Equites Singulares And........

 A few more hairy barbarian types to deepen the warbands or make extra units of course (cheapskate)

First up the Equites Singulares, all A and a Miniatures with LBMS shield transfers on a base from Warbases.

Next the Goths, a mixture of Footsore Miniatures, Gripping Beast and Foundry Casting Room figures on a Charlie Foxtrot MDF base.

Here together with a base I did earlier.

TTFN, keep safe and KBO.

El Puente Revista

 Having decided the next game here would be a Spanish Civil War action I then thought I would like to see a river on the table again. With impeccable timing Norm ( https://battlefieldswarriors.blogspot.com/ ) came along with a blog post of a scenario he had used for an American Civil War game to try out the Perry's Firepower rules that come with their Battle In a Box set. So I have unashamedly stolen it for this game, because I was playing the game across the length of the table and it was to be an all infantry game with the maximum move of 10" we increased the turns to nine with the die roll deciding an additional turn.

We used the Battlegroup rules mechanisms with the number of orders being decided on a D6 roll plus one for the platoon leader, the result would equal the number of Bolt Action order dice would be put in the bag to decide who acted during the turn.

 

The Nationalist force would enter the table left of the picture and the Republicans the right, although initial units on the table and orders were sparse for both sides they quickly got men on the river bank to thwart any crossing attempts.

Being nearer to the bridge the Nationalists were soon sending troops running down the road to claim the bridge, unfortunately orders were not sufficient to get support up in time and the squad on the bridge immediately fell victim to accurate fire from the Republicans on the opposite side.

 

We broke for lunch on turn four with the game looking to being a draw, the Nationalists unable to take the advantage of being nearer the bridge and the Republicans unable to capitalise on it, however the Nationalists had taken a fair amount of casualties whereas the Republicans had taken none.

By turn eight the situation had not really changed but with the unpredictability of the orders roll and subsequent dice draw things could still turn for either side. It was however not to be, turn nine saw both sides units either pinned or too far away to gain control of the bridge. An honourable draw was declared.

A most enjoyable game and a great scenario, many thanks Norm.

Off to GHQ next week for some revolutionary action in Italy.

TTFN, keep safe and KBO

Slow Progress

Very slow in fact, just an additional base of archers for the Goth horde.

Foundry Casting Room - archer in mail shirt and dead Jim.
Footsore Miniatures for the remainder.
I have also made my Paraguayan unit for the War of the Triple Alliance up to six bases, pointless taking a picture as the all look the same.

Instead here are some pics of a recently completed commission for some rather fine late 17th mounted officers and ensigns from Front Rank.

The Road To Starpel

For the first game at OHQ since restrictions eased I chose to do the above scenario written by Piers Brand in WSS108.
The day started badly for my defending Volksturm losing the dug in Panther to a timed 122mm barrage, They responded by knocking out the lead T34/85, despite some poor dice rolls for orders the Soviet advance continued, if somewhat slowly. Despite this however by turn six the Germans had enough and pulled back towards Starpel. Historically the defending Volksturm company held back the Red tide for several days rather than a couple of hours😂
A few snaps of the action follow below, figures and vehicles from various manufacturers, PSC, Britannia, FAA, Drews Militia (now OOP sadly), AB, Ready to Roll and Wartime (now available from Simons Soldiers).

The road to Starpel

Kaboom! Direct hit.

Take that Ivan.

The Volksturm await the Soviet tide.

Which is duly its way, if a tad slowly.

We are being let off lightly on this flank mein herren.

Where did they go?

An enjoyable return to none solo gaming here at OHQ and back to my usual performance of course.

TTFN and KBO

Its All Very.....

Drab, a bit like this year really. Nothing bright and colorful so look away now, additions to the WWII collections only.
First up I only have one SU76 and need two for the upcoming Starpel scenario game, written by Piers Brand, featuring in Wargames, Soldiers and Strategy #108, so I assembled and painted the three PSC ones I had waiting in their box. They do not appear until turn seven, given my recent track record my Volksturm will be long gone by then, but at least its one box left in the plastic kit pimple.

AB and Foundry crew figures.

Speaking of the Volksturm I needed another two figures for the scenario, luckily I had these Wartime Miniatures, now produced by Simon's Soldiers in the lead mountain.

Never needing much of an excuse to add to the collection, the scenario requires scouts and combat engineers, of which I have some. Not wanting to use "normal" infantry as a substitute I ordered up these AB Figures scouts.

Finally you may recall from a previous post I started some 28mm Germans in foxholes, here they are, I just need to do a LMG team to join them now.

All being well we will be playing the scenario here at OHQ next Monday.

Until then KBO.