Recently I caught up with some of the guys locally for a 40mm game set in the French & Indian War. The game was played using a locally homebrewed variant of Lion Rampant, dubbed “Hatchets Rampant“. It’s 1757, the British have got their hands on a French sympathiser, who was being held in a nearby farmhouse. He had disclosed the presence of a large stash of French supplies in another nearby farmhouse…
Confusion of British 2pdr & 6pdr HE in WW2 Addendum
Over the years there has been a lot of confusion around British HE for 2pdr and 6pdr guns – especially in the early part of the war. This is my follow up to my original post on this subject.
Further to my post in 2022 about The Confusion of British 2pdr & 6pdr HE in WW2 I finally acquired a copy of Firing Now! Tank, Anti-Tank and Self-Propelled Artillery Ammunition UK & USA 1939-1945 by Dick Taylor in late 2023 which I had been looking for for some time (the limited amounts of second hand copies were extortionate prices, but there seems to have mow been a second printing or a new POD edition). My copy of A15 Cruiser Mk. VI Crusader Tank – A Technical History by P.M. Knight had also arrived several months earlier in 2023 and has added to the information. The effect is these have added some data to my research in the original post.
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Several of the local Napoleonic’s Gamers are doing a large refight of Leipzig over Easter 2024 with 28mm armies at a 1/100 ratio (so essentially Regiments/Brigades are ‘bath-tubbed’ down to Battalions). Check out this video for the initial deployment and description of the formations…
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Last weekend we got in some more Nimitz gaming, this time introducing 2 more local gamers (Dave H & Chris P) to Sam Mustafa’s Nimitz. This saw two games with the mighty HMS Hood and HMS Prince of Wales going up against a variety of German opponents in the North Atlantic. Game one was a replay of the first game from a week or so ago versus DKM Bismarck and Graf Spee (see And We’re Off! Nimitz On Table Action, At Last: Part One for the previous game).
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Continuing on from my last post on Nimitz: And We’re Off! Nimitz On Table Action, At Last: Part Two… So my buddy Dave H has 3D Printed and painted a sample vessel in 1/1800 scale for Nimitz, from the STL range of Lee McColl’s available on MyMiniFactory. This is a couple of sample pics of the vessel, along with a comparison of it alongside my 1/2400 HMS Hood, and some quick thoughts and notes on basing.
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In my previous post And We’re Off! Nimitz On Table Action, At Last: Part One I summarised the action in game one set in the North Atlantic, and I also covered the forces being deployed for game 2, which was set in the pacific at night. You can see the detail of the 2 fleets in part one, but in summary the Imperial Japanese Navy had 1 (dreadnought era) Battleship and 3 Cruisers (2 heavy & 1 light) versus the United States Navy’s 1 (modern) Battleship and 2 heavy Cruisers (1 USN & 1 Australian). So in the Solomons, somewhere around Guadalcanal, at night, the IJN had the advantage as the forces approached each other…
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Well it’s been over 10 months since I posted “NIMITZ: A New Take On WW2 Fleet Action” so its taken a while to finally get around to getting some game time on the table! However I’ve been looking forward to having a crack and finally managed it this week, with a couple of buddies from the local wargaming scene. So here’s a brief run down of the 2 games we got in and a few related thoughts…
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The first 2 episodes of Masters of the Air dropped on AppleTV a few days ago and it wasn’t long before there were floods of posts about how awesome it was and about how stunning and full on the combat scenes were, and the usual nitpicking such as the Brit Bashing in episode 2. I got around to watching it a couple of days later, and I’ve been mulling over what I experienced for 2+ days before writing anything – and this is how I feel about it…
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I’ve thought about the Japanese HMG representation in Crossfire for many years. Specifically why did Arty & Rob decide to make them fire with only 3D? Here’s my latest thoughts and a proposed revision…
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I’ve recently stumbled across this interesting 2-Volume book ANZACS At The Frontiers 1941-45: Northern Italy by Ken Fenton – at least I don’t recall having seen these before. The overview starts “what happened in northern Italy over the years from 1941 to 1945 affected the lives of thousands of New Zealand and Australian servicemen, caught up in the events that were taking place in the Mediterranean Theatre of Operations…“
Continue reading “ANZACS At The Frontiers 1941-45: Northern Italy”NIMITZ: A New Take On WW2 Fleet Action
It’s great to see Sam Mustafa’s latest ruleset “NIMITZ” come out – it’s Sam’s take on WW2 Naval Fleet Action. I’ve been looking forward to seeing this released – Sam always has a fresh approach to rules writing that I enjoy and I find usually gets a good balance between playability & fun, and realistic outcomes (i.e. is this how you’d expect such and such an encounter to turn out) with minimal gamey tactics, etc. An expansive campaign system, Halsey, is also included that can incorporate as many players as desired.
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Continuing on my day one encounters from my prior post, ADLG Warclouds 2023 Pars Unos, the afternoon brought two more battles for my Early Imperial Romans and Emperor Trajan. These were against Republican Romans (again) and 100 Years War English. So on to the battles…
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