Saturday, December 30, 2023

"Hell on Wheels" - US 2nd Armored Division in 15mm: Senior Leaders/Forward HQ and the HQ Squad

My next 15mm project for WW2 - a Platoon US Armoured, suitable for the battles from North Africa, to Sicily, Italy up until the Normandy.I have based them so they can be used both for Chain of Command as well as Battlegroup.This base will serve me as the Platoon Leader (SL) for CoC and as Forward HQ...

Thursday, December 21, 2023

Chain of Command AAR: Operation Husky - putting my US Airborne vs. Italian Bersaglieri again

The last game for this year pitted my US Airborne against Max Bersaglieri again, this time my A>irborne defending a small village against the Bersaglieri trying to push me back into the Mediterranean (Scenario "Attack and Defend").He was able to use 14 support points, while I only had a meagre 3...

Tuesday, December 12, 2023

15mm Terrain: Mediterranean buildings - 3d printed and scratch built

Of course, we also need buildings for our games set in a Mediterranean environment, so I scaled down a few of Jens Najewitz's files to 15mm and printed them on my Ender 3 S1.I also built a barn out of foam, corrugated cardboard and balsa wood.And here they are, bit arranged as a small village.Last but...

Saturday, November 25, 2023

Blitz Bowl: The "Rudertshausen Furballs", my first team for Blitz Bowl

I had been interested in Blood Bowl and its little brother Blitz Bowl for a while and since I've been attending some TTC Illuminatus Frankenstein meetings in Ingolstadt on Wednesdays, I've had a few opportunities to play Blitz Bowl.So of course I wanted to have my own teams and I'm starting off with...

Saturday, November 18, 2023

AAR: Operation Husky - US Airborne vs. Italian Bersaglieri - The Probe

Because my gaming mate had so much fun playing his first game of Chain of Command, we had another one with much more to follow 😎This time he fielded his freshly painted Italian Bersaglieri against my US Airborne again.Setting remained the same: Operation Husky but this time "The Probe" as the scenario,...