The Road to Falaise Bobs on going 15mm WW2 Adventure
Mid week update
- Well have now finished the two Sherman V’s (M4a4) and added the tank id no to side of a third completed some time ago, so with the previous Firefly’s have another troop of 11th armoured completed.
I also completed the transport for my 2nd British Rifle platoon and put some wash on their bases prior to flocking.
So for Falaise battles I am well into completing the northern prong of trap, but how about the American southern prong.
In odd half hours I”ve been building up the American recon platoon of Stuart’s, nearly finished another platoon of Sherman’s including Oddballs tank shown earlier, a couple of M10’s (with spare turrets for M36’s) and for really late we 2 Pershings.
I have not forgot the meat in out little sandwich and also have built tow more 222 armoured cars, a Puma , the Tiger and Stug from ‘Fury’ starter box and repaired the mg barrel on a previously finished STUG ready for just touching up
That armored force looks great, @bobcockayne ! – I think the halftracks are my favorite. Although I’m looking forward to that Puma, as well!
Just asking … were Sherman Jumbos / assault tanks on line before Falaise?
It’s almost like you and I are “switching nations” for our post D-Day explorations in wargaming. Today @damon and I had a great game of Panzer Leader where we looked at the Nottingham Yeomanry / Sherwood Rangers, the 24th Lancers, and the 4/7 Dragoons. Fortenay, west of Caen, 27 June 1944.
@Oriskany , your right about Jumbo’s they were just a box I saw on Wayland Games stock list and as they wont be re-appearing in Battlefronts line up til 2021 according to their QA at the open day last week, though I would get them. Finished some Pershing I brought some time ago. Also on your recommendations (which I’d ummed and arred over for a while) I got a copy of Battlefront and the adds on for Normandy and Arnhem and can used them with those rules. As to the history on above , reading up on them recently on… Read more »
@bobcockayne – re: “my recommendations …” are we talking about Battlegroup the game system? 😀 If so, awesome! I hope you like it! We can talk before you try your first game, there is ONE small “trick” to the game that massively adds to its smoothness and enjoyment (short version: unit cards, which you can do yourself in about 5 minutes … but saves a lot of wear and tear on your brain cells during gameplay). Also, I always tell this to FoW players trying BG … don’t try to run a FoW-sized game on your first go. BG is… Read more »
@oriskany yup Battlegroup my typing dyslexia is at it again. Are they an updated version of the discontinued Warhammer historical WW2 rules which seemed a pretty good set.
Had a quick read of the intiative, and it reminded me (though not the same) of the ones used In John Treadways Hammers Slammers rules( which we always thought would make for a good backward conversion to historical).