The Weekender: Win A Warhound Titan & Themed Weeks!
September 20, 2014 by dignity
Win yourself a Warhound Titan by simply heading over and liking our Facebook page! As well as that we're delving into news on On The Table coming back in a new form, an Ezine! (details HERE!) and some awesome themed weeks on the way!
That's not all however as we're talking Carnevale and their current Kickstarter as well as the one from GCT for Rise of the Kage!
In community news we're checking out Oriskany's Operation Market Garden re-creation and how that got us thinking about an upcoming Tank Week featuring Bolt Actions Tank War book.
Have a great weekend of wargaming!
Already a Facebook “Liker”
Also Tanks for the great episode.
Love the warhound. it will go well with my ork army ;p
Great show guys. This week every year I watch “A Bridge Too Far”. Being a former member of the 82nd Airborne we observe this great event and remember our airborne brothers who didn’t come home. Especially the British and Polish paratroopers who fought so valiantly.
Hm, I seem to miss the ezene launch. 🙁
Would be nice to get the link. Thanks!
Have linked to it up in the post above @mkus 🙂
Didn’t get the ezine although it says I am subscribed.
That is the same problem I have.
For anyone who didn’t get it
It’s from [email protected]
Subject ‘Win a Warhound Titan Tonight!’
Check your spam.
Will their be a prize to go on the tank when john has finish her? Hint hint nudge nudge??? @warzan
Will playing on an 8×8 table mean you need to use those sticks for pushing troops around the table? That’d be some proper WW2 shizz right there lol
The other themed week next month isn’t by any chance for Relic Knights? By the way, have you considered doing some other coverage of Relic Knights. One other point, Relic Knights is awesome and you should do some coverage of it 😉
@redben I think is trying to say he likes Relic Knights and should cover it.
I was trying to slip it in subtly and not be too obvious…
John certainly knows his stuff, i could sit and listen to him for hours.
I want a big shiny tank vroom vroom
Great show. However your image of a JS3 is actually a JS2!
I’ll have to get the cattle prod to Justin for that 😉
Revealing, educational and fascinating… I’ll never look at a tank mini the same way again.
With your modular table design here’s a challenge… What if it’s made in such a way it can go from WW2 to Napoleonic in a minute or two? Not all of us have as much storage space as you.
That was a really interesting and well presented show, nice one, especially John.
Love the ideas for hobby lab! I play all my bolt action games with the field, roads and hedges you made and they are perfect. If you could make other modular terrain that fits in with those that would be amazing!!!!
Here in the Netherlands a megagame about Market Garden is organised every few years. If you’re interested contact Casus Belli in Nijmegen or Murphy’s Heroes in Delft.
Great episode. I just love tanks and this was soooo interesting. But I have to correct John on 2 details. First 600 m/s is nearly two times the speed of sound which is 340 m/s thru air. Secondly at the end of WW2 Roosevelt was already dead, he died not a month before Victory in Europe. So of course he had still some influence on the situation but he wasn’t directly involved in the diplomatics with the soviets after the capitulation of Germany. We had a hugh Market Garden FoW game with like 10 players in march this year. Have… Read more »
Just out of curiosity I looked up if general Patton has passed away and he unfortunately died in a car accident in Germany in December 1945.
Just found a ezine in my in box sent today is that No 2 ?
Warren missed the chance to say ‘Welcome to Studio M4!’ Gun v Cannon nomenclature – who cares, they still make big bangs. Rifled v Smoothbore – rifled barrels wear out faster, much much faster so a new liner has to go in at about 4 or 5 times you need to reline a smooth bore. Smoothbores can take higher pressure which equals higher muzzle velocity which equals greater penetration at any range. Smoothbores can also fire a greater variety of ammo including a host of smart rounds. Hollow charge weapons fired from rifled weapons lose some of their impact as… Read more »
@dorthonion , @hazard , or @johnlyons – maybe one you can help me with a question I’ve always had regarding British tanks and smoothbore vs. rifled tank . . . ARMAMENT (nice dodge, eh?) After the war, the British got us all started on the L7 105mm rifle weapons. First retrofitted on later versions of the Centurion, which meant it was on all the Centurions and Ben Gurions used by the Israelis, as well as the later M48 Patton versions, the later German Leopard Is, etc. The L7 105mm was a standard NATO 105mm rifle for tanks, even the very… Read more »
Chieftain doesn’t run Smoothbore. Its the same basic gun they took form Chieftain to Challenger 1 the L11A5. Perhaps there was a smoothbore prototype? But as far as I am aware the British never commissioned a tank with a smoothbore main armament 🙂
Nope, I just checked behind myself and can find no variant of the Chieftain that carried the smoothbore. How the hell did that get in my head? I’ve “known” that for years, I guess I misread it somewhere long ago and never corrected it. Thanks for the remedy! (And no cattle prod needed 🙂 ).
Chieftain, Challenger 1 and 2 all had rifled barrels and fire the same ammo. I have fired all three! A 120mm smoothbore has been trialled to be fitted to Cr2 but it was found that nearly the whole tank would need a redesign due to the ammo being one piece where as the Cr2 is designed for three part ammo.
Is the British education system really this bad???
Here we have three grown men, who presumably all finished school, without having any idea of what THE SPEED OF SOUND is?????
I don’t expect you or anyone to know it to the tenth digit or how being ten miles up affects it, but just knowing the ballpark figure to roughly tell whether something is supersonic or not is basic common knowledge.
Words fail me….
I can’t speak for John, but what you witnessed was a classic ‘can’t get this computed on the fly’ moment. I’ve always know the general speed of sound to be around 700 mph John quoted the velocity to me in meters per second, and it unraveled from there. The reson it unravels is pretty straight forward, in that I/we have to keep the topics and questions moving, so while John is talking I’m listening for a Segway opportunity or somewhere we can steer into to find out more. So it’s not a real conversation in the truest sense where 100%… Read more »
‘basic common knowledge’ really… ?
words fail me on the attitude here.
MAXXON, I think your comment is a bit harsh and perhaps you need to consider the difficulty in producing a show such as this. Obviously their focus is on producing an exciting show to supplement your gaming experience and small errors may creep in as a result, I think there are more polite ways in assisting them with some minor detail and perhaps rather praise them them on what they achieved. From my side I think it was a tremendous show, how awesome was that just sitting in a Sherman, and the discussion on the Tank itself was incredibly interesting.… Read more »
Actually, they did have the speed of sound roughly correct, when @johnlyons says 700 mph (at sea level, obviously). Then @warzan tried to convert it not only into seconds, but from Imperial to Metrics (meters per second). Hell, I can’t do that in my head, much less on the fly **while** I’m being recorded on video. 700 mph / 3600 sec in an hour = 0.1944 mps 0.1944 * 5280 feet in a mile = 1026 feet per second 1026 fps / 3 = 342 yards per second 342 yps / 1.1 = roughly 311 meters per second. so 600… Read more »
When the Tank God speaks…you better listen!!
Just checked and it is win a war hound tonight.
I don’t think Flames of War covers the Pacific theatre yet
Nice to hear Jon talk about Arnhem. My Grandfather is one of the few surviving veterans of Arnhem and the highest ranking surviving officer. He came in on a glider and commanded a squad and a couple jeeps with bren guns. They retreated from the Germans into the forrest but days later were captured. I went there about 10 years ago with him and it was amazing to see how grateful the dutch were all these years later even though they were not liberated at that point in the war they all said that it gave them hope that they… Read more »
sorry, oldest surviving officer in his regiment that is