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sundancer 5 years, 12 months ago.
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Speaking of hexes and counters …
I’ve finished building a quick four-panel (four standard Valor & Victory map sections) “trench assault zone” for an upcoming game we’re running to support the 1918 Armistice Centennial Article Series.
In very quick summary these four panels are (from left to right)
- No Man’s Land assault zone
- Primary German trench line
- Secondary German trench line
- Town that the Germans are defending
The attackers, obviously, are going to be assaulting from east to west. This will be a rather large game for Valor & Victory, and will feature my new Australian infantry and British tanks. In this way, I hope to approximate some of the actions seen at the Battle of Hamel (4 July 1918) and Amiens (8 August, 1918), where Australians of Monash’s Australian Corps (Rawlinson’s Fourth Army, BEF), spearheaded by British tanks, used new close coordination tactics of artillery, assault infantry, and tanks to crack brittle German defenses held by troops depleted and exhausted by the recent “Kaiserschlacht” spring offensives of March-June.
This will be the first time I’ve used AFVs in Valor & Victory in quite a while, and definitely the first time I’ve used them in a World War II setting.
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Full project ongoing here:
Final Days of the Great War – Oriskany Puts British Tanks on the Field
Nice to see some of us are getting hobby stuff done this weekend . Others of us … well we’re just passing time . Actually getting a few things done between , socializing , going to fast food joints and watching to many dvds . My plane is probably 75 % done with just the pilot and bomb load to finish up , then go through my box of decals to see what looks cool . Also started my German 234/3 armored car conversion which consists of cutting of the hull roof off a 234/2 Puma and adding a short 75mm gun and some internal bits ( seats , steering wheels { front & rear } ammo etc) .
dawfydd , those color shift paints really make those figures “pop” , I’ve got to get some of those paints and try them out on a couple of figure projects
horati0nosebl0wer , thanks for that video link , lots of interesting ideas to try out .
@horati0nosebl0wer oh wow that figure is HILARIOUS! It looks just like a supersized local Australian confectionary treat – the ‘Caramello Koala’ – if a Caramello Koala was ‘hulking out’ of course… Erm… Tactical cutlery?… 40 Republic Credits for posts and tunes.
@dawfydd nice work on the Fallen – have to confess I do find the DA one of the more interesting of the chapters. Although I’m still a bit hazy on how there can be any fallen left after 10 millennia – I know, warp timeshifting shenanigans. The Warp – it’s like nanobots for 40k, it just explains everything 🙂 Ah yeah, HG… they really need a business model that doesn’t revolve around belligerent intellectual property litigation – would love to see something actually happen… Last comics I saw were a prequel series from Dark Horse circa 2002ish? heh, for manic anime try Excel Saga – I lasted 5 episodes 🙂 A friend of mine still talks about how immersive Planescape Torment is/was. I think he still actually runs through it every couple of years. 30 Republic Credits for hobby progress and posts.
@rayzryr wow that’s dedication checking back in 3 years later – I can barely remember which paints I was using on a mini a month ago let alone remembering to do a forum update after that long. yrm mixing colourshift paints could be interesting. or chaotic. Which could also work I guess 🙂 Excellent school project! So is it going to make it back home and find it’s way onto the tabletop? Hrm, my GF is a school teacher – maybe I can talk her into some craft related mass marketed terrain sweatshop type of scam. Oh wait, child labour laws… Never mind… 50 Republic Credits for posts, tunes and misappropriating school projects 😉
@mage yeah half the stuff in the reading pile beside my bed is game related rule books (with a solid chunk of the rest being historicals which sort of counts as hobby too I suppose). Sorry, didn’t mean to create a temporal paradox with question 2 – OK, what has the current process taught you and what would you do differently next time? have you seen the new Frostgrave plastic kit? All female minis – should be great for kitbashing some more interesting warbands.
If you are looking for greatswords and are happy to proxy then check these out:
Kit only comes with 12 greatswords so you would need to do the other 12 up as halberdiers or pikemen (or kitbash). I’ve got a couple of these boxes stashed for future use as I never got around to adding greatswords to my Empire army, and the heavy pikemen will work a treat for Empire of Men in Kings of War if I go down that path again. If I don’t, hey more historicals 🙂 really nice work on the skintones on the goblin king too – looks very movie-realistic. 60 republic Credits for responses, posts, hobby progress and tunes.
@sundancer hope day 2 was fun and you got many games in 🙂 Was there anything particularly that you enjoyed? Aand rest assured I made it through the whole day and only thing i murdered was few pics of bad instant coffee… 30 republic Credits for posts, tunes and photos.
@oriskany and you forgot ‘and you don’t have to spend your whole life painting so can actually get to play games instead’ 😉 Still progressing my historicals, hope to have a couple of more diverse tabletop ready forces finished by the end of the year (Yeah, ask me how that’s tracking in six week’s time)… Hope the palytesting and unit tweaking os progressing well, a great looking project. Really gives an indication of how much work goes into the articles behind the scenes. 30 Republic Credits for hobby progress and posts.
@dawfydd striking paint scheme on the bomber. How are you finding shifting back to more of a ‘primary’ colour pallette? 30 Republic Credits for hobby progress and posts.
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