tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-58983415825749344772024-03-19T08:46:59.787+00:00Admiral DraxTabletop gaming in 28mm and 15mmAdmiral Draxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07476823273954165890noreply@blogger.comBlogger689125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5898341582574934477.post-50718324498433243102019-11-19T18:33:00.000+00:002019-11-19T18:33:55.205+00:00690 - Fairly Random Recent Hobby Pics<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">For anyone still out there, some snaps of recent hobby antics...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Stay well,</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">- Drax.</span>Admiral Draxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07476823273954165890noreply@blogger.com154tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5898341582574934477.post-67907475268519852352019-09-17T22:33:00.000+01:002019-09-17T22:33:42.256+01:00689 - Painting Chart Updates (Part 2 - Ancients)<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Hullo, All,</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I shall keep this one brief as it's once again self-explanatory...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">...except that I've not really covered my recent dive into 'Ancients' very much.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Suffice it to say that</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I was given a bunch of 'Hail Caesar' Vikings;</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I bought a bunch of 'Saga' Anglo-Danes cheaply;</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I was given a bunch of 'Mortal Gods' Thebans, and</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I was given a bunch of 'SPQR' Gallic-Celts.</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The rest - if you'll pardon a weak pun - is history. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Where it is I plan to go with all of this is for a future post; for now, here are the collections...:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">TTFN,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">- Drax. </span></div>
Admiral Draxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07476823273954165890noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5898341582574934477.post-82840701072025991392019-09-03T22:52:00.000+01:002019-09-03T22:52:02.113+01:00688 - Painting Chart Updates (Part 1 - WWII)<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Hullo All,</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Well, I'm back at work (which sucks) but I'm also partway through a pretty productive summer!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I thought I'd mark this by updating where I am with all of my forces and projects, starting with the WWII 28mm stuff. Next post will be the Ancient and Dark Ages stuff, which has been...er...expanding rather rapidly of late!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">So without further ado, this is where I am with my...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">British 4KSLI (11th Armoured Division): </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">(Here's the key, by the way)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">The British Indian Army in the Desert:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">British Paras:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">German Early-War Heer:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">German Late-War Heer Grenadiers: </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">...and finally, the RAF Regiment and the (as yet unbuilt but nevertheless expanding) US Buffalo Soldiers:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">- Drax.</span>Admiral Draxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07476823273954165890noreply@blogger.com25tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5898341582574934477.post-82174400295480047352019-08-26T10:49:00.000+01:002019-08-27T11:15:58.620+01:00687 - Desert Rats Quad Tractor - 'Dinky' Repaint<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Recently I picked up this puppy at Totnes Market. Haggled the fellow down to eight quid, and then repainted its battered outer so that it could act as a tow for my Desert Rats' 25pdr. </span><br />
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Admiral Draxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07476823273954165890noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5898341582574934477.post-52187692249673870902019-08-06T11:59:00.003+01:002019-08-06T12:00:19.639+01:00686 - The Great Wargaming Survey 2019<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I'VE DONE IT - HAVE YOU?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">If not, click on the pic above to take yourself there - there are some great special giveaways this year too!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">- Drax.</span>Admiral Draxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07476823273954165890noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5898341582574934477.post-4816139131992052122019-07-26T22:36:00.000+01:002019-07-26T22:36:39.761+01:00685 - D-Day Campaign Phase 3 (Breakout)<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Phase 3 was a massive, massive tank battle. </span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">We used Bolt Action rules, with some tweaks, and had fifty - FIFTY - tank</span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">s</span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> (and a handful of other AFVs) on a table approximately 9'x5', with seven players and me games-mastering. To keep things manageable, the vehicles were organised into troops/zugs of 3-5 and these all acted on the same order die (although we interpreted this loosely as demand arose).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">In the end, the Germans just squeaked a victory through a ridiculously cinematic Panther dash to contest the last, central objective. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">It was a rather unusual, very cool-looking and very, <i>very </i>fun game, and I am extremely grateful to all of my pals - old and new - at the club for bringing their toys, getting stuck-in, and making it happen. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Fun times. </span></div>
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Admiral Draxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07476823273954165890noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5898341582574934477.post-31990719102275417132019-07-04T10:00:00.000+01:002019-07-04T10:00:00.199+01:00684 - D-Day Campaign Phase 2 (Beach Landings)<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Well, the pics in this post really speak for themselves: we played a beach invasion game, and it was fun. </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A Tiffie lines up for the attack run</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;">David and Charlie played the staunch German defenders against the attacking Brits (Fred) and US (Alex) whilst I umpired. And I'm glad I did, because this really was a sprawling chaotic quagmire of a game, with rules fudged and bent left, right and centre in order to keep the action (and the tortured narrative) moving... </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The bigger picture</td></tr>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>AND IT WAS BRILLIANT FUN!</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b><u>Went the day well?</u></b></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">What the Allies were up against: Left...</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">...Centre...</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">...and Right: what loomed over the American sector.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Yes! The Allied forces made slow progress at first as they struggled up the beach, but their numbers started to make a difference, as did their air and naval support. The Germans' pins didn't help, but honestly their most terrible foe that day was their dice: they were absolutely cursed - especially Charlie's!</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">First wave.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The floating Shermans are explained below; <br />more interestingly, the LCI on the right is one of four <br />I mocked-up for the game out of two sheets of A3 cardstock. </td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">In the end, the beaches were strewn with burning tanks, but enough allied troops and hardware had made it successfully ashore to start securing the beachhead. With both 88 bunkers destroyed, victory went to the Allies.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The German guns take their toll on the Allied armour...</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">All of us had a real blast. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">A special mention ought really to be made here for the stalwart work of David and Charlie, whose only job was to blow the crap out of the landing units without really getting to manoeuvre: they both did an excellent job!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b><u>How did it work?</u></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">A <b><i>lot </i></b>of planning.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">To keep things moving, the game was essentially two mutually-influencing games running side-by-side with their own dice bags. We also did away with points values, choosing instead to field the following:</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Axis - as many big, nasty AT guns as we had, along with as many troops, MGs and mortars as would fit in the defence lines;</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Allies - as many infantry units as we had, with an allowance of one tank for every two infantry units. </span></li>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">One of my favourite pics of the game: Rangers - Lead the Way!</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">As the whole 'campaign' is about playing for fun rather than playing to win, we knew this wouldn't be a problem, and of course, it wasn't: it worked fine. We also did away with the rules for landing craft, simplifying it to (1) all the landing craft we had would arrive automatically and unload before doing so again next turn (the assumption was, I guess, that we were only working with those that made it ashore); and (2) all Sherman-style tanks could 'float' ashore to represent DD versions. <i>Yes, I know this was an almost insultingly gross abstraction, but we had a game to play</i>. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">All the sand was rough terrain, so advancing would take a long time, and each of the big bunkers on the flanks had an 88 in it in addition to all of the other medium and heavy AT guns dotted about. for simplicity's sake, all of the Germans on David's side (on the dunes, facing the Brits) were Regular, whilst those on the cliffs facing the Americans were Veterans. Ouch. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Also, to average-out the effects of the Allied bombing, all of the German units started the game with a single 'pin'.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">One of our players couldn't join in, and didn't have his models with him, so we went from a 9' wide front with three objective bunkers to 6' with two (and me just umpiring) but that worked fine in the end, thankfully.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b><u>Fun Moments</u></b></span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">David's 88 immobilizing a Centaur as soon as it left the landing craft</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Charlie's 88 hitting almost nothing all game - Charlie's Veteran Germans had very hard luck with the dice; very hard luck indeed!</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Alex's Air Observer wreaking havoc on David's defenders with his first airstrike </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Fred's Naval Observer throwing down a huge amount of pins over yet more of David's defenders</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Alex's second airstrike rolling a disastrous '1' and a rookie pilot strafing one of the Shermans on the British end of the beach. Luckily the damage wasn't so bad, and the rock-hard Commandos easily shook off the pins</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">In the dying moments of the game, when Fred's Centaur - immobilised since the very start - had rallied and took a lucky shot at David's 88mm bunker, destroying it and with it the Axis troops' last chance to keep the Allies away. </span></li>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ka-BLOOM!</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">This game was really great fun, despite (because of) fudging a few rules here and there...and I would not have had it any other way! Also, I simply could not have done it at all without the help of my players from the club: thanks, All!</span><br />
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Admiral Draxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07476823273954165890noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5898341582574934477.post-13992877054160252512019-06-26T10:00:00.000+01:002019-06-26T10:00:08.465+01:00683 - D-Day Campaign Phase 1b (US Airborne Landings)<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Wow! Somehow, I'm three weeks late with this one, but here's the OTHER of the parallel games we played to represent the nighttime landings in the early hours of D-Day, 1944.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Osttruppen worriedly edge up the road in the dark...</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I believe it's called 'Skirmish in the Dark' (again, from the new Campaign: Overlord' supplement) and it is the kind of game that I absolutely adore: in other words, it was small-scale and very very randomised in terms of what units appeared, when and where, to represent scattered patrols of echelon Germans desperately scouring the French countryside for even more scattered fragments of US Paratroopers from the 82nd and 101st. </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">More Paras arrive (played here by Alex's gorgeous US Army)<br />
and the night is shattered further by close-range musketry.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Simply, on a 4x4 table, the US player starts with a group of 5 Paras, and the German has a normal patrol of Heer. From that point on, tow units enter from a random edge each turn, and the players roll to see whether they're US or German...before rolling to see who it is, from a wandering medical team to a lost mortar to a bazooka [useless in this game!] to a squad of brave Fallshirmjager or cowardly Osttruppen. <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Bazooka versus infantry. In the dark. Useless.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">As it happened, I was very lucky with my rolls, whilst my opponent, Charlie was not. Mostly, this manifested in way more US troops arriving than Germans, and then it just became a matter of whittling them down. </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A senior German Lieutenant picks his way toward the fighting. Too late.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Pleasingly, no-one shot at the medics from either side. </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This lost British Para Medic is escorted by two US Paras <br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Even more pleasingly, an unlikely series of enjoyably lucky rolls on turn one resulted in none other than Capt. Richard Winters rocking up out of the darkness! Whilst a few more rifles might have been useful, and he spent most of the game just watching from the middle (let us charitably call it </span><i style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">staying a tactical bound behind'</i><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">, at the end, when needed, he ordered four units at once to converge on the last remaining pockets of Heer troops in the area and send them packing. </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dick Winters (centre-top, behind the hedge gap) takes charge. </td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Another enjoyable random feature was the night-fighting. Every turn a powerful flare <i>might</i> go up and turn the night briefly into day, so it was really risky to move out into the open.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The last squad of Grenadiers, shortly before they were shot and <br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b><i>HUUUUGE </i></b>than</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">k</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">s to Charlie who set up a beautiful table and was - as always - a thoroughly sporting foe: even when the chips were down, he enjoyed telling the story!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Next up, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">BEACH LANDINGS!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">- Drax.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">(lagging behind, but loving the gaming.)</span></div>
Admiral Draxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07476823273954165890noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5898341582574934477.post-43006254463197226002019-06-09T19:34:00.000+01:002019-06-09T19:34:21.349+01:00682 - D-Day Campaign Phase 1a (British Airborne Landings)<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Hello, All,</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Last week the local club's approach to a D-Day Mini-Campaign kicked off, with two parallel battles taking place in the early hours of June 6th 1944. This post records the first of them, played by Alex and Sam...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><b><u>Assault on the Merville Battery</u></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><u>Objective: Destroy the German 150mm battery</u></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Under the staunch leadership of Lt Col Otway, Alex's men of the British 9th Parachute Bn had edged toward the battery perimeter, and Capt Greenway's men had cleared paths through most of the mines, but the battalion had lost way too many of their men and equipment in the landings... </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Scenario Map from Warlord's <i>Campaign: D-Day </i><br />
<span style="font-size: xx-small;">(used w/o permission. Note the minefields, marked with brown patches) </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Sam's absolutely SUPERB interpretation<br />of the map. We had to improvise the mines,<br />so we used brass drawing pins. It worked a treat! </span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br />So, under-equipped and perilously undermanned, Otway decided to forgo the last few yards of breaching, and instead headed round the flank to attack from the road entrance!<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Paras veer off to flank along the road.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">This was a departure from the historical battle, but there were </span><i style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">some</i><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> similarities, like - for example - the prompt destruction of the perimeter machinegun nests. <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> Here, the extent of the minefields is clear.<br />You can see why Alex's Otway went round instead! </td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The Paras made great progress up the road (and clearing the buildings) at first, but then, when the inexperienced defenders started to make sense of the dim shapes flitting through the darkness, their fire started to whittle the Brits down.<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Static Infantry Div troops are okay<br />to start with. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Paras are grateful to reach the buildings. </td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;">Ne'er disheartened, the Paras stoically fought on and into the gateway to the battery, overwhelming those squads who'd rushed out to meed them. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">And then, just as they were nearing the gun in the first casemate, all resistance crumbled. As a couple of the remaining perimeter teams fled back through their lines, the stunned men of 1st Bty, <i>Artillery Regiment 1716</i> and <i>716th Static Infantry Div</i> put down their arms, put up their hands, and shuffled forward in the dark. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Otway's men were relieved, to say the least: casualties had been high, but at least the Old Man hadn't made them attack through the fence and minefield. Also, having lost their explosives in the landing, they now had a little more time to work out how to destroy or disable the guns...which it turned out were not the 150mm guns they'd been briefed on, but instead some old Czech 100mm howitzers. </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">An RAF photo-reconnaissance shot<br />of the abandoned battery, 0743hrs.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Still, at least that was one battery which now <i>wouldn't</i> be able to engage the men on the beaches!<br /><br />By 0530, and under attack now from another German battery, the 9th Bn moved off toward their next objective: Sallenelles.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Hearty thanks go out to Alex, Sam and Charlie, without whom none of this would have been thinkable, and Guy, for the loan of guns and scenery. Some of these pics are courtesy of Alex, and Sam and Charlie did a truly MASTERFUL job of setting out the scenery. </span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The next post will be Phase 1b: the US 82nd and 101st Airborne randomly scrapping their way through the darkness of rural Normandy... Watch this space! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">- Drax. </span>Admiral Draxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07476823273954165890noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5898341582574934477.post-69121394969873378932019-05-27T20:59:00.000+01:002019-05-27T20:59:13.233+01:00681 - Super-fun Intro Game of Bolt Action<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">So super-fun, in fact, that I forgot to take enough pictures!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Last week, a new fellow - David - came along to the club in Torbay in the hope of trying out some Bolt Action, so I jumped in on the game that Alex and Sam were going to have and we bumped it up to a 2v2, 1500pts per side game instead, with US and British Allies in Normandy defending three hard-won crossing points over the upper <i>Meuse </i>River from a German counterattack.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Sam had got there early enough to set up a gorgeous table and come up with the scenario: cleverly, there was no set-up (all units had to advance on), but - having won the toss - the Allies got to choose their table edge, and this made them defenders too, meaning that contested objectives would go in their favour.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">David had chosen to play Brits, so he took charge of 750 points' worth of my 4KSLI with a Cromwell in support...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">...and Alex had his Yanks - including his stalwart Rangers, whom we allowed a pre-game 'run' onto the board. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Facing them, Sam and I opted for an attack across a fairly broad front - we were very restricted in our movement by terrain, especially a tributary of the <i>Meuse </i>which cut our side in half. The Allies also had two bunkers in one corner, which was bound to make them a very tough nut indeed to crack!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Some of the Germans:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I shan't provide a blow-by-blow account; instead, here are a few of the highlights...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">On turn two, a squad of my Heer de-bussed from their Hanomag and opened-up on the unsuspecting Rangers...without a shadow of a doubt this was the best single roll I've ever made in twenty-mumble years of wargaming - distracted by a firefight across the river, the Rangers were slaughtered from their flank, losing ten of the eleven men remaining at one fell swoop:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Shortly thereafter, the plucky British PIAT team snuck-up and blew their Hanomag sky-high with a beautifully placed spigot round. Everyone loves a rare PIAT success, and David was no exception! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Whilst the opposing tanks flirted with each other and the troops jockeyed for position, the Allied forward observers were setting up to call in their support: the British FOO called in a fire mission on a dense concentration of Germans in the bottleneck on our right flank, whilst the US air observer called in a strike on the Germans approaching the bridge. Sadly for him, his transmission was cut short as he was gunned-down in his OP. D<i>id enough of the target information get through?</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Turn four started with the off-table 25pdr batteries raining death on the German lines: some fortuitous rolling from David led to a MASSIVE bombardment of our troops: the 12'' radius caused a huge amount of pins and the loss of another three German units - the sniper, the mortar, and the PaK36 Hanomag.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Then came the roar of engines and the USAF zoomed in...straight at the wrong target! Yes, the AOP's dying message had evidently been garbled, because the '<i>Jabo</i>' took after its own Sherman and spread around an awful lot of pins. A pity that it didn't finish off that pesky tank, but after the awesome success of the British artillery, the airstrike cock-up did cause much hilarity at least!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The biggest moments after this, really, were the Germans taking the bridge and whiffing another two Panzerfaust shots before being gunned down by the vengeful Tommies, and the Yanks consolidating the ford on their right flank. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms, sans-serif;">Game over: a secure Allied victory, with them holding two of the three crossing points.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms, sans-serif;">This was an absolutely cracking game, and a pleasure to meet David, as well as playing my old sparring partners, Alex and Sam - thanks, guys!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">- Drax</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>Admiral Draxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07476823273954165890noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5898341582574934477.post-79435691025658795102019-05-07T19:38:00.000+01:002019-05-07T19:38:36.192+01:00680 - 'Mortal Gods' - Inaugural Game.<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Well - inevitably - I've played my first game of Mortal Gods. Hosted by Guy, I played my unpainted Thebans against Rossco and his son.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Having not played 'Test of Honour', on which it's loosely based, I didn't really know what to expect, but I thoroughly enjoyed it, despite being well and truly beaten. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The 'pebbles' system of activation is really interesting, and a cool change from the Bolt Action/Cruel Seas dice mechanic. I also loved the 'omens', as I'm a big fan of random stuff happening mid-flow!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">A couple of things didn't quite sit well with me: most notable was that when my light javelin troops (peltasts) were charged, they couldn't choose to run away; also, for a game wherein facings of phalanxes are important, the triangular bases seem slightly unhelpful...<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">...but then, I haven't yet got to read the rules, yet, so these things may well be fully addressed!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">If nothing else, it was great to be reminded that UNPAINTED MODELS CANNOT WIN! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">- Drax.</span>Admiral Draxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07476823273954165890noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5898341582574934477.post-47316676397258757202019-04-21T20:19:00.000+01:002019-04-21T20:19:03.875+01:00679 - Yet Another System?! - Mortal Gods<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Yup, </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I've been given a bunch of Ancient Greek minis, and invited to paint them up for a spot of 'Mortal Gods'... and as I'm not one to pass on a freebie, here goes!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">They'll be armoured and unarmoured Theban hoplites. As for the game? - well, I have no idea about that... yet!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">- Drax.</span>Admiral Draxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07476823273954165890noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5898341582574934477.post-3280887351423405082019-04-17T09:00:00.000+01:002019-04-17T09:00:12.360+01:00678 - Lots and Lots More Cruel Seas<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Hullo All,</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">In my recent style of brevity, I shall keep this - uh - brief. I've played three games of Cruel Seas <i>in the last week alone</i> and this is - frankly - unprecedented. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">All three were versions of the same game - German S-Boats escorting armed merchantmen - and the best bit is that whilst the first and third were identical (played against </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Rossco and </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Mattenbury respectively), the second one <i>was played between my daughters!</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Yes, I finally caved and let them play one of my games. The nine-year-old played the Kriegsmarine against the six-year-old's Royal Navy, and the plucky Vospers wond the day by torpedoing the German merchantman to a watery doom. To their utter credit, both girls played with grace and patience and were as magnanimous in victory as they were graceful in defeat. My heart burst!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The forces and results (for anyone interested) were as follows (<i>and yes, the second two games were indeed played on a sea of stars!</i>):</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b><u>Game 1 (Rossco):</u> </b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">2x Armed Merchantmen; 2x S-38; 2x S-100</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> Vs</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">3x Vospers MTB Type II; 1 Fairmile D</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> Result = Kriegsmarine won.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b><u>Game 2 (Offspring):</u> </b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">1 Armed Merchantmen; 1 S-38; 1 S-100</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> Vs</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">3x Vospers MTB Type II</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> Result = Royal Navy won.</span><br />
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<b style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><u>Game 3 (Mattenbury):</u> </b><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">2x Armed Merchantmen; 2x S-38; 2x S-100</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> Vs</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">3x Vospers MTB Type II; 1 Fairmile D</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> Result = Royal Navy won.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">- Proud Daddy Drax.</span>Admiral Draxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07476823273954165890noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5898341582574934477.post-11297432568794143852019-04-02T10:00:00.000+01:002019-04-02T10:00:11.270+01:00677 - 'Cruel Seas' Mast Storage Conversion<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Evening All,</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Just another quick update: I've solved the problem of stowing flimsy white metal masts for 'Cruel Seas' vessels, with help from my brand new brace of Fairmile D 'Dog Boats' (from Warlord Games):</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">As the mast slots snug</span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">ly into a hole amidships, I've simply carved a recess into the base of the resin hull into which the mast may be placed. A simple length of tape (plastic tape here, but long-term, masking tape is more likely) then keeps the mast in place. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Happy days.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And what will I do when I've got flags and pennants etc. Added to the mast? - Well, who knows? Maybe I'll just carve space for them too, eh?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Oh, and I also got a wee shout-out on the WS&S blog, here (<a href="https://www.karwansaraypublishers.com/wssblog/a-curry-night-in-with-friends/" target="_blank">link</a>).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">More ship goodness soon, I expect... </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">...but fear not, Gentle Reader: I promise you I'll be back to 28mm again before too long!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Ta,</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">- Drax.</span>Admiral Draxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07476823273954165890noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5898341582574934477.post-72632378501544639352019-03-24T18:07:00.000+00:002019-03-24T18:07:10.126+00:00676 - First 'Hail Caesar' Vikings Finished<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Evening, All!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Yup: I've finished the first sixteen of my<i> Hail Caesar</i> Vikings:<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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The models were a pain to clean and build (loads of mould lines and awkward arm angles) but joyously straightforward to paint: I just need more of these earthy colours now!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Next up, more <i>Cruel Seas</i> toys...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Cheers,</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">- Drax.</span>Admiral Draxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07476823273954165890noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5898341582574934477.post-2115099199689501762019-03-18T18:38:00.000+00:002019-03-24T18:08:18.888+00:00675 - On the Workbench at the Moment...<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">A bunch of Hail Caesar Vikings...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> ...some Cruel Seas card holders...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">...and a fiddly ol' 1/350 model of HMS Eskimo:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">That is all.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">- Drax</span>Admiral Draxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07476823273954165890noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5898341582574934477.post-7063555697585817382019-03-05T19:14:00.000+00:002019-03-05T19:14:21.525+00:00674 - Cruel Seas Fast Boats Showcase<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">A few pretty pics, seeing as I had the light box out...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">These are the ten boats from the starter set, and as Guy needed some at short notice for a demo game, he borrowed mine and we spent a very pleasant evening together painting them! I did the Brits (<i>mais oui!</i>) and Guy painted the S-Boats. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The Brits:</span><br />
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...The Germans:<br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Things like pennants have yet to be done (and some of the German guns, I've realised) but otherwise, it was an evening VERY well spent!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">- Drax</span>Admiral Draxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07476823273954165890noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5898341582574934477.post-60700042888345712402019-02-28T19:59:00.000+00:002019-03-05T19:13:47.084+00:00673 - Cruel Seas... at the proper scale, this time!<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Yup. Actually played Cruel Seas with the proper vessels in the proper scale. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">It was great fun: it looked fab and the plucky Brits won!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;">However, I'm knackered, and it's hard to tell a photostory with Cruel Seas, so here are some pics (The Vospers and S-Boats are mine; all others are Guy's):</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Big thanks to Guy and David for the game. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">- Drax.</span>Admiral Draxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07476823273954165890noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5898341582574934477.post-28194692037088214092019-02-16T23:42:00.001+00:002019-02-19T22:11:43.009+00:00672 - 2018 Winter Challenge: British Paras - FINISHED!<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">It's over! Hooray!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Yes, Gentle Readers, I have actually finished my 1000 point Bolt Action force of British pathfinders from 21st Independent Company. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The platoon selector is taken from the 'Market Garden' book, and comprises the following:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b>Captain +1,</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b>Medic,</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b>3x Sections of 5 men each, with a Bren,</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b>3x Snipers,</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b>3x PIATs,</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b>3x 2" Mortars,</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b>Vickers MMG.</b></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">3 Sniper teams</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Obviously, this is a very unusual platoon for Bolt Action, but I'm looking forward to the challenge of playing with a pretty tough but super-short-range force... what I'll miss in armour, transport, numbers and free artillery, I'll hope to make up with resilience, leadership, and order dice: these 1000pts actually generate 15 order dice! Three lucky snipers can commit carnage, and three light mortars can put down a lot of smoke, plus, veteran "small teams" are notoriously hard to hit and kill. In terms of expansion, the three sections will eventually be reinforced by five men apiece, but that's about it. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">For the record, I also finished off my RAF Regiment PIAT team and my 4KSLI medic:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Lots to follow soon, including more finished toys and a couple of my recent games. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">- Drax.</span>Admiral Draxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07476823273954165890noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5898341582574934477.post-5669545863434166982019-02-09T16:37:00.000+00:002019-02-09T16:37:05.214+00:00671 - 2018 Winter Challenge: British Paras! Days 37-42<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Back in the saddle again.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Thankfully, I'm feeling better now (I hope I never ever catch flu again), and thankfully, I've been able to get back to painting, so the boys of 21st Independent Company are now pretty much done: all that's left now are the beret badges, a wash for everyone, and the basing.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">...except I've just remembered about their jump wing decals.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Oh, strewth.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Well, we'll see, I guess...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">- Drax.</span>Admiral Draxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07476823273954165890noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5898341582574934477.post-20820487160719118502019-02-03T12:30:00.000+00:002019-02-03T13:44:31.653+00:00670 - Bolt Action Cromwell ARV<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Hi All,</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I still feel way too poorly to paint, but I did at least manage to get something built this week: my lovely new Cromwell ARV from S and S models:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The metal conversion pieces can come with the Italeri 1/56 kit at a tempting discount, and they're beautifully crisp with next to no flash or mold lines at all!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I chose to pin most of the bits in place, as they're REALLY bulky and heavy, but they are well-measured to fit the kit.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">What makes this even better for me, is that I now - at last - have a spare Cromwell 75mm turret, just in case I want to field my CS howitzer variant as a normal tank. Why might I wish to do this? - well, because if I wish to play a squadron of Cromwells in - say </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">- 'What A Tanker!', howitzers are useless in that game: there are no squishy targets. Hmmmm.<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">(Incidentally, S and S make a Cromwell CS conversion kit, too, as well as other ARVs!)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Another piece of the 11AD puzzle in place.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">TTFN,</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">- Drax</span>Admiral Draxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07476823273954165890noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5898341582574934477.post-24176923892951477542019-01-31T14:42:00.001+00:002019-01-31T14:42:02.518+00:00669 - 2018 Winter Challenge: British Paras! Days 33+<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Alright, All?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Well, it's the last day of January and I have failed to make my challenge. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">However, being the generous person that I am, I have magnanimously decided to give myself a ten-day extension. This is because of four significant factors. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">1) I mentioned before the Bolt Action '<i>Desert Heroes'</i> event up in County Durham, but I'd failed to take into account that it would wipe out three whole painting sessions;</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">2) I utterly hadn't anticipated needing to both build <i>and paint</i> the Cruel Seas starter vessels - my pal needs them for a demo he's running this weekend. We worked on this together...but that;s something else for a future post! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">3) I also got the sudden commission to build this 28mm 4-Ground kit on a five-day turnaround. It's <u>immense</u> (7" tall; 12" wide), and ridiculously complicated: hundreds - <i>quite literally hundreds</i> - of those planks had to be individually stuck on:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">4) Finally, Mrs Drax and I (and sadly now even Draxlette No.1) have all come down with - in my doctor's words - "a bad case of the flu." This is the first time in three days that I've even been able to look at a screen for this long! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The 2018(?) Winter Challenge continues...!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Watch this space.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">- Drax.</span><br />
<br />Admiral Draxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07476823273954165890noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5898341582574934477.post-28688379911058561882019-01-23T23:12:00.001+00:002019-01-23T23:12:37.232+00:00668 - 2018 Winter Challenge: British Paras! Days 16-32<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Evening, All!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Again, mixed fortunes in the interim with regard to to the hurried painting to completion of my 21st Independent Coy Paras. On the one hand, my red ('<i>Crusted Sore!</i>') arrived and - although the pics below won't do it justice - it's <b>PERFECT</b>...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">...and on the other hand, THIS arrived, </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">...so naturally I had to both build all the vessels <i>and</i> play a game of it. Two more nights gone, and totally worth it. More on this second naval skirmish in a future post.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Then I <i>did </i>manage to get some painting done. Whist still waiting for the Crusted Sore I painted everyone's flesh and even managed to complete the painting on my RAF Regiment PIAT team:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">It's hard to tell, but the fellows below now have the red-brown camo patches:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">...and then, THIS happened: I had to dig out my <i>Sikh and Destroy</i> army for an early-war desert-themed event hosted by the entirely excellent <b>Vital Ground Wargames Group</b> up in County Durham:</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My end of the 24ft-long table during Turn 1. I had a blast,<br />but - inevitably - this is for a future blogpost.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I'm pleased to announce that - even with too many evenings squandered on my poxy day-job work - I believe that I should be able to get the remaining tropers FINISHED in 5-6 days.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Do I have this long until the end of January (my arbitrary time limit)? - Yes. Just. But already, REAL LIFE is threatening those remaining days (note that I'm typing here - not painting!) so I may run over time. <i>C'est la vie</i>, eh?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">So there. I may well manage it, but I'm not going to break myself trying, that's for sure!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">TTFN,</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">- Drax.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">It's been a mixed week. I made a lot of progress to start with, and then realised - to my utter frustration, that I was missing a key colour: the red-brown for the camo. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">As you might be able to see from the test figure I did, below, (which is only about 90% complete) the brown is just too...brown. Rats.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">So how, then, did I fill the time in my hour of need? Well firstly, I got all the green patches, helmets and equipment...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> ...including my 4KSLI medic and my RAF Regiment PIAT team, just because they were at hand (note the RAF shoulder flashes on the chaps at the back):</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I also bought this paint rack for a few quid. It's basic, but fits inside my little hobby cupboard:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> ...and whilst I had the <i>Russian Armour</i> green out, I took the chance to prime and base-coat my Challenger A30 - more on this in another post, sometime.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And finally - I quickly put together a small rocky outcrop with a simple automated lighthouse and hut for <i>Cruel Seas</i>:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Annoyingly, what makes this worse is that I thought I'd ordered the red-brown colour. The paints arrived today, and I didn't. That means an even longer wait, and so I'll have to work out what to do with the paras in the meantime: probably boots and flesh at least...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">- Drax.</span>Admiral Draxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07476823273954165890noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5898341582574934477.post-10534471326044027342018-12-31T22:30:00.001+00:002018-12-31T22:30:45.292+00:00666 - 2018 Winter Challenge: British Paras! Days 1-8<br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I decided - as I had less homework than normal this holiday - to challenge myself to get an entire project done. To this end, I opened-up my options as polls in a couple of my games clubs, and the winning option for completion by the end of January 2019 was 1000 points of British Paras: </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">To be more precise, a list from the <i>Market Garden </i>campaign book for the 21st Independent Company - the British Pathfinders. I've always been interested in those who drop in first, and I enjoy playing unusual lists too. It's going to be a tricky list, mind: there's no free artillery FOO, no AT guns, no vehicles, no on-table artillery, none of my beloved 3" mortar...essentially nothing that couldn't be sneakily parachuted in. What they do have is more PIATs, snipers and 2" mortars than normal, a Captain as their default OC, and a cool special rule for the actual pathfinder sections.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The plan (ha!) is to make <i>some </i>progress - however minimal - as often as I can: every day, if possible. I'm now on Day 8, and by now I have all 39 men in the platoon based, primed, base-coated and with the desert yellow base-coat on their smocks. It's been quite a slog!</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Day 6 (below, too.) All models primed and base-coated <br />with English Uniform. It looks better without a flash.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">...So there you go.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">It's been an uncharacteristically speedy start (for me) and although I'm dreading the painting of the Denison smock camouflage, I think I should be okay to get them finished by the end of January. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I must say, it's really weird for me to see a 1000pt Bolt Action army represented by just 39 men! Still, I've wanted paras for ages - they're so damned iconic - and as I got the box set essentially for free in a trade for some mid-90s Space Marine odds-and-sods that I found in a box, I'm laughing, really!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">More updates as I get to them. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Happy New Year, folks - my 2019 be a great one for you!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">- Chris.</span>Admiral Draxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07476823273954165890noreply@blogger.com14