced by M4 Sherman tanks instead<br />
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I wanted it to look dirty, run down and rather unkindly handled by the jungle, and still have some camouflage on it. I found this general camo from some pictures I found, and so I went over it and dirtied it up as best as I could<br />
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Just because I had the transfers, I also named the tank as Marines was well known to do, this little one is called The Bomb, perhaps not the most fitting name, but gives some humour to one such small tank.<br />
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<span style="font-family: calibri;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px;">A while ago we played another Napoleonic battle set in the time of the 4th coalition. This pitted the French against the Austrians at the battle of Teugn-Hausen on the 19th April 1809.</span></span><br />
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For the French more troops arrived along the road, and the light
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The Austrian first wave of reinforcements arrived in good order, and
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right and placing a gun in the center with good field of fire.</div>
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The frenchies in the forest are driven out by the combined effort of
two battalions and suffers a few casualties along the way, but back in the town
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On the left a fierce battle takes place as the line infantry of the
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that the supporting units can come in and finish this off.</div>
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On the Austrian back field there isn't too much going on, some
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ware, content at the moment to let the line troops take the heat.</div>
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Overview of the battle, at the halfway point</div>
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The French lines form up on the French right, but the field is
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The light troops are holding on, giving almost as good as they get</div>
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Moderate movement in the Austrian reserve</div>
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And more or less a standstill in the center and on the right</div>
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The Austrian left is still entangled with the light French troops,
these was some really hard men here!</div>
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But eventually even the hardest Frenchman have to give to numbers
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Left is the battalion in the woods, struggling to get forward and
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More Austrian support, in the center two units of Austrian
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French into square out on the flank, also getting the unit in the woods moving
and forming lines again. On the left the Jägers and supporting troops moves up,
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Left flank, the center battalion had just had a bout with the
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The grenadiers drove the forward French unit back after a brief
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Heavy fighting in the center as the columns smash together!</div>
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On the left, more close combat occurs as the landwehr charges in,
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All over the battlefield battalions are routed, on the Austrian
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grenadiers and on the right the square is destroyed.</div>
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As a revenge on the grenadiers the remaining blues forms into lines
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Here we had to call it for the night, both armies was in bad shape
but not quite broken, we concluded that a draw was the only sensible outcome of
this, giving the Austrians a strategic victory in the campaign as the French
would be unable to use the road though Teugn, but the Austrians would have to
await reserves to be able to mount any pursuit but Napoleon would have to reach
Eggmühl without the III korps and Davout, perhaps Archduke Charles could make a
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This
weekend a few gamers gathered to play a American Civil War game, depicting the
battle of Fort Donelson in febuary 1862. I'll give the background to the
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<span style="background: white;">February 15, 1862 Tennessee</span></div>
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<span style="background: white;">"Come on you volunteers, come
on. This is your chance. You volunteered to be killed for love of your country
and now you can be."</span></div>
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<span style="background: white;">During the war the Confederate
defence of the Western Theatre was to prove crucial to the outcome of the
entire conflict. Unfortunately for the Rebels both the Tennessee and Cumberland
rivers pierced their defences and were natural invasion routes for Federal
forces. The Cumberland was defended by Fort Donelson, a large earthwork built
on high ground just outside the small town of Dover.</span></div>
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<span style="background: white;">After the fall of Fort Henry on the
Tennessee River Union troops under Brigadier General U.S. Grant quickly marched
on Donelson, laying siege to it on February 12. The Rebel bastion was commanded
by Brigadier General John B. Floyd, a man not suited to military command. On
the morning of the 15th the Confederates sprang a surprise attack on the
besiegers and by midday had shattered the Union right flank and opened a route
to freedom. Amazingly the Rebel commanders then decided against further
fighting or escape and retired back within their defences.</span></div>
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<span style="background: white;">At the height of the Rebel attack, in
an attempt to relieve the pressure on his right, Grant ordered Smith's Division
on his far left forward against the Rebel works. As Smith's men, spearheaded by
the 2nd Iowa, struggled through the harsh terrain only one Confederate regiment
stood between them and the fort, the 30th Tennessee, grievously extended to
cover the near empty trenches. Nevertheless, the Tennessean's and the rugged
topography held the Federals up long enough for the returning troops of Buckner's
Division to stiffen the defence and bring the Yankees to a halt.</span></div>
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I took
overall command of the Union side and handled one of our three brigades, while
my second in command hand another and then the last was a joint command of
whoever needed the troops when they arrived.</div>
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First
turn of the game, and the Union advances with my reduced brigade on the right
and some artillery on the left, the infantry had yet to arrive.</div>
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The rebel
reinforcements arrive in good order along the road, and occupy the defensive
line along the fort, just before the Union could get there.</div>
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The union
left makes a valiant charge up to the defensive parameters to try to break
through the lines, the manpower was on the union side, but the rebels are in a
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And with
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This
caused some panic on the rebel side, and reinforcements was thrown in to
contain the breach and throw the blue coats out. At the same time more union
reinforcements arrive, taking up position in the centre and advancing in the
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The
breakthrough and not a single rebel in place to contain it as more of the union
troops get over the line and sets up a pocket to resist and rebel advances.</div>
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Rebel
reinforcements, but the arrive to slowly for the southerners taste, and many
battalions are used to stop the union right flank from cutting of their road,
battalions that could have been used in other parts of the field.</div>
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Finally
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another break in the lines, and the centre brigade has moved into the lines,
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There was
some militia troops in the fort and to try to delay the union advance they
sallied forth and got into an engagement with the union regulars in what was to
become a drawn out battle where the rebels held despite terrible odds!</div>
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Hard
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With the
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rebels throws the hat in and withdraws from the battlefield. Victory to the
union forces!</div>
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Please take a look there as well for some more action!</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06671958921126688104noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4997654051389901496.post-31297513923446118462016-03-06T10:46:00.000+01:002016-03-06T10:46:10.951+01:00Bolt Action: US Marine Corps - M3 Half-track<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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In a continuation of armour for the marines I know have a Half-track, this is one of the earlier Warlord models, so it's all in metal and resin. And for me I'm glad that they switched it out for a plastic one, for this wasn't a fun model to put together. Lots of flash to remove and more than a few parts that didn't fit that well together.<br />
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But together it went and I magnetized the MMGs so that I can present it with the right amount of guns.<br />
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As far as painting goes I perhaps went a bit overboard with the weathering, but I wanted it to look like it had been thrown into the jungle and been used there with minimal support as fits some marines stuck on an island.<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06671958921126688104noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4997654051389901496.post-33380823688794367592016-02-27T12:30:00.000+01:002016-02-27T12:30:06.897+01:00Bolt Action: US Marine Corps - Infantry squad<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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To add to my number of units I painted up another ordinary squad of just 8 men, one BAR and a NCO with a Thompson. Nothing fancy, nothing special, just a few bodies to put on the table.<br />
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The only thing to note if any are that I have slated this to be an early war squad, with just one BAR and not two and a lot of other special equipment and weapons that Bolt Actions gives the later squads. The only thing that bothers me a bit is that the American book for Bolt Actions gives the maximum squad size of the early squads to eight men, when they operated in squads of nine. This is just a minor thing, but I'm going to paint up a few more riflemen so that I can give them all the extra man.<br />
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But there isn't that much else, so keep calm and carry on!Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06671958921126688104noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4997654051389901496.post-54631965732121656762016-02-23T22:09:00.001+01:002016-02-23T22:09:27.081+01:00Bolt Action: US Marine Corps - USMC Raiders<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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From the elite formations of the marines, comes the elite formation of USMC Raiders. Two battalions was formed during the early parts of WWII and they fought with distinction during the island hopping campaign in numerous operations.<br />
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From the beginning they was formed to conduct special amphibious light infantry warfare, particularly in landing in rubber boats and operating behind enemy lines.<br />
They did however cause some resentment in the USMC and this led to their disbandment in the middle of 44.<br />
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For Bolt Action they have an entry in the Empire in Flames book, where they are given the option to operate in small units armed to the teeth. To give them something extra when I paint them I gave them more and different camo than my other marines, giving them a distinct look from my other units.<br />
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In my other units I only use camo on their helmets, and only the "brown" one, here I used the "green" one as well, giving them all this on their helmets, if they had any. And then using the camo patterns all over them. Still keeping them in the same lines as all the others. Modeling wise I gave them all "special" weapons as well, just for the fun of it. I haven't used the shotgun so far, so I gave three of them this, and another three with SMGs.<br />
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If I don't use them as the Raiders in games, I might use them to represent veterans or just mix them into squads to give them some more fun guns.<br />
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That's all for this round, I still have more to show you as soon as work permits me to pen some more words down.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06671958921126688104noreply@blogger.com0