So,
Today a few of us met up at Imperial Outpost games to play some Bolt Action games. All of us (Myself, Robert, Howard, CJ ad Randy) are all playing in the Bolt Action escalation league being run in the Valley of the Sun at the local shops by the Warlord "Sarges", which is the Demo teams here in the states for Warlord.
Anyhow, we showed up to play some games, Rob brought his Fallschirmjager's out and I brought out my US Airborne. Everyone else brought out regular Americans (it seems the Americans were doing training today!). Rob wanted me to bring out my Desert buildings so that meant my Airborne were the 509th vs his Fallschirmjagers. The mission was Maximum Attrition, which is basically a kill them all sort of scenario.
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| The Desert Table |
My force was pretty simple, three 10 man squads, one 8 man squad and a two man HQ. Rob ran small 5 man teams with double LMGs, had a Artillery Observer and a Medium machine gun as well as his HQ. Things started out good for the airborne, but by turn three, I was feeling that loosing feeling creeping up on me.
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| Paras advance thru town |
By turn 5, the Americans started to fight back and by turn 6, it looked like the Americans would have the wind, which they did. Rob and I learned a lot during this game, especially moving into buildings, shooting from and at buildings and more importantly, Rob learned that assaulting a building is hard, damm hard by the way! Here are a few more shots from the game.
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| Paras advance down the street |
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| And thru the palm tree groves |
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| The American Paras in the south end of town. |
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| Hey, are those guys with us up ahead? |
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| Nope, here that distinct sound, its a MG34! |
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| Paras in the buildings |
It was a great game and we both learned a lot. Once again we got a nice compliment on how the table looked, in fact we get compliments every time we set up our stuff in the shop. As Rob says, "Okay painted figures, look better on a great looking table". I would agree!
Now onto some items I have been working on over the last few weeks. Now some folks know, I have been doing 28mm WW2 gaming for about 13 or so years. So I have a huge collection figures. A couple of weeks ago, I decided that I needed to re base my Germans. I had some models that were painted well over ten years ago and a few that were painted a few months ago and one thing that stood out was the basing. Ten years ago I had a system for basing, but as I get older, I seem to have forgotten how I did it. So I started one night with unifying the basing and I am about half way through.Oh and I wrote down the colors I am using (Americana Burnt Umber, than Americana Mississippi Mud followed by Americana Mink Tan. Static grass is Army Painter Steppe Grass). So here are a few shots of my Germans.
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| Squad one, Crusader Miniatures |
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| Squad Two, Crusader Miniatures |
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| Squad Three, Black Tree Designs |
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| Squad Four, Black Tree Design/Crusader Miniatures |
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| HQ, Crusader Miniatures |
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| MMG's, Crusader Miniatures |
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| Medium Mortars, Crusader Miniatures |
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| Flame Throwers, Crusader Miniatures |
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| Captain, Black Tree Designs, attendants Crusader |
So here are a few with the older basing that are waiting to get the new treatment, I also included a few pictures of some of the 1/48th scale tanks I use with the Germans.
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| PaK40's, Crusader Miniatures |
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| Panzer Shrek team, Black Tree Designs, Engineers Crusader Miniatures |
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| New Millennium Panzer IV |
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| New Millennium 38T |
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| Flak Panzer, New Millennium |
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| Early Production Tiger, Tamiya 1/48th |
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| Scale shot with Black Tree Design miniatures |
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| New Millennium Panzer IV with Crusader Miniature for scale. |
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| German painted left overs waiting for basing upgrade |
Just FYI, the New Millennium tanks came pre painted and ready to go. I have been lazy in not weathering them up, but they are waiting for the elements to do there magic on them. These models were purchased about six years ago at Wallmart for $5.00 each! Between Rob and I, we must have about 30 of the vehicles, we went crazy for picking them up!
So there you go, a little Bolt Action update for you...
TK
