Lets play chain of command

Setting up for Some Chain of Command

Continuing the trend of trying out new games I got to have my frist game of  chain of Command (CoC) on a recent trip back home. CoC is a ww2 squad size game published by Two Far Lardies. WW2 wise I seem to be regressing through the ranks. In FOW the player is a captain/major controlling multiple platoons. In Bolt Action the player is Lieutenant/Captain with a platoon strength battlegroup. In CoC the player is 2nd lieutenant with a platoon with very limited support

Ladies night with Freebooters Fate

Big Jenny will look after you for a price

So after much delay and procrastination from Tino and myself. we finally got around to my second game of freebooters fate.

Salute 2014

Last year was a trip to adepticon. This year saw me heading to Salute. For those who do not know Salut is the main trade event for most of the UK based wargames companies. I was at salute before with the Dublin Games Guild and had blast. I still have found memories of playing War on Terror into the wee hours, of browsing the bring and buy while checking all the new releases and different products from the UK manufacturers.  I really going to shows and getting the opportunity to see the figures and games in the flesh and also to get exposure to games outside of my comfort zone.  This year I tied the trip in with a visit to see the bro, now based in London, so I would have a cover story for the non gaming people.

FoW(WiP): No half measure with some German halftracks.

Flak platoon in progress

FoW (PiP): The AK Interactive experiance

Lately, I have been playing around with some the AK interactive products in my bid to reproduce the WW2 German army in 15mm on a one to one scale.

(FOW): Desperate Pleasures

Flames of War main strength, for me, is tanks, dozens of them, whizzing around the table blast crap of things.

Battling on a 6'x6' table

FOW (WiP): Those damn engineers

Able company 291st combat engineers December 1944

PiP: Bolt action American and Japanese reinforcements

American observer team on the look out for the basing guy.

Fow (Pip): Ooh shiny panzers

Some rather shiny (post varnish) Panzers on routes for a pin wash and weathering)

Hamburg tactica 2014

It is Tactica time again. Tactica 2014 was my second time attending the event in Hamburg. It was a busy weekend with Saturday spent battling FOW in Leipzig before hopping on the train to Hamburg.

FOW Sitrep: breakout

The battlefeild.
The British bridging group is trying breakout through the village at the top of the picture.

(FOW PIP): Polish 1st armoured division

Polish Cromwell's roll of the painting table

(FOW PiP) Carrying on with universal carriers

converted bren carrier with 50 cal mount