wunderwaffen

My "wunderwaffe"  squad is ready to defend Berlin to the last bullet..

Wirbelwind

My Wirbelwind!

Walking wounded

It has been sometimes since I posted anything here... That doesn't mean I have been idle on the miniature front. Here is a squad of german walking wounded that I converted from warlord games and wargames factory germans, with a lite help from GW imperial guard bitz I had lying around.
I used the bandaged arm from the IG cadian command box to make the two germans with wounded arms. A sharp knife, some green stuff and a bit of glue.
I plan to use them as veteran grenadiers/volksgrenadiers for my late war list.

The mighty Char-B

After some skirmishes in the desert, Axel and I decided it was time for a fight in France. Stepping up from our previous 600 points battle we added 200 points, and I figured it was time for a tank!

Vecka arton

Den gångna veckan har innehållit en del spel, men även en stor omorganisering av hobbyrummet och lite snickeri.

Jag var i Falkenberg och spelade med Conny, han köpte Bushido figurer för ett par år sedan efter att test spelat det, men kom aldrig riktigt igång. Jag var i närheten och tog med mig spelbordet och 35 Silvermoon lista, Conny hade precis målat klart en grundbox till Cult of Yurei. Vi körde scenariot 'Reikan', ett bra nybörjaruppdrag där man väljer en av sina modeller till VIM (Very Important Model), vars uppgift är att ta sig över till motståndarens område.

Det blev ett bra spel där Conny bland annat gjorde 'Tautola' till en zombie med hjälp av 'Kato, the Puppet master'. Sakta sakta bröt alla 'kairaier' ner mina figurer, men Manu som var min VIM var vid liv och sprang ner till Connys område och där med blev det en 1-0 till mig.

Flavion: Breakout from the Meuse - France ´40

From SC France ´40 The Ghost Division

It´s been awhile now, but Magnus and I have finally played the third scenario in the France´40 campaign. The reason for the hiatus is that the scenario involved quite a lot of tanks, that neither of us had since before. Magnus even painted up a great looking unit of motorcycle mounted troops.

Background

Seeing the danger in the German bridgehead the French ordered General Bruneau´s 1st armored division to counter the threat from the bridgehead. During the movements the fuel trucks was separated from the armor. The french tanks waited at Flavion to get re-fueled, and as that was in progress the German 7th panzer division descended upon them.

Vecka sju

Veckan började med lite förberedelser inför ett Bolt action slag som var planerat med Axel. Tänkte använda mina britter som nästan bestod av 600 poäng, men behövde komplettera med en 2-pundare i fall Axel fick för sig att ta med någon typ av fordon.

Vecka fem

Tänkte testa något lite nytt, mest för att se vad man verkligen kan hinna med på en vecka. Förhoppningsvis kommer jag orka med och göra en sådan här uppdatering i veckan. Tanken är att skriva om lite grejer som jag håller på med.

Normandie ´44 - a BA battle

Just some days after new years eve we gathered again at Bunkerkommando Süd, this time it was
Magnus who had put together a large Bolt action battle. It was location wise inspired by the battles around Bretteville-l'Orgueilleusea small french town close to Caen that was fought over in right after the D-day landings. Magnus took inspiration from a scenario that is in one of the Rapid fire scenario books.

Modern war Bolt Action

A while ago I started to modify Bolt Action rules to use them for playing modern battles. My goal was not to change the basic principles of the rules, but to create an additional module that easily sake be linked to the original rules.

Above all, I tried to create rules for modern weapons, RPGs and anti-material sniper rifles. But obviously, I needed to create rules for helicopters to fight on the modern battlefield. Here I used the Warlords games rules warbirds as the basis

You can find my additions to the rules here but be aware that this is still a work in progress ...

Second Bolt action tournament 2014

Late in November Magnus and I held our second Bolt action tournament this year. This time we allowed 800 points platoons, standard force selector. This time around we used a normal sized boards as we noticed last time that we had quite a lot terrain left after we had set up the tables last time. And I had made a completely new desert lay out with enough terrain for one table and I borrowed Peders snowy pine trees and I had done some snow covered houses. Peter was kind and brought with him two full tables worth of terrain too.

Bottleneck at Onhaye - France ´40

From SC: France ´40: The ghost division

This weekend we played the second game in France ´40 . the Ghost Division. For this scenario Magnus had painted some lovely armor for his german, Panzer II and Panzer 38(t) and I had tried to do a french 47 cm AT gun, a model that no one does in 1:56 scale.

As the tanks started to come across the Meuse at the small bridgehead elements of the 7th infantry regiment was tasked with clearing a way for the german panzer through the difficult terrain at Onhaye. A miscommunication between Rommel and the regiment leader colonel Bismarck, lead to Rommel committing 30 tanks to the engagement at Onhaye. The french forces of 5th infantry division just had to hold their ground for a short while until the 1st armoured division would be available.

Lite sturm pioneer kärlek också...

Mina early war pioneer har också fått lite nya leksaker den senast tiden...

 Lite special effects skadar ju inte heller (även om jag aldrig lyckats få fram en eldkastare tillräckligt nära för att han faktiskt ska få skjuta...)

Ei saa peittää!!

Finnarna börjar bli redo för fight! Nu med snö på baserna! Det lutar starkt åt att de ska få följa med den 22 november och testa sin sisu i turneringen som går av stapeln då.

Dragoons at Haut le Wastia - France ´40

From Skirmish Campaigns: France ´40 The Ghost division

A couple of weeks ago Magnus and I started to play a skirmish campaign that we been planning and
collecting models for awhile. Magnus been collecting and painting germans and I the mighty army of France. There are four books in the Skirmish campaign series that lets you to replay Fall Gelb. We started with France ´40 - the Ghost Division, with the intention to try and play all the mission and in the future all the four books. Some of the scenarios have alot of tanks, and our intention is to scale them down to half the amount.

The first scenario is called "Dragoons at Haut le Wastia" and recounts the fighting around the village Haut le Wastia, close to the Meuse river. On the 13th of May the French planed a major counter attack at the german bridgehead at Houx, but after some delays it amounted to nothing more than some probing actions. In the morning of the 14th, the french troops tried again to attack the german forces that had set up defences in the village. As the germans hadnt got anything across the Meuse in the form heavy support or tanks it came down to some motorcycle troops to hold Haut le Wastia and the bridgehead.

Even more Bolt Action

After the success of our small Bolt action tournament earlier this year Magnus and I wanted to do another event. This time we wanted to get together as many local players as possible as we have gotten alot of questions about Bolt action from people outside BKS. So we set a date, a sunday in July (27/7) and told everyone we had run into to come and play.

Bolt action tournament

This weekend we held our first Bolt action tournament in Lund. Not knowing how much terrain we could get hold of, neither knowing how many who would like to attended, we settled for a 600 point tournament. So we "only" needed to fill 120x120 tables with terrain. Another advantage of this was that it would not be to hard for complete beginners to attend.

To simplify it further we set up each table with a different scenario and objectives already decided. The scenarios we used was these once; Demolition, Top secret, Point Defence, Hold until Relieved and Frontal assault. All except the last one was from the rulebook with some modifications to better fit the smaller tables. Frontal assault was borrowed from boltaction.net. A total of ten eager gamers showed up, and four of them were from Denmark. And soon we were playing some intense battles, participating armies was, two SS forces, German pioneers, fallshirmjägers, Italians, Japanese, three US forces and British paras.

Gothcon 2014

Gothcon XXVIII

This year at Gothcon (an annual gaming convention in Gothenburg) I teamed up with a friend of mine, Magnus, to do a Bolt action scenario. At the time when we started to plan the scenario we were both commited to painting the units for a campaign from the skirmish Campaign series: Monty´s EPSOM, so it felt natural to use that book as inspiration.

After some discussion we decided to use the scenario "Royal tanks". It´s different than many other of the scenarios in the series as it is a meeting engagment, so neither side is defending. This we thought would make a great scenario as an introduction to Bolt action. It pits parts of the 15th Scottish Division against elements of Kampfgruppe Weidinger  somewhere between Caen and Villers Bocage.

Alla dessa val...

Vad ska jag ta med mig till turneringen den 17 maj? Efter att ha bläddrat runt i arméböckerna och kollat vad jag egentligen har för modeller liggande i lådorna har jag (än så länge) satt ihop två listor som är rätt olika men nog kul att spela.

US army recon platoon (Regular )

Laddar inför den 17 maj

Efter att ha dry brushat och highlightat hela kåken invändigt har jag fått lite tid till att hobbya mellan att jag hänger upp tavlor och planterar krusbärsbuskar i trädgården... Jag har lagt sista handen vid några av åken i fordonsparken så nu är de klara för slagfältet.


Frågan är ju vad jag ska ta med mig till turneringen den 17 maj, det har ju blivit en hel del gubbar vid det här laget. Det står mellan en amerikansk spaningspluton, en tysk pansarspaningspluton  och en rysk inexperienced early war "hord". Alla listorna är lockande på olika sätt så vi får väl se vad det blir.

Nog med snack! Här kommer några bilder på vad jag har fått gjort så här långt.