Nazis and space squids

The Nazis

I had a battle against Juha and his german army again. I was playing French as usual. We had a scenario where the objective was, for germans to capture a important bridge on the middle of the board. The French were trying to prevent this from happening. A squad of infantry must be within 3" from the bridge for it to count as occupying it.

A view of the battlefield

My list was this:

Command squad
3 units on regulars
1 unit of Senegalese
MMG-team
Mortar
Light howitzer
Renaut FT-17 very light tank
Medic

German:

Command squad
2 units of regulars, (one in hanomag)
1 unit of veteran pioneers with stormpistol
1 unit of veterans
Mortar
Sniper team
Forward observer
Medic

As defender i had the oportunity to place two units within 6" of the bridge, so i placed my howitzer to a good firing position and a squad to the nearby house to protect it. Half of my remaining forces would arrive on turn 1 and the rest on turn 2 onwards with a dice roll. Same for the german attackers.

The german forces after  turn one

Germans occupying a house, which was not a good idea, as the got a pinned battle as soon as they got in

On the other side of the road, the German veteran pioneers got hit by a howitzer. They lost a man and got pinned as well

The French army arriverd, only the command squad failing the roll to enter. They were too busy drinking wine

Senegalese going for the bridge

French positions

Senegalese crossing the bridge, supported by the Renault. This move was made too early and would have been better later on the game. The Senegalese got shot to the last man at this point.

Later on in the game, the germans got pinned on the left and right, so they gathered next to their command squad and medic to get their minds straightened out again.

During the game the germans got massively pinned by the french. One german squad had 7 pins and others had the like of 3 and 4. They managed to rally but got more pins again soon. My side also got pinned badly by the german off board artillery strike and one of my squads ran after failing a test.
After this the game was in a stalemate and both parties shot at the other from their side of the river. The germans tried to make a final move to the bridge, but they faced the Renault and two squads in ambush, so they only got near to the bridge. This was a great game, and Juha and i decided to continue the game on next wednesday from this point. We might be adding something, like a use for those boats in the pictures, or german paras.

Feel free to comment or give as ideas what to add to the next game!

The space squids

Our Dropzone commander project has moved on! We have added some scenery, like cars and trees that i made. Herkko has also got more troops and new units like the Scourge Minders. I also proxied my Sabres as Katanas, which was a nice change. Also in my oppinion the Katanas are better against Scourge. Here are some pictures from our last game. I will start writing reports, when we get our scenery level to where we want and we have a grip on most of the rules.

Drop us a comment about this stuff too!

Scourge tank drivers are really bad at parking their tanks...

Small update for Bolt Action and Dropzone commander

Happy international table top gaming day to you all!

I have a small update for you. On the painting front i have got some stuff done. I have the new Lorraine carrier from Warlord games for the French. It also got its first touch of battle against Juhas early war germans on last wednesday.

The game with Juha was abaut objectives. We had 7 of them on the board alltogether. 2 on each table side and 3 in the middle line.

Lists

For me:Command squad, 3 infantry squads, one of them in Lorraine carrier, mmg-team, 75mm cannon and Renault FT-17 mmg tank.

Juha had Command squad, 2 infantry squads, one of these in hanomag, Forward observer team, mmg team, sniper team, At-team with sturmpistol(?)


 This was the board we played on. French on the right, germans to the left. Also, we used outflank so on turn three units could arrive from table edge, that we had wrote down before the game.

The first turn were units running towards good positions. Only minor exhanges of fire happened. From turn 3 onwards things got intresting when the outflanking units started to arrive. I figured out that i had chosen a very bad side for my units to arrive from. Luckily i had the Lorraine carrier with infantry squad onboard on the flanking mission, so i could take advantage of the road and got my third squad in good position in two turns.

French forces advansing into the town. A german squad was allready in the top building

Lorraine comming in from flank

German light AT team hunting for the Renault

Germans made a bold move trying to cross the road. Squad got shot to pieces.

Rest of my flaning force, Command team, and mmg team. Infantry squad crossed the river, planning to reinforce the flanking move, which worked great.

I have allso been working on getting more scenery for Dropzone commander for Herkko and me to play with. I got from Ebay, some miniature trees, N-Scale cars and busses. I got them pretty cheap. Around 15€ for 100 cars, 6 busses and 25 trees.

Me and Herkko have played three of four games of dropzone commander now, so slowly we are going into bigger games. There is still alot of learning to be done about this game.

We also ordered a bunch of mdf scenery from Blotz, which was mailed today. I will make a post about those when i get them.

Here some of the trees done:
 

Happy birthday to me!!

Well really, my birthday is still a month away. But isnt there a saying about early bird catching the worm or something like that.

My better half and i decided that i can order something for my birthday. Usually she has had little bit of problems getting me a present. She doesent know that much abaut miniatures, so its hard to get something as a surprise. Other than  soft packages ofcourse. I dont think that there is a miniature gamer out there who, would want a soft package for birthday!

I started thinking abaut what i would like to get. I decided on a new miniature case would be the thing to get. As i have enough stuff on the painting table, waiting for their turn. I hit the internet, mainly Sotavasara forum, where i found a nice thread abaut miniature cases. People were saying good stuff about KR Multicases. After going trough their range, which actually is huge and supports a multitude of different gaming systems i decided to get foams for my 28mm stuff and Dropzone Commander figures plus a case of cource.

Yesterday after i got home from work, there was something waiting for me! Hurray! A very speedy delivery from KR Multicases using the UPS. I placed my order on last weeks tuesday evening so it was 3 regular days, 4 if you count the day i got the package. Only downside was that the delivery guy had the wrong phone number for us so it would have been a pain to try and get the package later if my better half wouldnt happened to get back home just as the delivery guy was leaving.

What is in the package then

 Inside the package was the KR Kaiser 2 Case, Foams for my 28mm stuff and inside the case a cardboard case and foams for my Dropzone miniatres.

Foams for 28mm and Kaiser 2

 

 

28mm Foams and cardboard case for DzC foams. (Other case is for Herkko)

Here are the foams from Dropzone Commander. As you can see they are pre cut for the UCM faction.
In the pictures they are filled with the UCM from the 2 Player starter set. There is so much more space for more figures also. These foams and the cardboard case cost 47,99€ so not bad at all.

The maxium capacity for these is as follows:
(loaned from KR website)

Holds the United Colonies of Mankind Large or Mega army plus more ! Total capacity is: 2x Heavy Dropships, 4x Medium Dropships, 8x Light Dropships/Gunships plus flight stands, 2x Interceptors, 1x Strike Fighter plus flight stands, 20x Heavy Tanks/Tank Destroyers/APC, 2x Command Vehicle, 20x Tanks, 8x Scout Buggies, 16x Troop bases, 2x Card decks plus accessories

Foams filled with my UCM. (Note the mandatory cup of coffee like in every unboxing situations)

everything fits nicely, as long you put them in the right order

Cardboard case comes with a handle, so i dont need to haul the whole Kaiser 2 allways

Onwards to the foams for 28mm miniatures. Bolt Action miniatures to be precise.

I got one foam which holds six small and/or medium tanks. As you can see from the picture bellow i can easily fit a Cromwell tank into the slot as it is filled with two parts of foam. You can easily use it for small or medium tanks.

Crommwell and French Renault FT-17

For infantry i bought three foams that will hold 25 figures each, so enough space for 75 figures. I might cut some parts off from the foams as i need to make space for 2 Bren carriers and a Daimler Dingo scout car.

The foams are also deep enough to fit the miniature inside the slot with his rifle completely. So no more broken plastic or bent metal rifles.

Senegalese were the first troops to try teh foams

One foam is for the team weapons. Pre cut for 60mm bases. I have mounted my team weapons on 50ish mm metal bases, so the slots are a little too big, but nothing that would cause trouble. The foam can hold up to 8 teams.

 All of the stuff i bought fits inside the Kaiser 2 perfectly. In the picture the DzC stuff is at the bottom inside the cardboard case and the 28mm is at the top.

The foams came with top sections each, so i can use those to fill any gaps at the top of the bag.

 Here is my Kaiser 2 fully loaded, with my miniatures i have at hand. (At the moment most of my miniatures are at our club in my old case so there is not that much. But i can fit them in without problems) It also has the BA rulebook, French and British army books, Dropzone commander rulebook, BA dice + regular dice, tape measure, pen, paper and dropzone comander tokens all loaded up.

All in all i am extremely happy with this purchase. It set me back abaut 180€ with delivery being free.

If i would need to grade the whole thing from placing the order, delivery and actual product i would say it is 9.8/10.

0.2 being taken for the UPS guy having the wrong phone number wich would have caused a pain to claim the stuff later. But we realy cant know if that was a mistake by KR or UPS

I can strongly recomend KR Multicases for anyone thinking abaut getting a miniature transport system! Now i am a very happy little gamer with a splendid transport system.

-Nojis

Bolt Action: Daimler Dingo and Senegalese Tirailleurs

Hello all!

It has been over a month without an update, but today i have something for you.
I have finished couple of things. First is the Daimler Dingo for the British and the second is a squad of Senegalese Tirailleurs for the French.

Also i have played my first two test games of Dropzone commander. I really like it so far. It is fun but, oh is it also hard.

For DzC i will be painting a second set of UCM figures from the 2 player starter.  That will be another 3 Sabres, 3 Rapiers, 3 Condor Dropships and 6 bases of infantry. So far the Sabres and Rapiers are done. Next up are the Condors.

In the gaming side, we finished our Tarawa Bolt Action Pacific campaing. The Imperial Japanese won it, but we put up a good fight with Juha and our Marines. We are going to play the campaing again at some point in the summer. I will try to document it better this time. If you want you can read abaut the campaing in Juhas blog.

Lets hope that i can get the next update done without it taking over a month!

As usual drop me a comment if you want.

Here are the Senegalese Tirailleurs.  These guys shold provide some punch for my french army being Tough Fighters.

I Also noticed that the normal french infantry squads can have up to 12 guys when you add in a pistol and smg so i need to find some figures for those and make changes in my squads.